November inspiration and Video tutorial by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans!
Vera Shelemekh is here all over in tinsel and glitter  Why? Just because Christmas is coming. And I don't know a scrapbooker who didn't pile the crafty space with Christmas paper and embelishments.
I did! And today I'll show you two Christmas layouts + a video tutorial with the amazing Vintage Christmas collection.

The fist layout is about my son and snowy Christmas eve. The picture was taken last year. Colors fit the Vintage Christmas collection perfectly. I used Let it snow paper as background.

 

Winter trees chipboards are covered with green acrylic paint and Blue Fern Studios Avocado Embossing powder

 

 

I also included deer in the composition. It's covered with Icicle Embossing powder.

Have you seen the new fantastic Vintage Christmas printed Chipboards? I've used the piece with the house.

The leaves die cuts are made of Vintage Christmas 2 - Twas the Night. And I laso cut some flowers from Holiday cards and Vintage Christmas - Deck the Halls

 Please, enjoy my video tutorial from which you will learn how this layout is made.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Vintage Christmas 2 - Let it snow

Vintage Christmas 2 - Twas the Night

Vintage Christmas 2 - Holiday cards

Vintage Christmas - Deck and Halls 

Vintage Christmas 2 - Jolly

Chipboards:

Vintage Christmas printed chipboard

Winter trees

Winter deer

  Cozy Christmas

Embossing powder:

 Icicle
Avocado

Seedlings: 

Seedlings - Flaming

  Seedlings - Fir Tree

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And one more Christmas layout about our family tradition to gather in my Father's in law place and have fun sledging and playing snowballs. Hopefully snow falls soon))

There is another family tradition to hide presents under Christmas trees and in piles of snow and search them at night)) So we pretend Santa is nearby)

For the background I used Vintage Christmas 2 - Tree Trimmings.

Framed winterwords are used as Title. All the chipboards in this layout are covered with Icicle Embossing Power.

 

Santa is cut from  Vintage Christmas 2 - Jolly

I love how the Tweet friends chipboard looks in the sceene.

I embelished the layout with a cup from cozy Christmas set and pieces of Lace 6.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Vintage Christmas 2 - Tree Trimmings.

Vintage Christmas 2 - Twas the Night

Vintage Christmas 2 - Holiday cards

Vintage Christmas 2 - Jolly

Chipboards:

  Cozy Christmas

Tweet friends

Framed winter words

Embossing powder:

 Icicle

Stamps:

Gift Tag Kit

Lace:

Lace 6

Thank you for stoppong by. Enjoy your Christmas preparation, the time will pass very quickly, and see you in December *)

November inspiration by Annie Samson

Hi Blue Fern Studios fans, 

This month, I have 3 layout I want to share with you. 

Hapiness

For this layout, I have used the Homespun collection. I chose the Hoapitality paper.

I have use the Ebony embossing powder to altered my Roman clock set chipboard.

Than I have used Pearl embossing powder on my title Hapiness and Ginger's popies chipboard.

I wanted to create a clean an simple layout, so no medium where used on this layout.

I used Blue Fern Studio Flowers and Lemon lime glitter to complete my layout.

Blue Fern Studios product used

Paper

Hoapitality - Homespun 

Chipabord

Roman clock set 

Hapiness

Ginger's popies

Embossing powder

Ebony

Pearl

Glitters

 Lemon lime

Flowers 

Fresh floral

Garden blooms

Wanderlust vine

Noel

For this Christmas layout, I used the Noel paper of the Vintage Christmas collection.

I have use the Mushroom embossing powder on my Winter forest and Holliday Deer, Santa's suit embossing powder on the  word Noel from Winter title kit and Baby pink embossing powder on the Snow medley chipoards.

I have added some pieces from the coordinate chipboard kit.

I have use Blue Fern Studios flowers.

For the final touch, I have added Flamming Seedling.

Blue Fern Studios product used

Paper

Noel - Vintage Christmas 

Chipabord

Winter forest

Holliday Deer

 Noel - Winter title

Snow medley

Embossing powder

Mushroom

Santa's suit

Baby pink

Flowers 

Christmas blooms

Courtship roses

Garden florals

Seedling

Flamming

Joy

For my last layout this month, I have choose to use the Auld lang syne paper from the Vintage Christmas collection.

