Hello Maja Fans, a very good morning to you 🙂

It’s Maja here to share a little sea album. Just as you’re reading these words, I’m in the car (hopefully) going North towards the Baltic sea! 🙂 Although we live in the South of Poland, almost in the Tatra mountains, we love the sea and our best holidays are connected with water 😉 And so, after a few year’s break we’re finally going to spend some time by the sea again and I decided to prepare a small album for some of the best shots. And of course I grabbed my favourite marine collection of all time, Life by the Sea:

As usually, I tied some ribbons on the wire and also hung a cute seahorse charm, first colouring it a bit with alcohol inks:

I used a chipboard lighthouse and stamped the date several times on the cover:

It’s still very plain and simple, a beta-version I might say 😉 as I hope to add some keepsakes we’ll buy/find, and the final embellishing will take place when I put photos in it. But I thought it would be a good idea to share such bare album to give you some idea of how I prepare the background for photos.

I took seven cardstock pages (two pages for each day) and two chipboard covers and all little pieces and scraps of the collection, so that – believe it or not – I cut little pieces off only two “full” sheets, everything else is composed of scraps! 🙂

So, I do suggest making yourself a cup of coffee now and then sitting comfortably 🙂 Are you ready for a ton of photos?

As you can see, I used just papers, some stamps, washi tapes, an edger punch and a few chipboard pieces to embellish the pages. Sometimes a scrap of paper was just a centimetre too short to cover a page, then I’d use a signature strip – I always keep all of them when I cut papers and love to use them 🙂 – to fill the gap.

Here’s how I used the smallest bits of paper: I made tiny flags…

…or a small banner…

…or a part of a tag that pretends to be hidden beneath papers 😉

Call me a miser, but I didn’t even waste a strip of paper that was 3 mm wide! LOL

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: bits and pieces of the Life by the Sea collection.

Other: Edger punch: Martha Stewart; stamps: ScrapBerry’s, Prima; chipboard: Scrapiniec, Magiczna Kartka; washi tapes: Dekoracyjna Taśma

I hope soon to be able to fill the album with fun photos 🙂

see you!

Hello Maja Friends.

I have been lucky enough to spend one week by the Baltic Sean in early June this year and took tons of pictures of my kids enjoying the see.

Today I have a mini album to share with you and it is full of fun photos onf my son who has seen the sea by the first time. Actually he is quite emotional so I decided to make a mini with those memory keepsakes.

No doubt Life by the Sea collection was my choice and it gave me the name of my album too.

  I used acrylic album as a base for my album, some parts I covered with the papers, the others I left clear.

I combined the papers from 6*6 paper pad and 12*12 as well.

I put one more photo inside, on the back of this part:

and here you can see how I painted the clear acrylic parts with the inks and embellished the page with the leftovers. so simple tip, but I guess it looks wonderful, isn’t it?

More mixed media tips were applied at the end of the album, but I admit it was the best way to support those cute photos

I am sure you have already possess or will own some photos taken during your vacation time, and especially taken by the sea. so Life by the sea collection is what you reallu need to make a beautiful album and preserve those warm memories.

Hope you have enjoyed watching my album.