Hello dear friends! Evgenia Petzer with you this Saturday morning with a long post to share. First is the gentle, feminine birthday card that I made using the light shade of lavender color that I love so much.
lots of close ups:
and a mini album: the size is 6 by 6 inch and I used mainly the Enjoying outdoors paper pad for it
For the card I used Vintage Spring Collection
and for the Mini Album Enjoying Outdoors Collection:
Have a lovely weekend,
Hello! Welcome!
The weather is beautiful here in Alabama and I think this LO reflects it.
I wanted to create something fresh and Spring like!
I started with a soft yellow back drop and added pops of brighter yellow, white and brown.
Lots of layers here beginning with a some die cut circles and few fussy cut flowers from the beautiful Maja papers.
I used a modeling paste to stencil a subtle design in the background and a large alphabet for some pop…
I added pretty flowers, a chipboard flourish and some metal pieces for the perfect accents.
There a bit of twine and crochet pieces for texture too.
Products:
Vintage Spring, 1st of March
Vintage Spring, 2nd of March
Vintage Frost, 21st of December
Flowers- Prima
Metal Brad and Lock- Prima
Stencil- Prima
Modeling Paste- Prima
Chipboard- Dusty Attic
Alphabet- American Craft
Metal Dies- Spellbinders
Hello Sweeties,
Today I’m up on Maja Design blog a new layout featuring a photo taken in Rennes (France). This head has a long story as it has been stolen several time.
I started to add a thin layer of clear gesso to help the paper with all the inks I will add later. Then I added a design with a stamp and clear embossing powder. Then I colored the background with different shades of brown and black.
I covered the chipboards with a white crackle paste and I aged them with Twinkling H2O.
I colored the tip of flowers with two tones of Distress Inks and sprayed them allowing the inks to move along the paper.
I colored the leaves with the same Twinkling H2O I used for the background and added some silver Mica Powder.
I finished the page with Glass Glitter and Micro Beads.
Maja Design papers used:
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| Nyhavn Eating out bs |
Vintage Summer basics 1891 |
Vintage Spring Basics 6th of March bs |
Vintage Frost basics 6th of December |
Vintage Frost basics 21th of December |
Hello, Rachelle here, with a Winter LO I did using the Beautiful Home for the Holidays & Vintage frost Basics Collections. I love working on Winter LO’s, even if it is not one of my favorite seasons. Our days are starting to get longer, & warmer, so Spring is in the air!!!
I used: A real Fellow,Never to Old-BS,Celebration,& Die cuts
I Used: 14th of Dec-BS
The Chipboard used is from Dusty Attic
Here are some closeups
On winter LO’s I love to do lots of paper layers, just as you would bundle up to go outside. I always distress the edges, & Maja Papers are the softest, best quality papers, that distress beautifully….
I also did some hand stitching, & used some lace & chipboard in the layers…
I painted the chipboard with white crackle, then once the crackle dried,I applied snow texture, & glass glitter…
I love the postage stamps, on the die cut sheet. The flowers are petaloo, I also applied snow texture, & glitter on the flowers…
I was trying to achieve the crystal look, of the snow taffey, with the glass glitter…
Shows,glass beads glued into the chicken wire…
This is a LO I did combining the Vintage Summer Basics,Vintage Spring Basics & Vintage Autumn Basics Collections..
From the Vintage Summer Basics I used: 1905,1932-BS,& 1903 From the Vintage Spring Basics I used: 1st of March, & 10th of March Vintage Autumn Basics I used: N0. XVI
Thankyou so much for taking the time to look….Rachelle
Hello Maja fans! Gabrielle here with you today to share this uniquely shaped baby card I recently made. I tend to be a bit frugal with scrap supplies, I save everything! Those plastic/transparent pieces that many of your embellishments come on (blooms etc.), I don’t throw them out, just in case I can use them later. I recently found a fun use for them….making easel cards with a peek-a-boo window. The Maja Design ‘Vintage Baby Collection’ had all the perfect elements to create the card I envisioned.
I used a variety of papers from the Vintage Baby collection (Die Cuts, Die Cuts-bs, Ephemera, Expecting, Our Little Miracle and Flowers for Mom), I also did a little fussy cutting from Vintage Spring Basics (5th of May) and Coffee In the Arbour (Butterflies are Free).
The bottom part of the card has an area for you to write in your own personal thoughts. I added some fussy cut blossoms attached with foam adhesive dots so that the window part of the card has something to prop against.
Here is a picture of the card with it’s folded shut. To make the card I cut out the framed baby design from the Vintage Baby Ephemera paper, also cutting out the area behind the baby inside the frame with an exacto-knife. I then laid the card cut out on the brown gingham paper (backside of the Die Cuts paper) and cut a piece slightly larger in wide to the frame piece…and kept the length of the strip the full 12 inches. I then cut a second piece of the gingham paper to frame the baby frame piece, making sure there is about a 1/4 inch edge. I then made a fold crease in the long strip at the 6″ mark and at the 3″ mark. I cut out the center of the upper part of the 6″ rectangle and also out of the matting piece I cut for behind the baby frame.
I then put the card together by attaching the gingham matting paper to the upper 3″ of the long card strip and then sandwiching the transparent plastic piece between the matting and the actual baby frame piece. Now you have a cute peek-a-boo window on your easel card. The last steps are just adding a few decorations. I cut out a second baby image from another piece of the Ephemera paper and added it with foam pop dots, I thought it gave the card that extra pop. I also fussy cut some flowers from the Vintage Spring Basics paper and butterflies from the Coffee In the Garden collection and added them as decorations to my card front. A few seed beads for my flower centers and bingo, your unique baby card is done! The cool thing? Maja also has a beautiful baby boy framed image in this collection so you can make the card for either sex.
It’s hard to show in a photo the effect of the see through window so I thought I’d post an extra pic from the other angle, but believe me, in real life the effect is quite striking. I had a lot of fun creating this special baby card and think you’d enjoy it too! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by the Maja blog today….as always we enjoy hearing your comments and feedback on our projects! xo