A Cup of Thanks

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Ivana Camdzic

Today roughly marks the halfway point of a wonderful year I have spent with Maja Design. I have thoroughly enjoyed every last minute of being on this laid-back, and hugely inspiring team, and my gratitude extends to the entire team and all of the people who make Maja Design such a wonderful company to work with. I have been given the opportunity to create with some of the most beautiful vintage papers, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

Maja has just released a new *limited* collection that is oh-so-delightful in every way. Have you seen it yet? I hope you’ll check out the sneak peek and enter your name for the giveaway on the Maja Design blog.

To curb my impatience a little as I wait for the new collection to arrive at my doorstep, I have been busy playing with other lovely prints from some of Maja’s traditional collections.

Here today to share my newest creation with some lovely papers from the Vintage Spring Basics and Ska vi ta en fika collections, inspired by my thankfulness of this wonderful team.

For the background of the card I used the 4th of March pattern from the Vintage Summer Basics collection. I layered a Rustic Cream card base over the pattern and stamped the top and bottom edge with a beautiful scallop border from a lovely Precious Remembrance stamp set.

I then began to “section off” my card. I like to do this to provide an anchor for all the little bits I plan to pile on. It helps the clusters come together into a more cohesive design, as opposed to appearing as they are floating about the card

For the first anchor bit, I used a pretty gingham print I had stamped, and snipped a little “v” at the one end to create a pennant. I adhered this bit vertically to the right side of the card.

Next to that, I stamped a yellow border to the right using the same Precious Remembrance stamp, and the finishing touch to my sentiment, using PTI’s Mini Blooms stamp set.

I knew that I would be building doilies, florals and teacups for the focal part of the card, so I wanted to add some flourishes and leaves to the base of the card to fill all the white space.

I stamped various images from the Mini Blooms stamp set all around the area next to where I wanted to position my center piece.

To build the center piece, I used a pre-cut and stamped doily, pre-cut flowers, a scalloped oval image, a teensy tea cup, and my sentiment.

A couple of my handmade buttons to add some texture, and a few dots of liquid pearls to finish off the right side of the card.

The left side of the card was just a little bit too naked, so I layered some paper bits along the edges of the card to fill in all the empty space. Among the patterns is one strip of floral design which I stamped, as well as pretty patterns from Maja Design, like the Favorit print from the Ska vi ta en fika collection.

Supplies Used: Maja Design Paper (Ska vi ta en fika – Favorit, Vintage Spring Basics – 4th of March), Papertrey Ink Stamps (Mini Blooms), Precious Remembrance Stamps (Christmas), Stampin Up Stamps (Quintessential Flower, Tea Shoppe), Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream Cardstock, Ek Success Abstract Flower Punch, Papertrey Ink Banner Borders Die, Ink (Stampin Up – Barely Banana, Stampin Up – Night of Navy, Stampin Up – Certainly Celery, Papertrey Ink – Spring Rain), Liquid Pearls

Thanks so much for joining me today,

Scrapping my Spring Lilacs!

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Gabrielle Pollacco

May is the month of my dear husbands and my anniversary! And one of my favourite things about this month is that the Lilacs are in full bloom on our anniversary weekend. I just love to fill my house with Lilacs when they bloom because they remind me of our reception hall at our wedding. We have this creek that runs behind my mom and dads house, and early in the morning on my wedding day, my dad went down to the creek and picked bucket load after bucket load of wild purple lilacs to decorate the tables at the reception. We had over 350 guests so you can imagine how beautiful the reception hall smelled when we walked in after ceremony.

Every year Steve and my girls pick me armloads of lilacs from our trees (we planted some beautiful French Lilac’s when we moved into our house) on the weekend of our anniversary. I took these pic’s of my oldest daughter Chloe with her bouquet that she picked for me.

I used a combination of pretty purple patterned papers from the Maja Vintage Spring Basic’s Collection (10th of April-bs, 11th of April) mixed with Maja’s Ska vi ta en Fika? (Våffla m björnbärssylt-bs) to compliment the purples in my photo. The blooms I used are Recollections, Prima and the berry stalks are just loose pieces from my local dollar store.

