Flower card ♥

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Camilla Støen Bakke

Hi there! I am finally back with a new card, inspired by all the flowers that surrounds me. I have used the beautiful papers from the Vintage Spring Basics collection. And I have coloured Tilda to match the papers. I have put the image in to a Mini Clipboard -Top and bottom from Tim Holtz (die). And I have used the Orchid die and the Tilda Tag die from Magnolia’s DooHickeys.

Here is a close up of the image by Magnolia called Tripping Flower Tilda. She is coloured with Distress Ink, re-inkers. I have also added some Liquid pearls to her hair and dress. The “Made with love” text is from Magnolia, and the post stamp is from Kort & Godt. The sentiment on the tag is from Stempelglede. I have cut out the butterflies and the branch from the Maja Design papers. They are inked on the edges with Distress Ink (pad)-Walnut stain. Here are the lovely papers I have used: 1st of May, 4th of May, 6th of May and 6th of April. Thank you so much for visting, and be sure to be back for new wonderful Maja Design creations every day!

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,

Pinterest Inspired Christmas and a Tutorial

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Andrea Ewen

Hello Maja friends! I decided to shake things up a bit and make a little Christmas card here…though the temps here in New Jersey are pushing 90F! I keep a file under my Pinterest account called ‘Card Inspiration’. I never know when inspiration will strike, so if it happens to be a Christmas themed card in June…I go with it! This particular picture also encouraged me to make a tutorial after I figured out how the template was made. The original picture credit can be found here. First off, here’s the end product using Maja Design’s Vintage Winter collection:

I started the process by cutting out 4 hearts, two with ‘Wishing You’ paper and two with Soft Suede card stock. I stacked the four of them together and with my paper piercer, I punched out holes around the perimeter. I stacked them together so that the holes would all line up when I went to sew them together: Next I dabbed the edges of the fronts with Walnut Stain distress ink: I need the hearts to malleable, so I spritzed them with water and crinkled them up: I carefully unfolded them and waited for them to dry before sewing. To give them a puffed up appearance, I added a bit of crinkled tissue to the inside as I was sewing them closed. The brown heart is the back and obviously the printed side is the front:I then began meticulously sewing the perimeter, using a blanket stitch through the pre-pierced holes:
Then I added an inside perimeter of sparkle using Ranger’s Platinum Stickles: Lastly I added the ‘Merry’ and ‘Christmas’ banners, cut out of the same “Wishing You” paper:Here are some close ups of the hearts:

The Maja Design papers that I used were: Wishing You, Christmas is Coming, Cozy Inside and Cozy Inside (bs). Other supplies used were: a paper flower, Zva Creative flourish, burlap, jute, gold stars, a doily and a paper distresser.

Thanks for joining me today…hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!

June Mood Board

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Jenny Grotherus

Our June Mood Board is about the early summer with it’s blossoming flowers and blue skies. Based on the gorgeous Äntligen collection, this is the perfect opportunity to finally scrap your graduation and speechday photos. June-Mood-board

And here’s a little reminder of what our mood boards are used for…

Definition mood board - n

a board used by designers on which samples of various colours and textures are mounted to help in deciding which elements complement each other

We are using mood boards for our challenges. We truely believe in creativity and art at Maja Design. You are free to interpret the mood boards in any way you’d like. They are supposed to set you in an inspirational mood without too much controlling. We would like you to be inspired by the poems, words and photos. They are not given rules, they are just there as inspiration. They are all inspired by a Maja collection, but you are free to use any Maja papers you’d like as long as they follow the colour scheme. We highly encourage you to follow the theme of the mood board as well.

We are presenting a new mood board the first Tuesday of every month. We will be presenting all participating creations that fulfill the requirements below June 25th. We will also draw a winner who will be winning a Maja Design collection of their own choice in 6×6 or 12×12.

After your creation is done, take a photo and send it to moodboard@majadesign.nu without any watermarks (size 600×600). Include your full name and address in the e-mail together with what collection you would like if you win. Don’t forget to write down if you would like 6×6 or 12×12. We need your creation June 23rd at the latest.

We will only publish creations that fullfill the requirements!

