January inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hey Blue Fern Studios fans! Vera Shelemekh is here for another wonderful creative term :)

Let me write a couple of words about myself for those who has recently joined the blog.

I'm Russian living and working in Moscow - the capital city. I'm a big fan of scrapbooking, papercrafting and quilting. I can't imagine my crafty space without paper and scissors.

Almost all of my layouts are telling stories about my family which consists of two young men: my 6 year old son and my hubby.

Scrapbooking is not only my hobby. It is my job and my lifestyle. I own a small shop on Etsy and occasionally teach people papercrafting.

You can find more information about me on social media:

Instagram @vera_shelemekh

Blog https://verusha-ru.blogspot.ru/

FB https://www.facebook.com/vera.shelemekh 

Last year I started to make my Wedding album with amazing Blue Fern Studios papers and embelishments but I feel like I need more layouts to achieve the goal. So today I will share some new wedding layouts with Remnants papers and printed chipboards.

The first one is experimental as I've never made layouts with huge photos.

I've taken Remnants - Devonshire for the background and embelished it with Remnants printed chipboards, the fence covered with Antique gold embossing powder and leaves covered with Lime and Aocado embossing powder.

 

 With some Meadow seedlings, Apricot and Heartland blossoms and Lace the layout looks full of tender feelings.

 

 

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Remnants - Devonshire

 

Chipboards:

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

 Lime

Avocado

Antique gold

 

Stamps:

Sweet titles

Seedlings

Meadow

Flowers:

Apricot blooms

Heartland blossoms

Lace:

Lace 4

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The other layout is more brutal, One of the photo locations was a brick wall so I tried to imitate the pattern on the background with the help of Essental Textures stamp and the new Ivory Embossing powder.

 

To the background I also added butterflies with the Stamp - Garden Frolic

 

 

 Chipboard butterflies are covered with Soot glitter and Iridescent Grey and Icicle embossing powders

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Remnants - Callaway

Remnants - Vignette

 

Chipboards:

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Ivory

Iridescent Grey

14 Karat

 

Stamps:

Essential textures

Garden Frolic

Deja vu

Seedlings 

Gold Nugget

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And for the dessert today I prepared two Valentine cards for someone really special. 

I switched my attention to the amazing Heartland collection which I love with all of my heart. 

Heartland - Bicycle for Two and  Red Rose Ball as background and for fussy cutting.

 

And the Angel is cut from Heartland Love notes. I covered hearts and  vine chipies with the mix of lime and avocado embossing powder. I also added some Mauve seedlings here and there and bits of Lace 3

 And of course you have noticed the Fresh florals.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Heartland - Bicycle for Two

Heartland - Red Rose Ball

Heartland -  Love notes

 

Embossing powder:

Avocado

Lime 

Glistening sand

 

Seedlings 

Mauve

 

Flowers

Fresh florals 

Lace

Lace 3

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I thank everyone for stopping by and wish you a good crafty season with Blue Fern Studios!

See you in February ;)

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 ;)

May Projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans! 

Vera Shelemekh is here. Today is my turn to inspire you with the amazing Happy Accident collection. The self adhesive chipboards are absolutely gorgeous, aren't they? So easy to adhere and fun to play with!

My first layout is telling a summertime story. I even see the sun rays  shining from the right upper corner). I used Happy Accident - Incident paper for the background and a couple of pieces from the self adhesive chipboards set.

Graduated Circles and Chelsea Vines chipboards are covered with acrylic paint and some Mermaid glitter.

I love the combination of bright yellow and blue bubbles and flowers and watercolor birds from the Owls and birds stamps set.

And here is my video tutorial showing how to make this layout. I hope you will find it useful.

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Happy Accident - Incident

 

Chipboards:

Graduated Circles

Chelsea Vines

Happy Accident self-adhesive chipboard

 

Glitter:

Mermaid

 

Stamps:

Owls and Birds

 

  Flowers: 

Happy Blooms

Dark Tropic Lilies

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And another Wedding layout, this time all in blue as it was the main color of our Wedding.  Happy accident - Quirk paper as the background with some flowers and butterflies cut from Frolic collection.

