Maya Road Design Team

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

 

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%!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Nicole Nowosad

It's sweet, sweet summertime and things are heating up as we kick off July! We are so excited to bring you one of our July guest designers....Nicole Nowosad!

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 Nicole and her fabulous creations. We have a huge crush on Nicole with her multi-faceted design skills and know you're going to love her as much as we do!

 

Nicole lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada with her husband Ian and three children, Noah, Lucas and Addsion. When not working full-time, or driving her kids between activities, Nicole can be found doing something creative, including creating digital cut files for JustNick. Nicole has her creative work published regularly in magazines, can be found teaching at events across Canada as well as online and her work seen on several manufacturers blogs.  Nicole has been paper crafting for almost 20 years and her style is bright and colorful and full of pattern!

 

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

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To the Stars Wood Pallet by Nicole Nowosad

Good morning ! I am excited to be on the Maya Road blog as a guest this month! I created this fun wood pallet project by combining two Maya Road wood palettes together!

 

 

 

I started by painting the 6x6 mini wood palette white and sprinkled it with some black droplets and set it to dry. Next, I painted the 6x6 Mini Star Palette yellow and set it aside to dry. Once both pieces were dried, I sanded the edges of all the wood pieces lightly and then the fun began! I adhered the mini star pallett to the top of the square one, using some craft glue dots. I diecut the sentiment from black vinyl and adhered the words, adding in a few punched glitter stars for fun and a little sparkle.

 

 

I added a Ken Oliver Vintage charm to some Jute kraft string I tied around the mini star and an Acrylic Token to finish it off!

 

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 Check back in Friday for another gorgeous project from Nicole!

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Epic Fail

Hey Roadies, it's Katrina here from Paper, Scissors and Glue on the blog today.  And yes, you read that title right!!!  We had a photo shoot with the dogs and our photographer always includes the outtakes, because sometimes they are the best pictures!  So what better than to scrap them with Maya Road products!

I have been a lover of all the resin pieces that Maya has, and I cannot seem to get enough of them!  I used one of the Ornate Resin Frames in Sea as a starting point for my tag cluster.  It was great to use as an elegant starting point for a focal point.  The best adhesive to use for these is a liquid, strong hold adhesive.  

And the little dog die cut in the paper collection that I used was just calling for a bow to be put on it!  I used one of the Pretty Resin Bows in Turquoise Sea for his little bow tie!  Isn't he cute?  And it's a fun way to decorate your die cuts.

A lot of the time, I will let the layout decide what embellishments I end up using on it.  The saying on this word strip just went with the Resin Owl, so I thought he would look cute perched on top of it.

So pull out your resin pieces and use them on your projects!  

And all resin is on sale thru May 31st!  So head over to the site to get your resin on HERE!!! 

Thanks for stopping by Roadies!!!

Maya Road Products Used

Ornate Resin Frames in Sea

Pretty Resin Bows in Turquoise Sea

Resin Mini Mums in Porcelain Pink

Alterable Wood Hearts

Follow Your Arrow Clips

Blackboard Kraft Mail Tags

Resin Owl

Sun Clips

 

Gift Wrapping

Hello Roadies!

I hope you all had a fun and blessed Mother's Day!

Today, I want to share with you a few ideas on how the beautiful Maya Road products can easily upgrade simple packaging into beautiful gift wrapping.  

 

 

This year, I chose to wrap my mom's  presents individually.   The papers used all come from a single 12x12 paper collection, and I chose the  B sides for the boxes, while creating the bag with the A side of one of the papers.

 

 

 

To create harmony on this collection, I used to wrap all the presents with Earl Grey Jute and Twine cording, and add accents of gold to all three wrappings. 

For the bag, after sealing it, I used my hole puncher to create a pair of holes where i could thread some of the twine.  After the first twine loop, a heart die cut- created from gold cardstock using the Geometric Heart Die - was added to the twine.  After another loop, a pair of Vintage Crafting Tassels (gold capped)  were added before tying the ends together in a bow.

 

 

 

The larger box was the one containing the sentiment.  I chose to add a large altered tag on this box;   I simply used the With Love Nature Die to cut the sentiment from gold cardstock, and glued it to the tag a bit off center.   Next I added a few of the Pearl Flower Trim - i just cut each flower individually - to the lower left corner of the tag, and glued a Pink Tulle Mini Bloom on top of the trim's flowers.  To complete the tag, I added a Pretty Resin Bow in white to the top of the tag, and a new an upcoming diamond resin piece around the flower.

