Blue Fern Studios: Gingerbread House

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

January projects by Vera Shelemekh

Hello Blue Fern Studios fans!

I'm really excited to present my first projects as Blue Fern Studios design team member. It's a great honor for me to join such a faboulous team!

First a couple of words about myself.

My name is Vera Shelemekh and I come from the very heart of Russia. I live in Moscow with my husband and 5 year old son. Scrapbooking is my hobby, my work and my life style. I can't imagine my crafty process without mixed media and fuzzy cutting. So if you come to Moscow and meet a person with scissors in dirty hands, that would be probably me :)

I create in different styles and techniques.

Visit my social media to learn more:

BLOG: verusha-ru.blogspot.ru

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

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/vera_shelemekh/

PINTEREST: https://ru.pinterest.com/shelemekh/

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8a-dA493W4QaogyB9q0fuQ

And now give me a chance to try and inspire you to create something really amazing with the best paper and chipboards ever!

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My first project is the layout about russian winter full of snow and Christmas fun. We celebrate New Year first and then Orthodox Christmas on January 7th so the celebration is still alive in memory)

I used Vintage Christmas 2 Twas the night as backgroud and cut a lot of elements from Holiday Cards sheet.

The gingerbread house Chipboard is covered with white gesso, then I embossed the roof with Icicle powder and covered candy parts with Fire Engine glitter.

The title "Noel" is also embossed with Icicle powder.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Vintage Christmas - Wonderland

Vintage Christmas 2 - Twas the Night

Vintage Christmas 2 - Holiday Cards

Chipboards:

Gingerbread House

Noel

Embossing powder:

Icicle

Glitter:

Fire Engine

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Now let's move to amazing Heartland collection! I've created two projects.

The first one is the layout about myself and the qween which lives deeply inside every girl) The image came up to my mind when I saw the Heartland Love Blooms paper sheet. It became the background for my layout.

My hat and skirt are made of many fuzzy cut flowers.I cut them from Heartland Sweet on You paper.

I also added some Chelsea vines covered with green acrylic paint and lime embossing powder.

And some hearts cut of Chunky Heart Panel and covered with antique gold powder.

For this layout I used some stamping with Deha Vu and Texture 1 sets. I stamped elements on the remnants of the Sweet on you paper, cut them and adhered to the layers.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Papers:

Heartland - Love Blooms

Heartland - Sweet on You

Chipboards:

Chelsea vines

Chunky Heart Panel

Joy

Embossing powders:

Lime

Antique gold

Stamps:

Deja vu set

Texture 1 set

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And now the dessert. Heartland collection inspired me to create two chocolate boxes. I like to have such things at hand in case a friend drops in.

The boxes are made of Valentine Party and XOXO papers and decorated with flowers cut from Love Notes. I used the remnants of paper, a puncher and some glue to create paper flowers.

The birds in the middle are taken from the little birds set and covered with Fool's gold glitter.

The boxes are quite big, appriximately 6х2,5 inch, so someone can keep quite a lot of chocolate inside))

Blue Fert Studios products used:

Papers:

Heartland - XOXO

Heartland - Valentine Party

Heartland - Love Notes

Chipboards:

Little Birds set

Glitter:

Fool's Gold

Hope you enjoyed! Have a good crafty day and see you in February ;)

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Projects with Angelica

Hello everyone! I'm sharing today my final projects as a BFS design team member. It's been an amazing and fun year! I'm so honored to have had the opportunity to design for such a wonderful company!

I made this layout using the Autumn Anthology collection. I started with the Newsworthy paper as my background and layered then Penmanship on top. I painted the Large Roman Clock, Damask Panel and Spring branch chipboard pieces with gesso. Then lightly misted with the Leaf mist.

For this layout I used the Frolic collection. Such pretty soft colors! I did some layering with the Secretary paper. Then used some pieces of the Calling Cards and Dans de Jardin. Again, I painted the Floral Lattice Bits, Timeless Floral Corner, and Petite Windows with gesso. They sprayed using the leaf and Cotton Candy Mist.

So, I've used up all of the Vintage Christmas Papers that were sent to me! I decided to make a quick card using a scrap piece of the Wonderland paper. This is my take on the sketch using the Gingerbread House Chipboard. I used a thick uneven coat of Heavy Gesso and sprinkled colored glitter glass while still wet.

Thanks for stopping by during this busy holiday season!

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

December Inspiration with Jelissa

Hello friends!

Can you imagine, Christmas is less than 4 weeks away? I'm totally excited, and the cool weather has definitely put me in a festive mood.

Today, I'm up on the blog to share my creations for December, using the fabulous Vintage Christmas collection. While there are so many beautiful festive images for the season in this collection, there are also more generic papers that can be used for other themes.

For my first share, I've made a page of my boys based on the sweet December sketch by Michelle:

My background was mostly hidden by the clusters with little bits peeking out, so that the images on the paper do not get covered up. This time, I've also kept my layering to a minimum so that more attention can be given to the details in the embellishments.

Some close-ups:

One of the pieces from Clip Frames which I altered using Blue Fern Studios' own embossing powder. Love it that other than the red, it has a gorgeous gold tint to it. Lots of stamping in the background too to bring out a botanical feel.

Some fussy cut flowers which I tucked behind my photo. It has Christmas bits in it with the holly, but who would have know how nicely it blends in here!

A Deja Vu Tweets chippie which I altered with gold ink and painted with Imagine Ink in Persimmon.

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Vintage Christmas collection - Auld Lang Syne, Wonderland

Chipboards - Deja Vu Tweets Chippie, Clip Frames

Embossing Powder - Poinsettia

Mist - Persimmon

My second project and video tutorial is a Christmas mini album. When I first saw the Vintage Christmas papers, there were so many beautiful images I could cut out and use for an album so I knew I had to make one. As you all probably know by now, I'm not a Christmas project person with the exception of cards so this is really quite a first for me! Since the papers themselves are so gorgeous, I had to leave them as they are and build up smaller layers, so my tutorial focused more on playing with the chipboards.

More close-ups:

I decided to add Liquid Pearls to my Gingerbread House after the video was made.

Views of the inner pages:

And more close-ups:

And finally... here's the video. Have fun watching!

Blue Fern Studios products used:

Vintage Christmas collection - all papers

Chipboards - Winter Trees, Shabby Flakes, Gingerbread House, Word Ornaments, Christmas Ornaments, Framed Winter Words

Embossing Powder - Lucky, Poinsettia

Glitter - Pyrite

Mist - Winter Mint

That's all I have for today. Happy crafting!

Jelissa

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

New Chipboard!

Can you believe it's October already? With a chill in the air, and nature showing us the beautiful colors of autumn, you can't help but think ahead to winter, a little bit. Just in time for your winter and holiday projects, we have some awesome new chipboard designs that are sure to take your projects to the next level.