2017 June : MajaDesign

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25 June, 2017 - Collections, Created Art, Layouts, Summertime

Hello my dear friends and happy Sunday to all!!!

It’s Mary here with you today and I want to share with you my latest layout feauturing the ”Summetime” collection.

A layout in blue and earth 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 as the main paper for my background the ”Wind in my Hair” and I made another layer on it with a torn piece of the backside of the ”Is my Favourite” paper. Then, I matted my photo with the leftover torn pieces from the ”Is my Favourite” paper.

I gave my background a coat of clear gesso and when it was dried, I added some texture with modeling paste and a stencil. Then, I heat embossed the paterm with ”Cafe’ au Lait” Lindy’s Stamp Gang embossing powder. Next was to color my page with Lindy’s Stamp Gang sprays ”Cattail Copper Brown” and ”Bluebeard Blue Violet”.

I heat embossed the title and the ”Moroccan Bits” chipboards with the ”Bratwurst Brown” Lindy’s embossing powder. All the chipboards I used are 2crafty and the flair is Cuts2luv.

To finish my page, I added some art stones with gel medium and made some splatters with white ink.

Paper used:

: Wind in my hair

: Is my favourite bs

: Is my favourite

That’s all for today, my friends!

Thank you for stopping by!

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Re-Purposed Gift Box for Summer

Posted by Jennifer Snyder

24 June, 2017 - Altered Items, Life in the Country

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Jennifer Snyder here today to share a cheery decorated box.

This box was a chocolate box I had saved from Christmas. I ate the chocolates ( I may have even hid them from my family) and then saved the box as if I always had it. I can be super sneaky that way where chocolates are concerned.

I grabbed the gorgeous Maja Design collection called Life in the Country. Such a happy cheery collection that makes me think of a summer picnic.

These are the papers I used from the collection and shown in the image below:
Porch, Summer Kitchen, Our Deer Summer Cottage

The top of the box is decorated with a gorgeously fabulous die from Spellbinders called Spellbinders Shapabilities Die – Heirloom Oval.
I added white cardstock behind the die to really make the design pop.

Along with the die cuts, the box is embellished with some exquisite flowers from Petaloo, some gold shimmery ribbon and gold floral berries.

The side of the box also has a diecut from the same Spellbinders die set as used on the top of the box. This view of the side provides an exquisite view of how wonderfully the patterns of the paper match and coordinate.

I added paper to the inside of the box as well. Helps cover up the fact that I actually ate a whole box of chocolates. Chocolates? What chocolates. Not me! hahahaa

Another view of the top and the beautiful papers.

Thanks for stopping here today.

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Products Used
Maja Design -Life in the Country Collection :

Porch

Summer Kitchen

Our Deer Summer Cottage

Nautical Inspiration

Posted by Elena Olinevich

23 June, 2017 - Life by the Sea, Mini albums

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Hello Maja Friends,

each summer I wait for the chance to see the sea. It’s a great disadvantage that I live in the country with no sea, however I do all my best to spend some time by the sea. That is why I like creating nautical albums so much.

I do love using Maja – Life by the Sea collection, it has the variety of stripes, stars and other nautical motifs to choose from.

This time I made a cascade mini album and used some of the pictures taken last summer by the Baltic Sea.

I used only paper to create my layers and die cut embellishments

I played with different patterns and skinny size, and even managed to make some fussy cutting

All of those Sealight pictures as well as the Sail boats are perfect addition to the mini.

It was fun to enjoy papercrafting and to revise that past time memories.

I left some pages almost clean and simple, as the background papers are awesome with no extra layers too.

Products used:

Life by the Sea collection

: Navigate

: Drop the Anchor

: Regatta

: Marina hovering

: Marina

: Islands and skerries

: Gone fishing

: Day at sea

: Morning swim

: Seaside cottage

: Life jacket

Clear Scraps Mini Album – Cascade Shape, Spellbinders Dies, My Favorite Things Dies.

Memorial

Posted by Pascale B

22 June, 2017 - Collections, Layouts, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello Sweeties

Today I’m u Maja Design blog with a layout featuring the Vintage Summer Basics collection. I chose a photo taken during my trip to Prague of the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. The memorial is the work of Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek. It’s a truly magnificent memorial. A sad one, though.

First, I primed the background with clear gesso. I mixed together some copper crackle paste with the brown Rust effect paste. I used the mix with a stencil to add a design and I let dry. I didn’t expect the crackle to appear as I mixed the crackle

Masculine Cards

Posted by Maja Nowak

21 June, 2017 - Cards, Home for the Holidays, Vintage Romance

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Good morning, Maja Friends, welcome to the blog today!

The day after tomorrow in Poland we celebrate Father’s Day – and for that occasion I have made some masculine cards 🙂 Even though I’m the only woman in my house, I still find masculine cards a bit difficult, it always takes me more time to make one than with romantic flowery cards 😉 But with fantastic Vintage Romance images of handsome dudes the task is much easier 😉

I decided to use up some leftovers of the Home for the Holidays collection and made these two cards: