Maya Road Design Team

Guest Deisgner Wendy Morris

Roadies, today we have Wendy Morris as our guest designer.  Wendy created a Go Mini album combining our 4" Canvas album with our 4" Linen album.  The interior includes a mix of linen pages, canvas pages, and chipboard pages.  The cover was completed using splashes of Maya Mists along with stamps and chipboard pieces.  She embossed the chipboard shapes to add pops of color for the title work on the cover of the book and inside the pages.  Here's a look at a few of her interior pages.

Thanks Wendy for joinging us today. 

Maya Road Supplies

4" Canvas Binder

4" Linen Binder Pages

Chipboard Sets - Road Rage Signs, Love Chipboard Banners, Love Words, Bethany Alphabet , Hand & Heart Set

Stamps - Say Cheese , Postcard (retired), You Are, ETC, Time After Time, Go-Bike-Go

Maya Mist - Popscicle, Charcoal, White

Transparency Mini Ticket Strips - Black

Trinket Pins - Leaf - White, Hearts - Red, Star - White

Mini Kraft Envelope w/ Red Polka Dots

Vintage Tape Measure Trim - White

Wood Vintage Tiny Rulers

Maya Road Guest Designer: Nathalie Kalbach

Hello Roadies!  We have a special treat for you.   Nathalie Kalbach is our very special guest designer today.   Nat took our Maya Road products and put her very artistic spin on them.  We are sharing her mini album, art bag, and  stellar "Every Wall"  canvas.  She even graciously put together a video tutorial detailing her unique canvas.  Let's take a closer look at all her beautiful creations.

Nat's beautiful Road Trip Mini album use a mix of the  Maya Road Canvas Flag Banner and the Maya Road Chipboard Flag Banner Album as its base.  A variety of Maya Mist adorn the pages of this mini album.  A great feature of the Maya Road Canvas albums is that the canvas doesn't bleed.  You can spray lots of mist on one side and the other side will remain blank until you are ready to alter it. 

Using a stencil and Maya Mists she created both negative and positive images on her pages.  She adorned her photos with a varitey of chipboard images and words from the Hand & Heart chipboard set. 

Here are some close up details of her wonderful pages. 

Nat's created an awesome art bag using the Maya Road Alterable Canvas Messenger Bag.  She added a page from the Canvas Flag Mini album to create her pocket.  She used lots of Maya Road Mists to get the bold colorful front of her tote.  The Deborah Chipboard was her stencil for the word "Art bag."  We love how Nat made the perfect art travel bag. 

We love this  very clever 12 x 12 canvas using lots of Chipboard Doorways, Maya Mists, and Gesso.  Nat generously created a video sharing how she made this awesome artistic piece.  Go to our Maya Road You Tube Channel to see her great video. 

Thank you Nathalie for sharing your awesome artistic creations with us today.  A big thank you for the awesome video and insights into your creative process.  Roadies make sure you check out Nathalie's website to see more of her beautiful creations. 

Guest Post: Making Family Gift Tags with Mod Podge Rocks

Roadies, we have a guest post today with Amy Anderson from Mod Podge Rocks. She wanted to share with us these nifty and cool gift tags using some of our new portrait chipboards.

You can find the full tutorial on the Mod Podge Rocks site. So check it out!

Saving Some Money In A Maya Road Piggy Bank!

Today we have a special guest designer post from Jamie Dougherty of Ramona, CA. She made a very unique Mailbox Piggy Bank using our Airmail Mail Box! Check out this sweet creation:

Here is some design information from Jamie:

This unique mailbox is a piggy bank!  The chipboard on this piece is thick enough to use Mists and paint on and it won't buckle or fall apart.  And it still is thin enough to cut and alter with ease.

Maya Road Air Mail Box

Patterned Papers

Glitter

Mists

Pearls

Glaze

Wooden thread spools

Wood stain

Mirror for the base

Black and White Ink Pens

I stained the wood spools and glued them all on top of each other. Then I sanded the mirror in the center and glued the spools to the mirror. (Sanding gives the glass texture.) (Tip) to strengthen the stack of spools  use a wooden dowel down the center.

I then sprayed the Maya Road AirMail with Mists. Then you can cut a slit in the top of the mail box. The front flap fits tight enough to hold in money without popping open.  So it makes a cute little bank.

With the material the Air Mail Mail box is made out of you don't have to worry about it pilling and becoming messy. It was still smooth enough to doodle on. 

The flowers are made from the patterned papers.

You can save the album inside for a second project!

Thanks for sharing this with us, Jamie!

You Make My Heart Sing Mini Album

We wanted to share with you today a guest designer post. We saw this album that Liz Qualman had posted online and we thought you would love to see it too!

 

 

Here is a list of the Maya Road products which she used:

Chipboard Accordian Album
Birds w/ Cages Mini Chipboard Set
Sheer Journaling Card Set Black/White

Liz also provided us with some tips on how she completed this album:

"This adorable Maya Road chipboard album is such a cute way to stack and display your pages.  It's the perfect size to decorate with paper and embellishments or just cover the whole page with a 4x6 photo.  The Maya Road sheer cards are also a great size for this album to include journaling.  I was able to combine the some bird papers along with the mini chipboard Birds w/ Cages set from Maya Road to show how much I love my own little bird.  On the cover, I colored the chipboard bird cage with brown metallic creme chalk then added a felt flower for some texture.  The photos of my son walking are wallet sized and I was able to fit three of them across the page to add some interest and the appearance of movement to my pages.  All of the products on this album came in the October Album Kit from My Creative Scrapbook."

Enjoy!