Guest Designer Elena O

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

22 February, 2016 - , , ,

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Hi everyone!

My name is Elena and in the scrapbooking world my nickname is Elena Arts.

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I was born in Russia but I have been living in Spain since 2000. I’m married and I have a little daughter who is my muse and the main source of my inspiration. 

In 2012 I discovered  Scrapbooking, and all my world changed.

I love creating a lot of beautiful things, especially I find myself in Mixed Media. I love textures, gesso, modelling pastes, paints, sprays, combine fabric with paper…

It is great to be able to do what you really love! I am very happy when I am creating and I feel full of the energy and the creativity in these moments.

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I have made a notebook and albom in one. The idea was to create a notebook inspired by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast with diamonds ” and done in the style Shabby Chick or Vintage.

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Inside there are 48 sheets (96 pages) dipped in coffee and 18 sheets (36 pages) decorated for a photos, I also left a few sheets without the decoration. All the papers are from different collections of Maja Design, with their beautiful and elegant prints.

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Mostly I have used papers from Nyhavn and Vintage Spring Basics.Nyhavn-PVintage-Spring-Basics-P
I hope you like it 😉

You can visit me here – http://elenaarts.blogspot.com.es/

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Guest Designer Malin Ellegaard

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

11 January, 2016 - , , , ,

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Hello there!

My name is Malin Ellegaard and I´m 42 years old. I live in Sweden with my partner Peder and our 3 children.

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I´m  SO honored to have been asked to do this Guest dt post for Maja design.
I have been scrapbooking since 2007 but I got more in to it in 2010 and I just LOVE it!
I love this little romantic and cute style and I guess you will see that in my projects to. I have made 3 cards and a little gift box for you and I hope that I in some way can inspire you with them.

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In my first 3 objects I have been using Maja Designs paper from the collection “Enjoying Outdoors”, I love the soft color in this paper. I usually use about 2-3 paper in the same project from the same collection because I think the paper are so adorable that I want to be able to see the pattern on them on my project and not just cover upp by flowers, stamps and so on.

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I made the little gift box very simple, I like this clean and simple style to and when I have small pieces of papers left I usually use them on clean and simple projects. I think that is perfect since I don´t want to throw any pieces of papers away. On this one it was perfect to use the small pieces to do some pennants of for my project.

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In my last project I made a valentine card with a heart shape, since it is soon valentine I thougt it vas a perfect project to do. I have in this card been using paper from the collection “Summer Crush”, again I just love this papers since there are so soft and nice colors in them. I also love when it sparkle on my project so I often use a lot of stickles, pearls and so on. I think it does so much for the card when you can have it sparkle a little bit.

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I hope you enjoyed the projects.
Hugs

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Maja Design Special feature – Guest designer Mariusz

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

10 September, 2015 -

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Dear Maja fans,

Thanks for visiting! Today you will get to know a really talented scrapper, named Mariusz Gierszewski. He is one of our most dedicated followers and he does real magic with Maja papers..

“My name is Mariusz Gierszewski and I come from Poland. I’m 24 and I’m a young man who love papers, flowers and scissors. I live in a small village – Modrzejewo in north Poland. My passions are scrapbooking, and cardmaking.

I want to say thank you for invitation as Guest Designer. This is a huge honor for me because Maja Design is one of my favorite company. I like this papers for the delightful design, nice colors and perfect grammage (they are very thick). A lot of the collection makes everyone can find something for yourself in Maja shops. I love create shabby projects with many flowers and layers and this is very easy with Maja papers because many of this papers is soft and pastels. I look forward to your projects 🙂

I’m the youngest Prima Marketing Educator and Graphic45 designer. First project I ever made was in August, 2012. My favorite styles are vintage and shabby. As always I was inspired by nature. I love making cards and albums, sometimes LO’s and mixed-media projects. Scrapbooking is my passion, love and life. ;-)”

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Enjoy his special projects for Maja:

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We totally adore your work, a huge thanks for sharing this with us..!

You can visit his blog here – http://scrapkiart.blogspot.se/, his Facebook site here and his Pinterest here.

See you soon!

Hugs from the Maja Office.

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Special Guest Feature

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Posted by Carita Ruckman

15 August, 2015 - , ,

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Hi sweeties!

Today we are going to share some fabulous work by Kristina Peshko.
Kristina is one of our most dedicated and talented fans and we really adore her creations.
Hope you’ll like them as much as we do..! (And psst – don’t forget to let her know..!)
Enjoy!

