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Maya Road & Photoplay Product/Blog Swap | 12x12 Layout -SHINE-

Hello Roadies!

 

 

Nathalie here to welcome you  to the last day of the Maya Road and Photoplay Product/Blog swap.  I hope you all had found inspiration on all the projects showcased this week.  Remember to take the time to visit both blogs, and comment along the way, one lucky comment will be winning a gift certificate to the store.  But know let me show you what i created for this swap using the beautiful Maya Road products, and the super fun Mad 4 Plaid collection from Photoplay.

 

 

 

For my project, I wanted to recreate a Christmas tree just like the one my daughter is sit under in the picture.  Since there are so many beautiful patterns in the Photoplay's  Mad 4 Plaid collection,  i tried to combined them all by using 1x12 in long strips to create paper rosettes.  These were then glued -and stacked- to recreate the Christmas tree silhouette.

 

 

 

Once the entire tree shape was created, I started adding details to the center of each rosette using the sequin stickers from the Mad 4 Plaid sticker sheet, along with some of the Maya Road Pearl Button Trim, and Pearl Flower Trim that were cut individually, and glued to the center of each rosette.

 

 

To tie in the picture to the layout, I used a few wood tokens as centers for some of the rosettes -the wood tokens come from the Wood Classic Tokens,  Wood Love Tokens,  Wood Beloved Tokens - .  A little bit of gold acrylic paint was all that was needed to add some shine to each of the tokens.   In addition, since the papers color palette had some grey in it, i added some Silver Star Pins scattered at the edge of the tree.

 

 

 

Every tree needs a topper!, so I pulled some of the Snowflake Chipboard Set, and used gold foil on two of their matching snowflakes (same star, different sizes) to tie in with the gold shine in the wooden tokens; then just glued them together, and affixed it to the top paper rosette.  Our Christmas tree usually has a large bow right under the star, so I added one of the White Pretty Resin Bow to recreate our Christmas tree.

 

 

 The Photoplay's  Mad 4 Plaid collection comes filled with gorgeous papers, and super fun stickers and die cut pieces.   I used some of the stickers to create clusters around the picture, and one of the die cut pieces "SHINE" serves as the title for this project.   To make the small title/die cut pop, i used the Sparkle and Die Steel Die set to create a few star sequin from some of the 6x6  papers from the collection, and then just glued them around the title.

 

 

 

Here is a close up of one of the clusters around the picture, once again,  i used a combination of embellishments, plus I added my favorite charm from the Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charm set to the cluster.  Remember there is a promotion going -30%off the entire collection- on this entire month on all Ken Oliver's collection on the Maya Road on line store.

 

A few flickers of gold paint, and a few lines of journal complete the page.  Can i say that the beautiful Maya Road along with the Mad 4 Plaid collection from Photoplay made it easy to document a memory in July (it was a humid day the day i created this page!!).

 

Remember to stop by the blog to check all the projects created this week, and leave a comment on each entry, there will be a prize for a lucky comment.  As usual, let me know if you have questions on how this came together.

 

See you all soon,

 

 

Maya Road Products used:

Pearl Button Trim

Pearl Flower Trim

 Wood Beloved Tokens 

Wood Classic Tokens

Wood Love Tokens

Wood Beloved Tokens

Silver Star Pins

Snowflake Chipboard Set

Pretty Resin Bow

Sparkle and Die Steel Die set

Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charm set

Mini Album | What I Like

Hi Roadies! Stacy here and I am back on the Mayaroad blog today with a mini album to share! Making this album had been fun! The design team has been sharing many ideas on how to use chipboards in our projects, and today, I will also share how I made use of chipboards in my mini album.

I wanted to make an album to house some of the things I love, and here is my mini album:

First way I usually like to use the chipboards - as album covers! There are many chipboard albums available in different shapes and sizes, great for use to construct mini albums! I used the 5x5 tabbed chipboard album to construct this mini album. 

Like always, I always like to spice up the spine of my mini albums with some stitching! This time, I am using the Ken Oliver Waxed Hemp (Tangerine) for the long stitch binding on my spine! I love this waxed hemp for stitching, and it comes in a variety of colors! 

Another way I used my chipboards is to paint them white, and draw some stitching lines on them! This is a fun and easy way to decorate the chipboards, and give it an interesting look too. Try dry brushing gesso onto chipboards, I like how some of the pieces give a weathered look!

