Romy Veul : MajaDesign

Sweet Fall Tag

21 October, 2013 - Tags, Walking in the Forest

Hi Maja fans! I hope you have had a wonderful weekend. Since fall has really arrived in my country, I was in the mood to create a tag with an autumn feel to it. This time I used the gorgeous “Walking in the Forest” papers to make a tag with a warm colour palette of orange, green and cream.

For my background I used four different sheets of paper: ‘Fresh Air-bs’, ‘Knitted sweater’, ‘When leaves are…bs-‘ and ‘Die cut sheet’. I also made a doily from the ‘Die cut sheet’ with a Cheery Lynn die. The floral wreath was made with a die as well and is made of the gorgoeus ‘Knitted sweater’ paper.

Of course I just had to cut out a few butterflies and add them to my tag as well. The large butterfly was cut out from the “Die Cut Sheet”, whereas the tiny butterflies were cut out from one of the border strips from the papers.

Supplies:

Maja Design: patterned papers (Walking in the Forest collection: ‘Die Cut Sheet’, ‘When leaves are falling-bs’, ‘Knitted Sweater’, ‘Fresh Air-bs’); Prima Marketing: resin birdhouse, clock face; Tim Holtz: tag die, distress ink; Cheery Lynn: doily die; Memory Box: floral wreath die; Joy! Crafts: clouds dies; Other: seam binding.

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a wonderful week!

Vintage Autumn Basics lay-out & card

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7 October, 2013 - Cards, Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics

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Maja Design never ceases to amaze me with their gorgeous papers, but the “Vintage Autumn Basics” collection really knocks it out off the park in my opinion. I just love everything about this collection: the romantic colours, the timeless designs and, most of all, the fact that this collection has both a masculine and a feminine side. Today I will show you a lay-out and a card that I made with this beautiful collection. For my lay-out I focused on the masculine papers, whereas I choose the more romantic and feminine papers for my card.

My brothers really don’t like it to get their photo taken, but sometimes I succeed in sneakily taking one. I just loved how this photo of the two of them turned out and couldn’t resist scrapping it with these blue and boyish papers.

Supplies: Maja Design: patterned papers (Vintage Autumn Basics: No. XI, No. XIII, No. XIV-bs, No. XVI, No. XVII, No. XVIII-bs, No. XIX, No. XIII-bs, Heritage); Prima Marketing: Resin Birds, Small Typo Bulbs, Junkyard Findings Trinkets; Bo Bunny: doily; Rayher: pearls; Martha Stewart: border punch Cherish; EK Success: border punch; Tim Holtz: Distress Ink ‘Walnut Stain’; Other: twine.

I did quite a lot of fussy cutting on this lay-out. I usually like to embellish my lay-outs with flowers and seam binding, but decided to use fussy cuts instead of them on this lay-out. The clocks are cut out from the No. XVI sheet, the hot-air balloons are cut out from the No. XIII sheet and the title is cut out from the background sheet: ‘No XIX’. I attached the clocks and hot-air balloons with foamtape, so they would stand out a bit more.

I also have a card to share that I made with the more feminine papers from this collection. My boyfriend and I got to celebrate our very first ‘anniversary’ last week. We have been together for only one month and although this is nothing compared to a 30th wedding anniversary or so, I couldn’t resist making him a card to celebrate this. The romantic papers from the ‘Vintage Autumn Basics’ papers were simply perfect for making a card with a love theme to it.

Supplies: Maja Design: patterned papers (Vintage Autumn Basics: No III-bs, No. V, No. X, No. XVI, No. XVIII-bs); Prima Marketing: resin heart, alphabet stickers; Tim Holtz: Postage Stamp frame die, distress ink ‘Walnut Stain’; Spellbinders: Lacey Circles dies, Scalloped Heart dies; Martha Stewart: Doily Lace border punch; Queen & Co: pearls.

Thank you for your visit to the Maja Design blog today! I hope you enjoyed my post.

An Elegant & Feminine “Fika” Lay-out

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23 September, 2013 - Layouts, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?

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“Ska Vi Ta En Fika”…it’s such a gorgeous collection! I have a crush on purple, so I just love to focus on the purple papers that are part of this collection. Since I am not a big fan of coffee (“fika”) I decided to use the “Fika” collection in a slightly different way. Thus, I made this feminine and elegant lay-out with it.

I titled my lay-out ‘In de wolken’, which is a Dutch saying that is similar to the English expression ‘On cloud 9’. Just before this photo was taken, I got my hair treated with a curling iron. Since I was a little child, I always wished to wake up with curls some day, so I was really excited to have curls in my hair – even though it was only for one day.

