April Inspiration by Debbie

Hi everyone!  Debbie here with you today to share my April layouts.  Seeing as Spring has just begun I got to thinking about all the beautiful colors of the flowers that will come into bloom and drew from that to create my projects.  I have two layouts using the In The Mood collection and one using the Homespun collection.

"Hushed"

This layout features the In The Mood collection.  I used the Amused paper for the background.  I applied some masking using an apricot paste.  Lots of layering under the photo using the Mellow paper.

I really like the mixture of embossing powder on the floral chipboard.  I mixed Blood Orange and Ivory.  The foliage is a mixture of Seafoam and Green Ivory. The flowers are Apricot Blooms.

Lots of layering with chipboard and here I've placed a flower from the Chesterville Florals.

Another closeup of the mixture of Blood Orange and Ivory embossing powders.

I used the same mixture of Blood Orange and Ivory embossing powders on the title.  Lots of layering under the photo with chipboard and flowers.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

Paper:  In the Mood

Amused

Mellow

Embossing Power:

Blood Orange

Ivory

Seafoam

Green Ivory

Flowers:

Apricot Bloomsss

Chesterville Florals

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"Adore"

This layout also features the In The Mood collection. The background paper is Flirty, and I used Blissful and Mellow to created layers under the photo.  I added some stamping to the background with the Tattered Newsprint and Essential Textures stamps.

I first applied some light pink paste to the background using a rose stencil.  After applying the paste, I sprinkled it with some Pink Pearl Glitter.  The chipboard pieces were embossed with a mixture of Baby Pink and Iridescent Gray embossing powders.   I applied a mixture of Sterling Silver and Mauve Seedlings to the chipboard, flowers and background paper.

The lantern chipboard piece was embossed with a mixture of Iridescent Gray and Pearl embossing powders.  The flowers are from Moody Florals, Moody Blooms and Remnants Florals.

The title was embossed with Baby Pink embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

Paper:  In the Mood

Flirty

Blissful

Mellow

Embossing Power:

Pearl

Iridescent Grrey

Baby Pink

Flowers:

Moody Florals

Moody Blooms

Remnants Florals

Stamps:

Tattered Newsprint

Essential Textures

Glitter:

Pink Pearl

Seedlings:

Sterling Silver

Mauve

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"Sweet"

My third layout uses the Homespun collection.  I used the Tea Time paper on the background.

Lots of layering under the photo using the Homespun Printed Chipboard and Picturesque (side b), Homespun Minis, Calling Cards and Crafty papers.

All of the chipboard pieces were embossed with a mixture of Pretty In Pink, Baby Pink and Ivory embossing powders.  I stamped some flowers and embossed them with Baby Pink and fussy cut them.  I used a couple of flowers from the Moody Blooms.

The title was embossed with Baby Pink and if you look to the right of the photo you can see the stamped and embossed flowers.

Blue Fern Studios Products:

Paper:  Homespun

Tea Time

Picturesque

Homespun Minis

Calling Cards

Crafty

Chipboard:  Homespun Printed Chipboard

Embossing Power:

Ivory

Pretty In Pink

Baby Pink

Flowers:

Moody Florals

I hope I've inspired you!

I'll see you next month.

. . . Debbie

March inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans!
I'm in a very lilac mood this month and keep on making layouts for my wedding album.
Now here is what I'm going to ispire you with...

The first project is a mix of Remnants papers on the background and In the Mood fussy cut roses

 The chipboard is embossed by Antique gold powder.

 The sentiments stamps fit perfectly

 I'm a great fan of fussy cutting and layering.

 And I never forget to add seedlings in the end of each project.

And a couple of lilies as I've already mentioned that I'm in the lilac mood today))

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Remnants -  Callaway 

Remnants - Westfield 

In the Mood - Ecstatic

 

Embossing powder:

Antique gold

Icicle

 

Seedlings

Mauve

Flowers:

Harvest lilies

 

Stamps:

 Wedding Sentiments

Sweet titles

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The other layout is really tener and sweet. How I love the Blissful paper from In the Mood collection. There are so many ideas in my head with this heart shape.

 The chipboard frames are covered with Icicle Embossing powder and Gold glitter

 The green ribbon and a piece of lace make the layout very soft.

Papers:

In the Mood - Ecstatic

In the Mood - Blissful

Chipboards:

In the mood printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Icicle

 

Glitter:

Vintage gold

 

Seedlings

Gold nugget

Flowers:

Apricot blooms

 

Stamps:

 Wedding Sentiments

Lace:

Lace 5

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And my traditional off the page project is dedicated this month to the pending Easter.

This is a small basket for eggs. The basket is made of raw chipboard and covered with the wonderful Deja Vu paper

Late winter lilies embelish the basket and suport my lilac mood.

Papers:

Deja Vu

    

Seedlings

Gold nugget

Flowers:

Late winter Lilies
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I wish all Blue Fern Studios fans a happy Easter and see you in April ;)

 

March layout by Yuko

Hello everyone!

Today is my turn!

First of all, I will introduce the spring layout.

