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January’s mood board

Posted by Carita Ruckman

2 January, 2017 - Mood boards

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Hello darlings!

Welcome to the Maja blog..! Today it’s time for a new mood board. ♥

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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 January 30th.

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 January 26th at the latest.

Thank you & Good luck!

And here is some inspiration from our talented team:

Maja Nowak

Tiffany Solorio

Tina Ollett

You can also enjoy Tina’s tutorial here:

Camilla S Bakke

Jennifer Snyder

Padoriaa / Paulina

Rachelle Sigurdson

I hope you were inspired by these amazing creations!
I’m soo looking forward to see your contributions.

Hugs,

Camilla

Welcome 2017..!

Posted by Carita Ruckman

1 January, 2017 - News

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Wow, 2016 was a fabulous year..?! ♥
The Maja blog has was completely overfilled with gorgeous creations and outstanding inspiration – don’t you agree? 😉

So first I really want to praise our talented designers who was with us during last year.
A huge applause for these marvelous ladies:

Team 2016

Thank you so much for all your hard work, your devotion to MajaDesign and for all the fantastic inspiration you’ve been giving the world through our channels. ♥ You all are amazing!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

And now, let us begin this new year with revealing that there will be some
BIG CELEBRATIONS coming up…
You might not believe me, but Maja actually turns 10 years this year..! This means that we have had the great honor of providing the crafting world with our paper designs for a whole decade..! Isn’t that just amazing? We are so proud. We promise you that this will show during the year…

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Do you know how it all began? Let me tell you..

MajaDesign’s founder, Marie, was a dedicated scrapper herself, back in 2007. But after a while it came clear – she couldn’t seem to find the right papers on the market. You know, that paper that just match your style completely and bring your inspiration to life.. With the aim of creating her own personal favorite paper, she started the journey that became the most wonderful experience towards – MajaDesign. ♥
– To having the ability to work with my great passion is really a dream come true, Marie says with gratefulness in her voice.

And, I think I speak for all of us when I say – we are so thankful to Marie and for her passion, so we can enjoy these marvelous design papers, collection after collection – all equally beautiful and unique.. ♥

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MajaDesign’s founder Marie Janson

With this words, let us begin this new year..!
I hope you’ll follow us here at the blog, our Facebook site, our Instagram account or on Pinterest..! I can assure you a lot of wonderful inspiration, new amazing collections and a great year of celebration!

Hugs,

Camilla

Highlights during the past year…

Posted by Carita Ruckman

31 December, 2016 - Maja Design information

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Hi there..!

Wow, it’s already the end of December and this year is coming to an end.
It has been 12 amazing month and we have seen so many wonderful talents here on the blog.
To our supertalented Creative Team, who has given us some great daily inspiration throughout the whole year – You are truly amazing! ♥

We have also had the pleasure of having some fantastic Guest Designers who has brought flavor to the blog with their beautiful projects. Add to that some wonderful inspiration by our special featured guest, all found through their dedicated tagging (@majadesign) in social media. (Keep up the tagging, so that we can find you, and maybe feature you too.. ♥)

WHAT A GREAT YEAR it’s been!

I have pick out some of the most appreciated projects from 2016. It’s a mix of the most liked on Instagram, most talked about on Facebook, most pinned at Pinterest or most commented on the blog. Let us enjoy them all once again:

I hope you’ve been inspired by these wonderful creations – I surely have..! ♥

I also want to seize the opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year..! I hope you have had a wonderful, inspirational year with us, here on the blog and in social media.

From the bottom of our hearts – THANK YOU for using our papers, for sharing your creations and for making MajaDesign grow even larger and over the whole world. ♥ See you next year..!

With love,

Camilla

Winner of our December mood board..!

Posted by Carita Ruckman

26 December, 2016 - Mood boards

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Hi!

This month’s mood board was really beautiful and inspiring, I think – and so did show on the response..! Wow..! Once again I’m totally amazed by the wonderful response and the completely gorgeous creations you’ve shared with us. ♥

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And here comes all the amazing creations:

Adrijana Knez, Slovenia

Alla Alluska, Ukraine

Anastasia Kostina, Russia

Carmen Schmitt, Germany

Joanna Krogulec, United Kingdom

Eirini Tsaima, Greece

Kristina Roest, Norway

Lenet Mos, Netherlands

Lucy Woods, United Kingdom

Marianne Ehlen, Sweden

Marie R. Vassbotn, Norway

Marjut Laine, Finland

Melina Dahl, Sweden

Nicola Paper Profusion, Ireland

Nicola Paper, Ireland

Olesya Erankevich, Russia

Pernilla Rosenlund, Sweden

Pia Baunsgaard, Denmark

Ramona Schmitt, Germany

Romy Veul, The Netherlands

Suzi McManus, Scotland UK

Torsa Saha, USA

Aleksandra Mihelic, Slovenia

Pernilla Rosenlund, Sweden

Pia Baunsgaard, Denmark

And the winner is…

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Nicola Paper Profusion..!

