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Beauty Mixed Media Canvas and Video Tutorial

18 November, 2015 - Canvases, Collections, Crea Diem, Created Art, Sofiero, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello Maja fans, Gabrielle here with you today to share a canvas I made recently. I had this cute soft green rose ribbon in my stash which made me think of those pretty couture gowns I sometimes see on Pinterest. So I gathered some of my favorite Maja Design papers some Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and some Shimmerz Paints and got started.

The majority of papers I used on this project came from the Vintage Spring Basics collection with a couple of papers from Crea Diem, Vintage Summer Basics and Sofiero collection. I used the following papers for this project: Vintage Spring Basics (1st of April, 6th of May), Crea Diem (Den oersättliga tiden), Vintage Summer Basics (1903), Sofiero (Princess Margareta’s Garden).

I thought it would be fun to create a video tutorial to share with you all to show step by step how this little canvas was created….so grab your favorite beverage, take a little break and enjoy!….

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RlzgpnfLUY?rel=0]
I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial! I thought I would share some of the close-ups below so you can view them at you leisure…

I like to save all my title strips from my Maja Design papers for my projects and one of my favorite uses for them is to use as borders on my canvas’s. They are a perfect fit width-wise and for a 4×6″ canvas, they fit perfectly all around as well. Here I used the paper strips from the Sofiero ‘Princess Margareta’s Garden’ paper for this (although you can use any border that suits your fancy for this.

I found the perfect little frame for this in the Dusty Attic Baroque (Square) Frames ….using the smaller of the two frames in the set I just gave it a little snip here and there to make it fit my 6″x 4″ canvas. Prima’s Shabby Chic treasures had just the right size corset in it to suit my project. And then I found a lovely little heart frame in the Dusty Attic Lacey Heart Frames.

I chose my mixed media paint colors from the Kaisercraft rose ribbon a friend had sent me a little while back. I picked Shimmerz Paint’s ‘Ride the Tide’ and ‘Sage It Isn’t So’ Creameez to add a soft hint of color to the background of my design. I added a little texture with some texture paste and TCW’s ”Mini Brocade” 6 inch stencil. And finally I added a scripty title by using the chipboard word ‘Beauty’ from Dusty Attic’s Wordpack #20.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and hope you feel inspired to create your own shabby-chic wall art using Maja Design papers! xo

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Posted by Pascale B

22 September, 2015 - Crea Diem, Layouts, Nyhavn

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Hello Sweeties

Today I’m up on Maja Design blog with, as you can see, a new family photos. It’s a photo of my dad taken on the day of his very first parachute jump. He was only 18 years old at the time …

I started my layout by protecting the background with a layer of clear Gesso. Then I added a design with a stencil and Graphite paste.

When dry, I added some color with bleu and black bisters. I let react with water and when the result pleased me, I dried with my heat gun.

I added some random stamping. And to finish I completed my layout with some micro beads and glass glitter.

Maja Design Papers:


Nyhavn Sitting at the dock	Crea Diem Ord flyer bort	Crea Diem Den oersättliga tiden

Other products:
Bisters – Couleur d’Artigo
Texture Paste, Gesso, Stencil, Micro Beads, Glass Glitter, Stamps – Prima
Archival Ink, Crackle Accent – Ranger
Die – Sizzix

Old Attic

Posted by Pascale B

8 September, 2015 - Collections, Crea Diem, Layouts

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Hello Sweeties

Today it’s a photo that I took during a trip to Terra Botanica (Angers – France) that I choose to scrap with the beautiful Maja Design’s papers. It’s a reconstruction of a old attic or garage with a pile of old stuff like I used to see in my grand-parents’s farm.

I began to add a design with a stencil and a Graphite paste. When dry , I added some random stamping.

Meanwhile I painted the die-cut gears and the clock face with black Gesso and covered them randomly with the graphite paste. Then I let them dry.

When gears and clock were dry, I added some Rusting Powder “glued” with soft gel. To activate the powder, you just need to spray some vinagar et wait. If you don’t like to wait, you can accelarate the process by heating the powder with your heat gun.

While the gears were quietly rusting, I colored the flowers, die-cut the leaves et cut some papers to add under the photo.

To finalize, I added a touch of green with a chalk ink.
After having put all the embellishments together, I added some color to the background and some black glitters.

Maja Design Papers:
Crea Diem collection


Efter regn kommer sol	Stark och fri	Den oersättliga tiden	Ord flyger bort

Beach theme

Posted by Carita Ruckman

25 July, 2015 - Crea Diem, Layouts, Life by the Sea, Sofiero, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Dear Maja-fans,

This day we are going to show some wonderful layouts within the theme “beach”. We guess you have a lot of pictures from this summer, featuring the beach, the sun or another wonderful environment, that you want to start scrapping. We hope you find inspiration here.
Enjoy!

Gabrielle’s wonderful layout, created with papers from Vintage Summer & Vintage Spring

Gabrielle has created this fantastic creation with papers from Vintage Spring & Vintage Summer

Marilyn are using papers from Vintage Frost, in this fabulous layout

Elena has been using papers from Life by the Sea for this stunning layout

Beautiful creation by Marilyn, using CreaDiem

Wonderful layout by Jennifer, using Sofiero

Lovely & Colorful. Made by Stacey, using papers from CreaDiem

Wonderful layout, created by Larissa, using Life by the Sea

Evgenia has created this wonderful layout, using papers from Life by the Sea

Absolutely stunning layout by Heather, using Life by the Sea

Beautiful layout by Romy, using papers from Life by the Sea

Stunning & beautiful layout by Rachelle, using papers from Walking in the Forest

Hope you were inspired..! And please don’t forget to tell usif you like anything special. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

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Pink – not only for the Girls

Posted by Elena Olinevich

5 July, 2015 - Canvases, Crea Diem

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Hello Maja Friends,

today I want to share with you a canvas, that I have made for my class sample that I taught last 12 months. I am working right now on some new samples, so I thought that I can post something made for the classes also.

Well, I always tell to my students, that pink is not only for the girls. So I took a picture of my baby boy and worked with grey, coral and pink colors to create this canvas.

My choice was a very stylish Crea Diem collection, really a perfect match for any project. especially when you are adding some paints.

I used dome scraps from the Vintage Summer collection as they have some good expressions too. But the dots and script patterned papers are amazing for creating the layers.

I added some flowers and metal embellishments, great mix for the boy, I guess

I want to thank all the ladies who visited my classes and I hope that you have enjoyed working with absolutely beautiful papers from Maja Design.

Products used:

Crea Diem Collection – Kärleken övervinner allt , Ord flyger bort , Den oersättliga tiden , Sann vänskap ; Prima Marketing sprays, stencil, stamps, flowers and trinkets, Canvas Stickers.