Memoires inspiration by Pascale

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Blue Fern Studios with three new projects featuring the new collection designed By Michelle " Memoires ".  For the first one, I chose a photo I've taken during a trip in Montrésor (Loire Valley, France), one of the most beautiful villages in France. The bridge came from the Eiffel workshop.

I started to cut the "Remember When" paper in two which I glued it on a cardboard. Then I primed the new background.

I  embossed the Organic Vine with the Black Sand embossing powder. I painted the Classic Ornament with black gesso, then I covered it with Graphite Paste.

I embossed the title Peaceful with the Sand and Sea embossing powder. I embossed it a second time with the Pearl embossing powder and I started again with the Sand and Sea.

I cut a few Post Cards from the Photographic Record paper to add under the photo. I glued all the embellishments.

To finish the layout, I added some texture to the background with the Scratched stamp and the Sand and Sea embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Papers - Memoires (Remember When, Photographic Record)
Chipboards - Organic Vine; Classic Ornaments; Peaceful, Stillness & Contentment
Stamp - Scratched
Imagine Ink - Embossing Powders (Black Sand, Sand and Sea, Pearl)

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Here is my second project : an art journal page. After my New York Journal and my Family Journal, I decided to start a new Journal with all the castles I visited in the Loire Valley. Here is the first page with the castle of Chaumont-sur-Loire (Loire Valley, France)

I glued the left-overs from the different chipboards (Turkish Panel, Dot Grid Panel, Quilted Panel, Flutter Medley, Floral Lattice Bits...) to add texture to the page. I primed them with white gesso.

I added more texture with different stamps and embossing powders : the Journey stamp with the Black Sand powder, ...

... the Arcadia Texture with the Pearl and the Grungy Grid with the Sand and Sea. Then I sprayed different inks. The embossing powders have a resist effect.

I splattered some ink and sprinkled some Black Sand embossing powder while it was still wet and heat set it. 

I cut some Post Cards from the Calling Cards and the Photographic Record to add under the photo.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Papers - Memoires (Calling Cards, Photographic Record)
Stamps - Grungy Grid, Journey, Arcadia Texture
Imagine Ink - Embossing Powders (Black Sand, Sand and Sea, Pearl)

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Here is my third October's project for Blue Fern Studios. I work again with the Memoires collection. I chose a photo of Rock of Cashel I've taken during my trip in Irlande.

I primed the Tales of Treasures paper with clear gesso. Then I stamped with different stamps. First Ione was the stamp collage from the Journey set with black ink. I stamped again with one of the Ornamental Edges set and the Grungy Grid and embossed the prints with the Antique Gold powder. I stamped one last time with the second stamp from the Ornamental Edges set and used the Sand and Sea  powder to emboss the prints.

I added a design with a stencil and two differents medium: 3D gloss gel and clear crackle paste. I let dry naturally before adding some colors.

I painted the chipboard with a gold paint. I cut a few Post Cards from the Photographic Record paper to add under the photo. 

I die-cut some leaves in a watercolor paper.  I colored them with the same inks I used to color the background and  I sprinkled the rose leaves with the Antique Gold embossing powder while they were still wet to add some texture.

I colored the flowers with the same inks I used to color the background and the leaves. When They were dry I added a little touch of gold paint.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Papers - Memoires (Tales of Treasures, Photographic Record)
Chipboard - Trailing Scrolls
Stamps - Journey, Ornamental Edges, Grungy Grid
Imagine Ink - Embossing Powders (Sand and Sea, Ancient Gold)

Memoires Inspiration & Video Tutorial by Marilyn

Hello everyone! I received the new Memoires collection and started working intermediately . I share with you today two layouts one a little simple and one advance with the video tutorial. Let's take a look at my first project.

TRUE STORY

I selected the gold, beige, dark red colors from this collection to make this page. The paper called Songbird's Drama  and  I used both sides in this layout.  I selected  the  new Grand Ornament and True Story chipboard that were embossed with ginger embossing powder.  You can watch all the creative process in the video tutorial..  

Harvest Lilies and Memoires Blooms are the new pretty flowers and I made some fussy cutting from the Calling Cards paper.

products:
Memoires collection: Songbird's Drama paper
Chipboard: Grand Ornament, True Story/Big Drama, Mina's Border
Embossing Powder: Ginger, 14 Karat
Stamp: Crackle Textures

Here's the Video tutorial, enjoy it!!

