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 ;)

Goodbye fall, welcome winter !

It becomes serious now, winter is coming up .

Well, in Switzerland it does...

A lot of snow coming this way.

With this in mind I remembered this lovely picture I wanted to scrap for some time.

The Vintage Winter collection can be used for non related Christmas themes, 

 as you see on my winter scene layout.

My idea was to keep the page simple in the colors of the picture.

I added gesso and misted the page over the wet gesso.

Stenciled snowflakes here and there .

The Berry Stems did get two coats of gesso, just dabbed on.

For the beautiful snowflake dangle I first gesso the chipboard .

In the wet gesso I sprengled some good old fairydust .

I did the same on the bird.

The title stamp FRAGILE comes from Blue fern too.

It is on of the stamps from the Postal textured stamp set

Thanks for visiting the blog

x Wilma x

Two more layouts by Wilma with the beautiful Autumn Anthology collection .

                            For my first layout we have to go back in time ........ 40 years !
                             I used the original picture of young me, I become vintage :)
                     The background paper is one of the Autumn Anthology collection, Gazebo
                           To create more interest I use the circuitry chipboard as my mask.
                                   I had to spray it anyway with gesso for another layout.
                  So now I had a white chipboard piece and textured background at the same time.
                                                                             

                                           Behind the picture I used the Wild Flourish frame .
                                               And one bird from the Little Birds set.
              All I did was adding some thin gelmedium to keep the original natural chipboard color.

I cut a few paper flowers from another paper out of the collection.

Glued it behind my flower.

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My next layout , also made with the Autumn Anthology collection.

The picture is about 25 years old, bad quality .

But thats what we had than....and we should just use them on our layouts.

For the background paper I used the Parfumerie paper.

I toned down with gesso, leaving out some of the beautiful background pattern.

I pushed  a embossingfolder in the wet gesso to get the checkered texture.

Than I colored the background with 3 of the new mists:

Persimmon , Leaf and Jingle bells .

The chipboard ( checker bits ) was inked up with a chipboard kind of color .

Than I embossed here and there with one of the new embossingpowders : petal

To tone down,  again some mixed media ink.

New are the glitters and embossingpowders at Blue fern Studios.

Just when I was finishing this layout my package arrived !

So I added some on my flower.

A little glitter never hurts :)

I used the Pyrite , a beautiful goldtone.

Thank you for visiting the Blue Fern Studios blog.

Have a great week

x Wilma x

                   

February projects by Ulrika Blomfelt

Hello! I´m so happy to share some new projects created with the new collection called Love Story. Valentines day is in just a week and I want to give cards for my loved ones. But before I show you the cards I created I have a layout to show you all!

I have a sweet spot for black when I create. The new collection has lovely red colors but also some black papers. When you create with the black ones you can add any color of your choice just like I did here. 

I used the Mesh bits with my flowers.

I also used all of the new gorgeous stamp sets. I mainly used them for texture and contrasts on my layout. You get a really cool effect!

This page is created after the February sketch. Hope you will join us!
I used Ombre Dreams and both Arrow words and the lovely Spring Branch.

I used a black pen to make my leaves more visable.

I actually cut my branch in to three pieces.

And now over to my Love cards! Have you noticed how pretty the label strips are on the papers? I hate to see lovely supplies go to waste so I braided the strips and made a cute background.
It was a bit difficult to take photos so that the layered black hearts are properly visible. Sorry for that.

My next card is in a bit more romantic style. I used the Frilly Hearts here also but I coverd it with a paper and made sure that the words fitted my Arrow Sweet Word chipboard. This is a fun and playful way to mix your title!

Thank you for looking at my work! Hugs from Ulrika!