Fabric Inspiration Layout {Maja Design Collections}

 

One of the most frequently asked questions I get is "Where or how do you come up with some of your ideas/page designs?"  So I thought I would share with you all today what inspired me to come up with this page design I made with some of my favourite Maja Design papers from the Ska vi ta en Fika collection.  This layout began from an inspiration photo I found on Pinterest.  It was a photo of some crocheted blooms with some muslin fabric.  Here is the photo....

 

I just love the look of the white blooms with the touch of soft green and the draped look of the fabric on the gingham material.   I immediately started thinking about how I could imitated this look on a scrapbook page.  My first thought was of Maja papers since there are so many wonderful fabric look pages to choose from and I know that the 'Fika' collection has some lovely gingham style papers.  Here are the main papers I used for this project....

 

 

 

I used the 'Kladdkaka' paper as my gingham background and then cut the "Chaite" paper in a drape design on a diagonal (I was also cutting out the lavender blooms at the same time because I was just going with the green accent on this page.  I used the green "Smulpaj m äpplen-bs" paper as matting for my photo just to add that little extra touch of apple green.

 

 

To make the blooms I used the Spellbinders smallest die from the 'Rose Creations' dies, I cut out a whole bunch from simple white/cream cardstock and gave each of the petals a little crinkle.  I finished each bloom with an adhesive pearl.  I had a section of apple green trim in my stash (from a local dollar store - no name) that I used to add a bow to each floral cluster.

 

I created a drape by first cutting the 'Chaite' paper in a curvey line, then moistening the edge with water and then creating the draped line with my finger tips.  I felt that the draping wasn't as lush as I wanted it to look so I used the scrap pieces left of the 'Chaite' paper and cut out 3 crescents (giving them a little bit of a fold as well) and tucked them under each of the draped areas.

 

 

To embellish around my photo, I cut two hearts, one from the 'Kladdkaka' paper and the other from a scrap piece of paper I had from the 'Life in the Country' collection called 'Kitchen Garden'.  I matted the hearts with some plain white cardstock and trimmed with a scallop edge scissor.  I also cut out a couple of clock designs from the new 'Vintage Autumn Basics' collection "No. XVI".  The cameo is one I had in my stash from Websters Pages.

 

I added a brocade design to the background paper to go with the 'fabric' theme using a Crafters Workshop stencil (Mini Damask) and some home-made texture paste.   I added some flourish to the page with a Dusty Attic chipboard flourish (Corner Flourish #1) which I coated with Gesso and stamped with a Bo Bunny script stamp and finished with crackle varnish.

Maja Design Supplies:  Ska vi ta en Fika (Kladdkaka, Chiate, Smulpaj m äpplen-bs), Life in the Country (Kitchen Garden), Vintage Autumn Basics (No. XVI).

Before I sign off for today I just wanted to note that you can find Maja Design papers in your area by using the Maja Design Store Finder HERE.   New countries and retailers are being added daily!   I recently found out that Janene at The Scrapbook Diaries in New York just got in a nice supply of many of the Maja Design collections including the NEW Autumn Basics collection, just click on the name to check it out :)

I hope you enjoyed my project today and perhaps gained a little insight into how my mind works when creating a page :) .... and hope that you have fun with some fabric inspiration using Maja Design papers! xo

 

A Little Romance {With Maja Designs}

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.  The wrought iron fence I gave a coating of black paint and then dabbed on some Meadow Paint from Dusty Attic and some Scribbles Bronze 3D paint.

I created a little birds nest trinket that I made out of 3 turquoise beads and some 26 gauge wire. 

It's a fun little trinket to make and it's again, something cool I found to make on Pinterest!

Here is a link to my Pinterest Board where I like to pin cool and clever ideas My Pinterest Board.  And this is a link to the video tutorial on how to make this cute lil bird nest trinket above (tutorial by Julie Bean from Beadaholic).  For my purposes I turned back the hanging loop because I used it as a center piece for my bloom (see below). 

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

Some Websters Pages Inspiration

Each month we have a new guest designer who's work is featured at Websters Pages Ning site.  This month our Guest Desiger is the fabulouly talented Carol Monson.  The design team is asked to create a page that is inspired by one of the guest designers layouts.  I used Carol's page called '10 in 2012' as an inspiration for my above page.  I love the way Carol uses multiple photo's to tell her story (and I know a few of you have asked to do some multi-photo layouts...so here is!! :)   You can see Carols layouts at this link as well as the rest of the WP design teams guest inspired pages! Websters Guest Designer.  I called my layout 'Drama Queen' as a nod to my youngest daughter's penchant for 'hamming' things up.  I had asked her to sit on the porch rail in front of her bean plant that accidently got planted in front of the house (before we cut it down...that thing is HUGE!)  ....she proceeded to give me all sorts of dramatic poses before she would let me just take a 'normal' photo :)

I just got a notice on Friday that my Websters Pages design team package is on it's way!! Yippee!  I can't wait!  In the mean time I used a variety of the papers I still had on hand from making pages for the CHA to make the above layout.  I used a combination of 'Everyday Poetry', 'Palm Beach', 'Country Estate'  and 'Yacht Club' collections to make up this page.  

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Pinterest??!!  I made the flowers in the layout above using a little tutorial I found on Pinterest using pink crepe paper streamers, here is the link Crepe Paper blooms.  (I have also been trying out some GREAT recipes from Pinterest over the weekend...we threw an 54th anniversary party for my parents, one of the things I made was the Chinese Cabbage salad and everyone loved it!  You can follow me on Pinterest by clicking this link PINTEREST) ....okay back to my layout LOL!...I also got my design team package for Dusty Attic a few days ago and WOWEE! they have some fabulous new designs (I'll share more on that in an upcoming post....meanwhile, I used one of their small frame designs in the top right corner of my layout).  Here are some close-up pic's of my page and it's embellishments... 

I also recently got this new Martha Stewart punch that does this bracket design...just loving it!  If you have any questions on products or techniques used on my pages please feel free to ask!  In the meantime, thank you so much for all your kind comments! xx