Our October Fan of the Month

October is here, and so is our new Blue Fern Fan of the Month, the wonderful Lisa Landry.  Her elegant style is perfect paired with Blue Fern products, which explains why she is such a fan.  So, let's get to know Lisa, and take a look at her first layout for us this month (and get to know one of her beautiful cats, too).

Hi!  My name is Lisa Landry (a.k.a. iluvcats261).  >^..^<

My husband and I live in Lake Charles, Louisiana where we were both born and raised. I have a wonderful daughter, an awesome son-in-law, and two sweet Grand Kitties that live not too far away in Houston, Texas.  Besides my husband an daughter, the loves of my life are my two magnificent Birman cats, Miss Gali and Lucy (mother and daughter), who have become popular in the scrapping community because they are my biggest inspirations.

My daughter introduced me to scrapbooking in 2010 and it’s the first craft I’ve ever been interested in.  Scrapping brings me peace, happiness, enjoyment and relaxation.  My creations are mostly romantic style with an added touch of shabby chic on occasion.  I especially love creating flower clusters, stenciling a pretty design and heat embossing chipboard!  The paper design and the photo I choose guide me through the creation process.

When I discovered Blue Fern Studios I fell in love with their high-quality products and have been one of their biggest fans for a very long time!   I’m extremely honored to be Blue Fern’s October Fan of the Month!  I hope that you enjoy my creations…..and as always, have a wonderful day!  Lisa : )

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For this layout, I used Blue Fern Studios Happy Accident paper collection that has 

light blue tones (because of Lucy's eyes) and beige and white (for Lucy's colors).  

The photo is adhered to cardboard for a little raised dimension. 

 BFS Doodle Corners chipboard reminds me of string!

I used them to frame Lucy's adorable photo.  

They are heat embossed in BFS Imagine Ink color Starry Night.  WOWOWOW!  

What a perfect match to Lucy's eye color!!

Cute black & white Baker's Twine was perfect to zig-zag around the layout edge 

since the layout is all about Lucy's beloved string. 

To the upper right of the photo, I heat embossed Blue Fern Studios brick stamp 

in the Essential Textures set with their Imagine Ink color Oatmeal.  

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Happy Accident paper "Blessing" backside

Essential Textures Clear Stamp Set - bricks

Imagine Ink embossing powders - Oatmeal & Starry Night

Chipboard - Doodle Corners

I hope you enjoyed my first post!

I look forward to creating some new layouts with Blue Fern's gorgeous products!

See you the next few Wednesdays.  Have a great day, Lisa : )

August inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans.
It's Vera Shelemekh here and I'm happy to share with you some fresh and bright summer inspiration.  I've made a botanic layout with Wanderlust paper and mixed two summer collections in a seaside layout. And for the dessert today are Happy accident chocolate boxes with lace and flowers.

The summer here in Moscow is a bit cold this year, but we had a couple of warm weeks to enjoy the Nature, to wonder with a butterfly net and breathe wonderful floral smells.
For this layout I used Wanderlust - Lakeside as background.

The photo is framed in a frame from Ever After Frame Set covered with avocado embossing powder.

 I decorated the layout with many stamped flowers, Damask Flourishes chipboard covered with lime embossing powder, stamped bugs and butterflies and a sweet owl.

 
"Discover" is the header taken from Wanderlust Words set

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Wanderlust - Lakeside 

 

Chipboards:

Ever After Frame Set

 Damask Flourishes

Wanderlust Words 

 

Embossing powder:

 Avocado

Lime

Stamps:

Stamp - Garden Frolic 

Stamp - Owls and Birds

 

Flowers

  Fresh Florals

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The other layout is combination of Wanderlust and Seaside cottage collections. The background is Ocean Voyage from Wanderlust. And the composition is the mixture of Seaside Cottage - Splendor and elements cut from the paper with cards.

 I also used the octopus and sea stars from Nautical Set and framed the photo in Wanderlust - Printed Chipboard frame.

The mixed media background includes stamping with Stamp - Essential Textures and waves colored with embossing powders Summer breeze and Stormy seas

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Wanderlust - Ocean Voyage

 Seaside Cottage - Splendor

 

Chipboards:

Wanderlust - Printed Chipboard

Nautical Set

 

Embossing powder:

 Summer breeze 

Stormy seas

Icicle

Stamps:

Stamp - Essential Textures

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The chocolate boxes are made of Happy Accident - Blessing and Quirk papers and decorated with Lace 5 and wonderful Blue Fern Studios Fern leaves covered with Iridescent Grey embossing powder and flowers.