 SMILE

For my second project I get out of my comfort zone and  I worked the gray colors from this collection . I chose the Janie's frame chipboard that I painted with gesso and next with  gray distress ink  and I did the same with the Smile chipboard. I gave textures with molding paste and a stencil to the background but stayed simple.

I mixed the Late Winter Lilies and Dark Tropic Lilies flowers. I cut out the image and the flag from the Calling Card paper.

The title is the Smile chipboard and I stamped the background  with the Crackle Textures stamp and distress ink.
products:
Memoires collection: tale of treasures, remember when papers
chipboard: Janie's frame, Smile
Flowers: Late Winter Lilies,  Dark Tropic Lilies
stamp: Crackle Textures

Thanks for your visit..Until next time!
Marilyn Rivera

Summer &Autumn layout with Yuko

Hello! friends! Yuko here!
I made 3 works this month using favorite 
summer paper "seaside cottage" and 
favorite "Autumn Anthology".

First 1st work is a layout that uses the Autumn Anthology.

【Happy】

I made a photograph of grapes hunting went the other day.
Individual grapes hunt was the best !

 

The title did emboss in purple emboss powder Iris.

It is beautiful in a very dark purple.

Circle of chip board in color embossing powder of that mashroom.
This color is not a little also contains brown green dull
It is a good color calm.

Chip board of bricks will use well love.

After this was embossed with otameal
mashiroom with a partially sprinkled are marked with 
an uneven against the heater.

Press the stamp (Forever) in in Versa mark to mount paper
It was embossed with gold embossing powder 14karat.

I cut a pattern of the paper finely and repeat it.

... which a mushroom has a cute!

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper   Autum Anthology     Mercantile/ Penmanship/Gazebo/Calling Cards

Chipboard      Happy, Heart, Love/Shabby Brick Bits/Looped Frames

Flower   Attic Charm Daisies/Courtship Blooms/Harvest Lilies

Embossing poweder    Iris /Oatmeal/Mushroom/14karat

Stamp   Forever

It is the second work.
Here it is also similarly Autumn Anthology series.

It differs quite atmosphere in the same series.

【story】

Chip board of the large circle is using to cut.

First, the yellow AUBURN embossed dull as a whole base

The dark orange of CHILI POWDER
 from the top that has been embossed.

Because there is a little color was darker
 in this state partially (at the boundary of the yellow and orange)

Embossed Sprinkle OATMEAL, 
flew last in the Gesso with a brush.

Title is embossed in COPPER.

It is a metallic color of lame with a strong presence.

Layout you'll tightening!

Lace pattern of the background is the silk screen.
I thought Silk screen is good! .

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper   Autum Anthology    Mercantile/Robin/Calling Cards/Cottage

Chipboard     Circle Groups/Story, Fairytale, Magic

Flower   Attic Charm Daisies/Courtship Blooms

Embossing poweder AUBURN/CHILI POWDER/COPPER

It is the third work.

【Beach】

This time, cut out of a large rudder handle
It was placed in a different paper.

As there were many cute patterns, I cut out this paper a lot.

The title is first from painted white chip board in Gesso

It was embossed with OATMEAL only the lower half.

Chip board of lanthanum, after embossed 

two colors of HONEY and COPPER.

I put the glitter Pyrite partially

With a pattern in the modeling paste with a stencil of small dots

Sprinkle the powder of lame before it dries.

This layout is with reference to the mood board in September.

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper   Seaside Cottage  Calling Cards/Mermaid/ Splendor/Relics

Chipboard    Beach Babe/Seaside Lanterns

Flower    Seaside Lilies/Tranquil Blooms

Embossing poweder HONEY/COPPER/OATMEAL

Glitter   Pyrite



Thank you!
  Yuko

~ Hello, September with Sandi ~

Hello, hello! 

Thanks so much for coming by the blog today. 

Sandi here with you today sharing my September creations. 

It is always so exciting to go in my scrap room and play with my Blue Fern Studios projects! 

I love being a part of this team. 

