Maya Road Design Team

-Chipboard Titles with Dimension-

Want to add some dimension to your chipboard titles, but you just aren't sure how to?  Adding some 3-D elements are the perfect addition.  You can fit just about any theme and color scheme.  In my "Cool Water" Tag I added Maya Road Trinkets Jewel flowers and some glass pebbles to go with my water theme.  Small items such as those shown can be easily adhered with a clear 3-D Gloss.  Be creative!

Maya Road Supplies:

1.  Large Tag coaster- 1 page
2.  Trinkets Textured Cord Blossoms
3.  Trinkets Pins- Leaf
4.  Philadelphia- Lowercase Alphabet
5.  Iridescent Pearl Mist
6.  Trinkets- Jewel flowers
7.  Signature Ribbon Pack- Pink
8.  Light Pink Scallop Ric-Rac
9.  Inspiration Ribbon- Tranquility Sunbursts

Other Supplies:

1.  Patterned Paper
2.  Ink
3.  Small Alphabet Stickers
4.  Clear 3-D Gloss (I used Glossy Accents by Ranger)
5.  Cardstock
6.  Adhesive
7.  Small glass pebbles
8.  File

Directions:

1.  Cover chipboard tag in 2 types of coordinating patterned paper.  File edges to smooth.
2.  Mount picture with patterned paper and cardstock.  Adhere to tag. 

 

3.  Ink chipboard title using a few different inks from the same color scheme. 
4.  Spray Iridescent Maya Mist over your chipboard letters and let dry or dry with a heat tool.  Your letters will have a great glitter effect on them.

 

5.  Cover the 1st letter of your chipboard title with your clear 3-D gloss and add 2 or 3 Trinkets jewel flowers and small glass pebbles while wet.  Set aside to dry for a few hours.  

 

6.  Adhere chipboard title to side of tag as shown.  It will overlap with your picture.

 

7.  Poke leaf pins into the backing of two of your textured cord blossoms.  Adhere blossoms to bottom of matted picture. 
8.  Tie Signature pink ribbon in a bow and attach to top of your picture. 
9.  Add small alphabet stickers to complete your title if needed. 
10. Tie two pieces of ribbon through the hole at the top of the tag. 

  

 

Other examples of items to attach to your chipboard are beads, buttons or sequins.  Let your imagination run wild. 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

Debbie Harmer

 

~Something Sweet for Somebody Sweet~ Mother's Day Gift Idea

 

  With Mother's Day coming up and the end of the School year approaching you may be looking for a perfect Mom or Teacher Present!  Or maybe a Birthday or Thank You gift for someone that has been really sweet to you. 

  The Heart Keepsake Boxby Maya Road is such a cute product to make into a very, very sweet gift!  This box is 8x8 inches and 2 inches deep, so it makes quite a presentation.  There is also a Heart Binder Book or the 2-Ring Heart Book that you could use to make a mini-album that fits right inside the heart box.

    

I love the fact that the top is sheer and see through.  I love the way the salt water taffy looks inside, it becomes part of the design!

 

I used quite a bit of other Maya Road products on this Sweets Box.  The letters are from the Jonathon Chipboard Alphabet, The cupcake and the cherry on top is from the Cupcakes Chipboard Set.

The buttons, which I think look like little candies...are all from the Trinkets buttons, they have all sorts of colors!  You can also buy them in bulk, which is great for big projects or LSS teachers!

 

 

 I hope you will be inspired next time to give a handmade gift to someone Sweet in your life!

~Katie Watson

Spring time magnet with heat embossed sheer flowers!

Spring seems to be blooming all around us so in the spirit of all things that bloom here is a fridge magnet with some heat embossed sheer flowers!

 

Supplies:

Maya Road Clear Acrylic Square Scallop Coaster Album, Maya Road Sheer Blossoms, Maya Road Foundations Buttons Neutrals Chipboard, fabric, thread, cardstock, patterned paper, 2x2 photos, magnet strips, adhesive.

