Amy Voorthuis : MajaDesign

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2 September, 2016 - Layouts, Nyhavn, Sommartider, Vintage Spring Basics

Goodmorning lovelies,

Today I am filling in for the lovely Elena Olinevich {and she will have my day next week} with a layout I made out of three different collections. I used a picture of my men that I took on our vacation in Turkey. Also on this layout I used a bunch of Dusty Attic chipboard pieces that I treated all differently I painted, embossed & stamped them. The collection I used are “Vintage Spring Basics”, “Nyhavn” and “Sommartider”……..every flower except the black ones are hand made with lovely dies.

For the first time ever I used straws on my layout……I totally love it! I did see it a lot on scrapbook pages that I had to try it too. I love this color palette especially because purple is my favorite color to scrap. All the chipboard pieces are first gessod and later on painted with Dusty Attic acrylic paint and the circles with the text in them are embossed with Lindy’s Stamp Gang powder. On the frame I added some text stamp on the end.

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I enjoy using all the metal pieces there are in this hobby but I have to say I am running out of them and they are not for sale anymore here in The Netherlands it is sad that they are not here forever lol……I so love this picture of my handsome men I am the luckiest woman on this planet.

I did some mixed media on the background too I can’t imagine to not use spray or paste on my work anymore they so give your layout the wow factor hihihihi…..

Maja Design papers used: Sitting at the dock {Nyhavn}, Badlakan {Sommartider}, 8th of April, 9th of April, 10th of April, 11th of April & 7th of April {Vintage Spring Basics}.

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today and for leaving such nice comments every single time we really do appreciate them. I want to wish you a wonderful sunny & creative weekend and you will see me in 3 weeks.

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Happy Summertime Smile!

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26 August, 2016 - Layouts, Nyhavn, Summertime, Vintage Romance, Walking in the Forest

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Goodmorning lovelies,

Oh boy is it stinking hot here in The Netherlands with temperatures above 30 degrees feels like Turkey all over again! God is good 😉 We had a great time on our vacation destination but it is also really nice to come home. I have to admit I am very lazy the last couple of days my head wants to scrap but my hart is not letting my head to do so…..So for today I have a simple layout for you all it’s a 8×8 inch one I love making those because they take lass space in my scrap room.

Since my printer is acting up I had to use another picture for this layout. Don’t you just love the new Summertime collection as much as I do. As you see on this layout I hand made my own flowers again. I will also show you a layout that I made for my other design team I am on using as much handmade flowers as I could on a 8×8 layout. Hopefully you will enjoy my work.

The picture was take back in 2010 and he was writing his name in the sand. I really love the bikes in this collection so I did not cover it up with flowers. To finish my flowers clusters I used some real sea shells.

Maja Design papers used: {by the sea} Is my favorite, Is my favourite bs, Having fun bs, Wind in my hair bs.

Now I would like to show you two other layouts that I made with a couple of other gorgeous Maja Design collections! The pretty “Vintage Romance”and mixture off two collections for my other layout! The first layout was made for Cheery Lynn Designs and the other one for The Dusty Attic 😉

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today I hope you have enjoyed my work…..and I will see you in two weeks with another project. Have a marvelous weekend everyone.

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Happy Birthday

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12 August, 2016 - Cards, Nyhavn

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Goodmorning lovelies,

As I am writing this post it’s almost 12 o’clock at night and we will be leaving on our vacation tomorrow! Yeah the time is finally there some precious family time. When you will read this post I will be at the pool side at our hotel in Turkey enjoying the warm sun and lovely food & drinks. For today’s post I made a card again and this time I used the beautiful Limited Edition “Nyhavn” Heritage Harbor collection this collection had to grow on me but now it’s like one of my favorites to design with. At the end of my post I will show you a layout I created for another DT using the same collection.

All the flowers on my card are handmade with dies from Cheery Lynn Designs. I love creating flowers because it’s very therapeutic and you can make them while sitting in the sun or just when you are watching tv.

In the future I will make a video on how I make my flowers. There was someone asking that because in my last {and first} video. I also used some chipboard pieces on my card and I added some metal gems to make my chipboard a little prettier

Maja Designs papers used: Old Townhouses bs, Veteran ships bs, King’s square bs, Sitting at the dock, Strolling along the canal.

