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Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Final Day 5!

Hi there!
Welcome back to the final installation of the Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library blog swap! This is Ania from Norway, here with yet another different take on the same 10 products as the other MR-girls and the gals at PCL!

Curious yet?
When I signed up for this challenge, I thought; Ooh, a challenge, I love them!
Then I got the list over the products and thought; Uhm right, too late to back out, I can't let them down now.....
THEN I got the products in the mail, making me go; Ooookaaaaaaayletseeee...gosh why do I always have to volunteer for challenges?!

And then, once I found the right papers to accompany the products, it all went like a breeze. Now, while I'm typing this post, I have *no* idea how the other gals final products looks like..so I am quite thrilled and curious on how it went for the others (you can scroll down the blog to find out the other gals' take on this challenge), I'm sort of thinking I can't be alone in creating a minibanner of the banners and tags now, can I...?

I used the Vintage Ornament Butterfly stamp quite a bit here; see the mini kraft tags? On the ones to the right and the left I stamped them with white chalk ink pad and embossed with clear detail embossing powder. Yields a fine, sheer look... on the middle one however, I embossed the butterflies with white detail embossing powder. Next to the photo; a regular stamped butterfly onto a piece of paper that's cut out.

And then - on the chipboard letters that I covered with white paint first; Butterflies randomly stamped onto the letters.

Tah-dah.

It was fun doing this challenge, and extra fun knowing the other gals got exactly the same MR-products as me!

Here's the 10 product list we all got to play with:

• love hangers
• canvas triangle banners
• mini kraft tags
• turquoise twine
• coffee brown mini gingham trim
• leaf zipper trim
• turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers
• jonathan alpha chipboard
• Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp
• Vintage Lace Mums - Apple

Now, don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 4

Hi Lisa Pace here.. today, I want to share an inspirational canvas I created for my daughter, Ansley. She graduates High School in a few days and thought this would be a fun piece for her to have filled with lots of inspirational words. 

Once I attached the book pages to the canvas I decided to give the background a slight conservatory feel and used the ornate vintage butterflies stamp set to create the background. Once stamped using markers I colored in each of the butterflies then carefully accented each one with diamond stickles. While the diamond stickles was drying I painted a scallop edge all around the canvas and the Jonathan alpha chipboard letters “fly”. After the paint and stickles dried I completely covered the entire top of the canvas using clear rock candy crackle paint and set it aside to dry.

While the crackle paint was drying I arranged the mini kraft tags as I wanted them to appear on the canvas then decided on which word stickers (always, dream, love, smile, grow, adore, &) to use for each tag. I then inked and distressed the edges of each tag and using a black pen outlined each word sticker. Once I had the mini kraft tags arranged as I liked I applied watercolor to three canvas triangle banner pieces. Once these dried I attached a Jonathan alpha chipboard piece to each banner to spell out “fly”. I then attached the canvas triangle banner pieces to the turquoise twine cording, tied a bow and attached each end of the turquoise twine cording to a love hanger. 

Once everything was completely dry I attached the kraft mini tags, the vintage mum – apple, a bow created from coffee brown mini gingham trim, the love hanger mini “fly” banner and turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers as shown. To accent the edge of the canvas I attached leaf zipper trim all along the outer edge. 

Maya Road Products Used – Love Hangers, Mini Triangle Canvas Banner, Mini Kraft Tags, Turquoise Twine Cording, Coffee Brown Mini Gingham Trim, Leaf Zipper Trim, Turquoise and Yellow Ruffle Flowers, Jonathan Alpha Chipboard, Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamp, Vintage Lace Mums - Apple 

Don't forget you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Hugs!

 

 

 

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 3

Hi Roadies, Sarah here from Sunny Townsville. I am excited to share my challenge project with you all. It was a great challenge with fantastic items!

So this is my creation  :

I used the Scallop Basic Album, which I love, as it has both chipboard pages and craft.

