July projects by Karolina

Hi everyone! Karolina here with with a dose of inspiration for you! So sit down comfortable and let's start!

To my works I'm using photos of myself very rarely. I don't know why, I just prefere photos of my friends, family - people I love. So today it's a very unusual day! I would like to show you three different projects, two layout and one frame with me, myself & I ;)

In all projects I used a new beautiful collection Seaside Cottage. I wasn't surprised when I saw this collection for the very first time and I completely fell in love with it. Blue and turquoise are my favourite colors and I love everything in marine style. 

Beach Babe

Ok, so first I would like to show you a round frame. As you can see, I've cut out the outline of me from the picture and tried to create a beach around me. I have used two stripes of papers, some seashells, flowers and a texture sand paste. I also added some glitter in blue shades and I've prepared some glitter caboshons. It's very easy, you need just put some glue to the bottom of the caboshon and then sprinkle a glitter on it. When it will be dry you can stick it on your projects wherever you want.

Finally I added a title - this time it's a piece from the same collection. I have used outmeal embossing powder to cover it. The last step was to make a braid with a string and metal embellishments and put it around my frame.

Papers: Glory, Embark

Chipboard: Beach Babe

Embossing powder: Oatmeal

Glitter: Gulf Coast, Blue Ice, Pyrite, Burnt Cooper

Flowers: Seaside lilies

End of a perfect day

I'm pretty sure that this is the newest photo of me. My brother's fiancée took this picture of me in the last weekend, during a dinner. If I have to be honest, we were in the Warsaw and Warsaw is not a seaside city, but woodboards behind me looked very nice and it really was a perfect end of a perfect day ;)

 I built my composition using papers, flowers and a chipboard piece in the contrasty color. I have used a melon embossing powder.

Papers: Glory, Embark, Whitewash, Regalia

Chipboard: Perfect Day

Embossing powder: Melon, Honey

Flowers: Seaside lilies

Summer Vocation

The Seaside Cottage is a perfect collection not only for your marine projects,  but also for every holiday memories. In my last layout I used photos from Aventine Hill which I made few weeks ago when I was in Rome.

Papers: Embark, Whitewash, Regalia

Chipboard: Summer Vocation

Embossing powder: Ebony

Flowers: Seaside lilies

And that's all in this month! See you soon in August!

xoxo
Karolina

July inspiration by Elena Volchkova

Hi everyone! Today is my day to talk about the dreams and inspiration. And it is the sea today. My new love - a collection Seaside Cottage. And the first two pages of it.

"Marine dreams" layout

In this work, it embodied gentle and romantic thoughts about the sea.. The sea always gives us great emotions, it is always waiting for us, and we look forward to seeing him ... waiting and dreaming.

The background is very complicated. I used the Embark paper as my background. And the mix of lace, twigs, beads. And paint, paint, paint!

Anticipation from "Serendipity Words 1" set was covered with Imagine Ink Lilac embossing powders.

Seaside Flourish was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Petal and 14 karat, that so good together.

Flower from " Seaside Lilies" set.

To show the sun glare, I used Sunshine glitter. It's so sunny!

Seaside Flourish I cut into two parts and this piece has become accent in the corner. Colored to with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Petal and 14 karat.

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper: Seaside Cottage - Embark
Chipboard: Seaside Flourish, Ocean Mermaid, Serendipity Words 1
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: Lilac, Petal, 14 karat
Glitters: Sunshine
Flowers: Seaside Lilies

"Family trip" layout

In this layout there is the story of one wonderful holiday, when a little girl was vacationing on the sea. Photos preserve for us the memory and emotions. This is so wonderful! You can always go back to childhood;)
I used the Voyage paper from the Seaside Cottage Collection as my background paper. And a lot of romantic and tropical details.

These flashlights enchanted me. They are magic! I wanted to use them together, just a little bit in different shades.

Large lantern was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Honey and Mystic Plum. Little is also covered with a mixture. But other shades - Petal and 14 karat Imagine Ink embossing powders.

Stamps Forever and Postal Textures helps to make an interesting background.

"Reminisce" I covered to with Imagine Ink Mystic Plum embossing powder.

In this work I use the flowers of the sets: Attic Charm Daisies, Seaside Lilies and Attic Charm Glitter Roses.

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:
Paper: Seaside Cottage - Voyage
Chipboard: Seaside Lanterns, Serendipity Words 2
Stamp: Forever, Postal Textures
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: 14 karat, Honey, Petal, Mystic Plum
Glitters: Sunshine
Flowers: Attic Charm Daisies, Seaside Lilies, Attic Charm Glitter Roses.

"In the Garden" layout

Layout for a girl who loves to be photographed. In this work I tried to continue flowers of pictures in the background and in the decor. I think a bush was very interesting.

Petite window secreted in the bushes behind the curtains of lace. Window was covered with Imagine Ink 14 karat embossing powders.

I used the Serendipity Medley stamp with Imagine Ink 14 karat embossing powder to create some details on my background. They are almost invisible, but they sparkle in the sun.

"Reminisce" I covered to with Imagine Ink Mystic Plum embossing powder.
Sparkles on the background - Dusty Rose Glitter.

