Showing posts with label Majestic frame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Majestic frame. Show all posts

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Around the World with Blue Fern Studios- by Keren Tamir


Hi Everyone,
Its Keren here with a different type of blog post today!!!

Ever wonder where Blue Fern Studios' products are used? except for the US, where it is manufactured, Blue Fern Studios products travel to many places around the world.

Recently I had the pleasure of teaching this layout class below in Quito, Ecuador.
I have some photos below depicting my experience!!
I've also taught the same layout last year in San Jose, Costa Rica and so I'm sharing both events with you today as Blue Fern Studios travels to Central and South America!!

Enjoy!!


For the classes in Ecuador I used the Courtship Lane papers as the original ones were sold out. The Blue Fern Studios papers match so well with each other that it wasn't a problem switching these around.
The Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces used for this layout were: Majestic Frame, Flutter Dangles and two special words "Momentos Especiales" designed just for us in Spanish.
I also used the Blue Fern Studios embossing powders to emboss the chipboard.

Here I am below explaining some components of the class.


Everyone is busy concentrating on their work. I love seeing my students working hard as it makes the final result so much more rewarding!!


Selfie with Isela the owner as everyone is working behind us!!



Look at the beautiful creations. Each one more beautiful than the next!!




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Below are the pictures of my event from last October in Costa Rica.
It was an amazing event as well and everyone loved the Blue Fern Studios products.
Below is the same layout class as above but with a different paper collection for the background.
The other components remained the same.



Everyone working hard!!!!






Here are the beautiful creations!! look at all the Blue Fern Studios loveliness.



Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog!!
Hope you enjoyed this blog post!!
Have a wonderful day!!

Keren

Monday, January 4, 2016

Welcoming In The New Year With Blue Fern Studios~


Welcome to to the New Year and welcome to my very first Blue Fern Studios Post!!!
To kick things off, I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. 

My name is Renea Harrison aka Reneabouquets in the virtual world, a Southern Girl, born and raised in Tennessee. I have been married to my husband, David for over 25 years, and we have one son, Draven, who went off to college last year. I am the bookkeeper for our local business and owner of the Reneabouquets.com Store and Reneabouquets Etsy.
 I don't just love scrapbooking, I am passionate about it. I love every aspect of this amazing multi-media art. I love the art of the creation itself, from taking the design in my head and getting it out onto paper, to the social aspect of it. I love sharing what I know, and learning what others share. 
As a scrapbook artist, I don't really have any one set style. I tend to scrap whatever mood I happen to be in which can range, from Shabby Chic, Girly Girl, Vintage and Girlie Grunge to Masculine, Grunge, and Mixed Media. 
As an artist, I think that one of my greatest hopes is that I can inspire you to create and can teach you something new that you can take and use in your own work, so let's get started!!

Boots, Beauty & Blue Fern:
I love sliding into a comfortable pair of boots, and for this Design Team layout, I couldn't help, but get inspired by the Swirly Circle Chipboard Frame to create something rustic meets beautiful!!


I started with a layer of Blue Fern Studios Autumn Anthology-Newsworthy Paper, I then took another piece of the same paper and used the backside, tearing and inking the edges to fit my design. Next, I added a layer of corrugated board that I heavily inked and added my photo to.



I took the Blue Fern Swirly Circle Chipboard Frame, inked it up and then randomly heat embossed it with some Imagine Ink Oatmeal Embossing Powder to get a wonderful, rustic look, and layered it over my photo.



I added some lace to add a feminine touch, and then took some branches with moss, made a little stack and wrapped and tied it with twine, added some mini pine cones and popped some of my handcrafted butterflies.


I added some cheesecloth, burlap leaf picks, a large chiffon flower and some more flowers to round out my feminine meets rustic look. 



I then crackle painted some areas around the frame, and inked them, then took a Blue Fern Essential Textures Stamp and did some stamping. Stamping can add a lot of texture and dimension on your layouts and the Essential Textures Stamps are so perfect for adding background noise. 


Here is some more detail of the Yumminess of the stamping. 




In the top corner of my layout, I inked a "Natural Beauty" chipboard piece from the Blue Fern, All Natural Set. I inked in a way that let some of the natural kraft color of the chipboard show through to get a variegated color effect. I then added some more twigs wrapped with twine and pine cones. I took some of the paper pieces left over from the tearing I did and rolled and inked them, then tied more twine around them. I fussy cut out a little bird from the paper and glitter painted him up and then popped him on with foam tape for dimension.


And here you can see all the dimension and texture that you can create using  Blue Fern Products.

