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“Dream” by Tina Ollett

4 July, 2017 - Layouts, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

Welcome back and hello!

I hope this post finds you happy and well. Today I have for you a layout inspired by a gorgeous photo of my eldest daughter. This I have titled

“Dream”…….

I have used a combination of Maja Designs gorgeously stunning Vintage Summer and Vintage Spring Basics collection to create my layered background of torn and distressed papers.

I can’t tell you how often I have wanted to use this piece of chipboard……but finally it happened for the perfect project. I think it just fit wonderfully here. You can see these pieces above cut into 2’s and tucked amoungst my gorgeous Maja paper layers. Yay I was so happy when this worked!

I love this Title chipboard. They are totally gorgeous. This one was dressed in some Sugar Plum acrylic paint and then I toned it down a little to compliment my page with some white gesso and of course some Dress My Craft sparkling dust……..

I have also used a Swirly Frame chipboard. It was cut into two and used to frame these beautiful photo’s of my daughter Ashlea. We held a Mad Hatters Tea Party a little while back and she dressed as the Queen and looked just stunning. These photos of course were changed to a Sepia tone to help fit my layout and the moodboard.

Here you can see my Fleur de Lis coloured with inks and paints. Atop of it I sat the small Decorative #1 frame and then on top of that a Mini Clock Face. The mini clockfaces are the perfect fit for this frame!!

Okay and I love me a little or quite a lot however you look at it, of the Dress My Craft

Princess Mix Sequins. I also gave my layout a good sprinkling of Dress My Craft’s Sparkling Dust just to make it shine that little bit more.

I also added in some florals but I kept it quite minimal for me that is. Above you can see the 49andMarket Floral Mixology flowers that I used. These are the Pina Colada coloured florals that I changed up by wiping over with a little Dusty Sugar Plum acrylic paint.

I have also tucked in a little lace and muslin to keep the layout as soft as possible.

And lastly these gorgeous Heart Arrows. I have dressed both the large and the small chippies in some Star Dust Stickles to really make them pop. I then added them into my clusters of flowers.

Well that is all from me today. I hope you have a beautiful week and find some time for yourself !

Big hugs …..

Tina x

Please find below the complete list of materials used for this project.

Materials Used

Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics 1933bs

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics 4th May

Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics 1923

and

Dusty Attic Sugar Plum Acrylic Paint DA0908

Dusty Attic Heart Arrows #2 DA1026

Dusty Attic Word Pack #4 DA1077 “Dream”

Dusty Attic Decorative Frame #1 DA0207

Dusty Attic Swirly Frame DA1468

Dusty Attic Mini Clockfaces DA0717

Dusty Attic Fleur de Lis DA1280

White and Clear Gesso

3D Gloss Gel

49andMarket Floral Mixology Pina Colada

Dress My Craft Sparkling Dust

Dress My Craft Princess Mix Sequins

Distress Ink Walnut Stain and Ground Espresso

Star Dust Stickles

Layout by Padoriaa

Posted by Paulina Monasterska-Tronina

1 June, 2017 - Collections, Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics

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Hello our blog fans. Today I would like to show you layout. I decided to create this project inspired by my last pictures taken for the school. I love black and white photography. Mystical clouds, darkness of the mountains and the fog – amazing combination. I tried to keep my layout really simple and clean – take a look, please :

Few layers of the paper, gaze and some laces – added irregularly, like the clouds …

… matching sentence. Just a few words gives as really nice focus point next to the picture.

Metal embellishments, die-cut chipboards from Scrapiniec, a little bit of colours … Like you could see… you don’t need many add-ons to create some project. Use your imagination and create.

Hugs, Paulina

“Adore” by Tina Ollett

Posted by Tina Ollett

9 May, 2017 - Layouts, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello and welcome Maja followers!

Tina Ollett with you here today to share my next Design Team creation. Last time I was here I shared something a little rustic /country, so this time around I have decided on something Shabby Chic to showcase this gorgeous photo of my two girls. And what better collections to use to create this with, but the ever gorgeous

Vintage Spring Basics and the Vintage Summer Basics.

Just perfect to create that pretty shabby page.

This I have titled “Adore”………

I used the Vintage Spring Basics 7th of May as my background page but I firstly cut a photo mat from the centre to save on paper. I then layered torn Vintage Summer Basics 1922 and the Vintage Springs Basics 4th of May over this. When creating shabby layouts I like to leave large areas of the white paper core to give it an complete border and it also saves on sanding or inking.

