Maya Road Design Team

Blue and Green should never be seen

Hi Everyone,

They say blue and green should never been seen, but here is proof that it does work !

One of my projects for CHA I created this little tag or what not, So great for the office desk or dressor.

The Maya mists are so bold and bright for background effects... and when you a face like this little one (my little neice MJ) you can't but love it all...

I created the back ground by painting a spare page of Scroll frame artistic chipboard book with white paint then spray with Dark cornflour blue Maya Mist & Green apple Maya Mist , then a quick spray of water then set aside to   dry.

Also used ledger transparencies white,  Zipper trim,  Velvet pleats, decorative scroll chipboard set,

Snowflake transparencies white , Trinket pins flower green, Alterable vintage lace flowers , Kraft mini ticket  leaves, and Gramma's dollies ..

 

Well Roadies I hope I have inspired you to create a little Maya Road project to brighten your day ...

P.S hasn't all the design team projects just been totally awesome, and more awesome ness to come :)

Happy days Angella xxx

Sharing my CHA Projects

Its been a long time between posts for me.!! Today I am sharing 2 of my projects with you all. First is a little Wall hanging.

 

 I used the following items to create this:

1. Rectangle chipboard

2. Scroll chipboard coaster page

3. Velvet Resin Blossom Cream Flower

4. Vintage Findings Pearl Centers

5. Trinket Pins Vintage Round Pearl Hot Pink Hearts 

6. Doily

7. Medallion  flower

8. Wavy Layerabl Chipboard Banners

9. Paper by Crate Paper

10. Pearl scroll

11. Extra flowers are Prima

12. Pearl bling by Kaisercraft

13. Mini alphabet stickers

My second project is a canvas heart album I used the following items to complete this

1. Canvas heart album

2. Patti Mini  alphabet chipboard

3. Buttermilk Cream Maya Mist

4. Metallic Cotton Candy Maya Mist

5. Die cut Kraft doilies (layered over the heart and mist to create pattern on canvas)

6. Vintage Metal Heart Tart Tin 

7. Wood Die Cut Doilies

8. Vintage Wood Spools

9. Kraft doilies

10. Trinket pins hearts

11. Small Daisy Vintage Lace Trim

12. Tulle

13. Bling

Thanks for looking

Sarah M

 

A Rainbow of Colors

Hi everyone!!

One of my  Winter CHA projects was to alter a canvas board. It had to have my photo on it but that was the only requirement. After a lot of thought, I came up with this:

That's a photo of me from when I was young and I thought the black and white photo contrasted the rest of the piece really well.

This was very simple to create. I first took the board and lined up all my acrylic paints. I finger-painted each color so there was a little overlap but not too much. Then I lined up random Maya Road embellishments that either matched the colors or could be altered.

Then I re-colored on top of the chipboard pieces to make sure they blended in. I also colored my chipboard letters (I reversed the direction of color on the letters so they went from blues to pinks.) I then added my photo and the title. 

The last step was to stamp the journaling lines and add some words. And I was done.

Super-simple but also super-fun. I hope you give this technique a try in your next project.  

And make sure you add more color to your life too!!

Oh for the love of wood!!!!

I am so loving all the wood elements that Maya Road offers. There are so many things to do with them. Several of my most recent CHA projects contained some of these amazing wooden elements. Today I will share with you how I used them and how you can use and alter them to use in your projects.

I simply love Maya Roads wooden spools. Here I used them as canvas page turners. I wound some burlap pieces around a spool that I had stained with walnut ink and then sewed them to the page.

I am in love with these wooden doilies. You can ink them, paint them, and in this case I submerged them in some thick embossing enamel using a UTEE melting pot. It gives the wood doily a great texture and shine!

I also did this technique to the cute little vintage paper roses and kraft doilies and wooden bird!

Here I used some wooden snowflakes that I inked and used as embellishments. And even though it's not real wood I used some vinyl flooring samples pieces to make these die cut leaves. Love those fabulous Maya Road trinket button pins!! :)

Oh aren't these wooden rulers cute!? Again, I inked them and glued them together on the edge of a page to make page turners!

There are so many fun ways to use the wooden products that Maya Road offers. I hope these ideas have inspited you to use your wooden Maya Road products in a new and fun way!

Shelley

 

More Tags in a Frame

Hey everyone!  I know I've posted a project similar to this before, but I just can't get enough of making these!

This time, both of my kids are getting their time in the spotlight, and I can't think of anything better to pair them with, than all of the gorgeous embellishments that Maya  Road offers! 

