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Vintage Summer Basics Cards

15 March, 2016 - Cards, Vintage Summer Basics

Hi, today I have some cards to share. I had some pieces of the Vintage Summer Basics paper left over from a previous project so I decided that they were perfect to be made into cards.

These papers are so pretty that I didn’t do anything to them, I just embellished them with some flowers, doilies, lace, ribbon, pearls and chipboard.

I hope this inspires you keep your paper scraps and create some cards

I used the Vintage Summer Basic Papers 1908, 1910, 1922 and 1925

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Reminisce

Posted by Pascale B

6 March, 2016 - Collections, Layouts, Nyhavn, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Spring Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello Sweeties,

Today I’m up on Maja Design blog a new layout featuring a photo taken in Rennes (France). This head has a long story as it has been stolen several time.

I started to add a thin layer of clear gesso to help the paper with all the inks I will add later. Then I added a design with a stamp and clear embossing powder. Then I colored the background with different shades of brown and black.

I covered the chipboards with a white crackle paste and I aged them with Twinkling H2O.

I colored the tip of flowers with two tones of Distress Inks and sprayed them allowing the inks to move along the paper.

I colored the leaves with the same Twinkling H2O I used for the background and added some silver Mica Powder.

I finished the page with Glass Glitter and Micro Beads.

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“Wonder, Always, Enjoy”

Posted by Di Garling

3 March, 2016 - Layouts, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hi there Maja fans. Thanks for stopping by. Today I have another layout to share with you featuring my sweet little grandaughter Mia. I have used some papers from the “Vintage Summer Basics” collection.

For my background I have used the “1934” paper from the Vintage Summer Basics collection & I have layered it over the top of the “1933” paper, that is the gorgeous floral one that is peeping out of both sides of my layout. It is a little hard to see unfortunately. (Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the papers clearly).

Also behind the photo I have added lots of different strips of various Maja Design papers, then I wiped them over with some gesso before brushing on some pink coloured mist to contrast with the lovely aqua background paper. All the chipboard is from 2Crafty Chipboard.

This is a great fun little technique as it is a good way to use up lots of your scraps & it also adds great textural interest to the page. Plus the Maja papers are so nice & thick that they are perfect for using with mixed media. Last step was to stencil some pattern over the page using a stencil & some texture paste.

Once the background was all dry I proceeded to add my photo, chipboard & of course, lots of flowers.

These are the two papers I have used.

The paper on the left is the “1934” paper & the one on the right is the “1933” paper.

Well thats all from me today. Until next time.

Vintage Summer Basics Jewellery Box

Posted by Bec Genet

1 March, 2016 - Altered Items, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hi everyone. Today I have an off the page project for you.

I brought a Tim Holtz Mini Configuration Book a while ago to make it into a Jewellery Box for my Daughter. She loves pink and the Vintage Summer Basics collection has the most gorgeous pink papers which I decided were prefect for this box.

I used the Vintage Summer Basic Papers 1908, 1910, 1922 and 1925. I started by putting a layer of gesso over the whole thing and then I cut the paper to fit the cover, sides and inside of the book.

I layered lots of pretty embellishments on the cover, some of these are my Daughters favourites from my stash – e.g. the little birds nest and mini birds.

Once the papers were glued on I went over all the edges with distress ink in Vintage Photo

Then I added some lace and pearls to the spine, and to finish off I added pearls to the cover.

On the Inside I covered the larger surfaces with paper, then I took the foam out of some old jewellery boxes to fit inside the smallest squares

I used the Vintage Summer Basic Papers 1908, 1910, 1922 and 1925

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Bridge

Posted by Pascale B

21 February, 2016 - Collections, Layouts, Vintage Frost Basics, Vintage Summer Basics

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Hello SweetiesToday I’m up on Maja Design blog with a monochromatic layout. I chose to work with a beige shading to highlight these photo of the Saint-Martin-d’Ardéche’s bridge (France).

I started with a layer of clear gesso to protect the background. When dry, I added a design with a stencil and white crackle paste.

While the crackle paste was drying, I chose different papers to go under my photo and distress them with a distress tool.

When the design was dry, I splattered some watered gesso on the background, then I added some Rust mica powder mixed in water and I let everything dry.

I covered all the embellishments (flowers, leaves, die-cut and metallic embellishments) with gesso and dry them. Then I colored everything with some Rust mica powder.