Walking in the Forest : MajaDesign

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30 April, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Spring Basics, Walking in the Forest

Hello, today I am here to share with you a LO I did using Maja Design’s Beautiful Vintage Spring Basics Collection. We are now getting Spring here, snow is gone, trees are budding out, I am looking forward to seeing, all those lush, fresh greens…..

I used:

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9th of March

7th of May

7th of May-BS

4th of May

The chipboard used is from Dusty Attic

Here are some close ups…

I started off by doing distressed, hand stitched layers, I also did some stencil work…

This corner shows some punch work using Martha Stewart Punch, cherish…

I glued the berries & branches onto the vine frame, then painted the leaves with white crackle paint….

The brown rose is Little Birdie, & the other flowers are IamRoses…

The Prills used are USArtQuest Tu-Tu Pink….

The brown used on the Chipboard is Shimmerz Inklingz, Chocolate & Diamonds. Here are some more close ups….

Here is another LO I did, using the Beautiful, Walking in the Forest Collection “Explore”

I used:Birdsong, Birdsong-BS,Mountain Ash, & from the Enjoying the Outdoors Collection I used:Autumn Hues-BS

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

Pretty in not so Pink

Posted by Rachelle Sigurdson

13 March, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Baby, Vintage Summer Basics, Walking in the Forest

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Hello, today I am here to share with you a Baby LO I did combining the Vintage Summer Basics Collection with the Vintage Baby Collection….

I used:1934,1934-BS,1944-BS &1909-BS

I used: expecting

The Chipboard used is from Dusty Attic

Here are some close ups…

I love to distress & do layers with the Maja Papers, this shows some of the layers, with some punch work, lace a doily, & hand stitching in the layers…

I painted lots of the chipboard with clear crackle, then painted it with H2)’s once the crackle had dried…

Here are some more close ups….

This is a Double Page LO I did, as a Kit, for The Scrapbook Diaries

I used the Walking in the Forrest Collection

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

Looking Back

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

27 January, 2016 - Layouts, Nyhavn, Ska Vi Ta En Fika?, Sofiero, Vintage Autumn Basics, Vintage Baby, Walking in the Forest

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Hi All! It’s Gabrielle here with you today! It’s the beginning of a new year, and I’m thinking it’s fun to reflect over past years on some of my favorites of projects I’ve created with Maja Design papers. One of my favorite things about Maja Design papers is the beautiful images you can use for fussy cutting and embellishing your projects. For the above layout I used a combination of papers from the Sofiero collection and from the Vintage Autumn Basics collections. The clocks are clearly one of my go to favorite items to use on a scrap page, as are the gorgeous roses found in the Vintage Autumn Basics papers!

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Another thing I particularly love about Maja Design Papers is their wonderful quality and the strength of the papers. They allow you to play with and manipulate the papers with a little bit of water without falling apart on you. For the page above I cut little swags of one of the papers in the Ska Vi Ta En Fika collection papers and created a draping effect by making little folds/pleats in the paper.

And as much as I love to create feminine pages with Maja papers, Masculine pages come together just as easily since there are so many wonderful papers and images in the papers to choose from in each collection!

And don’t get me started on all the sweet baby pic’s you can scrap using these gorgeous papers! Above is a layout I got to make using a baby pic from my friend Jennifer who was kind enough to let me scrap her sweet baby boy….

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You can scrap feminine baby pics as well using the pretty soft pinks in the beautiful papers….here I used the lovely Vintage Baby collection papers to scrap this sweet pic of one of my little great nieces.

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Did anyone say weddings? Of course these papers work beautifully for romantic/wedding photos! This was a page I designed in the first year I began on the Maja design team…..good times!

The wedding pages you can create with the different collections are endless! Here I used the Nyhavn collection to scrap this beautiful photo of my niece and her husband. This collection worked so well for their photo as their wedding had a nautical theme.

Honestly, it was so hard to pick just a few favorites I’ve made over the years. Every time I hear that Marie Jensen is at the drawing board creating another lovely collection, I’m excited and and so happy, looking forward to seeing what new designs and lovely images I will have to work with, whether it be on my scrapbook pages, mixed media art or OTP projects! If I had to pick a favorite collection? Lets see…..Vintage Autumn Basics,….wait a sec, nope, Enjoying the Outdoors, oh no, wait! Walking in the Forest…..**sigh** way to hard to pic just one! 🙂

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Wishing for Spring

Posted by Gabrielle Pollacco

13 January, 2016 - Collections, Enjoying Outdoors, Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics, Walking in the Forest

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Hi all, it’s Gabrielle here with you today to share with you my latest page using Maja Design papers! I really can’t complain too much about the weather, it’s been a fairly mild winter here in Canada (Ontario, at least) so far….but the past few days have been so cold and snowy. It doesn’t take long for me to long for Spring! So today I thought I would scrap something that makes me happy….beautiful flowers.

I used a number of papers from the beautiful ‘Enjoying Outdoors’ collection (Beautiful Trees-bs, Woodlands, Flourishing-bs)….also a bit of Vintage Autumn Basics (XVI) – Clocks, and Walking In the Forest (Die Cut Sheet- butterfly).

I found these cute flowers that I thought were a good match for the blossoms in the photo….they are Prima Marketing flowers, but I couldn’t find a name on the packaging (I think they might be from the FairyBelle collection?).

I did a little painting with some Shimmerz Paints on the background. I used ‘Naughty or Nice’ Inklingz behind the photo area and then used a combination of ‘Sage It Isn’t So’ Creameez and ‘Greener Pastures’ Inklings, splashing out from the side underneath the floral embellishments. I gave the Dusty attic chipboard scrolls a coating of ‘Artie Choked’ Textures.

You can see in this photo, the pretty textures the green texture paste gives to the Dusty Attic chipboard Scrolls. I also tucked a few clocks that I cut out from the Vintage Autumn Basics XVI paper around the photo area along with some Dusty Attic green blossoms. And as a finishing touch I added a butterfly that I cut out of the Die Cut sheet from the Walking In the Forest collection as an embellishment on the photo.

I added a bit of texture using a new Dusty Attic stencil called ‘Cross Hatch’ with some home-made texture paste. I also added a new chipboard title from Dusty Attic, using the Shimmerz ‘Greener Pastures’ paint to color the scripted words in the title.

I hope you enjoyed today’s post and that it brought you a little hint of Spring on this cold winter day!

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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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