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“Hello! My name is Kristine Peshko. I am very happy to be a guest at your favorite spot in your blog. Maja Design is the paper that inspires me always! When I do something, everything goes by itself. For me it is an endless pleasure of working with paper, which is thought-out to the last detail! Scrapbooking to me is first of all albums. Paper Maja Design is ideal for albums. I am confident that over the years it will become more valuable. The quality of the paper on top. A collection of designs and sheets are always designed and fit together. I really like doing albums like with photos, working with emotions. So without photos while working on a composition and a certain style. Since I love the mix of media I can not help but note that the paper will withstand all tests. Embossing, sprays, pigments, mediums – in every project I add different techniques, I think, because of my work look more unique. Basically, I do work with a light touch of vintage. And also in the style of Shabby Chic, really like men and eco theme. Lately I’ve been using natural materials and inspired by the nature has given us. Many thanks for the invitation! I wish all readers of the blog of inspiration and creative success!”

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Absolutely wonderful albums..!
Kristina has been using papers from Nyhavn and Vintage Baby.

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And some lovely cards..

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To make these cards, Kristina has been using papers from Vintage Summer Basics, Nyhavn, Ska Vi Ta En Fika? and Vintage Spring Basics.

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You can see more of her wonderful creations here, at her blog – kristinapeshko.blogspot.se/.
Or follow her at Pinterest or Instagram.

A huge thanks to Kristina for sharing her work with us, and a huge thanks to you for visiting the blog today.

See you!

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PS. Don’t forget to participate in our latest Giveaway. Use the hashtag #majadesign (or #majadesigninsweden) on your Maja-pictures in social media. Read more about it here.

Maja Design Special Feature – Summer Guest Designers

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Posted by Jennifer Snyder

31 July, 2015 -

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Maja Design has an amazing group of world wide followers.  We thank you for such heart warming dedication and loyalty.

As a special “Thank You”  to the loyal followers who frequently share their work, we would like to feature a few of the wonderful artists that contribute to the Maja Design Facebook page:   Davinia Wood, Silje Kristin Aunan and Liz Marsden.

I am an English girl living in the Pilbara in Western Australia, pretty remote place! I live with my hubby and two pet hermit crabs. I started craft with wood craft and then discovered the gorgeous papers and stamps and that was it- I was hooked. I love colouring with Copics and Distress Inks. Why do I love Maja?  Well there is paper for everyone, every occasion and every season. It’s literally the most beautiful papers around. So beautiful I sometimes just want to keep them and look at them!!! They are divine. I found out about Maja through other crafty friends, I saw these beautiful papers had a look at their blogs and discovered Maja and have never looked back. I just love creating with these and part of the excitement of creating something new is playing around with these gorgeous papers!

My fave collection….oh heck hard one!…. I think it would have to be between
‘Life by the Sea’ ‘Sofiero’ and all of the Christmas papers!

You can find more of Davinia’s inspiring work on her blog here

I am Silje Kristin Aunan,  age 27,  living in Bodø; a city North
of Norway above the Polar Circle. 

I started scrapbooking in November 2013. It all began with a few Christmas tags and cards in 2013 using Maja Design papers. This was and
still is therapy for me. This is my passion, and I spend almost all my spare time producing paper
projects.  As for her love of Maja papers?  Silje says,” To wait for a new collection from Maja Design, is the same as waiting for Christmas presents on Chrismas Eve, Only this is so much better. Sometimes it seems that the sheets are made perfectly for my paper projects.” 

I love creating in a Vintage and Shabby Chic style and enjoy making 3D projects and special boxes.  I often challenge myself to make “impossible” paper creations.
“Nothing is impossible” is my mantra. 

 Silje designs for her local craft store TreL.no, kaBoks, producer of dies, and stamps and a challenge blog, Nordsalten Hobbyklubb. 

 You can find Silje on her blog here. You’ll also soon see her in the August/September edition of the  Norwegian Craft Magazine, magazine, Ett Trykk .

Silje is absolutely enjoying our two newest collections, Vintage Baby and Summer Crush.  

Here are some of here gorgeous and creative pieces using both of those collections. 

I would like to thank  Maja Design for the
honour of asking me to be a guest on the Maja Design Blog, how excited am I
!!!!!!!! 

 

I have loved to create since childhood and was always to be
found colouring and  playing with paper etc.  Nothing much has changed, as I still love to colour with distress inks or copics and love to use Maja Design
papers.  They are my all time favourite and the ones I go to first, time and
time again, 

My favourite style  is shabby Chic and the Maja Design
papers are perfect for this, the designs, weight, and strength of the
papers mean you can do so much with them, I love to add a little  water to
the edges of my paper to create folds for interest and they take this technique
so well, as seen on my shabby chic card,I also  love to add laces,
chipboard and anything that adds texture to my creations too, 

 

One of my all time  favourite Maja Design collections
was the  Sofiero Limited collection, I loved the designs and colours very
much,  I tend also to use the Vintage Spring and Vintage Autumn Basics
quite a bit too, as  they adapt so easily For boys or girls creations,

You can find more of Liz’s amazing work on her blog  here. Here are some of Liz’s amazing pieces:

If you have not “LIKED”  us on Facebook yet, we invite you to join our page to stay informed on the newest releases. You can find us right here

We also want to invite you to share your own Maja Design projects and art pieces on our Facebook page.  It’s a great way to show off your work to the world as well.