Veteran ships bs King's square bs

Sitting at the dock Old Townhouses bs Strolling along the canal

Here is a layout I made with same collection all created with dies. The picture is a selfie we made a couple of weeks ago and because my husband never listens to me {about not wearing his sunglasses} it looks like he pooped in his pants in this picture hihihihih lol. If you also love this collection you have to be fast because it’s almost sold out…….

Thank you so much for being here with me today and hopefully you are enjoying your vacation time too….and for the people who already went I hope you had a great time spent with your loved ones. Have a wonderful & sunny weekend!

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Special Memories

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31 July, 2016 - Giveaway, Layouts, Tutorials, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Baby

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Goodmorning everyone,

So glad I am here with you on the last day of the month! Are you all enjoying your summer vacation? Today I have a little treat for you. I made a video tutorial my first {so be gentle with me} with a little help of my husband because I don’t know the program we use for video for editing that good well not jet anyways. For this layout I used the always gorgeous “Vintage Autumn Basics” collection plus one of the blue sheets from the “Vintage Baby” collection this time I went for the blues, green & cream papers. I also added some Dusty Attic chipboard pieces on my work with some handmade {dies by Cheery Lynn Designs}, petaloo & dusty attic flowers. It’s so much fun to use all products from the three design teams I am in……it feels like a true blessing.

The blue and green flowers are the ones that I made myself as you will see in the video. The picture is of my little family well without me lol. I was planning on using the background sheet with the blue flowers on it for ages but I always took out the pink tones in this paper collection because I always have trouble finding the correct blue toned flowers, but this time it worked out very well because I made my own flowers.

Here is my tutorial:

Hope you liked my video and I think I am hooked now but I still have to figure out a lot on how to make it better because on this video you don’t see things because I am working out of the screen sometimes.

As you see here I used some different stencils one with the flowers and one with the text! I really enjoy using mixed media on my layouts. I also stamped randomly on my papers and used many different Lindy’s sprays. For the coloring of my chipboard I used the dusty attic acrylic paints. Don’t you just love the tabs? They add so much to your layout.

On the arrow with feathers underneath my picture I used some treat and some metal gems to make it prettier. I painted that particular pieces with some dusty attic acrylic paint but also with the rust paste set by Finnabair oh boy how I love that stuff. To make my layout complete added some clocks from the same collection I used here.

Maja Design papers used: From the Vintage Autumn Basics collection: no.XXII, no.XXI BS, no.XXII BS, no.VII BS, no.XVI, no.XIX BS, no.XXIII BS and from the Vintage Baby collection: Special Delivery bs.

Thanks for being here with us today and I hope you will visit my blog later today since it’s the last day to enter ==> “HERE” <== for your chance at winning the gorgeous “Summertime” collection…..have a lovely week everyone!

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Summertime!

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18 July, 2016 - Summertime

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Goodmorning lovelies,

Are you all enjoying your summer? Well for me that starts in little under one month, hopefully all will be better in Turkey by then as we leave to go on our vacation. For today I would like to show you some more projects showing of the newest “Summertime”collection! I am not sure what it is but this is such “must create” with collection that I just can’t put my finger on it hihihi. For my projects I used all pretty dies by Cheery Lynn Designs what better way to show off that gorgeous collection right?

Amazing Summertime:

As you can maybe see this card looks a lot like the card on my last post but only here I used a different color scheme more of a beach feeling. The pictures in this collection are super cute that it draws you to fussy cute them and create any kind of project with it.

Maja Design papers used: Only the blue and creme papers plus the 6×6 paper pad & It’s my favorite, Cute summer dress, Playing at the beach bs, Glittering water, Having fun bs, Wind in my hair bs.

For the other card I used the other pretty colors in this collection and made a birthday card which is a very large card by the way the flowers on this card are also handmade. And I used a pretty new embossing folder and lots of dies. I am very pleased with how both cards turned out so very differently while using the same collection.

Happy Birthday:

This card was made with lots of layers as you can see and I probably used all the papers in this collection for the flowers. For the flowers I mostly use scraps because then I use my scraps because when I don’t the pile of scraps will become massive. What do you do with your scraps I wonder???

Maja Designs papers used: Only the red, pink, green and creme papers plus the 6×6 paper pad & Wind in my hair bs, Taste the strawberries, Light scarlet, Taste the strawberries bs, Flowers everywhere bs, Is always the best bs, Is always the best, Greenery bs.

Thanks for being here with us today and I hope you will visit my blog later today ==> “HERE” <== for your chance at winning this gorgeous collection….. next time I will have a layout to show you 😉 have a lovely weekend everyone!

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