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.

 

 

 

A, B, C... is easy as 1, 2, 3

I just had to use that as the title of my post because I made a fun and colorful ABC learning Flip Book a while ago that I am sharing here today.  Was it really easy to make?  Easy as... well... you know!!  ;-)

All it took was a fun collection of Maya Road products and some simple crafting techniques and I think that it would make any little learner happy to turn the pages that are mounted on the acrylic stand.

I wanted to used different textures for the pages so that it was sort of a touch and feel book too.  Every page has a canvas button that I machine stitched on with red thread and there are also lots of chipboard pieces.  All of them were painted then either coated with crackle paint, Diamond Glaze or glitter.


There are some of the Maya Road Wood pieces added to the pages too, like the snowflakes shown above.


I think that it's fun to make something out of the ordinary with my scrap and paper crafting supplies.  I love a family album, but something like this is just as unique and interesting and it's even a bit of a challenge to create with something besides photos... and it's useful too!



Another fun texture is the zipper!  Especially since there really aren't a lot of "Z" words that I thought would be fitting in an ABC learning book... now how did you know, Maya Road?!?! :-)

I started by adding vintage alphabet pictures to the tabbed chipboard pages that I covered with patterned papers.  The tabs were stamped with the cute "Just My Type" Clear stamp set and the alphas are the" Jonathan Mini Alphabet" set.


After the basics, it was just a matter of adding all of the fun texturized elements.  There are so many choices in the Maya Road product line and I was amazed at how easy it was to find something for each letter of the alphabet! 

Here is a link to all of the Maya road products that I used:
Jonathan Mini Alphabet set
Just My Type Clear Stamp set
Canvas Button Pieces
Mini Kraft Jotter Tags- white
Kraft Large ticket strips- white
Mini Gingham Trims
Love Chipboard Banner set
Home Tweet Home Mini chipboard set
Autumn Mini Chipboard set
When Skies Are Grey Chipboard set
Zipper Trim- Bubblegum Pink
Vintage Wood Snowflakes 
Vintage Paper Posies
Motifs Chipboard 
Super Nova Chipboard 
Twine Cording- Tomato Red

Happy creating!

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.

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

More Tags in a Frame

Hey everyone!  I know I've posted a project similar to this before, but I just can't get enough of making these!

This time, both of my kids are getting their time in the spotlight, and I can't think of anything better to pair them with, than all of the gorgeous embellishments that Maya  Road offers! 

And you can see exactly what I mean with these close up photos that highlights so many of the ways to use chipboard, kraft, trinket flowers, pins, ribbons, and whatever other Maya Road goodies you can get your hands on!

One of my favorites from the latest CHA Winter release last month are these cute vintage wooden bunnies.  I think it goes with this theme just so perfectly!

And these adorable kraft owls...oy, too cute!!

And did you happen to see the new kraft pin tags?  I just can not get enough of these. 

See what I mean?  Love this!  This project really comes together rather quickly.  The backless frame can be purchased at any of your local hobby stores, and then literally, just put some screws right into the back of the frame to hold your brand new Maya Road colored twine.  Cut your tags, grab your pictures, your patterned paper, and pile up all of the Maya Road embellishments that you can find.  I promise you, it will all come together quickly!!  I hope you enjoyed seeing another project with the frame. :)  Just goes to show you how you can dress up little 2"x3" tags so cutely!!

Thanks for looking and I hope you get inspired to create your own! :)

Melissa Sauls

Maya Road Products Used:

Scallop Frames Chipboard

Vintage Gauze Blossoms - Hot Pink

Krafty Owls Black

Hearts Chipboard

Butterfly Chipboard Set

Home Tweet Home Mini

Tiny Banner Chipboard

Portrait Mini Chipboard

Jonathon Mini Chipboard Numbers

Satin Pleat Edging Golden Yellow

Country Gingham Posies - Blue and Purple

Gingham Point Blossoms - Pink and Green

Ruffle Blossoms - Golden Yellow and Turquoise

Velvet Resin Blossoms - Cream

Vintage Paper Posies

Trinket Pins - Antique Gem

Kraft Doilies

Kraft Journaling Tags - Decorative

Die Cut Kraft Doilies

Crowns - Black Rubons

Trinket Pins - Crystal Star

Trinket Pins Star - Yellow

Trinket Pins Star - White

Wood Bingo Motifs

 

 

 

 

 

Just a little something to show you care

Hello there, and Happy New Year!

Just wanted to share how easy (and actually - quickly) you can whip up cute favors or minigifts containing sweets (well, mine usually does ;) ).

First, you need two boxes of slightly different sizes, or just a box with a lid... If you don't know how to fold one, I have a tutorial on one here. My two halves were made of squares measuring 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 and 8 3/4 x 8 3/4.

Then you need a couple different things you can layer upon the top. Mix Kraft tags with misted canvas pieces.

Dress up chipboard with patterned paper, before topping off with see-through glitter. Add ribbons and stamped images. Layering different materials equals exciting decoration for your box.

Don't forget to use 3d-foam and raisen's to help building dimension.

Two of the sides of the top box was also punched with a circle puncher - this so the box can be opened easier. Don't forget to decorate the sides of the box as well.

Don't forget to fill the box with sweet contents....

And tah-dah! You're done with a little, but cute and homemade giftbox! Or well, actually - when looking at this image I realize it's missing something....a trinket pin or three, mayhaps?

Maya Road supplies:
Chipboard: Coffee or Tea Mini Chipboard Set, Wavy Layerable Chipboard Banner
Kraft Journaling Tags - decorative,
Butterfly Canvas Set,
Timeless Memories Stamp Square,
Small Organiza Roses Ribbon - Olive,
Maya Mist: Popsicle Blue, Eggplant purple

Hope you found this inspiring enough to turn to your scrappy supplies next time you need a little something for someone special! :)

-Ania

 

How come Q&A

My niece lives an eight-nine hours drive from me (one hour with plane and one hour with car approx), hence - I don't get to see her all too often. But when we do - I make sure to have my camera close to me and sneak in a few photos and photosessions every now and then, prompting her to ask me this question last time she stayed with us: "Auntie, how come you always have to snap a lot of photos of me when I see you?". She wasn't really up for the role as a lensbug at that time. I beamed my brightest smile and explained to her; "Why, I don't get to see you as often as I'd like you know - that means I'll have to grab my chances whenever I can!".

Lucky me, she understood my point and was more cooperative after that, and I got to snap both portraits and documentary-style-photos of her after that. Whee! That makes me a happy auntie ;)

 
I used the kraft-tags for my journaling (which's her question & my answer, as retold above) - first using the photography-stamp, then printing the journaling on the remainer of the tag. I love how the Maya Road clear stamps always yields such crisp print with gorgeous details - and uhm, as a scrapbooker (and most likely also someone interested in photography) it's pretty impossible to not love the various camera-stamps, even if you happen to be one of those that's not into using stamps on your layouts! Perfect as a little accessory to your journaling or embellishments, like here!

I wanted the intense, satinlike feel you get when spraying Maya Mist upon raw chipboard for the hearts, but for the layered flower I decided I wanted a little variation in the strength/hues - hence the bottom flower was gessoed, sprayed then patted clean with a cloth, yielding a brighter/uneven red hue than the top, which had mist sprayed directly upon raw chipboard.

With that many little chipboard-embellishments that were dressed or sprayed on this layout, I figured the numbers would get to stay raw.

Hope you enjoyed the little story behind this layout!

Supplies used:
Say Cheese Clear Stamps
Road Rage Signs (the hearts)
Supernova
Kraft shipping tags
Maya Mist - Dragon Fruit Pink

 

-Ania