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

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 *)

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 *)

 

Altered Art--with Keren Tamir

Hi Everyone,

Its Keren here with two altered projects for the Blue Fern Studios blog.

For my first project I created a pair of mermaid shadow boxes by altering two 6x6  canvases. I have a step by step video tutorial below to show you how I created them.

Here is the step by step video tutorial below:

I used two 6x6 canvases and reversed them to create the shadow box effect.

I love creating these type of projects as they are perfect for displaying on a mantlepiece.

I used the Seaside Cottage collection and various embossing powders and glitters to embellish these canvases.

I used real shells and starfish as embellishments and even added some netting to make it look as if it is under the sea.

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My second project this month is an altered paint brush.

I took a wide old paint brush and embellished it using many different types of chipboard pieces. 

I took a wide old paint brush and embellished it using many different types of Blue Fern Studios chipboard .

I used pieces from the following chipboard sets: Cogs and Gears, Moving Parts, Roman Clock and Wind up.

I also used one of the Tattered Butterflies as the focus and then I cut the chipboard word Heart to get the word Art. It was perfect for this piece and I still have the word "he" for another project.

The chipboard and paint brush was first covered in black gesso and then embossed with the following Blue Fern Studios embossing powders: Peacock, 14 Karat, Heavenly and Magenta.

Finally I added some touches of gold paint to fill in the areas where the embossing powders could not reach.

Thank you so much for visiting the Blue Fern Studios Blog

Have a wonderful day!!

Keren

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August inspiration by Elena Volchkova

Hi everyone! Today, I have prepared three layouts and I'm happy to show it to you. Our new sea collection Seaside Cottage is so beautiful! Inspiring! Ideal for August! Personally I have always the mood of the sea in August, even if I stay in the city. I hope you like my marine layouts.

"Mermaid" layout

This layout is created for my friend, she is like a beautiful Mermaid. For her, I wanted to create this magical world. I used the Mermaid paper from the Seaside Cottage Collection as my background paper. And a lot of romantic and magic details.

Beaded Strings was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Pearl and Breeze. Dream I covered with Imagine Ink Seven Seas embossing powder. And the pieces of Seashell Frame was covered with Imagine Ink Oatmeal embossing powder.

Magic sparkle appeared by adding Pyrite, Blue Ice and Silver Prism Glitters.

Wonderful goldfish cutting from Calling Cards paper.

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper: Seaside Cottage - Mermaid
Chipboard: Beaded Strings, Seashell Frame, Circle Groups, Wish, Wonder, Dream
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Seven Seas, Pearl, Breeze, Oatmeal
Glitters: Pyrite, Blue Ice, Silver Prism
Flowers: Seaside Lilies

"Summer Vacation" layout

My second layout about the summer vacation, when there is time to be with family. And just to catch this happiness! I used the Gala paper from the Seaside Cottage Collection as my background paper.

The letters seemed to are airy and sun light! It's magic Honey Imagine Ink Embossing Powder. 

A bit lower you can see jewelry bell from the Jeweled Trinkets set.

The grass was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Lime and Copper.

I added Vintage Edges Stamps on the background. And you can see pieces of vellum decorated Weathered Doilies Stamp with Lime Imagine Ink Embossing Powder.

Flowers Attic Charm Daisies is ideally suited for this summer history.

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper: Seaside Cottage - Gala
Chipboard: Summer Vacation, Jeweled Trinkets, Layering Stems
Stamps: Weathered Doilies, Vintage Edges
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Lime, Honey, Copper
Glitters: Sunshine, Peridot
Flowers: Attic Charm Daisies

"A Walk on the Beach" layout

The third layout today is very romantic and feminine. About walks on the beach. I used the Glory paper from the Seaside Cottage Collection as my background paper. And beautiful roses cutting from paper Papillons (Timeless collections).

And the pieces of Seashell Frame was covered with Imagine Ink 14 Karat embossing powder.

A Walk on the Beach was covered with Imagine Ink Mystic Plum embossing powders. It is so beautifully with roses!

I added Brocade Texture Stamp with Imagine Ink 14 Karat embossing powder on the background. It is difficult to show on the pictures. But so beautiful shine!

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper: Seaside Cottage - Glory
Chipboard: A Walk on the Beach, Seashell Frame
Stamps: Weathered Doilies, Brocade Texture
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: 14 Karat, Mystic Plum

I hope you enjoy viewing my projects. See you next time :)

Hugs, Elena