Three Layouts by Kelly Foster

Hello Blue Fern fans - Kelly here.

Today I have three  layouts to share...so I will just get right to it!

"You Are So Fun"

For this layout, I have followed the sketch for this month's challenge...I hope you will play along, too! (Find the link in the right sidebar.)

Below you can see a section of the Renaissance Border, and the word "You" from the Valentine's Word Set. These both were dabbed lightly with gesso, then painted with various colors of water color paint. Once they were dry, I dabbed around the edges randomly with a green chalk ink.

Below is a section of the Twiggy Branch, which was left mostly bare, with just a touch of  green chalk ink.

Below are the other bits of the Renaissance Border and Twiggy Branch, and bottom left I have used one of the Nifty Tags and Tickets to ground my title. I placed one of the adorable little Vintage Keys below that.

Chipboard used:

Renaissance Border

Nifty Tags and Tickets

Vintage Keys

Twiggy Branch

Valentine's Word Set

"Good Vibes"

I used a wide variety of chippies on this one, too...I just really had fun with this page, for the photo that I love so much. First up, the title...this was simply embossed with a white detail embossing powder..I just adore the font for the Good Vibes set, so fun!

Below..one of the Circle Motifs..painted with a shimmery pearl acrylic paint,  a few dots of gold paint for the flower centers, then the leaves were colored with a green watercolor pencil. A touch of stamping with a script stamp was done on top of that.

Up next...Garden Daisies (Large), I applied the same technique as I did the flowers on the Circle Motif, but to top them off I painted on just a bit of a textured medium. The stem was misted with a shimmery green mist.

Good Vibes Word Set

Garden Daisies - Large

Circle Motifs

"Smile"

Another "summer" page. This one is loaded up with bits and pieces of chipboard..see if you can spot them all! Below you will find one of the Nifty Tags and Tickets, which was stamped lightly with green and teal ink. Also, you can see the end of the Calligraphic Border, which was painted with a gold acrylic glaze, then dabbed with a bit of teal acrylic glaze. I also tucked in pieces of the Natural Sprigs, which were distressed, then embossed with green and gold embossing powder. 

For my title, I used the cute "Smile!" polaroid frame from the Picture Perfect set. This was left mostly natural, with a few dabs of ink here and there, and a dark brown chalk in around the edges for definition.

Last but not least, I have added a section of the Blue Fern Frame..I cut this apart and have slowly been using pieces of it. I stamped with a script stamp and then embossed with gold. I then added touches of all of the paints and inks that I used on all of the other pieces in my project to make it blend nicely.

Calligraphic Border

Blue Fern Frame

Nifty Tags and Tickets

Natural Sprigs Set

Picture Perfect

Thank you so much for stopping in today, I hope you have enjoyed my projects. See you soon!

Layouts by Kristine Henanger

Hi everyone!
My name is Kristine Henanger, and I am so happy to be a part of
the Blue Fern Studios Design Team! It is such an honor!
A brief introduction: I am a 23 years old singel mom, to my 3 years old son! <3
I have been scrapbooking since 2007, but when I got pregnant in 2009,
it just took of, and I have been addicted to scrapbooking ever since! lol!
I love to create layouts, cards tags, art journals, canvas, boxes, etc.
But my biggest passion is creating layouts of my son!

Today I am going to show you all, my first two Blue Fern Studios layouts ever!
Here we go: 

Dreams Come True

 On this layout I have used following chipboard pices from Blue Fern Studios.
All the chipboard pices are painted with dabbers:

Damask Flourish

Dreams Come True

Ornate Medallions

Vintage Keys

True Colors

 On this layout I have used following chipboard pices from Blue Fern Studios.
I have painted the butterfly with panpastell. 

Brigitte Butterfly Set

 Picture Perfect

widgetworks

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you found some inspiration here today :)

                                                                                                                            Kristine Henanger



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!