Maya Road Design Team

Pretending to be Art Journalish

Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves, roadies...'cause this is Ania and I'm not the art journal kind of gal...

But - it doesn't stop me from being inspired by the amazing talents out there doing art journal stuff...so today I have a little tag to share with you, slightly art-journalish-inspired....

The tag is mounted on a small card so it's ready to use...and for the background I used a mix of gesso and various Maya Mists..added mist with a sheet of plastic, dried, gessoed, dried, added more mist - stamped and added rubons and layered more gesso and such - until I was somewhat satisfied with how the tag looked...

It must be mentioned that the Maya Road clear stamps Font-ly Yours and Card Sentiment Words are genious for adding cool background effects on your projects. Wheter you want to make art journalish backgrounds or make the Kraft Butterfly more interesting...well, look no further! Other Maya Road products seen here are the versatile transparent mini ticket strips, Natural Wood Button and the Butterflies Rubons - and the background is made using different Maya Mists.

Yeah, I know. I only very slightly dipped my toe into the well of style that's filled with artjournal-ish inspiration... but hey, this tag is a start, is it not?

Have a lovely Summer!

Maya Road and Fiskars Swap, Day 5

Hi Roodies,

Hope you guys have been having a great week so far and enjoying all the inspirations from the ladies as we have fun during this Maya Road and Fiskars Swap week.  I had a chance to work with the new 3 in 1 corner squeeze well rounded punch and love how you only need to reach for one tool to get  3 different sizes/designs.  And on my layout, I used this punch to help me create the two floral designs that you see on the top portion.

I first started by cutting out 2" squares and using the punch on the two opposite corners, before adhering them down (square corners to the middle). 

Then of course comes the yummy maya road products. Once I had the base of the floral design completed, I then went to work punching out a few circles for the flower center and used the decorative button and doilie flower chipboards along with a bit of the yellow/canary paper twine cording to create the smaller flowers.

Next came the kraft goodies (I can't resist adding these kraft products to almost all my projects - love the color contrast and the varrious designs that Maya Road has).  Here I used the black kraft decorative journaling tags, kraft die cut butterflies, kraft layerable flowers, green kraft note envelopes, black kraft mini kraft jotter tags, kraft shipping tags and black kraft tpography numbers.

Then on the bottom of my page, I create a fun flower cluster using the large doilie flower chipboard and a few pieces of the kraft layerable flowers. I misted the chipboard pieces with either seafoam green or granny smith apply green mists and finished off with a black wood bingo motifs and some trinket pins.

Thanks everyone for stopping by and don't forget that you still have a chance to winning some gorgeous  maya road products.  More details of the giveaway HERE.

Maya Road and Fiskars Swap, day 3

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here with day 3 of the Maya Road and Fiskars swap.

Maya Road embellishments work seamlessly together with the awesome Fiskars punches. I had a lovely creative time pairing them up and making a couple cards to share today.

First up in this vintage postage themed design featuring a background created with the Fiskars postage punch. The great notched edges add a little flair to a simple grid background pattern and also allows me to show off lots of different paper prints. I loved how easy the Fiskars punches were to use with my hand and wrist. They punch with very little effort at all.

On top of the background, I went to town with some favorite  Maya Road embellishments. The Ornate Tags Chipboard Set is covered with some pretty gold glitter paint. I'm loving the gold trend lately and covering chipboard with gold paint or glitter is a great shiny addition to a project. Also clustered together you'll find an Antique Room Key, Green Leaf Trinket Pins, Vintage Paper Roses, Alterable Wood Buttons, Buttermilk Vintage Lace Tape, all tied together with the brand new Tiramisu Twine Cording.

A Linen Mini Tag Piece is stamped with the Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamp set and you can also find a stamped sentiment, thank you, using the Card Sentiment Words Stamp Set.

This next card uses a Fiskars circle punch. It's used over and over to create these folded petals on the beautiful large paper flower. The center of it is embellished with Tomato Red Twine Cording, Vintage Button Stick Pins, Beaded Centers Vintage Findings, White Time Flies Kraft Clocks, Fabric Leaves and a chipboard piece from the Sew Cute Mini Chipboard Set.

On the card background you can find the always sentiment from the Love Words Mini Chipboard Set, a strip of Barn Red Gingham Fabric Tape, a Vintage Wood Mini Ruler, and some red Tulle Pleat Trim.

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap! Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Captured Mini Album

Hello Roadies, it's Ronda here today to share with you my Captured Mini Album using lots & lots of wonderful Maya Road products.  The base of this album is the new 2 ring round journal chipboard book.   It's such a versatile mini album that can be used for so many projects.  To make the cover I used a stencil and gesso for texture and then painted it with Maya Mist (Turquoise Metallic, Lime Metallic, Lemon Metallic, and Tangerine Metallic).  I used a variety of Maya Road embellishments to adorn the cover, including the you've been framed wood piece, the wavy layerable chipboard, and the kraft layerable flowers.  I painted the layerable chipboard white and stamped the title using the Just my type stamp set. 

