Walking in the Forest : MajaDesign

So Sweet ~ Watching Them Grow

19 November, 2014 - Äntligen, Collections, Created Art, Layouts, Sofiero, Vintage Spring Basics, Walking in the Forest

Hi all, it’s Gabrielle here with you today to share with you my latest page using Maja Design papers. As I was scrapping this recent photo of my youngest daughter, I was struck by how much she’s grown up. I can’t believe she is a teenager now (turned 13 over the summer). I miss her being my little girl, but I also have enjoyed every stage of her life, this girl cracks me up with her funny sense of humour and quirky style.

For this page I used a modge podge of Maja Design papers. I more often than not combine a variety of Maja papers, coordinating them by color rather than collection name.

I used a variety of scraps in neutral tones and greens to make my rolled paper accents. I rolled up the scraps and then bound them with some twine. I added a fun l’il door hook on the side of my paper from Ingvild Bolme’s Junkyard Findings.

I used a variety of Dusty Attic chipboard as part of my page design, including a Skeleton Clock Frame, Foliage, and the ‘So Sweet’ title. For the frame I first painted the pieces with some white Gesso. Then I randomly dabbed on some ‘Broken China’ and ‘Peeled Paint’ Tim Holtz Distress Ink. I did a little edging with Ingvild Bolme’s ‘Branch Bark’ Chalk Ink. Then I added a coat of Inksenttials Crackle Medium. When it was dry and crackled I dabbed on some ‘Walnut Stain’ Distress ink so that it got in the little cracks and whipped off the excess ink.

I used the 11th of March-bs paper as the green background frame for my page and as the main background paper I used the backside of ‘Flannel Shirt’ paper from ‘Walking in the Forest Collection’….this is one of my favorite papers to use as a nice neutral background, especially when I do some mixed media on the page as I did here. I used a bit of Broken China and Peeled Paint Distress ink pads on the page and added some texture with home-made texture paste and a Crafter’s Workshop Stencil called ‘Mini Damask’. The butterfly is an image that I printed on a piece of transparency and cut out.

I wanted to keep my blossoms soft and clean, so I went with a burlap bloom from Petaloo and two white blossoms from Dusty Attic Designs. The small sugared dots are from Prima.

The strip of lace I used on the bottom of the page and the natural floral cluster (just above the title) are both from Tresors de Luxe. I had a little fun with the title. First I gave it a coat of brown chalk ink ‘Knotted Wood’ by Ingvild Bolme, then I used some ‘Waterfall’ Stickles in the center of my alpha’s. After it all dried I gave the whole thing a coat of gloss medium with some Glossy Accents.

Maja Design Products used in this project: Vintage Spring Basics (11th of March-bs, 7th of April, 7th of April-bs), Antiglen (Kaffe på trappan), Walking in the Forest (Flannel Shirt-bs), Sofiero (brown dot).

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and hope you find yourself some time this week to get your Maja on.

When Leaves are Falling

Posted by Rachelle Sigurdson

12 November, 2014 - Layouts, Walking in the Forest

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Hello,today I am here to share with you a fall LO,using the beautiful Walking in the Forrest Collection….

I used: Bird Song,Flannel Shirt,Jeans,Mountain Ash,Orchestra of Nature & a BS of a label.. The Chipboard used is from Dusty Attic. Here are some closeups of detail….I did distressed payer layers,using burlap & corrugate paper in my layers….On the birds on the branch,I stained the branches with Vintage photo,& on the leaves I used green & barn door red. I then applied a thick coat of rock candy crackle. & once the crackle dried brushed on some gesso,to bring out the cracks & to tone down the color. I also cut out the birds from the Collection, & glued them on to the branches….Chicken wire under the fence….

I also did some stencil work,using CWS confetti & Viva Modelling cream. When the cream dried I rubbed in brown & orange chalk….

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

Scrapping Greens & Creams

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

5 November, 2014 - Coffee In The Arbour, Collections, Created Art, Layouts, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Frost Basics, Walking in the Forest

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Hello Maja fans! Gabrielle here with you today to share my latest layout using a variety of Maja design collections. Green has always been one of my favorite colors to scrap, but lately I’ve been scrapping a lot of pinks and purples. I thought it was high time to play with some of my old favorite green toned papers mixed with some soothing neutrals.

I love the warm green in the Ska vi ta en Fika collection, so I used one as my backdrop for my layout design. I then chose one of the neutral papers from the same collection for my next layer. I wanted to play a bit with the side edges so I chose to use a chipboard Zipper design From Dusty Attic, moistened the sides of the papers and pulled back the paper in the center, creating small pleats. I then attached the zipper chipboard pieces (painted with some Bronze 3D paint (Scribbles) and glued it behind the edges of the paper. The title and the number chippies are from Dusty Attic as welll.

There are some tag images in the Walking in the forest collection, so I cut these out to used along the top of the photo as a page accent and a place to put a little journaling. I also cut another tag out of a Coffee In the Arbour paper and stamped one of my Signature Word stamps ‘fabulous’ that I recently released. (My word stamps can be found at The Scrapbook Diaries).

I wanted to keep the page accents naturalistic so I chose a new Dusty Attic chipboard piece called Wildflowers #3 to add alongside my photo of my two little great nieces.

And finally in the corner of the photo I accented with a few blooms from a tin of flowers from Recollections. I did a bit of background stamping as well with some green Moss Lawn color from Ingvild Bolme.

Maja Design Products used in this project: Ska vi ta en Fika? (Smulpaj m Applen, Havrerujor, Pratstund), Walking in the Forest (Klippark, Flannel Shirt), Vintage Autumn Basics (XVI), Vintage Frost Basics (Days of December), Coffee in the Arbour (Feel the Grass Between Your Toes).

Thanks so much for stopping by the Maja blog today! Hope you get a chance to play today! xo

Happy

Posted by Marilyn Rivera

27 October, 2014 - Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics, Walking in the Forest

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Happy Monday!! Marilyn is here to share my new Maja Design project with you today. It is a layout for a special friend and behind her in the photo is a brick wall that I continued through the page. I gave the effect with a Prima stencil and molding paste to my paper. I worked with the beautiful Walking in the Forest collection.

I made this mix media page with fabulous textures and dimensions as you can see it in this photo.

I made textures in all my left side of the page, then I draped my Maja Design paper (Knitted Sweather) and made layers with corrugated and lace from Tresor de Luxe.

I cut some of the leaves with a Sizzix die from the Colours of Fall paper and I added some leaves chippies from 2Crafty Chipboards.

I cut out some clocks from the No. XVI paper from the Vintage Autumn collection.

Supplies: Walking in The Forest collection- Knitted Sweather, Colour of Fall, Die cut Sheet. Vintage Autumn Basics-No.XVI. Prima Marketing- flowers, stencil, molding paste, gesso, stamp. Sizzix- Little Leaves die, 2Crafty Chipboards-chippies.

Until next time!! xx

Fall Inspired Forest

Posted by Andrea Ewen

23 October, 2014 - Cards, Walking in the Forest

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Morning Maja friends! It’s Andrea here with you today starting off with some big flowers, big bows and lots of Maja paper goodness! Here’s a card I made using the Walking in the Forest collection: Accessories on this little beauty consist of Verve stamps, a silk bow, twine, crystal stamens, Dark Chocolate liquid pearls, vintage alace, and lots of distressing. I also inked up some gauze and placed it behind the big bow. I was toying with making a Christmas card, but I think I’m going to wait a bit and enjoy this beautiful Autumn weather! Have a great day and thanks for spending part of it with me!