Maya Road Design Team

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Final Day 5!

Hi there!
Welcome back to the final installation of the Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library blog swap! This is Ania from Norway, here with yet another different take on the same 10 products as the other MR-girls and the gals at PCL!

Curious yet?
When I signed up for this challenge, I thought; Ooh, a challenge, I love them!
Then I got the list over the products and thought; Uhm right, too late to back out, I can't let them down now.....
THEN I got the products in the mail, making me go; Ooookaaaaaaayletseeee...gosh why do I always have to volunteer for challenges?!

And then, once I found the right papers to accompany the products, it all went like a breeze. Now, while I'm typing this post, I have *no* idea how the other gals final products looks like..so I am quite thrilled and curious on how it went for the others (you can scroll down the blog to find out the other gals' take on this challenge), I'm sort of thinking I can't be alone in creating a minibanner of the banners and tags now, can I...?

I used the Vintage Ornament Butterfly stamp quite a bit here; see the mini kraft tags? On the ones to the right and the left I stamped them with white chalk ink pad and embossed with clear detail embossing powder. Yields a fine, sheer look... on the middle one however, I embossed the butterflies with white detail embossing powder. Next to the photo; a regular stamped butterfly onto a piece of paper that's cut out.

And then - on the chipboard letters that I covered with white paint first; Butterflies randomly stamped onto the letters.

Tah-dah.

It was fun doing this challenge, and extra fun knowing the other gals got exactly the same MR-products as me!

Here's the 10 product list we all got to play with:

• love hangers
• canvas triangle banners
• mini kraft tags
• turquoise twine
• coffee brown mini gingham trim
• leaf zipper trim
• turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers
• jonathan alpha chipboard
• Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp
• Vintage Lace Mums - Apple

Now, don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 4

Hi Lisa Pace here.. today, I want to share an inspirational canvas I created for my daughter, Ansley. She graduates High School in a few days and thought this would be a fun piece for her to have filled with lots of inspirational words. 

Once I attached the book pages to the canvas I decided to give the background a slight conservatory feel and used the ornate vintage butterflies stamp set to create the background. Once stamped using markers I colored in each of the butterflies then carefully accented each one with diamond stickles. While the diamond stickles was drying I painted a scallop edge all around the canvas and the Jonathan alpha chipboard letters “fly”. After the paint and stickles dried I completely covered the entire top of the canvas using clear rock candy crackle paint and set it aside to dry.

While the crackle paint was drying I arranged the mini kraft tags as I wanted them to appear on the canvas then decided on which word stickers (always, dream, love, smile, grow, adore, &) to use for each tag. I then inked and distressed the edges of each tag and using a black pen outlined each word sticker. Once I had the mini kraft tags arranged as I liked I applied watercolor to three canvas triangle banner pieces. Once these dried I attached a Jonathan alpha chipboard piece to each banner to spell out “fly”. I then attached the canvas triangle banner pieces to the turquoise twine cording, tied a bow and attached each end of the turquoise twine cording to a love hanger. 

Once everything was completely dry I attached the kraft mini tags, the vintage mum – apple, a bow created from coffee brown mini gingham trim, the love hanger mini “fly” banner and turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers as shown. To accent the edge of the canvas I attached leaf zipper trim all along the outer edge. 

Maya Road Products Used – Love Hangers, Mini Triangle Canvas Banner, Mini Kraft Tags, Turquoise Twine Cording, Coffee Brown Mini Gingham Trim, Leaf Zipper Trim, Turquoise and Yellow Ruffle Flowers, Jonathan Alpha Chipboard, Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamp, Vintage Lace Mums - Apple 

Don't forget you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Hugs!

 

 

 

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 3

Hi Roadies, Sarah here from Sunny Townsville. I am excited to share my challenge project with you all. It was a great challenge with fantastic items!

So this is my creation  :

I used the Scallop Basic Album, which I love, as it has both chipboard pages and craft.

