Maya Road Design Team

Flowers to fluffy clouds

Hey Roadies! Mandy Kay Starner here to share my epiphany moment with you.

So lets start at the beginning...I already had my photo and basic design in mind. Plus, I had been wanting to put some paint on paper for some time, so I got out my paints and mists(White out and  Orange Spice)and created my background...

While that dried, I inked up my chipboard birds from the Birds and Cages set and my Lisa Lowercase alphas for my title. I snipped some chevron shapes from my Chocolate Plum Vintage Tape Measure trim and layered them up under my photo with a Stitched Linen Heart. Once, I laid it all out, I could see that it was missing something... I stared... and stared... Finally, I decided that I wanted to add some fluffy clouds to my layout. I wanted to mimic the clouds in the photo. But how was I going to do it?... and then BAM! It hit me! The Afternoon Tea Blossoms could be cut up into fluffy clouds! So I cut a couple of them apart into cloud shapes...

I layered them up here and there. And this is how it all turned out...

Here's a close-up...

So there you have it. I hope this inspires you to look at your supplies a little differently.

Maya Road and Fiskars swap, Day 4

Hello and welcome!  It's so nice of you to stop in to see another project combining Maya Road and Fiskars. It is a great combination.

I decided to make a layout with a photo of the beautiful blooms on the snowball bush that is in my backyard.  It is one of my favorite signs of spring.

The little banner near the bottom of the page was made using the Fiskar's Square-A-Licious Punch.  I just folded the punched pieces over some of the Maya Road Twine Cording.  I think that the banners are so sweet.  They also include a Vintage Wood Spool, chipboard Mixed Blossoms, a Scalloped Frame, Love Pennant Banner pieces, and a Velvet Resin Blossom.

I also used a Fiskars Notebook Border Punch, which is used on the patterned paper that is behind the photo.  You can do so many things with punches and of course Maya Road products.

Other Maya road items used: Vintage Kraft Envelope, Cream Ruffle Blossom, Sentiments Black Rub Ons, Gingham Fabric Tape, Trinket Pins, Grey Velvet Pleat, Vintage Edge Mum.

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap.  Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway!  Make sure to go read the details on this post

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Maya Road and Fiskars Swap, day 3

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here with day 3 of the Maya Road and Fiskars swap.

Maya Road embellishments work seamlessly together with the awesome Fiskars punches. I had a lovely creative time pairing them up and making a couple cards to share today.

First up in this vintage postage themed design featuring a background created with the Fiskars postage punch. The great notched edges add a little flair to a simple grid background pattern and also allows me to show off lots of different paper prints. I loved how easy the Fiskars punches were to use with my hand and wrist. They punch with very little effort at all.

On top of the background, I went to town with some favorite  Maya Road embellishments. The Ornate Tags Chipboard Set is covered with some pretty gold glitter paint. I'm loving the gold trend lately and covering chipboard with gold paint or glitter is a great shiny addition to a project. Also clustered together you'll find an Antique Room Key, Green Leaf Trinket Pins, Vintage Paper Roses, Alterable Wood Buttons, Buttermilk Vintage Lace Tape, all tied together with the brand new Tiramisu Twine Cording.

A Linen Mini Tag Piece is stamped with the Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamp set and you can also find a stamped sentiment, thank you, using the Card Sentiment Words Stamp Set.

This next card uses a Fiskars circle punch. It's used over and over to create these folded petals on the beautiful large paper flower. The center of it is embellished with Tomato Red Twine Cording, Vintage Button Stick Pins, Beaded Centers Vintage Findings, White Time Flies Kraft Clocks, Fabric Leaves and a chipboard piece from the Sew Cute Mini Chipboard Set.

On the card background you can find the always sentiment from the Love Words Mini Chipboard Set, a strip of Barn Red Gingham Fabric Tape, a Vintage Wood Mini Ruler, and some red Tulle Pleat Trim.

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap! 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 and Fiskars Swap, day 1

Hello there, welcome back to the Maya Road and Fiskars Swap!

This is Lia and Ania calling the shots today, ready to share brilliant inspiration (we hope!) with you using Fiskars and Maya Road products!

First out is a little box with two of the three shapes from the brilliant Fiskars 3-in-1 corner punch, Starlet. The punch creates pretty corners perfect for large squares, and is supereasy to use.  This particular shape can be used to add to a romantic, farmerish feel to any of your projects. A single Butterfly Chipboard is used as the focal point on the box, with the Clementine Orange Twine Cording as a subtle accent behind. (Oh, and Ania wants to apologize in advance here for the weird way the actually very, very cute glitter acts on her photos. She promises it's way dang cuter in real life than she manages to capture on film..eh..the camera sensor)

Nevertheless, here's another shape from the same punch, which is very, very easy to sort of turn and then the punch is ready w/another shape for you - Ania thinks it makes a cute name tag. And psst, notice the new, cute burlap posies, from the recent mid-show release.. Don't you love how it's both cute and down to earth-ish?