I have used the Forever and Jingle Bells stamp set on my back ground.

Than I have used pieces from Lace 9c to make more texture.

I have used See mist embossing powder on the Frosty flake chipboard and 14 karat embossing powder on my title Joy and Shabby flake chipbaords.

I have used Blue Fern Studios Flowers.

And to add more details on my layout I have added Mustard seedling.

Paper
Auld lang syne - Vintage Christmas

Chipabord
Frosty flake
Joy
Shabby flake

Embossing powder
14 karat
See mist

Flowers
Christmas blooms
Fresh florals
Spring floral

Seedling
Mustard

Stamp set
 Forever
Jingle Bells

Lace

Lace 9c

See you in December for my last month with the beautiful family of Blue Fern Studio,

Annie XX

Hello December

Hello Blue Fern Fans.  I case you haven't noticed, December is not far away!  We are excited to share with you today another project from Dorota Kopec, our November Fan of the Month.  For this beautiful layout, Dorota has chosen the Wonderland paper from our Vintage Christmas collection as the background.  The more I look at it, the more I see.  This layout is the definition of eclectic - not following one system, but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.

The chipboard pieces used are the Stars & Berries Frame which is layered beneath the photo.  

 Peeking out from the floral clusters you can see holly from the Holly Sprigs set.  

And lastly, the dangling snowflake is from the 3-piece set of Winter Page Dangles.

This close-up shows just what I'm talking about when I say her layout is eclectic.  Here is a gorgeous vintage photo, and the paper certainly has a vintage feel.  But she has used a frame that would be considered modern, and stenciled numbers on the background.  And there is nothing vintage about the color combination, but it all combines for a cohesive look.

In the corner, Dorota has put together a little vignette by cutting the Santa and his sleigh image from the Holiday Cards paper (Vintage Christmas II) and adding it to the design that is already on the paper.  How cute is that?  

Dorota will have one more project for us this month, so be sure to check back.

November Inspirations by Babi

Hi Everyone,

Today it's my turn to share with you my new projects using the Vintage Christmas 1 and 2  collections.

I made my first layout using Holiday Cards to create a winter layout called "Discover". 

I started by creating the background with watercolors, spray and stamps. Next, I added Floral Lattice Bits chipboard covered in Snow embossing powder and Garden Lattice Bits covered in Antique Gold.

Also using Antique Gold embossing powder to decorate the Wanderlust Words chipboards.

And I finished the layout with seedlings, flowers and other embellishments.

Papers:

Holiday Cards

Chipboads:

Garden Lattice Lace
Floral Lattice Bits
Wanderlust Words

Flowers:

Christmas Blooms
Chesterville Blooms

Embossing Powder:

Antique Gold
Snow 

Seedlings:
Twig
Glass

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My second project is a shabby layout which also incorporates papers from the Vintage Christmas 2 collection. 

I added some texture with modeling paste and stencil on Let it Snow paper. 

Then, I added Ruth's Doily chipboard covered in Oatmeal embossing powder to decorate as the centerpiece. This chipboard is so beautiful, it didn't need a lot of decorations. 

And finished the layout by adding flowers, branches, gesso and  French Word title covered in Antique Golden embossing powder. 

Papers:

Let it Snow 

Chipboads:

French Words
Ruth's Doily

Embossing Powder:
Oatmeal 
Antique Snow. 

Flowers:

Harvest Lilies

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I finished my post with two Christmas Cards that I made with Vintage Christmas 1 and 2 collections.

For my first card I used Twas the Night and Greeting Cards papers.

Winter Snow chipboard was covered in Antique Gold embossing powder. 

I finished it with some flowers and leaves.

 Twas the Night was also used on my second card.  Using Jolly paper and Deck of the Halls for the layer and flower. 

Next, I added Frosty Flake covered in Antique Gold and more embellishments to finish the project.

Papers:
Twas the Night
Greeting cards
Jolly

Embossing Powder:

Antique Gold

Chipboard:
Frosty Flake
Winter Snow

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I hope you enjoy it and thanks for stopping by.