These are the 10 items we had to use:

the ten items you'll be getting are:

1. love hangers

2. canvas triangle banners

3. mini kraft tags

4. turquoise twine

5. coffee brown mini gingham trim

6. leaf zipper trim

7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers

8. jonathan alpha chipboard

9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp

10. Vintage Lace Mums - Apple

 

I used the zipper trim to create leaves, i used the same principles used in the Zipper Trim Mini Butterfly Tutorial 1 They turned out great!

 

I have a secret love of mini kraft tags.....LOVE THEM!!! I wanted to try something a little different so I thought it would look fantastic all layered over each other.

Above I have used the stamp, blossom flower and kraft tag (which I have cut to form a leaf. The stamped Butterflies also have extra ink and glossy accent.

 

And below is a collage of all the pages I created

 

Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure 
to go read the details on this post.

 

 

 

Maya Road + Paper Crafter's Library Blog Swap Day 1!

For this project we were challenged to used only 10 Maya Road products. Now normally this would be very hard for me to do! I love Maya Road and limiting myself period would be a struggle. But for the sake of the challenge 10 it is! Visit the Paper Crafter's Library girls to see their take on this challenge!

Supplies used:

1. love hangers

2. canvas triangle banners

3. mini kraft tags

4. turquoise twine

5. coffee brown mini gingham trim

6. leaf zipper trim

7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers

8. jonathan alpha chipboard

9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp

10. Vintage Lace Mums

Miscellaneous items: Vintage sheet music, burlap, adhesive, Faber-Castell markers, pop dots.

I decided to do an altered project. I found this little beauty at a flea market and knew it would be just perfect for this project. It is a wooden drawer with a metal back. Perfect for using Maya Road goodies and some magnets.

I simply hand cut some of my vintage music paper, canvas, and burlap a bit wider then my  Maya Road Lace Mum and stacked them to make my flowers. I attached a piece of the brown gingham ribbon to act as the stems! The butterflies were stamped twice, colored, and then one pop dotted on top of the other to give the butterflies some dimension. I used the twine to string my canvas triangles and then hung that by the metal hangers. I covered my nails holding the wire hangers with the cute ruffle flowers.The kraft tags were used as leaves.  At the bottom I just layered the zipper trim to create my “grass”.I used the chipboard alphabet to spell grow. I then added magnets to  all the items on the drawer  so I could move them around and rearrange them.

 

Don't forget to leave a comment for your chance at the awesome giveaway that will be announced on Friday! 

And, for even more fun, we will be giving this awesome Maya Road prize  to one lucky winner! 

The winner will recieve 5 rolls of twine (new colors!!) plus 8 wooden spools!

In order to enter yourself in the giveaway you can do one of the following three things:

1. Head over to the Maya Road Facebook fan page and what your favorite project you've seen on the blog this month was and make sure you've hit "Like" to become a fan.
2. "Like" and leave a comment on PaperCrafter's Library Facebook fan page tell them Maya Road sent you.
3. Leave one comment on this post.

Do all three to enter yourself into the drawing three times!

Winner will be posted on Sunday once our whole week of sneaks is over!

Please be sure to come back here every day this week to see more inspiration. 

-Shelley Haganman

 

My Vintage Inspired Coin Purse

Hello Roadies!  It's Melissa here again to share a quick project using one of the new Canvas items just released this past winter (can you believe that was only a few months ago?!)  As soon as I saw the new Alterable Canvas Coin Purse, I knew I HAD to have it and I HAD to make it my own...something monochramatic, something with trim, and something with bling!

Here is the blank canvas, literally!

And here is my finished project!  I took 4 different trims, and adhered them all the way around the purse...you want a finished look all around!  I started from the bottom up with the Soft Vintage Scallop Lace Trim in Cream.  It truly is as dreamy soft as the picture depicts. Just heavenly!  The next one up was the Single Ruffle Crochet Trim, followed by the Mini Oval Crochet Trim, and finally the Ecru Crochet Trim.  I loved pairing the whites and creams together, it's just one of my absolute favorites! 

I couldn't let along with just the trim though.  Maya Road has WAY too many beautiful trinket flowers that musn't be neglected.  So, in staying with my monochromatics, I chose this gorgeous Antique Pearl Center Flower to top with.  It's hard to see, but I also use the Vintage Alterable Trinkets in Large and Small as my "leaves" for my flower.  I swear, it looks fantastic in person!! :)

There really are no limits with how you could alter this...I didn't even touch the mists!  Now I bet that could be fun. :)  I hope you get yourself one to play with and be sure to share what you've created on the Maya Road Facebook page!

