Maya Road Design Team

Shine Together

Hi Roadies! Belly's on the blog today, today is the last day of our July shop promotions. It's charms... https://maya-road-llc.myshopify.com/collections/metal-charms . Check them out now at 30% off with coupon code CHARMED.

 

Today I would like to share with you my "shine" layout, a birthday party photo with my family members taken at home, a simple birthday party.

 

I love to do fussy cutting on layouts, but the most interesting part playing with the cuts is adding some more die-cuts using just white cardstock, they pop up so cool. I love those beautiful new butterfly and leaf dies from Maya Road, of course I love all others too :)

 

Ok, let's go back to our featuring "charms" this month. I added a link of charms using twine, placed on top of my fussy cutting flowers, acrossing the bottom of the page. What I want to show with this link of clock charms is ~ time over time...... we can still "Shine Together". Happy Birthday!

 

 

 

Enjoy!!!
Thanks for stopping by :)

Shine Bright | 12x12 layout

Hello Roadies!

Nathalie here with you today!

Our focus for the month of July is CHARMS.  We have a special going on for the entire month,  30% off all metal charms,  just use the code CHARMED at checkout to obtain your discount.

 

 

 

There are so many beautiful products to chose from the store, but i wanted to mixed them up in one single layout, so I opted to create a banner type  design to showcase a picture of my daughter.

 

 

This layout took very little time to put together.  It all started by marking the two holes where the brads would be located.  A bit of mixed media (using shimmer inks in this case) adds interest, and color to the simple design.

 

 

Once the background was dry, the brads were put in place, and a bit of gold wax  cording was run only through one of the brads.   Here is where the fun started!.  My idea was to center the picture, and add embellishments to each side of the picture.

 

 

I started by using the Geometric Feather  Die  to obtain some feathers, one from pattern paper (Carta Bella's Flora 1 collection), one from vellum, and one from cardstock.  I tied them together with some jute twine, and used a Resin Flower  to add some decoration to the bunch.   Now to start building my banner!  I worked from left to right (making sure the picture was centered). 

 

 

First i thread some stickers from the Hello Lovely collection from Simple Stories, next a key charm from the Ken Oliver Heart and Key charm set,  a tag from the Flora collection, followed by the feather bunch.   Next i thread the picture, and secure it to the mat using foam adhesive -s0 that there is dimension to the picture-.  

 

 

Once the picture was secured, i added  a Geometric Heart Die cut backed with vellum, and a Star Bright charm, before adding my journal tag.  A few more stickers and tags from the two collections being used, and finally a Soaring Bird charm completes the banner.  Then the string was secured in the  brad.

 

 

Now to complete and balance the page, I used the Sparkle and Shine Die Set to create the title of this page.  By simply cutting the title from some of the papers used in the layout, and then layering them with a bit of an offset creates the illusion of a dimensional title.  A few add ons complete the page.

 

 

I hope this inspires you to take a look at all the beautiful MAYA ROAD products available at the online store.  Remember there are still a few days to take advantage of the CHARMS promotion.

You can always contact me if you have any questions on how this page came together.

 

Til next time!

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Road products used:

Geometric Feather Die

Resin Flower Set in Snow White

Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charms Set

Geometric Heart Die

Star Bright Charms

Soaring Bird Charms

Sparkle and Shine Die Set

 

 

 

 

Thinking of you card

Well hello Roadies!  This is Daniela. Our focus this July are CHARMS and we have a special going on all month. Make sure you visit the store and use coupon code CHARMED to get 30% off all METAL CHARMS.

I created a fun card today and incorporated some charms from our collection.

 

I used With Love Nature Die Bundle for the flower, leaves and the butterfly. I die cut it from patterned paper that I had in my stash. I layered all the die cuts over a journaling card topped with washi tape. I used 3D foam adhesive tor the flower that has two different layers of patterned paper. 

 

The butterfly body  is made from one of the key charms from Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charms. I added a Vintage Crafting Tassels - Milk White and Vintage Ken Oliver Bird Cages with Twine Cording - Blackberry tied into a bow under the die cut flower. The sentiment is from Rose Garden Sentiments Stamp Set and I stamped "thinking of you" with black ink.

Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road blog today.

Maya Road supplies:

Vintage Ken Oliver Bird Cages
Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charms
Vintage Crafting Tassels - Milk White
Rose Garden Sentiments Stamp Set
Twine Cording - Blackberry
With Love Nature Die Bundle

 

 

Maya Road July Card Kit Sneak Peek!