Here you can see the layered torn papers and above that the photo mats with distressed and sanded edges.

I have layered over the top of the background page two sections of lace. I have run a piece of seam binding through the top piece of the lace and I tied it in a bow at the right side of the photo where it hangs to hold the chipboard title “Adore”. This chipboard piece was simply dressed in gesso and Liquid Pearls was swiped across and around the edges to highlight the titled.

I love to create flower clusters, and this one was no exception. I used leftovers from many of my flower baskets that sit under my desk. They were all whitewashed with gesso to keep in with the shabby chic design. To complete the layout I added in some Kaisercraft paper leaves, a Dusty Attic frame which was dressed in Platinum Liquid Pearls and cut into several pieces and also a little cheesecloth.

Well that is all from me today. I hope you have enjoyed popping by. Until next time, take care and happy crafting.

“She loves in Colour” by Tina Ollett

Posted by Tina Ollett

25 April, 2017 - Layouts, Walking in the Forest

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Hello again everyone! Tina Ollett with you again today to share my next Maja project with you.
Today I have something much more different than I would normally do as a project for Maja. Whenever I look at my collections of Maja I see Vintage, Shabby, Shabby Chic. But never have I considered something country rustic! Well that is exactly what I have created for you today. This all come about when I come across my other Design Team project Moodboard at Dusty Attic. Of course by now you would all know that each and every project I create has an element or should I say a lot of elements of chipboards. Well anyway their moodboard this month motivated me to go in search for that perfect paper collection that could combine all this and more.

Walking in the forest was the most perfect fit for my project today. All the rustic colours of the countryside! You will see that choosing the papers for me was the hardest decision of all in the video that I made for this project today. If you keep scrolling through my blogpost you will find the link.

I have titled this project ……….“She loves in colour”…………

My photo of choice for today’s project was one taken late last year of my eldest daughter with a friend that we would see on my girls’ afternoon Violin tuition lessons. This friendly beauty lives in the paddock of the house that I would park at. And on most afternoons it would walk to my car just to check and see who it was! I was able to capture this gorgeous photo of both these beauties on one of our afternoon visits.

For this layout I have used my Maja Design papers in my layering with lots of blooms, chipboards and elements cut from the Die Cut sheet.

And from a different view.

You can see above that I have used a chipboard quote. My title for this layout was taken from the quote. It reads:

She see in black and white, thinks in greys but loves in colour…..

And the flowers are all from the 49andMarket series of Rustic Blooms. These were co-ordinated with some Dusty Attic chipboards that were coloured with differing mediums from Distress Inks to Rusting Powders and Crackle. If you follow the link below you will see how these were all dressed in the video.

This chippie was simply dressed with a little Liquid Pearls.

You can see above the layering of these gorgeous papers from Maja Designs. The die cut sheets are a fabulous idea to add that touch of difference to any layout. The journal cards I used from the Die Cut sheet were cut into mutiple pieces to make them go further. All the layers of patterned papers were sanded, distressed and randomly inked.

Again you can see the layering along with the added embellishments.

This little cute guy above was fussy cut from the Die Cut sheet. He is just too cute to leave out, don’t you think?

For my layout I have used the following papers from

Walking in the Forest :

: The Colours of Fall

: The Colours of Fall b side

The colours of fall ( a and b)

Die Cut Letters bs

and

Die Cut Sheet (a and b sides)

Well that is all from me today. I do hope you enjoyed your visit here! As I mentioned I have made a video to go with my post here. Just click on the link below to take you to it! Enjoy!!

Until next time happy crafting and take care.

Lovely Princess

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12 April, 2017 - Layouts, Summertime

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Good morning, Maja Fans, welcome to our blog 🙂

Today I have a layout to share that I made using the beautiful, pastel collection Summertime:

Summertime was released without Monochrome sheets, of course, therefore I had to sacrifice 😉 the beautiful tiny flowers of the Flowers Everywhere paper to use the delicate pink for the background. Then I layered pieces of various papers to mat the photo. I also used signature strips for that 🙂

I added flowers and embellishments cluster in the lower corner of the layout to balance the layers on the right. I used flowers in matching colours, a resin heart that I mounted on the flowery pattern from the small paper pad, some paper straws and chipboard decor. I also added some sequins for a bit of bling: