Friday, April 7, 2017

Meet our April Blue Fern Fan of the Month!

We are thrilled to announce our April Blue Fern Fan of the Month - the amazing Patty Rogers!  Patty is a true fan of everything Blue Fern.  If you stop by her blog, you will see pages of beautiful layouts using our products.  This month, we have the pleasure of sharing some of Patty's layouts with you.  Each week, we will have a new layout from her using the Spring Parade Collection.  She has some wonderful projects planned.  

For now, we will turn it over to Patty so you can get to know her and her creative process a little better.


My name is Patty Rogers, also known as A Sassy Scrapper in the world of Paper Crafting. My husband and I live in Texas, United States, where we met at Texas Christian University, as
 I majored in education and minored in art. Although our two children are grown now, I still enjoy doing layouts about them at any stage of their lives. 

Over the past twenty years, I have had several paradigm shifts in my style, and know that I am ever changing and improving in my work (read "play" here). I keep up with the latest supplies and trends and find that a romantic look is the style I enjoy creating most of all. I became interested in the artistic side of this “craft” a few years back, and love all the fun I have had with embossing, layering, painting, dimension and texture. My work is definitely considered multimedia.  

I love Blue Fern Studios products, and have been using them since 2011 while on a design team that carried their amazing products. I especially like that the quality and beauty of their paper is perfect for my style of scrapbooking and that their chipboard, flowers, stamps and embossing powders are perfectly coordinated. I am a hopeless Blue Fern Studio Fan! 


For this layout, I chose to use the Chesterville Shelf along with Good Vibes for a title, and Bits of Honey chipboard pieces as a backdrop.  Also used here are June and Market Place papers from the Spring Parade Collection, Pink Dust and Lavender Eggs embossing powders, and Spring Posy glitter.  

The flowers included are the gorgeous berries from Spring Peony and Berries, Spring Florals, Heartland Blossoms and Dark Tropic Lilies.  The colors in these Blue Fern Studios products were perfect for the Easter dress my daughter was wearing. It could not have been a better match!  


Techniques used for this layout included painting, heat embossing, tearing, 3 - D work, and crimping.  


Creating little clusters of the beautiful flowers brought it all together and made the layout very feminine.


One of my favorite techniques to use in a layout is to add texture. Sometimes, I achieve that by using modeling paste and a stencil. Another way to get texture is to heat emboss. For an added touch here, I used a paper crimper to achieve the corrugated look under the photo. For me, there was not one minute during the creation of this layout that was not pure enjoyment!

Thursday, April 6, 2017

April projects by Tartine Peluche

Hello everybody! 
Today I come back to present my layouts of month. 
Each of it is created from the new collection SPRING PARADE.

For beginning, here is my first layout:

- DREAM HAVE NO LIMITS -

I used the B side of the paper "Remembrance".
I worked a lot on my background with stencils and different mediums.



 

I used the beautiful chipboard " Wild flourish bundle ".
To start I put gesso and then embossed with the new color coordinated to the collection 
Spring parade: PINK DUST, a beautiful pale pink with golden glitter.

 

A little closer, you can see all the softness of the color, I really love it.
In this picture we can also see that I embossed with " Making plan stamp" a few places with PINK DUST embossing powder.

 

I chose to use the flowers of the collection HARVEST LILLIE.
To give them a little punch more I painted the petals with golden paint.

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Blue Fern Studios I've used:
Paper:
Spring Parade - Remembrance
Chipboards:
Wild flourish bundle
Imagine Ink Powder
Pink Dust
Stamps:
Making plan
Flowers:
Harvest Lillies

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- WONDER -

 For my second layout I used Susie's Garden, Spring Petite and June paper of SPRING PARADE.
First to make my background I used the paper "June" That I worked with paint and ink.
With the other two papers I cut  some flowers to decorate my photo.

 

The main color of my layout is given by LAVENDER EGGS embossing powder which I used  for the 
Whimsy flourishes chipboard and some die cut of leaf stamped.

 

For my Title, I embossed with Lavender eggs embossing powder. but as I did not like the result with the l
eaf of the same color I painted it with a white 3D paint.The final result leaves some glitter on the title.
My Flowers are from the new collection CHESTERVILLE, Chesterville Florals.

 

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I cut on the paper " Small Spring" on the small picture of paper "Sunday Best" the flowers that are on the  right of my photo.

 

 And on the Susie's Garden paper I cut the flowers drawn in the top of the paper ...