The interior pages uses lots of maya mists in the same color palette as the front cover with pops of purple and red.  I used the new manilla tags from the spring 2013 release as journaling tags and accent tags.  The wood butterflies take mists so well and i love using them for that added pops of color. 

I'm a big fan of Maya Road's cream products like the cream burlap trim and cream ruffle blossoms because I can change the color to fit my projects.  The kraft envelopes are a fun item to add into mini albums giving you an extra page.  You can always decorate the front & backsides of the envelope too!

Don't be afraid to alter embellishments to give them a new look.  I backed the metal love hanger with colored watercolor paper for that pop of color.  I cut the coal black fabric tape into triangles before peeling off the back so it was easy to cut. 

Did you notice the chipboard window?  I used just one window throughout the mini album using bits and pieces of it to accent various pages.  I trimmed it down using scissors and sprayed it with Maya Mists.   Think outside the box with your elements!

I hope you found some ideas today to fill your Maya Road Mini albums!

Use Up Those Scraps!

Hi Roodies,

Hope you guys are having a great week so far.  For today's post, thought I would share some inspirations for using all those scraps that we have hoarded away; along with some yummy Maya Road products of course. I don't know about you, but I tend to keep every single little tiny piece of pattern paper (just can't get myself to throw anything away).  And what better project to create with these little bits than tags (and/or cards)... and comes in handy when you want to include a little personal touch to any gift.

First up is this tag that I created using some strips of pattern papers  to decorate the bottom portion of the tag and also some banner details and of course with loads of Maya Road goodness. Here I used a Kraft Decorative Journaling Tag, Kraft Die Cut Butterflies, White Kraft Typography Numbers, Leaf Trinket Pin, Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball Pins, Canary Paper Twine Cording, Button Mini Chipboard, Leaf Velvet Ribbon and Seafoam Green Maya Mist. 

Having some fun with layering details and love how you can easy color those chipboard pieces to any color that you want/need.  Also another new favorite product from this year winter release are those paper twine cording - these are super fun to use!

 And here's another tag that I created using those tiny pieces of pattern papers that I had left over and of course along with some more trinket pins, flower, chipboards and more twine. Maya Road products used on this are: Mini Scallop Chipboards, Green Velvet Ribbon, Leaf Trinket Pins, Espresso Brown Maya Mist, Champagne Vinttage Butterfly Trinket Pins, Canary Paper Twine Cording and Pink Ribbon Flower. 

On this tag, I first started by misting the mini scallop chipboards and adhering those on top of the bits of papers that I had left. Then once again, I used the remaining strips of paper on the bottom along with some ribbon. Then came the flower and more twine. On this tag, I had stitched one of the sides of the twine circle to secure it in place (on the previous tag, I had stapled the twine down and covered the staples with the baanner/ribbon papers). 

I didn't stamp any saying on these tags just yet, but will definitely be doing so as and when I use them.  This way, I don't need to worry if I have enough of a certain type of tag (ie. birthdays, thank you, congrats, etc). 

Thanks for stopping by everyone and don't forget, put those scraps to use!

It doesn't have to be so hard

Hi everyone!

This is Karen and I am here to share a quick and pretty tag with you. Sometimes when I am wrapping a present, I like to add a little personal piece to it. These quick tags make it easy to personalize without feeling like a burden.

Here's one:

I covered the background with fabric tape, colored the edges with acrylic paint and then added a little bit of burlap trim. I then added my canvas butterfly (which I painted with acrylic) on top. I used two tall pins to make its antannae. A beautiful white flower on top of my butterfly made it even prettier. I took a wooden tag and stamped "thanks" directly on it. A chipboard star, painted with gesso and glossied up with glossy accents was my last and final step. Even though it's a quick one, doesn't it feel so nice when you see a hand-made tag on a present you receive? 

Sometimes we make things so much harder than they have to be. Looking at this tag still makes me happy and allows me to carve a little creative time without feeling like I have to sit down and spend hours on a layout. 

A win-win if you ask me.

Have you ever made a quick and pretty tag? Do you personalize your presents? If so, please link me up in the comments, I'd love to see them!

Tags

Hi Roadies Angella here!

today I wanted to show some tags I made a little bit back, tags are becoming very popular here in aussie land. Tags are a great way to use up all your left overs and anything does go with creating them.

