April projects for Blue Fern Studios

Hi Blue Fern Fans, it's my turn today on the blog and I have 2 layouts for you today.

Câlin Step by Step layout with Wanderlost collection

This month, I would like to show you a step by step on building the foundation for this layout:

I always start my process by coating my paper with clear gesso. The clear gesso will act as a barrier and let you add watercolors or sprays easily to your layout.

Once my gesso is dry, I use a stencil and mat gel medium. Then I add my embossing powder to my gel medium and heat emboss. I love adding embossing to my backgrounds. I've found that gel mat medium works really well to emboss this way. I used Honey Embossing Powder on my layout.

Then I like to add inks to my background. I try to match my inks to some of the darker colors already on the paper. In this case, a dark teal blue. I sprints some water on the edges to give it a blurry effect and let it dry. You can use a heat gun to goa faster if you wish. Once dry, I use the same ink and add splatters with a small fine tip paintbrush and let dry again.

Last step for the background is to add some die-cut pieces and white some white glue, I add on some seedlings for extra texture. On this background I used the Harvest Seedlings.

For dimension, I enjoy adding chipboards to my pages. I heat embossed with a slightly darker tone this time to give contrast with the initial one placed on the background. On my chipboard I used Ginger Embossing Powder. I LOVE the metal effect it gives. 

Last steps are just to layer your Pictures with different pieces of cut out paper, printed chipboard, flowers and ornements.

Here are a few more images of my layout:

The picture was taken at my son's high school graduation, it was a proud moment, I felt this quote was just perfect because it truly is what a hope for him to chose a career that will make him happy.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper: Wanderlust Memento

Embossing Powders: Ginger & Honey

Printed Chipboard: Wanderlust

Flower: Spring Lilies

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Sassy... Serendipity collection

This quote spoke to me.... The Best Moments Happen when they are Unplanned....

oh how true.... I am a girl that is often spontaneous, so this quote is truly one perfect for me.

I truly love this Chesterville flower, soft and delicate it was perfect tp highlight the light colors on this beautiful background.

I also added the leaves and small black flowers from the Wanderlust Vine set.

Behind the quote I used ginger embossing powder with the Vintage Edges stamp set to give some texture on my background.

I love this Sassy chipboard title and wanted it to pop off the page. I also wanted to give focus on the teal elements of this gorgeous paper. I chose to add only a layer of Caribbean glitter over the chipboard, wow it gave a spectacular finish. Underneath is another piece of chipboard heat embossed with Ginger Embossing Powder. This one is becoming part of my favorites.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper: Serendipity Imagination & Calling cards

Embossing Powders: Ginger 

Flower: Chesterville flower and Wanderlust vine set

Glitter: Caribbean

Chipboard: Sassy

Stamp set: Vintage Edges

I hope you have enjoyed my step by step and April layouts. Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a very crafty month !

Blue Fern Studio, my first series

Good morning bloggers,

Today is an exciting day for me, as I am getting the opportunity to share with you my very first projects for Blue Fern Studios.

Sweet Dreams (Layout #1)

 The inspiration from this page started with this amazing paper in the Remnants collection called Devonshire. I fell in love with the printed flowers and birds on this particular page.

I started playing with my chipboards by adding seedlings to cover them, I have to say that I was very pleased with the results and love the dimension this brings to the layout. I used Meadow seedlings.

The title, oh what color to chose is always a challenge I find. I was intrigued by this new embossing powder called Night Sky, at first, I wasn't certain it would have a fit on a boy's page but at the end I enjoy the contrast that it has with the Meadow seedlings, so I opted for this color.

The center of the Remnants bloom flowers has a slight yellow highlight that I covered in white gesso, then glued a mix of mauve seedlings and red wine glitter. The results are amazing.

Around my picture I used night sky embossing powder with weathered doilies stamp set. On my chipboard circle flourish small frame, I used one of the new colors green ivory. 

Once my layout is done, then I added touches of red wine and icicle glitter to my flowers and some on the paper.

Blue Fern Products used:

Paper: Remnants Devonshire & Callaway (6x6)

Glitter: Red Wine & Icicle

Chipboard:

Floral Lattice Bits

Sweet Dreams

Circle Flourish small

Thistle Spray

Flowers:

Remnants Bloom & Florals

Wanderlust vine

Seedlings: Mauve and Meadow

Embossing Powder: Night Sky & Green Ivory

Stamps:

Weathered Doilies

Tattered Newsprint

Vintage Edges

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Remember this Day : Sintra Portugal (Layout #2)

If you enjoy traveling and you've never ben to Portugal, trust that this needs to be added to your bucket list. Sintra is a beautiful city that has amazing Unesco sites that are spectacular to visit. When I looked at the stunning paper from the REMNANTS collection, I knew it was perfect for this picture. This paper is Bloomsbury, I loved the old books look at the detailed printing of the flower and clock.
The title is part of the Remnants chipboard series and so perfect for a capturing any precious moment.

