December Sketch Challenge

Welcome to December, the month that is filled with lots of things to do and people to see, but we still have a sketch for you.   Hopefully you will take some time for yourself this month and create.  This month's sketch would be a perfect place to start.  We would love to see your sketch entered in our sketch challenge.

Here is our December sketch, designed by Michele Singh, exclusively for Blue Fern Studios.  You have the entire month to create a project using our sketch and linking it below. 

And now we'll show you how our Creative Team used this sketch to create some 

stunning projects.  Each designer has used Blue Fern Studios paper and/or chipboard.

Keren Tamir

Camilla Ekman

Marie Josée Hamel

Leila Cardoso

Yuko Tanaka

Maja Stokk

Rae Moses

Patter Cross

Lisa Griffith

Jackie Clark

One lucky winner, selected by a random draw, will receive a prize package of Blue Fern Studios chipboard!

In addition, we will also select 3 layouts to feature.

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). Please note that you can do whatever type of project you please- a layout, card, 

  canvas, altered item- whatever suits your mood and style! 

We would love to see the different ways our sketch can be used.

3.) 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!}

4.) Upload your project using the Inlinkz tool below by midnight EST on December 31st, 2014.

We look forward to your entries!

An InLinkz Link-up

November New Products

We hope you all enjoyed this weekend of giving thanks and the start of the holiday shopping season.  Today we are excited to show you the new products we released during the month of November.

The month began with the release of our 4th paper line - the beautiful "Montage" collection.  We have been very busy shipping it to retailers and hopefully it is available in your area.  Here's a peek at it in case you haven't seen it (or want to look at it again!):

This month we have added new chipboard designs by Michele Singh, Glenda Schoepp-Drake, 

Janene Meyerowitz, and Keren Tamir.  We think you will like the variety!

Collage Border

Flutter Wands

Holiday Postage

Unbelievable Set

Floral Spray

Keepsake Frame

Radiant Suns

Flourish Medley

Notebook Frame

Dresden Corsage

Connectors

Organic Coins

Delight Set

Astro Moon & Stars

Heart Hugs

Wind Up

Buttons and Bows

Butterfly Frame - Round

Grid Pieces

Lightbulbs

Floral Medley Frame

Winter Forest

Thanks for stopping by to see what's new at Blue Fern Studios!

Mixed media canvas. New Sanctuary paper collection

Hello everyone. Tiffany here. I am sharing with you a canvas I created using the new Sanctuary paper collection and some chipboard pieces. 

The canvas is 6x6. I tore some paper for the bottom layer and cut out some images from the paper as well. I used the Swirly doodle and added some Spray on it after I covered it with gesso. I used some flowers and more images from the collection and layered them. I used the Smile phrase and covered it with Gesso and then used some spray for color. 

You can see how I created the whole canvas in this video. 

Here are some more pictures 

BFS products used: 

Sanctuary paper 

Swirly doodle 

Smile 

I hope you enjoyed. Be sure to stop by the facebook page for latest news. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Pink & Clean layout by Leila Cardoso

Hello

Leila's here today to show you 2 clean layouts about the new baby on the family, Kyra...I also choose work with 1 color, pink, in the both layouts.

Let's see!


The first is Cute Stuff, Kyra and my daughter together in the first day we have her in our home.

I painted the chipboards pieces with chalk, gelatos and spray ink.

BFS supplies:

- Paper Mercantile - Montage Collection

- Frilly hearts chipboard

- Good vibes chipboard

The second is Love and in this one I used some chipboards in natural.

BFS supllies:

- Paper Boudoir - Blue Fern Garden Collection

- Paper Shannon's dream - Ombré Colletction

- Tattered diamonds bits chipboard

- Good vibes chipboard

- Chunky heart panel (little hearts)

So, this it's for today, tks fot stopping by

xx

Leila

'Sanctuary' Inspiration by Lisa Griffith

Hello Blue Fern Studios friends....

I am a little later than usual this month due to some technical difficulties on my part...

But I actually felt very lucky to have a few more days as it gave me a bit more time to play

with the new collection 'Sanctuary', that I am so IN LOVE with....

'perfect'

I started with the beautiful paper 'Conservatory' and then I layered a lot of pieces of Blue Fern Studios papers including the 'Calling Cards' from the Sanctuary collection and some pieces from the Blue Fern Garden collection in the background and created lots of texture with gesso, paints, stamping and gold micro beads.

For my title I embossed a piece from the 'Chunky Word Set' set in copper to match my copper colored paints.

I also used pieces of the 'Shabby Brick Bits' which I painted in white and then covered in different paints in gold and copper colors. You can also see a piece of 'Ginger's Poppies' tucked under my photo.

'girl in bonnet'

For my second project I started with the paper 'Bountiful' also from the Sanctuary collection. I only recently tried to do a layout with a dark background and I love how it turned out, using a dark background paper looks so dramatic and makes your photos and embellishments really stand out.

I layered some gesso using several masks, some blue and pink paint and pieces of washi tape to create my background and then added some bits of lace, flowers, and tucked in a piece of 'Blue Fern Frame' that I painted white and blue. You can also see small pieces of the paper 'Mercantile' from the Montage paper collection.

'magical'

For my final layout I started with the paper 'Meadows of Time' from the new Sanctuary collection. 

I just love the blue and brown vintage patterns here, so gorgeous and totally inspiring to me. I knew I wanted to make a wintery looking page so I started by adding gesso with a sea sponge for a very uneven look and then I added some mists in blue and brown.

I tucked in a few pieces of Blue Fern Garden paper, and then added some pieces of the 'Shabby Flakes' and a piece of 'Winter Titles' which I painted white and then sprinkled with white glitter.

I hope I have inspired you a little today :)

See you next time...

Lisa 

christmas Cards and LO

On Sanctuary Collection ( Meadows of Time paper) I created industrial LO . Industrial Corner and Working parts I use to create background and French Words are title.

To create this Card I layered few of BFS chipies. Boston Lattice is base of my project. Then i added few of Shabby Flkes and lots of glitter.

This card is in traditional colors. I use Sanctuary paper line , Framed Winter words are title , and One of Winter deers on Shabby snowflake is main element . I cover parts of my card with gold glitter paint .