Maya Road Design Team

Time for Tea

Hi Everyone, I hope you all have checked out the full catalog reveal over at Maya Road Company Blog We're giving away a $25 prize pack of NEW Maya Road goodies every day, so remember to hop on over and leave a comment.

Today I am going to share one of my projects which I created for Maya Road CHA, which should be going into it second day , so make sure you pop by booth 1793 and see all the great inspiration from the design team and all the goodies.

I am a bit of a tea pot buff , so would love to share my take on the teapot chipboard album

 

And I am a real tea drinker, and I do love my earl grey tea...

as you can see heaps and heaps of Maya Road yumminess packed into this little project...

tea pot chipboard album,  Coffee or tea mini chipboard set , Zipper trim , Velvet pleats,

sprayed with Butternut Squash orange mist  , Candy stripe blossoms,   Satin pleat Edgeing
Wood bingo mofits Johnathon Alpha rub-ons, Mini bottle caps , Wood mini spools, Kraft Calender
Kraft notes and envelopes , Scroll mini chipboard set. Alterable wooden buttons

 

I do hope you enjoyed my little teapot, short and stout! 

So Roadies have a great day, and hope I have inspired you to create your very own little tea pot

Angella

Something Made for the Heart

Hey there Roadies!  I hope you have been enjoying all of the yummy Maya Road peeks over on the Maya Road Company blog for what is being released RIGHT NOW over at CHA in California.  There is a prize pack up for grabs, so you will definitely want to check it out, you will not be disappointed!

In the mean time, I have a lovely little Valentine Tag book to share with you. :)

This tag book is a new item called the Shipping Tag Chipboard Coaster, so be sure to keep an eye out for it!  I made sure to pack it full with my favorite Maya Road embellishments and plenty of words of love, perfect for Valentine's just a couple of short weeks away!

This tag set was so full, it could barely lay flat...well, it just wouldn't lay flat at all actually!  Don't you love little mini albums that are soo full that they can't close?  It's my absolute favorite!

Sooo many Maya Road products used here...I will try and list them all for you, but if you happen to be at CHA, hopefully you can see this little number in person because it is there!!

Shipping Tag Chipboard Coaster (new!)

Love Words Mini Chipboard Set

Home Tweet Home Mini Chipboard Set

Butterflies Mini Chipboard Set

Foundation Chipboard

Portrait Mini Chipboard

Cherry Red Glitter

Iridescent Glitter

Trinket Pins Hearts

Trinket Pins Vintage Round Pearl

Ruffle Crochet Trim

Ruffle Edge Trim Mauve

Zipper Trim Ruby

Vintage Satin and Lace Ribbon Pink

Small Organza Roses Ribbon Pink

Small Organza Roses Ribbon Red

Gingham Point Blossoms Pink

Ruffle Blossoms Cream and Mauve

Mini Kraft Jotter Tags

Kraft Journaling Tags Decorative

Kraft Scroll Frame Journaling Tags

Microfelt Birds Neutral Set

 

Hope you <3 it! :)

 

Melissa Sauls

Canvas-ed Quotes

Hi everyone! How are you enjoying the sneaks we've been posting on the Maya Road Company Blog? We're giving away a $25 prize pack of NEW Maya Road goodies every day, so remember to hop on over and leave a comment k?

Today, I'm sharing this cluster of 4 canvases I created for the Maya Road CHA (which is happening this weekend!) booth. I found some beautiful quotes on Pinterest (isn't that the most addictive place?) and used them on these canvas panels. I added some Maya Road goodies, and I think they've turned out to be pretty inspiring pieces!

 

Be Happy With Yourself

Maya Road products: Wood Die Cut Doilies, Earl Grey Tulle Pleat Trim, Bethany Mini Alphabet Chipboards, lots of Blossoms, Crystal Trinket Pins.

 

My Dream Will Come True

Maya Road products: Scallop Frames Set (new!), Leaf Green Zipper Trim (new!), lots of Blossoms, Iridescent Glitter.

 

Still Time To Change The Road You're On

Maya Road products: Jonathan Chipboard Alphas, Kraft Shipping Tags, Time Flies Kraft Clocks (new!), Vintage Paper Posies, Dark Cornflower Blue Mist, Coffee Brown Mini Gingham Trim (new!).

 

Mistakes Are Proof You're Trying

Maya Road products: Jonathan Chipboard Alphas, New York Chipboard Alphas, Wood Vintage Birds (new!), Ornate Frames Clear Stamps (new!), Pearl Centers.

 

Hope you've enjoyed these canvases! The rest of the Design Team will be sharing their CHA projects in the upcoming blogposts, so enjoy! Have a gorgeously creative weekend!

 

Lia

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! 

Have You Been Checking out the Maya Road Company Product Sneak Peeks?

If you haven't been checking out the sneak peeks - here is a little fabulousness you have been missing out on:

Be sure to leave a comment on the Company Blog for a chance at a new Maya Road goodies. 

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!

PSSTTTT...

 

Maya Road's Sneak Peek Week has begun on our Company Blog. Be sure to stop by and see what goodies we have - leave a comment on the Company Blog during sneak peek week for a chance at a prize pack of new goodies worth $25. Each day is another chance to enter. Good luck!

Here is a peek at some of the products we are featuring today:

Check them out during day 1 of Sneak Peek Week!

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!