Maya Road Design Team

Canvas-ed Quotes

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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! 

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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

Birdie Goes on an Adventure

Hello! Emily here, I'm one of the three new DT members announced last week. I'm very happy to be a part of Maya Road, it's done wonders for my creativity level to just play with all the fun products we offer. I put together this sweet little collage in the Vintage Metal Heart Tart tin, and thought I'd share the process with you.

You get the benefit of a step-by-step, I only wish it had been this easy to put it together myself. Something this small shouldn't take you a couple of hours, but moving things around, making sure things look right takes me a lot of time! Hopefully you'll put something like this together quicker than I did by using these instructions.

I've been stumped by how to fill these tins, but then realized they were just like an ATC card, only in the shape of a heart. So I went to Pinterest and searched for ATCs, studied how they were put together and went to work on my own heart shaped ATC. Maya Road's mini chipboards are perfect for this kind of project!

First off, I traced the shape of the tin onto some patterned paper and cut it out. Yes, this did take some time and fastidious trimming, but you don't have to be too exact because once the paper fit into the heart, I added a bit of twine to cover up any spots I may have messed up. 

Secondly, I took a word sticker from Simple Stories, cut it up (something you see all the time on ATCs, individual words), and mounted a couple of the words on foam.

 

Then, I punched a doily, applied it to the top right side of the heart.

Next, I took the last word of the phrase and glued some of the Trinkets Ribbon in Sand to the back of it and notched the ends. I tucked this under the flower sticker, allowing the flower petal to act as the "U" in the word "Adventure."

I overlapped this grouping slightly with the doily, so the word "Adventure" was in the middle of the heart.

I covered a chipboard bird from the Birds with Cages Mini set with paper and filed the edges down. I assembled the wing the same way, attached it to the body, then placed the bird to the left side of the heart.

I adhered the rest of the phrase in a slightly askew manner, added some sequins and pearls and finished the collage with a Trinket Star Pin, tied with some floss.

My final step was to add something to hang the tin with, accomplished by adhering some ExtremeTac Mounting Squares by Glue Arts to the back of the tin and adding a length of the same Trinket Ribbon in Sand.

And there you are, A sweet little heart tin to encourage and inspire. Thanks for checking out the blog today!

Butterfly Chipboard + Mists

I love Maya Road Chipboard.  There are so many great shapes & sizes to complement any creation.  Sometimes i like to just play around with these pieces to see what i can create.  Think of it as creative play to add to your technique repertoire.  Today i am going to walk you through some of my creative play using these chipboard butterflies & mists. 

Start with some chipboard pieces.  Today i am playing with these beautiful butterflies.  Each piece comes with a top & bottom or two chances to play. 

You can always spray mists directly onto the chipboard pieces.  It looks really cool.  Sometimes i like to paint them white first to boldly show the mist color and to get a variance in the mist.  Try it out.

I like using a paint brush to paint the mists on. 

Try adding in a second or third mist onto the piece, layering on top on the first mist.

If you don't like the color, play around some more until you find a color combination you like.  I covered over the Sunflower & Plum Metallic mist with a touch of Fig Magenta.  Love the color combination.  The top of the butterfly is painted with buttermilk cream.

Paint a second chipboard piece.  Time to play with the diluted mist.  This Maya Road video shows you how to dilute the mists.   Spray it directly on the chipboard piece and let the color pool in puddles.  You get this cool variance of mist colors.  Want a deeper color, add a few more sprays.

 

Just take some time to play around with your chipboard pieces & mists to see what you can create. 

Ronda

A Year to Remember

I used a Maya Road Square Chipboard Accordion Album, Kraft Envelopes, and lots of other Maya Road goodies to make this little organizer...

Art Journaling word stamp

Yummo.. Early winter release Art Journaling word stamp I had so much fun creating this little project using the stamp set, 4 x6 sheet has over 50 stamps for you to use.

For this little project I stamped onto a sheet of canvas, sprayed the canvas with green apple, and cornflour yellow maya mist, popped it into a frame, Then I stamped again onto cream paper for my title words.

I decorated the frame with  how's the weather Mini chipboard , Butterly chipboard set, Velvet point blossoms cream & pink , Suede stitched pink blossom, Medallion flower,

Pretty quick  and easy project, so next time you want a quick gift giving gift, or you just need that little something to pop onto your coffee table, whats better then  your own creation.

I hope I have inspired you to create something , what's a  better reason then a new year.

