Maya Road Design Team

Christmas Times

Hi Roadies Angella here with you today for some Christmas crafting, It is my favourite time of year for holiday projects.

Christmas Times - At Christmas Play and Make Good Cheer, for Christmas comes but once a Year - Visions of Sugar Plums

Using 2 of the Countdown Alterable shadow boxes and  joining together to form a book, makes for a delightful holiday fun project, you can alter the squares to form your shadow box into any shape of squares. It is easy to cut the chipboard with out losing the form or strength in your project.

And of course you have all the Maya Road Embellishments for the trimmings, weather you want the traditional colours or make your own colours. And of course I love using the wooden spools to stand my project on display.  

 

 

Using Countdown Alterable Shadow boxes

Nesting Birds Resin

Ornate resin frames

Oh Deer Charms resins

Wooden Spools

Kraft Scroll Frame Journaling tags

Tu Tu Tulle flowers

Vintage Stained Wood Buttons

Twine

Bottle Brush Trees

Ken Oliver Key

Vintage Crafting Tassel

Candy Dot fabric tape

Glitter tape

All at your one stop place  Maya Road

Thank you Roadies for joining me today

from me to you have a great day

 

 

 

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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A Mason Jar Holiday

Hi Roadies! Julia here with a last minute holiday project that you can put together with some Maya Road products. I'm a huge fan of mason jars. They are a simple classic that are great for storage, holding gifts or even altering into crafting projects. Today I'm excited to try out a little shabby chic mason jar holiday snow scene to decorate with this Christmas season.

First of all you need a mason jar and lid to create this project. I've used 16 oz. wide mouth jar but the shorter ones work too. I do recommend the wide mouth variety though to allow you room to work and place your little scene at the bottom of the jar.

To create the scene in the jar, I created a little metal base to adhere the items onto by flipping over a 2" Mega Bottlecap. Sweet little bottle brush tress, Oh Deer Resin Charms and an Our Town Transparency were adhered to it and then placed into the jar. To add in a snowy look, I used some faux snow sprinkled in over the top once everything was in the jar.

To embellish the top of the mason jar, I punched out a circle from patterned paper and adhered it to the jar lid insert. It's also layered with gesso painted chipboard, and an altered star bottle cap. The bottle cap painted with gesso and then was filled with a strong liquid adhesive. While the adhesive is wet, place the wood spool in the center and then sprinkle the rest of the adhesive with glass glitter. To finish off the sides of the mason jar ring, I painted it lightly with gesso and then adhered Silver Sparkle Trim and Mini Banner Alterable Crochet Trim.

I thought it would be fun to add a little light option to this sweet jar. It lights it up so nicely in the evenings. I simply used a little LED tea light and then adhered it to the lid with a large glue dot. The glue dot will adhere it but also allow you to remove the light to switch it on and off.

Hoping this gives you a little holiday inspiration and Merry Christmas from me to you!

Maya Road Supplies:

Star Bottlecap

2" Mega Bottlecap

White Bottlebrush Trees

Silver Sparkle Trim

Vintage Wood Spools

Sky Blue Oh Deer Resin Charms

Our Town Transparencies White

Jute Cording Natural

Mini Banner Alterable Crochet Trim

Round Jeweled Centers

 

Spooktacular Halloween

It's almost Halloween and we've been getting spooky and fun here at Maya Road! I love this time of year and get a real kick out of creating whimsical décor to fit the mood.  It may not be out for long but I look forward to decorating for Halloween more than I do for any other holiday.

Today I bring you something Spooktacular!


It started out as a wood tray from the Dollar Spot at Target (who doesn't love Target!?) and I added a variety of chip shapes, trims, flowers, and metal.


The right side is a little village scene created from the Our Home chipboard houses.  I popped them with foam tape to give depth and added details like the tiny chipboard Cameo head behind the window, open door, and Decorative Filigree Frame.


I used a double layer of trim, including the mocha Tulle Pleat trim, on the bottom of the frame to give the impression of the dry autumn ground.


