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Big shots from the past year…

11 December, 2015 - Enjoying Outdoors, Home for the Holidays, Nyhavn, Summer Crush, Vintage Baby

Dear Maja fans,

I’m glad to see you here today. ♥
This year is coming to an end, and today I want to show you some goodies from this fabulous year.
I have sorted them by our collection releases we have had this year.

Just sit back and enjoy..

Hope that you have enjoyed this as much as I did creating these collages. For me, it was a nice flashback of the past year, and I am, once again, totally filled with honour and awe for these talented ladies that has given us so much inspiration and fabulous project to enjoy.

Actually, I want to give them all a big round of applause..!
This is all the amazing designers that has brighten our Creative Team during 2015:

Team 2015

You are truly amazing and every single one of you are a great source of inspiration to us. It has been an extraordinary year and we have really enjoyed your wonderful creations, from so many different parts of the world.
A huge thanks to all of you, from the bottom of our hearts..! ♥

Don’t miss to stop by the blog next Saturday – then we will reveal the new MajaDesign Creative Team 2016..! You really don’t want to miss that..!
See you soon!

Camilla

Boy’s Layouts with Flowers

Posted by Amy Voorthuis

23 October, 2015 - Layouts, Life by the Sea, Nyhavn

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Goodmorning to you lovely followers,

Today I would like to show you two boy’s layouts I made with two Maja Design collections such as the Nyhavn and Life by the Sea. On one layout I only used the Life by the Sea collection and on my other layout I combined the two. First layout is very clean and simple for me and it shows that you can definitely use flowers on a boy’s layout at least that’s what I think. This is a layout with pictures of our handsome boy “Kevin”

Lately I just love to scrap the color orange and this collection has one of sheet in it which I use over and over. Because it’s such a rich orange color. Our boy doesn’t want to take pictures anymore but sometimes he makes his mom very happy and says mom “if you want to take pictures of me I am ready for it” I never say no at this point in his life.

Maja Design papers used:

For my second layout I have to tell you a little story. I couple of months ago my hubby and I went to pick up our boy from his parents because he slept over. My hubby went in military close what I really don’t like to walk next to but okay it’s his body right? So when I opened my mailbox the next day my father in law had send us a email with a adorable picture of him when he was just a little boy in a marine suit. So if you know me a little I had to scrap it.

Aren’t they just the cutest little marines you’ve ever seen the lower picture is one of him and his brother my hubby’s uncle. I had so much fun scrapping these pictures. The blue flowers I made myself. That barb wire you see on the outside of my page is a awesome die by Cheery Lynn Designs. On the base {the gray sheet} I did some stamping, misting and pasting with a new design stencil by TCW called Mini Nautical Chains.

Maja Design papers used:

I also have some other happy new to share I am designing for Cheery Lynn Designs again I am addicted on their dies and I think Maja Design papers add some much to their dies. For them I made two 8×8 layout’s showcasing some beautiful Maja papers.

Next Thursday we have a hugh hobby convention here in The Netherlands which is called KREADOE it’s much like CHA but then smaller. And I am going yeahhhhh maybe in my next post I will show you some pictures. I hope you had a fun time visiting the blog today, and I’d like to thank you so much for your sweet comments on everybody’s work. I wish you a happy and scrappy weekend.

Love

Hello Today

Posted by Rachelle Sigurdson

8 October, 2015 - Cards, Coffee In The Arbour, Enjoying Outdoors, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Spring Basics

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Hello, today,I am back with my first post, for Maja Design after taking a 6 month break to work in my garden. Wow,time fly’s!!! I have a few projects here to share with you,one is a easel card,that I did a Tut,with photo’s. This is a card I made using the “new” Enjoying Outdoors Collection.I used from the 6×6 paper pad:Singing in the rain, Singing in the rain-BS, Feeling good, Colourful, Harvest Time, Beautiful Trees BS, What a beautiful day, Tags & journaling cards, The 12×12 sheets used: Garden Moments, Colorful,Colorful-BS

