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Guest Designer Jaya Raghuvanshi

20 February, 2017 - Guest Designers, Layouts, Summertime

Hello! I am Jaya Raghuvanshi from India, a dentist by profession and a truly creative person by heart. I am a mixed media style scrapbooker . I love playing with colours, textures & different mediums.Its been three years since I have been into Mixed Media.

Mixed media art gives me the freedom to go wrong, make mistakes, learn & create, which is why I am so hooked!! Apart from paper crafts, I also love travelling & photography.

I would like to thank Maja Designs for having me here 🙂

Jaya-Raghuvanshi

The Vintage spring basics by Maja Designs is a really gorgeous line! I love the muted look of some of these papers. For this page I decided to go ahead with the ‘2nd of April’ paper from the same collection. It’s really soft light yellow with a hint of script texture. I absolutely loved that the papers handle all sorts of media so well!

Maja Paper – Vintage spring basics

Prima 8″X10 “stencil- Enjoy

Prima watercolr confections- Pastel dreams

Prima watercolor confections- The classics

Prima flowers- Rossibelle collection

Prima Valentine vines

2Crafty chipboards- Handdrawn hearts

2Crafty chipboard- Precious loopy font

Prima wood icons- Epiphany collection

Prima Confetti hearts die

Kaisercraft texture stamps

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I just fell in love with the collection the moment i saw it. It has the most gorgeous papers and images. I loved fussy cutting a few to add on my page for some added interest. I decided to go with a monochrome look for this layout with a hint of gold.

Maja designs papers-

Summertime- 12×12 inch-

: Flowers everywhere bs

: In the garden – Die cuts

Summertime- In The garden- diecuts

2Crafty chipboard- Follow your heart

2Crfaty chipbaord- Grame Madeline’s flourish

Prima Marketing Inc- Art stones, Mini art stones

Prima Watercolor confections

Prima Stencil- Flourish Damask

Prima flowers- Royal Menagerie- Elizabeth

Prima Junkard findings- Black Street signs

Prima shabby chic resin treasures- Oval frames

Thank you so much for having me on the Maja blog!

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February Mood board

Posted by Marie

6 February, 2017 - Mood boards

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Hello dear MajaDesign friends! February, the month of love, is here and it’s time for a new challenge.

This is how we use the mood boards:

Definition mood board – n

[a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other]

We are using mood boards for our challenges. We truly believe in creativity and art at Maja Design. You are free to interpret the mood boards in any way you’d like. They are supposed to set you in an inspirational mood without too much controlling. We would like you to be inspired by the poems, words and photos. They are not given rules, they are just there as inspiration. However – we highly recommend you to follow the theme.. Feel free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme.

We will pick a winner and present it here on the blog February 27th.

Have in mind that these challenges are a really great way for us to discover new talents and maybe some future Creative Team members…

How to participate?

♥ Create anything you’ll like – a layout, a card, something altered or maybe a canvas. Use Maja papers primarily! Take a nice picture of it and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu. We also need to know your full name, address and a phone number. Please specify what collection you would like to win, if you are the lucky one. We will also want to know if you would like it in the size 12*12 or 6*6. Please send us the pictures in the size of 800 pixels on the width. We would be so grateful if you also could change the file name of the photo to your first and last name including your country.

♥ Feel free to send us more than one picture, from different angles or some close-ups – or why not more than one project?

♥ Publish the project/s on your blog (or/and any social media, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) with a link to our site. Please also add the image of the mood board.

♥ Feel free to combine your entry with other challenges.

♥ The winner will be revealed the last Monday each month, at the Maja blog. The winner will be sent one collection by their choice, and also a digital Winner’s Badge to use and brag with.

We need your creation by February 23rd at the latest.

Thank you & Good luck!

Some inspiration from our amazing Creative Team:

Rachelle Sigurdson

Pascale Bernard

Padoria

Nancy Dynes

Mary Catt

Keren Tamir

Jennifer Snyder

Evgenia Petzer

You are all welcome to play along! We are so much looking forward to your entries.

Winner of the January Mood board

Posted by Marie

30 January, 2017 - Mood boards

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January is coming to an end and it’s time to reviel the winner of the month. We are so happy about all the stunnig art work this month! There is a lovely mix of beautiful cards and layouts, a sweet tag and a gorgeous mini album page… Lots of inspiration.. and a really hard competition.

A reminder of what the mood board looked like..

