MajaDesign Creative Team 2018

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31 December, 2017 -

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Welcome to the blog today!
First we would like to thank all our dear Maja-fans for a great 2017 and we wish you all a creative and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
And then it is time for what we’ve so eagerly been waiting for… the announcement of our new team for next year..!
We are so excited, and proud to present our incredible

 

 

Amy-site-signfrom The Netherlands

Amy specializes in making the most gorgeous layouts and has that soft, romantic style that just melts your heart.. ♥ She loves Shabby Chic, Vintage and Mixed Media. Amy is also our new Facebook coordinator. Read more about her here or visit her places below:

 

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Camilla-S.Bakke

Camilla-sign1 from Norway

Camilla is our marvelous talented cardmaker, and her cards just take your breath away. ♥ She has en eye for beautiful details, lots of paper layers and loves sewing her cards. Read more about her here, or visit her places below:

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Elena-OlinevichElena-sign1from Belarus

Elena has been on the Maja Team for many years, and we are so very proud to have her and her great experience and talent onboard. She creates the most beautiful cards, albums and layouts with lots of layers and wonderful, thought through details. ♥ Her style is feminine and vintage and she loves laces and mists. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Evgenia-PetzerEvgenia-signSfrom South Africa/Russia

Evgenia is the most fantastic cardmaker ever, and she amaze us every time with her wonderful creations. Her style breaths feminity, soft and romantic and she creates with layers and beautiful details. ♥ You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Jennifer-SnyderJennifer-signfrom USA

Jennifer is our own sparkeling star..! She inspires us with her fantastic cards, among many other wonderful creations. She creates everything with lots of love and thought through and her style goes from romantic to shabby chic, depended on the story and photo. ♥ You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Kavitha

Kavitha-sign-sitefrom India

Kavitha is one of our new talents this year, and we are so proud to have her in our team. Kavitha creates the most wonderful pieces of art and puts magic into all her work with her great maner of mixed media art and her “boldly romantic” style. ♥ She will inspire us with her stunning layouts and much more.

You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Kerstin-Inga-Peters

Kerstin-Inga-sitefrom Germany

 

Kerstin-Inga is also quite new on the team as she started in November -17. Kerstin-Inga loves colours and vintage and is not afraid to go outside the box in her gorgeous projects. She creates everything from cards and layouts to altered things and much more. ♥

You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Lenet-Mos

Lenet-sign-sitefrom The Netherlands

Lenet is one of our brand new stars within the team and she will amaze us with the most beautiful, romantic and shabby chic projects ever. She loves to create everything from layouts and cards to home decors and albums. ♥
You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Maja-NowakMaja-signfrom Poland

Maja continues to create her wonderful feminine and romantic cards along with the soft, handsome and a bit “boyish” layouts that we love so much. ♥ Her work is a mixture of romantic shabby chic and a bit of a steampunk, masculine touch. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Mary-CattMaryfrom Greece

Mary creates the most amazing vintage styled, mixed media layouts with a touch of shabby chic. ♥ Even if she mainly does layouts, you can also see her create wonderful cards, tags and beautiful altered items. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Nancy-DynesNancy-signfrom USA

Nancy keeps on inspiring us with the most fantastic, layered, well worked cards and you can recognize her work as vintage/elegant, incorporating dimension and attention to detail. ♥ She loves the feminine and romantic style. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Pascale-BernardPascale-signSfrom France

Pascale uses her own, absolutely wonderful, photos in her work and she always goes from the colour in it, to create her absolutely amazing soft tone-in-tone layouts. ♥ Her style is at the same time or in turn vintage, shabby, steampunk, and mixed media.  You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Paulina-Monastreska-Tronina-Padoriaa1from Poland

Paulina, aka Padoriaa, uses mixed media and a lot of layers, laces and chipboards when she creates her totaly amazing cards, tags and altered items. ♥ Her style is unique and wide and goes from romantic to masculine. There are always lots of well worked details in all her projects. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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Tina-OllettTina-Ssignfrom Australia

Tina makes the most stunning layouts using lots of flowers, layers and dimensions. ♥ She is mainly a scrapbooker but occasionally we can see her create some beautiful off the page projects.  Her vintage-/ shabby chic style is mostly feminine, soft and romantic. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

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A huge welcome to all our new, and “old” designers! ♥

This year is going to be totally awesome with all this incredible talent onboard. I’m so excited..!
I’ll see you around!

Have a great New Years Eve sweeties!

Camilla

Winner of December’s mood board

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

25 December, 2017 -

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Hi and warm welcome to the blog today..!

