July Inspiration by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to share with you my new projects with the gorgeous Wanderlust and Garden Life Collections.

I used the Petites, Calling Cards and Road Trip paper for my first project, called "Travel".

Then created some texture on the fisrt paper using stencil, modeling paste and departure stamp.

Next, I covered the Seashell chipboard with Avocado and Antique Gold embossing powder.  For the title, I used Wanderlust Words covered in  Antique Gold embossing powder. 

I finished my project with different collections of flowers from Blue Fern Studios. I also added  laces and gesso to create more dimension. 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:
Calling Cards
Road Trip
Petites

Chipboads:
Wanderlust Words

Flowers:

Wanderlust Lilies
Wanderlust Vine
Christmas Blooms
Wanderlust Lilies

Embossing Powder:

Snow
Avocado
 Antique Golden

Stamps:
Departure

Lace 4

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For my second project I decided to create another beach layout called " Explore".  

I created the background by cutting the steering wheel from the Mermaid paper, and gluing  it with foam tape for more dimension. 

Then proceeded to emboss the Seaside Seashells and Seaside Tresures  chipboards with Snow and Oatmetal embossing powder. Afterwards, I heated and painted some of the chipboards with acrilic paint.

The title is from Wanderlust collection and it was covered with Antique Golden embossing.  

I finished the project with flowers, crystals and microbeads.

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:

Mermaid 

Splendor

Chipboards:
Seaside Seashells
Seaside Tresures

Mini Ring Things
Wanderlust Words

Embossing Powder:
Snow
Antique Gold
Oatmeal

Flowers:
Chesterville Blooms

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My last project is a tiny card/album that I made with Garden Life Collection.

I created a 5x5" card and decided to decorate the inside as a mini album.  You can add up to 2 pictures and it is a simple and nice gift.  I choose the Sunrise and Morning Dew papers to decorate the cover and pages. 

Using the beautiful printed chipboards from Garden Life I create the centerpiece.  

I continued by adding some flowers, fussy cut flowers and Checker Bits chipboard covered in Snow embossing powder. 

Blue Fern Studios Supplies:

Papers:
Sunrise
Morning Dre

Chipboads:
Wanderlust Words and Checker Bits

Embossing Powder:

Snow

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi

Design Team projects Wendy Scholten June

Hi everyone,

It's my turn today to show you my design team work for the month June.

I have a canvas and 2 layouts to share with you.

So let's start with the canvas:

'Heaven Sent'

I only used a small piece of paper on this canvas behind my photo, it's from the new Garden Life collection.

 I used a stencil, some modeling paste, 4 colors paint spraynand the Blue Fern Studios Forever Stamp for my background.

 I used a piece of the Quatrefoil panel, the Circle Flourish frame and the Word Heaven Sent from the Spiritually Speaking Word Set as my title.

I thougt the title matched the photo very well, she's my little angel sent from Heaven and now we're waiting for our second little angel to say hello! We are so blessed!

 I used the Stormy Skies embossing powder on all the chipboard pieces to let them stand out more.

For the flower clusters i used the  Attic Charm Daisies, Dark Tropic Lilies, a flower from an older collection and a few small ones from my own stash.

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Papers:

- Garden Life

Chipboard:

- Quatrefoil panel

-Circle Flourish frame

-Heaven Sent from the Spiritually Speaking Word set

Embossing powder:

-Stormy skies

Stamp:

-Forever

Flowers:

-Attic Charm Daisies

-Dark tropic Lilies

Then my first layout for this month:

'Natural Beauty'

I used the Garden Life paper In Bloom paper and a small piece of the Sunrise paper behind my photo and a stencil, some moddeling paste and matching sprays.

I also used a few pieces of vellum with embossed flowers with the snow embossing powder.

 

I used the matching Rose Leaves, the  Floral Spray chipboard and for my title the Natural beauty saying from the All Natural word set. I used The Baby Pink and the Clover embossing powder which a combined with some paint.



I also used a few pieces from the matching printed chipboard set.

 I used Garden Blooms flowers and one from an older collection.