And you can see exactly what I mean with these close up photos that highlights so many of the ways to use chipboard, kraft, trinket flowers, pins, ribbons, and whatever other Maya Road goodies you can get your hands on!

One of my favorites from the latest CHA Winter release last month are these cute vintage wooden bunnies.  I think it goes with this theme just so perfectly!

And these adorable kraft owls...oy, too cute!!

And did you happen to see the new kraft pin tags?  I just can not get enough of these. 

See what I mean?  Love this!  This project really comes together rather quickly.  The backless frame can be purchased at any of your local hobby stores, and then literally, just put some screws right into the back of the frame to hold your brand new Maya Road colored twine.  Cut your tags, grab your pictures, your patterned paper, and pile up all of the Maya Road embellishments that you can find.  I promise you, it will all come together quickly!!  I hope you enjoyed seeing another project with the frame. :)  Just goes to show you how you can dress up little 2"x3" tags so cutely!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you get inspired to create your own! :)

Melissa Sauls

Maya Road Products Used:

Scallop Frames Chipboard

Vintage Gauze Blossoms - Hot Pink

Krafty Owls Black

Hearts Chipboard

Butterfly Chipboard Set

Home Tweet Home Mini

Tiny Banner Chipboard

Portrait Mini Chipboard

Jonathon Mini Chipboard Numbers

Satin Pleat Edging Golden Yellow

Country Gingham Posies - Blue and Purple

Gingham Point Blossoms - Pink and Green

Ruffle Blossoms - Golden Yellow and Turquoise

Velvet Resin Blossoms - Cream

Vintage Paper Posies

Trinket Pins - Antique Gem

Kraft Doilies

Kraft Journaling Tags - Decorative

Die Cut Kraft Doilies

Crowns - Black Rubons

Trinket Pins - Crystal Star

Trinket Pins Star - Yellow

Trinket Pins Star - White

Wood Bingo Motifs

 

 

 

 

 

Embossed and Framed

Is it spring yet?

Well, not quite where I live. At least another month of winter to go but I am longing for some butterflies and flowers and a dose of beautiful fresh color. The easiest way to get a little spring in my life right now is to get creative and make myself something.

I thought creating a fun little embossed mini-wallhanging would be just the ticket.

Did you know you can emboss Maya Road chipboard? I started off with one of the covers of a Scallop Square Basic Album. These albums are fabulous as you can use them as an album or change it up a little and create something else like a card base or this wallhanging.

It will take a little pressure but this chipboard album cover will fit into an embossing folder and can be ran through a die cut machine. I love the texture it adds and it's highlighted here with a little paint.

The Vintage Mini Rulers are so fun to work with and they fit perfectly on this project as a frame to hold all my spring embellishments. Just adhere them into a square with some strong dry adhesive tape and you have a little frame.

Adding a pop of color to embellishments is quick and easy with Maya Road Mists. The Velvet Resin Blossoms take ink and mists really well with their flocked finish. These ones are misted with the Blue Agave Metallic Mist.

To hang up this project, some little trinket pins were inserted into the chipboard and then some of the fabulous new Twine Cording was tied onto them.

Try making yourself a little Maya Road project to brighten your day. I guarantee you it will make you smile.

Julia

Framed Magnets

1.  Trace around an Ornate Tag onto cardstock and cut out.  Set aside.

2.  Mist Ornate Tag with Blue Hawaiian Maya Mist and mist a sunshine from the How's the Weather Mini Chipboard Set using Butternut Squash Orange Maya Mist.  Allow to dry.  Once dry apply a layer of Glossy Accents on frame and attach a button from the Trinkets Sunshine Button set on the sunshine centre.

3. Stamp "when skies are grey" onto cardstock from step 1.

4. Attach stamped cardstock onto the Ornage Tag.  Attach sunshine.

5. Add a magnet to the back.

These also make a great addition to a greeting card!

Maya Road products used...

Maya Mist in Dragon Fruit Pink

Glitter in Sea Green

Chipboard Heart from Love Mini Chipboard Set

Happy Stamp from the Stamp Set

Antiquated Collection Sampler

One thing I love stumbling upon while shopping in thrift stores, antique malls or flea markets are  vintage samplers. I love all that I find as each one is so unique. Well with all those samplers in mind, I created this piece. A project like this is a great way to use up all the extra baubles you might already have on hand in your scraproom. 

Another fun project to create using extra embellishments you might have stored away is this, what I call, junk style bracelet. All you need is a bracelet with bezels and some E6000 to attach the embellishments. I wore this one at CHA-W and it was pretty popular. 

So pull out all the extra Maya Road embellishments you have one, two or three pieces of and think about creating a sampler or bracelet. Both are super fun to make.

