Hello Maja friends! It’s Andrea coming to you one last time to bring you some delightful Maja Design goodness! This will be my last post as a design team member…I look back at my time here very fondly…Marie is wonderfully creative and generous, Jenny is super supportive and always helpful and the rest of the team, well, they’re just fabulous and wonderfully talented! I figured that my last post would be a collection of my very favorite Maja Design cards, so here we go: 
Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments over the past two years! Hope I’ve inspired you to go out there and create! 
Love Completely
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Hi there, it’s Gabrielle here with you today to share with you my last project for 2014! I came across this photo of my dear husband and our oldest daughter Chloe from when she was just a little baby. We had a tradition of going apple picking in the Fall, even before our babies were born, and we continued the tradition on each year with our girls (and family). This was Chloe’s first apple picking trip. Now she is 16 years old and will soon be driving a car! Oh how time flies!
I used 4 different Maja paper collections for this one. It’s fun to combine the collections, the way I do it is to either go with the ‘warm’ colors from each of the collections or the cool colors. I used a color combination that I have not used in a long time. When I think of whimsical, the two colors I like to put together is usually purple & green…..but this time I went with purple and blue. I tore some paper strips from left over scraps I had in these colors and layered them with some drywall tape (found at your local hardware store). I then decorated around my photo with some chipboard…the circle design is a new Dusty Attic chipboard piece from their String Frames Set. I added some clocks from Vintage Autumn Basics XVI paper and tucked them around my photo area. The blooms are from Tresors de Luxe. And that diamond stamp you see around the photo and edges of my page?….That’s one of my new stamps that I designed! I used to doodle this design by hand on my layouts, so I thought it would be fun to make a stamp of it! You can find my stamp at The Scrapbook Diaries.
Once I had my embellishing done around my photo, I went to add my title, another new set of chipboard titles from Dusty Attic. I wanted the white letters to show up better so I did a little dry brushing with my Victorian Velvet Distress paint by Tim Holtz behind the title area….this allowed the title to pop.
I added a small corner design to balance the page by moistening the Maja paper and pulling it back a little. I love the way these papers withstand the rigors I put them through, LOL. I then tucked a piece of lace in the exposed area and added some chipboard accents, again from Dusty Attic (Small Scroll #2).
Maja Design Papers used in this project:
Coffee In The Arbour: Raspberry Jam Cookies, Butterflies are Free (both sides), Raspberry Cupcakes
A Gift for You: My Dear Friend
Vintage Autumn Basics: XVI (clock designs)
Ska vi ta en Fika: Våffla m. björnbärssylt (both sides)
I hope you enjoyed my project, thanks so much for stopping by the Maja Design blog today! xo
Christmas Cards
1 Write a commentHello there, Maja Fans!
It’s Maja here sharing two Christmas cards – as it’s the last moment to send them out 🙂 I made quite a few this year, and of course I wouldn’t miss the chance to make these two using our Christmas release of this year, A Gift For You:
For one of the cards, I used a vintage image of the Holy Family and placed it in the centre on the background of layered papers, tied a piece of vintage ribbon and tiny bells that jingle delicately with each move 🙂
I die-cut poinsettias and mistletoe twigs for the flower cluster on my card:
For the other card, I used the postcard image I cut out of the die cut sheet – I jus love placing mini postcards on cards! 🙂 I added some chpiboard snowflakes that I covered with glitter and imitated snow caps with liquid pearls:
Then I die-cut some poinsettias again, coloured them with mist and placed the button with the Nativity scene on a large snowflake:
What do you think? 🙂
Supplies:
Maja Design papers: A Gift For You small pad, die cut sheet; Other: vintage image: LemonCraft; button: scrap.com.pl; dies: Magnolia; chipboard pieces: Scrapiniec, punch: Martha Stewart; stamp: Lemonade; ribbons: from my stash.
I hope both you and the addressees would like the cards 🙂 See you!
set of cards
2 Write a commentI just love to sent cards to family and friends. I was almost running out so I decided to make some more. You can never have enough cards he? 🙂
Made these with the *A Gift for you* collection.
I used the *sent with love* sheet for the background.
Cut some strips of the *hope to see you soon* sheet.
Also added some bits of masking tape and some lace.
Added some modeling paste on the background using a template.
Some paint splatters for an extra color touch.
Made the circles with a white pen.
A lovely cluster of Scrapberry’s flowers and resins and some gauze,
together with some ribbon flowers and twigs from 13 Arts.
Added some flat turquoise pearls for an extra touch.
And here is my second card:
The text paper is from the *hope to see you soon* sheet.
Some punched flowers are also from this sheet, added with a brad.
The resins and the white/turquoise flowers are from Scrapberry’s
Some turquoise stitching.
Papers used:
* hope to see you soon
* sent with love
Enjoy your day!
Ingrid xxx
A Textured Christmas Tag
2 Write a commentHi there my lovely Maja Design fans … Christmas is almost here and I have a Tag to showcase today , created with the “Gift for You”, Collection .I always love to include a TAG with my Christmas gifts and make them personal by writing a message on the back of the tag. We have very hot weather for Christmas in Australia and right now we are in the middle of our Summer . I would truly love to experience a White Christmas one day .
I adore the striking rich red and white with the Grey BG .I created lots of layers with these glorious papers. Adding a splash of green on the rosebuds .
I wanted to create a feel of a white Christmas with this Tag .
A side shot showing the many layers of the co-ordinating papers, matching perfectly. 
I added a small amount of fiber paste with a stencil creating the illusion of snow . 
There is room on the back of the tag to write a message …. Maja Design Collection used …. A Gift for You …. Given from the heart and sent with Love…Frojdefull Jul ….JULBUKETT and BRODERAD DUK . Bye for now and thanks so much for popping by to look at my work . Take care and happy scrapping . Warm hugz from me .