Showing posts with label La Plume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Plume. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

~ Designer Favorites 2016 ~

Have you ever created a project that instantly became a fave? Maybe your photo spoke to memories past, or your new art supplies really got the creative juices flowing or even the mood you were in  as you created.  But somehow, it became a fave. 

Well, we decided to ask our Creative Team to show us THEIR favorite Blue Fern Studios project for 2016! 
They all agreed it was very hard to choose! 
But here is what they finally settled on  … 




Here's what Nicole said about her choice:

"I chose this layout as my favorite Blue Fern Studios DT creation because frankly, it is one of my all-time favorite any DT creations! But of course, Blue Fern Studios is the reason why it is so special. I am in love with woodgrain pattern and this one from the Tranquility collection with its teal blue tint is just gorgeous. I love the softness and serene feeling that this layout evokes with a very simple photo and a very inspiring quote. Every time I take a look at the chipboard focal piece, La Plume, I get a sense of peace and hope."





Designer Keren Tamir is a master at doing beach themed projects! Give her some blue and green and she's happy! Here, she took one of our Seaside Cottage papers and created this amazing calm and peaceful scene! Her chipboard choices are exquisite and replicates the ripples of the ocean! Ah, so relaxing! 





Marilyn Rivera also found it hard to choose just one project! Her background in fashion design is almost always incorporated in her layouts, most notably her fabulous pleating of her paper. Here, it seems the bride is pulling aside a curtain. Marilyn likes to frame her photos with embellishments, flowers, stenciling, ink and pearls. This is also a favorite photo of hers. 





Just one peek at this beauty and you can see Renae Harrison's love for mixing unexpected textures together.  The feminine photo, flowers, pearls and lace work beautifully against her rolled paper pieces, twine and wood sprigs. The chipboard was left almost natural to blend with her theme. 





Pascale is a master at making her photos the focus of her layouts. Here she has taken a vintage photo and clustered it with chipboard and flowers while still allowing the paper to shine! We adore the unique circular design. We will miss her amazing sneak peeks of her chipboard alterations. 





Here's what Debbie had to say about her fave:

"Here is my favorite from the Seaside Cottage Collection. I wanted to use the picture of my friend's daughter walking on the beach. Everything on this layout came together perfectly. Love the soft colors of the papers, flowers and embossing powders on the chipboard."





Cathi O'Neill is a fan of our older Ombre Dreams collection and it worked perfectly for this beach photo of her daughters! Her cluster of chipboard, flowers and shells are perfect accents. We love that she's including some stamping to create more dimension. Great choice! 





Here is what Karine told us about her "second favorite" project:
(Her actual favorite was recently used in her December post, so she chose another.) 

"I love this layout because it has everything I love about scrapbooking: memories, texture, chipboards, flowers and beautiful colors."





Marie-Eve had this to say about this layout of her sweet baby:

"It is My favorite because of the Mémoires collection That i just love!  It also included some texture chipboard , my favorite ones. Finally, It is a picture of my precious baby boy."




Elena Volchkova- Ukraine 


Elena also had a hard time choosing but finally settled on this one. Her style is always soft in texture but she often includes a few bright pops of color as she does here. You might notice this paper is that same one that Cathi chose. 





Sandi said:

"I finally settled on this layout as my favorite because I loved the grunge-y photo of my youngest daughter and took my inspiration from it. I had so much fun altering the chipboard pieces to complement the photo and the Serendipity paper. Also, because I usually do more shabby, romantic pages, this was an artistic departure for me." 





Maja Nowak - Poland


From Maja:

"I loved making each and every one of my projects for Blue Fern Studion during my term on the team, putting my heart into every creation. So if I have to pick just one most favourite, my choice is based on the amount of fun I had while creating, measured by the amount of BFS products used for it. :) And thus my pick is the mini I made for my June post, Crazy Cousins. It marks my absolute record with 21 chipboard pieced from 14 various sets, 13 embossing powders and 23 motives from 13 stamp sets. Plus fun photos I was working with." :) 





Karolina said this about her favorite:
We agree this is an amazing piece! 

"It was so hard to choose only one, so I needed more time. Here is my favorite. I picked this one because I love a marine style and colors and all details of this layout."



Yuko Tanaka - Japan


How could one ever decide on a favorite of Yuko Tanaka? She is known for  her great use of multiple photos and unique fussy cutting placement. Here she has used one of her wedding photos as well as a more recent one taken at the same chapel.  Her white chipboard just shines against her Timeless papers.   Such a soft, feminine page! 




Jelissa Mei - Singapore - Video Educator


Video Educator Jelissa Mei always wows with her unique backgrounds and great chipboard techniques. We thought this sweet photo of her baby girl with her daddy needed to be highlighted today. Jelissa makes great use of white space (Blush) around the photo cluster to really draw the eye towards it. We will miss Jelissa's great video tutorials but encourage you to visit our You Tube channel (link on the right sidebar)  in case you missed one. 


We have had a great year here at Blue Fern Studios! 
Lots of new products have been released and thoroughly enjoyed. 
We want to thank each and every designer who has been a part of this year for all your inspiration and dedication to the Creative Team.  

Here's to a great 2017! 


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Monday, June 27, 2016

Layout and Wall hangings with yuko



Hello! It's Yuko Here!
 I made 3 layout in three different types of paper each.
I love also every paper!


First one・・・


【Love】
I used a little nostalgic Froric series.
This series I love also cute !


This bright red roses! It was very nice!


This rose Blue Fern Studios Attic Charm Glitter Roses.
Gold is very luxurious and have the edge!





Title was processed with embossing powder.
It piled up EBONY (black) after embossed with GINGER.


