Vintage Christmas cards...

Hello! If you are in the process to make your Christmas cards and you are thinking how to make them without much dimension and easy to mail, I'm going to share with you four cards that I made thinking in those two things. I worked with the Vintage Christmas 2 collection.

 Merry Christmas-card #1

This collection are so beautiful that you don't need much to create a cute card. I just cut out some of the image and around the design to make my scene. I added textures with a stencil with  gel medium and glitter.

I added lace and a bow of twine for a Shabby Chic look.

 Jolly-card #2

Here I worked the background with lot of textures, I made white paint splatter to create a snow effect. I cut out the adorable image is from one of the papers and  I tear the white paper to recreate the snow and make my scene.

The title Jolly is from the Holidays cards paper.

I worked the background  with white paint splatters and added textures with gel medium, glitter and a stencil. The adorable image of  Santa and the flowers were cut  from the papers. 

I framed the card with lace and added one flowers from  the new soft blooms.

 A Merry Christmas- card#4

In this card I painted the chipboard with distress ink to create a colorful village, I combined the colors with the paper. I also tear the white paper to create the snow hills effect.

I used modeling paste with a stencil to create the snow effect.

I hope you find inspiration to create cards without dimension.  Thanks for stopping by..until next time!

Marilyn Rivera

Farewell 'Christmas' Projects by Nicole Doiron

What a bittersweet post this is for me, as after a year of being on this wonderful team,

this is my last post as DT member on the Blue Fern Studios blog.

Through the year, I have been blessed with wonderful scrappy friends,

fabulous quality products from generous owner Leslie and inspiration galore.

I am forever grateful of having been given this amazing opportunity

and will forever hold a special place in my heart for Blue Fern Studios.

***

I've got 3 projects featuring the very festive 

Vintage Christmas collections 1 & 2.

The Vintage Christmas collections not only offer beautiful Christmas patterns, 

but also include lots of papers that are perfect for Winter-themed layouts like this plaid print.  

To go along with it, I chose several Winter chipboard pieces including the Snow Medley board, covered in Snow embossing powder with a touch of glitter dust, and these adorable mittens from the Cozy Christmas set on which I used It's a Girl and Blue Sky. 

You see below the Dangled Flake piece which I cut in half as I wanted to save some of it 

for another project. I added several flowers from the new kits, Christmas Blooms 

and Soft Blossoms.  I sprinkled lots of silver microbeads throughout my page.

I chose A Wonderful Life, covered in Snow, as the title to which I added the word Cozy 

which I 'stole' from the Cozy Christmas piece, as that is exactly the word that comes to mind

 when I look at this picture of Yves and I cozying up to each other 

for a selfie during a Winter stroll.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Patterned Papers: Vintage Christmas 1 (Greeting Cards); 

Vintage Christmas 2 (Let It Snow, 'Twas the Night, Holiday Cards)

Chipboard: A Wonderful Life, Snow Medley, Cozy Christmas, Dangled Flake

Flowers: Christmas Blooms, Soft Blossoms

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (Snow, Blue Sky, It's a Girl)

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My next project is another layout, this time documenting a very special Christmas wish.

Before I met Yves, I had spent many a Holiday season surrounded by family and friends, but still somewhat lonely, wishing for true love, the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. My wish came true in 2006 and, since then, I get to spend every Christmas with my life partner, my soulmate, my best friend.  This picture was taken on Christmas eve a couple years ago. That is why I chose the title 'Twas the Night Before Christmas as the title, on which I used the new Santa's Suit embossing powder.  It's red and glittery and perfect for any Christmas project!

On my background, I used the Weathered Doilies stamp with the Ebony powder.

I added Holly Springs, covered with Sage and Santa's Suit, to my flower cluster and 

bits of Mixed Chains, covered in 14Karat, along the top and bottom of my picture.

Here you see a piece of the Holiday Vine, all decorated in gold.