Now, we're not done yet - we're saving the best for the last because here comes Lia with her incredible cute little wreath!

Lia admits to loving the combination of turquoise, pink and yellow on her projects -  and that was the starting point of this wreath. After she wrapped the styrofoam wreath with three layers of bright turquoise yarn, she adhered two rounds of Tu-Tu Tulle - Ballerina Pink around the wreath.

 

She then glittered the Lisa Lowercase Alphabet chipboards, and added to a piece of patterned transparency on her wreath. She continued to embellish the wreath with a piece of painted Scroll Corners chipboard, a piece of Kraft Our Town - Black, a Vintage Kraft Boy/Girl Pin, and a Wood Bird Cage.

 

 

And let's not forget the Fiskars love. Lia professes to loving her Fiskars punches, and she even used three different punches on this wreath! The Fiskars Double Bubble Border Punch was used as the base for the Alphabet chipboards, X-Large Cloud Squeeze Punch for the white and blue clouds on the top of the wreath, and Oopsie Daisy Squeeze Punch for mini flowers clusters around the wreath. The mini flowers were also topped with Green Resin Blossoms.

 

We'll wrap this wreath up by pointing out the perfect finishing touch - the scatterings of Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball pins which Lia simply pushed into random spots around the styrofoam. The pale pink balls truly lights up this wreath and ties nicely colorwise with the tu-tu-tulle!

Talk about inspiration overload - and this is just the first day of the swap!

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap! Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Love,

Lia and Ania

All Aboard

Hi Roadies Angella here!

All Aboard the bus for some out of the box adventure, this little bus I created a  bit back for my sweet neices to sit on there dressing table just begs cuteness. Dressed in spring colours for any little girls room... but you can go any theme ... Brights for boy... pastles for baby

Maya Road is perfect to create 3D form decor to adorn any place in your home, Yes my home is a home full of projects displaying memories for all to see!

School Bus

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Wood Spools

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Priceless Memories

We really love seeing what everyone creates with Maya Road, create your priceless memories and share !

Roadies have a great day !

Catcha Next time

Captured Mini Album

Hello Roadies, it's Ronda here today to share with you my Captured Mini Album using lots & lots of wonderful Maya Road products.  The base of this album is the new 2 ring round journal chipboard book.   It's such a versatile mini album that can be used for so many projects.  To make the cover I used a stencil and gesso for texture and then painted it with Maya Mist (Turquoise Metallic, Lime Metallic, Lemon Metallic, and Tangerine Metallic).  I used a variety of Maya Road embellishments to adorn the cover, including the you've been framed wood piece, the wavy layerable chipboard, and the kraft layerable flowers.  I painted the layerable chipboard white and stamped the title using the Just my type stamp set. 

The interior pages uses lots of maya mists in the same color palette as the front cover with pops of purple and red.  I used the new manilla tags from the spring 2013 release as journaling tags and accent tags.  The wood butterflies take mists so well and i love using them for that added pops of color. 

I'm a big fan of Maya Road's cream products like the cream burlap trim and cream ruffle blossoms because I can change the color to fit my projects.  The kraft envelopes are a fun item to add into mini albums giving you an extra page.  You can always decorate the front & backsides of the envelope too!

Don't be afraid to alter embellishments to give them a new look.  I backed the metal love hanger with colored watercolor paper for that pop of color.  I cut the coal black fabric tape into triangles before peeling off the back so it was easy to cut. 

Did you notice the chipboard window?  I used just one window throughout the mini album using bits and pieces of it to accent various pages.  I trimmed it down using scissors and sprayed it with Maya Mists.   Think outside the box with your elements!

I hope you found some ideas today to fill your Maya Road Mini albums!

Lovely Linen

Hi Roadies! Julia here again with another project to share. I've always loved Maya Road mini albums but the latest ones in linen? Well, I love creating with them...the texture is awesome! Being a sewer long before I found paper crafting, I'm so excited to see fabric mini albums and embellishments.

Todays album is the Linen 4x6 Art Journaling Album and it's four pages of beautiful double thickness linen. It makes the perfect gift album, a wedding or baby album or as the name suggests, a little album for art journaling. My album is more along the art journaling line and is filled with quotes that I love and inspire me.

One thing I did with this album was to fold back the front cover about an inch or so and glue it down. This adds a little unique spot of interest and gives you a peek into the first page of the album.

As you can see, I've filled it with lots of lovely embellishments. I love how the unfinished edges add lots of texture and character to each album.

The cover is my favorite place to embellish and there are many layers of Maya Road flowers, trinkets and trims. To add a shabby chic look to the Antique Room Key, I've painted it with Gesso, making sure not to get the paint into the grooves.

The linen albums really take ink, paint and stamping well. Thoughout this album, I've stamped it with the Art Journaling Words Stamp Set and the Vintage Wallpaper Stamp Set.

Each page in the album contains a quote that is meaningful to me. They are written on White Mini Kraft Jotter Tags.

Tissue paper is easy to adhere to the linen album with a clear multi-medium type adhesive or glaze.

