All because of you

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Camilla Ekman

Hi everybody! I have made a new layout using the Vintage Summer Basics collection. The winner of Melodifestivalen – the Swedish try out for Eurovision Song Contest is from my town. We were very proud and happy and of course he came home to perform. My children were standing right in front of the scene.
I have made some layering underneath the photo using different dies.

And I used some gorgeous flowers to match the lovely papers.

By putting the title on top of the photo I created yet another layer.

Products used: Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics papers: 1935, 1916; flowers, alpha stickers, dies, bling swirls, seam binding. Camilla-sign

Memories

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Vibeke Harila

Hi again

Vibeke here. Today I want to share a new layout with you. This is pink, soft and shabby.

I have used one of my favorite collections – “Vintage Summer Basics”. I LOVE this. So pretty, soft and warm.

This layout is about my youngest girl. She is so proud to get a ring from her first boyfriend. She was only 4 years old.

This is my style. A lots of layers. I like to build my page.

I have used some old book pages, gesso and decoupage lack to create this layout.

Supplies:

Vintage Summer Basics – 1921 and 1925

Gesso, mist and Ink from 13 arts.

Chipboard from Blue Fern Studios.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you liked my work. Have a nice day.

Hugs Vibeke Vibeke

Some Monochrome Cards

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Elena Olinevich

I am happy to come back to you very so very soon and share some more cards with you. I do the cards quite rarely but when I started creating them I can not stop myself just to one card.

I have already started celebrating the Summer and the best companion for me was a Vintage Summer Basics 6×6 paper Pad. It’s quite easy to use it for your cards. June is my country is a very rainy month usually, so I thought of something pale blue and wanted to maintain its’ color tones in my card too.

and one more simple card I made using the same 6×6 Paper Pad. I just cut 4 rectangles from one sheet of paper, turned 2 of them backside, added some flowers, and here you are ready with a quick and pretty card:

Have a fabulous week.

Supplies used: Maja Design papers – Vintage Summer Basics 6×6 paper Pad:

1935, 1936, 1943, 1944;

Vilda Stamps, Manor House Creations flowers and Flourish With a Bling Pearls, ribbon.

May Boy

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jennifer Snyder

Happy Friday to you. This is Jennifer Snyder bringing you a layout and a video showing how I used the Vintage Summer Basics and the Vintage Spring Basics collection together. It’s quite easy to combine these collections making them so fun to use.

This features a photo image of a little boy at a wedding I attended. I brought my camera and followed this sweetiepie around till I got the pouty look I wanted. It was not hard and I diid not wait too long. hahahaha

Here is a video to show how I assembled my page and my thought process behind my choices. There is also a guest star’s cameo appearance in the video at the very end. Not to worry – the video is less than 4 min long. I believe in keeping it short and simple – just to show you quickly the concepts and the execution.

I started with Vintage Summer Basics 1905 BAS-528 for the background. It’s a very cool, versatile piece of paper. I wish I had a few more sheets of this.

I also used Vintage Spring Basics 3rd of April.

Here are the close ups: I inked some lace and some paper flowers, did a little stamping and a lot of edge inking. I also added a piece of chipboard that was inked.

I ripped the paper Vintage Spring Basics 3rd of April by misting with water then gently ripping the paper. It seems to rip easier and you have more control over the rip when you add a little water.

You can see in the image below a little bit of Vintage Spring Basics -5th of April peaking out from under my inked up lace.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend and check back often.

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!

I have found another bottle message…

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jenny Grotherus

Posting something online is like sending out a bottle message. The posting drifts away on the waves of the blue sea, living it’s life of it’s own. You never know who will pick it up and what that could result in.

From time to time I’m looking for just that. Bottle messages. Postings that drifts on the sea of internet, just waiting to be picked up and become praised.

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on a true piece of art that I just had to highlight. Created by the so talented Ingrid Gooyer, here is her stunning candle stick.

She has used Vintage Summer Basics paper in combination with flowers, pearls, lace and true artistic creativity. Such beauty should not go unnoticed, so I’m sending Ingrid the latest Vintage Spring Basics collection as encouragement.

If you want to see more of Ingrid’s work, visit her blog.

So don’t forget to mention that you have used Maja Design papers when posting your creations online. You never know who will pick up the bottle message… Jenny

Thank You

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Romy Veul

Hi Maja fans! I hope you have had a wonderful weekend. In Holland spring has finally arrived and the sun is shining brightly. But I have to admit that even on these sunny days, I love to spend some time inside behind my desk playing with my favourite Maja Design goodies. For today’s project I worked with the gorgeous ‘Vintage Summer Basics’ papers. This is the ‘Thank you’ card that I made with them.

