Cards and More with Patter

Hi, it's Patter Cross here sharing some inspiration with you today—a set of card and a layout. Let's take a look.

A Card Pair
Today I wanted to share a card pair I made. I used some scrap paper for the background, and the paper scrap was actually bigger than I thought so I was able to make two cards at once. That's so handy. Anyway, I used the Blue Fern Studios Symphony Corners Medium chipboard. I cut the chipboard in half and used a piece on each card. The chipboard was painted, and I added glass beads.

Symphony Corners Medium

An 8 1/2 x 11 Layout
And for my layout, I thought I would play with a couple of photos of one of my daughter's riding Jesse. He has arthritis so she was taking it slow and warming him up. I used two different Blue Fern Studios chipboard sets—part of the Leaf Frame and a piece from the Picture Perfect set for the title. Both pieces were painted, and I added glass beads to the Leaf Frame pieces that I cut.

Leaf Frame

Picture Perfect

Thanks for stopping by today, and have fun using Blue Fern Studios chipboard on all of your creations!

A Special Thank You!

As we near the end of some of our designers' terms, we just wanted to take the time to say "thank-you!" to each one of them for their hard work, inspiration, and support over the past six months. We are just so thankful for each one of them and could not have asked for a better group to kick off the premiere of Blue Fern Studios!

So please join us in bidding the following girls farewell:

Eila Sandberg

Irene Tan

Irina Gerschuk

Iris Babao Uy

Jennifer Snyder

Joyce Lawrence

Svetlana Austin

Vibeke Harila

A special thanks to you all for everything you have done for Blue Fern Studios. You are incredible individuals and we are so thankful we had the chance to get to know each of you!

Beauty in the Garden

I am ever so grateful to Blue Fern for letting me play with such amazing chippies and for helping them launch their products all around the world.  With that, I picked a few of my favorite pieces to share with you.

This is a wall hanging I made pulling a few elements of nature together. 

I created some tags with some stamps and inks, but then I decided I did not want to leave them as tags.  That's when I opted to turn them into something more decorative.  I found the  Blue Fern chippies to be the perfect accent.

I used the Blue Fern Lattice Gate and coated it with gold embossing enamel. This is the perfect piece to tie my two tags together and create a garden feel.  

Lattice Gate #074950

You can see I also added some green eyelash trim for some vines in my garden.

 Spring Iris Small - 074912

Every garden needs flowers so I grabbed the Blue Fern small Spring Iris set. I painted them with acrylic paints.

Vintage Ballerina

The ballerina image is soft, feminine, and elegant.  My choice for chippie was really easy.... I grabbed the Blue Fern Frame.  In my opinion, this is such an elegant and delicate piece of chipboard, just exquisite.   

I kept it simple by painting it with a sandy cream acrylic, dabbed with white and inked the edges dark brown. 

Blue Fern Frame 074325

I embellished with my own jewelry chain and vintage metal piece. 

Here is a close up where you can get a better view of the inking and painting on the chipboard.  Chipboard doesn't  always need to have fussy complicated treatments and toppings.  Sometimes unpainted or neked - as I like to call it - is perfect.  A simple coat of paint.  Easy.  Inked edges?  Done. 

Thanks so much for stopping here today.  

Watching YOU Put Our Designs to Work!

We've been at it again- searching the online galleries for projects featuring our products. And it seems there are more and more out there all the time! We just cannot express enough how incredible it is to see all of you using your talents to bring Blue Fern Studios to life on your projects. Such a joy!

Here's a look at some of those projects:

Jules

Such a pretty layout that just speaks of happiness! Jules has used our "Symphony Corners" and "Blooming Foliage" to accent her photo and cluster- the perfect touches!

Kelly

Kelly has used our "Royal Border" as an elegant canopy atop her photo. Beautiful!

Tracey Gregory

Tracey's grungy yet romantic layout needed the perfect title- from our "Valentine's Word Set"! A great fit for this sweet page :)

Andie

 We adore how our "Manor Hinges" were put to use on this altered tool box. Andie has truly brought them to rusty, rustic life here, hasn't she?! Amazing!

Tracey Sabella

 Tracey has put Blue Fern to great use on this card! Here she has included one of the butterflies from the "Brigitte Butterfly Set", a heart from the "Heart Set", and our popular "Royal Border"~ great work, Tracey!

Kathi

 We were inspired by Kathi's focus on circular elements on this layout, and our "Floral Clock" was the perfect piece to compliment such a project. Gorgeous!

Rhonda

Rhonda has chosen her title from the "Valentine's Word Set" too- such a perfect sentiment for this heartwarming layout. 

Thanks as always to our customers, friends, and fans! Your inspiration is endless!

We hope your week is off to a fantastic start :) Why not kick it off by taking part in our Sketch Challenge? We'd love to see your entries! And as always, keep uploading to those galleries- you just might find yourself featured next month :)!

Good bye :):)

Hi all Blue Fern Studios fan:)

This is my very last post.

 I am a bit sad, but I am so happy I have been

a part of this great team. 

Today I want to show you 1 layout, 1 tag and a page

from my Art Journal.

"Cute stuff"

I start with this page of my two lovely girls.

A layout with a lot of colors.

Have you used the Garden Gate? I have saved it  - and saved it:)

So beautiful. I had to use it on my last DT page:)

Garden Gate

Good vibes

"Blessings"

Just a simpel tag:)

The words is perfect for this.

"10. juni 2013"

I want to share a page from my Art Journal.

Miss Tailor Set

You can follow me - and my work in my blog:

vibekescrapperogskryter.blogspot.com

Thank you - and good luck to the new team.

Hugs

Vibeke

3 Projects w/Erin Blegen

Hi, everyone! Erin Blegen here to get you motivated to dig out your chipboard and get creating! I have three different types of projects for you showcasing several Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces and I'm going to walk you through how I was inspired by them :)

Let's get started!

"Climb Up"

I really wanted to put to use some of the "longer" pieces such as the 12" Calligraphic Border and the 12" Page Chains.

 I pieced them apart to suit my project. 

I especially love how the Calligraphic Border placed vertically pulls the eye to my son's tree climbing scene :)

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Calligraphic Border

Page Chains

Fancy Fob Watch

"Laughter" {Tag}

For this tag, I was inspired by the empty spaces within the chipboard pieces. All 3 pieces used here were backed with paper, filled with glossy accents and then a variety of beads.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Brigitte Butterfly Set

Vintage Keys

Ironwork Accents

"Blessings" {Card}

I wanted to create a "stacked" look with this card, so after layering my papers I proceeded to layer my chipboard pieces as well. I used a chicken wire stamp to decorate the bottom layer before applying a turquoise chalk ink to the Vintage Lock and topping it with glossy accents, and then finally randomly applied some ink to the title piece.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Regal Ornaments

Vintage Locks

Spiritually Speaking

Thank-you for checking out my projects today!

If you haven't yet, make sure to check out the June Sketch Challenge~ still plenty of time to play along :)

Take care~!