Fabric albums are so much fun to create with. I hope you'll be inspired to give one a try. Thanks for joining me today!

 

Additional Maya Road Supplies:

Linen Mini Tag Pieces

Cream Velvet Resin Blossoms

Vintage Paper Roses

Country Rose Flower Fabric Tape

Vintage Pearl Butterfly Trinket Pins

Vintage Wood Mini Butterflies

Natural Wood Buttons

Vintage Sequin Blossoms

Alterable Canvas Blooms

Cream Vintage Burlap Roses

Ballerina Pink Tu-Tu Tulle

Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball Pins

Wood Twigs

Pink Lemonade Twine Cording

 

One big, flowery cluster

Hello there!

Ania here with a layout for you this time.

When looking through the photos from this past Christmas I made a mental note to scrap these photos of my grandma and my children. Fast forward close to five months later, and I'm pleased to be able to say I've accomplished just that! =)

Right! I love the organza tea garden trim, so broad and lush, it sort of builds a comfy bed to add stuff on top of and is perfect for building a cluster around! So sad it's discontinued from Maya Road, so if you see some in your LSS, grab a couple of yards! You won't regret it, I promise! I added a strip of regular mini organza roses trim right beneath the bottom tea garden trim.

Otherwise, I layered my cluster by mixing stamping (gotta love the antique love doilies stamp set), fabric and kraft atop.

And I couldn't resist adding this satin scallop edge blossom to the layout, it's simply gorgeous!

 

Hope you enjoyed this layout inspiration :)

Paper Princess

Every princess needs a crown... and whether you believe in fariytales or not, every little girl is a princess to somebody. 

My project today is a sweet little girl's crown.  I've made a few of these in different colors for birthday girls before and I always use pretty Maya Road embellishments to fancy them up so that the little princess feels extra special.  I'm fairly sure that if I were a princess, I would want a whimsical paper crown just like this!

One of my favorite things on this crown are the Kraft Layerable Flowers.  I have to tell you that I was so afraid of those  when I first saw them and this is actually my first time using them on a project.  Now I don't know why, because I want to make more of those fun and spikey flowers!  I loved painting and glittering them up.  I just painted the front side so that the paint didn't clog up the slits that are cut in them.  After the paint was dry I formed them into the flowers and once they were shaped the way I wanted them, I added the glitter and the centers.  I think that the Velvet Resin Blossoms look so cute in the centers.

The pink organza flowers were made using the Carnation colored Afternoon Tea Trim.  To make the flower, cut one of the flowers from the trim then use a needle and thread to make a loose running stitch around the outside edges of the flower then pull the thread tightly so that flower become smaller and more bulky.  Make sure to bring the gathered edge to the backside of the flower.

When I use the Trinket Pins on my crowns, I use a wire cutter to cut the sharp end of the pin off.  I usually cut the pin off to about half its length.  Then I use hot glue to completely cover the cut end of the pin when I insert it behind the flower.  I don't want the pin to poke through the crown and hurt the child so I take some extra precautions to make it safe.  The hot glue encasing the end should work.

When I start decorating the crowns I always start in the center of the front with a Chipboard Scallop Frame.  They are such an awesome base for the childs intial of her name or the number of the birthday year.  The Scalloped Frames have always been a staple for me when I create, whether I am making a scrapbook layout or another type of paper project.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I was glad to share my project tips with you and hope that you all have a princess in your lives to make one for someday!



Other Maya Road items used in this project:
Ruffle Blossoms- Cream (sprayed purple)
Amethyst Purple Maya Mist
Velvet Pleat Flower- yellow
Antique Metal Butterfly
Natural Wood Button
Vintage Paper Posies (sprayed purple)
Velvet Point Blossoms- cream
Tulle Pleat Trim- milk
Mini Ruffle Trim- cream
Lustrous Button Jewel

Embellishing with stamps

Hey Roadies! Mandy Kay here, to talk to you, about stamps. I LOVE stamps. You can use them over and over, change the color and texture whenever you choose, and they are a great way to add something to your project without a lot of bulk. I have to admit though, that even though I love using stamps, I don't love the risk involved when adding them to a project. I am always afraid of the dreaded stamping shadow, or missing my mark just a bit. BUT I have found a way to use my stamps without fear! Come on, I'll show you!

  First, I collected my Perfect Shot Arrow Stamps, Vintage Camera Stamp, Say Cheese stamp set, my ETC. set, my inks, some embossing powders, vellum, and a couple scraps of patterned paper. I laid out my papers and photos, then I got started with my stamps...

I stamped my cameras on scraps of patterned paper, with some black ink and my ampersand in a deep orange on white cardstock. For my arrows, I stamped them on vellum with VersaMark and embossed them in matching colors. I cut or punched them all out, and added them to my layout. Since they were stamped on paper, I could move them around until I had it just the way I wanted, before gluing it all down. Here is how it looked in the end...

And a few close-ups...

I hope you enjoyed my tips and tricks today and I hope you'll be busting out those stamps on your next project! Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road Design Team blog!