These are the 10 items we had to use:

the ten items you'll be getting are:

1. love hangers

2. canvas triangle banners

3. mini kraft tags

4. turquoise twine

5. coffee brown mini gingham trim

6. leaf zipper trim

7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers

8. jonathan alpha chipboard

9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp

10. Vintage Lace Mums - Apple

 

I used the zipper trim to create leaves, i used the same principles used in the Zipper Trim Mini Butterfly Tutorial 1 They turned out great!

 

I have a secret love of mini kraft tags.....LOVE THEM!!! I wanted to try something a little different so I thought it would look fantastic all layered over each other.

Above I have used the stamp, blossom flower and kraft tag (which I have cut to form a leaf. The stamped Butterflies also have extra ink and glossy accent.

 

And below is a collage of all the pages I created

 

Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure 
to go read the details on this post.

 

 

 

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 1!

For this project we were challenged to used only 10 Maya Road products. Now normally this would be very hard for me to do! I love Maya Road and limiting myself period would be a struggle. But for the sake of the challenge 10 it is! Visit the Paper Crafter's Library girls to see their take on this challenge!

Supplies used:

1. love hangers

2. canvas triangle banners

3. mini kraft tags

4. turquoise twine

5. coffee brown mini gingham trim

6. leaf zipper trim

7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers

8. jonathan alpha chipboard

9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp

10. Vintage Lace Mums

Miscellaneous items: Vintage sheet music, burlap, adhesive, Faber-Castell markers, pop dots.

I decided to do an altered project. I found this little beauty at a flea market and knew it would be just perfect for this project. It is a wooden drawer with a metal back. Perfect for using Maya Road goodies and some magnets.

I simply hand cut some of my vintage music paper, canvas, and burlap a bit wider then my  Maya Road Lace Mum and stacked them to make my flowers. I attached a piece of the brown gingham ribbon to act as the stems! The butterflies were stamped twice, colored, and then one pop dotted on top of the other to give the butterflies some dimension. I used the twine to string my canvas triangles and then hung that by the metal hangers. I covered my nails holding the wire hangers with the cute ruffle flowers.The kraft tags were used as leaves.  At the bottom I just layered the zipper trim to create my “grass”.I used the chipboard alphabet to spell grow. I then added magnets to  all the items on the drawer  so I could move them around and rearrange them.

 

Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance at the awesome giveaway that will be announced on Friday! 

And, for even more fun, we will be giving this awesome Maya Road prize  to one lucky winner! 

The winner will recieve 5 rolls of twine (new colors!!) plus 8 wooden spools!

In order to enter yourself in the giveaway you can do one of the following three things:

1. Head over to the Maya Road Facebook fan page and what your favorite project you've seen on the blog this month was and make sure you've hit "Like" to become a fan.
2. "Like" and leave a comment on PaperCrafter's Library Facebook fan page tell them Maya Road sent you.
3. Leave one comment on this post.

Do all three to enter yourself into the drawing three times!

Winner will be posted on Sunday once our whole week of sneaks is over!

Please be sure to come back here every day this week to see more inspiration. 

-Shelley Haganman

 

Ship A'hoy!

Hi Roadies, Angella here from across the seas to bring you my  banner book boat !

True to style,  I just had to jump out of the box with the banner book to create this cute boat.

I - I Matey

 

It is as easy as 1. 2. 3.  Grab a Mixed Scallop triangle banner Album and wood mini skinny spools .

 

      

1. Firstly lay your pages down to form the boat shape, you can tape the peices together to make secure.

2. Glue spools down onto the base of your boat, then glue another layer of pages
on top of the spools to give the 3D effect of your project ! fill in your sides with  strips of paper or ribbon .

3. Cover with pattern paper and decorate!

See so easy, perfect for party table decoration, or leave a opening at top and fill with lollies

So next time you pick up a Maya Road banner book, take a twist and see what you can create.

Candy Stripe blossoms, Velvet pleats Medallion flowers, vintage paper posies, Mixed Scallop triangle banner Album , trinket buttons, Vintage wood ruler, Wood Die cut dollies, Wood Skinny spools, Kraft Die Cut dollies, Small organza rose ribbon, Love chipboard banner set

Ahoy Roadies !

