Sofiero : MajaDesign

May Mood Board

3 May, 2014 - Canvases, Cards, Crea Diem, Layouts, Mood boards, Sofiero, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

The wedding season is here and what a lovely season that is. Our latest Mood Board, based on the Crea Diem collection, is all about love and we hope you find it inspirational. May-Mood-board-ny And here’s a little reminder of what our mood boards are used for…

Definition mood board – n

a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other

We are using mood boards for our challenges. We truely believe in creativity and art at Maja Design. You are free to interpret the mood boards in any way you’d like. They are supposed to set you in an inspirational mood without too much controlling. We would like you to be inspired by the poems, words and photos. They are not given rules, they are just there as inspiration. They are all inspired by a Maja collection, but you are free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme. We highly encourage you to follow the theme of the mood board as well.

We are presenting a new mood board the first Saturday of every month. We will be presenting all participating creations that fulfill the requirements below May 31st. We will also draw a winner who will be winning a Maja Design collection of their own choice in 6×6 or 12×12.

After your creation is done, take a photo and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu without any watermarks (size 600×600). Include your full name and address in the e-mail together with what collection you would like if you win. Don’t forget to write down if you would like 6×6 or 12×12. We need your creation May 28th at the latest.

We will only publish creations that fullfill the requirements!

And here comes inspiration created by our new fabulous Creative Team… Andrea_Ewen Andrea Ewen Heather_Jacob Heather Jacob Ingrid_Gooyer Ingrid Gooyer Jenny_Grotherus Jenny Grotherus Maja_Nowak Maja NowakMarilyn Rivera Nadia_Cannizzo Nadia Cannizzo Nancy_Hanttula Nancy Hanttula Rachelle_Sigurdson Rachelle Sigurdson Jenny

Beloved

Posted by Marilyn Rivera

28 April, 2014 - Layouts, Sofiero

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Happy Monday Maja friends!! I have a page to share with you today with many techniques and full of textures. This time I worked with one of my favorites Maja Design collections …Sofiero, wow, this collection is so gorgeous, I’m in love with the beautiful soft colors and the pretty designs. I also added a paper from the Vintage Spring Basics collection.

I added textures to the background paper “The magnificent Flowerstreet” with a Jenny Swap’ stencil (hearts) and molding paste. I also added some mash tape, lace, corrugated and flower to the borders of the paper and mixed it with gesso, then I painted with Shimmerz paints.

My page has a lot of layers and dimension. I incorporated many elements here like buttons, moss, pearls stem, chipboard, pearls, lace, sequins and many flowers.

I made a design draping the paper and putting my photo as the focal point in my page with a chipboard frame that I painted with gesso, shimmerz paint and then stamped with a Ranger Distress ink and many mat layers with Maja Design papers. In the borders of the draped I added layers with the “Enjoying the Fragance, Exuberance of flowers in bloom and The Magnificent of the Flowerstreet papers” from the Sofiero collection.

Supplies: Sofiero collection: “Enjoying the Fragance, Exuberance of flowers in bloom and The Magnificent of the Flowerstreet papers”,”Days to Remember paper by Vintage Spring Basics collection, Sheaky Lead and Scrapmatts chipboads, Prima flowers, Shimmerz Paints, Liquitex gesso, Heidi Swap stencil.

Until next time!

Winner of our April Mood Board

Posted by Jenny Grotherus

26 April, 2014 - Mood boards, Sofiero, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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It looks like we’ve created spring fever all over the world with our April Mood Board. We’ve received contributions from Pakistan to Russia, Israel to Brazil… AprilMB

Take a look…

And the winner is… Evgenia Petzer_SouthAfrica Evgenia Petzer, South Africa!

The Fröjdefull Jul collection will be sent to you as requested.

Our next Mood Board is all about weddings and love. Don’t miss it next Saturday! Jenny

Scrapping Beautiful Babies

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

23 April, 2014 - Collections, Layouts, Sofiero, Vintage Spring Basics

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Gabrielle here with you today to share a layout I made for my beautiful friend and our design team leader Jenny Grotherus. She had a beautiful baby boy this past year and was kind enough to share some sweet sweet photos of her baby with me. He is so adorable, it was hard to pick just one photo to scrap….so you just might see some more baby pages coming from me.

I primarily used the Vintage Spring Basics Collection for this page, layering a variety of the pretty stripe, polka dot and floral patterns behind the photo.

Maja Design has so many lovely shades of blue to choose from, so for this layout I wanted to use the cooler shades of blue with hints of brown/taupe and butter yellow. I used the ‘Princess Margareta’s Garden-bs’ paper as the matting for the main background paper which is a paper from the Vintage Spring Basics collection called ‘1st of April’ (I just thought the sweet little blue & yellow birdie in the corner was a perfect accent for a baby page!). I also fussy cut some of the little dogwood blossom branches from the paper called ‘6th of April’ and used them to dangle from the ‘V’ tears in the background paper.

I used a mini version of ‘Decorative Frame #1’ from Dusty Attic to create a corner accent on this page. As most of you know by now, one of my favorite Maja papers is the clock paper from the Vintage Autumn Basics collection (XVI) …here I cut out one of the clocks and placed it inside the little frame, then coated it with a crackle varnish (Dusty Attic Crackle Varnish) to give it a nice aged look.

I also did a bit of stamping (with Bo Bunny ‘It is Written Stamp’) and inking with Ingvild Bolme’s chalk inks (Worn Jeans, Dusty Tote) and went over the designs with some stencils (Crafters Workshop ‘Art Is’ and ‘Mini Well Rounded’) and home-made texture paste.

I always love to add fabric accents to a baby page, for this one I matted the sweet photo with a scrap of burlap and a snippit of lace from Tresor’s de Luxe. I added a strand of pearls to the top of the lace strip.

The main circle frame I used for the photo is from Dusty Attic called ‘Decorative Frame #2’, which I painted white, chalked with brown ink, stamped with a script stamp and then finished with a crackle medium. I wanted to keep my blooms light and airy so I used some blooms from Prima (Charlotte), Recollections and Dusty Attic (small roses) in light soft shades. The little butterflies are from Petalloo (Darjeeling).

I miss having babies around and so am so happy to have photo’s of my friend’s babies to scrap. I hope she will enjoy this page as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Maja Design Products: Vintage Spring Basics (1st of April, 6th of April, 5th of April, 4th of April, 4th of April-bs, 7th of April), Sofiero (Princess Margareta’s Garden-bs).

All Of Me layout with Sofiero

Posted by Nadia Cannizzo

20 April, 2014 - Layouts, Sofiero

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Hi there, its Nadia Cannizzo here with you today..

Today I am sharing with you one more layout I created for Maja Design using the GORGEOUS Sofiero collection. I truly do love this collection.. very very much!

” All Of Me..”

Oh how I love this song by John Legend called “All Of Me”. My journalling on this layout is part of the chorus. It says “You’re my end and my beginning, even when I lose I am winning”. Priceless!!

So I started with the “The Elegant Wine House” paper, and used some Ranger Alcohol Inks, 13arts sprays and Distress Stains to give it colour.