 

 

 

To complete this trio of presents, I used some of the same elements on this box.  However, I added a Vintage Linen Burlap Rose, a  token from the Wood  Thoughtful Sentiment set,  a heart from the Ken Oliver Heart & Key  Charms,  and a gold butterfly die cut -created using the With Love Nature steel die - to make this box a little different, yet complimentary to the other in this group.

 

 

I love the final look of this set, the simple wrapping of the boxes is the perfect background for all the Maya Road embellishments.   I hope that you all check out all the beautiful products used, and take advantage of this month's Resin promotion over at the Maya Road website.

 

 

 

 

Remember that i am always available if you have any questions on how this project came together.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

MAYA ROAD products used:

Earl Grey Jute & Twine cording

Geometric Heart Die

Vintage Crafting Tassels (gold cap)

With Love Nature Die

Pearl Flower Trim

Tulle Mini Bloom

Pretty Resin Bow -White-

Wood Thoughtful Sentiment set

Vintage Burlap Rose

Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charms

 

Thankful for you card

Well hello Roadies!  This is Daniela with my first post as a Design Team member. Today I am showcasing our Medium Vintage Paper Flowers – White.

 

Fist I added Deco Foil  Liquid Adhesive to the flowers. I spread some Adhesive on a scrap piece of paper and "dipped" the flowers. This glue has to dry for a while. 

While the glue and the flowers were drying I adhered a piece of patterned paper in the middle of the card front. I die cut patterned paper with Notepaper Die and  layered a die cut piece over a journaling card. The die cut is wrapped with twine several times and adhered to the card front using 3D Foam Adhesive. Into the bow I tied a Vintage Crafting Tassels (Gold Cap) - Milk White and Ken Oliver Vintage Mini Keys.

I stamped and fussy cut all the items from Banner Sentiment Stamp Set. I added Deco Foil to the flowers. It only adheres to where adhesive is applied. I adhered the flowers and tucked the stamped and cut images around the flowers. The sentiment is adhered using 3D Foam Adhesive. I added another stamped and cut banner to the bottom of the card for additional color. 

I love the Medium Vintage Paper Flowers – White. They are so easy to alter to match your project. I hope you give this technique a try.

Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road blog today.

Maya Road Supplies:

Ken Oliver Vintage Mini Keys
Banner Sentiment Stamp Set
Jute & Twine Cording
Vintage Crafting Tassels (Gold Cap) - Milk White
Medium Vintage Paper Flowers – White
Notepaper Die

Love Always

Hi Roadies! Belly is on the blog today.

I showed you a mixed media card which is much feminine months before, but I really want to create one good for man, so here you go this month.

I started by having Maya Road Vintage Trims on the base, in the lower part of the card. Then adding embellishments on the right, like the mason jar kraft tag, wood slices, tassel and the oh deer resin charm.

I then die cut white doilies and black scalloped frame, and layered them together. I also die cut "with love" with a piece of scraps and used as stencil, heat embossed the words with white and gold embossing powder. The heart chipboard accents on top of the die cuts had been gessoed and heat embossed with UTEE.

Lastly I added stamped canvas banners, a tulle flower, some tiny glass beads and flicked some blue ink over the card.

 

Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sweet Pink Altered Hoop

Greetings Roadies! Today I'm bringing you a little something sweet and girly.  I have a little four year old tomboy in my house who, despite preferring snakes to unicorns, loves the color pink. I've found with having a little girl I discovered a love of pink that I didn't have previously.  This altered embroidery hoop brings a bit of feminine style to any room and would especially make lovely decor for a nursery, little girl's room, or as a gift for the romantics in your life.


I started with a small embroidery hoop and a piece of pink patterned fabric. After that I went overboard with all the pink, white, cream, and tan embellishments I could find! The first touch of romantic detail I added was the scalloped pink trim around the edge.


I have 100% love for the amazing and versatile Maya Road dies and I love to cut non-paper materials with them.  This "canvas" was the perfect place for some felt die cut doilies and rolled flowers. I had more neutral pre-made embellishments so I decided to use the dies to add in more shades of pink.


The rolled felt die flowers blend in perfectly with the other Maya Road felt flowers.  They look like they were meant to be together! I topped some of my flowers with tiny resin flowers, tucked in some white paper leaves, and strung a metal leaf and vintage tassel from the bottom.  I love these small touches!


I rolled a length of tulle trim to create the main flower on the right side. I also used an ornate resin frame under a felt flower for an another texture.


I topped the hoop with a die cut felt bow right on top of the screw closure. I also tied a small loop of twine and a metal bird charm.

You absolutely could add a small photo on here or a sentiment.  I nearly did both! But I decided I liked having a non-specific decor item to hang and I can always tuck a photo in when the mood strikes.

Thanks for joining me today!

