2017 July : MajaDesign

My Beautiful Maja Design Papers!

19 July, 2017 - Cards, Layouts

Goodmorning to you lovely Maja Design Fans,

For today no new work, I have a couple projects to share all made with my Beautiful Maja Design papers. I am still so happy to be on this design team and I always seem to take out my Maja papers to create projects for another DT. For these projects I combined several collections and you as fans probably know which ones right away. On my blog there is a give away going on of the newest collection “Denim & Friends” so head on over to my blog http://www.amyvoorthuis.blogspot.com and see how you have a chance to win it. For this post I will not explain how I created my work but this will be a picture post mainly for my next post I will have a tutorial so you can see how I work ;-)…..so let’s get started!

First up is this 8×8 layout futuring three collection can you spot which ones? You will get a extra entry if you post in a comment on this blog telling me.

Let’s have a look at some close ups:

Second project is this card futuring four collections this is a little harder then the one above. You will get a extra entry if you post in a comment on this blog telling me.

Let’s look a little closer:

And for my third project another card using two collection this one is a tricky one because I colored the sunflowers with some Lindy’s Stamp Gang so if you just give me a comment on this post you will also get a extra entry but I would love to hear if you know which collections I have used here:

Let’s look a little closer:

For my last project for this post another card using just one collection {easy peasy right??} just look ate the bankgound papers hihihi! You will get a extra entry if you post in a comment on this blog telling me.

Let’s look a little closer:

So only for commenting on my post here you will already get one extra entry on winning the STUNNING “Denim & Friends collection on my blog. I would love if you visit my blog but it’s not a must…and if you can guess which collections I used for my projects by commenting on this post you can get up to five extra entries awesome right???

Have a wonderful day and good luck 😉

Love

“You are Awesome” by Tina Ollett

Posted by Tina Ollett

18 July, 2017 - Collections, Denim & Friends, Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics

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Hello and welcome back to the home of Maja Designs. Tina Ollett back with you today to share my first layout using the gorgeous new collection of “Denim and Friends”.

This project has been titled

“You are Awesome”……

Opening my box of goodies from the lovely ladies at Maja Designs was a definite hightlight of my week. My squeals of pure joy and excitement brought a number of my family members walking down to the art room to find out exactly what was going on.

Doing pretty layouts with copious amounts of flowers and embellishments is my go to thing for most projects, but today because this is mainly a masculine paper collection, I have opted to use a photo of my son who is quite happy not to be the centre of attention ever especially in my scrapbooking, but today it is! I captured this photo of him a number of years ago whilst we were on holidays at the Great Barrier Reef. We were on our way out to the reef on a very windy day and he was so very excited to be going snorkeling. The photo says it all.

I decided to keep this layout very simple with layering of all this fabulous collection. Of course I love to use woodgrain patterns to custom make the design for my chipboards and photo to sit. I used 2 sheets of Wood to create this using the first for the background page.

: Stonewashed

: Leather bs

: Leather

: Wood

I have also added in the bs of Leather ( I also love polkadots) as a square frame to sit all of the cut wood to sit upon. And over this I have cut sections of Stonewashed to lay over this. My photo is also matted with Stonewashed.

: No XII

: No XIV

I have also used sheets of papers from the Vintage Autumn Basics collection, cutting some of the hot air balloons for embellishments to add to my project.

I have also used lots of yummy Dusty Attic chipboards to emphasise my photo. These were inked and painted and layered amongst the layers of papers to allow more dimension to my layout.

Well that is all from me today. I hope you enjoyed your visit. Remember to return tomorrow for another Design Team creation. Until then take care and happy crafting. xxx

Special Guest Designer Kerstin-Inga Peters

Posted by Carita Ruckman

17 July, 2017 - Guest Designers, Layouts, Life by the Sea, Summertime, Vintage Romance

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Hello Scrapbooking friends!
I am very excited and honored to have been invited here this month as Guest Designer. Thanks so much for your invitation!

Kerstin-Inga-Peters

My name is Kerstin- Inga Peters and I come from Germany. I have been creating for many years now, always in search for new techniques and yet unexplored territory in craftland.
I’m a modern girl with a big vintage heart and my big passion are photos, colours and textures. With Scrapbooking and Mixed Media Style I have found ‘my’ perfect favourite genres – as it combines words and pictures, thoughts and feelings, and the application of various innovative products, techniques and the idea of telling stories.
I love the sea forever and ever. That’s my place for relaxation, dreaming and inspiration.
As I saw the wonderful papers I thought, amazing the right colors for sea, beach and so much more.