Blue Fern studios Products used:

Papers:

Garden Life: -In Bloom, Sunrise

Chipboard:

-Floral Spray

-Rose Leaves

-Natural beauty from the All Natural set

Embossing Powder:

-Snow

-Baby pink

-Clover

Flowers:

-Garden Blooms

Printed Chipboard

And my last Layout for this Month:

'Happy'

For this one i also used the Garden Life papers, Flower Bed and a piece of the Sunrise paper.

I fussy cut a few pieces of flowers from the Wallflowers paper to tuck behind my flowers

 I used the Timeless Floral Corner and the word Happy from the Happy, Heart, Love word set as my chipboard and treated them with stormy skies embossing powder and the iridescent grey on top to give it a beautiful sparkle.

 To give my background a little bit more texture i stamped a few images with the essential textures stamp. and used a piece of lace over my photo and behind my chipboard corner.

 I used a Christmas Bloom, a courtship rose and some Garden blooms.

I aso used a few pieces of the printed chipboard.

 Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Papers:

-Garden Life: Flower Bed, Sunrise, Wallflower

Chipboard:

-Timeless Floral Corner

-Happy from the Happy, Heart,Love word set

Stamp:

-Essential Textures

Embossing Powder:

-Stormy skies

-Iridescent Grey

Flowers:

-Christmas Blooms

-Gaden Blooms

-Courtship Roses

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs wendy



June projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans!
Vera Shelemekh is on air and I'm happy to share with you my projects featuring the new collection Garden Life which inspires to create wonderful flourish layouts.

I'll start with a fairy tale layout about my son and his girlfriend. Garden Life - Morning Dew paper as background does not require too many embelishments. It's so beautiful itself.

I added cut elements from Garden Life - Snippets and Garden Life - Flower Bed paper sheets. All these characters and flowers make the fairy tale.

I used  Stamp - Wedding Sentiments for the header.

I can't leave my layouts without wonderful Blue Fern Studios chipboards. In this I used Leafy Bough bits covered with lime embossing powder. And one more small header from the set of Garden Life - Printed Chipboard

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Garden Life - Morning Dew
 Garden Life - Snippets
 Garden Life - Flower Bed

Chipboards:

Garden Life - Printed Chipboard

 Leafy Bough

 

Embossing powder:

Lime

Stamps:

Stamp - Wedding Sentiments

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The other layout is for my Wedding album. I decided to divide the Garden Life - In Bloom paper and fussy cut the elements from the upper part. I replaced the cut part with some craft paper and adhered many cut flowers on it.

The header is made with Follow Your Heart chipboard covered with Icicle embossing powder and soot glitter.

The Spring frame is covered with Icicle embossing powder and  Glitter - Fool's Gold. For the backgroung I used Leafy florals Stamp.

 I also used the round piece of chipboard from the Garden Life - Printed Chipboard set.

and also many wonderful cut elements from  Garden Life - Snippets and Garden Life - Flower Bed

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Garden Life - In Bloom
 Garden Life - Snippets
 Garden Life - Flower Bed

Chipboards:

Garden Life - Printed Chipboard

Spring frame

Follow your heart

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Glitter:
Soot
Fool's gold

Stamps:

Leafy florals

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.. and for the desert two birthday cards.
I cut Garden Life - Merriment into two pieces, folded them and cut up to the size of 10x15 cm
The cards are decorated with frames from Ever after frame set, elements cut from  Garden Life - Snippets and the remnants of the basement.

The frames are covered with Embossing Powder - Iridescent Grey. I made two layers of powder.

I also added Heartland Blossoms white flowers. They look so tender.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Garden Life - Merriment
 Garden Life - Snippets

Chipboards:

Ever after frame set

Embossing powder:

Icicle
 Iridescent Grey

Stamps:
Essential Textures

Flowers: 
Heartland Blossoms

Wish you all a wonderful summer full of adventures. Thank you for watching and see you later in July!

June Projects by Lydia Guijt

Hello Blue Fern Studios and paper friends. 

This is my last month on the Design Team and it's been a great time. I would like to thank Blue Fern Studios for giving me this wonderful opportunity and their great support. 

For this month I have made a canvas and 2 layouts. 