The left side is the foreground and I got sparkly on this side! The large moon is simply a Jumbo Bottle Cap that was covered in paper and glittered around the edges.  Now that's a Harvest Moon!

The tree branches from the chipboard Birds of a Feather set were painted black and rubbed with pearl dust. I hung a couple of pearl charms from the branches as well.


The chipboard cage got gilded in glitter, as did the raven in the tree. I tucked a Vintage Linen Burlap Rose and a few other flowers into the corner for a bit more nature.

I wrapped the tray up in a fun black and white striped ribbon with a bow on top.



Maya Road Products:
Decorative Filigree Frame
Our Home Chipboard
Cameos Mini Chipboard
Tulle Pleat Trim - mocha
Jumbo Bottle Cap
Birds of a Feather Chipboard
Canvas Flower
Chipboard Birdcage
Vintage Linen Burlap Rose

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a spooktacular Halloween!

 

Gift Box: Beautiful Love

Hi Roadies, this is Stacy here today with a gift box specially made for a special bride to be! It is such a great joy to construct this box with the scallop heart chipboard album, and the embellishments just flowed easily, layered one onto another.

Here's the heart shaped box I have created with the scallop heart chipboards and 2 pieces of pattern paper, everything from scratch.

I love the decorative scrolls. They are absolutely gorgeous layered behind the large flower! I applied some glossy accents and added 2 different types of glitter to the gold painted swirl. When dried, the 2 different glitters merged together and formed a swirl of colors on the scrolls.

Of course, the beautiful, beautiful die-cut which melts my heart! This die is so intricate, yet the results are so perfect! It is so easy to cut with this die, and layering it such a joy. I've also added glitter to the "Love" from the mini chipboard set to create a different texture between the titles.

Layering this cannot get any more fun than this! Isn't this deer an all time classic love? Check out the kraft framed sayings and wooden tag tucked behind the deer! These are my current favorites for layering, and I love how the muted colors help to bring out the main embellishments. Add some pins, spools and jute to complete the look!

Last but not least, here's a final look on the box, and don't forget to add a note for that special one with the kraft scroll frame journalling tags!

Thanks for stopping by! 

Maya Road Supplies Used:

Scallop Heart Chipboard Album
Crafting Jute Cording - Natural
Glitter Dust - Sparkle Pack
Framed Sayings Kraft Pieces - White
Kraft Vintage Butterfly Pieces - White
Love Words Mini Chipboard Set
Felt Roses
Wood You've Been Framed Embellishments
Decorative Scrolls Chipboard Set
Silver Star Pins
Trinklet Pins - Antique Gems
Oh Deer Resin Charms
Wood Skinny Spools
Kraft Scroll Frame Journaling Tags - White
Lace
Wood Tag
Maya Road Die - Beautiful
White Large Flower

Mini Album: Everyday

Hi Roadies, Stacy here on the MR blog today with a bright and sunshine filled mini album to share. This time round, I decided to make a sunburst album filled with tags and pockets!

I really love the possibilities of Maya Road products. In this case, I altered the "Home Sweet Home Mixed Media Album" to the size and shape I needed for this project. Did I also mention that I hoarded 3 sets of this just because they are so versatile? :) The chimney and height of this album was removed and reduced to fit the size required.

As usual, I had to incorporate some form of binding in my project. Using Maya Road Jute & Twine Cording together with Twine Cording Solids - Cherry Red, I bounded the mini album with double coptic binding and I love how the two colors came about together! The cords really outlined each stitch of the binding and it gives a study spine to the album.

For the cover, I decided to give the title a little shine, just by using the gold glitter dust and some multi-medium glue. Easy job, and I get the color that I require for the project! The star was part of the speech bubble chipboard set, and I colored it with yellow coptic makers, then misting it with some light sparkle.

The part of this album that I love is when it opens out, like a sunburst effect and encasing 8 tags where I made them with pockets as well.

 

Last but not least, the manila shipping tags which I decorated with felt flowers, kraft flowers and Chipboard speech bubbles. 

Hope you like the project! :) Have a great week ahead and enjoy crafting with Maya Road products!