Maya Road supplies:
- Bow Die
- Rolled Flower Die
- Vintage Doilies Dies
- Vintage Linen Burlap Roses
- Felt Roses: Taupe and White
- Trinket Pins
- Big Leaf Charms
- White Vintage Paper Leaves
- Violet Ornate Resin Frame
- Resin Mini Mums
- Soaring Bird Charms
- Trims and Lace
- Medium White Vintage Paper Flowers
- Milk White Vintage Crafting Tassels

Good Times Library Card Box

Hi Roadies!!  Hope you have enjoyed all the fun projects the team has created for you since the last time I posted.  And just in case you didn't know, there is a promotion for the fun wood products that Maya Road has going on over at the website.  So, I thought this was a perfect time to share my Library Card box I did for Creavation in January.  Wood is one of my favorite things to alter, so I knew I was going to have fun with this!

The best thing about these Library Card Boxes is that you can create and embellish as much or as little as you want!  You can add as many tags or add fewer tags, it's all up to you and what you feel like creating at the time!  

One thing I like to do with wood to prep it, is cover with a white paint in a couple of thin coats, letting each coat dry in-between.  I happened to use white chalk paint this time.  I then lightly washed a shimmery pink over the entire box, just to give it a fun feel.  I started to add polka dots, but I was scared that would take it too far!

While my box was drying, I started working on tags for it.  I cut them slightly smaller than the inside dimensions of the box.  This will allow you to stack, stand and flip thru them easily. I just created tags out of pattern paper, since I didn't have any shipping tags on hand.  I printed and cut a few pictures to fit the tags, but left room for me to embellish those tags with the pictures also. 

I am going to be honest, I spent a lot of time picking out embellishments.  Not because I was being a perfectionist, but because it was so fun to see how cute I could make the tags, yet make all of them different.  I will have a list of all the fun Maya Road supplies I used at the end of my post. 

And here is a little more about the promotion going on right now on the website.  And it's a new site that is bright, clean and easy to shop on!  New items are being added all the time, so be sure to stop by often!

Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road blog today.  Create something beautiful and share with us on Facebook and Instagram.  We would love to see your projects!

Maya Road Supplies Used

Ken Oliver Wood Library Card Box-#5 Size

Wood Tokens

Country Fair Wood Buttons

Alterable Wood Hearts

Felt Roses

Love Kraft Gift Tags

Mason Jar Kraft Tags

Man's Best Friend Clips

Ornate Resin Frame

Resin Mini Mums

Star Bright Charms

Tulle Mini Blooms

Linen Canvas Banner Pieces

 

 

 

 

 

Scrapboook Layout: BEAUTIFUL

Hello Roadies!

Nathalie with you today bringing you a new scrapbook layout -that was created for this year's Creativation weekend - using the beautiful Maya Road products.

 

 

 

This project is dear to my heart, as it is the only picture my sister and I took at her wedding.   So, I wanted something soft, and very feminine for the layout.   

 

 

 

It all started by creating the vase in the layout (the collection used in this project is Pink Paislee's Moonstruck collection).   A small piece of Ken Oliver's Vintage Dot Trim  was used at the base to recreate a dolly.  Next, a piece of Earl Grey jute and twine cording was attached around the vase image along with a small white Resin Bow and a Ken Oliver heart charm.  

 

 

To continue the feminine look of the layout,  some flower die cuts were created using the Vintage Dress Form and  With Love Nature steel dies.   The flowers and leaves were backed with vellum to add softness to the page, then these were attached to the layout using different widths of foam adhesives.   A few Vintage Butterfly transparencies were added in between the flowers.  Here is a look at the completed vase:

 

 

Next to frame the picture, a small cluster of embellishments was created.   The kraft Post Tag, "Beloved" wood token, and the Vintage Crafting Tassels in teal and white add just that extra charming touch to the picture.

 

 

A title was added to the piece, as well as some stickers from the collection, and some scattered flower die cuts.   Here is the final layout:

 

 

The final project is the perfect background for the sweet memory of my sister's special day.    I hope you can draw some inspiration to your projects.  Don't forget to check the materials used in this layout, and take advantage of this month's promotion on all wood products.  Use the prompt  WOODUBEMINE to obtain 20% off all your wood product purchases at the Maya Road online store.

 

 

 

As always let me know if you have any questions on how this came together.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 Maya Road products used:

Vintage Crafting Tassels - milk white and teal -

Earl Grey Jute and Twine cording

Snow White Resin Bows

Ken Oliver Heart and Key Charm

Vintage Dress Form steel die

With Love Nature Steel die

Vintage Butterfly transparencies

Kraft Post Tags

"Beloved" Wood Token