Maya Road Design Team

Star Canvas Baby Album

The possibilities with canvas are endless. Among the many many things I love about Maya Road, I absolutely adore all the canvas products. Canvas is a wonderful base for all manner of artistic and creative projects. I love the frayed edges, the way you can stitch it and it's a wonderful alternative to paper for a unique album.

One of my latest album projects uses the Canvas Star Coaster Album. It's a sweet little album that fits in the palm of your hand and I thought it would be a darling mini baby scrapbook for one of my children.

Canvas albums are easy to add color to and each page of this album has been misted with Green Apple Maya Mist and/or Blue Agave Metallic Mist. It's easy to mist a design onto a page by using a template or mask over the canvas before misting.

 

Bottlecaps make a perfect accent for the front cover of albums. This Super Mega Bottle Cap is trimmed with Sky Blue Zipper Trim and Earl Grey Tulle Pleat Trim. The inside is filled with a cluster of embellishments: Green Gingham Point Blossoms, Grey Velvet Pleats flowers, a White Time Flies Kraft Clock, White Star Trinket Pins, Black Mini Ticket Strip Transparencies and Vintage Flag Kraft Pins.

The Foundation Chipboard set makes a great frame for photos. This one is stained and inked and then accented with a crown from the Crowns Mini Chipboard Set and trimmed with some Maya Road Crochet Trim.

 

Maya Road stamps also make a great accent on a canvas album. This page is stamped with the Vintage Scale and Balance stamp. It's personalized with a name spelled with the Jonathon Mini Chipboard Alphabet.

 

Kraft Notes and Envelopes make a great place to journal and hide little bits of memorabilia. One of my favorite Maya Road stamp sets is the Spool Sentiments stamp set which decorates this envelope along with a Green Resin Blossom.

To finish off, here's a little peek at the misting on the back of the album.

Have you tried Maya Road Canvas items? How do you like to alter them?

Thanks for joining me today...

 

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

 

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 

Bottle Cap Advent Calendar

Good Morning Roadies!  It's December and that means the holidays are not far away!!  I've had this idea in my head since last year and have finally gotten around to getting it done.  It is HUGE! I love how it came out. 

 I started by spray painting the 4" bottle caps a dark metallic color.  I then tied all the bottle caps together to create my base.  Because it is so larger I thought it would be best to use a dowel at the top to hang the calendar from.

For the inside of each bottle cap I created a pocket from card stock to hold the candy for that day.  I added some punched snowflakes layered with chipboard snowflakes.  I finished them off with bingo numbers for each day.  I ended up painting each number dark brown to match! 

Products Used:

Bottle Caps

Bingo Numbers

Candy Stripes Ribbon

Snowflake Chipboard

Thanks for looking!

Jen

 

Soar Butterfly Banner

Hey everyone!!  It's Melissa here and I am very, VERY excited to be making my very first post here.  Someone pinch me, OY!!  Ok, I'm pinched enough, I have much to share so let's dive right in!

Hopefully you were able to catch the sneak peek posts over on the Maya Road Company Blog because it is chock-full of amazing NEW Maya Road goodies!  There are also some pretty amazing prizes still up for grabs just by simply leaving a comment!  So did you check them out??  Well now that the sneaks have been let out of the bag, I am thrilled to be able to share with you one of the projects I created. 

This "SOAR" butterfly banner was created using the new Soar Butterfly Album, being released at the upcoming Summer CHA this week!  I love this album, especially because of the die-cut back and front pages which I was able to use as a beginning and end embellishment to my banner.  Check it out...

To achieve the distressed painted look of my chipboard, I simply added random specks of Maya Resist directly to my chipboard and allowed that to dry.  It doesn't take long at all, so I then added a coat of some pink acrylic paint on top of that.  When that dried, you simply peel up the dried Maya Resist and then you easily achieve that aged and tattered look!  This technique has been mentioned before on this blog, and I love it so much, it was worth being mentioned again. :)  A quick coat of crystal laquer on top gave it that added shine and protection!

Here I used the new Metal Bottlecap Flower as a centerpiece.  I simply put a thin coat of white acrylic paint on it and then "aged" it with some distress ink.