Maya Road Supplies Used:

Home Sweet Home Mixed Media Album
Twine Cording Solids - Cherry Red
Jute & Twine Cording
Manila Shipping Tags #5
Hexagon Chipboard Set
Framed Sayings Kraft Pieces - White
Metal Vintage Trinklets - Geo Tag Love Clips
Chipboard Say What Speech Bubbles
Keychain Chipboard - Everyday words
Glitter Dust - Sparkle Pack
Kraft Vintage Butterfly Pieces - White
Wood Shipping Tags
Kraft Layerable Flowers

adding detail to wood embellishments

 

Hi Roadies! Kimberly here today with two quick and easy ways to add detail to your wood embellishments. I love the look of wood, but sometimes you need to add a little sparkle or a pop of color. The fantastic wood embellishments from Maya Road make that incredibly easy to do!

 

Every crown needs a little sparkle! I added Glossy Accents inside the indented designs on this Wood Token. Then I poured a small amount of glitter from the Giltter Dust Sparkle Pack over the top. The excess was tapped off. If the glitter is in places you don't want it to be, simply use a small brush to flick it away.

 

My card was looking too pink and yellow, so I grabbed a Wood Shipping Tag and painted it with an aqua blue color. The paint does not take very long to dry. But if you are impatient like me, use your heat tool to speed the process up. I do find that the heat gun brings out the wood grain behind the paint, which I like. 

 

 

I also layered in some Candy Dots Fabric Tape and Mini Pom Pom trim for an even more feminine looking card. 

 

What are your favorite ways to dress up plain wood embellishments?

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kimberly Crawford

 

Supplies:

Glitter Dust Sparkle Pack

Candy Dots Fabric Tape-Lemon Yellow

Mini Pom Pom Trim-Cloud White

Wood Shipping Tags

Wood Tokens

 

Breathe.Love.Be Mini album with Yasmin Tölche

Hello sweet Roadies! It's Yasmin on the blog today and I hope everyone is enjoying summer.. I have a Canvas mini album with a new video tutorial to share with you today. I hope you all enjoy it. 

So here it is! I've had such a blast making this. I've used so many lovely Maya Road embellishments. Almost all of the flowers are Maya Road, the vintage key and the leafs are also Maya Road. 

Here is the video tutorial on who to make the cover of this lush mini album. I left out the insides so it wouldn't be lengthy video to watch. We only have 10minutes to spare right?! 

 

 

It's super thick and I punched a whole on each side of the cover to pull some seambinding ribbon through so I could hold it together. 

Here are some of the inside pages: 

I've added some extra pages by using some of the Maya Road packs as sturdy insides and covering them with paper and embellishments. 

Here are the list over supplies: 

• Canvas Binder 4" - CN1841
• Maya Mist - Bubblegum Pink
• Maya Mist - Gold
• Glitter Dust - Sparkle - G2921
• Felt Roses - Milk White - TK2968
• Satin Blossoms - Cream - TK2431
• Key to my heart - Charms - VF2696
• Big Metal Leaf - Charms - VF 2696
• Vintage Garden Rose - Charms - VF2662
• Metal Trinket - Lovely Leaf Clips -  MVT2674
• Satin Edge Trim - Cream - SSE2425
• Jute  Cording - Natural - TC2705
• Scallop Frame Chipboard Set - C1976
• Shot through the heart Chipboard set - C2225
• Vintage Pins - Vintage Pearl - TK1079

Thank you so much for joining me today! This mini would be awesome as a wedding gift using an Instax camera photos and glueing them in on the day! Have a creative monday! 

Three Styles of Embellished Cards

Hi Roadies! It's Jocelyn on the blog today. If you're a card maker, do you like to customize the card for the recipient? I have a stash of general cards, but I often like to make the card reflect the recipient's style. Today, I'm sharing cards in three different styles using several of the same embellishments.

First up:

For this card, I went for a summery, Americana, homespun style. To achieve this look, I used fabric and trims, and a summery color scheme.