Of course, adding acrylic paints gives the chipboards an entirely different look. With a base coat in place, I have also added some shimmer with some glitter glues on top. It gives a shiny coat and highlights the title.

Of course, I really love to dress up my chipboards! One of my favourite ways is to add some stamping on top of the base coat. Try it with raw chipboards as well, this gives a different texture and feel to the entire embellishment! On the top right corner, I have also tried coloring the chipboards with brush pens / markers.

 

Last but not least, use the chipboards as they are! Raw chipboards are pretty as they are - so feel free to use them directly on your projects. Raw chipboards gives a very good background to your embellishments, they are not cluttered or too colorful. On some chipboards, I also used some foil papers to back up the negative spaces for a little glow amongst the raw chipboard pieces.

Chipboards are the basic materials everyone needs for that next scrapbook project! Hope you find some inspiration! You will also be happy to know, that Mayaroad is having a promo this month for chipboards! Use the coupon code CHIPCHIP for 30% off all chipboards during your checkout! Enjoy the promo code!

Supplies Used:

• Lucky Stars Chipboard Set
• 5x5 Tabbed Chipboard Ring Album
• Love Chipboard Banner
• Ken Oliver Waxed Hemp (Tangerine)
• Hexagon Chipboard Set
• Camera Chipboard Set
• Speech Bubble Chipboard Set

 

      

Maya Road & Simple Stories Product Swap | Day 5

Hello Roadies!

 

It's Nathalie, and i am the so happy to be part of  the Maya Road & Simple Stories product swap.  I hope you all have been inspired by all the beautiful projects members of both design teams have been sharing this week.  

 

 

 

I am lucky to serve as a member on both design teams, so this project was a dream to work on.   Today, I am bringing you a new layout that was completely inspired by the floral designs in the new Summer Days collection by Simple Stories.

 

 

The flowers in this collection resemble the ones from the  Maya Road Flower Die Set.   So i pulled some white texture card stock, and cut a few of the flower die cuts.  Since I wanted to make this page cheery and fun, I pulled the So Much Fun paper from the Summer Days collection to serve as the mat for this layout.

 

 

 

 

The color lines in the paper was the  starting point for the color blocking in the die cuts.  I simply used watercolors and inks to try (at best!) to replicate the colors of the paper lines in the die cut flowers, and leaves. To tie in the design, the centers of all the flowers were cut from the B side of the Lazy Days paper.  

 

 

 

Once the picture of one of my littles was set in the center of the page, all the flowers were attached to the page following the color line they landed on.  Now it came time to decorate, and embellish!

 

 

I chose to add some wood tokens from the Wood Snapshot Token set, and the Wood 24/7 Journaling Tokens as centers in two of the flowers closest to the picture on each corner.  A Resin Diamond in Snow White as well a few Vintage Pearl - Trinket Pins were added around some of the flowers to bring the white color in the layout's mat.   

 

 

In addition, i used some of the papers and stickers from the collection to cover some pieces from the Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti Set and Love Chipboard Banner so that they also continue the colorful striped pattern in the layout papers.  A little bit of glue attaches the paper to the chipboard, then a bit of fussy cutting, and you can easily create new chipboard stickers for your projects.  These pieces were then used to frame the picture in the layout along with a few more stickers and paper pieces from the Simple Stories Summer Days collection.

 

 

 

I love the final look of this layout; lots of dimension and different textures bring the happiness of cheerfulness of a pool day on a hot day to the layout.  The Summer Days collection from Simple Stories is just beautiful, and our super versatile Maya Road products bring that special touch to this project.  They are a match made in "Craft" heaven!!

 

I hope you all have been inspired this week!  Don't forget to check the new Simple Stories  blog for more inspiration, and their new collections...

Website - https://www.simplestories.com

Blog - https://www.simplestories.com/blog

Facebook - http://bit.ly/1ntY7fw

Instagram - Simple Stories - https://www.instagram.com/simplestories_/

Instagram - Carpe Diem - https://www.instagram.com/carpediemplanners/

and all the newly released Maya Road products (there are so many new goodies) available on line.   Remember to comment on this week's blog posts, one lucky comment will be receiving a $20 gift certificate to the store (YAY!!!).    

 

I am comment away if you have questions on how this came together (though it might take a few extra hours, as this goes live we are on route to beautiful Ecuador!, but my phone is with me, so i will get to the comments as soon as I arrive in Quito!)

 

Thanks for Stopping by!