Babi 

Announcing our 2018 Design Team

Thank you to everyone who responded to our design team call.  We reviewed every application, visited your blogs, and could not stop talking about your amazing projects.  You are truly a very talented group.  But, then came the challenging part of this process...narrowing it down.  It is difficult knowing that many of you will be disappointed.  We wish we could have a huge team for 2018 and include everyone who took the time to respond to our call. 

We are excited to announce that we finally have it narrowed down, and hope you will join us

 in welcoming the following designers to the 2018 Blue Fern Design Team:

Debbie Burns - USA

 

France Ringuette - Canada

 

Jennifer Jacques - Canada

 

Jessica McFall - USA

 

Joanne Bain - Australia

 

Lanette Erickson - USA

 

Megan Gourlay - New Zealand

 

Sharon Fritchman - USA

 

Tartine Peluche - Canada

 

Vera Shelemekh - Russia

 

Yuko Tanaka - Japan

We hope you will visit their blogs and get to know them a little better.  

You are going to be amazed by their creativity and the variety of styles. 

 

November Inspirations by Catherine Giguère

Hello Blue Fern Studios Fans!  

Here's my turn to share with you three new layouts. This month, I used three different paper collection and I did a Christmas layout with the gorgeous Vintage Christmas collection. 

Delightful

For this layout, I used the Homespun 'Homegrown' paper as background. I put a coat of clear gesso on it and I added texture by applying modeling paste through three different stencils. Then, I applied blue and turquoise inks and I stamped many details with BFS stamps and black ink.

I let all my chipboards raw because it goes well with the colours of my layout.

I glued with medium gel a lot of Twig Seedlings to add texture. 

I add a lot of BFS Flowers to add texture and colours to my layout.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Paper

Homespun 'Homegrown'

Chipboards

Floral Lattice Bits

Techno Rings

The Optimist Word Set

Stamps

Dispatch

Departure

Flowers

Homespun Blossoms
Late Winter Lilies
Homespun Blooms
fresh Florals

Seedlings

Seedlings Twig

Journey

For this layout, I used the Wanderlust 'Mountain View' paper as background. I put a coat of clear gesso on it and I added texture by applying modeling paste through three different stencils. Then, I applied orange ink and I stamped many details with BFS stamps and brown ink.

I embossed the BFS Circle Code Frame with BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger' and my title with BFS Imagine Ink 'Wheat'.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Wanderlust "Mountain View"

Wanderlust "Lakeside"

Wanderlust " Calling Cards"

Chipboards

Grunge Frames

Circle Code

Wanderlust Words

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'

BFS Imagine Ink 'Wheat'

Stamps
Departure
Dispatch
Grungy Grid

Flowers

Late Winter Lilies

Seedlings

Seedlings Twig

Noel

For this Christmas layout, I used a Vintage Christmas paper collection for my background. I add texture with modeling paste and stencil.

I embossed the gorgeous Swirly Circle  with  BFS Embossing Powder 'Ginger' and silver.

I glued Twig Seedlings to add texture. 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers

Vintage Christmas 'Deck the Halls'

Vintage Christmas 'Greeting Cards'

Chipboards

Winter Titles

Swirly Circle

Embossing Powders

BFS Imagine Ink 'Ginger'

Flowers
Late Winter Lilies

Seedlings

Seedlings Twig

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

Catherine Giguère 

A Little Greeting

Today's blog post features our November Fan of the Month, Dorota.  Once again, she is thinking ahead to Christmas with this pair of elegant cards.  What a beautiful way to send someone a holiday greeting, 

and a piece of art, at the same time!

This card has been created by layering several designs from the Vintage Christmas Collection.  The title, A Joyful Christmas, was cut from the Holiday Cards paper which can be found in the Vintage Christmas II Collection.  

The chipboard, which has been painted and glittered, is the Snow Medley.  

Flowers from Christmas Blooms finish off the card.

This sweet card has layers of goodness from the Vintage Christmas Collection, including the title, which was cut from the Greeting Cards paper.  The little Santa hat is from the Cozy Christmas chipboard set.  Once again, Dorota has added flowers from the Christmas Blooms.

Be sure to check back next Wednesday when Dorota will share a stunning Christmas album. 

You won't want to miss it!