Maya Road Design Team

Maya Road + Authentique Paper Blog Swap Day 3!

Hi! It's Julia here with another day of Maya Road + Authentique Paper fun. Today I'm sharing a few projects I've created with the beautiful Gathering line. Its beautiful colors and nature images make it perfect for pairing up with some of my favorite Maya Road embellishments.

For this card I've color blocked the background using the beautiful Authentique Gathering papers. These prints are the scaled down mini papers from the 6x6" pad. They are the pefect size for cards. The Maya Road Rectangular Kraft Envelope makes a great place to cluster the sweet Authentique die cuts with Maya Road embellishments. Soar is the sentiment that is stamped onto the envelope using the Art Journaling Words Clear Stamp Set.

Clustered together you'll also find Canvas Button Pieces,   Cream Ruffle Blossoms, Leaf Trinket Pins, a White Time Flies Kraft Clock,  Sand Trinkets Ribbon and Orange Velvet Point Blossoms.

For my second card I decided to go with a square card design. This time the Wood Die Cut Doily makes a wonderful place to gather the details together.

I've combined the Authentique die cut accents with some Maya Road Buttons Mini Chipboard Set that look darling covered with coordinating Gathering papers. By cutting the Pumpkin Organza Mum Trim into individual flowers you get lovely floral accents. Also in this grouping are Black Large Kraft Ticket Strips, Crystal Trinket Pins, Alterable Wood Buttons and a Black Krafty Owl.

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 his post.

Happy Creating!

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...

 

Maya Road tape album!

I am always on the lookout for different ways to accessorize my Maya Road albums and today's post I will share with you my "tape" book. This little album includes one of my favorite albums, Maya Mist, Maya Road embellishments, masking tape, and duct tape.

First I took the 3-ring Square Round Tab Chipboard album and cut off the tabs. Next I covered each page with either duct tape or masking tape! On the cover I applied some Maya Road white rub ons knowing that by adding color over top I would get a resist looking effect.

Next I used alcohol inks to color the duct tape. Just put some ink on a cotton ball and work the color into the tape. Maya Mist works best on masking tape (which is a bit more porous). Same technique as will the duct tape. You can also stamp on the colored masking tape to make your own washi tape!

Another technique I used was stencils/paste. I  colored my paste with several drops Maya Mist and then using a stencil, applied it to my pages for some dimension. I also colored Maya Road's clear tickets with alcohol inks.

Once your pages are put together it is time to add the embellishments. I used Maya Road's Tulle Pleat trim and Frayed Edge Pleat Trim in Cherry to embellish. I lined the inside of Maya Road Kraft Envelopes after spraying them with Maya Mist (Cherry), and created a flower.

I added lots of other Maya Road goodies too like Kraft Doilies and envelopes (colored with Maya Mist and painted with acrylic paint), Mini ticket strips in clear (colored with alcohol inks), Vintage Pink Tape trim, and Wooden Doilies.

Once my pages were embellished I used my Bind-it-all to bind my album. I hope this post has inspired you to make your own "tape" album using Maya Road's incredible selection of products.

Shelley

Pair of Pretty Pockets

Just a few more days until Spring is officially here! I've been longing for it and Maya Road flowers have been blooming in my craft room. They've made their way onto two projects I've created to share today that both feature pockets.

My first pocket has made it's way to embellish the front of a card design. The Kraft Notes and Envelopes make a perfect pocket when filled with Tulle Pleated Trim, flowers and lots of other Maya Road goodies.

 To create the sentiment I paired up a Canvas Tag and the Art Journaling Words Stamp Set. Using a permanent black ink works really well on canvas.

 It's always nice to have a little gift to go along with a card and the new Linen Burlap Treasure Bags make a sweet little pocket to put a special little gift inside. I've clustered all the lovely flowers into a circle of Tulle. It's super easy to put together and would make the prettiest gift card holder. It's the perfect size for one.

 

Pockets are also great additions to layouts and altered projects. Have fun creating with them!

Julia

On this extra day of the year..

