Vintage Frost Basics : MajaDesign

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21 February, 2016 - Collections, Layouts, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

Hello SweetiesToday I’m up on Maja Design blog with a monochromatic layout. I chose to work with a beige shading to highlight these photo of the Saint-Martin-d’Ardéche’s bridge (France).

I started with a layer of clear gesso to protect the background. When dry, I added a design with a stencil and white crackle paste.

While the crackle paste was drying, I chose different papers to go under my photo and distress them with a distress tool.

When the design was dry, I splattered some watered gesso on the background, then I added some Rust mica powder mixed in water and I let everything dry.

I covered all the embellishments (flowers, leaves, die-cut and metallic embellishments) with gesso and dry them. Then I colored everything with some Rust mica powder.

I added some some random stamping and glued all the embellishments.

To finish the layout, I added some glass glitter and micro beads.

Maja Design papers used:


Vintage Summer Basics			Vintage Frost Basics
1946	1891	Minnen	6th of December	21st of December bs

Look Me in the Eye

Posted by Rachelle Sigurdson

20 February, 2016 - Crea Diem, Home for the Holidays, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello, today I am here to share with you, a LO I did using Maja Design’s Vintage Summer Basics Collection, using the pink & brown tones….

I used:1924-BS,1903,1903-BS, & from the Vintage Spring Basics I used: & 7th of April

The Chipboard used is from Dusty Attic

Shows, distressed hand stitched layers. I also did some punch work, & placed doily’s in the layers. Maja Design papers are the best quality, distressing papers, I have ever worked with!

I did some stencil work, using DA heart attack stencil, & dream weaver crackle texture..

On the feather I used clear crackle, then once the crackle dried I rubbed in some chalk to bring out the cracks. I also inked the edges using a brown ink pad…

The flowers used are Prima & IamRoses..

For the pink used on the chipboard I used shabby pink smooch. On the berries & the beads, on the feather charms,I also applied drops of glossy accents…

Here are some more close ups…

Let it Snow

From the Home for the Holidays I used: Welcome Winter, From the Vintage Frost Basics I used: 7th of December, 7th of Dec-BS, 6th of December, 5th of December & Days of Dec-BS

Beauty

From the Nyhavn Collection I used: Kings Square-BS, Sitting at the Dock, & Sitting at the Dock-BS. From the Crea Diem Collection I used: Om du vill alskas

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

Winter

Posted by Pascale B

24 January, 2016 - Home for the Holidays, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Winter

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Hello Sweeties
Today, I’m up on Maja Design with a winter page.

(Photo de Richard Loader)

I began to cover the background page with clear gesso. When dry, I did some random stamping and added black bister. To prevent the bister from reacting afterward, I sprayed a fixative on the whole page before continuing.

I added more colors to the background with differents Twinkling H2Os. With a stencil and white crackle paste, I added also a design, which I covered with white Art Sugar while the paste was still wet.

I colored the die-cut leaves and branches with Twinkling H2Os too.

I distressed the papers under the photo and lightly inked the edges.

I used 3D Matte Gel to glue all the elements to the background.

Maja Design papers used:


Home for Holidays		Vintage Winter	Vintage Frost basics
Together	Can’t wait bs	Christmas Carols	22th of December bs

1953

Posted by Pascale B

10 January, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Frost Basics

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Hello Sweeties,

Today I’m up on Maja Design blog with my first post here of the year and I want to wish you all the most creative year!

It’s another photo of my father whose birthday was a few days ago. I worked with A Vintage Frost Basics collection which is perfect for winter photos.

I started to splatter watered gesso on the background. When dry, I added a design with Graphite Paste and a stencil.

While the background was drying, I distressed and inked the papers that will be under the photo. Then I added some color to the background by splattering two colors of Twinkling H2Os and watered gesso until I was happy with the result.

I glued the embellishments with 3D matte gel. I covered the flowers with gesso before painting them with the same Twinkling H2Os to give them a distressed look .I added also some silver micro beads.

To finish the composition, I added some splatters of gesso and Twinkling H2O to the title.

