Hello Maja friends!
Thanks for your visit!
Heratful greetings from Kerstin
Welcome friends!
Today is the day of the year where especially the children have a lot of fun.
I’m not the greatest Halloween fan but I love the mystical, imaginative side of it.
Dimly light, swathes of mist envelope the landscape, glowing pumpkins in warm colors and not very serious stories, but always associated with a lot of fun.
It is also the main harvest time of pumpkins in my garden,
I used some papers from our wonderful autumn collections.
Paper sheet ‘ The colours of fall’ from the paper collection ‘Walking in the forest’ was perfect for me as background.
Beautiful green shades together with the delicate old trees were very suitable for my autumn mixed media layout.
The background brings the warm colors of the pumpkins to light.
some details
I love layouts with a natural look and so can also find
acorns, autumn leaves and branches (cutting dies).
Maja Design papers
are very well suited for working with
cutting dies, because
papers are very stable and bring along the appropriate color shades.
a beautiful man and you can do it yourself 🙂
Exciting, what you can discover in autumn foliage
Thanks for your visit and Happy Halloween!
Hello sweet Maja fans,
Lenet here and today I bring you this autumn layout.
I”m very lucky to live close to the forest and the shore of the North Sea
I love being outdoors and taking long walks especially in the forest .
The colors are so beautiful this time of the year and I love the earthy smell, and a hot mug of coco with whipped cream when I get home to warm up.
There is so much to see while nature is preparing it self for winter.
I tried to bring you that feeling in todays layout.
I used the walk in the forest Collection for this one, love the warm colors and cosy patterns of this collection.
The little girl is holding a bouquet of flowers and I made it come back in this corner, the branches are cut out of a sheet of cork with a branch die from sizzix .
The fawns are made using the playful fawns die from memory box.
This branch comes from my stash and I have no idea what brand it is, but I used distress embossing powders to color it and gave it more dept with a layer of clear embossing powder on top of it.
Added some dewdrops for a finishing touch.
Hope I gave you some autumn inspiration to make your own layout, tag, card or anything.
Happy Fall to you all, enjoy it.
Good morning, dear Maja Friends, welcome to the blog today 🙂
It’s been two months since I created anything with my all-time favourite Maja collection, Denim&Friends! 😀 And so I couldn’t wait any longer and made a layout for my today’s post:
I really love grid patterns, they give you a sense of using a piece of an actual document and at the same time provide some useful structure to plan your design 😉 As I like clear composition and straight lines, I really appreciate that feature of the background. To introduce the theme of the layout, I applied stars pattern with a stencil and texture paste. Then I matted the photo with a light sand-coloured sheet and added some hand-cut tags:
…the flower-embellishments cluster:
…with a piece cut off the signature strip:
…and finally the title arranged with sticker chipboard letters:
I included many star motives to refer to the title: stencilled, die-cut and art clay ones. I also added some starshine 😉 – the stencil paste is gold and I die-cut the stars in mirror gold cardstock.I think this gave the whole a coherent look both with motives and textures. What do you think?
And here’s what I used for the layout:
Maja Design papers:
Other: flowers: Prima, Wild Orchid Crafts; dies: Crea-Nest-Lies; alpha stickers: American Crafts; cabochon, charm, sequins – my stash.
And that’s all for today, thank you for visiting and come back tomorrow for more inspiration 🙂
Hello Maja friends!
When we were hiking in the autumn forest, we discovered a new house for our dog.
Filou had to examine it closely and it seems as if it meets his requirements 😉
Back at home, he has come to love his soft dog basket and of course our sofa again,
because it’s much more comfortable as he whispered to me.
That was my inspiration for this new autumn layout in mixed media natural style.
I have combined two of our beautiful autumn collections at Maja Design ‘Enjoying Outdoors’ and ‘Walking in the forest’.
The delicately patterned green background was ideally suited
to embellish it with stamps, stencils and spray paints.
The central element is a cutout from the paper sheet ‘Maple’ in the shape of an autumn leaf,
which somehow looks like an acorn.
used paper collections
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some typical forest elements in autumn colours – a chipboard,
wooden shapes, dried tree bark and lichen
two trees made with modelling paste and silicone mould, ‘Fall foliage’ and branches with cutting dies
dried acorns shells and fern leaves also made with white modeling paste
the cutout fall leave where the edges finished with ‘Walnut Stain’ ink pad and Spray colour
Thanks for your visit!
Have a wonderful day!