Maya Road Design Team

One last Ode to Winter...

I know... we are all tired of it.  Most of us have had more than enough of the snow and cold and are ready for Spring!  (I think that I just heard today that there are only 20 more days until Spring... yay!!)   I'm ready to do the countdown, but that doesn't mean that I don't love creating with the photos and colors of winter.  I mean, who doesn't love a wintery stamped image or a glittery white wood snowflake?  Maya Road has the best things to use for all of your winter layouts, mini albums and projects.

I made this using the Landscape Binder with tabbed pages album.  Such a sweet little book that you can stuff full of Maya Road embellishments.


On the front I made a snowman using the Alterable Wood Buttons that I painted white and topped off with some clear crackle medium and glitter. The houses are from the Welcome Home Chipboard set and of course there plenty of the Vintage Wood Snowflakes both here and throughout the album.



On each of the pages I used words from the Art Journaling Words Clear Stamp set. 

I love the Sea Blue Zipper Trim with the snowflakes, the reds and the glitter so I also added the color to some of the chipboard pieces like the Hexagons.  The Let It Snow stamps were made using white embossing enamel.



The Red Velvet Pleats add a nice pop of color to the pages as does the Gingham Trims in apple Red and Licorice black.

As always I use lots of Trinket Pins and a Vintage Wood Spool or two. 

Thanks for stopping by and I promise that my next project will have nothing to do with winter... think butterflies and flowers! ;-)  Have a great day!

Everyday Insta Mini Album

Hello Roadies, Ronda here today to share with you one of my favorite mini albums from CHA, Say Cheese. 

I love this adorable mini album that feels like old fashioned instant cameras.  It made me think of how we capture photos today.  I have a great DSLR but these days I am often grabbing my camera phone to take quick photos of daily life.  I also use Instagram a lot for every day photos and thought this album would be perfect to document our everyday life. 

Sidenote: Did you know Maya Road has an instagram account? Click HERE to follow our feed. 

I painted the cover like the vintage instant cameras.  Love how the white acrylic paint really pops the Maya Mist stripes in rainbow order.  I used dragon fruit pink, tangerine, sunflower, leaf green, popsicle, and blueberry.  I wanted to add the little buttons so I painted an alterable wooden bingo piece with dragon fruit pink mist.  I painted a wooden spool with black acrylic paint and added it to the front as well. 

On the inside pages I used lots of stamps including the new picture perfect cameras.  The Say Cheese chipboard cameras and You've been Framed wooden pieces were the perfect accoutrements to this adorable mini album.  Of course you will always find Maya Mist all over my pages from dripping in the background to the spritzed chipboard pieces.  Here's a look at the rest of the interior pages.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. 

 

 

Hi There !

Hi there Roadies,

Angella here checking back in with another project I created for CHA !

Hi There !

As you know I do love creating my 3D projects, this one is  a cute happy box that I have wanted to create  for a while now, and  Maya road has all the ingredients to create them out of the box projects that do get in my head.

It's all  about my son Robbie and our family pet Ellie ( she is one big sook)

 I created the box using the Chipboard flag banner book a few cotton spools ,  foam balls for the legs and arms !

The chipboard Hand and heart set   just add that special touch for waving!

 


I do love this project as everytime I walk past it, it makes me smile ! so I call it my happy project.

Roadies do you create happy projects ? do you love creating them ?

 have you looked at chipboard mini books different, open them up!  turn them this way and that way, think about how you can do something different.  So  next time Roadies you open up a Maya road mini book twist it! turn it!  see what it can make !

Just remember  you are bound only by the limits of your imagination

Till next time Roadies, have a great day !

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

Hi Roadies! Julia here today. Have you been out and about lately? I'm seeing all kind of lovely yellow popping up in the mall. I'm especially partial to the yellow and grey combo and decided to bring a little sunshine to a couple card projects to brighten my day. I turned to some pretty patterned paper to create both cards and changed up the Maya Road embellishments for two different looks.

My first card is fun and cute. I just love creating with these sunshiney chipboard pieces. To make this card extra happy, I added a pop of red.

