Maya Road Design Team

The Canvas Cuff Needle Case

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here with an altered project and a few thoughts on thinking creatively.I'm always on the lookout for more creative ideas and I'm sure you are too.

Being creative means having an open mind to possibilities. Products can be used as they were created to be used but there is always so much more you can do with them. Keep an open mind while creating and you'll find you have a wealth of ideas to draw from. Think outside the box.

Enter the Canvas Cuff Needle Case...

 

Today's project is one that I've had in my head for a couple months and was excited the other day to try it out. I like to keep a notebook with me to jot down my ideas. If you're like me, there's never enough time in the day and keeping that running list of ideas means that you don't forget them or run out of creative inspiration.

As you can see, instead of using the Alterable Canvas Cuff as an apparel accessory, flattened it makes a very pretty needle case.

 

To make the case I first started out by masking and misting the outside of the canvas. I've used two of my favorite Maya Mists, Pomegranate Pink and Sunburst Orange. Heat set the mist on the canvas after applying to make it permanent.

 

Inside my canvas cuff/needle case, I added some Milk Daisies Vintage Lace Trim. To keep my needles safe,  I've folded a piece of felt in half and then cut the edges with pinking sheers. Both the trim and the felt adhere well with a hot glue gun.

My favorite part of any project is adding on the embellishments. Heart Trinket Pins, Pink Country Gingham Posies, Vintage Denim Rose, Pumpkin Orange Zipper Trim, Orange Small Organza Roses Ribbon and a Velvet Resin Blossom finish off the design. The mixture of felt with trims and fabric flowers is perfect for the sewing theme.

Look at your supplies in a new way and you'll be amazed at what you can create. Hope I've inspired you...

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

 

Be Mine Banner

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, i knew i wanted to make a banner for my daughter's dorm room.  I started this banner with the large square coaster.  On half of the banner i attached misted canvas fabric.  On the other have of the coasters, i used old book paper.  Repetition in design is always good so on the canvas fabric coasters i used large design elements.  On the book paper coasters, i used the butterflies i created in January for this blog post with a few alterations.   For the sheers, i added Popsicle mist like in this blog post.  Once i finished each coaster, i used the new linen burlap ribbon to create those cute pieces that are in between each coaster.  Here are the details photos of each piece. 

Lots of Love

Ronda

Two for Thursday

I love using Maya Road to accent my layouts.  I can always find the perfect embellishment to go with my designs.  Kraft goes with everything and i admit i am addicted to the mini kraft jotter tags.  To balance this layout i used the buttons & kraft pieces to create a visual triangle.  My subtle Sunflower Mists (diluted) brings all the yellow pieces together.

Maya Road Product

• Mini Kraft Jotter Tags
• Mini Kraft Tickets
• Gingham Point Blossom
• Sunflower Mist

On this layout i used some smaller bits & pieces from Maya Road.  I love the resin blossoms & how they come in two different sizes.  The itty bitty brown resin flowers were perfect for this page.  The small daisy vintage trim is a great way to customize my banner.  I also added some Mini Scallop Chipboard set to my banner to give it some dimension.  It's amazing how those small pieces can add such a big impact to the page.

Maya Road

• Small Daisy Vintage Trim
• Mini Scallop Chipboard Set
• Resin Flowers, Brown
• Vintage Round Pearl Pins

Ronda

Art Journaling with Maya Road

For the last few months, I've been keeping an art journal that  I write into throughout the week. I create my background page in the beginning of the week and then add stamping, journaling, bits and pieces all week long. The two-page spread is complete at the end of each week. (You can find all my pages here.)

Here's the one I made last week before I put anything on it:

It uses all Maya Road products. The first thing I did was to lay down my butterflies:

Then I sprayed the page with Mulberry Red Mist and a little Butternut Squash Orange mist. Since my book has watercolor paper, I used a baby wipe to spread the mist all around so it looks like paint and not mist.  Then I added white paint to the edges so it gave definition and made the page a little less dark.