I figured I'd share a recent layout I created. Oh, how I envy my sisters outdoor-all-year-round-jacuzzi! The kids had great fun in the jacuzzi - in minus fifteen degrees celsius! That's 5 degrees fahrenheit to you US peeps!

I decided to do a real snowwy sort of layout. Did you know Maya Road offers lots of different snowflakes? Pictured above are the chipboard one, the white transparent ones, and the awesome vintage wooden ones. And that's not all the snowflakes Maya Road have in their assortment:

On the tags here I used the clear stamp ones as well. They're tucked into the open Kraft-envelope.
Then you have kraft snowflakes, and black transparent ones, and the coaster one, so you can create real big chipboard-snowflakes or a snowflakemini...in short..Maya Road have got lots of great wintery accessories! Speaking of the tags: I tried different approaches to these two seen here: First I stamped the snowflakes w/watermark-stamp, added white fine detail embossing powder to them and embossed the snowflakes onto the tags. Then I sprayed a mix of Popsicle Blue, Earl Gray and Silver Plated Metallic Mist spray onto the top one. The latter made the tag pretty metallic-looking, and the gray spray added shadows to it. For the bottom tag I sprayed Popsicle Blue onto a sponge, added it evenlyish to the tag then smeared white distress stain onto the whole tag, getting a mily white, lovely sheen to the whole tag. I think I really like the latter result the better!

And I adore the new Kraft owls, as well as the larger kraft tickets! I also find the 2012 Kraft Calendar quite handy! It's both informative and pretty-as-an-accessoire at the same time :) Here it's placed upon a whitepainted snowflake-chipboard. Notice the star-pins? I figured purple gemstones in the middle of them would make the whole layout a bit more exciting, breaking with the brown-white-blue colored theme :)

I dabbed some white distress stain on the vintage wooden snowflakes - the whitewashed look added to the vintage feel methinks. The chipboard ones got a coat of white gesso, before adding sugar coating glitter on them. The glitter was then sealed in by a layer of diamond glaze on the top.

Maya Road Supply List:
Maya Mists: Earl Gray, Popsicle Blue, Silver Plated Metallic Mist
Chipboard: Snowflake Chipboard Set, Jonathan Mini Alphabets
Wood: Vintage Wood Snowflakes
Transparent: Let it snowflakes - white,
Kraft: 20120 Kraft Calendar, Kraft Large Ticket Strips - white, Krafty Owls - black, Kraft envelopes - square
Trinkets: Vintage Raspberry beads - clear, Trinket Pins - Stars, Trinket Pins - Crystals, Vintage Paper Roses, Vintage Paper Posies, Gingham Point blossoms - brown & beige
Ribbons: Zipper trim - earl grey, Small organza roses - turquoise, twine - red, burlap trim

Other: Distress stain, gesso, sugar coating glitter, gems from KaiserCraft, doily, diamond glaze, papers from My Little Bicycle, Heidi Swapp heart, Glue Arts adhesives.

Happy Leap Day!

-Ania

Love You to the Moon and Back

Hi everyone!!

This is Karen. I am here to share with you a layout I made for Winter CHA. Two of my favorite Maya Road products are the Kraft envelopes and the awesome trims. I combined both here with some sweet pins and stitching. I love the combination of white, kraft, red and pink. 

I'm often told pink's an unusual choice for boy pages but I use it all the time. Especially when coupled with red and white. 

Here are some more details:

Love those pins.

I tend to put things on the edges of my layouts to ensure your eyes stay within the layout and don't wander off.

and here are the wonderful trims! I layered three of them and I love the motion, texture, and body they give to the page.

The journaling on this page reads:

My sweet, awesome boys, I am so grateful for these photos of the two fof you with me. I love seeing us all laugh together and I hope you can tell how much I love you. I will love you for ever and ever.

Thank you for letting me share! 

Heart Canvas + Maya Mists

Hello Everyone.  I wanted to show you how versitile the maya mists are when working with any of the canvas items.   I have three different mini tutorials for you, making each heart unique.