Hugs!
Lisa M. Pace 

Be Mine Banner

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, i knew i wanted to make a banner for my daughter's dorm room.  I started this banner with the large square coaster.  On half of the banner i attached misted canvas fabric.  On the other have of the coasters, i used old book paper.  Repetition in design is always good so on the canvas fabric coasters i used large design elements.  On the book paper coasters, i used the butterflies i created in January for this blog post with a few alterations.   For the sheers, i added Popsicle mist like in this blog post.  Once i finished each coaster, i used the new linen burlap ribbon to create those cute pieces that are in between each coaster.  Here are the details photos of each piece. 

Lots of Love

Ronda

Good Old Fashioned Textiles

I love fabrics, thread, ribbons, and trims.  I always have and can remember in my teen years that I found fulfilling quiet time with a needle and thread to be so soothing and inspirational.  Maya Road certainly does not fail to please me with the many textiles in their collection of products. 

The new Frayed Edge Pleated Trim and Canvas Shipping Tags seen here are a textile lovers dream... then add in the new Linen Burlap Trim and flowers and I am in heaven!  One of my favorites from Maya Road is still the Canvas Albums.  I love them all made up into an album, but I also like to use the canvas pages individually in my projects like I did for a banner that I made recently.

The base of my banner is made from a vintage hand towel and then it is loaded up with little mini canvases made from several of the coaster albums.

 


I treated each canvas page as you would a tag or a card that you are embellishing.  Trinket Blossoms were used to create a few flower gardens with embroidered stitches added for stems and french knots embellish the Crushed Velvet Ribbon and Ric Rac.


I even turned one of the canvas pages into a house by adding a roof and a door made from a Mini Chipboard Scalloped Frame.   Vintage Paper Posies, one of the new Tiny Rulers  and a Wood Bingo Motif piece adds to the "curb appeal".




Lots of the new Mini Organza Roses Trim was used to pretty up the piece.  I think it will probably be one of those things that I can't use enough of because the roses are the perfect size for trimming up so many things and I adore the netting edge.  Along one edge of the Roses Trim I added some embroidered cross stitches, but you could even machine sew some stitching there to add another bit of detail to your projects.

The Home Word Chipboard Album was used to make the "Home" on the banner.  I added fabric, paper,  a Medallion Flower for the "o"  and some hand stitching there also.

I loved the Bird Chipboard Coaster Book the first minute I saw it, so I wanted to used one of the pages too.  I machine stitched a piece of muslin onto it then used a Scallop Mini Banner pieces for a wing and Crystal Star Trinket Pin for a lovely little flourish.

There are so many Maya Road items on this banner that I'm sure I'll forget to link something.  It was so much fun to make and to see all of the wonderful product come together all in one place.  Be on the lookout for some of the new products that I used here and for the many other things in the CHA Winter Release.  You can go check them out at  the Company Blog HERE .... happy creating!

Linda :-)

Flower Garden Circa 1971

Hello Roadies, it's Emily writing from CHA in Anaheim. I've been working in the Maya Road booth this week, enjoying meeting people from all over the world. It's been so much fun talking to people who love Maya Road as much as I do! I took orders today for a few people who've just discovered us, that was fun to share all my favorite products with them!

Speaking of my favorite products, I wanted to share a layout I've done for the show that features a few of my favorites, new and old. Here's the full layout, a whole bunch of flowers and a cute little photo of baby me. I have been crushing on the 1970s color palettes lately, so I decided to put them all together in a layout for the booth. I love how it turned out!

The Burlap Trim has been really hot this show, and I know why! So much fun texture, lots you can do with it. I used it a couple of different places on my layout, once as a straight trim and another place twisted into a rose. We have Burlap Roses, but I didn't have them so I made my own. Totally easy! Another favorite on this page is the mist. I have fallen in love with Fig Magenta lately, so I used it to mist the Vintage Paper Roses. See the Vintage Pearl Pin in Dark Brown poking out the top of my burlap flower? That's new too and I've taken quite a few orders for them as well!

 

This detail shot shows you a couple more of my favorite things. The Kraft Trinket Flag Pins have been super popular! They come in two designs and I see myself using them often. You can stamp on them, mist them, or leave them plain, such a fun little accessory to tuck onto a layout. I also misted the Vintage Lace Mums in Silver Fox  with Mustard Yellow Metallic Maya Mist, the  resulting flower hasbeen a big hit among our booth visitors. I love how rich the color is.

I used lots of other products, but those were my favorites. And now I'm off to bed, one more day of CHA, I need to be rested! 