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas Eve yesterday, with your beloved ones.
It’s time to pick a winner for the last mood board challenge this year..!
And I must say – you just keep outdo yourself – every single month..! This time I was totally amazed by your wonderful creations. ♥ Thank you, thank you, thank you – for making my day..! ♥

A little reminder of the mood board:

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And let me present all the fantastic entries;

Anna Fraone, Italia

Anna Fraone, Italia

Daria Burmistrova, Russia

Daria Burmistrova, Russia

Faiza Boucham, France

Faiza Boucham, France

Jacqueline vd Boor Netherlands

Jacqueline vd Boor Netherlands

Jacqueline vd Boor Netherlands 5

Jacqueline vd Boor, Netherlands

Jacqueline vd Boor, Netherlands

Jacqueline vd Boor, Netherlands

Karita Vainio - Finland

Karita Vainio – Finland

Kristina Roest, Norway

Kristina Roest, Norway

Kristina Røst, Norway

Kristina Røst, Norway

Kristina Røst, Norway2

Kristina Røst, Norway

Larisa Makeeva, Russia

Larisa Makeeva, Russia

Malin Jacobson, Sweden

Malin Jacobson, Sweden

Marjut Laine - Finland

Marjut Laine – Finland

Marjut Laine, Finland

Marjut Laine – Finland

Natalie Grantham, United Kingdom

Natalie Grantham, United Kingdom

Olesya Erankevich, Russia

Olesya Erankevich, Russia

Patrice Imbert, France

Patrice Imbert, France

Pernilla Rosenlund, Sweden

Pernilla Rosenlund, Sweden

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Randi Thorsen Norway

Randi Thorsen, Norway

Sanne Hein Nielsen, Denmark

Sanne Hein Nielsen, Denmark

Tetiana Arkhipova, Ukraine

Tetiana Arkhipova, Ukraine

Tineke van der Linden, the Netherlands

Tineke van der Linden, the Netherlands

Libeeti Frenkel - Israel

Libeeti Frenkel – Israel

 

A huge applause for all of you..! I would really like to pick you all as winners, but I’m not allowed to, unfortunately.. 😉
The winner is…

 

 

 

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Patrice Imbert from France..!

Patrice Imbert, France

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Your entry is absolutely amazing..! We totally love it. Thank you for sending it to us. A whole collection of your choice is on the way over to you. ♥

Thanks for today, I’ll see you soon.

Hugs!

Camilla

Mood Board December

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

4 December, 2017 -

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Hello dear Maja-fans,
Welcome to another exciting challange on the blog.

Today the Swedish west coast has offered us some really great weather. Clear blue sky, lots of sun and sparkling frost, just wonderful!
All inspired by that we’ve made you a winterly Mood board…

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This is how we use the mood boards:

Definition mood board – n

[a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other]

We are using mood boards for our challenges. We truly believe in creativity and art at Maja Design. You are free to interpret the mood boards in any way you’d like. They are supposed to set you in an inspirational mood without too much controlling. We would like you to be inspired by the poems, words and photos. They are not given rules, they are just there as inspiration. However – we highly recommend you to follow the theme.. Feel free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme.

We will pick a winner and present it here on the blog December 25th.

Have in mind that these challenges are a really great way for us to discover new talents and maybe some future Creative Team members…

How to participate?

♥ Create anything you’ll like – a layout, a card, something altered or maybe a canvas. Use Maja papers primarily! Take a nice picture of it and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu. We also need to know your full name, address and a phone number. Please specify what collection you would like to win, if you are the lucky one. We will also want to know if you would like it in the size 12*12 or 6*6. Please send us the pictures in the size of 800 pixels on the width. We would be so grateful if you also could change the file name of the photo to your first and last name including your country.

♥ Feel free to send us more than one picture, from different angles or some close-ups – or why not more than one project?

♥ Publish the project/s on your blog (or/and any social media, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) with a link to our site. Please also add the image of the mood board.

♥ Feel free to combine your entry with other challenges.

♥ The winner will be revealed the last Monday each month, at the Maja blog. The winner will be sent one collection by their choice, and also a digital Winner’s Badge to use and brag with.

We need your creation by December 21st at the latest.

We would love to see your Winter-wonder-creations, so please feel free to play along.
Thank you & Good luck!

 

For inspiration this time we offer you a few of our favourites from the archives, please enjoy;

 

Andrea Ewen:

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Heather Jacobs:

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Ingrid Goyer:
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Jenny Grotherus:
Jenny Grotherus

Rachelle Sigurdson:
Rachelle Sigurdson Rachelle Sigurdson2

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Camilla

Let us announce the winner of November’s mood board challenge

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

27 November, 2017 -

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Hi there..!

Thanks for stopping by the Maja blog today.
Christmas is closing in, and all the preparations has started, at least if I talk about myself. 😉 It’s really a lovely time a year, all though the Swedish winter weather is kind of schizophrenic at this point *LOL*. The other day it was a complete winter wonderland outside and now the snow is totally gone and the birds are singing again. I wish for the snow to arrive by Christmas again, meanwhile, I’m enjoying all the fantastic Christmas inspiration on the Maja blog and all the amazing entries we have received this month. ♥ I want to share them all with you today. Enjoy..!

