Meet our July Blue Fern Fan of the Month!

We hope that all of you in the United States enjoyed a wonderful day of celebrating

 our country's independence yesterday. 

The first Wednesday of each month also allows us the celebrate the Blue Fern Fan of the Month!  

Joining us for the month of July is the awesome Tracy Funk.  You will enjoy the vintage and 

slightly grungy style that she uses when creating.  Each Wednesday during the month 

Tracy will share a layout using Blue Fern products.

Let's turn it over to Tracy so you can get to know her a little better, 

and to see the first layout she has created for us this month!

Hi, my name is Tracy Funk.  I live near Toronto, Canada with my husband and two teenage sons. I have always liked crafts but discovered scrapbooking in 2008 and have been addicted to it ever since.  My style leans toward vintage because I love to scrap old family photographs but I do like to scrap photos of my boys too. I am so excited to be Blue Fern Studios' Fan of the Month for July.  I love their chipboard and the premium quality paper they make, especially. It's a pleasure to create with their products.

I'm very excited to present this layout called "Garden Contemplation" that I did for Blue Fern Studios

 as their "Fan of the Month" for July.  If features a photo of my husband's great-grandfather.  

For this layout I used Patience from the Tranquility Collection.

This chipboard piece is the Floral Lattice Bits which I finished by dabbing them with

 green, blue, brown and white paint using a brush.

The Ironwork Arch at the top left of layout was painted with white and various shades of brown 

using a sponge stippler to give a soft, blended effect.  I also inked around the edges with dark grey.

I used brown embossing powder on the Renaissance Border and rubbed green paint over the rough embossed surface using my finger.  I then glued some tiny beads randomly over top using a clear-drying adhesive.

Thank you so much to Blue Fern Studios for this opportunity!

May Projects by Halyna Protsenko

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans! I am verry excited to share this 2 new layouts and video tutorial with you!

"Wonder" layout

This layout about one pretty girl. I used the West Plaza paper from the Courtship Lane Collection as my background paper. Very gentle scrap paper!

Wonder from Delight Set and Pretty Weeds chipboard I covered with Imagine Ink Oatmeal embossing powder.

I added a stamp Texture Circles on the tracing paper and cutted them out along the contour.

In this work I use the flower of the set Attic Charm Glitter Roses.

And here is my video tutorial showing how to make this layout. I hope you will find it useful.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:
Courtship Lane - West Plaza

Chipboards:
Delight Set 
Pretty Weeds

Embossing powders:
Oatmeal

Stamps:
Texture Circles

  Flowers:
Attic Charm Glitter Rose

"Tenderness Memories" layout

My second layout for a beautiful girl who loves to be photographed.

I used the Spring Posy paper from the Attic Charm Collection as my background paper. And a lot of romantic and magic details.

The Floral Lattice Bits chipboard was covered with mixture of Imagine Ink embossing powders in Snow and Oatmeal.

Flowers Attic Charm Glitter Rose is ideally suited for this layout.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:
Attic Charm - Spring Posy
Attic Charm - Calling Cards

Chipboards:
Floral Lattice Bits

Embossing powders:
Oatmeal
Snow

  Flowers:

Attic Charm Glitter Rose

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

May Design Team Projects by Wendy Scholten

Hi Everyone,

Today i'm up on the blog to show you my design team projects for this month.

It features Happy Accident and one older collection Serenditpity.

This is the first one:

Sunshine

 This one features the Serendipity collection, i loved the background, it didn't need anything more than a stencil with some moddeling paste and a small piece of burlap behind my photo.

 I used one of the Whimsey Flourishes and 2 pieces of the Floral Lattice Bits.

For the title i used Sunshine from the Optimist Word Set

 On the Whimsey Flourish and the Sunshine title i used Snow embossing powder and on the Floral Lattice Bits i used Sand & Sea embossing powder to let it stand out more on the lace i used.

 For my flowers i used the white Heartland Blossoms, the small blue chesterville Blooms and i cut a few leaves of the Spring peony

 I used a few small flowers from my own stash, a few baubles, see through glass beads and a button with some string around it.

Blue Fern Studios Products used:

Paper:

-Serendipity

Chipboard:

-Whimsey Flourishes

Floral Lattice Beats

-Sunshine from the Optimist word set

Flowers:

-Heartland Blossoms

-Chesterville Blooms

-Spring Peony and Berries

Embossing powders:

-Snow

-Sand & Sea

And then the Second one:

Angel Eyes

For this layout i used the Happy Accident Collection. Beautiful background papers!