The chipboard is a Dusty Attic piece called ‘Cherry Blossoms’ that I just gave a coat of white paint and inked with some coordination color inks. I also added a bit of stamping with a Prima diamond stamp from the Moulin Rouge collection, the quote stamp is a Tim Holtz stamp.

I love to cluster ‘natural’ style elements around the title. Here I used a Prima nest and blooms and added some lace and feathers mixed with an extra snippit of chipboard. The clock is a trinket I found in the clearance aisle at Michaels. The title is a Heidi Swapp sticker.

Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my latest Maja Design project! xo

Nature at it’s Grandest

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Rachelle Sigurdson

Hello,I am here to share with you a LO I did using the Beautiful Fika Collection. I use a lot of the colors that are in this Collection in my Garden, but I also use Terra Cotta & this year I made a changes,I planted the Tree Fort area, Vintage Shabby Chic,using more pastel colors, so that I will be able to use my own Garden Photo’s & have a wider color range for Scrapbooking. I have just finished planting & now I get to watch my Babies GROW!!!!

Out of this Collection I used, Hemma hos mig, Vaffin m bjornbarssylt, Bjornabarskator, Bjornabarskator BS, Maripanbakelse & Pratstund BS. The chipboard is from Scrap Fx. Here are some closeups of detail….

I first distressed all the edges of the layers, then inked the edges with Tattered Angels Dewberry,using a paint Brush. When that dried I glued the layers together,then did some stitching. I used Shimmerz Paints Texturez (Artie Choked) on the Fern Frond.

On the wordlet I used Shimmerz TextureZ (Gritty Graphite) & when that dried I applied some Razzleberry,& Black Orchid LuminArte.

This photo shows some of my layers. I cut into the top left hand corner,then distressed,inked the edges, the rolled the paper & secured the roll with eyelets & thread.

The plants I used in this area of my garden are Castor Beans, Angelica Gigis, & Tiger Eyed Sumac. I applied some black orchid LuminArte on to the blooms,so that they would be the same color as the blooms in the photo.

Thank you so much for taking the time to look……Rachelle

Happy Anniversary…and more

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Andrea Ewen

Happy Thursday Maja friends! Looking out my craft room window last week, I saw the most beautiful site! It’s Spring time here in New Jersey and my favorite tree in the yard is in full bloom…a Weeping Cherry tree. Every bough is bent over with an enumerable amount of blooms and it’s just a sight for the soul! With that vision in mind, I went for Maja Design’s Vintage Spring Basics, namely the 1st and 4th of May papers. Here’s what I came up with: I fussy cut an image of trailing flowers from the 1st of May papers. I then added some Star Dust Stickles to the middles of the flowers for a little sparkle. There’s a length of crushed silk ribbon, tied into a bow and adorned with the same color fabric flower. I also added a strip of lace and pearls as well. The edges are all distressed.Here are a couple of other cards that I’ve made over the past few weeks with Maja Design papers:

It’s Christmas time

Ska vi ta en fika

Thanks for stopping by…hope you have a wonderfully inspired day!

She

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Romy Veul

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you have had a wonderful Pentecost. In Holland we have two days of Pentecost, so I enjoyed a wonderful day off University today.

Today I have a lay-out to show you that I made with one of my favourite Maja Design collections to date. With the amazing Fika papers I made this lay-out about my niece Elise. I really love this photo of my niece, as it shows her beautiful lashes and lovely smile just perfectly. I wanted to make a feminine lay-out for it and the gold and purple tones in the Fika papers were just perfect for this.

For the background I used the backside of the ‘Blommor pa bordet’ paper, which I matted onto ‘Kladdkaka’, the brown gingham paper. For the rest I mainly did a lot of layering and distressing with different papers from the Fika collection.