Then I used my butterflies to trace around ledger paper and cut three of them out and adhered to my page. I wrote "free to be me" across all three butterflies.

I then added three different trims to each edge: Satin Pleat Edging in Brown, Small Daisy Vintage Lace and Organza Roses in Pink.

On Day one, I just stamped the date and then added a few more stamps and a little watercolor. Here's how it looked after day one:

 The stamps I used are: Measure Twice, Just My Type, and Blue Ribbon Sentiments.

For the next two days, I just did more of the same. I added a small photo of my kids' hugging their dad that I took on Tuesday.  A few more stamps, some watercolors and the left page is finished.

The next day I wanted to use the typewriter but what I didn't realize was that the white paint I have on the bottom has something on it which makes the ink resist a bit so the image didn't come out the way I liked, so I cut out some hearts 

from music paper, colored them with watercolors and covered up the part I didn't like. Here's the end of Thursday:

For the next three days, I did more of the same (but avoided stamping on the bottom.) I added one more photo of my younger son watching the older one as he watercolors. Here's what the page looked like at the end of the week.

 

And here's the full spread:

Pretty simple but a nice way to have a quick look at my week and use some of my favorite Maya Road products. During weeks when I went out more, I've adhered movie stubs, shopping receipts, etc to these pages, too. It's a perfect way to combine a little art, some journaling, and some memory keeping into your day. Most of the time, that day's entry only took me 15 minutes but the end result is always wonderful and deeply satisfying.

Thank you for letting me share and I hope you give it a try, too!

Silver Tray Advent Calendar

We love advent calendars at our house.  We have one on a cookie sheet that the kids use every December to count down the days to Christmas.  Well, when I made this silver tray chalkboard last month, I thought…..gosh, I wonder if a magnet sticks to it.  Sure enough, it did.

And so, I started working on a new advent calendar for our family a while ago but then Dad went into the hospital and I put it aside until the other day.

I used lots of Maya Road chipboard snowflakes, buttons, stars, hearts ( from angel wing set), crowns, Bingo Markers, houses, scallop microchip pieces, birds and other misc. pieces.

I also used  Helmar 450 for my adhesive, silver pipe cleaners, mica flakes and Martha Stewart Microbeads and OA's Very Merry Line line.

I have made many advents over the years and the one thing that I have noticed is it is hard to get the magnet to stay stuck.

If you have ever worked with clay (maybe back in grade school) they taught you that a slick surface will not hold onto a slick surface for long.  This is true.  Every year when we get out the Halloween or Christmas advent calendar we end up having to re-glue a few magnets back on.  It’s not a big deal but my brain has been churning forever trying to come up with a solution.  Well, I think I did.

So, you take a bit of muslin or whatever left over thin fabric scraps you have laying around and make a little cover for the magnet.  This will give you a textured surface to glue down to a slick surface and then you have the fabric overlap which glues to the back of the chipboard, which holds the magnet on.  Does this make sense? Think of it as a permanent bra for your magnet.

This will also help to eliminate the magnet from scratching the painted chalkboard surface or if you are using black magnets, help to prevent scuffs.  The fabric is thin enough that there is no problem with the magnet working right through the fabric.

I’m actually quite proud of myself for thinking this up.  It took me about 4 years.  

I used some BG magnets - they are super strong and work awesome for advent calendars!

Anyway, I just wanted to share with you my Silver Tray Advent Calendar.

 

 

I hope you have a blessed Holiday.

Love,

Katie

 

Maya Mist Tutorial

So we often get questions about our Maya Mists and our favorite way to use them.  Let's start with the basics. We have lots of different Maya Mists in many many different colors - some are what we call base colors (no metallic in them) and some are metallic colors (which does have metallic).