As you can see, the warm colours in the “Fika” papers are just perfect for scrapping sepia toned photos. The possibilities with this collection are endless!

The basis of my lay-out was made with two gingham papers from the “Fika” collection. I then cut out two squares from cream papers and punched along their edges. I layered the squares on top of the gingham papers. Then, I started doing some of my typical layering with doilies, papers and a cut out grid pattern from the “Hybakat” paper. In the end I also added some embellishments, clouds and a title to finish off my lay-out. Supplies:

Maja Design: patterned papers (“Fika” collection: Blommor pa bordet, Sockerkaka-bs, Mandelkaka-bs, Hemgjord Saft, Nybakat, Hemma hos mig, Björnbaskakor, Favoriter); Pink Paislee: burlap flowers, chipboard hearts; Prima Marketing: wood clock, resin bird; Bo Bunny: doilies; Joy! Crafts: clouds dies, butterfly border die; Martha Stewart: border punches; Tim Holtz: distress ink, distress tool, alphabet dies.

Thank you for your visit to the Maja Design blog today! Have a wonderful week!

Prima Ballerina tag

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9 September, 2013 - Tags, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Since I have eight little nieces, I am always running out of pink cards and tags. But fortunately, Maja Design offers some of the most gorgeous pink papers I know, so I have the perfect papers to work with. I decided to create this tag in ‘Prima Ballerina’ style with some of my favourite pink Maja Design papers.

The papers I used are from the ‘Vintage Spring Basics’ and ‘Vintage Summer Basics’ collections. I did lots of layering and all layers of paper were inked with distress ink. Besides, I did some die-cutting to create some pretty paper elements. The gorgeous butterflies were cut out from the Vintage Spring Basics ‘6th of May’ sheet. The butterflies on this sheet of paper are so beautiful! I can hardly believe that Marie has all drawn them by herself.

Also, I used a small chipboard heart and a resin ballerina to achieve a sweet and feminine look. Supplies: Patterned papers: Maja Design (‘Vintage Spring Basics‘ collection: 6th of May, 4th of May, 1st of April; ‘Vintage Summer Basics’ collection: 1933-bs, 1908-bs, 1891); Prima Marketing: resin ballerina; Panduro Hobby: pearls; Tim Holtz: tag die; Memory Box: oval frame die; My Favourite Things: doily die; Spellbinders: lacey cirle die; Cheery Lynn: doily die; Other: seam binding.

Thanks a lot for stopping by on the Maja blog today! Have a wonderful day!

Travel with ‘Life by the Sea’

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26 August, 2013 - Layouts, Life by the Sea

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Hi Maja fans and happy Monday!

Unfortunately the summer vacation has already come or is soon coming to an end for most of us. After 3,5 months of vacation (I know, I’m lucky!) I will have to go back to University in just one week. But the good news is that as a scrapbooker you can bring your memories of a wonderful summer vacation back to life again by scrapbooking the photos that you took this summer. I decided to scrap a photo of my dad that was taken during our trip to Berlin. The gorgeous ‘Life by the sea‘ papers were just perfect for making a summery and masculine lay-out.

I wanted to make my lay-out look very masculine and wanted to not use any flowers or swirls on it. My lay-out mainly consists of lots of layers of paper. I mixed and matched papers from the ‘Life by the Sea’ collection in different colours and with different patterns. The edges of all papers were first inked and then distressed.

Of course I also couldn’t resist cutting out one of the grid patterns. The blue grid pattern behind the photo was cut out from one of the ‘Life by the Country’ papers. This sheet is called “Boat at the Bridge-bs”.

I used only a few embellishments on my lay-out. Besides the gorgeous Maja Design papers, I used Prima resin birds, tiny gears, thickers, two tickets, three labels and a metal clock. I tucked in some cheese clothing to add some more texture to my lay-out as well. Supplies:

Maja Design: patterned papers (“Life by the Sea“: Navigate-bs, Landmark-bs, Nautic, Sailing, the East-Coast-bs, Marina Hovering, Morning Swim; “Life in the Country“: Boat at the bridge-bs); Prima Marketing: resin birds, clock face, tiny gears, distress tool; American Crafts: thickers: Tim Holtz: adage tickets, distress ink ‘Walnut Stain’; Spellbinders: Lacey Circles dies; Joy Crafts: tag dies; Martha Stewart: punches.

Thank you for your visit to the Maja blog today! I hope I was able to inspire you and that you will also take your “Life by the Sea” papers to scrapbook some of your favourite summer snapshots.