July inspiration by Vera Shelemekh + video tutorial

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans.
Vera Shelemekh is here with a couple of Tattered Walls collection projects and video tutorial for one of them. So, get ready your crafty hands and prepare your Blue Fern Studio papers and media... the show is beginning.
The first layout is full of bright flowers and summer breeze. The photo is matching the palette of the background. By the way this is Tattered Walls - Suite 204 paper with just several stains of green acrylic paint.

The frame has been embossed with Avocado and Lime powder.

This bird was cut out of the round shape ephemera.

 I love to add small accents with stamping and seedlings.

 And the chipboard birds are taken from the Spring Day set

Please, find and enjoy the video tutorial for this layout

 Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: 

Tattered walls - Suite 204

 

Chipboards 

A spring day

 

Ephemera:

Tattered walls

 

Embossing powder:

Avocado

Lime

Icicle 

Seedlings:

Ever green

Vivid pink

Meadow

Mauve

Flowers:

Sumer Blooms 

Stamps:

Flutter music

For the birds

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And the other layout is all about the seaside and travelling. The photo was taken during our trip to Croatia this year.

I've chosen Tattered Walls - The Powder Room for the background

This time chips are embossed with Antique gold, Starry night and Stormy skies pwders

 I used one of the spring blooms, it looks really fresh and stylish.

 The seashell is also embossed with Starry night and I've chosen a couple of Ephemera pieses from the Tattered walls set.

  

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers: 

Tattered walls -The powder room

 

Ephemera:

Tattered walls

 

Embossing powder:

Starry night

Icicle 

Stormy skies

Antique gold

 

Flowers:

Spring Blooms 

Stamps:

Essential textures

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Thank you for watching. I wish you a good crafty month and see you in August.

June inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans. I have several inspiring projects to share with you this month.
I just returned from a small sea side trip which inspired me to create a layout usung Seaside cottage collection.

The chipboard frame is embossed with Icicle powder.

 
Those grand baloons are stamped with the Journey stamps set.

I also used the Essential textures stamp for the background.

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Seaside cottage - Regalia

Wanderlust - Calling Cards

 

Embossing powder:

Antique gold

Icicle

 

Stamps:

 Stamp - Essential textures

 Stamp - Journey

 

Seedlings:

Mustard

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 The other layout is for my wedding album. I used Remnants paper and printed chipboards to recreate the scene.

Chipboard pieces are embossed with Antique gold powder and the window with Icicle.

The printed chipboards fit the scene perfectly.

The title is stamped with Wedding sentiments stamp.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Remnants - Highgate 

Remnants - Callaway

 

Chipboards 

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Antique gold

 

Seedlings

Gold nugget 

Meadow

 

Stamps:

 Stamp - Essential textures

 Stamp - Wedding sentiments

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And here is my traditional off the page project: sewing box which I will be using for small chipboard pieces and later probably for knits or needles )

 I used papers from In the Mood and Homespun collections. These can be perfectly mixed.

I embelished the box with chipboards embossed with Irisecsent grey powder and wonderful Lace 4

 
And the flowers: adorable Heartland Blossoms

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

In the Mood - Pensive

Homespun - Homestead

Heartland - All You Need

 

Chipboards 

Homespun printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Iridiscent grey

 

Lace:

Lace4

 

Flowers:

Heartland Blossoms

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Thank you for stopping by my June inspiration and see you in July *)

January inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hey Blue Fern Studios fans! Vera Shelemekh is here for another wonderful creative term :)

Let me write a couple of words about myself for those who has recently joined the blog.

I'm Russian living and working in Moscow - the capital city. I'm a big fan of scrapbooking, papercrafting and quilting. I can't imagine my crafty space without paper and scissors.

Almost all of my layouts are telling stories about my family which consists of two young men: my 6 year old son and my hubby.

Scrapbooking is not only my hobby. It is my job and my lifestyle. I own a small shop on Etsy and occasionally teach people papercrafting.

You can find more information about me on social media:

Instagram @vera_shelemekh

Blog https://verusha-ru.blogspot.ru/

FB https://www.facebook.com/vera.shelemekh 

Last year I started to make my Wedding album with amazing Blue Fern Studios papers and embelishments but I feel like I need more layouts to achieve the goal. So today I will share some new wedding layouts with Remnants papers and printed chipboards.

The first one is experimental as I've never made layouts with huge photos.

I've taken Remnants - Devonshire for the background and embelished it with Remnants printed chipboards, the fence covered with Antique gold embossing powder and leaves covered with Lime and Aocado embossing powder.

 

 With some Meadow seedlings, Apricot and Heartland blossoms and Lace the layout looks full of tender feelings.

 

 

 

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers:

Remnants - Devonshire

 

Chipboards:

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

 Lime

Avocado

Antique gold

 

Stamps:

Sweet titles

Seedlings

Meadow

Flowers:

Apricot blooms

Heartland blossoms

Lace:

Lace 4

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The other layout is more brutal, One of the photo locations was a brick wall so I tried to imitate the pattern on the background with the help of Essental Textures stamp and the new Ivory Embossing powder.

 

To the background I also added butterflies with the Stamp - Garden Frolic

 

 

 Chipboard butterflies are covered with Soot glitter and Iridescent Grey and Icicle embossing powders

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Remnants - Callaway

Remnants - Vignette

 

Chipboards:

Remnants printed chipboard

 

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Ivory

Iridescent Grey

14 Karat

 

Stamps:

Essential textures

Garden Frolic

Deja vu

Seedlings 

Gold Nugget

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And for the dessert today I prepared two Valentine cards for someone really special. 