…and here are the amazing contributions:

Adrijana Knez, Slovenia

Anastasia Korvyakova, Russia

Anna Chasovskaya, Russia

Antonia Moreno, Spain

Boucham Faïza

Camilla Hermansson, Sweden

Carmen Schmitt, Germany

Diana Adamski, Germany

Dorthe Pabst, Denmark

Gitte Hansen, Denmark

Helena Wikman, Sweden

Jacqueline van der Boor, Netherlands

Joanna Krogulec, United Kingdom

Kerstin Inga Peters, Germany

Kristina Røst, Norway

Lucy Woods, United Kingdom

Maja Gomboc, Slovenia

Marie Gustavsson, Sweden

Marjut Laine, Finland

Pam Ellis, Canada

Pernilla Rosenlund, Sweden

Pia Baunsgaard, Denmark

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Sabine SasSa Larsson, Sweden

Tetiana Arkhipova, Ukraine

Tsaima Eirini, Greece

Vicky Pass, United Kingdom

Vija Anton, Australia

Vivi Thomsen, Denmark

Congratulations to all of you for such a great work!

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Kerstin Inga Peters from Germany with her beautiful, soft and dreamy layout “Life is nothing without Passion”

CONGRATULATIONS Kerstin Inga! The collection of your choice will be sent to you.

To all of you who didn’t make it all the way this time – Thank you for inspiring us with your great work. We hope you will be back to play along with next month’s challange, the February Mood Board, which will be presented next Monday.

Thank you for stoppng by today!

Special Guest Designer Monika Jakubowska

Posted by Marie

23 January, 2017 - Altered Items, Cards, Guest Designers, Vintage Baby

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Hello, I’m Monika Jakubowska.

I`m so honoured and thrilled to be a Maja Design Guest Designer,Thank you for the invitation. I think it will be a fabulous year.

Today I want to present you my very first creation – a shadow box and a card made for Grandpa and Grandma.

To decorate this set I used gorgeous, delicate Vintage Baby It`s a Boy VIN-732 and Vintage Baby Special Delivery VIN-737. These papers look so lovely here. I also used my handmade flowers, some chipboards and Prima metal and resin embellishments.

Some closeups:

Thank you for visiting.

Special Guest Designer – Bev Rochester

Posted by Carita Ruckman

16 January, 2017 - Cards, Coffee In The Arbour, Enjoying Outdoors, Guest Designers, Vintage Romance

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Hello there, I’m Bev Rochester and hail from the North East coast of England. I was tickled pink to be asked to be a guest designer for Maja Design. I’ve been crafting for years but have concentrated on papercrafts this past 7 or 8 years. I’m very lucky in that I have a dedicated craft room (my hubby converted the garage and utility room for me) so have all the space I need to collect more craft stash than I will ever use!

Bev-Rochester

My style has evolved over the years and I’m finding myself more drawn to soft, pretty and vintage colours, papers and embellishments and Maja papers are perfect for all things soft, pretty and shabby.

For my first card I worked with the Coffee in the Arbor collection – perfect for a pretty shabby chic card. The sheets used are Raspberry Jam Cookies, Raspberry Cupcake and Raspberry Lemonade.

I used dies and stamps from Whimsy Stamps, Rosy Owl and Magnolia and flowers from I Am Roses.

I also used a butterfly stencil from Whimsy Stamps with embossing paste and glitter to add texture to the card.

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And of course a card is not complete unless you carry the pretty through to the inside 🙂

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: Raspberry jam cookies

: Raspberry lemonade

: Rasberry cupcake – bs

For my second card I went back to my first love and did some stamping and colouring to pair up with the exquisite Vintage Romance papers. The papers I used are Passion, She’s My Lady and Just You & Me.

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I used Spellbinders, Rosy Owl, Magnolia and Whimsy Stamps dies as well as stamps from Whimsy Stamps, flowers from I am Roses. I used a faux stitches stamp around the edges of the paper.

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Again I’ve carried the design to the inside of the card with these gorgeous vintage papers.

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: Passion

: She’s my Lady bs

: Just you and me

For my final project I used the absolutely gorgeous Sending Love collection. I used Enjoying Outdoors, Garden Creatures and I’m Happy. Oh my goodness! The colours in this collection are … I have no words except to say that this is my favourite collection. Just beautiful!

I decided to make a shaped card, the base is die cut with a Tattered Lace die set. I stamped a chicken wire stamp randomly on the top layer, it works so well with the outdoor theme of the paper collection.

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I made a bird using a mould and paper clay, and also stamped out some butterflies onto the patterned paper and fussy cut them out to carry the theme of the collection through.

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