Time for Tea

Hi Everyone, I hope you all have checked out the full catalog reveal over at Maya Road Company Blog We're giving away a $25 prize pack of NEW Maya Road goodies every day, so remember to hop on over and leave a comment.

Today I am going to share one of my projects which I created for Maya Road CHA, which should be going into it second day , so make sure you pop by booth 1793 and see all the great inspiration from the design team and all the goodies.

I am a bit of a tea pot buff , so would love to share my take on the teapot chipboard album

 

And I am a real tea drinker, and I do love my earl grey tea...

as you can see heaps and heaps of Maya Road yumminess packed into this little project...

tea pot chipboard album,  Coffee or tea mini chipboard set , Zipper trim , Velvet pleats,

sprayed with Butternut Squash orange mist  , Candy stripe blossoms,   Satin pleat Edgeing
Wood bingo mofits Johnathon Alpha rub-ons, Mini bottle caps , Wood mini spools, Kraft Calender
Kraft notes and envelopes , Scroll mini chipboard set. Alterable wooden buttons

 

I do hope you enjoyed my little teapot, short and stout! 

So Roadies have a great day, and hope I have inspired you to create your very own little tea pot

Angella

Something Made for the Heart

Hey there Roadies!  I hope you have been enjoying all of the yummy Maya Road peeks over on the Maya Road Company blog for what is being released RIGHT NOW over at CHA in California.  There is a prize pack up for grabs, so you will definitely want to check it out, you will not be disappointed!

In the mean time, I have a lovely little Valentine Tag book to share with you. :)

This tag book is a new item called the Shipping Tag Chipboard Coaster, so be sure to keep an eye out for it!  I made sure to pack it full with my favorite Maya Road embellishments and plenty of words of love, perfect for Valentine's just a couple of short weeks away!

This tag set was so full, it could barely lay flat...well, it just wouldn't lay flat at all actually!  Don't you love little mini albums that are soo full that they can't close?  It's my absolute favorite!

Sooo many Maya Road products used here...I will try and list them all for you, but if you happen to be at CHA, hopefully you can see this little number in person because it is there!!

Shipping Tag Chipboard Coaster (new!)

Love Words Mini Chipboard Set

Home Tweet Home Mini Chipboard Set

Butterflies Mini Chipboard Set

Foundation Chipboard

Portrait Mini Chipboard

Cherry Red Glitter

Iridescent Glitter

Trinket Pins Hearts

Trinket Pins Vintage Round Pearl

Ruffle Crochet Trim

Ruffle Edge Trim Mauve

Zipper Trim Ruby

Vintage Satin and Lace Ribbon Pink

Small Organza Roses Ribbon Pink

Small Organza Roses Ribbon Red

Gingham Point Blossoms Pink

Ruffle Blossoms Cream and Mauve

Mini Kraft Jotter Tags

Kraft Journaling Tags Decorative

Kraft Scroll Frame Journaling Tags

Microfelt Birds Neutral Set

 

Hope you <3 it! :)

 

Melissa Sauls

Canvas-ed Quotes

Hi everyone! How are you enjoying the sneaks we've been posting on the Maya Road Company Blog? We're giving away a $25 prize pack of NEW Maya Road goodies every day, so remember to hop on over and leave a comment k?

Today, I'm sharing this cluster of 4 canvases I created for the Maya Road CHA (which is happening this weekend!) booth. I found some beautiful quotes on Pinterest (isn't that the most addictive place?) and used them on these canvas panels. I added some Maya Road goodies, and I think they've turned out to be pretty inspiring pieces!

 

Be Happy With Yourself

Maya Road products: Wood Die Cut Doilies, Earl Grey Tulle Pleat Trim, Bethany Mini Alphabet Chipboards, lots of Blossoms, Crystal Trinket Pins.

 

My Dream Will Come True

Maya Road products: Scallop Frames Set (new!), Leaf Green Zipper Trim (new!), lots of Blossoms, Iridescent Glitter.

 

Still Time To Change The Road You're On

Maya Road products: Jonathan Chipboard Alphas, Kraft Shipping Tags, Time Flies Kraft Clocks (new!), Vintage Paper Posies, Dark Cornflower Blue Mist, Coffee Brown Mini Gingham Trim (new!).

 

Mistakes Are Proof You're Trying

Maya Road products: Jonathan Chipboard Alphas, New York Chipboard Alphas, Wood Vintage Birds (new!), Ornate Frames Clear Stamps (new!), Pearl Centers.

 

Hope you've enjoyed these canvases! The rest of the Design Team will be sharing their CHA projects in the upcoming blogposts, so enjoy! Have a gorgeously creative weekend!