Blue Fern Studios Supply List:

Paper: Attic Charm - Attic Key
Chipboard: Serendipity Words 2, Petite Windows
Stamp: Serendipity Medley
Imagine Ink Embossing Powder: 14 karat, Mystic Plum
Glitters: Dusty Rose

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

Hugs, Elena

July projects from Maiko

Hello Everyone!

Maiko here with you today to share my July projects.

First and second Layout, I got to play with the beautiful Seaside Cottage collection.

 "Summer Vacation"

 Blue Fern Studios used:

papers:

Seaside Cottage - Voyage

Seaside Cottage - Mermaid

Seaside Cottage - Relics

Chipboard:

 Seaside Lanterns

Summer Vacation

Flowers:

Seaside Lilies

Embossing Powder :

Mushroom

Sea Mist

Oatmeal

I cut this big circle off from paper of the ".Mermaid".

And I raised that using Foam pads.

 These Flowers are "Seaside Lilies".
So Beautiful!

I expressed the waterside using Embossing Powder "Sea Mist"and "Oatmeal". 

 This Chipboard is " Seaside Lanterns".

I colored this with "Mushroom" embossing powder and Brown and White Inks.

Next is...

"A Walk on the Beach"

Blue Fern Studios used:

papers:

Seaside Cottage - Embark 

Chipboard:

A Walk on the Beach

Ocean Mermaid

Seashell Frame

Embossing Powder :

Sea Mist

Oatmeal

 This Chipboard is "Seashell Frame".

I love this.

I colored this Chipboard wits the some Inks.

These Flowers are "Seaside Lilies".

 I chose "A Walk on the Beach" as the title.

First, I painted it with an acrylic paint, colored it with White and Brown Inks,

and finally  I covered it in Glossy Accents.

My last creation today is　Canvas Panel Layout.

 "Blissed"

Blue Fern Studios used:

papers:

Attic Charm - Calling Cards

Attic Charm - Spring Posy

Attic Charm - Mercantile

Chipboard:

 Timeless Floral Corner

Garden Lattice Bits

Blissful, Jubilation, Patience

Embossing Powder :

Cotton Candy

 This pink flower is also "Seaside Lilies" .

So soft!

These Chipboards are the"Garden Lattice Bits".

I cut that into 2 and arranged in left and right of this layout.

And after arranging a chipboard on the paper, I applied the Embossing Paste, sprinkled the Embossing Powder and heated it up by a heater.

That is all from me today.

Thank you for visiting!

Maiko

3 layouts concerning the flower with Yuko

Hello! Yuko here!

Today,I will shere you 3layout  concerning the flower.

【Million Dollar SMILE】

This layout　is concerning the sunflower.

Although our family went to the famous sunflower field

It had not yet bloomed ...

So I bought a cut flowers.

Daughter is very happy this smile!

Exactly Million Dollar SMILE!!!

This title is wonderful.

It is good to the photograph of the smile! ！

I painted to become the gradation with yellow and the ink of the orange.

I use the cardboard of the mesh well.

After having painted with jesso, 
I processed it with emboss powder (AUBURN) partially.

It was painted gesso to the chip board (Paisley & Vine Medley).

Lightly coat the yellow ink to dry

The yellow glitter SUNSHINE was put in the bond.

Heart of the chip board is embossed in BUTTERCUP and BREEZE

I painted stickles to finish.

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper   Frolic   

Chipboard：Million Dollar Smile/Paisley & Vine Medley

Flower：Attic Charm Daisies

Embossing powder ：BUTTERCUP/BREEZE/AUBURN

Glitter ：SUNSHINE

【Amazing】

 A photograph of the rose garden that this went in May.
... which at last was usable as I wanted to use this photograph sometime!

I added a design to the paper of the mount with modeling paste and painted with thin pink with an aqueous coloring agent to become the atmosphere that was a fairy tale.

After chip board of bricks that was embossed with MUSHROOM, dipped to hit the modeling paste

I put a three-dimensional feeling.

The title chipboard using the embossing powder FUCHSIA.

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper：Courtship Lane -Town Gossip/Town Gossip/Parkway/Main Street

Chipboard：Shabby Brick Bit/Brilliant, Amazing, Dazzling

Stamp：Beads & Charms

Embossing powder：FUCHSIA/MUSHROOM

【Famille】

This is a photograph when I went to the lily garden 

with my sister with my mother.

I wanted to leave it in memory and used it for a layout.

The cardboard of the title did emboss in GINGER.

It is a refined, good color!

Frame portion is embossed in OATMEAL

Only the portion of the leaves to be green, while covering little by little

It was embossed in two colors of green (LIME / VERDENT).

A flower is a thing of Blue Fern Studios, too.

It is refined and is easy to use the thing having a pearl midmost.

On butterflies of chipboard that was embossed in yellow and pink

It was studded with modeling paste and art stone.

<Blue Fern Studios>

Paper：Attic Charm - Calling Cards/Curio/Generation/Sachet

Chipboard：Chelsea Frame/ French Words

Flower：Flower：Attic Charm Daisies/Tranquil Blooms/Tranquil Roses and Lilies

Embossing powder：LIME/VERDENT/GINGER/OATMEAL

Thank you!!!