The original intent of our mists has been for our chipboard. Chipboard is a lovely lovely thing. You can cover it with paint, patterned paper and more. But the easiest thing is our formulation of Maya Mists which gives a nice even opaque coverage to our chipboard. It can take grey chipboard and offer you an endless ream of possiblities.

I took out some of our new lovely Maya Mists (from our Early Winter Release) to show you how easy it is to mist.

Love our new skinny 1 oz bottles. Each bottle has a simple swatch on top of each bottle of what the color is:

Tutorial 1 - Misting Basics

So I started out with our Antique Silver Mist and some of our Ornate Tags Chipboard. You will see I am using a cardboard box to contain everything. This was an old Diet Coke box. If you want to save good misting boxes, layer some newsprint inside and as you spray take out the soaked layers and you will still have a lovely box to use later.

Now when you spray, swirl the mist  - do not do vigorous shaking. Vigorous shaking causes air bubbles to form in the bottle and then when you are misting it gets sucked up into your pump. When that happens, it causes your pump to sputter and your mist to come out all crazy spurts.

When you are misting hold your mist at a 45 degree angle and about 6 to 8 inches from your chipboard. This will give you the most even coverage. If you hold it too much closer to your chipboard you will tend to overspray as the mists will not have time to soak into your chipboard. If you hold it much further away, you will tend to not get even coverage and waste your mists (but that can be a neat technique too which we will save for another day)

Next spray 2-3 coats and your chipboard will look like this:

And to show you how quickly Maya Mist dries on our chipboard - check out this series of photos taken approximately 10 second apart of our Antique Patina Maya Mist:

And check out our 3 new Maya Mists in action (Antique Silver, Antique Bronze and Antique Patina)

Tutorial 2 - Mixing It Up

 We are now going to work with the base colors and see what mixing in some metallics will look like.

I started off with the Butternut Squash Orange Maya Mist:

Next after I allowed it to dry, I put a light coat of the Antique Silver Metallic Mist on the outside frame and it looks like this:

Again, you can layer different metallics onto our base color Mists for a totally different look (try also our Silver Plated or Iridescent on base colors for neat looks). Here is the what it can look like:

And here is what all the base colors look like from our new release as part of our chipboard banner minis. The scalloped parts are the base colors with quick spritz of Antique Silver over them. So pretty!
 

Tutorial 3 - Masking

Masking is another great technique you can use for our chipboard. Check out these snowflakes layered on top of our star coaster album. Now I wanted to use the Antique Patina Mist to give it a good color:

I sprayed the Antique Patina Mist and then lifted it off to reveal this:

I also saved the snowflakes so that I could use them on a project later:

And that is it! Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial using our Maya Mists. Will be back to show you some more techniques using it!

 Caroline

A sweet little birdie....

I created this album as a tribute to my grandmother. I don't have very many pictures of her, but I do have lots of memories. Only one page has a photo, and the rest contain some of my favorite remembrances.

To make the cover, I painted it and added a thick coat of Glossy Accents. When the glossy coating was dry, I used some Tim Holtz Crackle paint in a few areas--I put it on super thick so I could get nice, big crackles. To make the inside pages, I first covered the pages with some patterned paper. Then I whitewashed the paper with acrylic gesso and added swashes of crackle paint.

Maya Road Supplies:

 

• Bird Coaster Album
• Felt Pearl Blossoms
• Kraft Mini Tickets
• Scroll chipboard
• Organza Rose Trim
• Mini Oval Crochet Trim
• Trinket Buttons

 

Thanks for letting me share my album about my sweet grandmother! :) Love, Dina.

The Guys Canvas Album

Had great fun making this album. I played with mists and masks to create this album about all the guys in the family.I also used some of the Maya Road stamps to add to the background.

3 Ring Canvas Album

Gears Mini Chipboard

Fern Green Mist

Pink Mist

Dark Cornflower Blue Mist

The metal gears are Tim Holtz

Wooden Bingo Calendar Numbers

Bethany Mini Alphabet

Thanks

Sarah