 

Lia

Love You to the Moon and Back

Hi everyone!!

This is Karen. I am here to share with you a layout I made for Winter CHA. Two of my favorite Maya Road products are the Kraft envelopes and the awesome trims. I combined both here with some sweet pins and stitching. I love the combination of white, kraft, red and pink. 

I'm often told pink's an unusual choice for boy pages but I use it all the time. Especially when coupled with red and white. 

Here are some more details:

Love those pins.

I tend to put things on the edges of my layouts to ensure your eyes stay within the layout and don't wander off.

and here are the wonderful trims! I layered three of them and I love the motion, texture, and body they give to the page.

The journaling on this page reads:

My sweet, awesome boys, I am so grateful for these photos of the two fof you with me. I love seeing us all laugh together and I hope you can tell how much I love you. I will love you for ever and ever.

Thank you for letting me share! 

Have You Been Checking out the Maya Road Company Product Sneak Peeks?

If you haven't been checking out the sneak peeks - here is a little fabulousness you have been missing out on:

Be sure to leave a comment on the Company Blog for a chance at a new Maya Road goodies. 

New Maya Road YouTube Video Is Up!

To coincide with our CHA-W Sneak Peek Week, we have a brand new video up! Would you like to learn how to make this?

It is featuring some of our new Vintage Tape Measure Trim:

Get it done in under 5 mins by checking out the video here:

 

 

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

PSSTTTT...

 

Maya Road's Sneak Peek Week has begun on our Company Blog. Be sure to stop by and see what goodies we have - leave a comment on the Company Blog during sneak peek week for a chance at a prize pack of new goodies worth $25. Each day is another chance to enter. Good luck!

Here is a peek at some of the products we are featuring today:

Check them out during day 1 of Sneak Peek Week!

Wood Bingo Magnets!

I wanted to share with you a quick and easy way to display your photos using the Wooden Bingo pieces from Maya Road! I made one for my scrap room but since it is in a bit of disarray from being relocated I thought I would show you a miniature version. Here's what you will need:

Maya Road Wooden Bingo Number pieces

Super strong magnets

Industrial strength adhesive (I used Super Glue!)

Picture hanging wire

First take your bingo piece and adhere a super strong magnet to the back of it. I used some that were super thin found at any hobby store. Once dry you are set!

Simply choose  your photographs and use the magnetic bingo piece to hold it to the metal wire. Some pictures may require two!

I chose Maya Road's Bingo pieces but so many of their products would work....especially the flowers or any of the chipboard pieces once you had altered them! The one that hangs in my   is about 7 feet long. I used two metal clips, tied the end of the picture hanging wire to them and then clipped them to my window valance. You could also hang this project vertically by hanging something with some weight to it on the bottom and loop at the top to hang it by! It's a quick and easy way to display photos, notes, papers, etc. and it allows you to be able to switch them out as needed.

Shelley Haganman

 

Canvas Baby Album

Hi! It's Julia and I'm thrilled to be sharing my creations here at Maya Road. I'm another one of the three new design team members. Maya Road has been inspiring me to create for years and it just keeps getting better.

Recently I've been exploring scrapbooking through mini albums. I love their size and they are absolutely perfect to make as gifts. This sweet baby album was a gift for my daughter. I'm pretty sure that I enjoyed the gift as much or even more than her as I had so much joy remembering those precious days and creating it.

The album I started off with is the Maya Road 4" Canvas Binder. The canvas is perfect for misting, stamping and painting or even stitching. Inside, there are three canvas pages and three chipboard pages giving you limitless possibilities.

 

The front cover is perfect for decorating with lots of great Maya Road goodies. I've grouped them all together in a sweet Vintage Metal Heart Tart Tin.

Of course, I couldn't resist adding lots of Maya Road accents inside the album as well. Fat albums with hints of what is inside just makes me want to open them and take a look.

One of my favorite things to do in this album was to add color with paint and mists and then stamp on the canvas. Test your inks on scrap canvas. A permanent ink will hold up best on your creation. Maya Road carries an incredible selection of clear stamps that are perfect for journaling and embellishing your projects with.

This canvas page was one that I really enjoyed creating. It's actually a see-through peek a the next page by die cutting the canvas page. After die-cutting it, I carefully picked out the stitching at the top of the page and inserted a White Ledger Transparency to give it stability. I stitched up the top seam and then stitched around the butterflies to secure the canvas openings.

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my canvas album and inspires you to try some fun techniques. One of the things I love most about these albums is they are a great place to explore your creativity.

Happy creating!

Julia