The chipboard shapes were easy to cover with patterned paper for a sweet, printed look. Another quick way to alter chipboard is seen in the red umbrella. It's colored in with an alcohol based marker and then covered with a liquid crackle glaze.

While some of Maya Road's embellishments are super cute, some are very elegant and many of them work for a myriad of styles. Using the same paper and color combo, I've created a very pretty and elegant card design that will be perfect for many occasions.

Both of these cards use the new Card Sentiment Words  stamp set that covers almost every occasion you can think of.

I created some sweet little button blossoms by adhering a rhinestone to the center of each button.

Maya Road Supplies:

Earl Grey Zipper Trim

Jeweled Pearl Pendants

Celery Green Twine Cording

Saffron Yellow Twine Cording

Card Sentiments Words Stamp Set

Vintage Round Pearl Trinket Pins

Leaf Trinket Pins

Medium Fabric Leaves

White Mini Organza Roses Trim

Lemon Burlap Trim

Mini Clothes Pins

When Skies Are Grey Chipboard Set

Antique Butterflies

 

 Thanks for stopping by!

When You Swim, You Shine

Hi everyone,

This is Karen and I am back to share another layout with you. Ordinarily, my husband is the one who takes my older son to swim class but on the rare occasions when I go, I make a point to bring my camera. I loved capturing this particular moment where he's wearing his goggles and his teeth are half fallen out, half-missing. These are the moments I will never have again and so, my favorite moments to scrap. 

I'm a big fan of the pins and just putting a whole bunch of them together. I like stitching through them and layering them. Great way to add just a tiny pop of color.

 

I also love adding stuff to the edges of my layouts. A whole bunch of tiny pops of color.

Since I had a theme of strips of ribbon and pins, I added some to the bottom of the layout, too. Just to make sure the whole piece felt unified.

And here's one final look at the middle section with all the cute ribbons.

Thank you for letting me share my layout. I'd love for you to link me up to one of your latest layouts, too!

Charm and Elegance...

Hello,  I'm glad that you stopped by!  I have a fun little project to share today that can recreated by anyone using a few Maya Road goodies and a couple of  basic craft supplies.

I love topiaries... love them.   Did you know that topiaries have been  a symbol of "Charm and Elegance" for centuries?  There are so many different varieties now-- from the real or living evergreens to artificial ones.  You can find them everywhere as they have been very trendy for a good while now.  I guess those ancient Romans really knew how to decorate if we are still using some of their creative ideas today!

Here is one of my versions of a topiary.....


I made this charming little topiary with some of my very favorite Maya Road supplies.  I love that it's pink instead of the traditional green color, as it will be uplifting decor for anyone that is feeling a need for Spring.  I know that late winter in Minnesota can  bring on the "cabin fever" and makes me yearn for some pretty spring colors.


To make this I used a 3.5" Styrofoam ball for the topiary shape and the  wood pedestal base is an antique spinning spool and a metal Flower Bottle Cap.   The Styrofoam ball is covered  with Maya Road's Small Organza Roses Trim in Light Pink.  I did not prep the ball with anything-- I just hot glued the trim to the ball and made a flat spot about 1" in circumference that would be the "bottom" of the topiary ball when adhered to the base.  I tried to make sure that the outer edges of the trim (the netting that runs along either side of the roses) was not tucked under so that it helped to hide the white of the ball.

Once the entire ball was covered with the trim I wrapped some of the new Paper Twine Cording in the "Earth" color around the ball.  To me it brings in the look of nature and reminds me of a vine that has wrapped itself around the topiary.  It is glued in place in a few spots with some Vintage Paper Roses and a cluster of  flowers and Trinket Pins. 


Trinket Pins include the Hot Pink Flowers, Vintage Round Pearl (that has a Vintage Raspberry Bead slid onto it), Vintage Leaf Pin in Cream, and the new Pale Pink Pearl Balls.  The cluster of flowers includes a pink Country Gingham Posie, a Vintage Lace Silver Fox Mum, and some of the Organza Mum Trim in Forest green.

Once the ball was decorated I adhered some natural green moss that you can find in the floral section of any craft supply store,  to the bottom of the metal Flower Bottle Cap.   To prepare the Bottle Cap, I pushed the flower petals inward so that when it was turned upside down it looked like scalloped trim.  It was then painted white  and when dry I lightly sanded it to give it a distressed look.

I think that Maya Road products made this  project both charming and elegant... just as a topiary should be.  Thanks so much for visiting!

 

make it monochrome

Hey, Roadies! Leah checking in with a layout post today - I thought it would be fun with Valentine's this week to share a layout that I created featuring a photo from my parents' wedding!

One of the current trends that I have fallen in love with is monochromatics. I love color any {and every} day of the week, but there's something a bit timeless about a project or layouit created with this look. 

The whole metalic thing is sort of growing on me as well - as long as it's used subtely! For this page, I combined linen, raw chipboard, untouched wooden pieces, and kraft tags on a white background to let them shine just as they are. 

I finished by layering flowers in cream, gray, and white near my photo to draw the most attention there. Loops of gold twine, trinket pins, and the metal accent frame were a great way to pull in a subtle hints of  metalics.

I hope I've given you a few ideas on how to apply this beautiful and subtle trend to your scrapbook pages and projects! Have a lovely, creative Friday!

Bottle Cap Mini

Hey Roadies! Mandy Kay Starner here, to share one of my CHA Winter projects with you.

One of my favorite Maya Road products is the bottle caps. I have quite a stash, especially of the Jumbo caps; I love to use them for all different kinds of projects. For one, they make fantastic mini book covers.

For this mini, I started off by spray painting the outsides of my bottle caps black. I die-cut several 3 1/2" circles to cover the caps, and to use for the interior pages. (I adhered two circles back to back to make stronger pages.) And to mix it up a bit, I threw a page from one of the Canvas Star Coaster Albums in there.

To embellish my pages, I used my favorite stamps, kraft doilies and tickets, trinket pins, tulle and zipper trims. Do you see the new Varsity Letter stamps? LOVE.THEM.

That fuschia colored metal flower is one of my absolute favorite products from the Winter release. Can you spy it in the cluster below? They are so much fun and I can't wait to get my hands on more of them. For me, they are the perfect size for clustering.

And I am certain that I will be NEEDING quite a bit of yardage of that new Vintage Tape Measure Trim.

And If you have been wondering how to get those adorable little houses adhered to you projects, a few little staples seem to do the trick.

Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road Design Team Blog, I hope you've enjoyed my project.

Supplies used:

Jumbo Vintage Metal Bottle Caps

Canvas Star Coaster Album

Star Shaped Metal Bottle Cap

Shot Through The Heart Chipboard Set

Kraft Doilies

Transparent Cameras

Blackberry Twine

Tutu Tulle

Crystal Stars Trinket Pins

Flower Pins

Licorice Tulle Pleat Trim

Ocean Turquoise Double Stitch Velvet Ribbon

Just my type Stamps

Vintage Camera Singleton Stamp

Varsity Uppercase Stamps

Large Kraft Ticket Strips

Kraft Scroll Frame Labels

Love Words Mini Chipboard Set

Kraft Butterflies

Black Zipper Trim

Sea Blue Zipper Trim

Vintage Tape Measure Trim

White Small Organza Rose Trim

 

Our Home Metal

 

 

Make Mine a Mini

Hey Roadies! It's almost the weekend!

One of the great things about working for Maya Road (besides getting to work with all the awesome products!) is working with Caroline. She loves to give the DT assignments for CHA that push us out of our creative comfort zone. While I hate it at the time, she's always right on with the request. I think she has a crystal ball or some such.

For me, that means doing minis. And not just one mini, I got to do multiple minis for this last show. I whined and complained mightily to Ronda--aside: did you know we live just 2.4 miles from each other? I did a layout about that for the show too, I'll share that at the end of this post!

But by the time I was done, I had a couple of minis I was really proud of. I'm going to share one with you today. It's for my daughter, Annie, who will be graduating from high school this year. I put together this mini using the linen 4x6 Art Journal Album from this Winter's new releases. It uses a bunch of quotes that I felt would be good reminders for her of who she really is, once she heads off to college and I'm not around everyday to remind her.