Hi Roadies! It's Melody here on the blog today. I am excited give you a sneak peek of the Maya Road July Card Kit being released later this week! This month's kit is a fun, summer themed card kit with a great stamp set and lots of fun embellishments and trims. 

The kit includes summer themed pattern paper. I love the colors. Here I used one the metal tins, the Tags & Ticket Die, a sentiment and sunglasses from the stamp set, and pretty paper roses and lace trim. 

I finished off the card with a Sand & Shore Seashell Charms. 

How cute is this pattern paper! I love the little umbrella and the cute flamingo pin. 

Here are few more images from the stamp set. 

Our focus this July is CHARMS and we have a special going on all month. Make sure you visit the store and use coupon code CHARMED to get 30% off all chipboard.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back later in the week for a look at the full card kit!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Victoria Calvin & Summer Card Duo

Hey Roadies! We're back for more inspiring creations from July Guest Designer, Victoria Calvin! If you missed her layout that we shared with you on Wednesday, be sure to check it out.

We love Victoria's use of bold colors and lots of dimension! Thanks so much Victoria for joining us again today! Take it away...

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Travel Mini Album - "These Moments:Denver" by Victoria Calvin

Hello friends! This is Victoria Calvin and I am back with my last guest design project for Maya Road. Today’s project is a chipboard mini album that I created to document my 2016 trip to Denver, Colorado. I plan to feature photos of Estes Park and other points of interest from my vacation. I created this fun mini album using the following Maya Road goodies:

• Maya Road Chipboard Scalloped Pennant Mega Banner Album
• Maya Road Wood Veneer Ruler
• Maya Road Vintage Findings Paper Leaves –Medium
• Maya Road Resin Fancy Frames – Snow White
• Maya Road Resign Fancy Frames – Sunshine Yellow
• Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms – Buttercream
• Maya Road Burlap Flower
• Maya Road Tu Tu Tulle Flowers – Vintage Buttermilk
• Maya Road Resin Flower Set – Cool Grey
• Maya Road Resin Diamond – Tempting Teal
• Maya Road Wood Hashtag Tokens
• Maya Road Steel Dies – Mason Jar Die Set

From my stash: Getaway Collection by Echo Park paper and stickers, various chipboard and wood veneer elements and navy blue acrylic paint.

To begin this mini album, I painted two of the scalloped pennant chipboard pieces (front and back cover) using navy blue acrylic paint by Liquitex Basics. To add continuity, I painted the edges of the inside pennant chipboard pieces using the same navy blue paint.

I embellished the front cover with pattern paper from the Getaway Collection by Echo Park, a Maya Road Burlap flower and paper leaves, and chipboard pieces from my stash.

Next, the I covered the inside pennant pieces with coordinating pattern paper from the Getaway Collection.

Each inside pennant was embellished using Maya Road flowers, paper leaves, resin flowers, resin diamond, hashtag tokens, a mason jar die cut, various chipboard elements from my stash, and stickers from the Getaway Collection by Echo Park. The album is bound using two mini binder clips by Recollections.

 

Overall, I love how this mini album turned out! I cannot wait to fill it with some of the photos I took from my summer trip to Denver. Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Thanks so much Victoria for sharing your talent with us! We absolutely love your beautiful memory projects!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Victoria Calvin

July is hot, hot, hot and so are guest designers this month! We are so excited to bring you another July guest designer whose work you'll love....Victoria Calvin!

Each month we feature a new friend of Maya Road and their beautiful, unique & creative style! This month we'll be featuring not only one but two guest designers and  we are thrilled to introduce you to Victoria and her fabulous creations.

 

 

Victoria Calvin is the owner and online content creator at Victoria Marie Designs where she creates and produces online scrapbooking classes and hosts scrapbooking retreats and crops. Victoria began her journey in the scrapbooking community over 12 years ago, starting first as a very enthusiastic hobbyist, eventually turning her passion for scrapbooking into a full time career. Victoria has been a member of the Scraptastic Club Design Team and the Clique Kit Club Design Team. She has served as a guest designer for Felicity Jane, Cocoa Daisy, and Clique Kit Club and was the member spotlight for Scrapbook Circle. Victoria has been a guest on the Scrap Gals Podcast with Tiffany and Tracy and Live Inspired with Tracie Claiborne where she talked extensively about her classes, experiences as a new entrepreneur, and her scrapbooking journey. Victoria currently resides in Fort Worth, TX with her tiny family of three. 

