Life is Good ***Maja Design ***Tut & Giveaway***

Hello, today,I am back with my first post, for Maja Design after taking a 6 month break to work in my garden. Wow,time fly's!!! This is a easel card I made, I did a step,by step photo tut for this card.....

From the Coffee in the Arbour I used:

Enjoying the Moments

Enjoying the Moment-BS

Raspberry cupcake

Raspberry  cupcake-BS

Grandma's old porcelain

Grandma's old porcelain-BS

Raspberry jam cupcakes

Raspberry Lemonade

Delicious Moments &Labels

The Dusty Attic used:

Foliage #2

Hashtag sayings
Flowers are I am Roses & Berry stems are Petaloo

Here is a photo tut I did, as to how, I made this card.....

bottom layer ,using Raspberry jam cupcakes, measures 6x9'1/2 

 I distressed the edges

The first layer,using Grandmas old porcelain, I did some punch work using my favorite Martha Stewart punch, the inked the edges with a brown ink pad... 

added 2 more layers, Enjoying the moments &Grandmas old porcelain.....

using a paper pierce, I pierce holes, for my next step,hand stitching.....

shows the front & BS,of the completed paper piercing....

hand stitching is completed...

the next 2 layers. using Raspberry cupcakes-BS & enjoying the moments, I ripped the corner on the top one, & the bottom one, I made a pocket,( so that I could enclose a note,or gift card, ect), I did some cross stitching on these layers

Using a 12x12 sheet of raspberry cupcake, it measures 10x12, I folded it in half, then the top part in half . My next step is to glue, to 2 card pieces onto the base. For the top piece, glued it onto the top part of the fold, (this is how you will get your easel) if you glue under the fold, it won't work as a easel. I glued the bottom piece to the full half...

Shows the card coming together as a easel....

I am now starting to embellish, I used Dusty Attic hashtag sayings "lifeisgood" that I just painted white. I painted the Dusty Attic foliage #2 forest green,then clear crackle. Once the crackle dried I painted it with LuminArt olive vine, & moss green H2O's to give it shimmer & to bring out the cracks....

Added berry clusters from Petaloo, & roses from I am Roses

added a little clipboard, using a piece I cut out from the sheet raspberry lemonade, then inserted it into the pocket

final step,was to add the tags

Completed card

Here is another card I made using the "new" Enjoying Outdoors Collection

As you can see in the background of this photo, I do use lots of purple in my garden. My garden colors are in the rusty oranges & purples....

The Maja Design used:

Enjoying Outdoors

From the 6x6 paper pads I used:

Singing in the rain

Singing in the rain-BS

Feeling good

Colourful

Harvest Time

Beautiful Trees BS

What a beautiful day

Tags & journaling cards

The 12x12 sheets used:

Garden Moments

Colorful

Colorful-BS
 The Dusty Attic used:

Leafy Frame set #2
Hello today

I pretty much did the same to this card,as I did with my card above, only this card is not a easel.

Well,you can see my garden work is not quite complete, I am waiting for a hard frost before I start on fall clean up. All the green plants "Mexican marigolds",that are in the middle of the driveway & the front of the house are in full bud again. Depending on the weather,I could have another burst of color.I think the leaves will be off the trees, before I take out the annuals,which is rare for our climate. 

Closeup of one of the plants showing all the buds.

It is my turn for the Maja Design Giveaway

http://majadesign.nu/products/enjoying-outdoors/

Maja Design Giveaway:The Conditions are very simple, become a reader of my blog, & the Maja Design Blog,plus like Maja Design on Facebook. Maja Design would really appreciate your thoughts about the Maja papers. I will do a random.org to pick the winner on Oct 31st.

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