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 ;)

August inspiration by Wendy Scholten

Hi all,

Today's my turn on the Blue Fern Studios Blog with my projects for August.

This is my firts layout called:

'Happy'

I used the Wanderlust collection, the Pacific Coast paper on the background and a piece of the Memento paper on top. I also used a piece of the Roadtrip paper behind my photo.

A piece of lace 3 used to cover the seem.

 I also cut out some flowers from the lace 4 to tuck behind my flower clusters.

 I embossed the Swallow border with Snow embossing powder and cut it in pieces to fit my photo and the word Happy with the Sand and Sea embossing powder.

 For the flowers i used the Wanderlust Lilies and some of my own stash.

Blue Fern Studio's products used:

Papers: Wanderlust

-Memento

-Pacific Coast

-Road trip

Chipboard:

-Happy from the Chunky words set

-Swallow Border

Embossing powders:

-Snow

-Sand and Sea

Lace:

-3

-4

Flowers:

-Wanderlust Lilies

My second layout:

'Nature's playground'

I also used the Wanderlust collection for this layout.

I used the Ocean Voyage paper and a small piece of the Roadtrip paper behind my photo.

For my background i used a stencil and moddeling paste as well as some color sprays.

I cut a piece of lace and placed it behind my photo.

I embossed the Hot Cocoa embossing powder for my Nature's Playground title that i cut in half.

The Oatmeal embossing powder for the Leaf Swirled Frame and the Avocado embossing powder for the Fern Leaves.

 I also used the Late Winter Lilies and the Heartland Blossoms.

Blue Fern studios products used:

Papers:

-Ocean Voyage

-Roadtrip

Chipboard:

-Nature's playground

-Fern Leaves

-Leaf Swirled frame

Embossing Powder:

-Snow

-Avocado

-Hot Cocoa

Lace:

-4

Flowers:

-Late Winter Lilies

-Heartland Blossoms

And my last one this month:

'Happy Moment'

I used the new Amber and Apricot Collection.

For the background i used the Chapters paper and tore the Birdsong paper a bit so you can see the background. I also used 2 sets of stamps, the Honey Bits and the Sweet titles to give my background a bit more texture.

 I embossed the Happy Moment ( i cut it out of the frame) with the Hot Cocoa embossing powder and the Krystals Frame small with the Glistening sand embossing powder.

I also used a few pieces of the printed chipboard.

 For the flower clusters i used the new Apricot Blooms and the Fresh Florals.

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Papers:

-Chapters

-Birdsong

Chipboard:

-Krystals Frame Small

-Happy moment

-Printed Chipboard

Embossing powder:

-Glistening Sand

-Hot Cocoa

Stamps:

-Honey Bits

-Sweet titles

Flowers:

-Apricot Blooms

-Fresh Florals

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!

Hugs wendy



August inspiration an a video by Annie Samson

Hi Blue Fern Studios fan,

I am verry excited to share my 2 layouts made from the brand new collection Amber & Apricot.

Sweet

For my first layout, I wanted to create a deep and romantic layout.

 I choose the back side of the Chapiters paper to create my layout.

I add some modeling past trough two differents stencils and add 2 tones of brown and 2 tones of yellow ink to create my focal point.

I embosed the Krystal's frame large with Copper embossing powder and the Krystal's frame small with Honey embossing powder

Than I use pieces from Faded Bloom and Yesteryear papers to create dimention.

I use the Bits of honey stamp kit to add texture to my background.

I use some chipbaord of the coordinated chipboard to embellish my layout.

And I use the Apricot bloom,  Chestervill bloom and Garden life flowers to decorate my layout.

For the final touch, I use the Paprika and Mustard seedling un top of my ornements.

Here some closed up of my layout

Here a process video of my layout

Here the list of the Blue Fern Studios products I used

Papier

Chapiters 

Faded Bloom 

Yesteryear

Chipbaord

Krystal's frame large 

Krystal's frame small

coordinated chipboard

Embossing powder

Copper embossing 

Honey

Stamp 

Bits of honey 

Flowers

Apricot bloom,

 Chestervill bloom

Garden life

Seedling

Paprika

Mustard

Sweet as honey

For my second layout, I wanteed to create a more delicate layout.
I choose the paper Friendship and add a little bit of peach ink on my backgroud.
I cut my Fading bloom chipbord in two pieces and embosse it with Coral embossing powder.
I also use pieces of Shabby brick bites embossed with the Honey embossing powder.
I have also use the Honey embossing powder for my title; Sweet as honey.
I add some coordinated chipboard under my picture.
And finaly I have used flowers from Aprico bloom and Chesterville floral to decorate my layout.

Here some closed up of my layout

Here the list of the Blue Fern Studios products I used

Papier

Friendship 

Chipbaord

Fading bloom

Shabby brick bites

Sweet as honney.

coordinated chipboard 

Embossing powder

Coral

Honey

Flowers

Apricot bloom,

 Chestervill Florals

Thanks for your visit and see you soon, Annie Samson

Win or learn, never lose

Hello everyone!  Today we have another beautiful card from our August Blue Fern Fan of the month, Mariusz Gierszewski.  His style is so elegant.  With its rich tones, this card reminds me that autumn is not far away!

For this card, Mariusz used paper from our Happy Accident Collection.  The flowers and leaves are handmade using stamps.  The background paper was cut using a die, giving the card an interesting look, and adding texture.

Mariusz added a frame and title from the Happy Accident Printed Chipboard Shapes to the center of the card.

Be sure to stop back next Wednesday when we will have another project from Mariusz!

August Layouts by Catherine Giguère

Hello Blue Fern Studios Fans!  

Here's my turn to share with you two new layouts and a video tutorial. This month, I had so much fun with the gorgeous Wanderlust paper collection. 

"Merveilleux"

For this layout, I used the Wanderlust "Petites" paper as background. I put a coat of clear gesso on it and I added texture by applying modeling paste through a stencil. Then, I applied yellow inks and I stamped many details with BFS stamps and brown ink.

I left my chipboards (BFS Whimsy Flourishes and Natural Frame) raw but I put a little bit of white gesso dilued with water on them.

I also left my title raw and I add beads around the flowers to add texture.

I did a video tutorial of this layout, you can watch it here:

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Wanderlust 'Petites'

Wanderlust 'Seascape'

Wanderlust 'Calling Cards'

Chipboards

Whimsy Flourishes

Natural Frame

French Adjectives 1

Printed Chipboards

Stamps

Departure

Dispatch

Grungy Grid

Tattered Newsprint

"Magnifique"

For this layout, I used Wanderlust 'Ocean Voyage' paper. I wanted to do a beachy layout. First, I did a textured background with modeling paste, stencil, aqua and mint inks, stamps and brown ink.

I glued a piece of net on my background with medium gel. I embossed my BFS chipboards Trailing Scrolls with BFS Imagine ink Seafoam embossing powder and the BFS Swallow Border with BFS Imagine Ink Sea Mist embossing powder. Then,  I aged them with brown paste. 

I embossed my title 'Magnifique' (BFS French Adjectives 1 chipboards) with BFS Imagine Ink Black Sand to make it stand out.

I add beads and shells to complete the beachy look.

 Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Wanderlust 'Ocean Voyage'

Chipboards

Trailing Scrolls
Swallow Border
French Adjectives 1
Printed Chipboards

Stamps

Departure

Tattered Newsprint

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Seafoam'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Sea Mist'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Black Sand'

I hope you have found some inspiration. I wish you a nice crafty day!

Catherine Giguère