I always love watching those mixed media video’s where you can watch the process. I find them fun, inspiring and informative. I love to see the little steps it takes to put a project together. So today I thought I would share a video tutorial with you all in how I made the above, Vintage Dress canvas using the beautiful papers from the Ska vi ta en Fika? collection.
Grab yourself a nice cup of coffee (keep the pot nearby, this is a fairly long one), maybe a little pastry in keeping with the theme of the paper collection, an enjoy!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and hope that you’ll feel inspired to try a canvas using these pretty papers. Here are a few close-ups of the canvas that you can leisurely view, as well as a supplies list of products used.
Supplies: Patterned Paper: Maja Design ‘Ska vi ta en Fika? (Blommer pa Bordet, Soders Hojder-bs, En Kopp te, Sockerkaka-bs), Chipboard: Dusty Attic Designs (Ornate Corner Flourish, Chicken Wire Panel, Monarch Butterflies), Rub-on: Daisy D’s, Stamp: Autumn Leaves, Other: Kitchen twine, bulk roses, seed beads, acrylic paint, lace, pearl strand, brown chalk ink (Ranger), brown pen, 8×10 canvas.
I just loved the soft and feminine look of the February Mood board and just had to create a layout using inspiration from this board! If you haven’t seen it yet here is a peek at it, aren’t the photos from Ivana’s wedding so beautiful?
In keeping with the soft pretty pinks and delicate florals of the mood board, I chose papers from the gorgeous Vintage Summer collection. I wanted to keep it light and feminine so I used a make-up sponge to apply a soft layer of dusty rose ink to the page (Tim Holtz, Victorian Velvet) and then layered on an old lacey rub-on I had left over from my days on the Daisy D’s design team.
When I create a page using the Mood board, I like to take words from it and incorporate it onto the page. Things like ‘Lace’ (in the rub-on), ‘Pearls’ (A couple of strands draping down from the embellishments), ‘Shimmer’ (Sparkly Stickles in the chipboard flower petals), ‘Shades of Misty Rose’ (in the inked background)…..it’s amazing how these words can inspire fun techniques on a page if you just let your imagination go!
I created a little video clip to show how I pull back the paper edges to make a little peek-a-boo design in the layout. It’s a technique I really like to use and I’m often asked how I do it. Although it’s simple, I’ve been asked a number of times if I would demonstrate it in a video.
Supplies used on this page: Patterned Paper – Maja Design ‘Vintage Summer Basics’ (1908-bs, 1925, 1921), and paper from the Vintage Summer 6×6 paper pad. Chipboard: Dusty Attic Designs, Rub-on’s – Daisy D’s, Flowers – Prima and no-name brand roses, Inks – Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Colorbox.
Before I close off for today I thought I would share a little project I made for my Dusty Attic Design Team this week. I used the warm and lovely papers in the Walking in the Forest collection for this one.
The photo is another I got from my nephew of one of his little girls. I love the cute faux fur outfit she’s wearing with the sweet braids in her hair. I wanted to go with a naturalistic look for the page so I went with a Dreamcatcher chipboard from Dusty Attic and I thought the warm Autumn colors in the Walking in the Forest Collection got me the look I was going for. I give loads of tips and a step by step at my blog on how I prepped the background papers before applying my photo and embellishments at my blog HERE, if you’d like to take a peek. SUPPLIES: Patterned Paper: Walking In the Forest (Cosy Scarf, Die Cut Letters-bs, The Orchestra of Nature), Chipboard: Dusty Attic (Dream Catcher #1, Postage Stamps), Flowers: Prima (Blue Hydrangeas), Rub-ons: Daisy D’s, My Minds Eye, Other: Paint, feathers, lace.
If you would like to give this beautiful Mood Board challenge a go (and have a chance at a fabulous Maja Design collection prize!), you can find the challenge information HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by the Maja Design blog today, we love to hear what you think of our products and designs! xo
I have to admit, when I first received my package of beautiful Maja Design papers one of the first collections to capture my attention where these gorgeous papers from the Ska vi ta en Fika collection! I love the color purple but I tend to only like to scrap this color in the more muted shades like dusty plums and this collection has the exact shades I love! And combine it with gentle earth tones and I’m in heaven! Then after hearing the story behind the papers, well, it just made scrapping with them so much more enjoyable! (You can find the story in Jenny Grotherus’s post from a couple weeks back)
As always the hardest part about working with these beautiful papers is making that first cut!! I always feel like purples/plums and greens make me think of fairytales and in keeping with this idea I wanted the page to have a playful lush look to it. One of the central designs of the page is the heart embellishments I made to decorate it.
I cut out 3 hearts from the patterned papers and inked the edges with some plum chalk ink and highlighted them with a dash of drybrushing with white acrylic paint. Then to make the hearts really stand out from the background I did some random doodling around the edges with a fine point brown pen (Martha Stewart Sepia writing pen).
