Vintage Frost Basics : MajaDesign

Blog hop with Swirlydoos

5 February, 2014 - Altered Items, Äntligen, Blog Hop, Canvases, Cards, Crea Diem, Giveaway, It’s Christmas time, Layouts, Life by the Sea, Life in the Country, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Tags, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics, Walking in the Forest

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Today we are having a real treat for you…. A blog hop in cooperation with Swirlydoos Kit Club.

If you came here from Rae’s blog then you are on the right track. If not, go back to Swirlydoos’ blog and start from there. We have some amazing projects for you to see today. Make sure to leave a comment on all of the blogs for a chance to win. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook.

MajaDesign Corp is situated in Uddevalla, Sweden. We are dedicated to create unique and high quality, vintage inspired patterned paper for scrapbooking and crafts. We hope our beloved designs will inspire you to create great joyful creations.

MajaDesign was founded in November 2007, and since then has been growing to over 450 registred retailers around the world.

We carry 16 collections in stock and during this blog hop we have a grand prize for you. Our four Vintage Basics collections are designed to be timeless favourites and drawn to be mixable with eachother. There are 108 patterned papers in total and they can all be yours…

And here follows some inspiration created by our lovely Creative Team.Andrea EwenCamilla EkmanElena OlinevichGabrielle Pollacco Heather_Jacob Heather JacobIngrid GooyerJennifer Snyder Jenny Grotherus Maja Nowak marilyn_ Marilyn RiveraNadia CannizzoNancy HanttulaRachelle Sigurdson

You have until midnight, eastern time, on Thursday 2/6 to complete the hop. Winners will be announced on the Swirlydoos Blog on Friday 2/7. In order to qualify to win here is what you need to do:
1: Visit all of the blogs and leave a comment on each. This way we know you were there. Take your time. There are REALLY beautiful things to see along the way.
2: Before you leave each blog, look for the “special” words and write it down.
Once you have visited all the blogs and collected all the special words, they will create a sentence.
3: Finally, go back to the Swirlydoos blog and leave a comment letting us know how much fun you had, tell us the sentence that was created with all of the special words you collected. Can’t wait to hear from you.

Our special word is : only

The party continues over at Angelica’s blog. Have fun! Jenny

A Special Anniversary Card

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

29 January, 2014 - Cards, Collections, Life in the Country, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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My Mom and Dads 55th anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks so I thought I would take the opportunity to make up a special card for them. Ever since I was a little girl my parents would always say it’s the card (rather than the gift) that always meant the most to them, especially if the card was handmade. For them it’s the thoughts written in the card that really mean the most to them and if we made the card it meant all the more to them. For this card I primarily used the newest Maja collection, Vintage Frost Basics (although I also mixed in a bit of some other collections as well).

I went with the soft and pretty pinks and wine colors in this collection. For the extra dark burgundy paper I used a paper from the Vintage Summer Basics collection and for the perfect green for my leafy flourish I used a paper from the Life in the Country collection.

I was going for lots of textures and layers for this card so I used some corrugated card that was in my stash (I think it was the lining for a wine bottle gift). I used the darkest Maja paper from the Vintage Summer Basics collection to matte the whole card and as the backing behind the lattice design, so that I could get maximum contrast. The lattice, doily, leaf flourish and blooms are all Cheery Lynn dies.

I handmade the blooms for this card from simple white cardstock and a Gardenia die from Cheery Lynn Designs. I just lightly tinted the petals with some Tim Holtz ‘Victorian Velvet’ Distress ink and a soft make-up sponge. I used their Fanciful Flourish die with the ‘Summer Fields’ paper from the Life in the Country collection for my vine/flourish. At first I was going to just use some green cardstock for this but couldn’t find the exact color I’d been envisioning. Then I thought to myself…silly me, I should look at the greens in the Maja collections, they are made to match! And sure enough, it was the exact green I was looking for!

Maja Design Products used for this project: Vintage Frost Basics (4th of December, 4th of December-bs, 6th of December), Vintage Summer Basics (1922-bs), Life in the Country (Summer Fields-bs).

I hope my parents will love this card as much as I enjoyed making it! Thanks so much for stopping by today and checking out my Maja Design project! xo

Beautiful

Posted by Maja Nowak

28 January, 2014 - Layouts, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Vintage Frost Basics

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Welcome on the Maja Design blog today, Maja Fans!