 

Step 1: I embossed the sheer flowers in my Cuttlebug embossing folder.

 

Step 2: Apply Versamark to flowers.

Step 3: Apply heat embossing powder and heat. Allow plenty of time to cool before touching.

 

 

Step 4: Create a fabric yo-yo.

Step 5: Add button to yo-yo and adhere to flower(s)

 

 

Step 6:Heat emboss chipboard button

Step 7: Cut cardstock 3 1/4x31/4 adhere to acrylic square scalloped piece

Step 8: Cut patterned paper 3x3 and adhere on top of cardstock

Step 9: Place 2x2 photo on to the patterned paper

Step 10: Add your flower!

Step 11: Add piece of magnet strip to back of acrylic scalloped piece and put on fridge!

Have a great weekend everyone! Shelley Haganman

Mists

So some of my favorite Maya Road products include our mists and chipboard - they work perfectly hand in hand together. I wanted to share with you some cool things you can do with our mists. Check out this tag:

For this tag, I used our Maya Mists with a unique mask and to make my own colored twine!

Supply list:

1. Turquoise Maya Mist
2. Silver Maya Mist
3. Luggage Tag Coaster
4. Philly LC Alphabet
5. White Acrylic Paint
6. Printed Transparency Scrap
7. Photo
8. Glitter Glue
9. Ribbon
10. Crochet Thread
11. Orange Bag (yes, the kinds of oranges you eat)

 

As I am consuming large quantities of oranges during my pregnancy, I was looking at the baggie the oranges came in and thinking what a cool mask it would be. So I cut a piece of the orange bag larger than the tag. I put everything into a newspaper lined box and then misted it with the turquoise Maya Mist and here is what it looks like:

So simple and easy to do to get a funky look for your tag!

Next, I took some cotton crochet thread and wet a 36" piece with water. I put it into the box with the newspaper and sprayed it with the silver Maya Mist. Allow it to dry. Here is a photo of the thread before and after - think of the possibilities!

Next, I painted the chipboard letter and applied the glitter glue. I used the dried thread to wrap around the top of the tag as shown and added the beige ribbon

Finally assemble your tag as shown and enjoy!

Enjoy your tag!

And some tips about Maya Mists:

1. A box and newspaper covered area is best for containing the mists.

2. Spray at about 6" to 8" away from your item to get the best coverage. I can get a full coverage on chipboard with 2 coats. Allow the chipboard to absorb between coats. Spray too close and you get pooling. Spray too far and you waste your mists.

3. If the pump/misting part has droplets collecting at the point where the mist is coming out - wipe it down with a wet paper towel otherwise you screw up the droplet dispersion of the mist coming out  and it won't be even.

4. If your pump is clogged, you can take the pump off, and rinse and pump it a few times with some warm water to wash the pigments out. Then put it back on and try it again.

5. Did you know the base colors of mists (not metallic) - you can heat set on fabric like cotton? Mist your item (use a mask for a pattern) - allow to dry 24 hours. Then iron on hot or put in the dryer for 20 mins on high.

Enjoy!

"Growing Up Too Quick" ATC Coaster

I used an ATC Coaster to create this mini album of Skylar when he was a 2 year-old walking machine. I like to cover my front page completely so I decided to make the embossed grid page my second page. To show off the embossing I painted it light blue, let dry and then swiped it with a brown ink pad. For the cover, I painted a chipboard butterfly black and applied a white calendar rubon to it.

Maya Road Supplies used:
ATC Coaster
Wing Chipboard
Metal Blossoms
Calendar Rubons
Butterfly Chipboard
Brown Velvet Ric Rac

 

 

   

 

Have a great day!
Sandy W.

Welcome Spring with an Altered Box!

We don't have 4 seasons over here in Singapore, we pretty much have a Spring/Summer season 365 days a year! That doesn't mean I don't love making a pretty Spring-y project whenever I get the chance. Here is a box I altered to WELCOME SPRING, featuring Maya Road's butterfly chipboards and bright fresh Spring colors! I think a content of a nest of chocolate eggs inside this box would make a wonderful gift to a special someone!

