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7 February, 2016 - Enjoying Outdoors, Layouts, Vintage Summer Basics

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Today I’m up on Maja Design blog with a new layout. It’s a photo of one of my best friend I’ve taken during a photo shoot we had a few days ago.

As usual, I applied a layer of clear gesso to protect the background from all the media I will add later. When dry, I began to add a design with a stencil and a copper crackle paste.

While the paste was drying, I colored the flowers with a home-made spray of  Primary Element and water. I used several colors of Twinkling H2O to color the die-cut leaves. 

When the paste was finally dry, I added some random stamping with a permanent ink and colored the background. Then I glued all the embellishments.

To finish the layout, I added some Mica Flakes and Glass Glitters.

Maja Design Papers used:


Enjoying Outdoors Harvest Time	Enjoying Outdoors Autumn Hues	Vintage Summer Basics 1891

Greatful For You

Posted by Bec Genet

2 February, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Spring Basics

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Hi, today I have a layout to share using the gorgeous Maja Designs Vintage Spring Basics Collection. I also made a video tutorial to go with this layout so I hope you enjoy it

Here is my video:

I used the 6th of March paper as my background paper, then to the 8th of April paper I ripped a diagonal piece from the bottom and distressed the top.

I cut a strip of the 4th of April paper to layer on top. I used pieces of the 4th of April and 9th of April to make a mat for my photo. I cut two strips of lace to layer under the paper strip in the middle, plus a couple of lace flowers to stick out from under my paper layers

I added colour using Gelatos in metallic blueberry and metallic grape through a stencil, plus some splashes of pale purple and blue mists.

Next I mixed heavy white gesso with light texture paste and put that through two different stencils. I mix the gesso and paste together because I want a whiter finish in the paste.

Blue fern chipboard coloured with Gelatos in metallic blueberry, metallic grape, boysenberry and elderberry

I added embellishments using flowers, chipboard, a resin frame, lace flowers and some white cheesecloth

To finish off I added some vellum butterflies and pearls

I Used:

Maja Designs Vintage spring Basics Collection

6th of March

8th of April

4th of April

9th of April

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Winter

Posted by Pascale B

24 January, 2016 - Home for the Holidays, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Winter

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Hello Sweeties
Today, I’m up on Maja Design with a winter page.

(Photo de Richard Loader)

I began to cover the background page with clear gesso. When dry, I did some random stamping and added black bister. To prevent the bister from reacting afterward, I sprayed a fixative on the whole page before continuing.

I added more colors to the background with differents Twinkling H2Os. With a stencil and white crackle paste, I added also a design, which I covered with white Art Sugar while the paste was still wet.

I colored the die-cut leaves and branches with Twinkling H2Os too.

I distressed the papers under the photo and lightly inked the edges.

I used 3D Matte Gel to glue all the elements to the background.

Maja Design papers used:


Home for Holidays		Vintage Winter	Vintage Frost basics
Together	Can’t wait bs	Christmas Carols	22th of December bs

A Perfect Moment

Posted by Bec Genet

19 January, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Autumn Basics

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Hi Maja fans.

Today I have a layout to share with you that I made with the Vintage Autumn Basics Collection. I love these vintage collections for scrapping my vintage photos

For the Background I used the Vintage Autumn Basics papers No V and No X. I ripped the top from the No X paper, then layered the other side of the No X paper underneath. Next I glued these onto the No V paper before I added some texture with Modeling paste and a stencil.

I cut the papers No IV and No XVII into pieces to layer under my photo, I distressed all the edges and inked them with Distress ink in Vintage Photo. This is a photo of my Great Grandmother on her wedding day with my Grandmother as a girl.

I added a little colour to the papers using Gelatos in pink, peach and brown. For my title I used a chipboard title that I coloured with two colours of embossing powder.

Next I added some random stamping, then I finished the layout off by adding a generous amount of flowers and embellishments

Vintage Autumn Basics Papers Used: No X, No IV, No XVII, and No V

Thanks for joining me today, see you next time

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1953

Posted by Pascale B

10 January, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Frost Basics

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Hello Sweeties,

Today I’m up on Maja Design blog with my first post here of the year and I want to wish you all the most creative year!

It’s another photo of my father whose birthday was a few days ago. I worked with A Vintage Frost Basics collection which is perfect for winter photos.

I started to splatter watered gesso on the background. When dry, I added a design with Graphite Paste and a stencil.

While the background was drying, I distressed and inked the papers that will be under the photo. Then I added some color to the background by splattering two colors of Twinkling H2Os and watered gesso until I was happy with the result.

I glued the embellishments with 3D matte gel. I covered the flowers with gesso before painting them with the same Twinkling H2Os to give them a distressed look .I added also some silver micro beads.