The Dusty Attic used: Leafy Frame set #2,Hello todayI pretty much did the same to this card,as I did with the card below, only this card is not a easel…

Here is my next card with a step by step photo tut……….I used:Enjoying the Moments,Enjoying the Moment-BS, Raspberry cupcake, Raspberry cupcake-BS, Grandma’s old porcelain, Grandma’s old porcelain-BS, Raspberry jam cupcakes, Raspberry Lemonade,Delicious Moments &Labels

The Dusty Attic used: Foliage #2, Hashtag sayings

Flowers are I am Roses & Berry stems are Petaloo Here is a photo tut I did, as to how, I made this card…..bottom layer ,using Raspberry jam cupcakes, measures 6×9’1/2I distressed the edgesThe first layer,using Grandmas old porcelain, I did some punch work using my favorite Martha Stewart punch, the inked the edges with a brown ink pad… added 2 more layers, Enjoying the moments &Grandmas old porcelain…..using a paper pierce, I pierce holes, for my next step,hand stitching…..shows the front & BS,of the completed paper piercing….hand stitching is completed…the next 2 layers. using Raspberry cupcakes-BS & enjoying the moments, I ripped the corner on the top one, & the bottom one, I made a pocket,( so that I could enclose a note,or gift card, ect), I did some cross stitching on these layersUsing a 12×12 sheet of raspberry cupcake, it measures 10×12, I folded it in half, then the top part in half . My next step is to glue, to 2 card pieces onto the base. For the top piece, glued it onto the top part of the fold, (this is how you will get your easel) if you glue under the fold, it won’t work as a easel. I glued the bottom piece to the full half…Shows the card coming together as a easel….I am now starting to embellish, I used Dusty Attic hashtag sayings “lifeisgood” that I just painted white. I painted the Dusty Attic foliage #2 forest green,then clear crackle. Once the crackle dried I painted it with LuminArt olive vine, & moss green H2O’s to give it shimmer & to bring out the cracks….Added berry clusters from Petaloo, & roses from I am Rosesadded a little clipboard, using a piece I cut out from the sheet raspberry lemonade, then inserted it into the pocketfinal step,was to add the tagsCompleted card

The next 3 cards I used the Vintage Autumn Basics Collection On the next LO,I combined the Vintage Baby & Vintage SpringOn the next 2 LO’s I combined the Nyhavn Collection with the Vintage Autumn Basics Collection Well,you can see my garden work is not quite complete, I am waiting for a hard frost before I start on fall clean up. All the green plants “Mexican marigolds”,that are in the middle of the driveway & the front of the house are in full bud again. Depending on the weather,I could have another burst of color.I think the leaves will be off the trees, before I take out the annuals,which is rare for our climate.Closeup of one of the plants showing all the buds.

Thank you so much for taking the time to look…….Rachelle

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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

Life Is Beautiful

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

9 September, 2015 - Layouts, Nyhavn

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Hi Everyone! It’s Gabrielle here with you today to share my first Maja Design project since I got back from my summer hiatus! For this page I began by choosing a few papers from the Nyhavn collection.

I chose ‘Sitting on the Dock-bs’ as my background paper, and then used a variety of strips from the ‘Kings Square’, ‘Eating Out’ and ‘Romantic Lunch’ papers for the area behind the photo. To matte the photo I used a striped paper from the Coffee in the Arbour collection called ‘Raspberry Cupcakes’.

I used an inexpensive pack layered floral stickers I had found in my local dollar store to accent my photo area and also added a variety of Dusty Attic Chipboard (Elegant Swirls #3, Word Pack #3 and Foliage #3).

For my mixed media, I used a variety of Shimmerz Paints both on the paper and on the chipboard pieces.

For the top corner (and under the photo area) I used one of my new The Crafters Workshop Stencils I designed called ‘Moving Vines’.

I actually have a video tutorial I”m working on getting done,….I was unable to get the video done before my post today but I should have a video tutorial up on my blog/youtube very soon (by the 10th) on my blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Maja Design blog!