For my letter "O," I backed it with one of the new Canvas Butterflies as to just continue on with my butterfly theme. ;)  I can't wait to see what you creative folks out there do with these new canvas ones...I saw quite the excitement over them!

And oh my....the new Tea Garden Organza Trim...need I say more??

See any more new goodies here?  How about the Vintage Lace Daisy atop one of the Vintage Wood Doilies?  Oh! Oh!  How could I forget a piece of the new Sky Blue Small Organza Rose Ribbon...one of my new faves for sure!

Finally, I used the new Velvet Resin Flower along with one of the Raspberry Beads as an accent on my final butterfly. 

Whew! That was a lot, wasn't it? :)  Now, I only pointed out some of the NEW items being released this week, but be sure and scroll down for a full list of the Maya Road items that I used here.  Hope you enjoyed the project and are loving all the fabulous sneaks! 

Until next time....

Melissa

Supplies:

Soar Butterfly Album

Butterfly Chipboard Set

Ruffle Edge Trim Golden

Crushed Velvet Cream

Ecru Crochet Trim

Small Organza Roses Ribbon White

Small Organza Roses Ribbon Sky Blue

Alterable Vintage Lace Blooms

Felt Pearl Blossoms Off White/Brown

Gingham Fabric Blossoms Green and Pink/Blue

Velvet Resin Flower

Raspberry Beads

Satin Posies Mauve and Bright Pink

Velvet Pleats Grey and Light Pink

Velvet Point Blossoms Cream and Pink

Vintage Lace Daisy

Tea Garden Organza Trim

Canvas Butterflies

Chicago Uppercase Alphabet

Metal Bottlecap Flower

Love Words Mini Chipboard Set

Crowns Mini Chipboard Set

Alterable Wood Buttons

Wood Mini Spools

Trinket Pins Leaf

Trinket Pins Vintage Pearl

Trinket Pins Hearts Cream and Red

Vintage Alterable Trinkets Large

Vintage Wood Doilie

Kraft Mini Ticket Strip

2012 Bottle Cap Calendar

Good Friday Roadies!  Are you getting excited seeing all the cool new stuff coming out this week for CHA?  I have a fun project featuring the new 2012 kraft calendars.  It's never too early right?

I used the 4inch bottle caps for this project.  I marked and punched holes in the bottle cap, then using ribbon I tired them together.  I matched each bottle cap to that month using bright paper and mini chipboard pieces to coordinate.  

Supplies Used:

Super Mega Bottle Caps

2012 kraft calendars

Chicago Chipboard Numbers 

Snowflake Chipboard Set (Jan & Dec)

Love words Mini Set (Feb)

Green Thumb (Mar & May)

Hows the Weather (April & Jun)

What's Cookin (Jul)

Birds with Cages (Aug)

Leaves Chipboard (Sep & Oct)

Mini Trees (Nov)

Mists:   Pomegranate Pink, Antique Silver, Lemon Metallic, Lime Metallic, Cream Metallic, Sunflower Yellow, Antique Patina, Antique Bronze Metallic, Salmon Metallic, Latte Metallic, Snow White, Black

Other Supplies:  Glossy Accents, Pattern Paper, Buttons, Twine & Ribbon.  U-Cut foam & Extreme Tac adhesives. 

 

 

 

 

Christmas in July?!

I know it seems a bit early to share a cute little project for Christmas but since it's been SO hot here in the Midwest I thought we could use even the thought of cooler weather! And like so many of my canvas projects this is a "no sew" project that is quick and easy and can be used again and again!

I love Advent calendars and here is how you can make your own!

What you will need:

Maya Roach Canvas Square

Maya Road Metal Bottle Caps

Maya Road Chipboard Letters

Kraft paper and patterned paper

Fabric

Adhesive

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First cut some fabric about 1/2 inch larger that the canvas square. Fold fabric 1/2 to backside of fabric and adhere with fabric glue. Now glue this "pocket" to the front and back of your canvas squares. (You will use 6 squares giving you a total of 12 calendar pockets)

Now that your pockets are created let's make something to go in there! First I cut 12 pieces of kraft paper a little bit smaller than my pockets. Onto this square I adhered a colored piece of paper (alternating green and red) onto the kraft paper. I chose to machine sew around the colored paper perimeter. Next I painted and glittered a Maya Road chipboard letter and placed on the paper. For this project I chose to spell "CHRISTMAS JOY". It has  12 letters so each letter fits into a pocket. Also, I envisioned removing a letter a day and  hanging each letter on a garland so that at the end of the 12 days of Christmas you would have a banner that read "Christmas Joy"! On the back of each letter I printed a good deed that could be done on that day to make the 12 days of Christmas about doing something for others. Some examples were: writing a letter to a loved one, visit an elderly person, donate something to the food bank, etc. I love it when projects have more than one function!

