Boots, Beauty & Blue Fern~

Welcome to to the New Year and welcome to my very first Blue Fern Studios Post!!! I just want to say thank you to everyone who followed my work and encouraged me in 2015! I just love the paper crafting world and all the wonderful people that I have met over the past 4 years. As we head into 2016, 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!!

I love sliding into a comfortable pair of boots, and for this Design Team layout that I created for Blue Fern Studios, 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 it and added it then popped my photo on top.

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 and added some mini pine cones. I popped some of my Rose Quartz Butterflies onto the frame for even more dimension.

I added some cheesecloth, a burlap pick , a Large Chiffon Flower and some flowers to round out my feminine meets rustic look. 

I then Distress 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.

Here you can see all the dimension I created with all the layering and texture work that I did.

Thanks for dropping by!! Now it is time for this gal to grab her boots, pull them up and get back to work!! Have a great week!! Hugs ~Renea

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

Items used from Reneabouquets.com & the Reneabouquets Etsy:
Rose Quartz Butterflies
Sweet Daisy Lace

Large Shabby Chic Chiffon Flower In Ivory
Prima Luscious Kindle Flower
Prima Fifth Avenue Flowers
Petaloo Burlap Pick In Natural
Tim Holtz Distress Vintage Photo Ink
Ranger Distress Crackle Paint