Christmas Cheer Ornaments - by Vicky Alberto

Just over a week until Christmas! Sharing a few fun ornaments created with the new Blue Fern Christmas Cheer paper collection and chipboard today... 

On the "Christmas Cuties" chipboard, I painted them off-white and polished with glass beads mixed media gel. I wanted the focus to be the "delighted" paper, surrounded by soft elegance.

I used some pretty Blue Fern "summer blooms" and ribbon that matched perfectly for this project!

Thanks for taking a peek today & happy holidays!

Bloom layout - by Vicky Alberto

I am pretty sure that Blue Fern's Bird Waltz collection is my FAVE to date. Here is a layout of my daughter's school photo. I usually have a hard time with school photo layouts, but this was the perfect paper collection for the "fake" picture backdrop they provided. So Whimsical!

Many gorgeous Bleu Fern products layered on here... Summer, Pink and Apricot blooms, "take flight" bird chipboard (used chalk ink for colors), "bloom" title chipboard (used ink base and topped with Blue Fern's morning sun powder), "floral lace" chipboard (distressed inked). 

I added some pretty doily accents from my stash and tucked more blooms in the top corner to balance things out. This was such a fun project!

Thanks for visiting the blog today!

Take Flight Layout - by Vicky Alberto

Gosh! Blue Fern's Bird Waltz collection is divine. Here is my "Take Flight" layout of when we left our house of 17 years & many memories. Loved this backyard!

Wow, just look at the gorgeous flowers, chipboard and heavenly paper! Due to the style of this layout, I kept the chipboard simple and only used some chalk ink on them. Close-up #1... includes take flight chipboard, dragonfly blossoms, summer blooms, bird waltz ephemera, and amazing paper layers.

Close-up #2... includes, oh so many pretty summer blooms and I chopped up some floral lace chipboard for the swirls around the flowers. More distressed paper layers!

Hope you like my layout!

July inspiration by Vera Shelemekh + video tutorial

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans.
Vera Shelemekh is here with a couple of Tattered Walls collection projects and video tutorial for one of them. So, get ready your crafty hands and prepare your Blue Fern Studio papers and media... the show is beginning.
The first layout is full of bright flowers and summer breeze. The photo is matching the palette of the background. By the way this is Tattered Walls - Suite 204 paper with just several stains of green acrylic paint.

The frame has been embossed with Avocado and Lime powder.

This bird was cut out of the round shape ephemera.

 I love to add small accents with stamping and seedlings.

 And the chipboard birds are taken from the Spring Day set

Please, find and enjoy the video tutorial for this layout

 Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: 

Tattered walls - Suite 204

 

Chipboards 

A spring day

 

Ephemera:

Tattered walls

 

Embossing powder:

Avocado

Lime

Icicle 

Seedlings:

Ever green

Vivid pink

Meadow

Mauve

Flowers:

Sumer Blooms 

Stamps:

Flutter music

For the birds

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And the other layout is all about the seaside and travelling. The photo was taken during our trip to Croatia this year.

I've chosen Tattered Walls - The Powder Room for the background

This time chips are embossed with Antique gold, Starry night and Stormy skies pwders

 I used one of the spring blooms, it looks really fresh and stylish.

 The seashell is also embossed with Starry night and I've chosen a couple of Ephemera pieses from the Tattered walls set.

  

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: 

Tattered walls -The powder room

 

Ephemera:

Tattered walls

 

Embossing powder:

Starry night

Icicle 

Stormy skies

Antique gold

 

Flowers:

Spring Blooms 

Stamps:

Essential textures

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Thank you for watching. I wish you a good crafty month and see you in August.

Tattered Walls Layouts by Jessica

Hi everyone and happy July!  I have a few layouts to share with you this month using the newest Tattered Walls Collection.  On with the show!

"Love"

My background paper is "The Powder Room" from the Tattered Walls Collection.  Under the photo I used a piece of "The Reading Room" paper painted brown around the edges.

I used a lot of different flowers from various sets on my layout.  To begin, I took the pink flower from the Summer Blossoms collection and took the two pieces apart.  I then had two buds to use for my project - I just folded them and put them in place.  The flower with the blue gem in the middle is from the new Spring Blooms set.  The off-white flower is from the Fresh Florals set.  I removed the stamens, added a gem and put the new Aquamarine Seedlings around it.

The large blue flower is from the Heartland Blossoms set and the pink petals under it is half of a flower from the Spring Florals set.  The vine you see around the picture is from the Wanderlust Vine set spritzed with a shimmering brown spray mist.  I used the Garden Daisies chipboard behind my flowers and embossed it with Ivory embossing powder.

I used various pieces of the Tattered Walls Ephemera around my layout for interest.  The title Love is from the Adore, Love, Cherish chipboard set.  I first embossed it in Ivory, then I used the Crackle Textures stamp to emboss the crackles with the new Sparkling Navy embossing powder.  I did the same thing with the new Glam Frame behind the picture.

The background was just created by using texture paste with a stencil.  Then I used the Crackle Textures stamp with Sparkling Navy embossing powder for more texture.  I then added a blue spray mist over it.

Products Used:

Paper

Tattered Walls - "The Powder Room"

Tattered Walls - "The Reading Room"

Tattered Walls Ephemera

Flowers

Fresh Florals

Spring Blooms

Summer Blooms

Spring Florals

Hearland Blossoms

Wanderlust Vine

Chipboard

Glam Frame

Adore, Love, Cherish

Garden Daisies

Embossing Powder

Ivory

Sparkling Navy

Seedlings

Aquamarine

Stamps

Crackle Textures

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"Hello"

For my second layout I used the back side of the Tattered Walls Apartment B paper.  It is difficult to see under all of the paints and gesso, but I used strips of the orange Tattered Walls The Reading Room paper.  As matting under the picture, I used an old scrap piece of the Amber and Apricot Chapters paper with the London Chronicles stamp.

