Maya Road Design Team

Sequins and Pearls--Two Ways

Hi Roadies! Jocelyn here on the blog today. I'm sharing a couple of cards with new Maya Road products.

As soon as I saw the You Are My Sunshine buttons, I knew I had to use them as owl eyes. I threaded them with the Shine Gold cording. For the nose, I used the Mini Confetti Heart chipboard and simply inked it with gold ink. At the bottom of the owl, I added the new Pearl Trim. What owl doesn't need a set of pearls?

I finished the owl by adding the adorable Sparkle Sequin Bow. These bows are very versatile. In fact, I liked it so much, I used the same bow embellishment on the next card:

For the next card, I layered strips of older patterned paper. I also added a strip of Vintage Lace Tape, Pearl Trim, and Shine Dust Glitter. To adhere the glitter, I put a piece of double-stick tape on a piece of cardstock and then added the glitter on top. Then, I burnished the glitter to prevent the strays. The Maya Road glitter is fine, and it adds a subtle sparkle.

On top of the strips, I layered a Scalloped Frame I painted white, a Sparkle Sequin Bow, and the sweet Oh Deer Charm. To finish the card, I tied a piece of the Paper Twine and curled the edges. The paper twine holds its shape so nicely!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Simple Love Shadowbox

Hi Roadies,

This is Caroline here! I am going to be teaching this fabulous shadowbox this weekend at a Retailer Event for the Collins Group!

This shadowbox showcases some of our fabulous products. It is also simple enough so that it can be completed in one evening. I love that our shadoxes come in kraft that you can paint it whatever color you want it to be!  I like to keep it simple in white. But how pretty would it be in a pale pink or coral?

I then added some unique accents to make this perfect.

I will have a video showing how to create different parts of this shadowbox up soon!

 

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And my jar obession continues....

I have a thing for compartments....drawers, cubbies, baskets, and most of all JARS!!! I love that they come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and colors. Whenever I am out thrifting I usually come home with a jar or two. This week I found a large honey jar and decided that this would be my Valentine's Project for this post.

What I love about Maya Road products are that there so many items to choose from and also and most importantly they are SO versatile and can be used in different ways in all kinds of projects. I kept this project pretty simple. First I adhered a kraft paper doilie onto the front of the honey jar. Then I took a strip of canvas and then my most favorite twine and wrapped that around the jar as well. 

 

Next, was adding the details. I strung the ends of the twine through the small wooden heart buttons and knotted them on the back so they "dangle" from the twine. Next I added that fabulous Gold Bow and bit of honey/bee themed flair, and finally two super sweet pink heart pins! 

 

In Photoshop I created a Apiary Label and put it on the top of the lid which I covered with the gorgeous trim. This jar will be on display in my house. I like that it's not in the traditional colors of Valentines and for now I filled it with buttons but I think candy hearts will end up in there eventually! 

There are so many uses for Maya Road Products you just have to experiment and see what works for you! I so enjoy altering thrifting finds with my Maya Road goodies. I hope you have been inspired and I am happy to share my jar obsession with you! Happy creating! 

 

Products used:

Twine

Shine Bow: Party Gold

Trinket Heart Pins

Stained Wood Heart Buttons

Pleated Glittered Tulle Trim-Cream

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here today with a recent mixed media canvas I've created for the holidays. I love creating canvases using my paper crafting supplies. They make great decor pieces and also make great gifts.

I wanted to create a holiday design to share with you today but sadly they are over so quickly! As snow is festive but also can be used through the winter months, it seemed like the perfect solution to my dilemma.

 

This canvas mixed media project is created on a 6" x 8" canvas that I picked up at an art supply store. It's pre-treated with gesso so all I had to do was start painting and layering my project. The canvas background for this design is layers of white paint, vintage sheet music papers, turquoise paint that has been applied to bubble wrap and then stamped onto my canvas and then a snowflake layer created with texture paste and a snowflake stencil.

Then comes my favorite part...adding in all the beautiful layers of Maya Road embellishments. The chipboard letters, snowflake chipboard pieces and the metal frame have all been painted white with gesso and then adhered to the canvas. Some of the sweet details are vintage buttons, paper roses, trinket pins and a bottle of silver glass glitter.

I think my ultimate favorite embellishment of the year award goes to the darling Maya Road resin deer! I just can't get enough of him and he makes a sweet addition to the sentiment on this canvas. You can also see the texture paste snowflakes in this image to get a better look at the dimension of this project.

To finish off my design, I added in some beautiful clear glass glitter around the edges of the canvas to add a glittery, icy look.

Maya Road Supplies Used:

Oh Deer Resin Charms - Snow White

Antique Ornate Frames

Turquoise Star Pin

Crystal Star Trinket Pin

Snowflakes Mini Chipboard Set

Lisa Lowercase Alphabet

Teardrop Pearl Centers

Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas and year to come!