For the details I used two resin birds, that were slightly inked with distress ink, chipboad frames, flowers and some cheese clothing. The lovely butterflies were cut out from the ‘Walking in the Forest’ papers. Supply list:

Maja Design: patterned papers (‘Fika‘ collection: Kladdkaka, Blommor pa bordet, Sockerkaka, Sockerkaka-bs, Tva fröknar-bs, Hemgjord saft, Nybaka; ‘Walking in the Forest‘ collection: Autumn poem); Prima Marketing: flowers, resin birds, alphabet stickers; Imaginarium: chipboard frames; Bo Bunny: doily, stamps; Tim Holtz: distress ink; Martha Stewart: border punches; Other: cheese clothing.

Thank you so much for taking a look!

You Make the World a Better Place

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Ivana Camdzic

Ivana here today with a card I created recently…But it is not just any card. It is a part of a special new commitment I have decided to take on, and if you’re interested in learning more, keep on reading. Otherwise, pass the mushy stuff and head straight to the project.

I appreciate so many of the blessings I have, but the thing I cherish the most is the relationships I have grown over the course of my life. I sometimes wonder if my life, or any or our lives, would have half the meaning without all of the people that hold a special place in our heart….Our relationships define us, help us grow, give us strength and love during the good times and the bad.

It is for this reason that I am starting a new self-challenge, to express my gratitude for all these wonderful people in my life, in the form of a special card each month. I am kicking off my challenge today, with this card, created for a dear friend who has been one of the closest friends to me over the past 17 years. Through the happy times and the tearful, the big events and the quiet moments spent together in the wee hours of the night…Our friendship has been through it all. But no matter the trial or tribulation, I am so glad to have my gal by my side after all these years. This card is for her.

I used two beautiful Maja Design papers to create this card. The green paper is from the Ska Vi Ta En Fika collection (Marsipanbakelse) and the lovely blue from the Vintage Summer Basics collection (1944).

For the top of the card, I used several layers of the green and blue patterns, starting with a bit of green paper which I distressed with white paint around the edges. I cut a smaller blue piece which I also punched along the bottom. Over that, I layered another green strip, and stitched all the pieces together. I added a banner (layered out of several papers) along with a stamped and hand-cut sentiment.

I added a scrunched vintage ribbon bow with a button and two teensy pennants at the very top of the card.

Just below all the paper layers, I stamped the white base with lots of pretty little motifs. I used a banner die to die cut the chipboard piece, onto which I stamped the rest of the sentiment. I stamped another banner onto the card base itself, which I used as a guide when adhering the chipboard pieces.

At the very bottom of the card, I added a splash of color, by adhering die-cut postage bits, which I colored with coordinating green and blue ink.

My dear friend loves the color blue, so this palette was the perfect combination for her card.

Supplies: Maja Design Paper (Ska Vi Ta En Fika – Marsipanbakelse, Vintage Summer Basics – 1944), White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink Stamps (Stitched Sentiments), Papertrey Ink Dies (In Stitches, Heart Prints), Martha Stewart Deep Floral Vine Edge Punch, VersaMagic Ink (Tea Leaves, Aegean Blue) Pin, Ribbon and Button from my stash.

Thanks for joining me today!

Winner of the April Mood Board and giveaway

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Jenny Grotherus

April-Mood-board We have received so beautiful creations this month.

And the winner of the April mood board is… Irina_Gerschuk_Russia Congratulations Irina Gerschuk! The Vintage Spring Basics collection will be sent to you as requested.

But we also have a second and a third winner to announce. The winners from our Vintage Spring Basics+Vintage Summer Basics giveaway. The lucky girl to receive both collections in 12×12 is…

Faïza said

Oh Thanks for this chance to win…
I looooove all your collections and I hope to win, I try, chance to France…
I would prefer 12*12 paper for my cards , layouts and all and all…
Hugs****

And our third winner who will win one 6×6 paper pad of each collection is…

Scrappymo! said
Stunning collection and design team work. As always, you ladies never disapoint!

Love the vintage looks and the collection is so perfect for the vintage or the shabby chic look. If I was lucky enough to win I would chose 6×6 but I would take either as I scrapbook and make cards!

Thank you for the chance to win this outstanding collection.