 

 

Maya Road Products used:

Flower Die Set

Wood Snapshot Token Set

Wood  24/7 journaling Tokens

 Resin Diamond - Snow White

Trinket Pins - Vintage Pearl

Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti Set

Love Chipboard Banner

 

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Hi Roadies! Belly's on the blog today. The chipboard promotion is now live, 30% off all chipboard using the coupon code CHIPCHIP, remember to check out on Maya Road site.

 

Chipboard works great together with various techniques and you certainly sometimes don't want to use a lot of time to alter them. On this layout, I used only two very very simple coloring methods on the chipboard, let me show you.

 

The main technique I used on the chipboard is pressing Distress Ink directly on them, you can also work with other kinds of ink too, see the above example of the green arrows and big button, also the red heart chipboard. If you would like to make them shine, Glossy Accents or UT are the choices.

 

 

The second technique I used on the chipboard alphabets is just spray o. If you want to have a shinny gold color, you cannot use water-based spray ink, it is important to use the home decor one, this can give you a cool shinny and more rich gold color than the water-based one.

 

Other Maya Road products I used on this layout:
Geometric Blossom Die
Acrylic Mason Jars - Classic
Crystal Flower Buttons
Medium Vintage Paper Flowers - Red
Small Vintage Paper Flowers - Red
Wood Holiday Tokens
Vintage Crafting Tassels (Gold Cap) - Ocean Blue

 

Enjoy!!!

Chipboard Goes Shabby

Hi everyone! Julia here with a sweet and shabby style card to share with you today. It's a fun mix of this and that which just goes to show how many different product types you can mix and match together!

 

This month at Maya Road the product focus is on chipboard and I've pulled out some cute little chipboard houses from my Maya Road stash and made them the central focus of the design. I love using chipboard in my designs as I love the heavy accent it brings to the design. The sturdiness of chipboard always lends itself so well to so many different technique!

As I love a vintage look, my go-to technique for chipboard is to paint it. I use either a gesso primer or a white or pastel acrylic paint and brush it over the chipboard. Usually it takes a couple coats to really get a solid look. THEN, once it's dry, I take some sandpaper and sand the edges to get a nice vintage look to it. On these sweet houses, I've painted them white and then sponged on some ink to get different pastel shades to each house.

A tip for working with chipboard...use a really strong liquid adhesive or a hot glue gun to adhere this heavy duty embellishment to your project!

Once my chipboard houses were complete, I've layered them together with some other embellishments from Maya Road such as paper flowers, a wood ticket and a pink card stock die-cut. With the little houses and fun homemaking paper I've paired them up with, this card makes a fun "thanks for the hospitality" card design.

Are you crazy for chipboard? Stay tuned throughout the month for lots of inspirational design featuring chipboard. It's also on sale for the month of June! 30% off with coupon code CHIPCHIP  in the Maya Road online store here.  I think that deserves a chip, chip, hooray! Don't you?

Supplies:

Vintage Button Card Die

Welcome Home Chipboard Set

Medium Vintage Paper Flowers Red

Small Vintage Paper Flowers White

Gold Bulldog Clips

Vintage Wood Ticket Tokens

Vintage Findings Paper Leaves Small

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Wood Pallet: Keepin' It Real

Hello Roadies!  

 

Nathalie with you today, bringing you my first project for 2017!

I had worked on a layout for this post, but upon consideration, I wanted to share with you one of the projects that made the trip to Arizona this year to be part of Creativation.  This time the focus of the pallet was me, so i labelled the pallet "Keepin' It Real".

 

 

 

This was a fun project to work on.   The 6x6 wood pallet  was the starting point for this project.  Since i wanted a blank canvas, i used some antique white acrylic paint to lightly color the entire pallet.  While the base dried, i used Earl Grey Jute and Twine cording to wrap the inside part of an embroidery hoop.

 

 

 

Next i used the Rolled Flower die, and cut flowers out of pink ombre paper.  Once the flowers were formed, i used pieces of the pearl button trim to create the centers of the flowers.

 

 

 

Next I attached the wrapped hoop to the right side of the pallet.  I placed the picture at the bottom right of the hoop, cut a chipboard sticker to form my title inside of the hoop.   A small cluster of ephemera was placed at the bottom right of the hoop right below the picture.  For this, simply used some white paint to color one of the Snapshot Wooden token, and a little gold marker to define the camera and sentiment in the token.  To continue the white theme of the pallet, i placed  a Vintage Crafting White Milk tassel, and a Vintage Crafting (gold cap) Milk White tassel  below the token.