 

Altered Lunchbox=Fun Storage!

I am always looking for fun ways to store my Maya Road scrapping supplies and when I found this lovely silver lunchbox I knew it would make a great way to store my Maya Road twine. I didn't want to do too much to it but Maya Road Diamond Glitter Tape was a perfect! It gave this box just a bit of glam that it needed! Plus I wanted to use that tape in a different way so that was great too! To girl it up just a bit I also added Maya Road's Vintage Lace Tape-Ballerina. Just enough pink to make it cute!

I hope that this has inspired to look at storing your Maya Road supplies in a fun and unique way. It doesn't have to take a lot of time to transform something ordinary to extraordinary! All you need are Maya Road products and viola your project has new life! Happy creating! 

Welcome Fall Embroidery Hoop

Hey there, Roadies!! Mandy Kay Starner here to share my latest project with you! 

I have a wall of hoop art in my scraproom and it was looking like it needed a new hoop or two. And since Autumn is just a couple days away, I thought why not add a little seasonal flair to the group? That just means I'll have to create a few more to change out with the seasons. ;)

I really love how it turned out, what do you think?

I started by adhering a piece of fabric to the inner ring of my embroidery hoop.  I tacked down some Avocado Green Pleated Glitter Tulle to the edge of the fabric before adding the outer ring and tightening it down. I adhered some Alterable Crochet Trim, hiding the seam between the fabric and tulle, and then, the real fun began! I layered on the flowers, starting with a Vintage Edge Mum, a couple Burlap Roses, and a few Velvet Pleated Flowers. I bookended my flowers with a couple of Big Leaf Charms and sprinkled in a few Cream Pearl Ball Pins. I stitched on a Linen Heart and a few Stained Wood Heart Buttons. I inked and adhered my Patti Mini Chipboard alphas, spelling out the word"welcome" and added a pretty gold bow to the top, to finish it all off.

Here are a couple detail shots for you...

 

Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road DT Blog today!

 

 

Maya Road metals for the making

Good day to all you Roadies! 

Some of my favorite new things at Maya Road are all the metals, both Vintage Metal Findings and wire clips. David (Caroline's awesome husband) is tasked with finding cool new metals, and the last few releases have been full of them. This layout about how I won't use the word "selfie" has quite a few of them on it, and I wanted to share how I make them unique with altering. 

Don't you love Maya Road for altering? :)

First, I love the wire clips (I'm pretty sure Caroline is the one that designs most of these, she'll share her sketches with us sometimes, it's a facinating process!). I also love that I can make them whatever color I want! 

How? If you press the clip (shown: Eureka Lightbulb Clip) into a Versamark pad, get it really good and sticky, then with a pair of tweezers and place it on a scratch paper, you can pour any color of embossing powder on it. Simply hold it in a inconspicuous place with the tweezers and use your heat gun to melt the powder. It's a quick process, the fact that it's metal helps that! I also embossed the camera in the upper left corner. Time to stock up on your embossing powders and metal clips, isn't it?!?!? :)

I followed the same process as above for the metal arrow, except I only pressed the tip of the arrow into the pad. If you use an embossing pen, you can do even more detailed work.

Another thing that is fun to do is add something to the viewfinder of the Vintage Oh Snap! camera. It's just big enough that you can glue a small bit in there. I like to use Glossy Accents or Diamond Glaze so it really hold it in there nicely. I've added a small die cut heart before and this time I used one of the lovely Mini Antique Metal Roses in Lime Green. It takes a few hours for the glue to dry clear, so start that early in the process.

Or you can leave the metal just as it is. There were so many sweet little trinkets released this past January! This Vintage What a Hoot Owl charm was so cute, I just had to sneak it onto my layout somehow. 

You'll have to try altering the metals, you get some really fun and unique results. Painting and sanding them is next on my list!

Other products used:

Turquoise Metallic Maya Mist
Cotton Candy Metallic Maya Mist
Lime Metallic Maya Mist
Mustard Yellow Metallic Maya Mist (sadly, very sadly, no longer available)
Mini Sparkle and Shine Resin flowers in Hibiscus
Uppercase Lisa Alphabet
Patti Mini Alphabet
Kraft Lucky Star Tag
Die Cut Kraft Doily
Say Cheese Camera Transparency in black
Chipboard Say What Speech Bubble
Stained Wood Heart Button
Alterable Crochet Trim in Scallop Lace
Photo Frames Chipboard set
Satin Scallop Edge Blooms in Midnight
Sparkle Trim in Party Pink
Crafting Jute Cording in Natural

 

Happy 60!