"Summer Vacation, Lucy Style"

First up: I haven't done a "Lucy" page in a while, so this old photo of Lucy fishing is perfect for using my Seaside Cottage papers. I've used both sides of the Splendor paper so that I could slit the grooves between the wood panels and distress them a bit. I've only used a minimal amount of mixed media so that the beautiful images would be dominant. Just a bit of colorizing with Cotton Candy Imagine Mist and stenciling. 

To get a uniform look, all three pieces of chipboard were treated the same way. First they were primed with white gesso, then heat embossed with a combination of Ginger and Chili Powder Embossing Powder. The large lantern from the Seaside Lanterns set got a heavier dose of Chili Powder, It was simply tucked in amongst my flowers and other paper layers.  The Harvest Lilies are new to the store and they seemed to work perfectly for this layout! 

I thought the chain and lantern would complete the corner of this page and indeed, they fit beautifully and balanced the design.  

I love the chunky look of the Summer Vacation chipboard and tried to give it a bit more ombre' look with my two powders. I left sections of the chipboard less heated for an interesting texture. 

A good close-up of the dimension you can achieve with your layers, chipboard and flowers. The photo was framed with Seaside Cottage Mermaid and Calling Cards. 

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper: Seaside Cottage Splendor, Mermaid, Calling Cards

Chipboard: Seaside Lanterns, Summer Vacation

Embossing Powder: Ginger, Chili Powder

Mist: Cotton Candy 

Flowers: Harvest Lilies

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"Fall Memories"

My granddaughter KK loves her horses! She recently sent a few photos that I'm sure she's hoping to see on some scrapbook pages! LOL I pulled out one of my favorite collections … Autumn Anthology because I knew it would work perfectly with her blue checked shirt and her horse's coat. Because I had a wide section of blue background using the Robin paper, I was able to do some simple stenciling without covering up any pretty images. The Mercantile paper is an absolute fave of mine and I've torn it into strips. It's a busy design but the colors and images are wonderful. 

I have a lot of layers of chipboard going here and it's hard to photograph because they are semi-covered with the photo layer. But I used the Mini Ring Things as a bottom left layer and also around the edges of the page. These were inked and embossed with Ginger and given a smidgen bit of Burnt Copper Glitter for shine. The next layer, other than the paper was the Flourish Medley piece which was cut in half to lengthen it. It was embossed with Ebony Embossing Powder as well as Ginger, topped off with bits of the Burnt Copper Glitter. The Collage Frame was treated the same and is directly beneath my matted photo. 

I wanted to share just a closer view of the frame and flourish pieces. They look divine in real life! 

For flowers, I combined some of the Tranquil Blooms with our Seaside Lilies. A Calling Card serves as my title. 

I'm hooked on these side views because depth, layers and texture are "my thing!"

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper: Autumn Anthology Newsworthy, Mercantile, Robin, Calling Cards
Chipboard: Mini Ring Things, Collage Frame, Flouirsh Medley
Embossing Powder: Ginger, Ebony
Glitter: Burnt Copper Glitter
Flowers: Tranquil Blooms, Seaside Lilies
Stamp: Halftone

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"Remember Moments"

This "Mermaid" paper has become the signature paper from the Seaside Cottage collection and I love it! My original intent was to use it for an old photo of my dad but that will have to come another time …. once I get more of these papers. However, I was itching to scrap this brother and sister photo taken near a beach. Photo credit to the Souza's photographer, name unknown. 

Since everyone has already used this paper, I decided to "go big or go home" and used the large title "Remember Moments." Otherwise, it's actually a quite simple page. Under my photo I've used the Crossing the Lines chipboard. Both of these large pieces were inked and treated with some old rusting powders. 

Seaside Gala and Calling Cards papers were torn and tucked under my photo and on top of the chipboard. Cheesecloth was used as a base. I'm loving how versatile the Blue Fern Studios lilies are. 

A close-up of the title and also a view of some of the random stamping. 

The stenciling is light but yet ties the theme together. Now this layout is headed off to this sister who is missing her brother while he's away on the mission field. 

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper: Seaside Cottage Mermaid, Gala, Calling Cards
Chipboard: Remember Moments, Crossing the Lines
Flowers: Dark Tropic, Late Winter and Seaside Lilies, Courtship blooms
Stamp: Widgets

That's all for now!
See you next month!
Sandi