I switched my attention to the amazing Heartland collection which I love with all of my heart. 

Heartland - Bicycle for Two and  Red Rose Ball as background and for fussy cutting.

 

And the Angel is cut from Heartland Love notes. I covered hearts and  vine chipies with the mix of lime and avocado embossing powder. I also added some Mauve seedlings here and there and bits of Lace 3

 And of course you have noticed the Fresh florals.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

 

Papers: 

Heartland - Bicycle for Two

Heartland - Red Rose Ball

Heartland -  Love notes

 

Embossing powder:

Avocado

Lime 

Glistening sand

 

Seedlings 

Mauve

 

Flowers

Fresh florals 

Lace

Lace 3

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I thank everyone for stopping by and wish you a good crafty season with Blue Fern Studios!

See you in February ;)

Meet our January Blue Fern Fan of the Month

Hello everyone.  We have moved our Fan of the Month feature post to Tuesdays this year, and we are excited to announce our first Fan of 2018 - Pam Ellis.  You are sure to love Pam's shabby chic style.  She has been a long time user of Blue Fern products and we can't wait to share her projects with you this month.  Now we will turn things over to Pam:

My name is Pam Ellis and I live in Gravenhurst, a small tourist town in Canada. I live with my hubby and dog Bruiser. I am a retired R.N. and also founded and ran a Family Violence Program in Toronto for 10 years. 

I am a mother of 5 daughters and Grandma to 5  grandchildren. I started scrapping in 2007 after the birth of my first grandchild. My style is typically shabby chic but I am evolving everyday. I typically scrap subjects close to me like my grandchildren. I try not to use pictures I didn't take unless I have to. I love scrapbooking (have a small store in my house lol) , camping, reading and cross-stitching. I have been in love with Blue Fern Studios since it opened it's doors!! I am a forever fan! I am so thrilled to be here with you this month!

Paper:

Amber & Apricot 

Printed Chipboard:

Amber & Apricot

Glitter:

Autumn

Chipboard:

All You Need is Love

Garden Lattice Bits

Flowers:

Courtship Blooms

Stamps:

Essential Textures

Thanks for stopping by.  See you next Tuesday!

October inspiration by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans,
Vera Shelemekh is here with some fresh inspiration. When I received the Homespun collection I just put away everything and started to create. I made a layout and a cookbook for homemade receipes to share with you this month ) This collection is so heartwarming and so cute that it became one of my fav Blue Fern collections.
But first, you know. winter is almost here and I'd like to create some wintery mood here on blog and only then warm you with something cosy )
So here it is

 I used Vintage Christmas - Auld Lang Syne as background together with flowers cut from Vintage Christmas - Deck the Halls paper.
There is a lot of wonderful Blue Fern Studios chipboards on this page:  Swirl ornaments covered with fire engine glitter and glistening sand embossing powder.
Berry stems are covered with Icicle Embossing powder.

 I also separeated some  framed winter words from the frame and covered the letters with glistening sand embossing powder.

  The tree itself is cut from the remnants of Vintage Christmas - Deck the Halls paper and painted with brown acrylic paint and Taupe embossing powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Vintage Christmas - Auld Lang Syne

 Vintage Christmas - Deck the Halls
Vintage Christmas 2 - Twas the Night

Chipboards:

Swirl ornaments

Berry stems

Framed Winter Words

 

Embossing powder:

 Taupe

Icicle

Glistening Sand

Glitter:
Fire engine

Stamps:
 Gift Tag Kit

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And now let me warm you with cosy Homespun.

The layout is about my son's hospitality. The picture was taken durung Russian pancake week several years ago. I'm so happy I could find the best decoration for it. Homespun - Homemade as background and embelishments taken from Homespun printed chipboard and cut from Homespun - Picturesque and Homespun - Homespun Minis paper sheets.

 I covered the Cute kitchen set with Antique gold Embossing powder, added Lace 4 and some Mauve seedlings here and there

I love how the Sweet titles Stamp look like in the composition. I used two of them.

 I've framed this layout and I'm going to hang it on the wall in our kitchen. So sweet it is!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Homespun - Homemade

Homespun - Picturesque

Homespun - Homespun Minis

Chipboards:

Cute kitchen set

Homespun Printed chipboards

 

Embossing powder:

 Antique gold

Seedlings:

Mauve

Stamps:

Sweet titles

Essential textures

Lace:

Lace 4

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And now my traditional off the page project. The cook book with Homespun printed chipboards, bits from the Cute kitchen set, Lace 6 and an Apricot Bloom on the cover.

 

The chipboards are coverd with Icicle and  Iridescent grey Embossing powders.

  There are four tabs made of Homespun - Tea Time and Homespun - Hospitality papers inside the book

 I decorated each tab with  chipboard from the Cute kitchen set, some pieces cut from Lace 6 and titels stamped with Homespun Spots.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Homespun - Tea time

Homespun - Hospitality

Homespun -Crafty

Chipboards:

Cute kitchen set

Homespun Printed chipboards

 

Embossing powder:

 Icicle
Iridescent grey

Stamps:

Homespun Spots

Lace:

Lace 6

 

Flowers:
Apricot blooms

I hope you enjoyed my projects and found something inspirational in each of them. Have a nice crafty month and see you in November *)