From the top to the lattice of chip board, which was embossed with 14CARAT.
Coating the modeling paste.




<Blue Fern Studios Products>
Paper :   Froloc /Adorn/Friendship/Mercantile
Flower :Attic Charm Glitter Roses/Courtship Blooms
Chipboard:  Shabby Brick Bits/Lattice Gate
Embossing powder :Oatmeal/14karat/mashroom






And second・・・


【Dazzling】
Here  I used the Attic Charm collection.
But it is nice in the pale shade seems Blue Fern Stuidos.






Used even first work , but a rose of with this gold glitter.
Really convenient!



It is easy to use Courtship Blooms!



Title chip board was embossed with 14KARAT.
My favorite is because become very ornate gold in Lame.


The cardboard of this big feather.
Though I thought whether the beginning is too big, 
I am pretty when I use it!
I liked it!!!
After emboss did the whole in OATMEAL,
 I attached glitter of PERIDOT partially.





I stamped the mount of the background
 with an English letter stamp in Varsamark
 and did emboss in gold.



<Blue Fern Studios Products>
 Papre:  Attic Charm  Calling Cards/Curio/ Foyer/Mercantile
Chipboard: Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling/La Plume
Flower:   Attic Charm Glitter Roses/Courtship Blooms
Gritter:PERIDOT
Embossing powder:OATMEAL/14karat 










Last third・・・




【Treasure】


This made wall hangings using the outside big cardboard.
It is the force that is good as there are approximately 11 inches!




I employed a lot of flowers, and a lot of paper which I cut out repeated it.


I used three colors for cardboard and did emboss.
(BUTTERCUP/SAGE/COTTONCANDY)





<Blue Fern Studios Products>
Paper :   Attic Charm Calling Cards/ Mercantile/Foyer
Chipboard:   Looped Frames
Flower:   Attic Charm Glitter Roses/Courtship Blooms
Embossing powder :BUTTERCUP/SAGE/COTTONCANDY



Thank you for looking!




Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Tranquility Inspiration & More - by Nicole Doiron


You have seen lots of beautiful creations featuring Blue Fern Studios' latest collection Tranquility, and I am sure that you are in love with it!  I have to say that I absolutely adore all BFS collections, but this one is my new favorite!  It has everything to please my crafty heart from beautiful wood grain to soft earthy tones!!

Let's start my post today with more details on 2 layouts using Tranquility that you may have already seen on the blog, the first one being my take on the May sketch challenge



This is the gorgeous Blue Fern Studios sketch for May.


To coincide with the Tranquility collection, Blue Fern Studios has released a few sets of chipboard words that match the name of each paper in the collection.  I chose the word Jubilation for my layout in order to represent the blooming of nature that makes most everyone happy during this time of year... 
Springtime in the northern hemisphere!


I used a brand new Imagine Ink Embossing Powder color on my title and the Scalloped Border which is simply called Ruby, and I can tell that it will be used a lot on in future creating because the colour is so rich and beautiful!


On the Spring Trinkets, I used Tangerine.  And on my background, I embossed a stamp pattern using the Wallflower stamp and Chili Powder embossing powder.


As you may well know, Blue Fern Studios are making flowers now, and when I saw these orange pretties from the Tranquil Blooms set, I knew I had to use them right away.  They were the main inspiration,
along with the sketch, for my entire page.


Blue Fern Studios Supplies
Paper: Tranquility (Hushed, Peaceful, Serenity, Calling Cards)
Chipboard: Jubilation, Spring Trinkets, Scalloped Border
Flowers: Tranquil Blooms
Stamp: Wallflower
Imagine Ink Embossing Powders: Ruby, Tangerine, Chili Powder

  Next is this very serene layout created on some of that gorgeous woodgrain pattern I mentioned earlier.


The name of this collection is perfect... all papers give a soothing sense of calm...


And the title Serenity seemed to fit perfectly!  I embossed the bottom part of it first with Seamist, and then did the part with Snow, and I blended it together with a little pearly paint and some light touches of gold.


One of my favorite chipboard pieces is this delectable feather called La Plume.
I covered it with Snow embossing powder and dipped one side of it in metallic gold paint.


I absolutely adore this quote and found that it went perfectly with the my page.


Blue Fern Studios Supplies
Papers: Tranquility (Calm, Contentment)
Chipboard: Serenity, Checker Bits, La Plume
Stamp: Texture Set One
Flowers: Tranquility Blooms, Courtship Blooms
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Snow, Sea Mist, Mushroom

  And my last share for you today is this brand new layout created with older BFS papers, a combination of Sanctuary and Autumn Anthology collections as well as the pretty blue packaging cardstock 
that comes with all your Blue Fern Studios products.


Below you can see the Capture the Moment title covered with Breeze Imagine Ink embossing powder.  
I find it looks so nice against the rich burgundy background paper.


Another favorite chipboard piece of mine is this one called Deja Vu Atelier.  I love the combination of floral
and steampunk with fancy paneling.  I covered it with Garnet embossing powder.


On the upper right corner of my layout is a little cluster of embellishments,
including an Ironwork Accent and Leafy Page Accent.


You can see a glimpse here of my stamping work on the bottom layer of paper
using the Serendipity stamp and Blue Sky embossing powder.


I am so grateful to Blue Fern Studios for all these amazing products!

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:
Papers: Sanctuary (Botanical Garden, Calling Cards)
Autumn Anthology (Parfumerie)
Chipboard: DejaVu Atelier, Capture the Moment, Ironwork Accents, Leafy Page Accents
 Stamp: Serendipity Medley
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Garnet, Breeze, Blue Sky