It’s Maja here with a layout to share 🙂

I’m romantic at heart, I love vintage, flowers and bling and I must admit I’m very happy my boys are still little enough to accept these in their layouts 🙂 And so I created this page with great pleasure knowing my younger son would also accept it and wouldn’t mind it contains pink too:

I combined the Vintage Frost Basics and the Ska Vi Ta En Fika papers to make the main colour palette for the layout. For the design, I just tore the plaid pattern paper diagonally, distressed the edges and glued the strips in the corners, creating kind of pockets.

Then I started to fill in the composition, tucking bits of paper, cheesecloth, embellies and flowers into the “pockets”:

The left upper corner also features the title, and the right bottom cormer the journaling – and I’m very happy to have dug out something I hadn’t used for ages – rubons 🙂

As the finishing touch, I stamped the chicken wire pattern around the edges.

I know some day I’d have to stop adding flowers and flourishes to my boys’ pages (as I intend to give them the layouts in the future) – but now I’m just enjoying the possibilities to create to my taste 🙂

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: Ska Vi Ta En Fika: Karleksmums, Kaffe Tack!, Vintage Frost Basics: 4th of December

Other: Flowers, resin embellishments – Prima, stamp Bo Bunny, chipboard Scrapiniec, rubons Daisy D’s, cheesecloth from my stash.

I wish you a very good afternoon – see you later!

Winner of the January Mood Board

Posted by Jenny Grotherus

25 January, 2014 - Altered Items, Cards, Layouts, Mini albums, Mood boards, Sofiero, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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The rain finally gave up on us. We’ve had some cold days in January, just perfect to crawl up and do some scrapping. Our Mood Board has inspired many and we’ve received so many beautiful creations this time. But first a reminder of what it looked like… Januari And here are our fantastic contributions for this month…

And the winner is… Amy_Voorthuis2_Netherlands

Amy Voorthuis! Congratulations Amy. The collection you have chosen will be sent to your doorstep.

Don’t forget to stop by next Saturday when we are presenting our new Valentine Mood Board.

Jenny

Fun with Stacked Elements

Posted by Heather Jacob

21 January, 2014 - Cards, Collections, Life by the Sea, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Frost Basics

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HELLO AND A WARM WELCOME TO MAJA DESIGN . Heather here with you today. As well as creating layouts I love making handmade cards for birthdays and celebrations. This one was for an extra special celebration.

WE recently Celebrated our daughters 40th Birthday and today I am sharing this easel card I created her.Tara loves denim blue and white, so it was very easy to gather some beautiful papers that co-ordinate. I decided to use ‘Jeans’ – from the Walking in the Forest collection as my base combined with White cardstock . I began by folding my card in white Bazzill . I Then cut my base 6 x 6 in ‘Jeans’, for the stacked elements . I always create my cover separately , stack my elements and then adhere it to my white bazzill. One of my faves is to add stitching and make it arty by stitching slightly crooked lines and using alternative colored cotton.

I adore these stacked elements as it is a great way to use up scraps and also the dimension it gives is quite intriguing .I notice when I give a stacked elements card the receiver always holds it up and looks in-between the layers. Makes me smile . You can use any type of diecut you desire and there is a beautiful selection of papers to blend and co-ordinate . I have used 3 collections and they all tone in magnificently together .

Walking in the Forest , Vintage Autumn Basics and Vintage Frost Basics

a different perspective – looking from the top view …

These are the words I wrote inside for Tara …. …… As you walk through life keep Ten friends by your side ……. Truth, Courage , Tenderness, Curiosity, Loyalty, Understanding, laughter, Friendship, Trust and Love. ……Always believe in yourself and your dreams….. . Happy birthday Tardy, to our wonderful precious Daughter. We love you to the moon and back . Congrats on reaching 40 years and may you have 40 more fabulous years here on earth , doing what you love. Lots of love and hugz .. Mum and Dad xoxox

Maja items used :Walking in the forest – Jeans – Autumn Poem, Vintage Autumn Basics – No. XXI, Vintage Frost Basics – 12th December bs.

Thanks for popping by and hope I have inspired you to have a play with these stacked elements and create your own masterpiece . See you next time , hugz from me x