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:
Paper:
Autumn Anthology~Newsworthy
Chipboard:
All Natural Set (Natural Beauty)
Swirly Circle
Stamp:
Essential Textures
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:
Oatmeal

Getting Winterlicious With The Blue Fern Sketch:

Each month Blue Fern Studios has a sketch challenge that you can take part in. Here is this month's January Sketch:


And here is my Design Team take on the sketch:


I decided to work with some papers from the Blue Fern Deja Vu line to get a Winterlicious, frosty look!! I started with a piece of Lustre Paper and then used another piece of the same paper, this time using the backside. I distressed the edges heavily and did some grunge punching. I used a stencil and texture paste to create the snowflakes on the background paper, and  I then added in 2 more layers of Tresors paper, adding sand paste and Glitter Glass to create a Snowy~frosty look.


Next, I took a Blue Fern Chipboard French Ironwork, painted it with crackle paint and then clear emboss inked randomly and heat embossed using the Imagine Ink Mystic Plum Embossing Powder, and added a crystal for a little bling.


The snowflakes were created by taking Blue Fern Chipboard Winter Flakes,  painting them with white gesso, and then heat embossing them with Imagine Ink Icicle Embossing Powder.


To add a little more texture and bling, I then added Silver Microbeads to the tips of the flakes and overlaid them with Snowflake Buttons. 


I created a flower layer at the bottom corner of my photo.


I also popped on some of my handcrafted butterflies for some extra sparkle!!


I love that Blue Fern papers are so high quality and thick that they can handle all of my mediums, textures and layering! Just look at all the dimension that they allow you to achieve.

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:
Paper:
Deja Vu-Lustre
Deja Vu-Tresors

Chipboard:
French Ironwork
Winter Flakes

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:
Mystic Plum
Icicle

I love creating off the page projects, and one of my FAV things is mini albums. I love creating pages that have little tuck ins for storing memories, and all kinds of unexpected treasures!!



 For this mini album, I used the Blue Fern Frolic Paper Collection,  starting with a layer of Friendship as the base layer and then adding a layer of  Petits Moments


I then added a layer of corrugated board that I added some beads, Imagine Ink Embossing Powder In Cerulean and cheesecloth to grunge it up a bit. I took some pieces of  the Blue Fern Shabby Brick Pieces Chipboard, textured them and added them to my cover design.



Next, I fussy cut out one of the birds from the Friendship Paper and glitter painted him up, then cut out the rest of the bird design and added it to a Blue Fern Majestic Chipboard Frame.



I painted the frame with a coat of gesso and then heat embossed it with the Cerulean Embossing Powder.





Here is a look at all the layering.



Here I created pocket pages with tags using the following Blue Fern Papers:
Frolic Petits Moments
Frolic Veranda





For these pages, I used:
Frolic Friendship and Frolic Petits Moments Papers
there is a pocket that I created using a cut out of the birds design and then created,



a sweet, little sewn booklet from the Calling Cards Paper, 



and a tag that tucks in at the top from the Dans Le Jardin paper.


These pocket pages were created with the Frolic Adorn Paper.



And all the tuck in and tags were created with the Frolic Calling Card Paper.



The last set of pages were created with the Frolic Dans Le Jardin Papers and feature a pocket,



With Frolic Calling Card tags as well as a large tag, tuck in created with Frolic Friendship Paper.


The back side was created using Frolic Friendship Paper.

Thank you so much for joining me for my first Blue Fern Studios Reveal! I hope that you have enjoyed getting to know a little bit about me and also that you have enjoyed my projects. Here is to a New Year full of Creativity, Inspiration and Fun!! Hugs ~Renea

Blue Fern Studio Supply List:
Paper:
Frolic Friendship
Frolic Calling Cards
Frolic Dans Le Jardin
Frolic Petits Moments

Frolic Veranda
Frolic Adorn

Chipboard:
Majestic Frame
Shabby Brick Pieces

Imagine Ink Embossing Powder:
Cerulean



Tuesday, September 8, 2015

September Projects by Melinda Thompson

Hello BFS fans :)


The months are rolling around pretty quickly aren't they! I have another 2 projects to share with you all.


First project I am using more gorgeous papers from the Deja Vu paper range. Here I have layered up a couple of the larger circle chipboard pieces underneath my photo layers.


"Precious Memories"




Some closeups...I love the soft greens and apricots in this paper range.






Paper: Deja Vu Collection
Chipboard: Beaded Flourish, Corner Flourishes, Graduated Circles, Heart Borders




My second project is using some papers from the Love Story collection. I love the white and black teamed up with red and blue.


"Our Cousin"




Some closeups from the gorgeous chipboard pieces....the heart scallop border is just beautiful.







Paper: Love Story Collection
Chipboard: Heart Borders, Chunky Heart Panel, Brackets, Heart Hugs, Majestic Frame 



Thank you so much for stopping by..hope you feel inspired to be creative today :)

Melinda