For the hearts, you will need:

• 3 Maya Mists (Fig Magenta, Sunflower Yellow, and Green Apple)
• Heart Coaster Album
• non-stick craft mat or wax paper
• heat gun
• Masking Tape
• Scrap paper

Lay your first heart on the non-stick craft mat or wax paper.  Take a piece of masking tape and tear it down the middle creating a rough edge.  Tape down a scrap piece of paper with the rough edge of the masking tape on the heart canvas.

Spray your first layer of mists.  Here i am using Fig Magenta, a bright beautiful color that really pops.  You can coat a little or a lot depending on your tastes. 

Flip the paper & tape so it covers the fig magenta.  Next add another piece of ripped masking tape & paper to cover the bottom 1/3rd of the heart.  You basically want a little bit of the canvas middle exposed.  

Flip the paper again so it covers the top 2/3rds of the heart and spray your last mist.  Once you are done you can heat set the mist with a heat gun.  Not only does it lock in the color but it also helps with drying time.

I love how bold & bright this heart is with the color fading on the right side.

You already have these gorgeous colors on the craft mat so why not use them.  Add in a few spritzs of color if you need too along with a few mists of water.  By adding water to the mists it gives them that cool watercolor look. Be careful when you mix complimentary colors on the mat or you will end up with a muddy. 

Take your canvas heart and pat it down in the colors.  You can use your hands and really smoosh the canvas into the mists or lightly pat the heart. 

I love how the pink & green mixed together for just a touch of the brown but it wasn't the whole background.  I didn't want the complimentary colors too close together so I sprayed the pink at the top and the green at the bottom.  If you want to add in more colors, simply spray and smoosh again. 

For this last heart, I opened up the lid and drew a few lines on the mat with the spray nozzle tube.  You can add in a little drops of colors too.  Just doodle a bit with the nozzles.

Place the canvas heart into your doodle lines again patting the back of the canvas so it picks up the mists.

I thought the heart could use a bit more color so I sprayed some yellow from up high so it lightly misted the heart.

I dipped a small paint brush into the mists and painted around the edge to finish off this heart.

Heart number three is complete.  I knew all along that one of these hearts would end up on a layout.  Now which one to pick?

Number 1?

Number 2?

Number 3?

Decisions decisions.

I had just one on there but it looked so lonely i added the second heart.  Don't worry, i will find some place to use the third heart. 

other maya supplies found on the layout

• Leaf Pin
• Pink Gingham Flower
• Kraft Envelope
• Black Ledger Transparencies
• Satin Posies
• Lace Daisy Trim

Have fun getting inky!

Ronda

Summer Fun

Hi Roadies!  It's been a fun, HOT summer so far and the kids and I are definitely loving the long lazy days!  Here is a little canvas album I made of the kids enjoying their new "slip n slide" on a particularly hot day.

This cute 4" Canvas Binder comes with 3 chipboard pages and 3 canvas ones and is a great size to work with. I painted some large and small Alterable Buttons and then layered them onto mini chipboard sun shapes, from the How's the Weather CB Set.

I kept most of the canvas on the binder in it's natural state, just adding some acrylic paint to the spine, a little patterned paper, some stickers and (my favorite) Zipper Trim for added texture.

Back view of binder

The inside of the album was kept simple. I trimmed my 4"x6" photos to fill the pages and just  added a few mini chipboard shapes, buttons and rub-ons.

For the canvas pages, I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges.  Then used markers to color around the frayed edges. "Smile" (from the Say Cheese Stamp Set) was stamped directly onto  canvas, while the journaling was printed out onto a scrap piece of canvas first, then glued onto the page.

 
I used  some of the new Kraft Notes and Envelopes in the album too,  I added the larger square one as a page and the smaller one (seen in the last photo) was adhered to the canvas page.

On the last page, I've left a spot to jot down some of the kids favorite things done over the summer.

Maya Road Supplies:
4" Canvas Binder
Kraft Notes and Envelopes
Say Cheese Clear Stamp Set
Zipper Trim (black)
How's The Weather Mini Chipboard Set
Love Mini Chipboard Set
Alterable Buttons
Caroline Mini CB Alphabet
Bingo Numbers (black)
Tiny Banner CB Bits
Super Nova Chipboard Set
Summer Keychain (large sun)

Enjoy the rest of your summer, Roadies!