The white and peach roses are from the Happy Roses set.  I added some Mocha Glitter on the tips.  The title "Hello" is a piece of the Tattered Walls Ephemera.  I also added a couple of pieces of Lace 3B.  Around the picture area, I used the Crackle Textures stamp with the new Sparkling Navy embossing powder for interest.  In addition, I used the Tattered Newsprint stamp with black solvent ink around the white gesso areas.

Next, you can see the Paprika seedlings that I added around the picture.  I also put some Silver Seedlings around these areas because they match well with the picture.  The rose buds are the two pieces of one of the Christmas Blooms flowers tucked under the roses.

Under the picture, I have tucked in a few pieces of the Tattered Walls Ephemera.  The chipboard I used is the new A Spring Day chipboard that I cut into 3 pieces then I embossed the pieces with the new Azul embossing powder.  Finally, below the Silver Seedlings, I added some Clear seedlings.

Products Used:

Paper

Tattered Walls - Apartment B

Amber and Apricot - Chapters

Tattered Walls - The Reading Room

Tattered Walls Ephemera

Flowers

Happy Roses

Christmas Blooms

Chipboard

A Spring Day

Embossing Powder

Azul

Sparkling Navy

Seedlings

Paprika

Silver

Clear

Glitter

Mocha

Stamps

London Chronicle

Crackle Textures

Tattered Newsprint

Lace

3B

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"Journey"

Finally, my last layout uses The Powder Room paper from the Tattered Walls Collection.  To soften the background, I put on two coats of diluted gesso.  I chose to use the Journey chipboard title at the bottom.  All of my chipboard was painted with a blue paint first, then I used Pearl embossing powder to emboss the pieces.

Next to the photo, I chose to use two pieces from the new Classic Mini Frames set (painted blue then embossed with Pearl embossing powder).

The blue flowers are from the Chesterville Blooms set.  The new flowers with the blue gems are from the Spring Blooms set.  For the stenciled areas, I used clear crackle texture paste and added Blue Ice glitter over the areas.  I used the crackle texture paste so that when I painted around the stenciled areas, the paint would repel from the glittered areas.  You can see around my stenciled area that I used the music notes from the For the Birds stamp set embossed with our new Azul embossing powder.

And lastly, you can see the Tattered Walls Ephemera that I used under my picture.

Products Used:

Paper

Tattered Walls - The Powder Room

Tattered Walls Ephemera

Chipboard

Journey

Classic Mini Frames

Embossing Powder

Azul

Stamps

For the Birds

Flowers

Chesterville Blooms

Spring Blooms

Glitter

Blue Ice

I hope everyone has a wonderful July!  I will see you back here next month.

~ Jessica ~

June inspiration by Jennifer Jacques

Hello Blue Fern fans!

Jennifer here for June inspirations.

2 layouts with the new Tattered walls collection and another one with previous release.

So, I will start today with a layout about my brother's first Spartan Race.  

I've start this layout by simply add some ink through a stencil on my background, 

which is The maid's room

Used a lot of new assorted ephemeras to built my focus point.

Numbers are cut out from In the garage paper.

Then' I've finish this first layout bu adding some flowers from my own stash, flairs, enamel dots and some dimensional black paint drops.

Really love that Blue Fern Studios now have ephemeras to complete our layouts :)

Blue fern studios products i've used here

Papers: Collection Tattered walls

-The maid's room (b-side)

-numbers cuts from In the garage

and ephemera

Chipboards

-mini frame

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For my second layout, it was also the Tattered Walls collection that have inspired me.  And my boyfriend gave me a challenge: using a Cercei's picture from Games of Thrones.

So let's start with it!

Here I've start with clear gesso on my background paper: Powder room (b-side)

Then, some sprays to add watercolors, some modeling paste with a stencil and some random stamping with differents Blue Fern Studios stamps.  Above, you can easily see the Tattered Newsprint stamp.  Under, Penned flourishes stamp.

You can see  an Opulence and Elegant Flourish chipboards, 

embossed with the new Sparkling navy embossing powder.

I'm glad that the Spring Peony matches my layout this well.  They surrounded my picture very nicely.

Spring blooms and a summer bloom complete my flowers clusterings.

Here again, ephemeras helped me a lot to build my focus point.

Finish with my usual paint splatters and that was it!

Blue Fern Studios used here

Papers: Collection Tattered walls

-Powder room

and Ephemeras

Chipboards

-Opulence

-Elegant Flourish

Stamps

-Penned flourishes

-Tattered newsprint

Embossing Powder

-Sparkling navy

Flowers
-Spring peony
-Spring blooms
-Summer blooms
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Finally, with the only Déjà Vu paper that I had in my stash:  Lustre :)

Here again, clear gesso, pearl modeling paste through a stencil.  

I have painted all my frame chipboards 

(Glam frame, Embellished frame, and one from Classic Mini frames set)

in white and then stamped with an Halftone stamp on them.

For my title, I used 2 different embossing powders: Sparkling navy and then, Lavender eggs.

A few Blue Fern Studios flowers here and there mixed with some others from my stash.

Above, the white one from Spring blooms

Under, the yellow one from Fresh florals, same as under my title :)

Really love how it goes all together :)

Blue Fern Studios used here

Papers: Collection Déjà vu

- Lustre

Chipboards

- Family and Memories

-Glam frame

-Embellished frame
-Classic mini frame set

Stamps

-Halftone

Embossing Powder

-Sparkling navy

-Lavender eggs

Thanks for passing by, see you next month!