2017 May : MajaDesign

Treasure the Moment

14 May, 2017 - Collections, Created Art, Layouts, Sofiero

Hello my dear friends! Happy Sunday to all!

It’s Mary here with you today sharing my latest layout made with papers from two of my favourite collections, the ”Sofiero” and the ”Monochromes – shades of Sofiero”.

A soft romantic layout in blue and gold tones that was inspired by the beautiful photo which I found on Pinterest. And, before I continue I want to give all the proper credits to the ”unknown” photographer.

I used for my background the ”The magnificent Flowerstreet” paper from the ”Sofiero” collection and I made a die cut doily with the ”White/Sand” paper from the ”Monochromes – shades of Sofiero”.

I primed my background with white gesso and when it was dried, I added some texture with modeling paste and a stencil. Then, I colored my page using Lindy’s Stamp Gang sprays ”Baby Blue Eyes Aqua” and ”Hydrangea Blue”.

I heat embossed the ”Ada’s Flourishes” 2Crafty chipboard with ”King Midas Gold” Lindy’s embossing powder. The title was also embossed with the ”Madonna Rabe Blue” powder. The title chipboards I used are 13arts and all the flowers and embellishments are Prima Marketing.

To finish, I added some copper micro beads with gel medium and made some splatters with white acrylic artists ink.

Papers used:

: The magnificent Flowerstreet bs

: Mono White Sand bs

That’s all for today, my friends!

Thank you for stopping by!

Mixing Vintage Basic Collections

Posted by Jennifer Snyder

13 May, 2017 - Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Spring Basics

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Jennifer Snyder here today with a graceful birthday card created by pairing papers from the Vintage Spring Basics and the Vintage Autumn Basics collections. The beautiful thing about the “Vintage Basics” collections is that they were made to mix and match. That’s just what I did.

Here are the papers I chose:

Maja Design Papers – Vintage Spring Basics – 6th of May -both A and B sides

Maja Design Papers – Vintage Spring Basics – 2nd of May

Maja Design Papers – Vintage Spring Basics – 7th of May

Maja Design Papers – Vintage Autumn Basics – no. X

The tiny delicate butterflies were from the Maja Design Papers – Vintage Spring Basics – 6th of May 12×12 paper. They make great card accents.

The sweet floral pink pops of color are Petaloo rom the mauve flowers Petaloo Penny Lane Forget Me Not – Antique Pink and the darling cupcake stamp is from JustRite Papercrafts.

Thank you for stopping here at Maja Design.

Mixing the Collections

Posted by Elena Olinevich

12 May, 2017 - Mini albums, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello Maja Friends. it’s Elena here.

I am very addicted to album making. I consider this is the best way to enjoy the paper and to showcase the beauty of it.

I have already made many of baby albums, but every time while working on the album for a boy I feel the challenge what kind of embellishments to add, as you can not fill it with the flowers only

By the way , the flowers can be used , not many , but I guess that the mother will enjoy to have them too.

But to try find those that remind you the masculine color and play more with the paper.

A good option is to add various ribbons in blue, teal, yellow.

also you can mix the Boy Dies – rocket ships, air balloons, cars and others

I have already told that Maja paper collections are versatile and you can mix the collections for every project you create.

This time I used Vintage Summer Basics as the base for my album, but I also added the paper from Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Romance and I mixed even the Christmas papers too.

Crea Diem is a fabulous collection for any album too.

So I wanted to give you a heads up that you don’t need to follow the traditional thinking about the name of the collection. You can reveal your imagination with beautiful papers indeed.

Hope that I have managed to involve you in album making process too.

so stay tuned for more albums from me

Knitted Klimt

Posted by Pascale B

11 May, 2017 - Layouts, Vintage Romance

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Hello Sweeties

Today I’m up on Maja Design blog with a new layout with the Vintage Romance. I chose a photo I’ve taken during my trip in Prague of the special statue designed by Eva Blahová: the dress is a knitting.

As usual, I primed the background with clear gesso. Then I added a design with a stamp. I embossed the stamp image with a sticky powder to adhere some gold foil.

I added a second design with a stencil and clear crackle paste. I let dry naturally to allow the crackle to appear.

While the crackle paste was drying I die cut some leaves in a watercolor paper. I colored them with some Twinkling H2O and embossed them.

I cut some papers to add under the photo and I glued all the embellishments: flowers, leaves, and some doily’s scraps.

When done, I colored the background with bright colors to remind the photo.

I finished the layout with mica flakes and micro beads.

Maja Design papers:

Vintage Romance collection
Ephemera cards bs	Love notes bs	Love poetry bs	6×6 Paper pack

First Communion Boy Box

Posted by Maja Nowak

10 May, 2017 - Altered Items, Sofiero, Summertime

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Hello there, dear Visitors to the Maja Design blog!

Do you remember the First Communion exploding box I shared last time? That was a girl version, and I decided I need a boy verion as well 😉 And so I selected some blue and brown papers and here it is:

I used the Summertime papers – and believe it or not, my choice was mainly because of this gorgeous roses paper I chose for the box sides 🙂 Just look how beautiful it is! I also added some Sofiero papers as the collections go well together 🙂

I selected flowers in matching colour for the box lid:

The inside of the box is mostly the same as the girl’s box:

And so there’s the stamped boy image with the cross and flower cluster:

…the strip of paper for sliding in money:

…and a chipboard chalice decorated with flowers:

Maja Design papers are perfect for elegant or formal occasions, their subtle, classic designs and delicate colour palettes perfectly match the chosen theme. I really like how this boy box turned out!

I used the following supplies:

: Wind in my hair

: Princess Margareta’s Garden

Other: stamps: Whiff of Joy, Lemonade; chipboard: Scrapiniec, Anemone; dies: Magnolia, Spellbinders; flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts; Distress inks, glitter: Ranger; wax string, bling, washi tape: my stash.

See you later!