 

 

 

All the rolled flowers were glued to the left of the picture as a cascade from the top to bottom of the pallet.   A  white Vintage Butterfly transparency, one of the chipboard hearts in the Mini heart confetti set -painted gold-, and  one of the 24/7 Journaling wood tokens painted in white  were scattered along the flower cluster.

 

 

 

 

Finally,  I used some multiple papers to and the Typewriter die to create the piece that serves as the anchor of the pallet.  Adding a small sentiment sticker completed this pallet.

 

 

 

I love the final look of this pallet, and how the pieces worked together beautifully!

 

 

 

I hope this encourages you to take some time to use all the beautiful Maya Road products to create a project all about you!

Thanks for visiting today!

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Road products used:

24/7 Journal wood token

Mini Heart confetti set

Vintage butterfly white transparency

Pearl button trim

Typewriter die

6x6 wood mini pallet

Roller flower die

Wood Snapshot token

Vintage crafting tassel -milk white

Vintage Crafting Tassel (gold cap) - milk white

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Road & Xyron Swap: Easel Card Drawer

Hi Roadies! Stacy here on the Maya Road Blog today and it's Day 5 of Maya Road DT and Xyron Swap! Have you been checking out the inspirations under the hashtags #mayaroad #xyron ? I hope you have been enjoying all the projects by the DTs!

What's a blog swap without prizes? Don't forget to check out more details on the blog swap here! There is an amazing prize for this swap at the end of the week! 

Ok! Now back to my project created for this swap! Creating for this swap had been a breeze! With the right tools and great embellishments, the project time was shortened and creativity spiked! I used both the 1.5" and 3" sticker makers for this project. I find the variety of sizes good for different embellishments. For today, I decided to construct an easel card drawer. This idea had been roving in my mind for some time now, and I decided to put my hands on it!

Easel cards can be stored flat yet opened up to stand when the receiver receives it. So I thought, why not add a drawer to include some special gifts for the receiver as well?

I started out with making the starburst background for my card. The triangular shapes were cut from different pattern papers and I used the Xyron 3" sticker maker to provide adhesive to my pieces. It's so convenient!

See? All the bits and pieces are now ready for use. I even had excess for my next project! 

Next i prepared some die-cuts to use for my easel card. These Maya Road dies are my top favorites! Here you will see the diagonal ATC die-cut, Amazing Grace Script die-cut, Geometric Leaf die-cut and my latest favorite flower die! You need this die for sure! I love the Xyron with my word dies, it really means that I'll never lose that dot above the "i" anymore!

 I started out adhering the triangle pieces in a starburst fashion and stitched them with a sewing machine. For the die-cuts, I simply ran them through the Xyron sticker makers! Running them through was fun and easy! 

Oh yes, i ran a chipboard through as well! I'm using a chipboard piece from Maya Road Shot through the Heart chipboard set. For this piece, I took my markers and colored it. Everything is now ready for me to start decorating! 

Here is a another closer look into the drawer box. Yes I did run this Mayaroad token through the 3" Xyron sticker maker too!

Boy this was fun! Hope you have enjoyed this walk through the making of this easel card drawer!

Do stop by each of the posts (4th - 9th Sept) and comment each day for a chance to win! Be sure also to stop by Xyron to check out the different adhesives available for every crafting needs. Their designers will be sharing more inspiration for you and the easiest way to find them will be with the hashtags #mayaroad #xyron 

 

 

New Born Fairy

Hi Roadies! Belly's on the blog today.

A friend of mine asked me to make an album for her, which she would like to gift to celebrate a friend's new born baby. How can I make a special one? I think of the theme "Fairy", which is not just pink or light blue in color. Album is always a good one to gift because most of the parents love to display their baby photos, so I decided to make a stand for displaying the album, where the drawers underneath is good to store the memoriables.

 

I chose the mini spool for decorating the stand, the Maya Road Vintage Burlap Roses are also perfect to match. I like to add more flowers on this stand as blooms are always nice to represent "beautiful" and "shine".

 

Here show you a few of the inside pages. Pearls and crystals, and the Maya Road Resin Birds are also amazing to add here.

 

For the ring album, there are tags, envelopes, and even an accordion album. This accordion album is just like a separate album, I made a cover for it, other than the chipboard accents, I added a few of my favorite Maya Road goodies, mini spool with twine, tassel and burlap rose, I love them so much!