 You can put chocolates or money inside.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Happy Accident - Blessing 

Happy Acciden - Quirk

 

Chipboards:

Fern leaves

 

Embossing powder:

Iridescent Grey

Laces:

Lace 5 

Flowers:

Courtship Roses

 

Wish you to spend the rest of Summer with use and see you in September ;)

Happy Accident Layouts by Kris Berc

Hi, Blue Fern Studios friends and fans! It's Kris here to share my May layouts.  All three feature the new paper collection called Happy Accident.  I do believe this collection will be a strong favorite for a very long time! It is so wonderfully suited for mixed media, but it also stands beautifully on its own.  I hope you will get your hands on this collection, as you are sure to love it!

This is My Life


My first layout features the B side of the Happy Accident - Layering Cards paper.  I prepared it with a layer of clear gesso then a little bit of white gesso in the focal area. I added some drops of pink, peach, and orange sprays to the paper to coordinate with the flowers that I was going to add.  When dry, I used the brick stamp from the Essential Textures stamp set with black ink.

I used Copper Embossing Powder on the This is My Life chipboard piece.

  I also used the Copper Embossing Powder on a butterfly from the Royal Monarchs chipboard set.  For some beautiful contrast, I added some Pink Dust Embossing Powder to the butterfly here and there.

I used the same embossing powder treatment on the Blooming Flourishes chipboard pieces that are layered under the photo and flowers.  Above, you can see a coordinating Happy Accident Printed Chipboard Sticker peeking out on either side of the photo and another, "Inspiration", beneath the photo.

Of course, a handful of gorgeous coordinating flowers, including Happy Roses, Spring Lilies, and Harvest Lilies, were used to embellish the layout.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Happy Accident - Layering Cards

Chipboard
Blooming Flourishes
Royal Monarchs
This is My Life
Happy Accident - Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powder
Copper
Pink Dust

Stamp
Essential Textures

Flowers
Happy Roses
Harvest Lilies
Spring Lilies

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Together is the Best Place to be

This layout features the B side of the Happy Accident - Fluke paper.  I prepared it with a layer of clear gesso and then applied modeling paste through a stencil.  Next I added color with some drops of peach, orange, and yellow sprays. When dry, I added contrast by using black ink with the Tattered Newsprint stamp and a stamp from the Forever set.

I used Stormy Skies embossing powder on the Together is the Best Place to be chipboard piece.  Isn't it a lovely shade of blue?!  Used 14 Karat embossing powder on the Royal Heart Frame chipboard piece that you see peeking out under and around the photo.

I tucked a blue chipboard flower from the Happy Accident Printed Chipboard set into an embellishment cluster.

The flower clusters include beautiful Happy Blooms and Happy Roses.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Happy Accident - Fluke
Happy Accident - Fortuity

Chipboard
Royal Heart Frame
Together is the Best Place to be
Happy Accident - Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powder
14 Karat
Stormy Skies

Stamps
Forever
Tattered Newsprint

Flowers
Happy Blooms
Happy Roses

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Sassy

My last layout features the Happy Accident - Chance paper.  I prepared the paper with a layer of clear gesso followed by modeling paste through a stencil.  Next, I added color with drops of purple, pink, black, and white sprays.  When dry, I stamped using the Tattered Harlequin stamp as well one of the Essential Textures stamps using black ink.

I embossed the Swirly Circle chipboard piece with Plum embossing powder.  I did the same on the Sassy chipboard piece, but I also added some Rusty Rose embossing powder on it here and there.  I love the beautiful effect!

Above and below, you can also see some of the Happy Accident Printed Chipboard stickers.

The below "Passion" chipboard sticker is also from the Happy Accident Printed Chipboard set.

My flower clusters include Happy Blooms and Happy Roses.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper
Happy Accident - Chance
Happy Accident - Fate

Chipboard
Sassy
Swirly Circle
Happy Accident - Printed Chipboard

Embossing Powder
Plum
Rusty Rose

Stamps
Essential Textures
Tattered Harlequin

Flowers
Happy Blooms
Happy Roses

Thank you for stopping by today.
I hope I have inspired you to create with your Blue Fern Studios products!

April projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans!

Vera is here and I'm happy to share some inspiring projects with you. This month I keep on playing with Spring Parade collection scrapping my Easter photos... But first let me show you the Chesterville layout which I like a lot.

The layout keeps memories of our house renovation. Our kid was feeling really excited to help with this and that. I used  Chesterville - Whitford as the background adding Textured Wildflowers chipboard covered with Antique gold embossing powder.

 The photo is framed into a bigger Clip frame painted with white acrylic paint.  I used one of the Chunky words for the title.

