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It’s All about Friends!

28 January, 2015 - Coffee In The Arbour, Collections, Created Art, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Autumn Basics

Hello Maja Fans! It’s Gabrielle here with you today to share my latest layout using Maja Design papers! Let’s talk about friends. I’ve made many many online friends over the years, and so many in the scrapbook industry. I get lots of emails with questions, kind words on my work and I even get sweet gifts from some of you. On today’s layout I used a package of Prima blooms that were sent to me from of of my sweet friends, Kimberly (from Hawaii), thanks so much Kimberly! So I thought I would also make my page about friends as well. This is a pic I took of my 2 daughters with my oldest daughters BFF.

For this page I used the cool pinks and deep plum/wine color papers from the NEW Limited Edition Nyhavn collection….with a couple bits and pieces of some of the other Maja collections as well. I love that this collection lends itself to so many different looks! I used ‘Veteran Ships’ the deep plum/rose color paper as matting for my background paper which is ‘Strolling Along the Canal’. I did a little inking with Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet distress ink and a little stamping with a Martha Stewart Butterfly stamp and some Bo Bunny ‘Distress Textures’ and ‘It Is Written’ stamps.

Here is a close-up of the pretty fabric blooms sent to my by my sweet friend. I used some Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet stain in the centers of these flowers to give them more depth and bring in the rich plum/rose in the background papers. As and extra accent, I fussy cut some pink roses from the No.VI paper from the Vintage Autumn Basics Collection.

After inking I added some texture with some of my home made texture paste and a Prima flourish stencil, which incidentally was also a gift from a sweet friend (thanks Janene!).

The chipboard pieces are from Dusty Attic, ‘Live Beautifully’ title, ‘Sweet Pea Border’ and ‘String Frame Set’. I kept the String Frame chippie natural as I wanted it to resemble hemp twine. The Sweet Pea Border I painted white with a dusting of brown chalk ink (Ingvild Bolme) and the title chippie, I inked with more of the TH Victorian Velvet ink….for the ‘Live’ part I added some ‘Diamond’ Stickles to make the title pop out from the photo more.

I matted my photo with ‘Raspberry Cupcake’ paper from the Maja ‘Coffee In the Arbour’ collection. And I matted that with another paper from the Nyhvn collection, the one that looks like weathered wood called ‘Sitting At the Dock’.

The metal mailbox is a Prima Shabby Chic trinket, and those intricate looking butterfly embellishments are some pieces I pulled out of some of my old stash from years ago. They are Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass. I’d been hoarding those, and then realized, whats the point in having them, if I don’t use them! LOL!

Maja Design Products used in this project: Nyhavn (Strolling Along the Canal, Veteran Ships-bs, Sitting At the Dock), Vintage Autumn Basics (No.VI), Coffee In the Arbor (Raspberry Cupcakes).

Thanks so much for stopping by the Maja blog today, leaving you with this thought, have you scrapped your friends lately?

Magie

Posted by Pascale B

27 January, 2015 - Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Spring Basics

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Hello Sweeties,

Today I have a layout to share with you. I take this photo during the Christmas market in my city. Some guys were on stilts with some beautiful costumes. I couldn’t resist …

I began by gluing some pieces of paper which I covered with a thin layer of Gesso. When dry, I highlight the papers with some watercolor pencils. Some splatters made with Twinkling H2Os and some random stamping were enough to finish the background.

I heat embossed the butterflies, and when the embossing powder was still hot, I pressed a stamp onto the butterflies to give some texture. I just added a touch of color with a Twinkling H2Os.

I painted the chipboards with black Gesso. To highlight the berries, I glued tiny scrap of paper.

I cut the leaves in one of the papers used for the background and slightly inked the edge to give them some depth.

Maja Design Papers used: Nyhavn – King’s Place ; Vintage Spring Basic – May 1st & May 4th.

Kitchen Set

Posted by Maja Nowak

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

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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!

wooden iron box

Posted by Ingrid Gooyer

25 January, 2015 - Altered Items, Nyhavn

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Today I have this wooden iron box to share with you.
I’m always looking for new shapes or things to alter and was happy to have found this iron shaped wooden box! 🙂 For this project I used the gorgeous new limited “Nyhavn” collection from Maja design.

Started this box with glueing the papers, A Dockside in bloom and Romantic lunch.
The metal butterfly is from Xenos.

Made the rolled up flowers from this collection as well and distressed all the edges.

Added a Prima flower and some handmade fabric flowers, which were made by my sweet friend Paulien.

Took a stencil and some modeling paste to create some texture.

My rolled up flowers with a sneak peek of a handmade thread flower.

Added some fun stamens between the flowers.

Papers used:

A Dockside in bloom
Romantic lunch
Rolled flowers with:
Eating out
A Dockside in bloom
Veteran ships
Strolling along the canal

Other products used:
modeling paste
stencil
dew drops
small roses
stamens
gauze
lace

Enjoy your day!
Ingrid xxx

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!