Happy New year Roadies- Angella

Just a little something to show you care

Hello there, and Happy New Year!

Just wanted to share how easy (and actually - quickly) you can whip up cute favors or minigifts containing sweets (well, mine usually does ;) ).

First, you need two boxes of slightly different sizes, or just a box with a lid... If you don't know how to fold one, I have a tutorial on one here. My two halves were made of squares measuring 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 and 8 3/4 x 8 3/4.

Then you need a couple different things you can layer upon the top. Mix Kraft tags with misted canvas pieces.

Dress up chipboard with patterned paper, before topping off with see-through glitter. Add ribbons and stamped images. Layering different materials equals exciting decoration for your box.

Don't forget to use 3d-foam and raisen's to help building dimension.

Two of the sides of the top box was also punched with a circle puncher - this so the box can be opened easier. Don't forget to decorate the sides of the box as well.

Don't forget to fill the box with sweet contents....

And tah-dah! You're done with a little, but cute and homemade giftbox! Or well, actually - when looking at this image I realize it's missing something....a trinket pin or three, mayhaps?

Maya Road supplies:
Chipboard: Coffee or Tea Mini Chipboard Set, Wavy Layerable Chipboard Banner
Kraft Journaling Tags - decorative,
Butterfly Canvas Set,
Timeless Memories Stamp Square,
Small Organiza Roses Ribbon - Olive,
Maya Mist: Popsicle Blue, Eggplant purple

Hope you found this inspiring enough to turn to your scrappy supplies next time you need a little something for someone special! :)

-Ania

 

My Wishes for You

One of the most fun things about creating minibooks is coming up with a consistent formula across the book and then changing up each page just a little bit. It allows you to complete a project quickly and still have a coherent and pretty project.

I love the canvas minibooks more than just about anytihng. I love that they are fully customizable and it's all just a matter of your imagination. Here's a book I worked on a few months ago:

I followed a simple formula for this book. First, I painted each page with pink, red, or blue paint.

Then I added another layer on each page using a different colored paint and my sequin waste to make the circles on the background.

Then I stitched around each of the stars with black thread. My background pages were now complete.

I then picked a bunch of different chipboard butterflies and inked them black.  Then I stamped my kraft tickets with numbers for each of my wishes and wrote the word "wish" on each.

Then I took a few Mini Kraft Jotter tags and wrote my wishes for my children on each.

The next step was to adhere the butterflies to the pages, I did this by stitching them on each page. I didn't care that you can see the stitchmarks on the back, too. I feel that just adds more layers, texture and fun. Once the butterflies were stitches, I added the wish tags right next to them and put my journaling tags on the opposite side. I then placed a star in the middle of each butterfly. To keep it consistent, I made sure my stars were pink, red and blue, too.

For the back, I just added one more ticket and a chipboard "love" that I also painted blue. A little black trim through the holes and my album was done!

and here's another finished look. A simple album that was quick and fun to put together. 

Here's to wishing you a wonderful, incredible, prosperous, crafty, peaceful, happy, joyful, and healthy new year!!

Happy 2012.

Traditions

Hi Roadies,

the silly season is upon us; the tree is  decorated , the cards are done, presents are wrapped, ham is in the fridge waiting to be cooked... just a  last minute dash to the shops and I am done... well almost.

I have always been a traditional type of person with Christmas. As my kids where growing up we would always make sure on christmas eve we would take time to put a snack out for santa and the reindeers for all there hard work. And they would  write a thankful note to santa for what they are about to receive, and the other day I found there little wish lists to santa and there thankful notes. It brought back so many memories, the best present ever for me.

So it got me thinking, my little neice was under my care at the time so we decided to make a snack box for Santa then after christmas her mum can store her little notes to santa for years to come. 

And the best part we where making more family traditions and memories.

A Snack 4 Santa

A Maya Road package tin, Heart Chipboard ( circles for snowman), Velvet pleats,

Build a Snowman stamp ( hat), William Mini Chipboard Alpha , Trinket Season Ribbons,

Vintage Findings pearl centres , 

So what did she pack for Santa and the reindeers ?

ummm a staple diet.

So if you have spare hour before christmas day, grab the kids, a few supplies  and create memories. Looking back now I am ever so grateful.

So from Me (Angella)  to you Roadies, I wish you and your familes a Very Merry Safe Christmas
May it be blessed with traditions, Family and friends.

