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Mixed media card

4 March, 2015 - A Gift for You, Cards

Good morning Maja friends! It’s Heidi blogging a mixed media card today. I have actually used Christmas paper for this card, but together with turquoise and white embellishments it makes a great birthday card.

I have added white and turquoise acrylic paint to the papers and I have drawn around the edges with white and black gel pens.

The chipboard I have painted white and I have added some turquoise glitter glue on the small flowers and the bling swirl.

The text is rub-on from Staz.

Supplies Maja Design: A gift for you – “Wrapped in old newspaper”

Wish you all a beautiful spring day!

A christmas photo

Posted by Evgenia Petzer

17 February, 2015 - A Gift for You, Layouts, Vintage Frost Basics

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Hello dear friends! Its Evgenia Petzer with you today. Although its almost spring on a calendar, I still have some temptation to play with my christmas photos. So this time I have prepared the layout with the photo of me and my kids around this year’s christmas time.

Lets have a look and then I will tell you more details about my layout.

As you can see I have started my layout by appling the mask and using the golden gel medium over it and then sprayed with some mists (I have used both prima and Shimmerz on here). I laso have added lots of Dusty attic chipboard and thir paint on top of it.

Then I draw a heart on a pink sheet (5th of December) and fussy cut it and used it as one of my layers under my photos and embellishments.

Though the papers are much more delictae, muted colors, I still decided to keep my photo in color and then just to add some splashes of those colors in my layout by tiny bits here and there. Sequins are very popular now and I alos love this new trend, so to maintain lots of blue colro that my photo has, I have used some of teh sequins on my layout, as well as lots of bids. I apply those little things on glossy acent by Ranger.

Have a lovely, sunny day in your part of the world. I really hope I have inspired you a bit to take your winter/christmas photos out.

Maja Design papers used:

Die cut sheet, On Christmas morning (those two sheets are from a Gift for you collection) and 5th of December from Vintage Frost Basics collection.

Filled With Love

Posted by Maja Nowak

9 February, 2015 - A Gift for You, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Frost Basics

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Hello, Maja Fans!

It’s Maja Nowak here to share a love-filled layout 🙂

I guess we’re all thinking St.Valentine’s now 😉 Love has many names, and one of them is a mother’s love towards her children – and vice versa. I’m lucky enough to receive much love from my sons every day – they are not ashamed (yet!!) to express their affection towards parents 🙂 And here’s a layout that shows my younger one “Mommy, I’m looking at you with love” 😉

I decided upon a deep pink-grey-white colour combo – pink for the boys too! But my son decided it was not “very girly pink” and so I could use it 🙂 I used the latest collection, Nyhavn, with accents from the previous wintery papers, A Gift For You and Vintage Frost Basics. I layered sheets of paper and stamped the top paper before arranging embellishments:

I made the heart the main design motif, die-cutiing and punching several hearts. I took three largest ones, matted them with papers and machine-sewed. Then I added some choeesecloth underneath:

Then I added some flowers and other embellishments, including the vintage shabby ribbon bow:

For the title, I used a chipboard word that I covered with crackle Distress paint and inked:

And how about you? Do you use pink tones for your boys’ pages? 🙂

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: Nyhavn: Romantic lunch-bs, Veteran ships-bs, King’s square-bs, Strolling along the canal, A Gift For You: Hope to see you soon, Vintage Frost Basics: 4th of December. Other: stamp: Prima; flowers: Prima, Rapakivi; resin elements: Prima, Melissa Frances; chipboard: SnipArt; punches: Woodware; die: Cheery Lynn Designs; metal charms: my stash.

Lots of love!

February Mood Board

Posted by Jenny Grotherus

7 February, 2015 - A Gift for You, Crea Diem, Mood boards, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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February is here with it’s crystal snow and cold winter nights. What could possibly be better then crawling up with your loved one and celebrate Valentine’s Day?

Our February Mood Board has a love theme and is based on our latest Nyhavn collection. Moodboard-February15

And here’s a little reminder of what our mood boards are used for…

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 truely 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. They are all inspired by a Maja collection, but you are free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme. We highly encourage you to follow the theme of the mood board as well.

We are presenting a new mood board the first Saturday of every month. We will be presenting all participating creations that fulfill the requirements below February 28th. We will also draw a winner who will be winning a Maja Design collection of their own choice in 6×6 or 12×12.

After your creation is done, take a photo and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu without any watermarks (size 600×600). Include your full name and address in the e-mail together with what collection you would like if you win. Don’t forget to write down if you would like 6×6 or 12×12. We need your creation February 25th at the latest.

We will only publish creations that fullfill the requirements!

And here comes inspiration created by our new fabulous Creative Team… Evgenia Petzer HeidiAugustson Heidi Augustson JennyGrotherus JennyGrotherus2 Jenny Grotherus
Maja Nowak
Rachelle Sigurdson ZanetaGlowa Zaneta Glowa Jenny

Love is in the Air

Posted by Heidi Augustson

4 February, 2015 - A Gift for You, Cards

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Good morning Maja friends! Today it’s me Heidi blogging a Valentine card made of a paperbag.

The paper bag I have used is rather large and it’s intended to use to garbage. I have painted it with white Gesso and the script is made by a stencil and black painting.