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.

Precious Moments and Tutorial

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Elena Olinevich

Hello Maja Friends. Elena has come back and today I want to share a Layout made with New Vintage Spring Basics Collection and a little tutorial on how to create the layers and use some of your leftovers.

To start with you need to tear a wide strip of paper

Make some cutting on the paper and distress them on the edges

Place this paper piece on the patterned paper. You can add more distressing to the edges if you wish. Glue it to the background just in the middle. It allows you to add some embellishments under the strip during your next steps.

For the next step I took some leftovers from the previous projects and started making a padding for my photo. I am a savvy scrapper so I keep almost all of them. This time I used some pieces left from the roses I made using Spellbinders dies.

I like that some petals silhouette are still visible and thought that it is a great idea to make a framing on the photo with them.

Cut some of the parts of paper and place them over and there under the photo. Put some pieces into the torn area as well.

I added some leaves and a flowers just to see where the main embellishments would be. and then I started applying some gesso with a sponge, to soften the look of my background.

Then I misted these gessoed areas and added some stamping. Placed some embellishments and here you are ready with multi layered project:

here you can see how I added the chipboard between the background and patterned paper:

I put 2Crafty chipboard and flowers into the torn aperture:

a flowers made from the paper:

and the layers:

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and will use some of your leftovers too.

Supplies: Maja Design , Vintage Spring Basics Collection : 7th of May, 3rd of March, 7th of April, 4th of March; Spellbinders Dies; 2Crafty Chipboard; Vilda Stamps; Clear Scraps Acrylic Sheet; Lindy’s Stanp Gang Mists; Gesso

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

Up Close And Personal

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Cathy Lane

Hi everyone!!
I’ve been wanting to scrap this photo for over a year but just couldn’t find that “perfect” paper until I saw Maja’s “Walking In The Forest” collection. The photo was taken on one of the very rare ocassions that I go away for a weekend. Getting this close to an elephant was to say the least an amazing experience. One of the very few regrets I have in life is that I didn’t follow my dream of becoming a Wildlife Conservationist and if I could have my life over again, that is what I would do.:) Oh well, back to scrapping…lol!! Here is a close-up of the little pine cones I made which I tucked between the flowers and I also did a little tutorial on how to make them for those who would like to give it a try.
And here is how to make them:
You will need very basic materials:

Tan cardstock
Glue
Decorative scissors (scallops)
Walnut stain distress ink
Scissors
Stylus

Step 1.
Use a pencil and draw a spiral on the wrong side of your cardstock measuring approx. 7.5cm in diameter. I drew the spiral free hand as I don’t know of any other way to do it.

Step 2.
Use your decorative scalloped scissors and cut out the spiral all along the pencil lines.

Step 3.
Turn the spiral over to the right side and ink the scalloped edges of the spiral with Walnut Stain distress ink.

Step 4
Use your small scissors and make a small snit a little more than half way between every scallop.

Step 5.
Turn your spiral over to the wrong side again, place it on a mousepad or any foam pad and roll the entire spiral with your styles, especially the pinecone petals, and you will find that your spiral starts curling. Don’t worry about the pencil marks as they will not show once your little cone has been completed. This picture does not do justice to how you need to press down on the spiral and roll at the same time as it is pretty hard to do that with a camera in the left hand and a stylus in your right hand but I’m sure you get the idea. The down side of being alone at home most of the time is that you have nobody to take the photo when you need both hands…lol!

This is what your spiral kind of looks like once you have finished the step with the stylus.
Step 6.
Now we need to start rolling this spiral. So, with the right side of the spial facing you, grab a thin paintbrush or knitting needle and secure the tip of the spiral to the spiral with some glue. I use a knitting needle and please ignore the “used” look of it…it works hard especially when I use it to work with wire..lol!

Step 7.
Start rolling the spiral and at the same time put a few blobs of glue at intervals along the bottom edge to secure the spiral. Roll the spiral round and round and with each twirl roll it slightly downwards so that with each turn your petals will be below the prevoius layer of petal. You don’t want it to become a flower. By the way, this method makes the cutest little flowers too. Once you have done a few turns, remove the knitting needle or whatever it is that you are using and turn it with your fingers….much easier and you have more control.

Keep rolling around and downwards and don’t forget the little blobs of glue at intervals and it should start looking like the one in the pictures below.

Step 8.
When you get to the end, put a good blob of glue in the centre to secure the bottom edge of the spiral to the bottom of your little cone. Oops, it looks like I put too much glue on but it worked out well in the end. Press the end of the spiral firmly against the bottom of your cone and leave it until the glue is dry.

It should now look similar like the one in the picture below which is a sideview of the cone
And here is a picture of what your cone should look like at the bottom.
Step 9.
Once the glue is dry you can now take a pair of tweezers or something and just gently start folding each little petal slightly outwards.