 

 

Blog: http://www.victoriamarieblog.com

 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VictoriaMarieScraps

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoriamariescraps

 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriamariescraps

 

Thanks so much Victoria for joining us today! Take it away...

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My Love Layout by Victoria Calvin

 

Hello! This is Victoria Calvin and I am excited to be the guest designer for July 2017! A big thank you to the wonderful folks at Maya Road for giving me the opportunity to share a couple of fun creative projects with all of you. Speaking of… let’s take a look at a 12x12 scrapbook layout I created using the following Maya Road goodies:

• Maya Road Resin Fancy Frames – Snow White
• Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms – Buttercream
• Maya Road Tu Tu Tulle Flowers – Vintage Buttermilk
• Maya Road Vintage Findings Paper Leaves – Medium
• Maya Road Bulldog Mini Clip

To begin, I used a floral pattern paper from the Harvest Boutique paper pad by Craft Smith as the background for this layout.  The flower design provided the perfect base for the Maya Road tulle flowers and paper leaves.

 

Next, I layered my photo on another piece of floral pattern paper from the Craft Smith paper pack as well as die cut tabbed index card by Sizzix. The photo is elevated by fun foam for added height and dimension.

To the left side of the photo, I layered a grouping of the Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms and Tu Tu Tulle Flowers along with two clusters of the Maya Road Paper Leaves. Tucked into this floral cluster is a Maya Road Resin Fancy Frame, a scalloped cork circle and a gold glitter butterfly from my stash. The title was created using Thickers Beautiful and Patchwork sticker fonts. To finish the layout, I added a Maya Road Mini Clip to the top left of the photo that is adorned with a tiny twine bow.

 

I absolutely love the overall look of this layout! The gorgeous Maya Road floral elements perfectly highlight the floral design of the patter paper and add a small touch of whimsy to the layout.

I will be back in a few days with another fun project featuring a Maya Road pennant chipboard album! Stay tuned!

 

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 Check back in Friday for another gorgeous project from Victoria!

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Notebook | Single Coptic Book Binding

Hi Roadies! It is Stacy here on the Maya Road blog sharing a hand stitched notebook today! I will never get tired of stitching notebooks, they are special with different stitching patterns and a useful gift for the recipient!

 

There are many chipboard albums from the Maya Road collection which I dismantle to make my notebooks. They come with tabs, which makes the notebook very different from what you can get with regular rectangular chipboards. I intend to use this notebook to document my travels, hence the travel token come in handy on the front cover. I like to keep the front cover of the notebook as flat as possible, so as not to hinder when I write. 

 

With the same thought in mind, I hang some charms on the tabs of the front cover with the help of a bulldog clip and a mini safety pin. I like dangling charms - they are always pretty on albums or notebooks! The bulldog clips allow me to hang these beautiful charms and removing it when I need to.

 

 

Charms are very useful in every project! They are good as decor, either pasted as an embellishment or hung for decorations. Here, I am using the single coptic stitch for this notebook. The KO Waxed Hemp is perfect for this stitching! It gives me the perfect tension, and a good visual for the coptic loops. The waxed hemp is also strong enough to support the weight of charms dangling from the spine. 

 

Maya Road is also having a promo in July - Charms! Get your supply of charms at 30% off now!

Thanks for joining me through this post and dropping by the blog today~

Supplies Used:

• Ken Oliver Vintage Compass and Mini Arrow Charms
• Ken Oliver Vintage Tick Tock Charms
• Ken Oliver Vintage World Traveler Charms
• Ken Oliver Vintage Art Supplies
• Ken Oliver Vintage Clocks and Hands
• Ken Oliver Vintage Gears
• 22mm Bulldog Clips - Bronze
• Mini Arrow Charms
• Bronze Gift Charms
• 2-ring Round Tab Chipboard Journal Book
• Work It office Die Bundle
• Mason Jar Kraft Tags
• Wood Travel Tokens
• Vintage Crafting Tassels - Milk White
• Mini Safety Pin - Bronze
• Ken Oliver Waxed Hemp Tangerine

 

Tag You Are It

Hi Roadies!  It's Katrina, from Paper Scissors and Glue, here today to share a couple of tags that I made with you.  I am needing to get a couple of gifts purchased and given, so I though a tag with some Maya Road products would be a nice personal touch.  I also thought it would be fun to use multiple tags on a tag!

To make these, for my base tags, I used the #5 Kraft Shipping Tag and then covered that with some pattern paper, trimming it to fit.  NOTE: The papers I used here are digital , which are a great option if you don't have anything to match or just aren't "feeling" it with the paper you have in your stash.  I also used a corrugated kraft tag just as it was on each of my tags. 

The first tag, I used a trio effect and lined 2 smaller and varying sized tags up with the bigger tag.  Place some Bias Tape Trim at the bottom to give the tag a little border.  A Tulle Mini Bloom in Bluebird on top of the bias tape trim, gives the tag a little springy, bright feel.  I added some of the Popsicle Blue Twine Cording for a bow at the top of the tag, I ran the twine thru all the tags and then just tied a bow.

I love the Fanciful Thank You steel die and knew it would look perfect on this tag.  I cut it out of some heavyweight cardstock three times and then just layered and glued them together.  I love how it looks like chipboard or an acrylic piece!

This tag has a lot of kraft, white and resin to it!  I trimmed down a small Kraft Polka Dotted envelope and tucked it under a Scroll Frame Journaling Tag that I was using as the focus of the tag.  I used smaller tags here again and fanned them instead of stacking right on top of each other. 

And resin bits are a weakness of mine!  Did you know that Maya Road now has these new fun resin flowers??  LOVE! And there are three different sizes in the package, perfection I tell you!  I teamed them up with a wooden token and a Mini Wood Embroidery Hoop.  The token fit perfectly inside the hoop! I tucked a couple of vintage leaves under the kraft journaling tag, because it was just a little "bare" and needed something!  That's the great thing with Maya Road products, you can always find a fun filler if you need it!

So now I have a couple of fun tags for gift giving and I may just skip the card!!  Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road Blog today!!!

 

12x12 | Ready To Fly

Hi Roadies!  Maya Road has all their beautiful charms on sale this month and it's the perfect time to add to your stash!

My layout features the Ken Oliver Vintage Bulbs & Keys and Vintage Art Supplies charms, mixed in with the lovely Soaring Bird Charms.  To begin, I used vellum and tissue paper behind my 3x4" photo, then added a clear sticker matted on vellum and tissue paper.

I fussy cut several flowers from a sheet of patterned paper, tucking them behind the top right of the photo and filling the top left of the paper.  The subtle color of the florals contrasts nicely with the photo, allowing it to stand out and for the charms to be the center of attention.

For this layout about feeling personally ready to take off and fly, the bird charms and the Porcelain Pink Resin Nesting Bird are a true symbol of how I feel and what I want this page to mean.  I placed the Resin Nesting Bird on a nest of white thread, nestled in the fussy cut flowers to represent feeling safe enough to soar.

The title is a mix of black alphas to tie in the black font of the sticker near the photo.  I sewed through the small stickers for more texture and to repeat the stitching I did to adhere the Soaring Bird Charms.  I also used glue dots to make sure all the charms were super secure.

A mix of Ken Oliver charms is placed on a single flower at the bottom of the page to represent the creativity and ideas I feel inside me right now.  When machine stitching items like the charms, I hand turn the needle wheel to ensure I can control the placement of the needle and line up the stitches through the charm rings.

I added a bit of journaling on the left of the page to make sure the thoughts about my "right now" are documented.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my latest Maya Road creation!  Click on over to the store HERE and check out all the amazing charms and use the coupon code CHARMED to save 30%!

A textured card with charms

Hello Roadies! It's Yvonne here to share with you a textured card inspired by this month's Maya Road Shop Promo - charms!

I created some texture with a stencil and ceramic stucco on a watercolour card base.

Once that was dry, I created my embellishment cluster with Maya Road goodies. Can you spot which ones I used? 

I went with the Mini Arrow Charm, the Vintage Ken Oliver Clock Charm, the Resin Diamond in Snow White, the Resin Flower Set in Shocking Pink, the Felt Rose in Princess Pink, diecut from the "With Love" Script Die and Pearl Button Trim .

Hope you've been inspired to create with your Maya Road charms! Don't forget to use the coupon code CHARMED for 30% off your purchase of charms at the Maya Road Shop!