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 *)

Little Girls by Lisa Landry

A huge thank you to Lisa Landry for joining us this month as our October Blue Fern Fan of the Month.  We hope you have enjoyed her layouts using our new Homespun Collection as much as we have.  She has taken us back in time as she remembers people and events from times past.  Here's Lisa with her 4th layout this month.

Today is my final layout for Blue Fern's October Fan of the Month. Thank you so much to Blue Fern Studios for allowing me this wonderful opportunity to work with so many gorgeous products!  My layout features a 1965 photo of me when I was just 4 years old.

I was absolutely determined to use more of the stunning Blue Fern Lace in my final layout.

It fits perfectly in the center of this gorgeous Hospitality page.

Aren't the Homespun Blossoms soooooo pretty?!

My layout is 100% Blue Fern flowers and lace. I used both sides of the Tea Time page to hand make some of the flowers.  Using flower punches, I edge inked and then formed the petals, gluing one flower inside the other. 

The flower centers are made by sprinkling Blue Fern's Wintergreen Seedlings on top of a dollop of glue. The tiny red flowers have a white pearl center.

I also hand made some Salvia-type flowers.  I ran a wire through the center of each punched flower, using a bead in between as a separator, gluing everything as I went.  The tops of the wires (the stamen of the flower) are coated in glue and then dipped in Blue Fern's Wintergreen Seedlings. 

I wrapped the wire stems around the beautiful Blue Fern Wanderlust Vine with its detailed leaves and adorable bright yellow flowers.  This vine also has black gypsophila flowers on it that I removed because of the color palette of my layout.  I divided the Wanderlust Vine into two pieces so that I could use one on each side of the photo.  What an array of beautiful flowers!

It has been such an honor and a complete joy creating this month with Blue Fern's gorgeous Homespun collection.  I will definitely have more creations with this collection on my blog in the near future.

Thank you for stopping by and have a GREAT day!  Lisa : )

Blue Fern Products used:

Homespun paper collection
Hospitality (main layout)
Tea Time (handmade flowers)
Homestead (Title cuts)

Flowers

Homespun Blossoms (#837586)

Wanderlust Vine

Lace

Lace 7B

Imagine Ink Seedlings

Wintergreen

October inspiration by Wendy Scholten

Hi All,

It's my turn on the blog for Blue Fern Studio's today and i have 3 layouts to show you.

The first one with a picture of me and our little girl when she was only 10 months old is called:

Adore

I made this with the Memoires collection. I love the autumn feel from this paper collection.

I used the Photographic Record paper as my background paper and a few calling cards behind my photo. Next i embossed my chipboard Rose frame with the Sand&Sea embossing powder and my title Adore with Fern embossing powder.
Then i made clusters with the pieces of chipboard, the Ivory braided trim and some flowers; Garden Florals and Wanderlust Lilies

Blue Fern Studio's products used:
Paper: Memoires
-Photographic Record
-Calling Cards
Chipboard:
-Rose frame
-Adore (Adore, Love, Cherish)
Lace:
-Ivory braided trim
Flowers:
-Garden Florals
-Wanderlust Lilies
Embossing powder:
-Sand&Sea
-Fern


Then my second layout called
Great Outdoors

This one with the sweet photo of my husband and our little girl on a holiday in Germany was made with the new and gorgeous Homespun Collection.
First i prepped my Homemade paper with clear gesso, behind my photo i used gesso, a stencil with moddeling paste, some sprays and the Grungy Grid stamp with brown ink.
Next i embossed all of my chipboard pieces, the Folkart frame, Vintage Key and Great Outdoors title with Taupe embossing powder.
Then i started to put everything together with the Lace 3, pieces of the Lace 4, my flowers; Homespun Blossoms and Harvest Lilies and some items of my own stash.