Hello, Roadies! :)

When being asked to create cards for elders, I can't help but thinking oh, but then they'll want cards which's stuffed to the brim.

I dunno why, but I just imagine such cards pleasing the older generation. Plus, while some might it'll look too much (it's ok, we all have different preferences),  I personally think it'll make the cards look lush when having clusters of different materials and textures layered together - it makes each part stand out.

I'm especially in love with the various vintage findings..from the center bling, to the antique filigree butterflies and the new mini antique metal roses - here the one in cherry.

The various Maya Road trinket pins are a natural guest on such cards. Oh, and notice the linen heart piece? Love it, so versatile and such a great addition to cards!

Nevertheless. Next time you go for a card - try putting together different materials and layer them together. You might get surprised at how well it'll all fit together.

Since it's Christmas soon and that's like, all about sharing - here's another example on  layering different materials together. Paper, tulle pleat trim (in frosting, so, so versatile and pretty!), chipboard (and glitter on top of the mist!), linen and vintage pearl roses (pretty detail for them elder cards too).

Have a lovely weekend!

A Happiness Mini Album

I often get ideas for my creating while walking the aisles of Target. I saw a pillow there one day and knew it would be the perfect way to showcase a cool way to use our Paper Twine Cording. I'll be honest, the cover took me a long time, but I love how it turned out, it was so worth it. I decided to make a mini album to give to my parents, this is the result:

 

I cut lengths of the twine, got them wet (because they are easier to work with that way), and then partially untwisted them, and wove a couple of strands together, glued them to the cover of the Heart Chipboard Album, then trimmed it to fit. 

Each page in the album contains part of a quote that I loved and felt applied well to how my parents raised their family. I painted every page white, then rubbed on some Antique Silver Maya Mist to soften the white. Between all the pages I used the following products:

• A glittered up house from the Welcome Home Chipboard set.
• A cream heart pin from the Hearts-Cream and Red set. 
• The Jonathon Chipboard Alphabet set.
• The Jonathon Mini Chipboard Alphabet set.
• The Danielle Chipboard Alphabet set.
• The Daniel Chipboard Mixed Alphabet set.
• The Bethany Chipboard Alphabet set.
• The Metro Uppercase Alphabet stamp set.
• Paper Twine Cording.
• Hearts from the Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti set. 
• A plaque from the Mixed Shapes Mini Chipboard set.
• A Vintage Heart Box key.
• And a bow made from the Twine Cording in Blackberry.

Maya Mists used included:

• Dragonfruit Pink
• Mustard Yellow
• Green Apple
• Popscicle Blue

I wrapped each page's edge with the same Twine Cording in Blackberry to give the album a cohesive look.

Throughout the album, I decorated various colors of the Manilla Shipping Tags with photos of myself and my husband, and my siblings and their spouses on their wedding days, as well as all of our children. Each tag is decorated with the following:

• A glittered up letter Lisa Lowercase Chipboard Alphabet
• Misted  hearts from the Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti set in Dragonfruit Pink Maya Mist
• A length of Firehouse Red Vintage Tape Measure Trim 
• A bit of velvet ribbon

I glued four Kraft Gift Envelopes and Kraft Note Envelopes - Red Polka Dots to empty sides of the heart album, one for each of my siblings to write a letter of thanks to my parents. 

It's a treasured album, a labor of love that was very appreciated by my parents. It's but a small payback for all they've given us, their children. 

 

 

Miss You!

HI Roadies! Julia here with a card creation to share with you today. My absolute favorite thing to create is cards and I love using lots of Maya Road goodies on them. The more the merrier, right?

 

The best thing about Maya Road products is that you can interpret them any creative way you like. They go with each and every style out there. For this project, I've used them in a very shabby chic way by incorporating lots of layers, soft colors, paint glitter and stitching. Did you know you can ever machine stitch chipboard? The tag shown on this card is Maya Road chipboard and it's covered with patterned paper and then stitched with my sewing machine.

The sweet metal bicycle was one of my favorite MR releases from this past year. So super cute and it works perfectly as a travel theme and put together with the Miss You sentiment. Metal clips are easy to hot glue onto your project. You can also stitch them on or staple them.

Finally here's a wood button detail. It's been painted with white acrylic paint and then sprinkled with blue glitter. I love the frosted look.

Do you like to create cards? In this electronic world, it's a great way to share a little snail mail love.

Maya Road Supplies:

Hot Pink Polka Dot Envelope

Wood Mini Clothes Pins

Our Town Transparencies Black

Chipboard Shipping Tag Set

Let's Ride Bicycle Clip

Alterable Wood Buttons

Vintage Paper Roses

Double Berry Twine Cording

Vintage Wood Ribbon Spools

Wood Mini Spools

Antique Pink Vintage Lace Tape

Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball Pins

Fabric Leaves