2016 January : MajaDesign

Valentine For My Sweet Girlfriend

31 January, 2016 - Altered Items, Vintage Summer Basics

Hello Everyone <3

Today it is me, Silje Kristin that will inspire you with a little something that you can do for a special girlfriend on Valentines Day <3

These days I am in constant happiness, which appears on my ideas that I have on future projects. I have found me a man who is absolutely fantastic in all areas, he brings out the best in me, also on the crafting front. Therefore, I really look forward to Valentines Day, which is in two weeks, then I whant to show you my project made for him, with a very special gift <3 But today, I want to show you a more feminine gift in a form of a box <3

You see I have a friend who has bean very kind to me in the last few weeks and I really want to surprise her with something I have made. So when I came to think that abute two weeks it is Valentines Day, then I got the idea that I whant to make her a box, that I can put a surprise in it <3

This is a very basic box, made of wood, which I have decorated with beautiful paper from Maja Design, Vintage summer Basics. The reason that the box are in pink sheets, is because my friend is very fond of pink <3

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Bottom and the lid are inked with two types of Distress Ink. One is the Ground Espresso and the other is Tattered Rose. On the bottom, I’ve used both colors.

On the box I have used one pink ribbon, the same ribbon are on the bottom and the lid. I have made myself a large bow in the same ribbon on the top of the lid.

In between the large bow, I have placed flowers in different sizes. The flowers are in white and pink color, which fits very nicely into the sheets I have used. The flowers are from Gode Minner and Wild Orchids.

I have also used a string with white pearls over the flowers three places, I did this becuse I whant to add something extra.

If you open the lid, you can easily put down a surprise, as until now is a secret 😉

I hope you was inspired to make something for a frien who deserves something extra on Valentines Day, like my friend do <3

Whay not create a box, with some homemade biscuits in it <3

I wish you all a great Sunday <3

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Early Easter cards

Posted by Evgenia Petzer

30 January, 2016 - Cards, Vintage Spring Basics

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Hello dear friends! This time I will show you the early easter cards that I have prepared. When I saw this match in between the chipboards design and Maja Design papers, I just saw this card in my imagination so clearly and then I was off to create! I decided to go with the yellow accent on my first card and stitched the cards with the yellow threads as well.

Both chipboards in my cards are from Wycinanka and I left them in their natural look.and another Easter card:

lots of layers of lace here, many beads, etc…

close ups:

I have used the paper pad of the Vintage Spring Basics collection:

Have a lovely weekend!

Everlasting Love

Posted by Amy Voorthuis

29 January, 2016 - Collections, Layouts, Vintage Summer Basics

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Goodmorning lovelies,

I just can’t get enough of the beautiful Maja Design papers! I use them on almost every project I make, also for the other designs teams I am on. All the different collections are so versatile and you can use them together which also looks amazing. For this layout I used the “Vintage Summer Basics” it’s a collection I use less then all the others and I can’t say why……but oh wow it’s lovely 😉 and after today I bet that will be a lot more. Lately I am making a bunch of cards too and those you will see in this post too.

Don’t you just love the romantic feel these papers have. The picture I used is one of our wedding day back in 2012….oh my that’s almost four years. He is the love of my life and even though we fight sometimes {which I think is very normal in every relationship} he is my soulmate and we have a “Everlasting Love”! I am so happy we found each other <3

I totally went all feminine on this layout don’t you just love these chippies. I feel so honored to design for another chipboard manufacturer then I have been doing for the last three years. Creative Embellishments has so many gorgeous chipboard pieces which you will see on my projects for the upcoming six months.

Maja Design papers used: 1910,1922 & 1905

Today I would also like to show you some cards I made for different design teams these cards I made for Cheery Lynn Designs using the oh so lovely “Vintage Baby” collection! For a baby girl & baby boy these cards are so easy to make and tons of fun too.