Big congrats to Faïza and Scrappymo. Please send in your address to moodboard@majadesign.nu and we will send you your papers.

Our May Mood Board is a vintage countryside mood board full of children’s laughter and joy. All the berries, homemade cordial and checked table cloths. So make sure to look out for the Life In The Country collection at your LSS. Jenny

Blue

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Camilla Ekman

Hi Maja fans! I hope your weekend is a lovely one!

I have created a layout for my son using the Ska vi ta en fika collection. The blues are perfect for boy layouts. I have used one of the creme/beige papers as a background and added the dark blue as an accent.

To create a scenery I used a piece of chipboard shaped as a gate. I painted it with white gesso. The little birds are so cute.And I had to add a cluster of flowers, because I loooove flowers – even on boy’s layouts. Products used:

Maja Design Ska vi ta en fika papers: Sockerkaka, Blåbärssylt, Favoriter

Other: chipboard (Blue Fern Studios), flowers (Prima), resin (Prima), bling (Prima), alpha (Prima), doily, die (Sizzix) Camilla-sign

Folding Fika Fabulously

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Andrea Ewen

Hello Maja friends! A couple of weeks ago, I pulled out one of my favorite collections of Maja Design papers, Ska vi ta en fika. Then my mind started to wander…how can I make something really neat out of these papers? They are beautiful in and of themselves, but, what can I do differently with them? In a roundabout way, I came up with this card here:

If you remove the flower band (I call it a belly band, not sure why) the card can be opened by pulling on the two purple floral triangles. Inside reveals the sentiment.
Here’s the flat version so you can get a better feel of how it opens. The band is shown up at the top. It does not open, it simply slides from the bottom up to the middle to keep the card closed.The outside panels are all sewn and I added some Zva Creative flourishes, antique copper corners and Dark Chocolate Liquid pearl drops to both the top and bottom exposed panels.

To keep the card closed, slip the ‘belly band’ up onto it.The papers that I used from this collection are Kaffetåren den bästa är, Kaffetåren den bästa är-bs, Kärleksmums – bs and Lejas cafe. There was a lot of measuring, trial and error, frustration and tears (no, just kidding about the tears part). It took me most of the day to make, so if you’re looking to make something quickly, this is not the card. However, it was worth the work, I really like how it came out.

Thanks so much for spending part of your day with me, I hope you were inspired!

A Little Romance

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Gabrielle Pollacco

It’s Gabrielle here with you today! Spring is in the air so I thought I’d have a little fun doing a romantic layout this time! It’s funny how I sometimes go through stages in my scrapping. A while back I was all about circles. There was a time when almost every layout in my gallery had circle designs in them. In the past few months I’ve found myself haveing fun with hearts! And what’s more romantic than a heart design right?

I love this beach wedding photo, sometimes just capturing an indirect shot like the feet of a bride and groom can be so much more intriguing than a straight on photo. I love the soft blues and fawn colors in this photo so I decided to play up these colors in the layout. I used papers from 3 different collections: Vintage Spring Basics (the blue stripe), Ska vie ta en Fika? (the Coffee color dot) and Walking In the Forest (the leafy paper).

I added lots of intricately cut chipboard from Dusty Attic and finished it with some white paint and brown chalk ink and then gave them a coat of crackle medium.

I created a little birds nest trinket that I made out of 3 turquoise beads and some 26 gauge wire. I shared a link for the tutorial at my blog Such a Pretty Mess if anyone wants to learn how to make it.

Supplies: Patterned Paper – Vintage Spring Basics (7th of March, 6th of May-butterflies), Ska vie ta en Fika (Sockerkaka), Walking in the Forest (Birdsong-bs). Chipboard – Dusty Attic Designs (Sweet Pea Frame Set, Wrought Iron Fence, Small Scroll#2, Grass Clusters #2, Mini Script ABC set). Blooms – Recollections, Prima, Dusty Attic (leaves). Extras: Paper lace doilee – Bo Bunny. Trinket – Prima. Lace and pearl trim – no name off the roll.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! xo

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