 I framed the picture into the middle Looped frame covered with Icicle Embossing powder.

There are some more butterflies on the Garden Frolic Stamp. I added them too.

 

Papers:

Happy Accident - Quirk

Frolic

 

Chipboards:

Looped frames
Winter Titles

 

Embossing powders:

Icicle

Stormy Skies

 

Stamps:

Garden Frolic

I would love to hear from you in the comments. Thank you for watching and see you in June *)

Mixing it Up ~ Sandi's December Projects!

Hello, Blue Fern visitors! 

Sandi here with you today sharing my 3 December projects.

It's so hard to grasp that 2015 is almost over! 

"Memories"

First up is a layout using the Vintage Christmas collection. I used a variety of papers as listed below and then built my background with super heavy gesso, a stencil and Imagine Ink mists in Persimmon, Cotton Candy and Leaf. 

My Clip Frame was treated with Cotton Candy mist and then heat embossed using both Petal and Poinsettia. The Berry Stem on the left was misted with Imagine Ink in Leaf and variegated with a random ink pad. The Blooming Foliage peeking from beneath the photo was treated the same. A few microbeads were added to both for more texture. 

The Garden Lattice Bits were misted with Cotton Candy and then randomly embossed with Petal and Poinsettia.  You can also see I've used a snippet of the Blooming Foliage tucked into my cluster. 

One last close-up

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper:

Vintage Christmas Deck the Halls

Vintage Christmas Magical

Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

Chipboard:

Garden Lattice Bits

Clip Frames

Berry Stems

Blooming Foliage

Imagine Ink mist:

Cotton Candy

Persimmon

Leaf

Embossing Powder:

Poinsettia

Petal

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"Dream"

I love scrapping with purple! And since I haven't had a lot of opportunity to use the DejaVu collection yet, I took this time to do so.

  (Love this early ingenue photo of Lucille Ball, 1930s. Photo credit to Tumblr, original photographer unknown.) 

The spectacular Circle Vine Frame seemed the perfect choice to add a little drama to my layout. It was coated with gesso, then misted with Imagine Ink in Jingle Bells. I did a little random embossing with a clear powder and then added in some purple with one of my gelatos. 

The Framington Medley was treated the same and used as a background layer. To emphasize my photo, I used color around the Circle Vine Frame and mixed in some microbeads as well. 

You can see some of my stamping in the background using the Garden Frolic stamp. 

I used more of the gelato color to create an ombre look on my Dream title. I finished the page with some random paint splattering. 

Paper:

DejaVu Lustre

DejaVu Tresors

DejaVu La Plume

Chipboard:

Framington Medley

Circle Vine Frame

Wish, Wonder, Dream

Stamps:

Garden Frolic

Imagine Mist:

Jingle Bells

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"Merry"

Here I am again using the Vintage Christmas collection. I've tried to photograph this layout multiple times and cannot seem to capture it's true appearance. IRL, it is so sparkly and pretty! 

The background was treated with gesso and Imagine Ink in Winter Mint. 

This LO is based on the December sketch and is of one of my grandsons with a great-granddad, so sweet. 

The Holiday Frame was misted with our Leaf mist and then blinged up with our Lucky embossing Powder! The shine is gorgeous! I've tucked in some fussy cut flowers. 

The Wood Ornament was treated with Petal and Poinsettia embossing Powders. A bow and flower finish it off! 

I used one of the Halftone Stamps around the outer edge of my layout for depth and interest. 

I added some personal touches with cheesecloth, peals and flair. 

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper:

 Vintage Christmas Wonderland

 Vintage Christmas Greeting Cards

 Vintage Christmas Deck the Halls

 Vintage Christmas Magical

Chipboard:

Wood Ornaments

Holiday Frame

 Embossing Powder:

Petal

Poinsettia 

Lucky

Mist:

Winter Mint

Leaf

Stamps:

Halftone

That wraps it up for December and for 2015! 

I am thrilled to be back with Blue Fern Studios again next year! 

See you then!