Butterfly Canvas- Blue Fern Studios

Here is my second project  for the Blue Fern Studios blog.

I really love experimenting with Mixed Media Products.

It has become my passion and so today I'm showcasing my first project this month which  heavily based on mixed media using many different Blue Fern Studios chipboard pieces

It is a 6x6 Shadow Box Frame Butterfly Canvas.

The whole canvas was inverted and framed with the Chelsea Frame. The frame was embossed in blue embossing powder and then dabbed with silver acrylic paint.

The centre of the canvas was filled with blue and silver glass beads. Then I glued a piece of the Turkish bits chipboard on the background.  Finally i used two butterflies from the Gabrielle butterfly set. All three pieces were embossed in either blue, silver or white respectively.

Products

6x6 Gallery Canvas

Chipboard: Blue fern studios

Paints: Golden fluid acrylics

Silver Paint: Ranger silver acrylic dabber

Embossing powder: stampendous

Prima Finnbair Art Ingredients cobalt glass beads

Prima Finnbair Art Ingredients silver microbeads

Prima stamp n add screw

Prima Color Bloom: Cobalt and Precious stone

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Let There Be Light- Blue Fern Studios

My first project this month for Blue Fern Studios is a Steampunk 8x10 Mixed Media Canvas using different mechanical looking chipboard pieces and a real light bulb.

Its called 

"Let there be light"

I glued many different mechanical chipboard pieces like the cogs and gears, the light bulbs, the industrial corner, the working parts and some of the moving parts chipboard pieces. 

They were all covered in black gesso and then painted on top with different metallic paints.

The final touch was adding a real light bulb from my house. We recently changed a few of our light bulbs inside our home and so I've been using them in many of my projects. I figure its better to recycle them than throw them away.

Products

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studios

8x10 Canvas

Prima Finnabair Art Basics black gesso

Prima Alphabet

Prima Finnabair Art Ingredients Mica: lipstic, bronze

metal brads: unknown

Art sand: 13 Arts

light bulb

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ScrapBerry's International Design Team

Today is a very exciting day, because Scrapberry's is announcing it's very first 

International Design Team

Starting from July 1st, these amazing designers will inspire you with their gorgeous creations on this blog.

We are proud to announce that the following artists are part of our very first design team:

Delaina Burns (USA)

Keren Tamir (Canada)

Melissa Phillips (USA)

Olga Kolov (Germany)

Romy Veul (DT coordinator) (The Netherlands)

Tati Scrap (Spain)

Terhi Koskinen (Finland)

Yasmin Tölche (Norway)

Each artist will also shortly introduce herself in this blogpost.

Click on their names to visit their blog and see some of their beautiful work.

Delaina Burns

I am Delaina Burns and  I have been an avid scrapbooker since 2006.  I have been blessed with many wonderful design team positions, publications, and teaching opportunities over the years. I am excited and honored to join Scrapberry's Design Team. It's going to be an awesome year!

Keren Tamir

My name is Keren Tamir and I live in Canada. I am a wife to a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my art and a mother of two amazing kids; a 14 year old boy and an 8 year old girl. I’ve been scrapbooking for 11 years and I mainly scrapbook about my family.

I love to create and experiment with many different mediums and techniques. My style is always evolving and that’s one of the things I love about this art.

One of the main reasons I started scrapbooking was to preserve memories and photos for my children. However over the couple of years, I’ve started to enjoy another aspect of scrapbooking. I love the artistic outlet that it gives me. I love to create and I’m passionate about what I do.

I’m delighted to join Scrapberrys on this new adventure.

Melissa Phillips

My name is Melissa Phillips and I am so excited to be part of the Scrapberry's Design Team. I love all things paper-crafting related, especially cards and gift packaging. My style is very feminine and I love shabby chic, vintage, and homespun. I am a mom to a darling, blue-eyed 12-year old girl, and a wife to a hard-working, sweet, and supportive farm boy from Souther Nevada. I look forward to sharing my works of art with you as I serve with the other members of the Scrapberry's Design Team.

Olga Kolov

I am Olga Kolov, the wife of a wonderful man, that honored my passion and mom of 2 creative boys, aged 3 and 8, that honored my scrapbooking staff.  Our family lives in wonderful small town Oldenburg in north Germany, near to Bremen. We have a house with a cat ;)

As designer, I am in love with shabby chic, vintage style and mixed media. I make cards, canvas and altered art.

Tati Scrap

My name is Raquel, though I’m known as Tati Scrap in the craft´s world. The name "Tati" is in memory to my lovest dog Tati....she died in 2013, the year I started to be a crafter, and it is my tribute to her. I´m 40 years old, I was born in Cádiz City, Spain, where the weather is always warm and sunny! I'm a nurse of emergencies..love my profession.

When I discovered the scrapbooking in June of 2013, it challenges me...  and I do not need nothing else that my nurse scissors and many ideas in my mind. I am honoured to have been a part of the awesome Scrapberry´s Design Team this year...  it is a dream !!