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas !

Christmas Gift Tags

Hello everyone!  With Christmas only four (very short!) days away, I needed to put together some last minute quick gift tags together, and of course, I turned to my Maya Road stash! I had purchased some gift cards for the teachers and wanted to package them along with some candy in a little glassine bag. 

I used the Kraft Let It Snowflakes for the base of my tag and then embellished from there.  They made the PERFECT sized tag, and they are super fun and festive! 

I added some Snowflake Chipboard with sparkly glitter to add some dimension and then topped off with any kind of trinket pins you find in your stash...there are plenty that will work here!

And there you have it!  A very simple and quick way to make some festive tags! 

But before I go, I want to share a quick card that was made using more various chipboard, trims and embellishments.

Using Red Heart Trinket Pins, Red Satin Pleat Edging, Small Organza Roses Ribbon Red, Scallop Frames Chipboard, and more Trinket Pins, you can dress up a card very pretty!

I hope you have gotten some fun ideas of how you can use many different Maya Road products to dress up your projects!  Now, it's time to start working on Valentine's!!! :)

 

Melissa

 

Quick Gifts

Just wanted to share some fun gifts to make!

The first are altered clothespins.  For the glittered ones you'll simply cover one side of the clothespin with glue and then sprinkle some Maya Road glitter on top.

These ones are so fun...cover one side with glue and sprinkle glass beads on top.  Allow to dry and then spray with Maya Mist!

I like to add a strip of magnet to the back.  Decorate a glassine bag and tuck your clothespins in!

The Maya Road Small Organza Roses Ribbon makes a perfect headband.  Cut a piece of the trim the length you'd like and hand sew a small piece of elastic on both ends.

Merry Christmas,

Andrea

Maya Road + Simple Stories Blog Swap Winner!

Hi Roadies

We hope you are having a  fabulous weekend! It's time to announce the winner of  Maya Road prize package from our blog swap week with Simple Stories!

 

Congratulations Lucie Hale! Please contact us on this form to claim your prize!

If you'd like to recap on our very inspirational week with Simple Stories, the posts are here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4.

Wishing you a very Happy Creative Holiday, Roadies!

 

3x Non-Christmassy Cards!

It's soon Christmas, and with that - time to wrap up those Christmas-cards!
Here's two not-too-Christmassy-cards for your inspiration...(at least I tried to make them not too Christmassy - did it work?).

I'll freely admit - I'm totally in love with the Crystal Star trinket pins...I seriously need at least two more boxes of these! It's especially perfect for cards & tags...I also love the Let It Snow Stamp Sheet & the vintage wood snowflakes..wish I found some of the Snowflake Transparencies - White - it'd be perfect here, tucked in between the doily & the tag and banner...ahwell!

Maya Road suppplies:
Trinket Pin - Crystal Star
Let It Snow Stamp Sheet
Vintage Wood Snowflakes
Wood Bingo Numbers - red

The chipboard snowflake seen here is actually from an older version - I recall ordering a whole bag of these for me and the kids to paint white, add glitter & ribbon/twine so we could use them as Christmas Tree decorations..nevertheless..the chipboard snowflakes are now available in a newer and updated design found here. But - nothing's better than using up all the older bits and pieces you have lying at home, no? Makes you feel more ok about getting newer stuff...=)

Maya Road Supplies:
(vintage =) ) Chipboard Snowflakes
Vintage Paper Posies
Love Banner Stamp Sheet (for the stamped letters & star)

Also - you've seen the Early Winter Release 2012, right? :)

Using the Scallop Frames Chipboard Set , white crackle paint and Popsicle Blue Maya Mist I made this funky looking frame...frames stuff pretty nicely, doesn't? And I love the new large Kraft Ticket Strips..such a handy size and a great addition to the regular, small ones..

Maya Road supplies:
Scallop Frames Chipboard set
Maya Mist - blue popsicle
Kraft Large Ticket Strips

Hope these cards gave you some inspiration! And as an added bonus, here's a little Christmas-gift dressed up ever so slightly!

What you'll need: Kraft paper as wrapping paper, a small doily, Kraft journaling tag, Let it snow stamp sheet, bakers twine, letterstickers, watermark-stamp & white embossing powder (get a fine detail one if you can).

1. Stamp snowflake-motif on the tag
2. Heat emboss so it stands out.
3. Attach letters (God jul means Merry Christmas in Norwegian ;) )
4. Attach the tag with 3d-foam upon the doilywrapped gift.