And here comes inspiration created by our fabulous Creative Team… Andrea_Ewen

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Camilla_Bakke Camilla Bakke Ivana_Camdzic

Ivana Camdzic Jennifer_Snyder Jennifer Snyder Jenny_Grotherus Jenny Grotherus Marilyn_Rivera

Marilyn Rivera

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Friendship is the poetry of Life

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Camilla Støen Bakke

Hi there Maja fans! Here comes a new card from me using the lovely Vintage Spring Basics papers. I have used both side of the paper called 2nd of May. The lovely butterflies are cut out from the paper called 6th of May. I have inked the edges with Walnut Stain, and added Stickles-Star Dust on to them.
I have made a frame card. I found the tutorial HERE in Malin’s blog. The sweet image I have coloured with Distress Ink, is called Princess Pea Tilda, from Magnolia. The sentiment is from Stempelglede.Here are gorgeous flowers from Iamroses, WOC and the flower berries are from Kort & Godt. More flowers, and I have attatched a beautiful key charm on to them.

Thank you so much for visitng the Maja Design Blog. Have a lovely Sunday!

Sweet New Baby Wishes

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Ivana Camdzic

I’ve been anticipating the arrival of a very special little new Gemini…A very dear friend of mine is expecting and her due date is just around the corner. Actually, it just so happens to be on her very own birthday! Which means, the little one will join our little circle of Geminis.

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that they are welcoming this brand new little addition to their family.

This is the card I created for them.

I used a few different pastel colors on the card since the baby’s gender will be a surprise. I wanted to add in a touch of blue – in case it is a boy, a touch of pink- in case it’s a little girl, and a touch of yellow – just for good measure.

All of the papers are from the Vintage Spring Basics collection (3rd of March, 4th of May, Days to Remember), and the rest of the supplies are items I have die-cut.

I covered the base of the white card with a soft pink print, followed by a little pocket I die-cut using the WPlus9 Vintage Envelope Die. Inside, I tucked two tickets, both cut out of the Days to Remember paper from Maja Design. I adorned the tags with sparkly buttons, hemp ribbon, and a handmade clay button.

I wanted to add a flower to this card, but didn’t want it to be too girly, so I offset the floral layers – cut with PTI’s Lovely Layers Die - with a cute little birdie. Birdies can be masculine, right?

I added three little pennants, some punched paper, hemp ribbon, and a stamped sentiment from the Purls of Wisdom stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

Supplies: Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics Collection (3rd of March, 4th of May, Days to Remember), White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink Dies (Lovely Layers), WPlus9 Dies (Vintage Envelope), Papertrey Ink Stamps (Purls of Wisdom), Buttons, Ribbon, and String from my stash.

Now I just need to patiently await the arrival of little baby…Oh its so very hard to be patient for such an exciting occasion, but I will do my very best.

Hope you are all having a great week thus far.

Winner of the May Mood Board

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Jenny Grotherus

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Here are the beautiful creations we have received this month…

And the winner of the May mood board is… Anke_Van_Omme_Netherlands Congratulations Anke Van Omme! The Vintage Spring Basics collection will be sent to you as requested.

Our June Mood Board is about the early summer with it’s blossoming flowers and graduation. It’s based on the Äntligen collection and I hop you’ll like it.

So make sure to stop by next Tuesday so you don’t miss it. Jenny

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.

A Card with A Photo

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Elena Olinevich

Good Day to everyone! Today I want to share with you a Card I made for my son who has just turned 12 months 2 days ago. It was quite challenging for me to create a Boyish card since I didn’t want it to be a Baby one. So I found the way to do it in my style, I just added his photo to my card.

I used Life In the Country Collection, as it is so versatile , and you can find there some papers that can be definitely called masculine, but at the same time they are so soft that are so perfect for Baby projects as well.

I made some cutting as well as tearing the paper. And as you know this month’s Mood Board is based on this collection, so I had some leftovers from the previous project for Mood Board Inspiration, that is why I added some of them there too.

I hope I have inspired you to use your paper scraps and small photos and incorporate them into Birthday or Any others Special Day cards

Supply List: Maja Design Papers- Life In the Country Collection: Summer Poem, Grow Strawberries, Summer Fields, Close To The lake, Peace and Quiet; 2Crafty Chipboard, Prima Stamp, Just Right paperCraft Stamp

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: