Hello there, Maja Fans! I’m so glad you decided to visit our blog today 🙂 If Mondays are not your favourite days of the week, I have something to cheer you up, hopefully 🙂

Doesn’t that smile put you in higher spirits? 🙂 I decided to use our latest release, the Enjoying Outdoors collection to scrapbook it. I opted for a mostly monochromatic palette of browns, with bits of purple and green visible here and there. I started with layering the grid sheet upon the dark brown paper and distressing the edges. Then I added some stamping (yes, those green stains are stamped too!)

I chose the embellishments that express my boy’s personality and spirits – and for instance, the chipboard clock represents his quick and precise thinking and the heart button – his good friendly nature. I used the clock theme throughout the page to accent the importance of time passing – we have to keep precious moments in our memories as they will never happen again…

Apart from pieces of papers I used tags that I cut out of the Tags & Journaling Cards sheet and round stamps and gear – they add nice shape accents to the rectangular design.

The real old watch face is a special addition to this distressed page. I completed it with a Tim Holtz hand and fun hexagon brad:

For the title, I used a layered chipboard piece. I inked the base with brown ink and left the topper priginal white for greater contrast:

I really like the way this page turned out. It reflects both my son’s character and my love for the shabby style. And when I finished, I realised I did it without a single flower! 😀

Supplies:

Maja Design papers: Enjoying Outdoors: Spending time bs, Garden notes, Flourishing bs, Woodlands, Woodlands bs, Tags & Journaling Cards. Other: Stamps: Prima, Tim Holtz; metal embellishments: Tim Holtz; brads: Craftmania.pl; buttons: 3rd Eye, UHK Gallery; chipboard: Scrapiniec; vintage watch face, key charm – my stash.

I hope you’ll visit us tomorrow as well, for more inspiration from our Creative Team!

See you!