Cards with Yana Smakula

Hello everyone! My name is Yana Smakula and I'm beyond thrilled to be a part of Blue Fern Studios for the next few month. 

Let me briefly introduce myself. I’m 26 years old and I’m from Ukraine. I’ve been married for a little bit over a year now, no kids but we do have two black cats and we can’t live without them!

I love to travel across the world and meet new people, discover new cultures and just explore. So far together with my husband we’ve been to a few places in Europe, Africa, Asia and USA. Our next dream destination is Madagascar, I hear the nature there is simply breathtaking!

I enjoy scrapbooking and I mostly scrapbook about our travels. My other passion is cardmaking – I enjoy trying new products and techniques, experimenting and creating in different styles.

I have two cards to share, both completely different, one is a clean and simple, and the other – well, you tell me which style it fits best, lol!
Here’s the first card – Thinking of you.

For this card I used the following chipboard pieces from Blue Fern Studios. Butterflies were coloured with white Folk Art paint from Plaid and the flower was roughly covered with Distress paint from Ranger.

 Brigitte Butterfly Set

Gabrielle Butterfly Set

Garden Daisies

My next card – a classic Clean & Simple which I am so in love with lately. Its a card with hint of a vacation – endless ocean waters, loud seagulls and lots of blues and aquas. 

For this card I used cloud-shaped chipboard. I think its one of the first ones I laid my eyes on! I really like all the different shapes there are in the set.
I covered the clouds with embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder, did that twice to completely cover the chipboard.

 Cloudy Skies

Thats all for today from me. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed!

Yana Smakula

Altered projects with Yvonne Yam

Greetings from sunny Singapore! My name is Yvonne and I'm excited to share my creations using  Blue Fern Studios chipboard. :) I love to make stuff, especially using unexpected "found" stuff around my house (or someone else's!) *Winks*  Old vintage photos. Cute kawaii things. Pretty trinkets.  I love them all! :)  Stop by my blog Do More With Less where I share weekday inspiration through projects, tips and tutorials. 

My first project for July is a 6 x 6 canvas. 

I painted my Seasonal Wildflowers chipboard with gesso then added some translucent beads for some added texture.

The "dream big" chipboard was painted with gesso and metallic medium.

Seasonal Wildflowers

The Optimist Word Set

My next project is an upcycled tea tin to store pretty trinkets in. :)

I love that the chipboard adds such awesome dimension to the project. :)

Butterfly Kisses

I misted the butterfly kisses chipboard, then added some glass beads for extra texture.   

Hope that you've enjoyed my projects. :)

Our June Sketch Challenge Winner & Features!

Good morning! For those who celebrate, we hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July holiday yesterday :)

Today we're back to business and have the winner of our June Sketch Challenge, as well as a few features for you too! So let's get to it!

Congrats TRACEY SABELLA!!!!!

Please email me (erin@bluefernstudios.com) to claim your prize!

And of course we have a few we would like to feature as well :)

Take a look at our Top 3!

L. Akins

We just love the classy look of this layout! From the color palette to the total elegant touch that our Page Chains piece offered to the design- fabulous work!

48FiveTime

Everything about this layout is just incredibly sweet! The soft, feminine color palette, clustering, layering- breathtakingly beautiful! We love that she used the chain from the Fancy Fob Watch piece to represent the chain in the sketch. Perfect!

Elizabeta Dimitrova

Such a sweet, whimsical page! Elizabeta replaced the chain from the sketch with a banner- a PERFECT idea! We love that she showed that you truly can make a sketch work for you! And we're smitten with the pretty, blinged-up Seasonal Wildflowers piece that she created as the center of attention for her cluster. Just beautiful!

How would YOU like to be one of our lucky features? Or a winner of a fabulous pack of chipboard yourself? Then take a moment to check out our July Sketch Challenge HERE! Michele Singh has created another amazing sketch for you to work with and the rules are SO simple! 

 

 Just use the sketch to inspire a project (layouts, cards, altered- whatever!) and incorporate at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard. Then be sure to link up at the bottom of the July Sketch Challenge post before the closing date of July 31st, 2013 at midnight EST. 

EASY. So why not start today and get yourself entered? We LOVE to see what you do!

Have a wonderful day and look forward to seeing those entries!

Blue Fern Studios Chip Board Ala Natural--

 Hi..Lisa here with your July 3rd Blue Fern Studios Reveal. I started thinking about all of the ways to alter your chip board. But when I pulled out my Kraft paper, I noticed it was the same color as my BFS chip board. So I decided to do a monochromatic type layout using Kraft paper and leaving the chip board as raw as possible. I really love the look.

I only used a small amount of ink to soften the hard edges of the chipboard and create some shading. I used Kraft paper to create the flowers to match the chip board.

 
I cut the Large Floral Wreath in half. Then I misted it heavily with a spray bottle and water. I was then able to very carefully, peel the top layer away from the wreath. The edges curled slightly while it air dried. After it dried, I inked the edges slightly with a darker brown color.

 I also just inked the title as well...

I inked the hearts with brown ink, then embossing ink, and  sprinkled  some brown distress embossing powder over the hearts and heat embossed them. When they were dry, I tied some jute around them.

Just another angle to the wreath cut out.

 Heart Set

 Large Floral Wreath

 This Is My Life

 Manor Hinges

I designed this card to give to my friend who is going on a hot air balloon ride for her birthday in September.I added the butterfly for added visual interest in the flight theme.

 Just a side angle to the card. I tied some twine around part of the card.

Keeping the style of the card simple, helped to bring out the balloon.

 I painted the balloon with blue acrylic paint and added the Stickles and some pearls to it.

 Grand Balloon

Thank you for joining me today and letting me share my creations with you. And dont forget to play along with our July Sketch Challenge. 

July Sketch Challenge!

Hello everyone! We're excited to be bringing you a brand new sketch challenge to kick off the new month! AND we have some samples from some of our NEW design team members- so you're in for a real treat :). 

Let's get started!

Our July sketch has been again designed by the endlessly talented Michele Singh:

And we just cannot leave you without some inspiration to get you going, right? We have lots of them for you this month, so sit back and enjoy!

Kristine Henanger

Frau_Muller

Yana Smakula

Kerryn Lawson

Patter Cross

Yvonne Yam

Camilla Ekman

Valerie Serfozo

Lisa Gregory

Are you excited yet?! I just know you're ready to get your scrap on- but first, check out what you could win for playing along this month:

We have just a few simple rules to follow if you would like to participate in our sketch challenge:

1.) Feel free to interpret the sketch as you please by means of taking it as-is or flipping/turning/mirroring it to suit your needs! 

2.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard- but you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch! You can find the store nearest you HERE. {Please do not use any other brand of chipboard on your project please!}

3.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on July 31st, 2013.

We look forward to your entries!

An InLinkz Link-up