And this is what your little cones will look like when they are finished. I hope you like them

For this layout I used the following:
Walking In The Forest – Autum In The Air
Walking In The Forest – Autumn In The Air BS
Walking In The Forest – Flannel Shirt
Walking In The Forest – Knitted Sweater
Walking In The Forest – Die Cut Sheet

The border below the photo was cut with Spellbinders Shapeabilities Elegant Posts.
The stamp I used in the four corners of the layout is from Impressive Impressions Butterfly Swish.
The leaves between the flowers were stamped with some no-name brand stamp and I just cut them out and coloured them with distress inks and drew the little veins by hand with a Zig marker.
I made the little twiggy vine and just attached some beads to the ends.

And with that my friends, I am going to love and leave you!! Have a happy day!!

Painted Medallion…A Tutorial

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Andrea Ewen

Hello Maja friends! One thing I love about this ~~obsession~~, er, hobby of mine is that I get to play with paper. I absolutely love to find new ways, either by my own accord or gleaning from the mega-talent that’s out there (like my team mates!) to manipulate paper into something beautiful.Today I’m going to show you how I make medallions, and how, in getting inspiration from others, you can add a bit of pizzazz to the design. First, here’s a look at the finished product:I‘m using Maja Design’s Vintage Spring Basics for my theme. I’m in love with the soft yellows of the March papers. To start, you need a scoring board, stylus, paint brush, pearl paint and coarse glitter. Cut a 1 & 1/2″ inch strip off of 12″ patterned paper. I used 1st of March-bs paper. Score paper at 1/4″ increments. I make the pleats a little bigger so that the glitter will be more visible.

Accordion fold paper, but not too tightly because we have to paint it and add glitter.Paint about 1/2″ inch from the bottom. I do this so that the white fades to soft yellow going towards the center. Be generous with the paint because…While it’s still wet, we’re going to sprinkle it with coarse glitter.Glue the ends together to make a circle.I use clips to hold it in place until the glue is dry.I attach the paper to cardboard so that it holds up better. I don’t want the paper to pop up from the card, so I also use lots of glue. I have tried hot glue in the past but not only do I burn myself everytime, it’s messy and I don’t have as much ‘play with it till it’s right’ time.Now I attach that whole panel to my base.I want to cover up both the seam and the middle so it looks like the color fades in then out.This is what happens when you sneeze while sewing. Good thing it’s a shabby card because then it looks like I did this on purpose. I use EVERY PART of my Maja papers, including the name strip. This ‘post card’ paper is the back of the 1st of March sheet. I layered that upon a strip of the front of said sheet, then a piece the backside of the 7th of April. I added a little pearl to the middle for interest.

Another pretty thick card, you’re going to need a box and a wee bit of extra postage to mail this one.Ancillary details are the Zva Creative flourishes, lace/button/hemp accent and the cluster of flowers at the bottom. I also accented both the card base and the medallion with White Opal and Buttercup Liquid Pearls.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today…I hope you’ll try this out!

Rustic Outdoors

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Rachelle Sigurdson

Hello,I am here to share with you a LO I did using the beautiful Vintage Spring Basics Collection,I just love this collection!!!!!

From the Vintage Spring Basics Collection, I used the1st of March,7th of May,7th of May bs,7th of April &6th of May. The chippies are from Scrap Fx & the blooms are from I Am Roses. I have decided to do a photo Tut on this LO,as garden season is just around the corner. After the Tut,I will show closeups of detail………………

I start with a distressed layer of cardstock.This is my first layer using 7th of April,because I will be stitching it down later. I used very little glue to attach it & never go close to the outside edge with the glue so that I can distress more once I have completed my stitching….

My next distressed layer using 7th of May……..

I glued down 1st of March in the center.I only used 1 drop of liquid accents as it dries so fast.So this is why I like to use LA as my glue because of the instant staying power. I have glued 7th of May to 7th of May bs, making sure that I did not go to the outside edges…..

This is the next layer,from what I did in the photo above this one…..

Here are the next layers. I have I ripped 2 pieces of 7th of May ,then distressed them & attached them to the upper right hand and lower left corner…….

I curled up a couple of corners, Islipped in pieces of paper & then glued them to the cardstock….

With a paper pierce, I poked holes for my hand stitching…..

I decided to cut holes in the 1st of March,then I glued behind that 7th of May bs & attached chicken wire with glue……..

Holes are pierced,ready for stitching……

Stitching is done,but I find that my LO’s bend from all of this stitching..Thanks to a large stock of paper that I refuse to throw out, I glue this onto a piece of the recycled paper using mod podge. I then put heavy books on top until it dries & flattens…………….

Flattened out LO….

Now using my fingers ,I lift & distress the edges more….

After I did more distressing with my fingers….

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I never throw away my old chipboard or scraps, I save them to raise the photo, or whatever I want to raise, so this is glued down & the photo will be glued on top, leaving space so that I can add detail under or over the photo…

I matted the photo with 7th of May,then glued on the scribble rectangle. I then glued it on to the piece of chipboard on the LO,now for the detail……

Not sure of what I should use. So I got all of these Scrap Fx pieces ready by first painting them with white picket fence crackle .When they dried, I rubbed in a dark brown chalk & inked the edges to make them look more vintage..

For the little cone shaped planters,I cut out circles out of cardstock,then painted them with white picket fence crackle. When that dried, I rubbed in chalk,inked the edges and cut a v into the circle. . Then I rolled and glued them with liguid accents,holding it until it dried,then I rapped string around them. Here are some close ups of detail……

I added some of the chipboard pieces into this area,then some blooms & a butterfly I cut out from the 6th of May.

On the top right hand corner is the back of the label, I. also ripped a piece of 1st of March, then inked the edgesand glued it under the photo.

My cute little planters,filled with I Am Roses.

My garden is mostly in the purple and orange tones,so I found this photo on pinininterest,, But this Months Mood Board & the Vintage Spring Basics Collection has inspired me to plant this secret little garden spot in the Vintage Shabby Chic way,can’t wait until the snow goes!!!!!

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

A Little Spring Whimsy!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Gabrielle Pollacco

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Hi everyone! It’s me Gabrielle here with you again today! I was so thrilled to be working on my first project using the NEW and gorgeous Vintage Spring Basics collection! I’m such a huge fan of butterflies, birdies and florals on my scrapbook papers, and add them to a vintage design and I’m in heaven! I wanted to go with a butterfly theme so I thought I’d create a layered butterfly wing design to accent the page. I thought I would share with you all the steps I took to create the butterfly design…

Before I added the larger wing to my page, I first lightly inked some of the area around where the wing would be placed and did a little stamping with some script stamps. I wanted a 3D layered effect so I glued down the larger wing and did a little doodling around the edges of the wing and then glued down the smaller wing on top, glueing only at the center of the wing so that it can be folded up slightly. Here is a close-up view of the finished design…

I also added some chipboard in the lower right corner to mirror the cherry blossom design in the papers. These I handpainted and I added a little nest to give a nice Spring feel to the page.

I also wanted to try something fun for this page, and it was to make my own Vintage Crinkle Ribbon! I’ve seen these cute ribbons on many projects in the past and when I went to source them locally I had an impossible time finding them! Then I came across some information on Pinterest on how to make these vintage ribbons from seam binding! I gave it a try and it was easy-peasy to do and so inexpensive! I did a little video tutorial on how to make these (the tutorial can be found at my blogpost for today at Such A Pretty Mess Blog ….if you want to have a peek!

And I have one more little extra for you today. I know that not everyone is comfortable with sketching, so if you want to try the butterfly wing design that I created above, you can right click on the template below and ‘save picture as’ to your computer. I saved the page as a 8.5×11 so when you go to print if you hit ‘fit to page’ it should give you the wings in the same size as I created for my page.

I hope you enjoyed my first project with the NEW Vintage Spring Basics collection as much as I enjoyed making it!

Supplies: Patterned Paper – Vintage Spring Basics (1st of May, 4th of May, 7th of May, 7th of May-bs, 6th of May), Chipboard – Dusty Attic (Cherry Blossoms), Flowers – Dusty Attic Mini Roses, Prima Roses, Prima Pearl Ribbon/trim, Nest – Prima, Green Vine Trim – May Arts, Crinkle Ribbon – handmade (tutorial link above)

Video Tutorial: Vintage Dress Canvas (Step by Step)

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Gabrielle Pollacco

I always love watching those mixed media video’s where you can watch the process. I find them fun, inspiring and informative. I love to see the little steps it takes to put a project together. So today I thought I would share a video tutorial with you all in how I made the above, Vintage Dress canvas using the beautiful papers from the Ska vi ta en Fika? collection.

Grab yourself a nice cup of coffee (keep the pot nearby, this is a fairly long one), maybe a little pastry in keeping with the theme of the paper collection, an enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and hope that you’ll feel inspired to try a canvas using these pretty papers. Here are a few close-ups of the canvas that you can leisurely view, as well as a supplies list of products used.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Maja Design ‘Ska vi ta en Fika? (Blommer pa Bordet, Soders Hojder-bs, En Kopp te, Sockerkaka-bs), Chipboard: Dusty Attic Designs (Ornate Corner Flourish, Chicken Wire Panel, Monarch Butterflies), Rub-on: Daisy D’s, Stamp: Autumn Leaves, Other: Kitchen twine, bulk roses, seed beads, acrylic paint, lace, pearl strand, brown chalk ink (Ranger), brown pen, 8×10 canvas.

Thanks for taking the time to view my video! xo

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