Hello dear scrappy friends! I am very honored and excited to design for such an amazing company as Blue Fern Studios. I want to say a huge thank you to Leslie for inviting me to join her fabulous team!
My name is Svetlana Austin.
I am a Russian girl who ended up living in hot South Africa for the last 11 years.
I met my husband while he was doing mission work in Russia.
We have 2 beautiful sons - Ivan and Sebastian. They keep us busy and fill our lives with sunshine (not that we have lack of it in the northern part of our country).
I was always creative. I tried many different crafts but once I was introduced to scrapbooking by my friend, I never stopped. It was almost 9 years ago.
I defiantly love to create layouts about my little boys the most. My aim is to reflect their personalities through my work. I love to make real boy’s layouts full of colors and details. I like to use paint and sprays in my projects, as well as hand-stitching and off course chipboard! :-)
Sometimes I like to make very romantic and feminine layouts about myself or as gifts for my girl-friends or their daughters. It allows me to express the stuff that I personally like flowers and all that kind of frills.
My scrapbooking style is always determined by photographs I use and what kind of story I would like to tell through my project. So if you visit my blog you will find quite a variety our there.
You can visit my blog at Colorful Memories (http://www.colorfulmemories-protea.blogspot.com/)
As my first project for Blue Fern Studios created a very romantic and pretty mixed-media canvas and I used a very fine and intricate Blue fern Flourish on it.
This flourish is so fine but very detailed and beautiful. I used gesso to paint it. Gesso is so nice not only for priming the chipboard but it is perfect for painting it and adding some texture. I also added a layer of pearly shimmer glue on top of the gesso.
Blue Fern Flourish
Thank you for letting me share this project with you and thank you for visiting our blog today!
Keep well everyone and come back again!
What a gorgeous canvas. LOVE the color scheme and all of the details. Very beautiful!
ReplyDeletehow lovely I love the sea blue and green color so beautiful, a wonderful combination.
ReplyDeleteLove the use of color and texture!
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunning layout!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words on my blog. We will have to check out your products. I love chipboard.
Amazing! Absolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteCompletely gorgeous work, Sveta!!! Right up my alley :D
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Wow! This is gorgeous! I would love to see a tutorial on this! Just stunning!
ReplyDeleteAmazing!!!:):):)
ReplyDeleteOh wow- that background is stunning with a smokin hot photo. Dreamy
ReplyDeleteOh this is absolutely stunning!! Wow, oh wow!!!
ReplyDeleteYour LO is gorgeous! I love the pretty flourish and all the pretty jewels.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing a peek! :)
Beautiful page - like an enchanted underwater scene! :o)
ReplyDeleteWow love that stunning background with such rich color and texture!! Beautiful with the pic:)
ReplyDeleteStunning! Would definately love to see a video tutorial watching your process and how you create. Layers uopn layers upon layers of texture and goodness.!! Absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteStunning canvas, Svetlana!! The colours are just beautiful & the background work & texture is divine!
ReplyDeleteOh wow Sveta!! just look at the colours, and your fabulous background work!! This is such a stunning canvas. AnnieC puts it so eloquently: like an enchanted underwater scene!! xoxo
ReplyDeletethis is stunning Svetlana!
ReplyDeleteWow Sveta....this is just gorgeous!!! Congrats on the DT post too! Awesome!
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