Mini Album Love

Hi roadies, its Sarah here from hot and sunny North Queensland and I wanted to share a mini album that I have LOVED making!! In fact I just love mini albums! I love all the Maya Road Coaster Albums as they are so easy to use and can mix and match.

This mini album features pictures from our recent trip, I got index pictures made up cause I took so many and have put them to use in this album. So of the Maya Road products I have used include; Scroll frame coaster album, Butterflies mini chipboard set, Butterfly chipboard set, Wooden spools, Trinket pins antique gem and tiny Banner chipboard bits, and the mini canvas tag pieces.

I also have a few items that you can hardly see, but I like layers so you will also find vintage doilies and kraft doilies.

Less is more!

Hello there!

This is Ania with a card-special for you!

You see, I'll freely admit...when you're on a design team, and you get access to a lot of amazing embellishments, it's way too tempting to want to use everything on your projects...to want to add more and more....I adore the clean and simple style, but have a hard time sticking to it myself when I want to add a little variation to my style (at least that's how I myself see it).

So.

I challenged myself to just stick to three main embellishments for my cards. I like to do that - issue myself random challenges every now and then.

Here's the first card I made; as you can see there's three main components on this card: The yellow zipper trim adding a splash of color and life, the kraft journaling tag, and the oversized numbers.

Very simple, yet I daresay it's sort of striking. Oh, and it's for a male, and I always have a hard time creating masculine cards. I think the colorscheme and the zippers really does it for the card!

The next card is for a girl. Just dress up the lovely Coffee or Tea Mini Chipboard set w/a piece of cute patterned paper, add iridescent glitter to the surface, and if you have the time - seal the whole thing with glossy accent for more glossiness...add to a piece of background (here: Scallop frames chipboard set), top off with a name banner and you're all set! Again; three main components - the teapot-chipboard (made more interesting by adding glitter and glossiness), a solid yet fun background and finally, the banner with the name of the recipient across..

 

See? You don't really have to have "everything" (although that's quite nice I admit, haha) to create something nice. Hope you liked the projects, thanks for watching!

Maya Road + Authentique Paper Blog Swap Day 5

Happy Friday Roadies! Emily here with some more projects featuring Maya Road and Authentique. Hasn't it been fun to see the huge variety that both teams have created this week? I am so happy I got to work with paper from the Free Bird Endless and Fair-Weather 6x6 Nest. I love how rich and intense the colors are, and how well they work with Maya Road products! I also really love the B sides, nice solid colors that look all scratched up with a different color, Authentique has definitely won my heart with this look! 

I made three cards because I couldn't stop at just one.

The Expressions in the Gathering line had so many sweet little phrases for cards and layouts, so I paired one that says, "You make me happy when skies are grey" with chipboard from the Maya Road When Skies are Grey (how could I resist?).

Cover the umbrella with paper and Twine Cording in Blackberry, and top it off with a red Trinket Heart Pin. Mist some raindrops with Blue Hawaiian Maya Mist, then add the sentiment above a strip of Sunshine Yellow Zipper trim and more Twine Cording, shaped into a heart along the way. 

 

My second card nods to my chevron love. Cut a bunch of arrows out of paper strips, attach them in rows and finish off with a oval shape that sports the greeting. I used letter stickers from the Gathering line for my sentiment.

My greeting sits on a oval from the Mixed Shapes Mini set that has been inked with the Charcoal Metallic 1" ink pad. I am constantly amazed with how well the ink covers the chipboard. I finished it off with a Krafty Owl in White and a Gingham Point Blossom in Beige, then anchored it all with a couple of lengths of the Twine Cording in Blackberry.

 

And my final project is a birthday card. Doesn't that paper just scream BIRTHDAY CARD?!?!?! It has a turquoise asterisk printed in exactly the same spot as my chipboard, and I was so happy to see how well the shape from the Mixed Shapes Mini set matched. Sprayed with Dark Cornflower Blue Maya Mist, I was able to match the color exactly and as a bonus, it also matches the Tulle Trim in Slushie Blue perfectly.

One of the banners from Wavy Layerable Chipboard Banners covered with some paper, add some more Twine Cording in Blackberry and I've got an adorable birthday card, heading to my sister-in-law as you read this.