Here are some tips for you to recreate this box.

The butterfly chipboard pieces I used on this box are pages from the Butterfly Accordion Album and Butterfly Coaster. The latter has an embossed first page, which I used on this box. The page was misted with Turquoise Metallic Maya Mist, and then the embossings outlined with a white pen. Instead of covering a chipboard piece with patterned paper, I chose to mat the embossed chipboard butterfly with patterned paper instead. For the butterfly's antennae, I used a piece of Scroll Rubon.

I love piling on the 'pretty stuff' on my chipboard butterflies and on this page from the Butterfly Accordion Album, I layered a piece of Office Sheer with ribbon bows, velveteen leaves and a Suede Stitched Blossom.

A touch (or two) of Vintage Pearl Trinket Pins makes an already pretty flower a little more special.

Create an impact of a title by layering another piece of Office Sheer under alpha stickers and Noah Mini Alphabet Chipboards, which I inked and covered with clear dimensional lacquer.

Don't forget the sides of your box! Embellish one corner with products used on the box cover - ribbon bows, a Suede Stitched Blossom and a Vintage Pearl Trinket Pin.

So that's your Spring-ed box, specially hand-made by you for a special someone. Have fun, I sure did creating this one for you!

xoxo,
Lia

Shadow Box

I thought it would be fun to make a little "springish" shadow box for my girls room!

Supplies:

Maya Road Petals and Leaves Chipboard Sheets
Maya Road Trinket Textured Cord Blossoms (yellow)
Maya Road Jonathan Mini Chipboard Alphabet Set
Maya Road Maya Mist (gold, green, and pink)
Maya Road Trinket Button (pink)
Maya Road Chipboard Butterflies and Bugs (snail)

Pattern Paper, Letter Stickers, and Acetate Butterflies (My Little Shoebox)
Stickles (Ranger)
Brads (Doodlebug)

3-D Foam Adhesive Squares
Wet Adhesive
Scissors/Trimmer
Shadow Box

Instructions:

1.  Spray your flowers and stems with Maya Mist and set aside to dry.

2.  Trim a piece of cardstock to be your background.  Mine is trimmed to 5 X 7.

I kept the box part of my frame handy so I could continue to measure so that everything would fit :)

3.  Trace your chipboard flowers onto your pattern paper and cut out.  I ran my flowers through  a Cuttlebug embossing folder for some texture.

4.  Apply wet adhesive to the wrong side of your chipboard flower and attach the right side of your pattern paper to this.

5.  Attach your title.

6.  Trim two pieces of pattern paper to measure 1 1/4 X 7 inches. Make little snips with your scissors
to represent grass :)  Attach one of these about 3/4 on an inch from the bottom of your cardstock base.

7.  Attach your flower stems on top of the first layer of grass and then glue the second layer on to conceal the stem bottoms.

8.  To give the flowers their 3D look attach one layer of 3D foam squares on the little flower and then double up on the big one.

9.  To finish mine up I added a little snail (he has three layers of the 3D foam dots).

Have a wonderful day!
Love,

Quick and Easy Easter Card

 

I made a quick and easy card for easter to share with you all.

Items used:

1.    Rectangle Banner/Coaster Album  1 page

2.    Rectangle Scallop Journaling Coaster  1 page

3.    Keychains oval MR Tag   the little oval shape that comes on all the keychain sets

4.    Foundations Chipboard Set 1 oval shape

5.    Light Blue Crushed Velvet Ribbon

6.    Green Doubled Stitched Ribbon

7.    Jonathan Mini Alphabet Chipboard

8.    Patterned paper

9.    Scraps of cardstock

10.     Glossy Accent

11.    White Sequins Trim

Cover Rectangle banner chipboard with patterned paper and sand edges.

Cover Rectangle scallop chipboard and sand edges, I used half patterned paper and half embossed white cardstock, and placed ribbon over the join.

Ink letters and once dry cover with glossy accent.

