June inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans. I have several inspiring projects to share with you this month.
I just returned from a small sea side trip which inspired me to create a layout usung Seaside cottage collection.

The chipboard frame is embossed with Icicle powder.

 
Those grand baloons are stamped with the Journey stamps set.

I also used the Essential textures stamp for the background.

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Seaside cottage - Regalia

Wanderlust - Calling Cards

 

Embossing powder:

Antique gold

Icicle

 

Stamps:

 Stamp - Essential textures

 Stamp - Journey

 

Seedlings:

Mustard

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 The other layout is for my wedding album. I used Remnants paper and printed chipboards to recreate the scene.

Chipboard pieces are embossed with Antique gold powder and the window with Icicle.

The printed chipboards fit the scene perfectly.

The title is stamped with Wedding sentiments stamp.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Remnants - Highgate 

Remnants - Callaway

 

Chipboards 

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Antique gold

 

Seedlings

Gold nugget 

Meadow

 

Stamps:

 Stamp - Essential textures

 Stamp - Wedding sentiments

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And here is my traditional off the page project: sewing box which I will be using for small chipboard pieces and later probably for knits or needles )

 I used papers from In the Mood and Homespun collections. These can be perfectly mixed.

I embelished the box with chipboards embossed with Irisecsent grey powder and wonderful Lace 4

 
And the flowers: adorable Heartland Blossoms

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

In the Mood - Pensive

Homespun - Homestead

Heartland - All You Need

 

Chipboards 

Homespun printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Iridiscent grey

 

Lace:

Lace4

 

Flowers:

Heartland Blossoms

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Thank you for stopping by my June inspiration and see you in July *)

June layouts by France Ringuette

Hi Bloggers, it's June already. Once again it's my turn to ramp up the inspiration with a few layouts.

Layout #1: Our Story

Oh I have fallen in LOVE with the most recent Tattered Walls collection. It was actually hard to decide what paper to play with. For my first June layout, I wanted to make this page as a gift for my friend Marina. This wedding picture is precious, and she wanted to offer this as a gift to her Mother In Law. I love the soft and rich design in this layout that I coupled with one page from the Remnants collection.

The frame chipboard is stunning, heat embossed in Plum, I love the rich color and metallic effect this embossing color has. It's perfect to highlight the amazing wedding picture.

Have you seen the new Ephemera pack? This title piece, is stunning and so easy to integrate to any layout. I used the title doily underneath, love the effect. And not to mention the seedlings, they give such nice detailing to any layout.

This title chipie is a beauty, embossed in Baby Pink.

Blue Fern Studios Products Used:

Paper:
Tattered Walls The Carport
Tattered Walls The Carolina Room
Remnants Bloomsberry

Flowers: Tattered Wall Blooms

Embossing Powder: Baby Pink & Plum

Chipboard:
Briella's mini frames
Glam frame
Our Story

Seedlings: Red grapes

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Layout #2: Big Adventure

Perfect boy's layout... Loving this new Dark grunge background in the Tattered wall collection. It's just perfect for this baby blue layout.

Sparkling navy ... My new favorite embossing powder, it's just perfect. 

I love keeping natural chipboard on my layouts, I like the simple effect it brings and on this dark background its is simply perfect.

Keeping it simple, small title from the Tattered Walls Ephemera pack.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper: Tattered Walls Suite 204

Chipboard: Mini Frames & A Spring Day

Embossing Powder: Sparkling Navy

Tattered Walls Ephemera

Flowers: Spring Blooms

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Layout #3: Love

This layout was inspired by the printed chipboard text and mt friend Marina's wedding pictures were just so perfect,

On this layout, I added this quote to complete the 2 beautiful family wedding pictures.

My center of the flower had too much yellow so I chose to cover it with white gesso, then adding some Dusty Rose glitter.

Blue Fern Studio products used:

Paper: In the Mood Blissful

Flowers: Remnants Blooms

Stamp: Vintage Edges & Butterflies

Glitter: Dusty Rose

I hope you enjoyed my June lot, I wish you a wonderful crafty month.

France xxx

May Inspirations by Jennifer Jacques

Hi all Blue Fern Studios fans!

It's Jennifer here, with my 3 layouts as May inpsirations!

First of all, I'll start the month with a layout with "Happy Accident".

I choose to work with "Lucky" paper as my background.

I added a bit of texture paste through a stencil and displayed my picture on a die cut doilie.  You can see in the clustering below that I also tucked in two pieces of Checker bits chipboard that I have embossed with the Honey embossing powder.

My chipboard title is from the Remnants collection and here, this is the Sunlight Rose embossing powder that I've chose to embossed with.  You'll see underneath the Fern Leaves embossed with Green Ivory embossing powder.  Did you see the beautiful lilies from the Wanderlust Lilies set? They really are my favorite Blue Fern flowers. On the next corner, the white flower is from Homespun blossoms set :)

Below, I've made some ornements out of velum paper with the Texture circles stamp and Ivory embossing powder.  I've put together one clustering on each side of my focal point with 

Apricot blooms and some stuff from my own stash.

So, here is the list of the products I've used on that layout

Papers: Collection Happy Accident

-Lucky

Chipboards

-Checker bits 

-Dream

-Fern leaves

Stamps

-Texture circle

Embossing Powder

-Honey

-Sunlight rose

-Green Ivory

Flowers

-Wanderlust lilies

-Apricot blooms

-Homespun blossoms

-Fresh floral

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Second layout with In the moods collection.