I used the back of the Layering Cards paper. I used the Coral and Speckled Mint embossing powders and a stencil to give a bit more color to my background to match my picture.

 I used the Happy Accident Dangles, the Happy Accident Frame and the matching chipboard inspiration piece. I also used the Angel Eyes chipboard piece from Spiritually speaking word set.

I used some paint to give it the colors i wanted.

 i used a few flower pieces from the Spring Peony and the Chesterville Florals, and a few harvest lilies.

 I also used a few small flowers from my own stash

 and some rhinestones to finish it.

Blue Fern studios Products used:

Papers:

-Happy Accident- Layering Cards

Chipboard:

-Happy Accident Dangles

-Happy accident Frame

- Angel Eyes from the Spiritually Speaking word set

Flowers:

-Chesterville Florals

-Spring peonies and berries

-Harvest Lilies

-Embossing Powder:

-Coral

-Speckled mint

And the last one:

XOXO

I used the Happy accident Fate paper and a piece of the Layering Cards to back up my photo.

 For my chipboard pieces i cut 2 pieces of the Blue Fern Frame, a heart from the Chunky Heart Panel and the title XOXO

 I used the Plum and Antique Gold embossing powders on my chipboard, i love those colors, they are so beautiful.

 I stamped some more images on my background with the Deja-vu, Grungy Grid and Tattered Newsprint stamps with some black ink.

 For my flower clusters i ude the Late winter and Harvest Lileis as well as a few of my own stash.

 For the rest of my embellishments i used a botton, a few leaves, some beads and some rhinestones.

Blue fern Studios products used:

Paper:

-Happy accident

-Fate

-layering cards

Chipboard:

-Blue Fern Frame

-Chunky Heart panel

-XOXO word set

Stamps:

- Deja-vu

-Grungy Grid

-Tattered Newsprint

Flowers:

-Late Winter Lilies

-Harvest Lilies

Embossing Powders

-Plum

-Antique Gold

Thanks so much!

Hugs wendy



March projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans.

The spring has sprung and Vera is here hurrying to show you layers of fresh inspiration. I would like to present  projects using the new Spring Parade collection and one more wedding layout with amazing Heartland.

Spring parade is so perfect for Easter layouts and decor and this is just the right time to start preparations for the holiday. I have created a layout which I'm planing to use as home decor on Easter.  Flowers make the scene rich and natural and the characters add some fairy look.

Floral lattice bits and the header are covered with Icicle and Lavender eggs embossing powders plus some white acrylic paint.

I used one of Vintage phrases stamp for the little journalling.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Spring Parade - April Medley 

Spring Parade - Joyful

  Spring Parade - Marketplace 

Spring Parade - Susie's Garden

 

Chipboards:

Floral lattice bits

Chunky Words 

Embossing powders:

Icicle

Lavender eggs

Stamps:

Vintage phrases

 

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I love making gifts and for Easter I have created a couple of gift baskets. They can be filled with sweets, pies or chocolate eggs.

Each basket is made just of one sheet of paper.

Layers are built of fussy cut elements, Blooming Foliage bits covered with Lime embossing powder, ribbons and Chesterville florals

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Spring Parade - April Medley 

Spring Parade - Joyful

Spring Parade - Susie's Garden

 

Chipboards:

Blooming Foliage

 

Embossing powders:

Lime

Flowers:

Chesterville florals

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I keep on making my wedding album and today I'm gonna show you layout about the beautiful bride (me) :)  Heartland collection drives me crazy with its beauty and variety of flowes.

 

How I love to use texture stamps with embossing powder on background. Leafy Florals stamp with Icicle powder adds some dimention to the whole composition.

In the layers of fussy cut flowers you may find roses from Rose Bouquet chipboard covered with Icicle embossing powder. And I used the Charmed Page Dangle covered with Fire brick glitter as the header.

 

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

 Heartland - Kiss Kiss

 Heartland - Sweet on You

 

Chipboards:

Rose Bouquet

Charmed Page Dangles

Little birds Set  

Heartland HOHO

Embossing powders:

Icicle

Glitter:

Fire engine

Stamps:

Leafy Florals