Thanks for joining me for today's blog swap!

Want more inspiration? Now go and visit Authentique Paper's blog and see what they have in store for you! Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

 

Maya Road + Authentique Paper Blog Swap Day 2!

Oy!

Ania here, to continue on the inspiring Blog Swap between Maya Road and Authentique Paper!

To my delight I saw I got to play with the Delightful collection...hm..no pun intended!

Here's what I made, using the 6x6 inch paper pad (they even made these double sided, adding solid colors to the B sides...well, solid-ish, in the way I love solid patterned papers :) ) and one of the die cut cards as well.

See the punched border? Or the chipboard-bird (from the Home Tweet Home Mini chipboard set)? Pretty, solid-ish paper :) All the sheets also got this grey polkadot-border, I liked it so decided to keep it for this layout. Gives the sheets a bit of continuity, hm?

Lots of little bits and pieces added to this cluster. Like the Daisies Vintage Lace Trim in Mauve, it's really growing on me....I wouldn't really have used it on its own, it's not really "me", but as a backing for the other flowers (here: Velvet Pleats in grey) it looks amazing methinks. Oh, and see the pearl butterfly? Cute! (One of the new things from CHA-W - looks darling alongside the Crystal trinket pins). See the "plate" the title (from the Love Words Mini Chipboard set) is adhered to?

It's made by covering the Love Chipboard Banner w/patterned paper then adhering them together upside down to a strip of scrap paper.

The Scroll Corners is covered in crackle paint, softened up w/slight dabbing of ink and backed w/Tulle Pleat Trim in Earl Grey (such a versatile color :) ) and a piece of Mums Vintage Lace Trim in Silver.

Supply list:
Chipboard: Scroll Corners chipboard set, Love Chipboard banner, Love Words Mini chipboard set, Home Tweet Home mini chipboard set, green thumb mini chipboard set
Ribbon: Mums Vintage Lace Trim (silver), Tulle Pleat Trim (Earl Grey), Daisies Vintage Lace Trim (Mauve), Ruffle Edge trim - yellow
Trinkets: Pearl Butterfly trinket pin, Crystal trinket pin, Trinket Love Hangers, Alterable Buttons, Mini tickets transparent - black, Velvet pleats (grey and yellow)
Authentique Paper: Delightful 6x6" bundle paper pad, baby girl "icons"

Made an additional card w/the things I got...using one of the die cut cards from Authentique Paper, along with some of the patterned papers.

The tag is from the Baby girl "headlines" card..I just added patterned paper over the middle where it said "Baby girl"...so the card can be used for whatever occasion.

MR Supplies used:
Tulle Pleat Trim in Earl grey, Felt beaded trinket flower (light/dark pink) and butterfly chipboard set.
Authentique Paper: Delightful 6x6 bundle paper pad, baby girl "headlines"

Thanks much for watching - and by all means, do come back tomorrow - we're not done showcasing the blog swap-projects! :)

Want more inspiration? Now go and visit Authentique Paper's blog and see what they have in store for you! And don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Just for my Wall

Hi Angella here !

I am back to share another project I created for CHA , packed with new Maya Road products (don't you just love them) . I especially love the new Vintage tape measure trim the colours are so cute, Pink,white and yellow. And the  Frayed edge pleated trim  comes in faded cherry, Demin and khaki. 

 Of course we have the  new stamps Houndstooth singleton stamp , and the Ornate frames stamp set  just a couple of the new clear stamps.

and  kraft large tickets - white

and those Vintage wood birds are a bit cool!

Scallop frame chipboard set and the Zipper trim bubblegum pink..

Some of the other products I have used are the  Wood mini spools,  Mini triangle banner canvas pieces

Foundation chipboard set, Wavy layerable chipboard banner, Kraft journalling tag decorative
Twinw cording Celery green, Vintage button stick pins, Candy stripe ribbon brown
Alterable wood buttons, Vintage finding pearl centres ...

I think we all have to agree Maya Road products are a girls diamonds, you can never have too many and they just keep getting better and better :)