This time, this is B-side of "Dreamy" paper that is my background.  Clear gesso, some sprays as watercolor effect and texture paste through a stencil again.  You can see below that I've displayed my picture on a piece of Mémoire "post cards" paper.

On the left of my picture, there is some chipboards.  The Flutter page dangles is embossed with Stormy skies, a beautiful blue-grey color.  Really love that metallic effect.  Right on the background, a Petite boutique Frame which is colored with some wax.

Here. my title is a piece from  Remnants collection chipboard that I've cut to use only the word "You".  I've tried very hard to show you the beautiful color of Vintage Jade glitter but I've failed.  It's magnificent, believe me! 💙💚  Again, some beautiful lilies from Wanderlust set.

Here, a Christmas blooms, with a pearl in her center.

Some sequins, flair and love quotes from my stash.  

Finally, to add some texture, some Silver seedlings  in different spots and some stamping with Tattered Newsprint stamp and permanent ink.

Again, here is the list of the products I've used on that layout

 Papers: Collection In the mood and Mémoire

-Dreamy (b-side)

-Post cards

Chipboards

-Petite Boutique Frame

-Flutter page dangles

-You (a part of Remnants title chipboard)

Stamps

-Tattered newsprint 

Embossing Powder

-Stormy skies

Glitter

-Vintage Jade

Flowers

-Wanderlust lilies

-Christmas blooms

Seedlings

-silver

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Finally, my last layout with In the mood again.

A soft layout, with "Amused" paper as the background.  No mixed media here.

The tag on the left was cut out of "Blissful" b-side paper.    My title, from the French words set is embossed with the delicate and sooooooo gorgeous  Pixie Dust embossing powder.  My set up is displayed on a big piece of a chipboard panel (which is no longer available, sorry!) that I've simply paint in black for a dramatic effect.

On the right, chipboard flower was simply stained in black and colored with wax.

Finally, to ornate the lower corner of my picture, Blue Fern Studios flowers :)

The white one is from Christmas blooms (but I've replaced the center to match my layout), the pink one is from Garden Blooms (here, I've put a pearl in the middle) and, the black one, a beautiful Dark Tropic lilies... A piece of "Pensive" paper in the upper right corner :)

It's a minimalist layout so I finished with some flairs and love quotes and that was it!

 Here is the products I've used on that layout this time

 Papers: Collection In the mood

-Blissful (b-side)

-Pensive (b-side)

Embossing Powder

-Pixie dust

Flowers

-Dark tropic lilies

-Christmas blooms

-Garden blooms

Seedlings

-silver

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So this is it!

Hope to inspired you and see you in June!

May Inspiration - Joanne Bain

Hello!!

Joanne here with you today to share a couple of layouts and a tutorial with you featuring In The Mood, Deja'Vu and Tranquility collections. These have been mixed and matched and go together beautifully.

'Remember When'

The idea for this layout started with the large heart which was cut from the Blissful paper from the In The Mood collection. I cut the heart out and folded in half, I then rolled the top corner to expose the inside pattern paper, its such a pretty colour. From there I wanted to work with soft pastel colours so I chose to do a lot of fussy cutting from the Atelier patterned paper from the Deja'Vu collection.

The fussy cut pieces were then layered in amongst the layers of Blue Fern blooms to create a gorgeous main cluster. I chose to use a darker background to make the soft colours pop.

At the base of the cluster I have used the Romantic Page Dangles chipboard. This has been left raw as I feel the raw colour complimented the page.

To add softness to the page I then added frayed cheesecloth and coordinating cotton thread. The title for my page was cut from one of the page title strips that is normally cut off and discarded, but I always look because sometimes these are perfect for titles just like this one.

Blue Fern Studios

Materials List

Papers

In The Mood Collection

Blissful

Dreamy

Deja'Vu Collection

Atelier

Chipboard

Romantic Page Dangles

Flowers

Chesterville Blooms

Apricot Blooms

For my next page I created a page for my son. I am always asked do you ever scrap boys? Well yes it just depends if my son wants to play along and have his photo taken. So today I have created a layout with a tutorial so you can scrap the special boy in your life.

'Happy'

This layout features fussy cut images from the Patience patterned paper from the Tranquility collection. I think the colours and images were perfect for a boyish page and look not a flower in sight.

Throughout the cluster I have placed some of the Blue Fern Shabby Brick Bits chipboard which has been coloured lightly to coordinate with my page.

To frame the photo and add extra texture I have used some this Jute string, I love its natural colouring. I have also added a little sprinkling of seedlings to this.

Between layers I have again used a natural coloured frayed cheesecloth which I have in places coloured with coordinating watercolour paint.

How cute is that little bird? Once again I have used the patterned paper title label strips that are cut off the pattern paper. The Tranquility strips had those cute little blue butterflies.

Check out How to Create a Layout by Joanne Bain by Joanne Bain on Snapguide.

Blue Fern Studios

Material List

Papers

Tranquility Collection

Patience

Chipboard

Shabby Brick Bits

Happy Title

Seedlings

Twig

Meadow

Well that is all from me this month.

Happy Crafting

Joanne

xx