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products I've used:
Paper:
June
Small Spring
Susie's Garden
Chipboards:
Whimsy Flourishes
Wish, Wonder, Dream 
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:
Lavender Eggs
Flowers:
Chesterville Florals

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This one is my fav of month.
I wanted a page without a picture but with a thought.
I knew I was going to do a layout like this, I wanted to give a thematic : Wings, Fly, Fall,  Get up ... Since the layout starts from above and falls down, held by a thread, 
So I chose the quote : What if I fall ...

Unlike my other two pages I did not work a background in 3D texture, but rather in effect of color contrast ...
And I must confess that it was difficult to take pictures. You will see on zoom that the page is much paler than the whole picture. This creation is very gentle in reality. Sorry for not having succeeded better take a picture.

- WHAT IF I FALL -

I chose the paper "Marketplace" of Spring parade collection. I think this is the most beautiful in 
the collection, softness color and a subtile pattern of lace.

 

For the chipboard title, " Story" I embossed it in white then I embossed the half in lavander.
 I used imaginie ink SNOW embossing powder and LAVANDER EGGS .

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I chose " Late Winter Lilies " for this project. I think I could not find better.
Have you see the little bottle of pearls? I find it too cute ...

 

You will see on the next two photos that I cut the Chipboard " Shabby Layered Frame " in two, after altering it.
I paint them in gold, then I put cracked varnish and I added white paint for the part of bottom. 
Then for the pattern above, I did the reverse, gold on white.

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products I've used:
Paper
Marketplace
chipboards
Shabby Layered Frame
Story, Fairytale, Magic
Imagine ink embossing powder
Snow
Lavender Eggs
Stamps
Tattered Newsprint
Flowers
Late Winter Lilies

So there it is! Hope you like it.
Thank you for stopping by!
See you in may, for another layout.
Tartine xxx

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Spring Parade and Chesterville Inspiration by Kris Berc

Hi, Blue Fern Studios friends and fans! It's Kris here to share my April layouts with you.

Cousins are Friends for Life

For my first layout, I chose chose two papers from the Spring Parade collection.  To treat the background, I flicked 5 different colors of spray, letting each color dry before adding the next.  I then added some texture paste through a stencil, and when dry, I added some contrast using black ink with the Serendipity Medley stamp.


I used the larger of the two hearts from the Frilly Hearts chipboard set to ground my photo.  It's embossed with Antique Gold embossing powder.


The title piece is embossed with the new Pink Dust powder.  It's such a pretty color!


I dabbed the flowers with a bit of gesso to blend everything together.


Below you can see a closeup of the background details.


Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Spring Parade - June
Spring Parade - Remembrance

Chipboard
Cousins are Friends
Frilly Hearts

Embossing Powder
Antique Gold
Pink Dust

Stamp
Serendipity Medley

Flowers
Attic Charm Glitter Roses
Chesterville Florals
Spring Lilies

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Everyday Moments

Here's another layout made with Spring Parade paper! I treated this one with 4 colors of spray and modeling paste through a stencil.  When dry, I added contrast with black ink and one of the Coarse Fabrics stamps.  Then I decided to randomly stamp the Forever stamp all over the page, sometimes horizontal and sometimes vertical.  I like the effect!


The title chipboard piece, Everyday Moments, is treated with two layers of Ebony embossing powder.


Oh this Beaded Flourish chipboard piece is really beautiful!  I chose the Icicle embossing powder for it.  It's a lovely color for such a lovely piece.


I also embossed some Turkish Bits chipboard pieces in Icicle powder.


All flowers were treated with dabs of gesso :)


Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Spring Parade - Joyful
Spring Parade - Remembrance

Chipboard
Beaded Flourish
Everyday Moments
Turkish Bits

Embossing Powder
Ebony
Icicle

Stamp
Coarse Fabrics
Forever

Flowers
Attic Charm Glitter Roses
Courtship Roses
Dark Tropic Lilies
Heartland Blossoms

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Dazzling

My last layout for today features awesome paper and chipboard from the Chesterville collection.  Oh how I love this paper!  I decided to make a girly, yet funky, page with it.  I treated the background with four colors of spray, a layer of modeling paste through a stencil, and some random stamping with a stamp from the Forever stamp set.


That cool abstract chipboard piece behind the photo is called Chesterville Doodle.  I embossed it with 14 Karat embossing powder.



This time I treated the flowers with a few drops of white spray.


Since I was going for a girly yet funky, grungy look, I added some lace and some burlap between the paper layers.


The Dazzling title piece from the Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling chipboard set was treated with 2 layers of Ebony embossing powder.


One more detail shot!


Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Chesterville - Holmes
Chesterville - Whitford

Chipboard
Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling
Chesterville Doodle

Embossing Powder
14 Karat
Ebony

Stamp
Forever

Flowers
Heartland Blossoms
Spring Florals


Thank you for stopping by today.
I hope I have inspired you to create with your Blue Fern Studios products!

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Have You Heard About the Accident?

We're talking about Happy Accident, of course!  That's the title of our upcoming 
Artisan Collection.  For now, we leave you with this little sneak peek.  
More to come later.......


Tuesday, March 28, 2017

March projects by Wendy Scholten

Hello everyone,
Today is my turn on the Blue Fern Studios Blog with my march projects.
I made 3 layouts, one with the chesterville collection and two with the new Spring Parade collection.

So let's start with the one from the Chesterville Collection called:

"Adorable"

I just love this picture of our little girl, she was only 10 months here.
I made this layout with the Whitford papers, i used the backside for my background and a piece from the front of the paper to place behind my photo.
 Don't you just love those papers, you can use them for every subject.
I embossed the chipboard pieces Textured Wildflowers, Memory Frames, one of the bohemian flowers and the word Adorable with the: iris, vintage gold and sand&sea embossing powders.
 To give the background a bit more texture i used the Essential Textures Stamp, that's all it really needed.
 I also used a lot of the gorgeous flowers : Heartland Blossoms, Courtship roses and the Dark Tropic Lilies
 I used a few things from my own stash: baubles, lace, berries, small beads in different colors and just a little bit of paint.

Blue fern Studios products used:

Papers:
-Chesterville: -Whitford (2x)

Chipboard:
- Textured Wildflowers
-Memory Frames
-Perfect, Adorable, Special
-Bohemian Flowers

Stamps:
-Essential Textures

Embossing Powders:
-Iris
-Sand&Sea
- Vintage Gold

Flowers:
- Heartland Flowers
-Courtship Roses
-Dark Tropic Lilies

Now for the Second one, this features the gorgeous new Spring Parade collection.
This is such a beautiful, bright paper collection that  really feels like spring, although you can use it for anything!

This one i called:

"Dazzling"

For this one i used the June paper as my background, and a stencil with some moddeling paste and oil pastels to color the background. Behind my photo i used a piece of the Susie's garden paper, i also fussy cutted a lot of flowers from that paper.
 First i embossed the Janie's Fram Chipboard piece with the Lilac and the new Lavender Egg's embossing powders,
 I placed the frame and the fussy cut flowers behind my photo frame and decided i wanted to turn the picture a bit to the side to give it a different effect.
 i placed some rhinestones in and around my frame to give it a bit of sparkle.
  The title Dazzling i embossed with the lavender Egg's and Fern Embossing powders to let it stand out a bit more.
 i used a few little flowers, lace, a sticker and rhinestones from my own stash tot complete this layout.

Blue fern Studios products used:

Papers:
-Spring parade:
 -June
                 -Susie's Garden

Chipboard:
-Janie's Frame
-Briljant, Amazing, Dazzling

Embossing powders:
- Lavender egg's
-Fern
-Lilac

Flowers:
-Spring Florals
-Spring peony and berries


And this is my last one for this month, also featured the Spring Parade collection.

"Cute Stuff"



I used the Susie's Garden paper, i just love this paper, the colors and flowers are so stunning, i also used a piece and fussy cut the flowers from the Sunday best paper.
 For the background i used a stencil with some moddeling paste as well as oil pastels for some color. I also used the tattered newsprint stamp with snow embossing powder to give my background some texture.
 I chose the Spring Bunny Frame, Spring Trinkets and the title Cute stuff from the Good vibes set for my chipboards, i embossed the spring bunnies frame with lilac embossing powder, the spring trinkets with Lavender Egg's and Speckled mint embossing powders.
 I used flowers from different collections on this one: Spring Florals,  Attic Charm Daisies, Heartland Blossoms and Spring Lilies
The title Cute Stuff was embossed with Snow embossing powder.
 i also used small flowers from my own stash as well as Pearls, prills and some paint.
Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Papers:
Spring Parade:
- Susie's garden
-Sunday Best

Chipboard
-Spring Bunny Frame
-Spring Trinkets
- Good Vibes set

Stamp:
-Tattered Newsprint

-Embossing Powders:
-Lavender Egg's
-Lilac
-Speckled Mint
- Snow

Flowers:
-Spring Florals
-Attic Charm Daisies
Heartland Blossoms
-Spring Lilies

I guess you can see where my inspiration came from, i love to use photo's off our little girl, lol!
Thanks for stopping by and see you next month.

Hugs Wendy