The Blue Fern Studios Timeless Collection with it's grungy, darker more Vintage look papers inspired me to create the following masculine layout of my son, Draven. I just used the papers in a way that omitted or covered up the more feminine floral designs to leave me with designs that worked perfectly for that no flower, all edginess of masculinity.
I started with a a layer of Timeless Main Street Paper, and then tore and layered in corrugated board pieces that I two tone misted and Timeless Papillons and Artistique Papers.
I did some edge curling on some of the paper and then inked them to match the corrugated board colors.
I then took some Blue Fern Cogs And Gears Chipboard pieces, and heat embossed them with Imagine Ink Honey and Ebony Embossing Powders, and layered them onto the clock pieces.
I also used Blue Fern Frolic Mesh Chipboard that I cut into pieces and colored with a distress marker and tucked into random places throughout the layout. I added various metal pieces to round out the finishing touches for the layout.
Here you can see all the dimension and textures that the layers of papers and chipboard created.
I know a lot of you tell me that masculine work is a real challenge for you, but the Blue Fern papers and quality chipboards really do make it easy to pull a gorgeous masculine piece off!! Thank you so much for checking out my April work, and I hope you have fun creating!! Hugs~Renea
Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper:
Timeless-Papillons
Paper:
Timeless-Papillons
Timeless-Main Street
Timeless-Artistique
Chipboard:
Timeless-Artistique
Chipboard:
Roman Clocks Small
Cogs & Gears
Frolic Mesh
Imagine Ink:
Embossing Powder-Honey
Embossing Powder-Ebony
Frolic Mesh
Imagine Ink:
Embossing Powder-Honey
Embossing Powder-Ebony
Items from Reneabouquets.com and the Reneabouquets Etsy:
Blue Fern Roman Clock Chipboard-Small
Blue Fern Cogs & Gears
Ranger Emboss It Dabber-Clear
Tim Holtz Distress Stain-Seedless Preserves
Tim Holtz Distress Stain-Tarnished Brass
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Seedless Preserves
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Vintage Photo
Blue Fern Roman Clock Chipboard-Small
Blue Fern Cogs & Gears
Ranger Emboss It Dabber-Clear
Tim Holtz Distress Stain-Seedless Preserves
Tim Holtz Distress Stain-Tarnished Brass
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Seedless Preserves
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Vintage Photo
Really love this one Renea! You do give us true inspiration with these great guy l/o's friend! Beautiful rough and textural layers.
ReplyDeleteHope all is well. ~Karen O