Hi there! I hope you have seen the new collection Vintage Frost Basics. Beautiful papers! I have made my first layout using these papers.

“Angel Eyes”

The corners of the background papers are rolled so that you get a better peek of the other papers giving the layout more colour. The seam binding bows give the layout more dimension and texture. Love the vintage feeling the seam binding gives. The chipboards from Blue Fern Studios are completely raw. I have just glued some pearls onto them.  I have used cheese cloth as a photo mat together with some diecuts I made with Maja Design papers and some dies. And here are some of the flowers I have used.Supplies: Maja Design papers from Vintage Frost Basics: 3rd of December, 5th of December, 4th of December, 19th of December

Other: Blue Fern Studios chipboards, flowers, leaves, cheese cloth, alpha stickers, seam binding, dies, border punches, pearls, chalks

Happy Saturday everyone!

This is Gerry here today. I am sharing another project I created with the brand-new and so beautiful “Vintage Frost Basics” collection. This time I created a layout without using any personal photos – instead I used one of the adorable pictures of Santa you’ll find in the collection.

After working a bit on the background I began building my page as I fussy cut different patterns, strips, post stamps….in general, all I thought it would go with my design.

A few of the pattern papers I used with Sizzix dies to decorate the layout like this Moroccan grid which I die-cut with two different pattern papers.

Further, once again, I used dies to cut three different rosettes. I added to all rosettes’ centers punched circles – I punched very precisely the patterns which will suit my design!

Don’t you just love that cute little post stamp?! A perfect touch to your project! Love it!

Other Products I used: Sizzix dies; Prima Marketing – flowers, stamp, stencils, chalk edgers, distress tool, craft knife; Webster’s Pages Alphabet stickers; various mixed media

I hope you enjoyed my project today! See you next week!

Hi there, Maja fans! Happy Monday!

I was really excited when the amazing “Vintage Frost Basics” collection arrived on my doorstep last week and couldn’t resist to start creating with it right away. I fell in love with the deep brown and grey papers from this collection and just had to make a masculine lay-out with them. This is also the first lay-out that I made about my boyfriend, Jeroen. I’m really happy with my new ‘scrapbook subject’ and I’m sure I will be creating many more lay-outs about him in the future.

Usually I’m really much into feminine, shabby chic and romantic papers, so I hardly ever create something with a more grungy and masculine look to it. But since I didn’t want to introduce my boyfriend on a pink lay-out, I figured I should give the grungy look a go for a change. The beautiful papers from the ‘Vintage Frost Basics’ collection made it really easy to do so! I combined them with an old book page, several embellishments and some twine. I used stamps to make my lay-out look a bit more vintage. The background paper with the script pattern on it is from the ‘Vintage Summer Basics’ collection. As you can see, the different ‘Vintage Basics’ collections can be mixed up really well!

To make my photo the main focus of attention, I emphasized it with a chipboard swirl. I used embossing ink to turn it into brown. 

Supplies: Maja Design: patterned papers (“Vintage Frost Basics”: 16th of December, 21st of December-bs, 22nd of December-bs, Christmas Die-Cuts, Christmas Die-Cuts-bs; “Vintage Summer Basics”: 1891); Petaloo: flowers; Prima Marketing: trinkets, bulb, wood button; Maya Road: kraft envelope, kraft tickets; Gina Designs: chipboard swirl; Graphic 45: key charm; Bo  Bunny: Mamarazzi2 clear stamps, Stain Textured clear stamps; Tim Holtz: distress ink Walnut Stain; Martha Stewart: border punches; EK Success: border punch; Viva Decor: perlen pen; Other: fineliner, twine.