I finished off the page by adding some floral accents and some of my favourite chipboard pieces from Dusty Attic. Tucking in bits and pieces of lace is just one of those things that just work so well with these lovely vintage papers. Here is a supply list of the Maja Design papers I use on this page.
Supplies: Ska vi ta en Fika (Soders Hojder-bs, Chaite, Chaite-bs, Blommor pa Blordet, Favoriter-bs)
If you haven’t dug into these papers yet, you are in for a treat! Happy Scrapping!! xo
Hi Everyone! It’s me Gabrielle here to share another fun little project with you all! A little while back my nephew Jared sent me a bunch of photos of my sweet great-nieces Jade & Kiera, among the photos was this adorable pic of the two of them playing in some fall leaves. As soon as I saw the gorgeous collection “Walking in the Forest” from Maja Designs, I knew I’d found the exact papers I’d been looking for to scrap this photo!
I love the deep rich and warm colors in this collection, accented with the pretty cornflower blue. Have you ever taken a paper collection pack and fanned out the papers and thought, ‘ohhh, I just want to scrap them all together’? That’s how I felt about this page. The papers all look so pretty lined up beside one another. Well, I obviously couldn’t scrap with all of them so I finally had to narrow them down to a few of my favourites (no easy task! ha!). Because my background paper had the hints of blue in it, I thought it would be cool to rip little sections out of it and have the dark blue denim color paper (aptly named Jeans) peeking out from behind it. I didn’t want to cut up a whole sheet of 12×12 paper for this so I simply took the blue paper from the 6×6 paper pack and snipped off some of the edges and tucked them behind the rips. Here are a few close-up details of the page…
There is a cute little sheet in the 6×6 paper pad that has these adorable little stamp designs with birds and butterflies on it, cutting these out is a quick and easy way to add an embellishment to your page. The soft denim color of the blue paper put me in mind of fabric so I couldn’t resist doing this zipper peek at the top of the page. I often cut the zippers out of old pairs of jeans for my scrap pages but in this case I used a fun new chipboard piece from Dusty Attic to create the zipper opening.
I wanted to stay in keeping with the autumn/forest look of the page so I embellished with with chipboard grasses and wild flowers and framed the photo with a filigree/vine frame. I also wanted to use natural accents like bird feathers, twine and burlap to decorate the page with.
Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Maja Designs, Walk In the Forest (Autumn in the Air, Flannel Shirt, Fresh Air, Fresh Air backside, Jeans), Plus Walk In the Forest 6×6 paper pad (Die Cut Sheet)
Chipboard: Dusty Attic Designs
Flowers: Bo Bunny, Prima
Nest/eggs: Recollections
Thanks for stopping by the Maja blog today,I hope you enjoyed my little stroll through the Autumn Forest! And come back often as there is daily inspiration to be had from all of our talented design team gals, as well as our guests! I know I’ve come away so inspired!
Hi Everyone! Gabrielle here today, I’m so very excited to share with you a project that I made with one of my favourite Maja collections“Vintage Summer Basics”. I’m just crazy about the softly distressed designs and muted tones in this collection, and the sweet mini-florals put me in mind of a little girls ruffle dress! So I thought I would play with paper ruffles to decorate this layout that I made of my little great-niece Kiera.
To make the ruffles I chose 3 of the Vintage Summer patterned papers in shades starting from light to medium to dark and cut 2 x 12″ strips of each (the strips were about 1.25″ thick). I then glued together each of the pairs of strips to make 3 x 24″ strips. TIP: I like to tear the two edges that I’m gluing together rather than attaching two cut edges, it helps give a more seamless look.
I then took each of the strips and lightly spritzed them with water and then began taking one edge and gathering them with my fingers. Be careful not to gather too deeply into the ruffle, you want the other edge to have a nice curvey edge. I then let the gathered paper dry thoroughly. Then I took some good strong two-sided sticky tape, opened out my ruffle again so it’s flat and ran the sticky tape along the backside of the pleated edge. Now bring the ruffle back together, the tape will hold the ruffle together and will also create the adhesive to attach your ruffle to the page. Layer your ruffles from light to dark for a pretty effect. Here are a few close-up pic’s of my page…
Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Maja, Vintage Summer Basics (1908-bs, 1911, 1920, 1922-bs), Chipboard: Dusty Attic Designs, Flowers: Jolee Boutique, Prima, Dusty Attic and Recollections (nest/eggs). Other: lace trim, kitchen twine, pearl strand all off the roll from local fabric store, adhesive: Tombo 2 sided sticky tape strip.
I hope you give paper ruffles a try! The Maja papers are of such a high quality, thick and strong so they can take plenty of paper manipulating. The ruffle technique works beautifully on cards as well!
