MAJA Design GIVE-AWAY!! {Plus September Mood Board Challenge}

Hi everyone!  I'm so excited to be sharing this post today for my Maja Design Team! (I have an awesome MAJA DESIGN GIVEAWAY today....further down the post!) and  It's the first Tuesday of the month so that means it's time for the Maja Mood Board Challenge!  I made the above page using the September Mood Board as my inspiration.  The mood board colors are based on the 'Walking in the Forest' collection, and are just perfect for those autumn photos!  The photo I scrapped above is of my daughters best friend, I took this photo when they were are the Maple Syrup festival, they were eating some of those huge smoked turkey legs, and her friend was hamming it up with the turkey bone :) 

 

 

As I mentioned I used the 'Walking in the Forest" collection for this page, here are the individual papers I used from this collection to make up the page...

I used a bunch of Recollection blooms to decorate the page, and I found this clay bloom I made a little while back using Fimo and some Pearlex powder and a glass bead, I thought the colors went well with page so I just added it into my bloom cluster. 

The blue flower is from Petaloo and the chipboard is a border flourish from Dusty Attic that I cut in half and used in a couple of places on the page. 

I also used another Dusty Attic chipboard piece Berrie Branches to frame the photo.  The mask I used around the photo is the Prima mask by Finnabiar.  I used the Clearsnap Distress Ink in Denim and Honey. 

Have I mentioned how much I love the My Little Yellow Bicycle word stamps?!  I just adore the swirly font they use, and the words are really the sort I can use for my everyday layouts!

 

MAJA DESIGN GIVE-AWAY!!!

Okay now for the fun part!  Maja Design is bringing out their NEW Autumn collection called Vintage Autumn Basics!  Here is a little peek at the collection....

 

All the beautiful vintage elements we've come to love about Maja Design papers (Ohhh, lovin' the clock design sheet!)  I know I can't wait to get my happy little hands on this collection!  But I can go one better than that!  I have a full collection pack to give away to someone I will chose from the comments at this blog post!

Just leave a comment letting us know which papers have caught your eye in this collection.  (We would love for you to 'like' our new FaceBook page as well, if you have not done so already....you can find the Maja Design FaceBook page HERE).  You have from now until midnight September 30th to leave a comment, I will announce the winner at my blog on October 1st! 

 

We'd love to hear what you think of the new collection, so leave a comment and you might be one of the first happy ladies to get your hands on this stunning new collection! xo

Take a Hike {Maja Design, MLYB, Tresors De Luxe, Cheery Lynn Design}

Chloe, my oldest daughter goes on these little hikes with her friends and comes back with these wonderful  photos, gorgeous views, breath-taking waterfalls....who knew we had such beautiful areas to hike in so close by!   For this page I wanted to use a lot of natural elements....so I used a color combination of soft pink and natural browns.  I used papers from the Maja Design paper collection called "Antligen"...

Vårdagjämning

(I used this paper pretty much as is, I just did a little stamping with some white paint and bubble wrap)

 

Kaffe på trappan

(used as matting for background paper as well as for the Cheery Lynn 'Fanciful Flourish...love this die cut!!) 

The chicken wire pieces are of course from Dusty Attic Designs (you can find online stores that sell Dusty Attic products in the rightside panel of my blog).

 

Den oersättliga tiden (used the clock design)

 

For the natural elements on the page I used a bunch of embellishments from the My Little Yellow Bicycle 'Naturals' collection.... I love these embellishments, they seem to compliment any paper collection I use!

 

And before you all send me messages to ask.... :) .....the gorgeous lace I used on this page is from Tresors De Luxe, you can find Lucy's beautiful lace embellishments HERE.

 

Hope you enjoyed my project today, I try to add links to all the products I use on my pages, so if you are looking for the products I used you can just hit the highlighted links to find them :)

(Stay tuned for the beginning of September....I'm going to have an awesome GIVE-AWAY for a brand new Autumn collection from Maja Design!)

Here is a little peek at the new Vintage Autumn Basics collection....

 

Happy Scrapping! xo

Capturing Those Everyday Moments {Maja Design & MLYB}

My camera is rarely far from my reach, I love to snap those everyday photos like the one I took of my oldest daughter Chloe when we were out at a little patio in Paris, Ontario having a cold drink and some munchies.  To make up this page I went with the soft green paper from the new Maja Design 'Sofiero' collection and mixed it with some of the greens from the 'Life in the Country' collection and a little touch of 'Crea Diem' for elegance.