Cut some grass shapes from scraps of cardstock.

Cover the oval shapes with papers. On the large shape use sequins trim as per picture below.

 

Then use the crushed velvet ribbon around the smaller oval egg. And finally on thew last oval I simply used glossy accent to to draw lines and dots.

Adhere grass cardstock to the rectangle scallop page then layer oval eggs as desired. Attach to the rectangle banner book page.

To finish off add your Happy easter letters once dry.

And thats it!! Easy

Sarah

My Love Affair with Maya Road Houses and Vintage Milk Caps!

Well, that is to CHA-W 2008....when they debuted all 3 houses.....Oh My Goodness...love at first site.  Maybe it's because we are a Navy family and I spend way too much time dreaming about my forever house.... or maybe it's just because they are so darn easy and fun to make!  They also come with the windows, doors, shutters (depending on which house), hearts and the chimney for the Villa and they all 3 come with a mini album inside!!  You can use it with the house (what a great gift) or make them into 2 separate projects, which is what I did today!

Next, I love vintage milkcaps...they are so fun and remind me so much of my grandma's house and waiting for the morning to come so we could run out and get the fresh milk, juice, yogurts etc.... they just seem so classic.

 Anyway, I am going to share 2 milk-capped houses with you and give you another creative way of using the houses!

 So, let's start with the townhouse...this is a small house that stands about 5.5 inches tall...but I think it's my favorite one.  I figured out the cutest thing to use it for....a gift-card holder!  I give giftcards all the time..they are easy to please gifts...but I worry that they get boring to people...so I have been into ways to make the packaging special and reusable for home decor. 

 

 

 

I used the Metric Ruler Clear Singleton Stamp on the edges of this project...this is my FAVORITE stamp by Maya Road!  

 I also used the Microchip Scallop and Trinkets Buttons-Pebble Set (love these because you can sand the edges white!) on the door. 

The vintage milk caps, measuring tape (thanks Wendy!) and Bingo cards (cut up behind the windows) are all from various estate sales, sweet friends and auction sites!  I have quite the stash of them now!

OK, my next house is the Bungalow house.  This one is shorter but longer and a super fun one also! 

 

 

 

I used the same stash of Vintage milkcaps, Bingo cards and added a Bingo game piece to the door.  The one thing that I also did that I thought was fun was I put a piece of a glassine bag (the clear waxy bags) underneath the window panes, over the patterned paper.  It added a bit of a shine to look like a glass window and added a milky look to the patterned paper underneath.

 

This would also make a great gift holder.  The lid comes right up and is the perfect size for a book or something that size. 

So, well...guess that's it.....I'll leave you with a pictureof the set.  Now my next project with the milk caps is the Villa!  Expecting it in the mail any day now!

 

I hope that I have inspired you and that you go and create a little sweet house for yourself or for a perfect gift holder!

~Katie Watson

If you're like me...

there are times when you really want to do something creative, but don't really have the time.  Here's something quick and fun you can do (sandwiched in between all the other things you do every day). 

Lately I find myself being a teacher, cook, maid, wife, mother, taxi driver, cheerleader... and on, and on.  When I try to sit down and scrap something, it has to be quick.  So, I pulled out my favorite Maya Road "stand bys" - Foundations Chipboard and Jonathan Chipboard alphas.  What I came up with was a set of magnets to use on my dry erase board at school.  Quick, simple and immediately useful!

All you have to do is:

1.  take the centers out of the Foundations chipboard squares (I used 5 for the letters of my last name).

2.  Cover them with your favorite patterned paper.  Sand and ink the edges.

3.  Using the Metric Ruler singleton, stamp one side of each piece (see below).   

4.  Mist or ink the letters and adhere in the center of each square.  Cover with your favorite glossy adhesive.

5.  Cover back of each magnet and then add an adhesive magnet strip.

Enjoy on your own refrigerator, OR give them as an inexpensive gift (hey, the end of the school year is coming... doesn't your child have a favorite teacher?)

Aubrey