【Dilight in the little things】

I go to hunt strawberries that I go every year.

Amber & Apricot and Home Spun

I mixed two kinds of collections and used it.

Flower is Apricot Blooms.

I often use this flower.Easy to use size and color!

Also find your favorite embossed powder! ! !

It is the color "IVORY".

Until now there are several kinds of white

White, pearl white, white with lame ...

But I did not have this subtle IVORY!

This is perfect color when not enough in white!

Or almighty too much color !

Cupcake chip board (Party Cakes) is cute too !

Put paper on the cup part and draw with a white pen.

Cream part is It's A GIRL pretty pink embossed powder.

Paper   

HOME SPUN-Crafty/Home Sweet Home

Amber & Apricot - Flora

Chipboard

Party Cakes/Dilight in the little things

Flower

Apricot Blooms

Embossing powder

IVORY/It's A GIRL

【A　MOMENT in Time】

This picture was taken at the photo studio.

It is my favorite picture.

My daughter looks smart!

This embossed powder is also wonderful!

It is Black & Gold.

It is a feeling that gold lame firmly rides in black.

So it's heavy in black. GOLD is flashy. It matches very well in the case.

Originally this paper has a pattern like this

I also made a pattern using a stamp ”Tattered Harlequin”.

If you press a black stamp, the layout will be tightened.

seedilngs is the color Meadow.

I used green embossed powder AVOCADO

 for the leaf chipboard (Rose Leaf).

This seedlings is the color Twig.

It is metallic and cool!

Paper   

Remnants/Devonshire/Mayfair/Beaumont

Chipboard

Rose Leaf/A　MOMENT in Time/Remnants

Flower

Harvest Lilies

Embossing powder

AVOCADO/Black &Gold

seedlings

Twig/Meadow

STamp

Tattered Harlequin

【BEAUTIFUL】

A picture by younger sister's wedding of my husband was used!

The expression relieved for my daughter to finish

 the important duty to which she says 

when a wedding ring was carried safely.

This leaf isn't green and is gold.

Such case is gold as expected! It becomes showy, doesn't it?

A race is indispensable to make it gorgeous!

This race is my favorite as it gets really gorgeous!

Paper   

In the Mood/Peaceful /Dreamy/Pensive

Chipboard

In the Mood

Flower

Moody Florals

Embossing powder

Antique Gold

Stamp

Distressed Titles

Lace 
9A

Thank you for also seeing my layout this month!

Yuko

March Inspiration - Megan

Hi there Blue Fern Fans :)

Today I have two layouts for you using Amber & Apricot, and two cards, one using wanderlust and one using Remnants, so lets get to it :)

For this layout, I fussy cut along both edges and popped a large chipboard sheet behind it, before adhering it on top of my second piece of patterned paper.  I could then add my chipboard popping out from along the sides.  Theres also some fussy cutting, utilising the fabulous floral graphics to add more depth to my cluster.

 The details: sprinklings of seedlings and splatters of rust colours.

Chipboard has been embossed with Mushroom Embossing Powder - I find myself reaching for this one a lot, its a fab colour!

This photo shows you all the dimension of this layout, lots and lots of layers, makes everything pop!

Products Used

Patterned Paper:

Amber & Apricot - Sunny Disposition, Chapters

Chipboard:

Printed - Amber & Apricot

Embossing Powder:

Mushroom 

Seedlings:

Twig

Flowers:

Homespun Blooms

Wanderlust Lillies

My second layout today again uses the lovely Amber & Apricot collection.

My background this time is a mixture of stamping, paint splattering and fussy cutting -  this collection was perfect for it! ;)

Again there is a lot of dimension to this layout.  The heart has been painted,  while its till wet covered in red glitter, and then inked the edges with black archival ink.

I love how the seedlings give that extra bit of interest and pop to a project!

Products Used

Patterned Paper:

Amber & Apricot - Birdsong, Flora

Stamps:

Tattered Newsprint

Seedlings:

Printed Chipboard:

Amber & Apricot

Seedlings:

Meadow

My final project for you today is two cards with two different collections.

The first card uses the Remnants Collection.  The Callaway piece of patterned paper is perfect for cards - out of the four different 6x6 patterns, I selected the two I wanted and attached them to my cardstock base.

I used two different colours of seedlings to coordinate with the green/purple colour scheme I had chosen.

The chipboard this time I left bare because I felt there was enough colour without introducing a new one.  The printed chipboard pieces created further interest popping out from my cluster and curled paper edges.

The last project for you today is a card using the Wanderlust collection.  The card was for a colleague who was leaving; young and full of energy I thought this quote was here to a T! :)

Simple but effective there was really nothing to this but I love how it turned out.  Layers of paper with layers of chipboard, some twine and a bit of paint splattering.

You can see here the amount of layering involved.

Thanks for popping by!  I'll see you next month :)

Products Used

Patterned Paper:

Remnants - Callaway

Wanderlust - Petites

Printed Chipboard:

Remnants

Wanderlust

Seedlings:

Meadow
Purple Haze

Flowers:

Spring Florals