Terhi Koskinen

Hello, I'm Terhi Koskinen from Finland. Scrapbooking is more than a hobby for me, it's a lifestyle - it starts with photograph session and ends when I get my creation where I wanted. And then it starts again. My style is modern, fresh and simple, and my creations have always lots of layers with different medias, matching colors, straight lines and touch of something shiny. Always lots of textures and something soft too, like my favorite thing thread.

I get my inspiration from pictures I take during the days, in another words from my everyday life: I'm mother for two beautiful daughters, wife for my handsome husband and studious planning assistant in my day time job. In addition to crafting, I horse-ride, so that's one more topic to my creations.

Yasmin Tölche

My name is Yasmin Tölche, I'm a Norwegian girl born in 1980. Mom to three awesome boys, Felix, Collin and Finnley. I'm happily married to Kristian and together we live in a small mountain village in Kyrksæterøra, Norway with our Rottweiler, Penny. I'm a stay at home mom, doing postings online for a Norwegian scrapbook store and I do a bit of photography. I started scrapbooking in 2005, discovered the hobby at a friends house and been doing it ever since! I love all paper realated; doing cards, layouts, mini albums and paper projects. I'm a major scrapbook hoarder! Live, love, breathe paper crafts. I'm so excited to be a part of Scrapberry's designteam with such awesome talent! I feel truly blessed. 

Design Team Coordinator:

Romy Veul

My name is Romy and I live in a small village in the Netherlands together with my parents, two brothers and our crazy cats. I'm 22 years old and at daytime I'm a University student majoring in Linguistics. At night I'm an avid scrapbooker and cardmaker. I was introduced to scrapbooking almost 9 years ago and haven't looked back ever since. It's a great way to combine my passion for photography, my obsession to document memories and my love for papercrafting. I make lay-outs, cards, tags, mini albums and also altered  items every once in a while. My style is usually layered, romantic and elegant. I feel truly blessed to be the design team coordinator for Scrapberry's and to coordinate this amazingly talented team of artists.

We all can't wait to start inspiring you!

Stay tuned for many more posts on the Scrapberry's blog!

In July all design team members will start to show their work with you on this blog.

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Full of Possibilities- 7 Dots Studio Art Journal Video Tutorial

I'm up on the 7 Dots Studio blog with a step by step video tutorial.

on how I created this Art Journaling double spread page:

I created this mixed media Journaling page using the Thoughts Keeper collection from 7 Dots Studio. The world is full of possibilities if we're just willing to try. I'm learning this each and every day. Dreams will happen if you try!!. 

Here is a step by step video tutorial on how I created these pages:

7 Dots Studio Products:

7 Dots Studio Thoughts Keeper clear stamps

7 Dots Studio Thoughts Keeper Element stickers

7 Dots Studio Thoughts Keeper word stickers

7 Dots Studio Thoughts Keeper No 5

Other Products

Prima half tone 12x12 stencil

Prima Finnabair Art Basics soft matte gel medium

Prima Finnabair Art extravagance clear texture paste

Prima Finnabair Art Basics light modelling paste

Tim Holtz ink- vintage photo and rusty hinge

Prima squre stitched stamp

Prima branch bark chalk edger

brown archival ink

brown fine tip pen

Gelatos

Date stamp

metal tag

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Keep on Dreaming!!

Garden Fable canvas set- Live With Prima

A couple of days ago, I created this set of 6x6 canvases on the Live With Prima Ustream channel.

I loved the printed bird houses on the new Garden Fable collection by Prima! 

For this trio of canvases, I hand cut the houses and adorned them with various embellishments. How sweet would these look in a little girl's room?

Here is the video recording in case you missed it:

I also have it uploaded to my YouTube channel if you need to find it (press the link on my side bar)

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I actually made the same project but changed the green colours to blue.

Here is the project with the blue Hues

I'm giving it away to my sister to hang up in my niece's room as the colours match perfectly with her room.

Finally I want to show you each canvas separately so you can really see the details below:

I used different resin birds on each canvas. Each bird belongs to a different era of Prima collections and I thought it would be perfect to represent the change in trends.

Prima Products

847333- Garden Fable A4 paper pad

847234- Garden Fable birdhouse

579562- Garden Fable wood icons

577148- Chalk paint sand

565299- Divine collection vine

555948- Button vine nature garden

556174- Millicent meadow lark

891480- Ingvild Bolme Shabby Chic Treasures fly away

892593- Ingvild Bolme Shabby Chic Treasures owls

555207- Vintage trinkets

581701- Isabella Dani

581718- Isabella Jemma

576066- Cigar box secrets wood icons

891190- Ingvild Bolme chalk edger moss lawn

Other Products

3- 6x6 Canvases

3- 4x4 Flat Canvases

Snow effects

Cheese cloth

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