July Sketch Challenge WINNER & Top 3 Features!

Good morning and welcome!

Today we announce the winner of the July Sketch Challenge prize package, as well as the Top 3 Features from July's fabulous batch of entries. We had the most amazing submissions, and choosing just 3 to feature seems a bit unfair. You are all incredible and your beautiful work is so appreciated :)

First up, we have a winner to announce. Here is what was up for grabs for July:

Congratulations to...............

Karen Conner!!

Please e-mail me {erin@bluefernstudios.com} within 7 days to claim your prize, Karen!!

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Our Top 3 Features:

{Take a moment to click on their names and check out their blogs!}

 

Elena Volchkova

Päivi 

Ayumi Niijima

 

Congrats to you fabulous girls and your beautiful work!

And thank-you to all who took part in our July Sketch Challenge. You can check out our current sketch challenge {HERE}.

Designer Wanted!

We're looking to add to our product design department!

We are seeking freelance product designers that are proficient in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (illustration skills a must).  Must be imaginative and able to create unique and sophisticated designs that are custom for Blue Fern Studios.

We are currently looking for chipboard, paper, stencil and stamp designers. 

Please send resume and sample designs to leslie@bluefernstudios.com

August Education Video with Jelissa

Hello friends,

today I'm sharing with you a start-to-finish video on making a mini canvas, as well as how to use the gel transfer technique to "print" designs on your favourite Blue Fern Studios chipboard products.

I've used the Tattered Diamond Bits for this project. This technique is suitable for chipboards with more surface as the images or designs you're transferring will be more visible. Some other suitable chipboard pieces would be "Manor Hinges", "Cloudy Skies", "Winter Trees"and "Nifty Tags".

Some close ups:

My mini canvas also made used of left over scraps from my Ombre Dreams papers which I used for layering as well as stamping my sentiment.

Here's the video, and I hope you enjoy it!

Blue Fern products used:

Tattered Diamond Bits
Charlotte's Dream

love,

Jelissa

August Sketch Challenge & a Preview of our NEW COLLECTION!

Good morning and welcome to a brand new month! We're heading into the back-swing of summer in the U.S. but things never cool down here when it comes to our inspirational sketches...

...OR when it comes to new paper lines!!

Let us tease you a bit with a preview of our up-and-coming paper collection "Montage":

{Are you excited yet?? We know we are!!}

Now let's take a look at the awesome sketch Michele Singh has drawn up for you this month:

August Sketch

And some inspiration from our wonderful design team...

Camilla Ekman

Jackie Clark

Keren Tamir

Leila Cardoso

Lisa Griffith

Maja Stokk

Marie-Josee Hamel

Patter Cross

And we have a brand NEW batch of goodies for you too- including some of our NEWEST designs, hot off the press! Take a look at what one lucky randomly drawn winning participant will win from this month's sketch challenge:

In addition to our prize winner, we will also select a Top 3 to feature in our winner post!

 

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! **Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please- a layout, card, tag, canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.**

2.) You must use at least one piece of Blue Fern Studios chipboard OR use Blue Fern Studios paper on your project. Please note that you do not need to use the pieces featured in the sketch- use whatever suits your fancy! You can find the store nearest you HERE. {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 August 31st, 2014.

We look forward to your entries!

An InLinkz Link-up

NEW Products for July!

Always bringing you fresh, new designs, here we are today with some fabulous new chipboard pieces to add to your collection! 

From trendy to whimsical to elegant, we've got you covered...

Chunky Words Set

Fall Acorns

Mini Flourishes

Forest Friends

Handsome

Hello Summer

Jeweled Treasure Frame

Olga's Layered Balloon

Ornate Frame

And of course we're always interested in your feedback!

Which are your favorite(s)??

Thanks for visiting today!

Pink and More Pink with Patter

Okay, so pink is my favorite color. For today's inspiration, I decided to go with a pink theme. Let's look at what I've created.

Pink
I love this quote—"You can never have too much pink." So, I decided to use that on my art journal page for today. I first started with a lot of Blue Fern Garden paper scraps. I, of course, chose mostly the pink scraps. I then layered them on the page with other scraps of paper. Here is a photo of what the page looked like when I started and layered on the Blue Fern Garden scraps. Sorry for the dark photo.

And here is how the art journaling page turned out:

I used Blooming Flourish chipboard pieces and painted them with different colors of acrylic paint. I also added the chipboard to the page before adding paint splatters so that the chipboard pieces would also got some white and black splatters on them.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Blue Fern Garden papers

Blooming Flourish chipboard

Hello
For this card, I decided to stick with the pink theme. I used the Blue Fern Garden Calling Cards paper. I started by using my Gelli Plate with acrylic paint to add some more color. Then I embossed the same piece of paper after it had dried. After that, I began layering the paper and embellishments to finish the card.

The chipboard piece I used is called Jeweled Trinkets. I covered it in pink acrylic paint. Then I added a layer of texture paint to the bow portion of the chipboard to set it off a bit.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Blue Fern Garden papers

Jeweled Trinkets chipboard

Celebrate

And I know this isn't pink but I wanted to share in detail the 8 1/2 x 11 layout I created for the July Sketch Challenge. This was one of my daughter's on her graduation day, and as you can imagine, she was excited. I used sketch as well as the new Blue Fern Studios paper line called Ombre Dreams.

The chipboard stars are new from Blue Fern  Studios, and they are called "Seeing Stars." I painted the stars with gesso and let them dry. Once dry, I painted with three LuminArte paint colors—cool water, navajo pearl, and lime squeeze. I then let that dry, and lastly I stamped on top of the stars.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Ombre Dreams Susan's Dream
Seeing Stars chipboard

And remember, there is still time to enter the July Sketch Challenge from Blue Fern Studios. Click here to see all of the challenge details as well as the wonderful prize package.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have been inspired to try some Blue Fern Studios products along with the color pink today. :)

July's projects from Leila

Hi everyone

Leila's here again to show my 2 layouts for this month, in both I used Ombré Collection...

The first one is in pink, purple and black!

Some details:

Here I painted the title "The big day" with acrilic and spray ink and put some glitter. The "Berry Stems" i painted with distress ink and put liquid pearl in the dots.

The little camera I colored with black pen and put some colorless relief.

Again I colored the film strip with black pen.

BFS supplies:

- Charlotte's dream paper

- Wedding words

- Berry stems

- Picture perfect

My second layout is a "clean" page...

The little flowers I colored with spray ink and put in two corner of photo...in this case, less is more.

BFS supplies:

- Ginger's dream paper

- Bohemian flowers

So this it's for today. I hope you like it!

Tks for stopping by!

xoxo

Leila