I wish you all a wonderful New Year’s Eve party and see you next year 😉

Maja Design papers used:


A Vintage Frost Basics collection

10th of December	6th of December	20th of December bs	21th of December bs

My Top 10 – Maja Design 2015

Posted by Silje Kristin Aunan

1 January, 2016 - Enjoying Outdoors, Home for the Holidays, Nyhavn, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Baby, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Winter, Walking in the Forest

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Happy New Year Everyone <3

Today I thought I would make a Top 10 list of my favorite projects made with Maja Design <3

Maja Design is my favorite when it comes to patterned paper, and to be able to create projects with these lovely sheets are indescribable. It seems that the sheets are made to my projects, because they always fit into what I make.

Therfore , I think it’s appropriate that I make a Top 10 list of my favorite projects from 2015, made with Maja Design <3

The Baby Vintage Playground – 10

This is a box that I made April last year. The box is made with paper from the Collection The Vintage Baby. The airplane, the trees, small boxes and the train are made without tutorial and the idea I’ve gotten from the name of the Collection and therefore it became a playground for a girl or a boy <3

The Vintage Travel Boxes – 09

This set of boxes I mase to one Norwegian Magazine called Ett Trykk, This ia a Scrapbooking Magazine and I was askes to be a Guest Artist last year.

The boxes are originally tin cans that I have decorated with paper from the Collection called The Vintage Spring Basics. The ddetails I have chosen to use are metal in bronze color. The blue and the dark details are probably way I love these boxes so much.

The Vintage Baby Gift Boxes – 08

These boxes are one result afther one bad brakeup betwieen me and my X boyfriend afther 3 years. For me to droen myself in this wonderful hobby when I have it tough is indescribable. I close the feelings out and concentrate one one thing and that is to do what i Love the most, papercrafting. These boxes took a total of 4 days to create, a box for eatch day.

A Lovely Christening Present – 07

This is also a project that I designed for Ett Trykk, but it is also one project that I have put a lot of thought and love into. The baby mobile with the small planes I consider as one of the finest things that I have made and it is actually hangs in one corner in my beedrom. One of my wishes is that I’m so lucky that I can give this gift to my baby one day <3 The projects is made from paper from The Vintage Baby and Nyhavn.

The Frozen Playground – 06

The Frozen Playground is one project that is made with paper from the Vintage Frost Basics. There is one project that I’ve thought for a long time, I created The Baby Vintage Playground, it was time for a playground for the Kids too. This was really fun to make, only to see the toys were made and got a place on the project.

The Cabinet of the Treasure – 05

Last Year, in the Autumn, Maja Design come with a LOVELY collection called Enjoying Outdoors. This is one of my favorites Collections and this closet here was the first project I used these sheets on. The cabinet was originally in pink, but with the sheets and the details, I give it a new life. The cabinet was also a Christmas gift to my little sister Jeanette, so she can use it for jewelery <3

A True LOVE Story in a Music Box – 04

This is one project that is all abute LOVE and that is probably whay it’s on my list <3 I love this box and wat it symbolizes <3 THe idea comes from a story written by a Danish writer named H.C. Andersen and the storry called The Tin Soldier. The sheets I have used are from two different collections, Walking in the Forrest and Vintage Autumn Basics.

The Silver Deer – 03

The project with The Silver Deer is for me one magical project <3 It is full of glitter and snow. The entire project has a frosted fell to it and a touch of romance. The idea of this box were the basis of the latest collection by Maja Design, Home for the Holidays. The deer that are on some of the sheets I have tried to recreate by placing a silver deer on the top.

My Winter Wonderland – 02

My winter paradise in te woods covered with snow and glitter are one of the projects that I’m most pleased with. Sitting creating a projectbased on an idea and withoute tutorial is magical. When I made this, I used the blue paper from the Vintage Winter collection.

My Christmas Present for Myself – 01

But the project that I put highest on my list is the Christmas Cards I handed out before Christmas. This is one project that I appreciate very highly and I am so thankfoul that I got the pssibility to share out 86 homemade cards to the elderly in nursing homes in my homeplase Gildeskål.

Now you have seen and read abute my Top 10 List with Maja Design projects from 2015 <3 This was no easy list for me to make, but I’m already looking forward to the continuing with Maja Design Projects in the coming year <3

I’m so excited abute how they are going to be, for rigth now, I have no idea where my ideas can take me away to.

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