Essential textures stamp helped me to add some more details to the background. And the bricks are covered with Mermaid glitter.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Chesterville- Whitford

 

Chipboards:

 Clip frames
Textured Wildflowers 

Chunky Words

 

Embossing powders:

Antique gold

Glitter:

Mermaid

Stamps:

Essential textures

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And now Spring inspiration.

The layout is the present for my good crafty friends. For the background I used Whimsy from Paisley&Vine collection. The composition consists of a lot of Spring parade fussy cut elemens, Circle vine frame covered with lime embossing powder and paper flowers including  the Spring lily

I also made some stamping with Deja Vu and then cut the elements

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

 

Paisley&Vine - Whimsy

Paisley & Vine - Playing Cards

Spring Parade - Remembrance

Spring Parade - April Medley

 

Chipboards:

Circle Vine

 

Embossing powders:

Lime

Flowers:

Spring lilies

Stamps:

Deja Vu

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And at last some Easter memories. The kids were searching for chocolate eggs in the garden and I took some pictures and made this mini tunel album.

 The characters from Spring parade should be already famaliar to you. The fussy cut bunnies are so nice and the flowers so springy.

 

On the spreadsheets I used Easter chipboards: Classic bunnies and Easter Egg Ornaments all covered with Icicle embossing powder.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Spring Parade - Joyful 

Spring Parade - May Vignettes 

Spring Parade - Spring Petites

Spring Parade - Sunday Best

Spring Parade - April Medley 

 

Chipboards:

Classic Bunnies

Easter Eggs Ornaments 

Blooming Foliage

 

Embossing powders:

Icicle

Flowers:

Late winter lilies

 

Thank you for stopping by and see you in May *)

 

April Projects by Catherine Giguère

Hello Blue Fern Studios Fans!  Here's my turn to share my April projects with you. This month, I  worked with the Spring Parade collection and with the Courtship Lane collection.

Bonheur

For my first layout, I used 'Marketplace' paper from the BFS Spring Parade collection. I did a textured background with stencil, modeling paste, BFS 'Tattered Newspaper' and 'Essential Textures Stamps', art stones and different inks (blue, violet and yellow).

I embossed my chipboards 'Folkart Frame' and 'Organic Vine Corner' with BFS Imagine Ink 'Antique Gold'. 

I embossed my title (Bonheur) with  BFS Imagine Ink 'Amethyst'.

I cut the 'Organic Vine Corner' in half to put the pieces under my flowers. Then, I add a lot of BFS flowers.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Spring Parade 'Marketplace'

Spring Parade 'Spring Petites'

Chipboards

Folkart Frame

Organic Vine Corner

French Words

Stamp

Tattered Newsprint

Essential Textures

Embossing Powder

BFS Imagine Ink 'Antique Gold'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Amethyst'

Flowers

Christmas Blooms

Courtship Roses

Dark Tropic Lilies

Attic Charm Daisies

Spring Florals

Spring Peony and Berries

Special

For my second layout, I used the paper 'Sunday Best' from the new BFS Spring Parade collection. I used modeling paste, stencils, green, aqua and brown inks and the BFS stamps 'Making Plans', 'Coarse Fabrics' and 'Tattered Newsprint' to do my background. 

I embossed all my chipboards with BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'.

I add a lot of BFS green, yellow and white flowers and I glued my title on them.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Spring Parade 'Sunday Best'

Spring Parade 'Spring Petites'

Chipboards

Rock Wall Bits

Bits of Honey

Perfect, Adorable, Special

Stamp

Making Plans

Coarse Fabrics

Tattered Newsprint

Embossing Powder

BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'

Flowers

Attic Charm Glitter Roses

Attic Charm Daisies

Christmas Blooms

Courtship Roses

Late Winter Lilies

Merveilleux

For my last layout this month, I used the paper 'Concert Hall' from the Courtship Lane collection. 

I embossed my BFS chipboards 'Classic Ornement', 'Grand Ornement' and my title 'Merveilleux' with BFS Imagine Ink 'Coral'.

I glued my title on my flowers and I cut my chipboards 'Grand Ornement' and 'Classic Ornements' in two pieces and I glued them under my picture.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Courtship Lane 'Concert Hall'

Courtship Lane 'Calling Cards'

Chipboards

Classic Ornaments

Grand Ornament

French Adjectives 1

Stamp

Serendipity Medley

Embossing Powder

BFS Imagine Ink 'Coral'

Flowers

Chesterville Blooms

Late Winter Lilies

I hope you have found some inspiration. I wish you a nice crafty day!

Catherine Giguère