Maya Road Design Team

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! 

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New Maya Road YouTube Video Is Up!

To coincide with our CHA-W Sneak Peek Week, we have a brand new video up! Would you like to learn how to make this?

It is featuring some of our new Vintage Tape Measure Trim:

Get it done in under 5 mins by checking out the video here:

 

 

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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Wood Bingo Magnets!

I wanted to share with you a quick and easy way to display your photos using the Wooden Bingo pieces from Maya Road! I made one for my scrap room but since it is in a bit of disarray from being relocated I thought I would show you a miniature version. Here's what you will need:

Maya Road Wooden Bingo Number pieces

Super strong magnets

Industrial strength adhesive (I used Super Glue!)

Picture hanging wire

First take your bingo piece and adhere a super strong magnet to the back of it. I used some that were super thin found at any hobby store. Once dry you are set!

Simply choose  your photographs and use the magnetic bingo piece to hold it to the metal wire. Some pictures may require two!

I chose Maya Road's Bingo pieces but so many of their products would work....especially the flowers or any of the chipboard pieces once you had altered them! The one that hangs in my   is about 7 feet long. I used two metal clips, tied the end of the picture hanging wire to them and then clipped them to my window valance. You could also hang this project vertically by hanging something with some weight to it on the bottom and loop at the top to hang it by! It's a quick and easy way to display photos, notes, papers, etc. and it allows you to be able to switch them out as needed.

Shelley Haganman

 

Canvas Baby Album

Hi! It's Julia and I'm thrilled to be sharing my creations here at Maya Road. I'm another one of the three new design team members. Maya Road has been inspiring me to create for years and it just keeps getting better.

Recently I've been exploring scrapbooking through mini albums. I love their size and they are absolutely perfect to make as gifts. This sweet baby album was a gift for my daughter. I'm pretty sure that I enjoyed the gift as much or even more than her as I had so much joy remembering those precious days and creating it.

The album I started off with is the Maya Road 4" Canvas Binder. The canvas is perfect for misting, stamping and painting or even stitching. Inside, there are three canvas pages and three chipboard pages giving you limitless possibilities.

 

The front cover is perfect for decorating with lots of great Maya Road goodies. I've grouped them all together in a sweet Vintage Metal Heart Tart Tin.

Of course, I couldn't resist adding lots of Maya Road accents inside the album as well. Fat albums with hints of what is inside just makes me want to open them and take a look.

One of my favorite things to do in this album was to add color with paint and mists and then stamp on the canvas. Test your inks on scrap canvas. A permanent ink will hold up best on your creation. Maya Road carries an incredible selection of clear stamps that are perfect for journaling and embellishing your projects with.

This canvas page was one that I really enjoyed creating. It's actually a see-through peek a the next page by die cutting the canvas page. After die-cutting it, I carefully picked out the stitching at the top of the page and inserted a White Ledger Transparency to give it stability. I stitched up the top seam and then stitched around the butterflies to secure the canvas openings.

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into my canvas album and inspires you to try some fun techniques. One of the things I love most about these albums is they are a great place to explore your creativity.

Happy creating!

Julia

Birdie Goes on an Adventure

Hello! Emily here, I'm one of the three new DT members announced last week. I'm very happy to be a part of Maya Road, it's done wonders for my creativity level to just play with all the fun products we offer. I put together this sweet little collage in the Vintage Metal Heart Tart tin, and thought I'd share the process with you.

You get the benefit of a step-by-step, I only wish it had been this easy to put it together myself. Something this small shouldn't take you a couple of hours, but moving things around, making sure things look right takes me a lot of time! Hopefully you'll put something like this together quicker than I did by using these instructions.

I've been stumped by how to fill these tins, but then realized they were just like an ATC card, only in the shape of a heart. So I went to Pinterest and searched for ATCs, studied how they were put together and went to work on my own heart shaped ATC. Maya Road's mini chipboards are perfect for this kind of project!

First off, I traced the shape of the tin onto some patterned paper and cut it out. Yes, this did take some time and fastidious trimming, but you don't have to be too exact because once the paper fit into the heart, I added a bit of twine to cover up any spots I may have messed up. 

Secondly, I took a word sticker from Simple Stories, cut it up (something you see all the time on ATCs, individual words), and mounted a couple of the words on foam.

 

Then, I punched a doily, applied it to the top right side of the heart.

Next, I took the last word of the phrase and glued some of the Trinkets Ribbon in Sand to the back of it and notched the ends. I tucked this under the flower sticker, allowing the flower petal to act as the "U" in the word "Adventure."

I overlapped this grouping slightly with the doily, so the word "Adventure" was in the middle of the heart.

I covered a chipboard bird from the Birds with Cages Mini set with paper and filed the edges down. I assembled the wing the same way, attached it to the body, then placed the bird to the left side of the heart.

I adhered the rest of the phrase in a slightly askew manner, added some sequins and pearls and finished the collage with a Trinket Star Pin, tied with some floss.

My final step was to add something to hang the tin with, accomplished by adhering some ExtremeTac Mounting Squares by Glue Arts to the back of the tin and adding a length of the same Trinket Ribbon in Sand.

And there you are, A sweet little heart tin to encourage and inspire. Thanks for checking out the blog today!

Butterfly Chipboard + Mists

I love Maya Road Chipboard.  There are so many great shapes & sizes to complement any creation.  Sometimes i like to just play around with these pieces to see what i can create.  Think of it as creative play to add to your technique repertoire.  Today i am going to walk you through some of my creative play using these chipboard butterflies & mists. 

Start with some chipboard pieces.  Today i am playing with these beautiful butterflies.  Each piece comes with a top & bottom or two chances to play. 

You can always spray mists directly onto the chipboard pieces.  It looks really cool.  Sometimes i like to paint them white first to boldly show the mist color and to get a variance in the mist.  Try it out.

I like using a paint brush to paint the mists on. 

Try adding in a second or third mist onto the piece, layering on top on the first mist.

If you don't like the color, play around some more until you find a color combination you like.  I covered over the Sunflower & Plum Metallic mist with a touch of Fig Magenta.  Love the color combination.  The top of the butterfly is painted with buttermilk cream.

Paint a second chipboard piece.  Time to play with the diluted mist.  This Maya Road video shows you how to dilute the mists.   Spray it directly on the chipboard piece and let the color pool in puddles.  You get this cool variance of mist colors.  Want a deeper color, add a few more sprays.

 

Just take some time to play around with your chipboard pieces & mists to see what you can create. 

Ronda

A Year to Remember

I used a Maya Road Square Chipboard Accordion Album, Kraft Envelopes, and lots of other Maya Road goodies to make this little organizer...

Art Journaling word stamp

Yummo.. Early winter release Art Journaling word stamp I had so much fun creating this little project using the stamp set, 4 x6 sheet has over 50 stamps for you to use.

For this little project I stamped onto a sheet of canvas, sprayed the canvas with green apple, and cornflour yellow maya mist, popped it into a frame, Then I stamped again onto cream paper for my title words.

I decorated the frame with  how's the weather Mini chipboard , Butterly chipboard set, Velvet point blossoms cream & pink , Suede stitched pink blossom, Medallion flower,

Pretty quick  and easy project, so next time you want a quick gift giving gift, or you just need that little something to pop onto your coffee table, whats better then  your own creation.

I hope I have inspired you to create something , what's a  better reason then a new year.

Happy New year Roadies- Angella