A little reminder of the mood board;

MB-November-17

And this is all the amazing entries;

Boucham Faiza, France

Boucham Faiza, France

Camilla Hermansson, Sweden

Camilla Hermansson, Sweden

Debbie Dolphin, United Kingdom

Debbie Dolphin, United Kingdom

Diana Adamski, Germany

Diana Adamski, Germany

Doris therssen Belgium

Doris Therssen, Belgium

Jorunn Elin Rasmussen, Norway

Jorunn Elin Rasmussen, Norway

Lenet Mos, The Netherlands

Lenet Mos, The Netherlands

Marieke Slaats, The Netherlands

Marieke Slaats, The Netherlands

Marjut Laine, Finland

Marjut Laine, Finland

Maya Stenshagen, Norway

Maya Stenshagen, Norway

Melina Dahl, Sweden (1)

Melina Dahl, Sweden

Olesya Erankevich, Russia

Olesya Erankevich, Russia

Randi Thorsen - Norway

Randi Thorsen – Norway

Randi Thorsen, Norway

Randi Thorsen, Norway

Romy Veul, Netherlands

Romy Veul, Netherlands

Sanne Hein Nielsen, Denmark

Sanne Hein Nielsen, Denmark

Sarah Routledge, Canada

Sarah Routledge, Canada

Sofi Söderlund - Sverige

Sofi Söderlund – Sverige

Susan Tolley, United Kingdom

Susan Tolley, United Kingdom

Svetlana Moiseeva, Russia

Svetlana Moiseeva, Russia

Verezhnikova Elena Konstantinovna, Russia

Verezhnikova Elena Konstantinovna, Russia

 

And the winner is…

 

 

 

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Romy Veul from the Netherlands..!

Romy Veul, Netherlands

We totally love your beautiful tag and your wonderful interpretation of the mood board..! ♥
A whole collection of your choice is sent home to you, Romy.

Also, a huge thanks to all the participants this month..! You are so talented and it’s truly a pleasure to receive all these amazing entries. Thank you. ♥

See you next week!

Camilla

 

November’s mood board challenge

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

6 November, 2017 -

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Hi & welcome to the blog today!

Here in the south of Sweden it’s starting to get chilly outside – so the quilted, warm jacket has been brought out from the wardrobe to help me keep warm these days. But I totally love it..! It’s time for coziness! The cold outside, the darkness – in a lovely contrast of the warmth inside, lighted candles and cozy blankets in the sofa. It sets me in the right, comfy mood and I’m starting to get prepared for Christmas and winter..! Have you started with your Christmas cards yet..?

Let us get inspired by a brand new mood board;

MB-November-17

This is how we use the mood boards:

Definition mood board – n

[a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other]

We are using mood boards for our challenges. We truly believe in creativity and art at Maja Design. You are free to interpret the mood boards in any way you’d like. They are supposed to set you in an inspirational mood without too much controlling. We would like you to be inspired by the poems, words and photos. They are not given rules, they are just there as inspiration. However – we highly recommend you to follow the theme.. Feel free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme.

We will pick a winner and present it here on the blog November 27th.

Have in mind that these challenges are a really great way for us to discover new talents and maybe some future Creative Team members…

How to participate?

♥ Create anything you’ll like – a layout, a card, something altered or maybe a canvas. Use Maja papers primarily! Take a nice picture of it and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu. We also need to know your full name, address and a phone number. Please specify what collection you would like to win, if you are the lucky one. We will also want to know if you would like it in the size 12*12 or 6*6. Please send us the pictures in the size of 800 pixels on the width. We would be so grateful if you also could change the file name of the photo to your first and last name including your country.

♥ Feel free to send us more than one picture, from different angles or some close-ups – or why not more than one project?

♥ Publish the project/s on your blog (or/and any social media, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) with a link to our site. Please also add the image of the mood board.

♥ Feel free to combine your entry with other challenges.

♥ The winner will be revealed the last Monday each month, at the Maja blog. The winner will be sent one collection by their choice, and also a digital Winner’s Badge to use and brag with.

We need your creation by November 23rd at the latest.

Thank you & Good luck!

And here comes some fantastic inspiration from our incredible team:

Amy Voorthuis

Amy Voorthuis

Kerstin-Inga Peters

Kerstin-Inga Peters

Jennifer Snyder

Jennifer Snyder

Amy

Amy Voorthuis

Camilla S Bakke

Camilla S Bakke

Elena Olinevich_1

Elena Olinevich

Maja Nowak

Maja Nowak

 

Looking forward to see your wonderful creations..!

Camilla