- have a nice, relaxed weekend! :)

-Ania

Standing mini canvas project

I am so love the look of the thick canvas projects popping up in scrapbooking land! With some amazing Maya Road products and a day to play this is what I came up with!

For this project I used a small canvas (4x4). First I applied my tissue papers with a decoupage medium. Then I started adding some Maya Road goodness! I inked, applied, and sealed my kraft clock and tickets with the decoupage medium. Once dry I added my rubons. I stamped my word from the Maya Road "Just My Type" stamp set onto kraft paper, punched them out with a circle punch, and then adhered them and sealed them with decoupage medium. To jazz up some pins I dipped my star pins into glue and then sprinkled them with Maya Road glitter. With the Ledger stamp I simply stamped randomly on the canvas.

Next, I inked my wooden ruler and organza trim, wooden snowflake, and wooden spools. Then I stamped onto two pieces of canvas fabric with the Maya Road "Measure Twice" stamp set and wrapped those around my spools.

Next, I adhered my distressed looking Organza trim to three sides of my canvas and then added my embellishments to the front of my canvas. Lastly, I glued the two canvas stamped spools to the underside of my canvas for a stand. I love how it turned out and am ready to make some more for Christmas presents!

I hope this post will inspire you to make your own canvas using some of the incredible products from Maya Road! Happy Creating! Shelley

 

Supply list: Small canvas block, tissue paper, decoupage sealer, ink.

Maya Road:

Kraft clocks: K1839

Wooden ruler: WD1827

Rub ons: RUB627

Star Pins: TK1410

Black glitter: G1555

Kraft tickets: K1461

Wooden snowflakes: WD1867

Ledger stamp: SMP1436

Measure Once stamp: SMP1719

Wooden spools: WD1835

Just My Type stamps: SMP1858

Peach Organza trim: OR1950

Spool Christmas Tree

When i saw these tiny spools i always knew i wanted to do a mini Christmas Tree.  The season is upon us and i finally got a chance to put my ideas into creation.  This cute little tree  measuring 5 inches tall could be a simple decor to place around the house or use it as a place setting for Christmas dinner.  I am going to give you step by step directions to create this adorable spool Christmas tree. 

Maya Road Supplies:

• 25 Skinny wooden SpoolsWood
• 1 Wood Mini Spool
• 1 vintage Wooden Spool
• 1 Crystal Star Trinket Pin
• approx. 12 inches of cream ruffled edge trim

Other: Book pages, Vintage Sheet Music, Baker's twine, Glitter Glue, Manilla Folder, Circle Punches, liquid glue, cream cardstock printed title.

1. Punch 5 Circles, one each of the following sizes. .5",  .75", 1", 1.25", 1.5" from the manilla folder.  I used this because it provided a stiff circle to hold the spools together and worked well to hold the trinket pin in place.

2. cut 26 .5 inch x 1.25 inches strips from book pages and one .75 inch x 2 inches strip from the music paper

3. Wrap all the mini wooden spools with your text paper.  *note i used a mini spool to top my tree to give it a bit more weight.  You could use a skinny spool too.  Wrap the Vintage wood spool with music paper. 

4. starting with the 1.25 punched manilla folder circle, glue 11 skinny mini spools to the outside edge using a strong liquid glue.  Glue 1 inch manilla folder circle to the top of the skinny spools.

5.  add next layer of 8 skinny wooden spools to the 1 inch circle.  Glue the .75 inch manilla circle on top the spools and add last layer of 6 skinny mini spools. 

6. Glue .5 inch circle to the top of the spools & add the single mini wooden spool.  Glue the entire piece to the vintage wooden spool. 

7. Add glitter glue to all the edges of the spools to give it a little sparkle.

8. Take the 1.5 inch punched circle and working from the outside in, glue the small ruffle trim in layers to create the tree skirt.  Three layers is all you need, leaving a small circle for the wooden spool. 

9.  Glue the wooden spool to the tree skirt. Wrap baker's twine around the vintage spool and tie it in a bow.

10.  Print out your holiday sentiment on cream cardstock.   Trim to a banner piece leaving a little excess off the left side of the printed title.  Add glitter glue to the banner & let dry. 

11.  Wrap the banner piece around the stick pin and glue the excess to the printed title. 
Add stick pin to the top of the three. 

Peace,

Ronda Palazzari