Another piece to this project is making the 12 bottle cap numbers. Here I just punched a circle from the same patterned/colored paper used in the letter cards and just added a number to the center of it. Before I place the circle punched piece of paper I punched a hole directly into the center of the bottle cap and attached it to the fabric pocket with a brad. Now cover this with your paper!

To attach this project and make it a hanging and reversible I used items I had extra of. I used these clips with hooks on the end to hang one canvas square to the next. The eyelets on the canvas provide that ability too. Use ribbon, thread,  binder rings, whatever you have "hanging" around to attach your pieces together and create this hanging Advent calendar!

Happy creating with Maya Road!! Shelley

A quick peek

Roadies, we totally love our Maya Road bottlecaps - the 2" , 3" and 4" ones. Here is one of our 4" ones which I decorated with some new butterfly chipboards coming out next week - they are totally cool at about 3.5" across and I love them for mini albums and more:

So stay tuned as we have our early Summer Release coming out next week and everything will ship next week! Have a great weekend!

"Hawaii" Shadow Box Book.....

One of Maya Road's new 2011 Winter releases was the ATC Shadow box. I fell in love with them as soon as I saw them! I received two of them and decided I would make them into a "book" of sorts where I could place some photos and mementos from my recent trip to Hawaii!

 

I started out by painting both of the shadow boxes white. When they were dry I added some patterned paper to the covers and sides. Since I wanted to make this a book I went to my local hardware store and found the hardware I needed to join by two boxes together. For the hinges and the clasp I used small brads to hold them in place instead of the screws that came with the hardware.

 
 
Now comes the fun part.....filling your shadow box with items and photos! I used many Maya Road products in this project. Pins, chipboard shapes, glitter, metal tins, canvas, ribbon, and wooden bingo pieces to name a few. A couple of my favorites was taking a small circle tin and filling it with sand and shells from Poipu Beach, Kauaii. Alittle Maya Road glitter to glam up the front and it looks fabulous! I also used some of that same sand by putting a layer of Glossy Accents in the bottom of a Maya Road Mega Bottle Cap and covering it with the sand. After letting it set I added some sticker letters. I also used Maya Road's chipboard windows set to make the cover of some accordion albums that fit inside the shadow box.

 
 
 
This album was everything I wanted it to be. A photo album and a collection of things that would remind me of my dream vacation! I hope this will inspire you to create your very own shadow box book and fill it with all the wonderful goodies that Maya Road has to offer! Their products are perfect for incorporating into your project and making it your own!

What A Hoot - Metal Owl Fun!

Howdy Roadies, I wanted to share with you a very simple owly project today. Our design team has a lot of owl love in it and after talking to some of them, I decided to create one this week to hang on a wall in my kid's room. Here is the sweet guy. Do you see some Maya Road goodies on here?

I started off with a few supplies:

1. MR  mega bottlecaps

2. MR motifs bingo markers

3. MR large daisy lace trim (For the hair)

4. flower punch

5. patterned paper

6. MR tiny banners chipboard

7. ten seconds studio metal

8. TSS mold and tools

9. scissors/ tape/ adhesive

All I did was free hand cut the owl out of the peacock metal. He is a basic egg shape and I just added the ears. Then I embossed a piece of gold nugget metal and cut his belly out. I then stuffed his belly with a piece of tissue (not used of course!) to give it a puff look.

Next I covered one of the mini triangle banners with brown cardstock to make his beak. I punched 2 flowers out of patterned paper and layered them behind the wooden bingo motif and then set them into the bottlecap. Next I glued everything together and voila here he is:

And that is it - your owl that you can make in about 30 mins. How cool is that?

Caroline