I took an old pair of my daughter's jeans, cut off the pocket, and stitched the Mini Cloud and Apple Red Pom Pom trims to the top of the pocket. I also added one of the new Sparkle Sequin Bows and Felt Roses.

 

To finish the card, I layered patterned paper and added a Silver Mini Clothespin.

Next:

 

For my second card, I went with natural, outdoorsy feel for this travel card. To achieve this look, I kept the colors neutral and added natural elements (burlap and gold).

The card was designed to be a way to give the awesome necklace from Bethany Lane. I put the long necklace chain in the Linen Treasure Bag and ran a few stitches through it. Next to the bag, I added a Camera Clip. The clip was altered using gold liquid gilding to match the rest of the warm colors.

Since I wanted to repeat the gold theme, I adhered the Gold Glitter Dust onto the Kraft Butterfly. It adds a great sparkle to the card.

Lastly:

I was thinking of my teenage nieces when I made this card--it has a whimsical and fun feel to it. To achieve this look, I layered several embellishments with bright colors and different textures: the Tu Tu Tulle Flower, an Ornate Resin Frame, a Feather clip, and a Felt Rose.

To finish the card, I stitched the Mini Pom Pom trim to the top.

I hope these cards provide some inspiration for different card styles. Thanks for stopping by!


Products Used
Felt Roses-Milk White
Sparkle Sequins Bow-Shiny Silver
Mini Pom Pom Trim-Cloud White
Mini Pom Pom Trim-Apple Red
Wood Mini Clothes Pin-Silver
Vintage Linen Burlap Treasure Bag
Camera Clip
Glitter Dust-Sparkle Pack
Kraft Vintage Butterfly Pieces-White
Framed Sayings Transparency Pieces-White
Tu-Tu Tulle Flowers-Sea Blue
Ornate Resin Frame-Lemon Curd
Feather Clip
Felt Roses-Princess Pink
Mini Pom Pom Trim-Sunshine Yellow

U Make 4-Altering Embellishments

Hey Roadies!  It's Katrina here with my first posting on the Maya Road blog.  I am excited to show you a few ways to embellish your embellishments.  I have four different ways on one scrapbook layout, so let's get started!

I tend to leave wooden embellishments bare, but recently I have dug out the glitter.  Scary right?!  I found an easy way to get the glitter to stick and not flake as much.  I first paint the item with either gesso or white acrylic paint and then while it's still wet sprinkle the glitter on.  This helps keep the glitter in place and not flake.  If I am still having a little trouble with flaking, I have been known to pull out my hairspray and lightly mist the piece.  This bird was just calling for some gold glitter! I untwisted some of the Twine in Blackberry and used just the black to make a little nest behind the bird and the Rectangular Kraft Envelope.

Next up chipboard.  Why have your chipboard be lonely?  Pair it up with another piece of chipboard and some other embellishments.  Here I covered two pieces from the Mixed Mini Blossom set in two different papers.  Stack and then attach a wooden Bingo Motif piece in the center for fun and add some paper die cuts  and Trinket Pins if you want to take it a little further. I also used this cluster as part of my title.

Another fun way to embellish your chipboard is to use the foil transfer sheets that are so popular right now.  There are a couple of different companies that have these and they are fun to use on chipboard.  You will need either a liquid or spray adhesive that will work with the foils.  I used spray adhesive and then placed the foil transfer sheet on top of my letter.  Rub hard with your finger or a burnishing tool and then carefully lift the transfer sheet away.  This "U" from the Lisa Uppercase alphabet was the perfect size for my title.

And last, but not least is altering those white fabric goodies. I used Gelatos with some water to change the Lace Fabric Tape in Cloud to a blue that would work with my layout.  You can also use paint, watercolors and of course, mists to alter these also!

I hope I gave you some ideas of altering Maya Road goodies.  Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road Design Team blog today!

Supplies Used:

Twine in Blackberry

Kraft Envelope-Rectangular

Mixed Mini Blossom Set

Bingo Motif Pieces

Trinket Pins

Kraft Large Ticket Strips-White

Lisa Uppercase Alphabet

Lace Fabric Tape-Cloud