Vintage Winter : MajaDesign

Vintage Christmas

Posted by Heidi Augustson

11 November, 2015 - Cards, Tags, Vintage Winter

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Good morning Maja friends!

Today I thought I was going to give you some inspiration to start on your Christmas cards.

This card is made with left over papers from several of Maja Designs collections. All in blue, beige and brown.

I have used an image from the Internet, a doily, pearls, lace and a crochet flower.

The text is in Norwegian and means “take care of the moments”.

I have also made a tag for a Christmas present.

Here I have used papers from Vintage Winter together with a doily.

The tag is decorated with twine, a paper rose, red berries and lace.

Wish you all a wonderful day! Hugs from Heidi

My Winter Wonderland

Posted by Silje Kristin Aunan

1 November, 2015 - Altered Items, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Winter

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Hello Everyone <3

Today it is me, Silje Kristin that will inspire you, with something I’ve never have done before.

This weekend I took a trip down to southern Norway, and visited a lovely town called Tønsberg. I traveled on Thursday to have the entire weekend along with scrapping happy ladies. I’m having a great time, and some great days here at the scrapbooking event. I have meet many new and wonderful scrappers and enjoyed hours after hours with papers.

Do you remember my last post? I told you I’d show you one big project. I was then in a scrapbooking event here in my home town, Bodø. That weekend I spent 21 hours making something I’ve never tried before. The inspiration I got from an intro of a TV series and the winter theme.

I decided to create one ferris wheel. The ferris wheel is made without a tutorial. I used about five hours to make the two wheels. Around the wheels I have attached white pearl string. The ferris wheel is assembled in the same as the wheels. Also these, I’ve created without a tutorial.

In between the wheels I have attached paper straws, which I have distressed with Distress Mini Ink. On every paper straws, a small trolley hanging down. The trolleys are made of four circles. I’ve used a thin white tape around, to create a special effect.

On the front on the wheels, I have some big snow crystals, these are wood from Wycinanka. I have covered them with snow and glitter from Distress Ink.

The details I have made and placed around the ferris wheel are made by hand. Here you will find shoes, snowmen, christmas trees, deer, christmas gifts and bullfinch.

The shoes are painted white, and then I have some snow and glitter on them <3

I have made two snowmen, which are made with a tutorial that I have made myself. Both snowmen are covered with snow and glitter, that you can see is everywhere on the project.

Behind the ferris wheel and at the front, I have some deer. This is a dies set from Marianne Design.

On the green chrismas trees I’ve used glitter and snow. In and on the trees you can see christmas baubles in blue and bullfinch.

The bullfinch is a dies set from kaBoks, this is one set of three size and they are perfect to have between flowers, or as I have done, glued them on the christmas trees <3

The final details of the project are tree packages in three sizes. Each package has its own tag, ribbon and snow <3

If you put all the details together, you have a lovely winter wonder land, with wonderful snow and glitter <3

The entire project is made on the back of a shelf. In the corners I have attached silver feet and atop of the brown carton I have covered it all with white snow and glitter.

I have used paper from two diffrent collections from Maja Design.

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I hope you are inspired to create your own winter wonderland <3

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It’s all vintage

Posted by Heidi Augustson

14 October, 2015 - Cards, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Winter

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Good morning Maja friends! Are you all doing fine? Have you realized that it’s only two month until you have to send your Christmas cards? That means you soon have to start making them!

This card is made with papers from “Vintage Frost Basics”. I have used both “1st of December” and “10th of December” for this card.

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I have used images of angels, lace, chipboard, cheese cloth and a wooden star.

Do you want to see another card? Today my daughters boyfriend turns 23, and I made him a birthday card some days ago.

Here I have used papers from “Vintage Winter”, both “Bake a Christmas cake” and “It’s chilly outside”.

The cool image I found on the Internet and I have decorated the card with cheese cloth, a film strip from Tim Holtz, old buttons, a chipboard star and text stickers.

Thanks for dropping by! Enjoy your day 🙂

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Adorable

Posted by Maja Nowak

9 March, 2015 - Collections, Gammaldags Jul, Layouts, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Vintage Winter

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Hello, Maja Fans, welcome to our blog today 🙂

It’s Maja here with a layout to share. Last year during a routine check at the doctor’s we discovered our elder son needed glasses. I remembered that during my childhood kids wearing glasses had rather tough life at school – but luckily now that changed and glasses can even make your more popular LOL Besides, I do think he looks great wearing them, doesn’t he? 🙂

The inspiration for the colour palette came from the great combo of blue-green-creme and brown in the striped design of the Bulle m. blåbär sheet from the Ska vi ta en fika? collection. I matted it with the Winter joy paper and topped with the Julstämning sheet – yes, that’s right, I used winter-Christmas papers for this layout 🙂 Then I sprayed some mists over the paper and stamped the faux stitching:

Could I do without flowers? Of course not! And here’s the cluster in matching colours. I also added the owl charm, as the bird looks so much as if wearing glasses 🙂

Other embellies include the butterfly button, chipboard star-shaped buttons and the die-cut title:

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: Vintage Winter: Winter Joy, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?: , Gammaldags Jul: Julstämning bs. Other: flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts; die: Kesi’art; stamp: Prima, chipboard: Scrapiniec; button: Lemoncraft; charm: my stash.

Have a very nice day and drop by tomorrow for some more inspiration from our DT 🙂

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My Sassy Girl

Posted by Jelissa Mei

19 February, 2015 - Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Winter

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Hello friends, how are you this Thursday?

Today it’s my turn on the Maja Design blog with you and I have a canvas to share. I made this for a family we often have play dates together with, and their daughter is really a sweet little girl.

Here is the project:

I based the colors of my canvas on the photo – there’s mostly blue from her dress, some green from the background and a little bit of pink and purple from her hair clip. I also emphasized the checkered square pattern because of her dress design, which also has the same pattern.

Some close-ups:

I made quite a few butterflies cut out from the Vintage Spring Basics collection and had them randomly over the page. To make them look more alive and dimensional, I folded them into half and glued down only the centre portion. My chipboard was painted with a few different shades of pink and green, and distressed with some white gesso for a white-washed look.

Another view of the same cluster, but you can see the layers of papers I’ve used and a mini tag I’ve cut out as well. I also tucked in pieces of die cut leaves under my flowers.

My main floral cluster, where I have layers of papers, chipboards, gauze, die cut leaves and the flowers. All the flowers were dry-brushed with gesso for a shabby look. You can also see some of the splatters I’ve done in my background and glass beads I’ve added to emphasize the overall “shape” of the main cluster.