Vintage Summer Basics : MajaDesign

”Believe” Layout

16 October, 2016 - Enjoying Outdoors, Layouts, Vintage Summer Basics

Hello Maja fans and welcome to the blog!

It’s Mary here with you today! I would like to share a new layout I made with papers from two collections… ”Enjoying outdoors” and ”Vintage Summer Basics”.

When I found that beautiful photo on Pinterest I decided to use it for my new layout… It’s so mysterious and so magical at the same time and I couldn’t resist! Of course, I want to give all the proper credits to the photographer.

The green paper is the ”Beautiful trees” from the ”Enjoying outdoors” and the brown is the ”Minnen” from the ”Vintage Summer Basics” collections. I tore the brown one in the middle and glued it on the green paper. Have I ever tell you how much I love to tear and distress those papers? They look amazingly gorgeous that way!

I made my background by using modeling paste and a stencil over a coat of clear gesso. All the mediums I used are Finnabair’s. This time, I prefered to play with magical powders (Red Hot Poker Orange, Cowbunga Copper and Cattail Copper Brown) from Lindy’s Stamp Gang to color my page. I made my own mist with ”Ponderosa Pines Olive” magical and misted the 2crafty chipboards.

I made my clusters with Prima Marketing flowers and I added some ”Scrap Unlimited” embellishments to accomplish them.

Some splatters with white gesso, microbeads in ”copper” to match with the earth colors and a few gems to finish my layout.

Papers used:

: ”Minnen” Bs

: ”Beautiful trees” Bs

Thank you for your time my friends!

Fun Time Layout

Posted by Elena Olinevich

14 October, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello Maja Friends. It’s Elena here today.

All of you know how beautiful Maja Design papers are, it’s such a pleasure to embellish it with the flowers, however it’s always a challenge for me to create something for the boys – with no flowers, with no lace or ribbons. And yes, I have to confess it takes me much more time to invent what to add. The gears, arrows are too boring, what else can be used?

Ok, I tried to find new ways. First, try to experiment with die cut negative shapes

You can do several layers. Moustashes and air ballons are still my favorite die cuts while creating something for the boys, however I like adding the birthday balloons too.

The feathers are one of my all time favorite die cuts that can be easily used everywhere. Just add some glitter – and they are not so boring.

However I still like to use blue and craft colors for the boyish layouts, I know they look classy and more traditional one.

Meanwhile I still like to make the papers look vintage and torn and distressed edges work great especially when you create for the boys.

I hope that some of my ideas how to create for boys with no flowers will be useful and if you have more ideas to share , okease, you are welcome to leave the comments bellow.

Supplies:

: 1912 bs

: 1904 bs

: 1904

: 4th of March

: 4th of March BS

: 3rd of April BS

: 7th of April

: 7th of April BS

Spellbinders Dies, Prima Marketing Glitter

Guest Designer Anna Rogalska

Posted by Carita Ruckman

4 October, 2016 - Cards, Guest Designers, Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Romance, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello dear friends!
It’s Anna Rogalska with you today.

Anna-Rogalska

Today I’m back here with a new project for Maja Design.

I am so excited to share with you that I was invited here this month as Guest Designer.

I created art journal pages with beautiful ‘Heritage’ paper from Vintage Autumn Basics collection and ‘Minnen’ from Vintage Summer Basics collection.

The other products are from 13arts.

The second project is wedding card with box.

For this card I have used the lovely Vintage Romance collection. I just love the flowery papers!

I enjoy coordinating the inside and back of my cards with the design on the front.

In this card I used some flowers, lace, pearls, chipboard.

Here is the list of the papers used:

Art Journal: ‘Heritage’ paper from Vintage Autumn Basics collection and ‘Minnen’ from Vintage Summer Basics colection.

Wedding Card: ‘Love is in the air’, ‘Engagement’, ‘Love poetry’, ‘Walk with me’

Other products:

13arts mediums, Scrapiniec – chipboard, Anemone – chipboard.

Thanks for visiting! Have a nice day!

Anna-sign

Life is Beautiful

Posted by Rachelle Sigurdson

1 October, 2016 - Cards, Layouts, Summertime, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello, I am back after taking a summer break, to spend time in my garden. Here is a LO I did, using the Beautiful Summertime Collection, ” Life is Beautiful”…

I used:

It’s my Favorite

Having Fun-BS

Gives me Joy

By the Sea Diecuts

By the Sea-Diecuts-BS & a BS of a Label

The chipboard used is from Dusty Attic…

Here are a few close ups…

I started off, with doing distressed paper layers, I also did some punch work & hand stitching…

Shows a rolled up corner…

painted some of the chipboard with clear crackle varnish, once the crackle dried, I rubbed on denim & brown using a ink pad…

I made a bow out of cheese cloth, some flowers out of the collection, & used Prills as the flower centers, ends of seagrass, & on the chicken wire…

I also used a doily in the layers….

Here are a few more close ups…

My next project, a card using the Summertime Collection…

My final project, a LO combining the Vintage Spring & Vintage Summer Collections…

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

You Shine {remember today}

Posted by Amy Voorthuis

25 September, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Well hello and good morning to you all,

It’s me again Amy and today I would like to share something special with you all. Jennifer the boss of The Dusty Attic celebrated her 40th birthday this month and her friend Jen The Dusty Attic design team coordinator, aka her friend surprised her with a massive scrapbook with all pages of every design team member that is currently designing for them including me. Oh boy was she surprised when she got it Jen made a video for us to watch which was great to see….This is the layout that I made using two Maja Design collections “Vintage Summer Basics” and my favorite “Vintage Autumn Basics” on this layout I used a bunch of chipboard pieces that I treated with the amazing rust paste by Finnabair {did I tell you I am hooked on that stuff} and acrylic paint.

I used a lot of mixed media techniques on this layout and use products like tissue paper, ink, stamps, sprays, art stones, glass glitter on my layout. If you know me a little by now you know that I really like to incorporate metal embellishments on my work and on this layout I used a whole bunch of those as you can see 😉

Also I added two different stencils with paste and a little glass jar with a piece of paper that wishes her a happy birthday. I really had fun making this layout and this page gave me that yeahhhh feeling that I haven’t felt in a “long” time since I started scrapbooking twelve years ago…..maybe the reason for that is that this one was made as a gift for someone which is always a lot of fun to make someone feel special.

This time the flowers are by Petaloo and not hand made like I normally do which sometimes is great because making handmade flowers will take a lot of time to make which I sometimes don’t have since I work too……I feel really special to be working for three amazing crafting companies that I sometimes feel like I am dreaming. I am planing to give a class for a bunch of Dutch ladies on how I make my layouts {using Maja Design papers of course} …what I find very scary although I did it once before. You will find more about it on my Facebook page in the near future.

Did you ever feel like you some how can’t finish a page that you started? What I do when that happens I put my layout aside and start all over again….and when it’s another day I just take out that layout again and then {somehow it works} I finish it and those are mostly the prettiest pages I make weird right?

Maja Design papers used: no.XVI from the Vintage Autumn Basics collection & 1943 bs, 1912 bs, 1904 bs and 1891 from the Vintage Summer Basics collection.

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today and I hope you will have a lovely Sunday…on Monday I will be leaving for a week to go on school camp with our son since he is in his last year! I almost could not go due to my work {my boss was being a pain in the but} but it all worked out luckily pheww…..

Much Love