Choose To Shine

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Posted by Lenet Mos

12 December, 2019 - ,

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Hello Maja Fans

Lenet here and today I have this layout for you .

For this layout I used the wonderful new collection Little street Cafe and the monochromes Shades of cafe.

I love this collection because it brings some color into these gray and rainy days .

I think we all are very busy with all the preparations we have to do with all the festivities this December month brings especially Christmas.

I love Christmas and am one of the people that starts thinking about it in the summer when I enjoy the sun outside in my garden .

But to take a break of  all the Christmas that is going on right now , I thought I make something for you that has nothing to do with Christmas at all.

I felt for flowers and color so I came up with this layout.

The flowers I used are from Prima Marketing and Wild orchid.  The swirl-leaf chipboards  from Creative embellishments and colored with Tim Holtz distress powders Tea dye and Peeled paint.

The bling stones are Amethyst Squares sheen Gemstones from Nuvo and the sentiments from the small talks booklet from Tim Holtz.

The cheesecloth on the back of the picture is colored with SweetClover glimmermist from Tattered Angels.

I hope you like what I made for you , thank you for visiting  and make shure you come back for more wonderful inspiration made by the other Maja Girls.

 

 

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Christmas Baubles

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Posted by Maja Nowak

10 December, 2019 -

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Good morning, dear Maja Fans, welcome to the blog today 🙂

If you still celebrate the sadly vanishing tradition of sending Christmas cards, I guess it’s time to start to send them 🙂 And if you’re looking for some inspiration, let me share some shaped cards today:

I used the latest release, the Holiday In The Alps collection. It contains several papers in darkest colours of the set and featuring beautiful damask patterns. Here I took the navy blue paper, applied a white stencil pattern upon it – just look at the gorgeous contrast! – and added embellishments:

The flower cluster includes foamiran poinsettias I made myself 🙂 I also added a die-cut manger scene:

 

There’s also a brown damask paper in the set:

I paired it with the burgundy paper and added some colour-matchign embellishments, with art clay angels made with a mold:

 

And, last but not least, the burgundy version of the same pattern:

Here I applied a snowflake pattern upon the paper and added a chipboard quotation from a Polish Christmas song. Then I added my embellishments, including a large Prima poinsettia, my handmade foamiran poinsettia and some twigs and leaves die cut from glitter cardstocks.

And here’s the whole set:

 

I really like how they turned out, glimmering and festively rich 🙂 What do you think?

Here’s my list of supplies:

Maja Design papers:

Other: stencils: Agateria, Heidi Swapp; flowers: Prima, handmade; dies: Marianne Design, Magnolia, Craft&You Design, Tim Holtz/Sizzix; chipboard: Scrapiniec; crystals, ribbon, mold: my stash.

 

That is all for today, thank you for visiting and see you later!

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It’s A Vintage Christmas – Cards Using Ephemera

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Posted by Jennifer Snyder

9 December, 2019 -

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 Hello.  Jennifer Snyder here to share  some Christmas cards made using the Maja Design ” Holiday In the Alps” paper collection.  This is the new heart warming vintage holiday collection from Maja Design.
The vintage images are enchanting and the rich colors add such an elegant touch.
Below is an image of the ephemera sheet from the collection used on the first card.
The sheet is called ” Winter Ephemera”.
I also used ” Love to Ski” and “Decorate the Lodge”.
I made two cards for today’s post.  The first card features the small ephemera border images.  The are embellished using Spellbinders border dies.
Here is the second card, accented with chipboard from Creative Embellishments along with more of the Spellbinders border die.
  Thank you for stopping here.  Happy crafting.
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Christmas Box

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Posted by Camilla Støen Bakke

8 December, 2019 -

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Hi everyone! Here I am with a late post using the gorgeous new papers from Maja Design’s latest Christmas Collection, Holiday in the Alps.

But for the leaves I have used some Monochromes from the collection Shades of Christmas, since there was no green colours in the new collection.

I have handpainted the image with Distress Ink, re-inkers and Markers.

Under you get a closer look of some of the details.

I have added some white paint called White Gesso here and there all over the box. Maybe this box will be under someones three this Christmas?

Thank you so much for visiting the Maja Design blog today!

With love,

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Interactive christmas card

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Posted by Kerstin-Inga Peters

6 December, 2019 - , , , ,

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Welcome dear Maja friends!

–  Maja Design meets Tim Holtz –

 

I was inspired to create a Pop – Up season card in vintage style.

I love it to use the amazing cutting dies from Sizzix

with the very good qualitiy papers from Maja Design.

 Always a perfect combination with Distress inks as well.

 

 Tutorial Interactive card

 

 choose a paper and cut it in 300 x 150 mm

 

fold the mountain and valley folds according to the given measurements

(Score lines)

two cut lines

here can you see the mountain and valley folds

ready :-)!!

…and now comes the best part

Let your imagination run free

and create a card  according to your own ideas.

 

some close up’s

I used some amazing papers from the latest Christmas/ Winter collection Holidays in the Alps

and from the older, but wonderful as well ‘I wish’ collection

Winter Ephemera

Winter Ephemera

Deers

Deers

 I-wish-P

I wish for frosty mornings

 

Many thanks for your visit!

I wish you a beautiful advent season!

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