Maya Road Design Team

Tea Time!

Hi Roadies! I'm back to share a project I made with one of my favorite Maya Road albums.  I guess growing up in England has something to do with my love for tea and teapots. Whatever the reason, I was super excited when Maya Road released their  Tea Pot Chipboard Album.

Here's the album in it raw form. One of the things I like about it is that you have the basic teapot shape and then cute little spoons, teacups and teabags cutouts on the back  and front pages. Perfect for embellishing pages in your album.

But don't just think albums - The possibilities are endless!  Here's an example of a project I did a while ago.  A teapot gift box / pin cushion.

And here's another project, a teapot clock  or  a "clockpot" as my little girl likes to call it. When I first created this for CHA, I wasn't completely happy with it.  So when I got it back last month, I made a few minor changes. Here it is completed.

To get the thickness of the teapot, I glued 4 pages together for the back and 4 pages for the front.  Then mini spools were used as spacers. Here's an example  of what I mean using a T-Shirt Coaster Book.

I then used some cardboard (from a cereal packet) and glued it around the edges, before it was covered in patterned paper and other fun embellishments.

The roof was also made out of some cardboard which was then attached to the Vintage Wood Rulers.

Thick strips of chipboard (from a leftover album page) were adhered around the lower edge of the teapot to give it some dimension. Then a page from Mixed Scalloped Triangle Banner Album was glued to the back.

I used a piercing tool to poke two holes into the bottom of the clock. Then applied glue to about an inch of chain before inserting into the hole. Small metal hoops and wire were used to connect the beads, spools and chain together.

Jennifer

 

SUPPLIES: Tea Pot Chipboard Album, Wood Vintage Mini Rulers, Wavy Layerable Banners,
Vintage Paper Posies, Birds With Cages Mini CB Set, Time Flies Kraft Clocks, Maya Mist (Granny Smith Apple Green, Cream Metallic and Buttermilk Cream), Wood Vintage Doilies, Mini Scalloped Chipboard Set, Resin Blossom (brown), Mini Doilie CB Flower Set, Vintage Spools, Vintage Trinket Beads, Vintage Crochet Trim (Zig-Zag), Mixed Scallop Triangle Banner, Love Mini Chipboard Set.

Things that go bump in the night!

Hello Roadies!

I don't know about you, but next week has one of my most FAVORITE holidays of the year!  In exactly 6 days from now, I will be shoveling candy into my mouth like there's no tomorrow.  Oh who am I kidding?  I pretty much started doing that the second they put the Halloween candy on the shelves! 

Anyway!  When I saw that Maya Road had come out with the most adorable set of fall-inspired chipboard, I couldn't wait to play.   Be sure to check out the Autumn Mini Chipboard set and you will see exactly what I mean!  Plenty of cute chipboard images to use...I need to get crackin' on the pumpkins!

So I made a spooooky Halloween card to celebrate, and I'll actually be giving this away as a birthday card.  Goodness!  Wouldn't you love to have your birthday near Halloween?  More candy please!

Do you use chipboard on your cards much?  I really love adding all that extra dimension...and don't be afraid to layer chipboard on chipboard, like I did here!  Here I used the cat from the Autumn Mini Chipboard over the window frame from the Windows Chipboard set.... all on top of the perfect accent piece, a Kraft Journaling Tag!  I also pulled out one of the new colors of Zipper Trim in Pumpkin Orange....perfect for my card and the fall season!  And you would think with all of these dimensions and layers, this would require a special envelope to mail, but it doesn't!  It's still a very thin card and can be mailed by regular post.  So don't forget to give your cards some Maya Road treatment!

Thanks for vising!

Melissa Sauls

Always ATC Shadow Box

Good morning Roadies and happy weekend!  Fall is upon us (we hope!) so I am happy to share a fall project I made for CHA.   There is just something about fall colors that make me happy.  This photo of my Mom and Brother also makes me happy!  Don't be shy and layer on top of the box for some added depth ;)

I painted then distressed the shadow box for a warmer feel.  I layered onto a tag Kraft Doilies and twine. Yum!

Using Caroline's flower tutorial I made my own with the new Primrose Trim. I layered this with new ruffle blossoms and trinket pins. 

Supplies Used:

ATC Shadow Box

Mist in Sand, Blue Agave, Buttermilk Cream & Lime

Ruffle Blossoms

Primrose Trim

Trinket Pins

Medallion Flowers

Kraft Doilies

Love Word Set

Have a happy weekend! 

Jen

Let's Go! Beep Beep Bus

Morning Roadies and TGIF!  Today I have a fun project I made using a mini album for CHA-S. I used the School Bus Mini Album is a very different way.  Not having any little ones of my own in school I was stumped for ideas.  In an art class back in high school we had done something similar with chipboard cut outs of our names.  So channeling my inner Mrs. Hyke I made my bus 3D.

I scored and folded an extra piece of chipboard between two of the pages of the album to create the bus.  Similar to what I did on THIS tutorial to put it all together.  

I used a lot of dimensional foam on the extra bus parts to create some depth.  I punched holes in the top and added wood dowels to hang my mini banner from.

Supplies Used:

School Bus Mini

Foundations Chipboard

Maya Mist Sand Metallic 

Acrylic Alphabet

Trinket Flower Pin

Mini Banner Chipboard set

Have a good weekend!

Jen

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. 

 

 

 

 

Silly Monster's Welcome!

Hi Roadies!  I have wanted to try covering my chipboard pieces with felt for some time now.  In this project I took it one step further and filled the felt covered chipboard with batting, for a  3D look?  Here's what I ended up with, a silly monster sign to welcome all the "Trick or Treaters" who come to our door! :)

 

Here's a sample piece of chipboard being covered with felt then filled with the batting.

1. Start by cutting your felt slightly larger than your chipboard piece. Cut small slits all the way around the felt. Apply glue around the edge of the chipboard (Leave about an inch free of glue so you can add the batting.) Adhere the edges of the felt to the chipboard.
2. Flip the chipboard over and begin adding small pieces of batting into the opening. Use a file or pencil to help push the batting into all of the corners of your piece.
3. Close up the opening of your piece with glue.

Below you can see how the top section of the monster's head was created using the same method in the sample.   Since only lower section of the page will be seen on this project, only that section was covered with felt and filled with batting.  I added a chipboard petal for a tooth then glued the two pieces together.

 

 The nose was also done the same way as the sample. To make the sign I pieced two long chipboard pages together then covered them with patterned paper.

Before I go, here are a few close up's of the sign.

    Maya Road Supplies:

• David Chipboard Alphabet
• Landscape Binder Album ( 2 pages used for sign)
• Scroll Chipboard Binder Album (2 pages used for the head)
• Philadephia Uppercase Alphabet
• Borders Chipboard Sheet
• Flower Petals 2 Chipboard  (used for nose and tooth)
• Brackets Chipboard Set (bracket used for eyebrow)

Have a Happy Halloween, Roadies!

Jennifer