A Gift for You : MajaDesign

Kitchen Set

26 January, 2015 - A Gift for You, Altered Items, Nyhavn

Hello Maja Fans, welcome to the blog today 🙂

It seems the less time I spend in the kitchen actually cooking, the more kitchen-themed projects I make – perhaps that’s some kind of compensation 🙂 And so today I have a recipe book I made using A Gift For You collection:

I’ve always associated red with kitchen, and I think that paired with grey it makes a perfect combo, looking so “clean” and neat 🙂 I also think stripes and plaid are great patterns to be used for kitchen themes 🙂

I coloured the stamped image with Distress inks. It pefectly fits into a “frame” I made using the tag from the die-cut sheet 🙂

I also decorated the inside covers, using stamps and dies:

Once I’ve done the recipe book, I thought of making a matching menu-notepad decor. I’ve had that wooden tea pot for ages and now its time has come! 🙂

First I painted the whole item with white gesso and then covered one side with blackboard paint. I hand-writtem the ornate “Menu” word and distressed the edges with strokes of the almost-dry brush:

Then I added some flowers in red and grey and a white resin flourish to match it with the recipe book colour palette:

The other side contains a small notepad for making shopping lists 🙂

I used the same ribbon, button and spoon-charm as on the recipe book 🙂

Don’t you think this Nyhavn paper is just perfect as the background?

I didn’t use many embellishments on the tea-pot decor as I wanted it to be practical and easy for cleaning. But I think it still looks fine – what do you say? 🙂

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: A Gift For You: My Dear Friend, Packed by Santas Elves, Given From the Heart, Made by me, Sent with love; Nyhavn: Eating out. stamps: Magnolia, Tim Holtz, die: Cheery Lynn Designs; chipboard: Scrapiniec, punch: Martha Stewart.

Have a good day and see you soon!

A beautiful sight

Posted by Zaneta Glowa

16 January, 2015 - A Gift for You, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello MD fans!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year with our family in Poland which resulted with plenty of photos which I can use for my projects in the coming weeks 🙂

I also wanted to play by the rules of our January moodboard so I picked neutral background papers and I added colours, which perhaps are not so traditional for Christmas scene. I used Nyhavn and Vintage Summer basics collections, personally I would associate both of them with summer, but I think they worked just as great with a winter theme.

I played with the layers of filigree elements. Some of them are cut with die cuts, some are punched with border punch and I added a chipboard too. I tried to use both sides of the papers, to take a full advantage of their variety.

The flower images which you can find in different Maja Design papers and cut out, like I did with the hydrangeas here are a beautiful complement to any flower cluster or layering.

Supplies:

Maja Design :
Nyhavn – Sitting at the docks,
Nyhavn – The sunny sight
Nyhavn – Eating out
Vintage Summer Basics -1943
A Gift For You – Die cut sheet

Others : Flowers, crystals, die – Prima, Chipboard – Blue Fern Studios, border punch – Martha Stewart, watercolours – Luminarte

Thanks for spending a moment with me on Maja blog today!

I love New York Canvas

Posted by Pascale B

13 January, 2015 - A Gift for You, Canvases, Vintage Frost Basics

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Hello Sweeties,
Today I want to share with you my very first project as a member of the Maja Design DT.

I started with my frame. I covered it first with Gesso and used a stencil to add a design to it with heavy Gesso. When dry, I added a layer of black Gesso. I let it dry. I then dry-brushed the whole frame with white Gesso and started to add some colors with pink and silver Silks with the same dry-brush technic. I finished the frame with silver wax.

I used a punch to cut the little hydrangea. I added a little bit of glitter in the center.

The chipboard as simply been embossed with Aged Silver from Stampendous.

After embossing the butterflies, I used a stamp to give them so texture, then I colored them.

Papers used:
A Gift for You – When the snow is falling
A Gift for You – Handwritten Post Card
Vintage Frost Basics – 3rd December
Vintage Frost Basics – 4th December
Vintage Frost Basics – 5th December
Vintage Frost Basics – 6th December

First Christmas

Posted by Maja Nowak

30 December, 2014 - A Gift for You, Collections, Created Art, Layouts

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Hello Maja Fans, welcome to the blog today!

I’m so glad you dropped by today for my last post this year 🙂 I have a special layout to share, featuring the youngest addition to my family – my dear cousin’s son 🙂

Doesn’t he look supercute in his little Santa outfit? 🙂 The colours in the photo just asked for A Gift For You collection, and so I layered a couple of papers over the red cardstock and separated the pieces with punched borders:

I die-cut the letters “1st” and “2014” and used a part of the signature strip with the word “Christmas” to make the title:

For the flower cluster I die-cut some poinsettias and coloured them with glimmer mists and added a poststamp cut out from the cutouts sheet and die-cut baubles that I decorated with glitter:

Some of the elements are die-cut from glitter cardstock to add delicate shine and lightness to the page 🙂

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: A Gift For You. Other: punches: Martha Stewart, Woodware; dies: Memory Box, Magnolia, Sizzix, Joy Crafts; flower: Prima; crystal gems: from my stash.

And now I’d like to wish you a fabulous party tomorrow – and see you next year 🙂

Lucia

Posted by Camilla Ekman

21 December, 2014 - A Gift for You, Layouts

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Hi there! I am wrapping up the year with a photo from my daughter’s Lucia celebration. I have used the A Gift For You collection.
The papers are torn and punched and then layered on top of each other.

I have also used some Prima masks to create some more patterns.

Products used: Maja Design A Gift For You papers (When snow is falling, Hope to see you soon and On Christmas Morning), Prima masks, Prima flowers, Prima bling, seam binding, cheese cloth, Prima alpha stickers, border punch.