My first layout shows our family sunshine ‘Filou’, it’s a sheltie and he has always so much fun on the sea. His favourite occupation is to get sticks or balls out of the water.

Summer Fun

Used materials

Maja Design papers: Summer Time -Having fun-; Life by the sea -Regatta-; Life by the sea -Marina-

Prima flowers, Scrap FX chipboards, Gauze, Texture paste white, Distress Stain Walnut ink, Embossing powder, 3D pearls, sea shells, metal embellishments, driftwood

A crumpled craft paper with burlap leftover, some self-collected shells and a piece from edge stripe.

Some stains and splashes with paints diluted with water, together with some cut outs from the ‘Marina’ paper (flags and lighthouse).

Can you see the waves on my photo? I love the idea to continue some photo elements on the background paper. Here I used a white texture paste and a fan brush for more sea waves.

I also used some hand torn stripes together with colored gauze and a lot of little blue flowers.

Good day – We don’t remember days, we remember moments

Sunshine, beach, the sea and more: while the little ones dig in the biggest sandpit, the grown-ups lounge in a beach chair enjoying the sun or take a refreshing dip in the sea.

Used materials:

Maja Design papers: Life by the sea -Sailing-, Life by the sea -Regatta-

Stencil ‘Coral’ Scrap FX, Clear stamps ‘Maritim’ Viva Decor, Dies – Lighthouse, Beach grass, Tattered flowers, white gesso, Chalkboard Glimmer Mist ‘Boogie board’ Tattered Angels,

burlap,metal embellishment, tags, chipboard word from Scrap FX

Hanse Sail

Maja Design papers: Sailing – Vintage Romance -Words of Love-, Life by the sea -Marina-

Embellishments – wooden seahorse, metalic charms, feathers, starfish, rope

3D pearls, Distress stain ‘Walnut ink’, chipboard wordlet Scrap FX, circle dies, stencil ‘Bubbles’

embossing powder ‘Burnt copper leaves’

I’m a big fan of old sailor ships. The ‘Hanse Sail’ shall take place once at year on the Baltic Sea. You can see there very impressive windjammers,

traditional ships and museum ships. IT’s really a highlight for me and my vintage soul.

So I used here more vintage colors, various brown shades and a wine red.

For the wooden seahorse I used a transparent crackle paste in combination with distress ink and a little bit copper wax creme.

Some motifs from the ‘Regatta’ were very suitable for my photo and I decided to use a round die to cut out these elements.

More of my projects can you see here

https://scrapdesigns77.blogspot.com/

Many thanks for your visit!

Happy crafting!

Winner of our Giveaway..!

Posted by Carita Ruckman

16 July, 2017 - Giveaway

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Hello!

It’s time to reveal the winner of our giveaway..! ♥

A whole set of Denim & Friends (including Monochromes)..!

Denim-P

Will be sent to…

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Jean Marmo..! A huge congrats to you!
Please contact us at kenth@majadesign.nu with your complete address, including phone number, to receive your price..!
(Please have in mind that it might take some extra time to receive the package, due to vacation time here at the Maja office.)

I wish you all a great summer!
♥

Camilla

Little girl’s keepsake box

Posted by Evgenia Petzer

15 July, 2017 - Altered Items, Vintage Baby

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Hello dear Maja friends! Evgenia Petzer with you today and I am sharing with you a baby girl box.

I have the little treasure box that I have created for the girl, I have put the mini album inside of it (will show you in the next post), but you can also keep some little items of your little one in there (the first dummy, the little memorabilia from the birth hospital, the first bodysuit, tiny socks- all these will fit in it, if you wish).

Lets have a closer look?

lots of closer ups. After covering the box with Maja Design papers, I have used some chipboard, die cuts, lots of flowers, pearl, some lace and lovely ribbon. In the middle of the buttons I glued the enamel dots and these embellishments remind me of the sweet candies.

The gorgeous Vintage Baby collection was used:

Have a lovely weekend, ladies! Hope you will find some scrapping time for yourself.