I got this beautiful pack of elegant lace's from Lucy at Tresors De Luxe, so I used a section of one of them under my photo (I lightly misted them with some green and tea color tints).  I also like to use earthy colors with green when it comes to my embellishments, so I used a variety of embellishments from the 'Naturals' collection from My Little Yellow Bicycle. I love their canvas, wood and cork embellishments.  Here are a few of the embellishments I used on this layout....

I tinted the measuring tape embellishment from the Canvas Strips with some tea (yep! a real tea bag steeped in boiling water).  I added some Platinum Stickles to the Cork Heart Pin.  I used the canvas flower shape to make a layered bloom and the other canvas pieces were simply used 'as is'. 

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the new 'word' stamp sets from My Little Yellow Bicycle, I love the script/font they use for the title stamps and they come in so many great and versatile subject/titles.  The one I used here was from the 'Everyday collection'.  I wanted to get an even more intense effect so after I stamped the title in black ink, I used some gloss medium (I used the Gloss Varnish from Dusty Attic, but Glossy Accents will work just as well)....I just followed the lines of the stamped image to give the title a nice shine and some thicker texture. 

In this close-up you can see the canvas bloom from MLYB layered with the Recollections blooms.  In the corners I used another stencil I bought a couple weeks ago from the Art House Studio (Brick Stencil by Crafters Workshop).  Some of you have asked me about these stencils, it's an artshop/studio here in Cambridge Ontario but she also sells online with a very reasonable shipping rate, you can find her shop HERE. 

 

Many of you have also been asking me about where to get Maja Design papers....more and more shops and online stores are beginning to carry these beautiful paper collections.  You can find a full retailers list HERE.  And if you'd like to check out Tressors De Luxe lace and other lovely embellishments, you can find them HERE.

Scrapping with Yellow! {With Maja Design & My Little Yellow Bicycle!}

When I first saw this sweet daffodil paper from the Maja 'Vintage Spring Basics' collection I just knew I had to scrap this photo I took of my youngest daughter a couple of years ago.  There is a little forest we walk in, close to our home and come Spring there are huge patches of daffodils growing in it.  Meagan always keeps an eye out, just waiting for them to bloom so she can pick a little bouquet for her room.

 

For this layout I played a little with some mixed media.  I did a little bit of masking with some texture paste and did a little stamping and dry brushing as well with some coordinating paints.

I wanted to do a little bit of misting first but didn't have the right color, so I used some Dusty Attic paint in a 'Bisque' color that I thought nicely complimented the yellows in the background paper.  I then adhered my photo to the page and dry-brushed a little more paint over the edges of my photo to kind of fade it into the background.  The next layer I added is some random stamping.  I used  text stamp from Bo Bunny and another ledger stamp from 7 Gypsies.  The final layer I added was a texture paste design in random places around the photo and in one corner of my page where I would add some extra accents.  I finished things off with some adhesive pearls by Recollections.

I wanted to use some natural/neutral accents on the page as well, so I used a whole bunch of goodies from the My Little Yellow Bicycle 'Naturals' collection.  I used the smaller of the Cork Tags, as well as the Wood Buttons (Etched), the Tiny Clothspins (words),  and the Cork Alphas.  I just love these embellishments, they can fit in with any color layout. NOTE: Just a little FYI!  My Little Yellow Bicycle Store is selling everything in it at 25% off till the end of June, you just use this code MYLYB50, so get while the gettin's good!  You can find the store HERE

 

I didn't have any yellow blooms in my stash so I made my own flowers using some yellow felt I had in my supplies.  These are so easy-peasy to make!  You can find the tutorial on how to make these in the right side panel of my blog under my tutorials.

 

Supplies:

  Patterned Paper - Vintage Spring Basics (1st of March, 8th of March-bs, 7th of April, 6th of May), Blooms - handmade (tutorial at Such a Pretty Mess blog), Cork Tag, Cork Alpha's, Natural Wood Buttons, Clothspeg (My Little Yellow Bicycle), Chipboard - Dusty Attic Designs (Small Scroll), Paint - Dusty Attic, Bird Trinket - Prima Marketing, Stamps - Bo Bunny Background Stamps, 7 Gypsies, Websters Pages Diamond Tag Stamp, Texture Paste - home-made (Recipe can be found at Such a Pretty Mess blog), Other: Lace trim (off the roll), Mask: from Michaels (Americana).

 

I just love that you can scrap so many color combinations with this paper collection!  I've done layouts in blue, pink, lilac, yellow and taupe with this collection.  Have you tried it yet?