Because I don't really go messy and painty, I needed to find a way to make this album work for me. I do stitch and stamp a lot so I took a bunch of the kraft envelopes (white polka dots, squares, and rectangles) and stitched them into the journal to use as extra pages. I stamped a lot as well using a permanent black ink (worked great on the linen!) and two of our alphabets, the new Varsity Uppercase Letters and a great standby, the Just My Type set. 

To help the viewer move through the album, I used our new Perfect Shot Arrow set. When there's an arrow, you lift the flap to read more.

I misted our Vintage Wood Mini Butterflies with our Maya Mists in Green Apple, Fig Magenta, and Lemon Metallic. I did the same to our large Natural Wood Buttons.  

I trimmed down the frayed edges of our Burlap Trim in Fuchsia and used that throughout the album as well.

 

I love how the flaps of the envelopes make cool design elements, and here, how it supports the jouranling.

I used a Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue to hold everything in place, it worked very well. I also used it as a fray check on the Burlap Trim edges.

 

The last flap encourages her to look forward with faith.

This project was a lot of fun, once I had my idea down and started executing it. I used photos from her senior photo shoot and tried to match them to the quote. I then split up the quote and with sticky notes, I place set everything. The only suggestion I wish I'd thought of was to stamp it all out, THEN add the bumpy embellishments. A few places where I stamped were tricky because I had a button or butterfly on the other side already.

I love how this turned out, I have a wonderful gift for my daughter when she heads off to college, something I hope will bring her comfort as she starts this new journey. I made an art journal work with my style. I need to stop whining to Ronda. And I need to tell Caroline how much I love mini albums. Maybe she'll stop asking me to make them... ;)

Here's the layout about how I get from my house to Ronda's.

Supplies for Directions layout:

• Avocado Green Maya Mist
• Fig Magenta Maya Mist
• Lemon Metallic Maya Mist
• Metal Vintage Trinket--Our Home
• Fabric Leaves--Medium
• Trinket Pins--Vintage Pearl Butterflies
• Burlap Trim in Fuchsia
• Burlap Trim in Smoke (NEW!!!)
• Lisa Uppercase Alphabet
• Lisa Lowercase Alphabet
• Ruffle Blossoms in Turquoise
• Wood Mini Clothes Pins
• Fabric Tape in Sun Yellow Gingham
• Tulle Pleat Trim in Slushie Blue
• Mini Tag Canvas Pieces

 

 

"Krafting" Things Up!

Hi Roodies,

Hope you guys had a great weekend, all rested and recharged! I thought I would kick off the week here with some "krafty" inpirations and sharing some of my layouts that I created for CHA.  

The first one here was all about those cute white kraft journaling tags, not only are these great for journaling spots but also make a fun background.  I really like the contrast between the white an kraft colors and the different variations available. Also the kraft typography numbers were the perfect addition to help me list out my journaling details.

Also used a mix of chipboard alphabets and elements and the butterfly clip is from the new release (isn't it adorable). The large letters are from the Lisa uppercase alphabet collection and the smaller ones are Danielle mini alphabet chipboard set.  The banner chipboard can be found here and stay tune for that butterfly! The mists that I used here are Antinque Paltina Metallic, Mustard Yellow Metallic and Cherry Metallic.

Also having some fun with the wooden embellishments. The wooden spool (new relase) was just the right size for the kraft butterfly die cut and can't get enough of those wooden buttons (I think I've gone through 3 packs of these already). LOL

And sharing another layout, where this time the focus was on the kraft shipping tags and layerable flowers.  Also included one of the alterable wood bingo motifs and love how these are carved out just right that you can easily (lightly) press these against an ink pad to color or paint on a little bit of mist.

And check out the new trinket pins, turquoise star (finally) and an adorable sweet pink pearl. 

Thanks everyone for stopping by and be on the look out for the new maya road goodies at your LSS or online stores!  Hope you guys have a great week ahead!