I wanted to add a bit more red to the page, so I chose to work with a stencil, light molding past and this amazing Garnet embossing powder. Once the embossing was done, I wanted to add more stamping to the background. I chose to use the Vintage Edges stamp set.

I love adding flowers to my projects, on this layout I added some from the Remnants Bloom and Floral Collections. I also cut out some flowers from the amazing lace 4 set.

For the chipboard, I inked the Shabby Brick bits. Once my layout was almost completed, I added the final touches with splatters of inks, white gesso and touches of Sterling Silver Seedlings.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper:

Remnants Bloomsbury

Chipboard:

Remnants printed collection self adhesive

Shabby Brick Bits

Flowers: Remnants Bloom & Florals

Embossing Powder: Garnet

Seedling: Sterling Silver

Stamp: Vintage Edges

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Love (Layout #3)

 I just loved this picture of my niece with the new born son Ayden, I've been enjoying making many pages for her recently. I have to say that this one is simple but oh so happy about how it turned out.

The starting point was this amazing paper from the Happy Accident collection called Incident. I love textured backgrounds and this one does the work for you, so rich in details, I opted not to alter it and just build layers.

I selected to emboss the Chicken Wire Panel with Blue Sky embossing powder. I did the same with the Love title chipie.

On my flowers, I opted to add some touches of white gesso and Blue Ice glitter.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper:

Happy Accident- Incident

Chipboard:

Chickenwire Panel

Love title

Flowers: Remnants Bloom & Heartland Blossoms

Embossing Powder: Blue Sky

Glitter: Blue Ice

Well I hope you enjoyed my 3 pages for my first series with Blue Fern Studio, I wish you a very crafty 2018 !

Other Products Used:

Clear & White Gesso

Distress Bundled Sage (2)

Lindy's: Pink Ladies Pink (1) Magnolia Magenta gold (2), Chateau Rose Sprays (2)

Handmade Christmas Gift packages & Words & Paintery challenge entry

Good morning bloggers, Merry Christmas to all of you !

This year I was inspired to create for my crafty friends  a hand made gift wrapped package (trust I did not do all my gifts this way heheee)

I started with plain Kraft paper, then thru a stencil I added the Finnabair snowflake paste.

I heat embossed my chipboards the for the snow at the bottom, just added light and fluffy modeling paste. It was as simple as 1-2-3 but took 1h30 to complete both packages. 

I am taking this opportunity to enter this project into this challenge:

Words & Paintery December challenge

I know my crafty gals will enjoy this package, now here is to hoping that they'll want to open them on our crafty day together.

Happy Holidays to you all !

France xxx

Merry Christmas for Creative Embellishments

 It's that time of the year when we get into the festive mood. Every year I try to make a mini canvas for my mom, she is a huge fan of Christmas and loves decorating her home. This year I was inspired to make a 5 x 7 canvas with our December challenge image.

The starting point was to chose my colors for the background, I selected 3 tones of blue and one purple from my Dina Wakley acrylics.

I heat embossed the star tree and the Merry Christmas title. I chose to leave the deer natural.

Flowers are always nice to add to the artwork

The final touches are hints of Stickles for a shine effect.

Here is the challenge image:

Merry Christmas

Spiral Tree

Jumping Deer

Thanks for stopping by !

Guest DT for Scrapki Wyzwaniowo

Hi everyone, it's a great honor to have been invited to be a guest designer in November for Scrapki Wyzwaniowo.

The challenge this month is HEXAGONS

The inspiration for this page came from this beautiful picture of Ayden, my niece's son. I am making her a 12 x 12 memories album as a gift. 

My starting point was to create a layer of hexagons (Donna Downey stencil) on my watercolor paper. Then I started building my layers of ink colors. My favorite inks are the Lindy's inks. On this page I played with Tiffanylou Blue and Sassy Saphire. In order to build up my layers of ink, I like to add the inks with a paint brush. I let each coat dry before continuing to layer. I also like to do splatters of the same inks. 

I heat embossed in silver my chipboard elements (Creative Embellishments)

I added lace flowers and this stunning Prima flower. That blue is so perfect for a boy page.

The beautiful flairs (stars, bear and bon dodo) are from my favorite brand Cuts2luv. You can find them on the etsy store here

I hope you enjoyed my page for this guest DT assignement, I wish to thank the Scrapki Wyzwaniowo team for this amazing opportunity !

Head over to the site : HERE

Have a great day bloggers !

France xxx