Thanks for looking!

Ship A'hoy!

Hi Roadies, Angella here from across the seas to bring you my  banner book boat !

True to style,  I just had to jump out of the box with the banner book to create this cute boat.

I - I Matey

 

It is as easy as 1. 2. 3.  Grab a Mixed Scallop triangle banner Album and wood mini skinny spools .

 

      

1. Firstly lay your pages down to form the boat shape, you can tape the peices together to make secure.

2. Glue spools down onto the base of your boat, then glue another layer of pages
on top of the spools to give the 3D effect of your project ! fill in your sides with  strips of paper or ribbon .

3. Cover with pattern paper and decorate!

See so easy, perfect for party table decoration, or leave a opening at top and fill with lollies

So next time you pick up a Maya Road banner book, take a twist and see what you can create.

Candy Stripe blossoms, Velvet pleats Medallion flowers, vintage paper posies, Mixed Scallop triangle banner Album , trinket buttons, Vintage wood ruler, Wood Die cut dollies, Wood Skinny spools, Kraft Die Cut dollies, Small organza rose ribbon, Love chipboard banner set

Ahoy Roadies !

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...

Accessorizing with Maya Road

Happy Friday Roadies! My daughter discovered Pinterest and her wardrobe hasn't been the same since. She refers to clothing and accessory combinations as "Pinteresty." She decides to buy a sweater shrug because it would match her yellow flats perfectly and she'll have a "Pinterest" outfit. She loves the coordinated, put together looks that she finds on Pinterest and she's really good at translating the same looks into her own wardrobe, without running out and buying all new clothes.

This layout is about her love of outfits inspired by the site. I thought the dressform from the Sew Cute chipboard set would be perfect as an embellishment on this page. Topped off with a couple of the Yellow Star pins, a Crystal Trinket pin, and a bit of twine to mimic jewelry and a scarf, my mannequin is all dressed up, just like Annie. I completed the outfit with a gingham point blossom. 

 

To ground my photos, I set them on strips of Mega Ric Rac trim and the small organza roses trim in yellow. 

I used a transparency ledger to house my journaling, which once that was in place, things did not feel right. I felt like I needed a little more black, so I slid a kraft scroll frame journaling tag behind the mannequin and voila, the layout felt balanced!

I love that Maya Road has so many fun little embellishments to choose from, it's like accessories for your layouts!

Now, when Annie discovers Polyvore...

Mini Butterfly Tag

Hello Roadies, Ronda here.  I am back with more Zipper Trim.  Do you remember this post with all the Zipper trim including the Butterfly Tags? Today i am back with something similar but on a smaller scale.  A much smaller scale. 

They say good things come in small packages, well here is proof.  These tiny butterflies werer created with our zipper trims.  The are the perfect size for cards, layouts, tags, and more.  Would you like to know how to create them?  Check out the video below to see how you can create these butterflies in 7 minutes.

You find this and more videos on our Maya Road Youtube Channel.  Thanks for joining me today on another zipper trim adventure.  We have more videos in the the works so make sure you check out the channel often.

• Bubblegum Pink
• Sunshine Yellow
• Sea Blue
• Popscicle Mist
• Green Apple Mist
• Sunflower Mist

Mini Album Love

Hi roadies, its Sarah here from hot and sunny North Queensland and I wanted to share a mini album that I have LOVED making!! In fact I just love mini albums! I love all the Maya Road Coaster Albums as they are so easy to use and can mix and match.

This mini album features pictures from our recent trip, I got index pictures made up cause I took so many and have put them to use in this album. So of the Maya Road products I have used include; Scroll frame coaster album, Butterflies mini chipboard set, Butterfly chipboard set, Wooden spools, Trinket pins antique gem and tiny Banner chipboard bits, and the mini canvas tag pieces.

I also have a few items that you can hardly see, but I like layers so you will also find vintage doilies and kraft doilies.