And a final close-up of my Christmas wish come true!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Patterned Papers: Vintage Christmas 1 (Magical, Greeting Cards)

Vintage Christmas 2 ('Twas the Night, Jolly)

Chipboard: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Holiday Vine, Holly Sprigs, Mixed Chains

Flowers: Christmas Blooms, Soft Blossoms

Stamp: Weathered Doilies

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powders (14Karat, Ebony, Santa's Suit, Sage)

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I realize this has turned out to be quite a long post, but bare with me please... it is my last! :)

And speaking of last, this is my last DT project... a trio of Christmas cards.

What is great about the Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards and Holiday Cards papers 

is that they are full of beautiful journaling cards and images, perfect for card making.

On this card, I used the Holiday vine and some Holly Sprigs chippies.

I also took a cream flower from the Soft Blossoms and turned it red using

the Santa's Suit embossing powder.

On Card 2, you can see the leftover Dangled Flake from my Winter page above.

These little leaves are the negative pieces from the Holly Sprigs.

I love all the beautiful vintage imagery from these papers.

Card 3 is set up on a misted and stenciled background.

You can see here that I added red gems on the Holly Sprigs.  The leaves were treated with Clover embossing powder and then dabbed with white paint for my signature white washing.

I cut a side of the Stars & Berries Frame, covered it in Snow embossing powder and

added a touch of the new Vintage Gold glitter on the stars.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Patterned Papers: Vintage Christmas 1 (Wonderland, Magical, Greeting Cards)

Vintage Christmas 2 ('Twas the Night, Holiday Cards)

Chipboard: Holiday Vine, Holly Sprigs, Dangled Flake, 

Stars & Berries Frame, Leafy Page Accents

Flowers: Christmas Blooms, Soft Blossoms

Imagine Ink: Embossing Powder (Santa's Suit, Snow, Clover, 14Karat), Glitter (Vintage Gold)

Thank you for all your support this last year!

It was a pleasure creating for you all!

~ Nicole ~

3 layout with Yuko

Hello! It is Yuko.

Because I did not make it in time for my posting date in November

Posted on December 8.

The paper of Christmas that arrived was prettier than expected!

I made a canvas and 12 inches layout at once!

【PEACE LOVE JOY】

I made it with an A4 size canvas.

After applying Gesso to the base, color it with mist

Textured with modeling paste.

ICECLE embossed powder on snowflake chipboard.

This color is white with silver lame and is perfect for the coming season.

The title was unintentionally uneven on purpose as it would be a little antique feeling.

The white part was painted with Gesso and from there the ANTIQUEGOLD was put on a sparse and heated.

It became unevenness of nice feeling

Snow of fluffy is piled up .

In addition to Gesso, mist, acrylic paint, stickles, stone, glass beads etc

I have a look on it.

< Blue fern Studios >

Paper-Vintage Christmas - Wonderland/Greeting Cards

Chipboard -  Winter Flakes/Large Flake

Mist- Winter Mint

Embossing powder - ANTIQUE GOLD/ICECLE

【IT'S A holly jolly CHRISTMAS】

I also used the paper of this frame last year. 

It is really a favorite!

Just by using this paper as a backing sheet you will already be cute!

The red flower is a thing of this series.

Red flowers are indispensable for Christmas.

The white flower is also in the same series, but I took the flower core and put the grain of the gold.

In the background, I imagined the snow falling down 

and attached a pattern with a dot stencil.

The title was embossed with 14 KARAT.

This embossing is also very sparkling and very beautiful !

< Blue fern Studios >

Paper-Vintage Christmas -Magical /Greeting Cards/Holiday Cards/Jolly

chipboard -  Holly Jolly Christmas
Flower-Soft Blossoms/Christmas Blooms

Mist-sky

The third one was made in the autumn series "memories" of the previous work.

【An AUTUMN Story】

This series is nice with a chic hue feeling like autumn. 

I decomposed the leaf chipboard and divided it into leaves and branches.

The blades were painted with textures and lamels.

I put modeling paste in the branch part and added a texture

 like tree to make it a dead tree style.

I painted the background texture with modeling paste mixed with paint.

< Blue fern Studios >

Memoires - Songbird's Drama/Chronicles/Calling Cards

chipboard - An Autumn Story/Natural Sprigs Set
Flower-Memoires Blooms

Thank you!