Maja Design papers used: Die cuts, Die cuts-bs, Welcome little one, Our little miracle, Special delivery, Cherish, Cherish-bs & Newborn-bs

I also made these wintery cards for Creative Embellishments! As most of you may already know I am not such a card maker but I totally get the hang of it at the moment! It’s kinda having the flue it comes and it goes lol. Somehow I always make two of them and for these I all went by the winter theme which I love because I can used my glitter snow 😉

Maja Design papers used: Crispy air, Season’s greetings, Lovely winter day-bs, Sparkling snow-bs, Send a postcard-bs & December-bs

The last piece I will show you today is a layout I also made for the design team above using my favorite collection of Maja Design named “Walking in the Forest” mmmm well who could ever have just one favorite by Maja well I can’t I just love them all! If you could just pick one which would it be???

Maja Design papers used: Jeans, Fresh air-bs, Flannel shirt, Flannel shirt-bs & Last flower-bs

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today I always love your comments here on the blog. Have a wonderful week with lots of creativity, sun and happiness xox

Love

Winter Joy LO with Video Tutorial

Posted by Delaina Burns

28 January, 2016 - Home for the Holidays, Layouts, Tutorials

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Hello Hello!

I created this pretty wintry page using Maja’s beautiful paper collection, Home for the Holidays.

I chose a blue, cream and brown color scheme to achieve that winter feel.

I have a Video Tutorial to share showing you step by step how to create this page for yourself.

Here a close up showing torn paper layers and a few embellishments…

I hope you enjoy the Video!

Extra Products Used:

White Flowers (Prima)

White Trim (My Stash)

Chipboard Frame (Leaky Shed)

Cardstock Tag(Jillibean Soup)

Large Alphabet (Prima)

Wood Deco Word Icon (Prima)

Oil Pastels and Ink (Prima)

Looking Back

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

27 January, 2016 - Layouts, Nyhavn, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Sofiero, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Baby, Walking in the Forest

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Hi All! It’s Gabrielle here with you today! It’s the beginning of a new year, and I’m thinking it’s fun to reflect over past years on some of my favorites of projects I’ve created with Maja Design papers. One of my favorite things about Maja Design papers is the beautiful images you can use for fussy cutting and embellishing your projects. For the above layout I used a combination of papers from the Sofiero collection and from the Vintage Autumn Basics collections. The clocks are clearly one of my go to favorite items to use on a scrap page, as are the gorgeous roses found in the Vintage Autumn Basics papers!

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Another thing I particularly love about Maja Design Papers is their wonderful quality and the strength of the papers. They allow you to play with and manipulate the papers with a little bit of water without falling apart on you. For the page above I cut little swags of one of the papers in the Ska Vi Ta En Fika collection papers and created a draping effect by making little folds/pleats in the paper.

And as much as I love to create feminine pages with Maja papers, Masculine pages come together just as easily since there are so many wonderful papers and images in the papers to choose from in each collection!

And don’t get me started on all the sweet baby pic’s you can scrap using these gorgeous papers! Above is a layout I got to make using a baby pic from my friend Jennifer who was kind enough to let me scrap her sweet baby boy….

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You can scrap feminine baby pics as well using the pretty soft pinks in the beautiful papers….here I used the lovely Vintage Baby collection papers to scrap this sweet pic of one of my little great nieces.

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Did anyone say weddings? Of course these papers work beautifully for romantic/wedding photos! This was a page I designed in the first year I began on the Maja design team…..good times!

The wedding pages you can create with the different collections are endless! Here I used the Nyhavn collection to scrap this beautiful photo of my niece and her husband. This collection worked so well for their photo as their wedding had a nautical theme.

Honestly, it was so hard to pick just a few favorites I’ve made over the years. Every time I hear that Marie Jensen is at the drawing board creating another lovely collection, I’m excited and and so happy, looking forward to seeing what new designs and lovely images I will have to work with, whether it be on my scrapbook pages, mixed media art or OTP projects! If I had to pick a favorite collection? Lets see…..Vintage Autumn Basics,….wait a sec, nope, Enjoying the Outdoors, oh no, wait! Walking in the Forest…..**sigh** way to hard to pic just one! 🙂

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