Hi!It is Vibeke Harila here, sharing some inspiration with you today. I am so happy to be a guestdesigner this month. I have really missed designing with the beautiful papers from Maja Design.Today I want to show you a layout created with “Life by the sea”. A collection you can use together with a lots of different colours. I have used lots of colours to show you.Do you see? I have used pink, green, yellow, purple and a bit of brown. On the chipboard I have only used gesso and different mists.These papers are so great to work with. I have punched the edge.

Supplies used:

Thank you for letting my share this with you. I hope you enjoyed my work.

See you next week. Hugs Vibeke

Happy Friday and start to the weekend!  Yeah!  Jennifer Snyder here today to celebrate Friday with you.  I chose to celebrate with the Life By The Sea Collection.

I always find such peace and happiness when I touch this collection and I finally figured out why.  The collection reminds me of my favorite things and it comforts me.  It reminds me of my favorite places by the ocean and beach and it reminds of me of my dad – a man who also loves the sea.

This is a layout of my dad as a little boy in his little Navy outfit, and then my dad just a few years later as a handsome sailor in the United States Navy.

If you look in the photo of little daddy, he was standing by the US Flag – must have been either Memorial Day – which we just celebrated, or July 4th celebrations.  So sweet.

Here are more close ups.  I used a mask and molding paste for my stars.  Then I ran some ink lightly over the dried molding paste.

Hi everyone, this is Heidi again, here to share my next project as Guest Designer with you. I have been so inspired by the papers and I don’t know whether it was the products or the mood board that inspired me the most, but I could not stay away from the red, white, and blues!  This photo of my oldest son was taken two years ago, and I have been holding onto it for that perfect paper to showcase it. When my box arrived, I knew immediately that the time had come because the “Life By the Sea” papers were perfect. I began by building some box layers on the background paper “The East Coast”. To do this, I cut out rectangles from “Marina Hovering” in several different sizes and arranged them underneath the photo. Once I knew where they were going, I tore strips of masking tape and adhered everything to the background. I then used some black ink and lightly stamped onto these layers. Then I doodled with a black pen around the edges of these rectangles to frame them a bit.Next I attached my photos, for both I used my silhouette, dimensional, technique, of cutting out one of the images and mounting it onto the same image to make it appear as if my photo subject was coming off the page. I then tore strips from the “A Day At Sea” paper, creating waves to the left side of my page. I topped this with alcohol ink and some cut out images from the “Islands and Skerries” paper.

To finish my project off, I added my title work, flicks of Shimmerz paint, more alcohol ink, knotted sewing thread, and metal junkyard findings from Prima. To highlight my central photo just a tad more, I used craft wire to circle my son’s image.

And… for a little bit of humor, and because I can never seem to keep all my journaling and titlework in the same place, in the upper right side of my layout I added one last word.

Supplies Used:

Life By the Sea “The East Coast, Marina Hovering, A Day at the Sea, Islands and Skerries”, Prima Junkyard Findings, Shimmerz Coloringz, Ranger Alcohol Ink, Thread, Craft Wire, Masking Tape, Gesso, Prima Stamps, StazOn Ink.

Until next week!

My previous blogpost on the Maja Design blog was titled ‘Pretty in pink’. Well, I think that will be enough evidence that I tend to do more girly than masculine lay-outs.  For today’s post I decided to change that. With Maja Design’s ‘Life by the sea’ collection it was love at first sight for me. The papers from this collection have stars, ginghams, text or stripes printed on them and the colours are just perfect for a masculine creation. I have made this lay-out with these beautiful papers.
The photo that I used on this lay-out is one of my father and my little brother. We were in a chair-lift, returning from a trip to the biggest mountain in Budapest. I tried to take some photos of the two of them and actually loved how this one turned out. I loved how peaceful and serene it looks.

Once again I added as many layers as I could to my lay-out. To create the gingham layer I cut out a gingham pattern from the ‘Sailing’ sheet. I adhered it to my lay-out with foamtape and added the other layers of paper on top of it.

Although my photo hasn’t got anything to do with sailing, I couldn’t resist giving my lay-out a bit of a maritime look, as I thought that suited the male photo quite well. To achieve this look I also incorporated some cheese clothing, burlap flowers and a resin seagull in my lay-out. The chipboard pieces that I used are all covered with white embossing powder.

I hope you enjoyed my post and that you will give the more masculine look a try too. Actually each one of the Maja Design collections has at least a couple of sheets that suit this look quite well.

Supplies:

Maja Design: patterned papers (Life by the sea: Nautic, the West Coast, Regatta, Sailing, Sailing-bs, Morning Sing-bs); Dusty Attic: chipboard, Prima Marketing: flowers, resin seagull; Tim Holtz: distress ink; American Crafts: embossing powder, embossing ink.