For the canvas I used the Happy Accident  Collection and for the 2 layouts the brand new beautiful Garden Life Collection. 

Let's get started!

Canvas 

I started of with painting the sides of the canvas with some acrylic, with a second dry-brush coat in blue. Once this was dry I used the Tattered News Print Stamp randomly for some effect. 

The front of the canvas I covered with Happy Accident : Fluke with on top a smaller piece from the same sheet, distressed at the edges. Again I used the Tattered News Print Stamp for some details around the canvas and used a stencil with Graphite paste to create texture.

The Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces Stick Stacks are embossed with Starry Night to pick up the beautiful light blue from the paper. Having done my preparations it's time to start my layers.

Happy Accident is the first collection to have it's own accompanying Printed Chipboard Shapes sheet and it makes for a wonderful way to add layers, features and titles to your projects. For my canvas I made great use of them.

Also adding ribbon, lace, netting and thread to the mix before finishing off the project with the gorgeous Chesterville Florals and Blooms.

Paper

Happy Accident : Fluke

Chipboard

Stick Stacks

Happy Accident : Printed Chipboard Shapes

BFS Embossing

Starry Night

Stamps

Tattered Newsprint

Flowers

Chesterville Florals 

Chesterville Blooms

The End of a Perfect Day

At the end of May we had a great trip to Disney World it had been quite a while since the last time we had been there, but no matter what age, it's always great. Even Tinkerbell joined in for fun!

For this layout I used the brand new Garden Life Collection. The Felicity page for the background and Calling Cards pieces for layering. For the background work I used the Tattered News Print and the Tattered Harlequin stamp, a stencil and mists.

The Honey Bits chipboard pieces are embossed with a mixture of a few embossing powders. Sunlight Rose, Morning Sun, Pink Dust & Copper.

The other chipboard pieces, Graduated Circles, Perfect Day, Roman Clock were first embossed with Sand & Sea with a second coat of Iridescent Grey giving it a beautiful sparkle.

Now that we have prepared all the parts it's time to put the layout together. Stacking the pieces of  embossed chipboard, Garden Life - Printed Chipboard Shapes, pieces of paper and the beautiful Blue Fern Studios flowers, Garden Florals, Harvest Lilies & Chesterville Blooms, 

Paper

Garden Life : Felicity, Calling Cards

Chipboard

Perfect Day

Bits of Honey

Graduated Circles

Roman clock set Small

Garden Life : Printed Chipboard Shapes

BFS Embossing

Sunlight Rose

Morning Sun

Pink Dust

Copper

Sand & Sea

Iridescent Grey

Stamps

Tattered Harlequin

Tattered News Print

Flowers 

Garden Florals

Harvest Lilies

Chesterville Blooms

Disney World

On one of the evenings in Disney World we so enjoyed the fireworks. What a show they put on. The castle has this spectacular light show and with the fabulous music it's just perfect.

For this photo I chose the Garden Life : Calling Cards sheet as the base of my layout. To continue on the fireworks I used the Christmas Collage Stamp and used it with a silver ink and Antique Gold Embossing Powder. A large diamond stencil with a mixture of gold & silver paste and some white gesso to give the background texture. 

The Floral Lattice Bits were first embossed with Sand & Sea Embossing Powder and a second layer with Iridescent Grey. The Seeing Stars and Disneyworld chipboard pieces first got a Antique Gold coat with embossing powder and then a second layer with Goldenrod Glitter.

Having prepared all the pieces I postioned them on the page where I wanted them and layered everything. Adding embellishments and Blue Fern Studios flowers Spring Florals and Garden Blooms. As finishing touches I splattered a variety of mists.

Paper

Garden Life : Calling Cards

Chipboard

Seeing Starts

Disney World

Floral Lattice Bits

BFS Embossing

Sand & Sea

Iridescent Grey

Antique Gold

Glitter

Goldenrod

Stamps

Christmas Collage

Flowers 

Spring Florals

Garden Blooms

It's been an absolute honor to work for this wonderful company.  

I hope I've managed to inspired you 

See you around the world!

Happy travels!

Lydia