Jennifer

Two Altered Kraft Envelopes

I'm excited to share a couple of Maya Road Kraft Envelope tutorials with you! 

The first is a little notebook...

Maya Road Supplies:

Kraft Envelopes

Resin Blossom - Red

Mixed Blossom Mini Chipboard Set

Trinket Button - Flower

Maya Mist - Hydrangea Blue

Maya Glitter - Cherry Red

Rubons - The Cubicle

Kraft Doilies

Other Supplies:

Pattern Paper (Sassafras Lass);  Adhesive;  Thread;  Ink;  Notepaper;  Prong and Fastener.

1.  Cut the sides of a Maya Road Kraft Envelope and lay flat.

2.  Trace envelope onto a piece of pattern paper and cut out.

3.  Adhere pattern paper to the inside of envelope and fold along crease lines.

4.  Punch holes and insert prong.

5.  Trim notepaper to desired size, punch holes that line up with prong, insert into prongs, and attach fastener.

6.  Trace front flap of kraft envelope onto pattern paper, cut out and decorate.  Punch hole where the circle fastener is located on the front flap of kraft envelope.

7.  Fold circle fastener from front flap of the kraft envelope and apply adhesive to the front flap.

8.  Attach decorated flap to the kraft envelope.

9.  Add Kraft Doilies to the second front flap and you are done.  I attached a second envelope to the back for storage.

inside of notebook...

Next is a card that is "built" into the envelope!

Maya Road Supplies:

Chipboard Letters - Jonathan

Maya Mist - Cotton Candy

Trinket Blossom

Trinket Beads - Butterflies

Chipboard Butterfly

Resin Blossoms - Pink

Trinket Button - Sunshine

Small Organza Roses Ribbon - Pink

Vintage Crochet Trim - White

Trinket Leaf Pin

Trinket Pin - Pink Pearl Flowers

Other Supplies:

Pattern Paper (Sassafras Lass);  Adhesive;  Thread;  Embroidery Floss;  Ink.

1.  Cut the sides of a Maya Road Kraft Envelope and lay flat.

2.  Measure the inside of envelope so you'll know what dimesion your card will be, design and make card, and attach to the inside of envelope.

3.  Decorate front as desired.

and you are done...

Have a wonderful Monday,

21 Years Later - Miracles Happen

In 2008, I started an art site called creative therapy with several artists who inspire me. Since then, we've regularly had catalysts (prompts) to encourage us and others to create art of any medium. To date, I've done 130 pieces of art for the site. Some were mixed media, others were digital and a few were layouts. This year, I've been focusing mostly on doing scrapbook layouts for my catalysts. 

This month's catalyst is: Tell us about a favorite or special piece of clothing.

Here's my layout: 

Journaling Reads:

I have saved this pair of jeans for 21 years. They traveled with me from Turkey to Pittsburgh to New York to San Diego and to the Bay Area. People told me to throw them out several times. “You can never fit the jeans you wore at 17.” I heard again and again. But I couldn’t bear to give up. And now that I am finally losing all this weight, I can finally fit into them once again (they don’t close just yet but still.) miracles do happen.

 

If you look closely, you will see that except for some of the letters and the cardstock, this layout only has Maya Road products and it has no patterned paper, at all. I love using Maya Road products differently than their "intended use." In this example, I cut off the top of the kraft envelope and stuck my photo inside it. I also snuck in some of the zipper trim on both sides of my envelope for some texture.

I then took the top of the envelope and used it on the edge of my layout to make a little reminder to myself (to never ever give up!)

And, finally, I am a huge fan of the microchips and the microfelt; I find that they are a quick and great way to add small splashes of color and interest to little corners of my page. I love the different colors and shapes and use mine all the time.

That's it! Thank you for letting me share my layout,  and if you make a layout using the catalyst, please make sure to share it with us too!

Have a great day!

Karen Grunberg