New Beginnings with Jelissa

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans, and welcome to the new year!
I'm up on the blog today with a video tutorial of how I put together a mixed media journal cover, using nothing more than Blue Fern Studios chipboards, some metal bits and flowers. I was very inspired by one of our former creative team member Joyce Kers who kept a journal on inspirational women in her family, and I wanted to make a similar journal for myself but of my family tree which I hope to fill up in the year 2015.
This is the project:

and close-ups (warning: graphic-intensive!)

I have always used papers, cloth or canvas to create my layers but for this journal cover I decided to create my layers with the chipboards from Blue Fern Studios instead. The intricate laser-cut designs are perfect as every layer they form has lots of interesting details to catch the eye.

I wanted a blank white base to start with so that I can get to play with the new mediums I got for Christmas, but didn't want my chipboards to feel boring. So all the chipboard pieces were covered with different texture mediums.

My title piece which I kept simple.
Here is the video of how I put everything together:

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Floral Clock Fall Foliage Little Birds Set Leafy Page Accents Notebook Edges "Family" word
Thank you for dropping by the blog! love,
Jelissa