Magical - I do love creating whimsical, this one I covered the tag with pattern paper, then I used some of my favorite Kraft enveopes and Kraft times fly peices . Decorate  with Vintage tape measure trim and tulle trim

Beautiful - Created using Kraft peices times fly , Mini Kraft jotters, Kraft trinket pins , Vintage tape measure trim, trinket season ribbon ,  tulle trim and linen burlap trim

So Roadies next time you have left overs hanging around create a tag for a friend or just because.

Happy Creating Roadies

have a great day

Find Joy Mini Canvas

Hi Roadies! Julia here again with another Maya Road creation.

I love creating things just for the joy of it. Lately much of that joy in creativity is coming from the mixed media trend that is so popular right now. Combining a myriad of supplies and layers together to make something entirely new can be so exciting. And that's really what Maya Road is all about...the creative journey and the ability of the products to be used in so many creative ways.

My joy mini canvas started off as a 5x5 canvas  I picked up at a local arts & crafts store. It's layered with tissue paper adhered to the surface and the edges coated with black acrylic paint. To add some beautiful color to the project I misted it with Blue Agave, White Out and Green Apple Maya Mists.

Almost all of Maya Road's products are alterable. I love the gorgeous Vintage Edge Mums and this one is misted with White Out and Blue Agave Mists. It's paired up with some stamped leaves and lots of other gorgeous embellishments.

My all-time favorite Maya Road stamp set is the Art Journaling Words set. It's perfect for multi-media projects as well as cards and scrapbook layouts.

Also adding a sentiment to this mini canvas is the Lisa Uppercase Chipboard letters that spell out JOY. They are misted, then covered with a clear glaze and glass glitter to give them a beautiful shine.

Grab a canvas and some Maya Road supplies and see where your creativity takes you!

Maya Road Products Used:

Vintage Edge Mum

Blue Agave Metallic Mist

Green Apple Mist

White Out Mist

Leaf Trinket Pins

Turquoise Star Pins

Lisa Uppercase Alphabet

Decorative Scrolls Chipboard Set

Antique Button Jewels

Ornate Botanicals Stamp Sheet

Art Journaling Words Stamp Sheet

Vintage Raspberry Beads

Fabric Leaves

Natural Wood Buttons

 

It's a Chipboard Addiction

Hi there Roodies.

Hope you guys had a great weekend and are all set for some crafting fun.  Today I want to share some projects that I recently created focusing on chipboard and more chipboards and of course chipboards. I dont think you can ever have to many to these. 

My first project is this mini ablum using the super cute Home Tweet Home Chipboard Album, Home Tweet Home mini chipboard set (for some of the little birds and branches; selection of chipboard birds are also provided along with the mini album), Love mini chipboard set (for those hearts) and Christmas Words mini chipboard set (for LOVE).  

I had a lot of fun creating this little mini, especially the cover page. I really like how the album had the house frame layer and also the circle cut out (only for cover page). This gave me the idea of having one of the birds peeking out from behind. Also there were seperate chipboard pieces that you could use to create the window still for the birds.  On some of the chipboard pieces I added some glossy accent to give it alternative look and feel (love textures, as you can see from the ribbons there too). 

And for my second project, having more fun with chipboards and mist. This time using chipboard pieces from the following sets: Decorative Buttons, Ornate Tags and Butterfly along with some of the new paper twine cording, wooden button, pins and kraft typography number. 

Here I wanted to play around with the mist abit and on the button piece (pink), instead of evenly spraying the mist onto the chipboard, I applied it in droplets.  I used the pink ginger maya mist which gives a nice metallic shine and as I found out by applying it this way, I could create a marbled look. 

Hopefully I've inspired you guys to get out those chipboard pieces (I know you have them)! Thanks for stopping by everyone and hope you guys have a great week ahead!

How To: Be Tag

I love the warm colors of this Be tag.  The pop of blue against the fiery colors suggests both my easy going but passionate personality.   Maya Road Mists make it easy to bring colors to life.  Their embellishments are so much fun to add in layers.   Here's a quick look at how to create this tag.

1. Cover tag with book paper and seal it with matte medium.
2. Add drops of Maya Mists.  Here I used Dragon Fruit Pink, Pomegranate Pink, and Sunflower Yellow.  Using short blasts of compressed air, move the mists around the tag. Let it dry.
3. Add drops of White Out Maya Mist to the background and spray kraft butterfly with same mist.
4. Layer kraft butterfly on the kraft doily.  Add blue ruffle blossom flower and trinket heart stick pins to the butterfly.
5. Using scallop scissors, cut the vintage measuring tape trim & add to the bottom of the tag.
6. Wrap vintage hotel key with floss and add to the tag near bottom.
7. Spray "be" chipboard letters with espresso brown Maya Mist and adhere to tag.  Tie gingham brown bow to the top to finish the tag.