I used white cardstock as the base of my card and layered three rectangles cut out from three different sheets of paper on top of them. I then cut a doily with my Big Shot and adhered it in the right upper corner of my card. With a vintage swirl, a sentiment rub-on, two clocks and a resin bird I made an embellishment cluster on the right side. Finally I cut out some of the gorgeous butterflies from the ‘Vintage Spring Basics’ collection as well. Don’t you just love the versatility of the Maja Design papers? What I really love about their collections is that each collection has a wide variety of papers in different colours. For this card I choose a few papers in pink and grey tones to create a very feminine card. But you could also go for a blue/brown combination with this same collection to achieve a more masculine look.Supplies:

Maja Design: patterned papers (Vintage Spring Basics: 6th of May; Vintage Summer Basics: 1923, 1891, 1899); Prima Marketing: clocks, resin bird; Memory Box: flourish die; Cheery Lynn: doily die; Pebbles Inc: sentiment rub-on; Bazzill Basics: white cardstock; Queen & Co: pearls.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Still Unwritten

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Heidi Kelley

Hi creative friends! This is Heidi Kelley, and I am beyond delighted to be the guest designer for Maja Design this month. I admit to being totally overwhelmed when my box of papers arrived because I had a zillion ideas right away and had the hardest time deciding on which papers to use. In the end, no one collection won out! I found myself creating four different layouts, all at once… and the only reason this is my first layout for the month of May, is that it was finished first!

I thought I would share a bit of my process with all of you today, created using Vintage Summer Basics, to give you a glimpse into how I create my projects. First I work with all my papers, cutting out all my frames, journaling spots, details, embellishments, etc., so I began by cutting journaling frames from the Vintage Summer Basics Minnen-memories paper. I then cut slightly inside one of the frames, so that I could place my photo “inside” and pop her out to make it look dimensional. URStillUnwritten1 URStillUnwritten2 Then, using Vintage Summer Basics 1905 I cut out some panels that I wanted to look like bricks within my page and flowers from Vintage Summer Basics 1921 to tuck underneath my other elements, as well as using masking tape tears for layers in between. I then cut out a flower detail from Vintage Summer Basics 1923 to create a crown for my daughter’s head. URStillUnwritten3 Next comes gesso, if I haven’t already smeared all along the page. For this project, I really wanted to highlight my clusters, so I waited until I had glued these elements down and knew where they were going and used an old credit card to apply the medium. URStillUnwritten4 I then applied scrap rub-ons, into her hair, and around the clusters and added Prima flowers, metal bits and pieces, butterflies, and craft wire in circles to the page. URStillUnwritten_2 My final touches are always drips, smears, and flicks of paint. So after all these things were added, I dripped on metallic alcohol ink and Shimmerz paint. Letting these dry first, I then applied some Shimmerz Texturez paint around the clusters and edges of the page, finishing the project off with my title work and some dark splotches of paint mist for added oomph. URStillUnwritten_1

Supplies Used: Maja Design Vintage Summer Basics “Minnen-memories, 1921, 1905, 1923″, Prima flowers and Junkyard Findings, Shimmerz Paints, Ranger alcohol ink, gesso, craft wire, misc. rub-ons.

Thank you all for having me! See you next week! Heidi-blogsign

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

My Molly

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Cathy Lane

Hello friends !! I have another project to share with you today and I so loved the way this one turned out. The little lady in the photos is my little Pekingese Miss Molly. Here is a close-up of the flowers I made using Vicky Alberto’s tutorial for her “Versatile Flowers”. They are so cute and easy to make. Thank you Vicky!
And here is a close-up of the little beaded flowers I made and there is a tutorial for you if you would like to give them a try. I call them my “Beaded delphiniums” They look cute if you make them in blue because then they really do look like Delphiniums at a glance. I also know that Delphiniums do not hang down, they actually stand up straight but in the scrapping world anything is possible right? The little white fern you see peeking out there is punched and then I just used the negative as a mask and sponged some gesso on it.
I used papers from the bautiful Vintage Summer Basics Collection:

Vintage Summer Basics – 1922

Vintage Summer Basics – 1904 BS

Vintage Summer Basics – 1933 BS
For inspiartion I used a sketch from Scrap Friends.
The big leafy fern is a chippie from Imaginarium Designs and again I just sponged some gesso on it.
Here is the promised tutorial if you would like to give it a try.

Materials needed:
Wire
Florists tape
Glue Gun
Wire Cutter
Seed beads in the colour of your choice
Step 1.
Cut a few pieces of wire in different lengths.
Step 2.
You now have to work relatively fast as hot glue dries very quickly. Heat up the glue gun. Take one strand of wire and adhere hot glue to one end of the strand. It looks very “blobby”, but don’t worry about that. I covered about 3.5cm with hot glue.
Step 3.
While the glue is still hot, dip it into your little bowl of seed beads and twirl it around so the beads can cover all the glue.
Step 4.
Whilst the glue is still warm, press the beads firmly into the glue using your fingers. If you find that not all the spots are covered, you can always just add an extra little bit of glue on those spots and then dip it back into the bowl of beads.
Step 5.
Gently remove any excess loose beads and this is what it should look like when it’s nicely covered.
Step 6.
Now you can take a strip of florists tape and start winding it around the wire starting close up against the beads, working your way down.
And this what they look like when they are all finished and ready to “prettify” your page. I hope you like them as much as I do!
And that my sweet friends, is all from me today. I have the flu, so I’m going straight back to bed and no doubt Miss Molly is going to join me! LOL! Till next week…happy scrapping!x