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Absolutely wonderful creation, Nicola..! ♥ Thank you so much for entering, we really love your beautiful Maja house..! A collection of your choice is coming your way.

And to all of you out there – thank you for participating and thanks for stopping by.

I wish you all a great week..!

Camilla

MajaDesign Creative Team 2017

Posted by Carita Ruckman

19 December, 2016 - News

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Hi there..!

So happy to see you here today. It means you could find some free time in between all the Christmas preparations.. And that’s good because it has come to that exciting part of the year when it’s time to present our new fabulous MajaDesign Creative Team for 2017..!
We have gathered some really amazing artist, and I’m so excited to begin the new year with all this talent onboard.

Let me proudly present

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Paulina-Tiffany-Keren

Nancy-Tina-Camilla-Mary Rachelle-Amy-Evgenia-Elena

Amy-Voorthuis

Amy-site-sign from The Netherlands

Amy creates mostly layouts and has that soft, romantic style that just melts your heart.. ♥ She loves Shabby Chic, Vintage and Mixed Media. Read more about her here or visit her places below:

Camilla-sign1 from Norway

Camilla is an extremly talented cardmaker, and her cards just take your breath away. ♥ She has en eye for beautiful details, lots of paper layers and loves sewing her cards. Read more about her here, or visit her places below:

Elena-Olinevich Elena-sign1 from Belarus

Elena creates the most beautiful cards, albums and layouts with lots of layers and wonderful, thought through details. ♥ Her style is feminine and vintage and she loves laces and mists. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Evgenia-Petzer Evgenia-signS from South Africa/Russia

Meet our greatly talented cardmaker – Evgenia. Her style breaths feminity, soft and romantic and she creates with layers and beautiful details. ♥ You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Jennifer-Snyder-FB Jennifer-sign from USA

Jennifer is our own sparkeling star..! She creates everything with lots of love and thought through and her style goes from romantic to shabby chic, depended on the story and photo. ♥ You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Keren-Tamir Keren from Canada

Keren is one of our new talents on the team for this year. ♥ She likes the mixed media style to create her extraordinary layouts and other projects, and she specialize in making the most wonderful videos. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Maja-Nowak Maja-sign from Poland

Maja creates the most wonderful feminine and romantic cards along with her soft, handsome and a bit “boyish” layouts. ♥ Her work is a mixture of romantic shabby chic and a bit of a steampunk, masculine touch. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Mary-Catt Mary from Greece

Mary loves using mixed media and creates the most amazing layouts with a bit vintage and shabby chic touch. ♥ She mainly does layouts, but you can also see her create wonderful cards, tags and beautiful altered items. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Nancy-Dynes Nancy-sign from USA

Nancy does absolutely gorgeous cards and you can recognize her work as vintage/elegant, incorporating dimension, layers, and attention to detail. ♥ She loves the feminine and romantic style. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Pascale-Bernard Pascale-signS from France

Pascale scraps her own, absolutely wonderful, photos and always go from the colour in it, to create her amazing layouts. ♥ Her style is at the same time or in turn vintage, shabby, steampunk, and mixed media. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Paulina-Monastreska-Tronina Padoriaa1 from Poland

Paulina, aka Padoriaa, is one of our new talents onboard this year, and she uses mixed media and a lot of layers, laces and chipboards onto her wonderful cards and different projects. ♥ Her style is unique and wide and goes from romantic to masculine. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Rachelle Sigurdson Rachelle-sign from Canada

Rachelle is the complete master of layering and hand stiching layouts. ♥ She loves to distress the papers and she has an extraordinary attention for details. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Tiffany-Solorio Tiffany from USA

Tiffany is new on the team for this year, and she specialize in mixed media projects. ♥ She creates everything from cards, layouts to altered items and she does the most beautiful videos. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

Tina-Ollett Tina-Ssign from Australia

Tina makes absolutely gorgeous layouts using lots of flowers, layers and dimensions. ♥ Her style is mostly feminine, soft and romantic. You can read more about her here or visit her places below:

A huge welcome to all our new designers! ♥
2017 will be a totally awesome year, filled with creativity and lots of wonderful inspiration.
I hope you are as excited as I am.

Hugs,

Camilla