 

One more page to show you, this is the front of an envelope, I put the Maya Road Arrow Charm on the top, this can guide you to turn and open it, so nice!

 

Maya Road Products I used:
Wood Skinny Spools
Vintage Wood Sewing Spool
Vintage Burlap Roses - Lime
Vintage Burlap Roses - Barn
Vintage Burlap Roses - Lemon
Vintage Ken Oliver Bird Cages
Resin Nesting Birds - Sand
Resin Nesting Birds - Coral
Tulle Mini Blooms - Buttercream
Cherry Red Jute & Twine Cording
Vintage Crafting Tassels (Gold Cap) - Bark Brown
Vintage Wood Stitch Heart and Arrow Charms

 

Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Mixed Media Mini Album by Yasmin Tölche

Hello Roadies! It's Yasmin here back again with another share today. This time I've made a mixed media mini album using one of Maya Roads fantastic chipboard mini albums with a video tutorial. 

I've used loads of Maya Road products on my mini album, including one of my favorite Maya flowers - the felt roses. Those are the cutest ever. Let's take a look at my mini. 

I love the spring feel my album got. If you would like to see how I made this album please take a look at the video. :) 

 

Aren't those crackles just gorgoeus? I've also played with some Maya Dies using the doilies underneath my cluster of flowers. 

This gorgeous metal key charm works perfectly on the spine of my mini album. 

These are the products used in this post: 

C2036 - 5x5" Chipboard Album

K1705 - Die Cut Kraft Doilies

Die3203 - Vintage Doily Dies 

TK3181 - Shimmering Pointed Petal Flower - White

Twine Cording - Jute - Natural 

TK2973 - Felt Roses - Mustard Yellow

TK2968 - Felt Roses - Milk White 

Res3243 - Resiin Mini Mums - Sand

Wood Tokens

VF3085 - Antique Room Key 

 

Thank you so  much for stopping by us today! :) 

               

 

 

 

 

 

Canvas: We

Hi crafty friends! It's Stacy here and it is my turn on the Blog today! This time I am back with a canvas! I wanted to create something to document my upcoming wedding and I am excited to put this together!

I do love hexagons. This is one shape that is special yet not over cluttering when placed on layouts. You can do the same layout with other shapes as well. I first treated the canvas with Gesso, and then painted with colors of my choice - pink and a hint of green. I opted for the more dreamy colors in this layout. Then I added the hexagon chipboard and roses vintage lace trim - cloud directly onto the background. I painted these to match the background color so they do not look overwhelming.

Then, I misted the chipboard swirls in silver to match the overall color tone. I added this to 3 parts of the layout in order to achieve a visual triangle to balance things out. 

 

After the background elements were done, I added the hexagon box to the canvas. Decorating this was easy. First, I added jute & twine cording to the wood spools. Next was the painting portion. I painted the royal key charms with gesso, so they do not look overwhelming against the entire layout. I took the heart element from the Chipboard Say What Speech Bubbles and also painted it red. Flowers are my best friends in crafting! Here I used 2 of my favorite Mayaroad flowers - Felt Roses & Tu-Tu Tulle Flowers - for layering. Last but not least, this dreamy birdie here took my breathe away! They are such a pretty sight, I could not resist but to add them to the layout as well!

After the main frame was done, I moved on to decorate the other parts of the canvas layout. I selected some chipboards with love phrases from my Maya Road stash and painted them. You can choose to add glitter to the words in order to create attention.

 

 

Here comes my favorite part of the entire canvas! Here, I used the pretty resin bows and acrylic tokens for layering. The resin bow was painted to match the colors of the entire layout. I really love how subtle yet pretty the acrylic tokens are! For sure it will be appearing again for my projects! 

Next, I added some more Tu-Tu Tulle flowers, felt roses, daisy clip, pearl flowers and tassel for layering. The tassels are super yummy! I love to use them on my projects! Love how it comes in many different colors!

Hope you like what I shared with you today!

 

Maya Road Supplies Used: 

• Tassel
• Acrylic Tokens
• Pretty Resin Bows - Coral
• Beautiful Daisy Clips
• Resin Nesting Birds - Snow White
• Roses Vintage Lace Trim - Cloud
• Hexagon Chipboard
• Swirls Chipboard Set
• Sweet Love Chipboard Set
• Chipboard Say What Speech Bubbles
• Felt Roses
• Tu-Tu Tulle Flowers
• royal key charms
• jute & twine cording
• wood spools

 

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