Blue Fern Studios's products used:
Paper:  Homespun collection
-Homemade
Chipboard:
-Folkart Frame
-Vintage Key
-Great Outdoors from the All Natural set
Lace:
-Lace 3
-Lace 4
Flowers:
-Homespun Blossoms
-Harvest Lilies
Printed Chipboard
Embossing powder:
-Taupe
Stamp:
-Grungy grid


And then my last one this month:
Good Vibes

I made this layout with a picture from a Nature park called Brunssumer Heide where we celebrated Christmas last year, we actually had some snow that holiday.
I used the Vintage Christmas 1 and 2 collections for this one.
First i used a stencil and some moddeling paste with pigment color on the Holiday Cards paper to give my background a bit more color. Then i cut a few flowers out of the Deck the Halls paper and used a piece of the same paper behind my photo.
Next i embossed my chipboard pieces: Looped Frames and the title Good vibes with Snow embossing powder.
And placed everything on my paper. Then i made clusters with the Happy roses, cut out flowers and some other embellishments from my own stash.

Blue Fern Studios products used:
Paper: Vintage Christmas 1 and 2
-Holiday Cards
-Deck the Halls
Chipboard:
-Looped frames
-Good Vibes from the Good vibes word set
Flowers:
-Happy roses
Embossing powder:
-Snow


Thank you for watching and see you next moth! Enjoy all upcoming blogs.
Hugs wendy



October inspiration by Pascale B.

Hello Sweeties,

Today I'm up on Blue Fern STudios blog with three new projects. For the first one, I worked with the new collection Homespun. I chose a view from the Monastery of Claregalway I've taken during my trip in Ireland. 

First I primed the background with clear gesso. Next, I added a design with modeling paste and a stencil.

Then I colored the area with the design with different colors of watercolors. 

I primed the Garden Lattice with black gesso before coloring them with waxes.

I primed the Rose leaves with white gesso. Then I colored them with watercolors and sprinkled with the Black Sand and the Taupe embossing powders to add some texture.

I also colored the flowers with a light brown watercolor. I cut a few papers to add under the photo and I glued all the embellishments along with sisal.

To finish the layout I added Silver Sterling and Twig seedlings.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Hospitality	Homespun Picturesque	Homespun Minis	Homespun Blossoms
	Garden Lattice Bits	Rose Leaves
Black Sand	Taupe	Twig	Sterling Silver

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Here is my second October project for Blue Fern Studios. I use the new collection Homespun for this landscape of Connemara.

First I primed the background with clear gesso. Next, I added a design with a stencil and clear crackle paste.

Then I colored the area with the design with watercolors and Mica Powders

I primed the Leafy Twigs with white gesso. Then I covered them with watercolors and added some Taupe embossing powder.

I covered the Crossing the Lines chipboard with white crackle paste.

I cut a few papers from the Wanderlust collection to add under the photo and I glued all the embellishments.

To finish the layout, I added some seedlings and glitter.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Homespun Homegrown

Wanderlust Souvenir

Wanderlust Seascape

Christmas Blooms

Wanderlust Vine

Leafy Twigs

Crossing the Lines

Taupe

Goldilocks

Twig

Sterling Silver

Blue Ice

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Here is my last October inspiration for Blue Fern Studios. This time I used the Vintage Christmas collection with a photo of the Xmas decoration from the castle of Chenonceau.

I primed the background with clear gesso. I cut a few pieces of papers in different sheets of the Vintage Christmas 1 collection. I glued them and added a thin layer of gesso.

Next, I used the Jingle Bells and the Christmas Collage stamps to add two different designs with the Taupe and the Goldilocks embossing powders. Next, I added some colors with different watercolor.

While the background was drying, I altered the frame with the Rust Effect paste. I primed the Holly Sprigs with clear gesso, then I colored them with watercolor. While the watercolor was still wet I sprinkled some embossing powders and heated set them.

I glued all the embellishments with a 3D gel along with mosses.

To finish the layout, I added some seedlings as well as glitter.

Blue Fern Studios products:

Vintage Christmas Wonderland	Vintage Christmas 2 Holidays Cards	Vintage Christmas 2 Jolly	Vintage Christmas 2 Twis the Night
Jingle Bells	Star and Berries Frame	Holly Sprigs	Christmas Collage

Homespun Blooms

Taupe

Goldilocks

Orange Peel

Twig

Paprika