Maya Road Design Team

Cooper and I

Hi Roadies! I hope your summer has been filled with fun and friends.  It's Katrina here on the blog today sharing a selfie layout with one of our best friend's dog and I. They came down in July and Cooper is just an old softie!  We have known him since he was a pup and he is now around 12 years old.  Also, I used a bunch of Ken Oliver products on my layout today and we have a special on the website, 30% off all Ken Oliver products with the code KOlove.  So if you see something you like grab it while it's on sale!  You can find all those products HERE.

I love how Maya Road supplies just mix seamlessly with paper collections.  You can alter them anyway you need to, or the color choices are neutral enough that you can add them as is.  I recently got the Vintage Wood Mason Jars and when I saw the small chipboard hearts that went with the paper collection, I knew they would look cute filling the jar.  I finished the top of the jar off with some Ken Oliver Jute Craft String and a Ken Oliver Vintage Mini Key. I did use a little liquid adhesive to hold that key just where I wanted it!  I backed my picture with some pattern papers and an older Maya Road Kraft Envelope that I used Distress Oxide ink on in two different colors,

When I started my layout, I knew I wanted to use those Vintage Paper Leaves (Ken Oliver), but I had to decide what I wanted to go with them.  I wanted to keep it small, so the Resin Flower Sets in Cool Grey and White were my go to item.  The flowers come in a variety of sizes and I just figured out what worked with the look I wanted! I added a little shimmer to the leaves, but it's hard to see in the picture!

And to keep with the neutral embellishment color scheme, a Kraft Journaling Tag-Scroll to the rescue! I love bits and pieces tucked here and there.  I added a few of the pre-made embellishments from the paper collection and I have a layout of getting a selfie with Cooper!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!!  Have a GREAT week and enjoy the eclipse!  

Maya Road Products Used

Vintage Wood Mason Jars

Ken Oliver Jute Craft String

Ken Oliver Vintage Mini Key

Vintage Paper Leaves (Ken Oliver)

Resin Flower Sets  Cool Grey  and White

Kraft Journaling Tag-Scroll

Scalloped Lace Edge Trim

Kraft Envelope

Mixed Media Pallet

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here with a mixed media project I created for Creativitation 2017. I love all the Maya Road wood pallets but this new 8x8 inch size is really wonderful with lots of space to create on. The wood can be left natural, stained, covered with paper or as I have done, layered on lots of mixed media layers.

To create this pallet I first started by coating them entire front the wood with Gesso. After allowing it to dry I then laid a dot patterned stencil over the pallet and applied some white texture paste through the stencil for added texture and interest. At the top of the design I adhered a gesso painted paint brush that I had mistakenly allowed to dry out. Rather than throw it away, I love how repurposing it here on the pallet adds a creative dimension to the design and gives it new life.

The rest of the design is comprised of a wonderful mix of Maya Road flowers and embellishments and a few vintage buttons. They are all adhered with a hot glue gun and then brushed with a small amount of gesso to add to the shabby look.

Maya Road Supplies Used:

DIY Wood Mini Pallet - 8x8

Shimmering Pointed Petal Flower - Fushia

Wood Spool Sentiment Tokens

Landscape Kraft Envelopes

Pearl Ball Pin

Medium Vintage Paper Flowers Pink

Small Vintage Paper Flowers White

Tulle Mini Blooms

Vintage Findings Medium Paper Leaves

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you've been inspired to get creative!

 

 

 

 

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Decorated envelopes

 

Hello there Roadies! It's Yvonne here to share my decorated Maya Road kraft envelopes. I love using them to slip in little notes to go with sweet treats. I make a bunch of them in advance and keep them for occasions when I don't have the time to make a card or a tag.

For this one, I decorated the top flap with remnant lace and jazzed it up with pearl trim in white and satin scallop edge trim.

 

Here, I went with metal embellishments and pearl trim which I cut apart and used as "buttons".

 

Hope you have fun decorating your kraft envelopes!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Gena Glover

April brings sunshine and showers, warm weather and flowers. It also brings a new guest design to the Maya Road DT Blog. We are so excited to bring you our  guest designer of the month....Gena Glover!

Each month we feature a new friend of Maya Road and their beautiful, unique & creative style! This month we are thrilled to introduce you to Gena and her fabulous creations. We adore her beautiful attention to detail. While Gena may be new the Maya Road blog, her work is no stranger to the Maya Road booth at tradeshows and other events.

 

 

My name is Gena Glover and I live in Red Oak, Texas. I have been married to my best friend, Kris, for 20 years! We have 4 children, the youngest about to complete her first year of college. I have been scrapbooing for 19 years and I have loved seeing the evolution of our hobby. I began with Creative Memories and now not only love layouts, but chipboard books and mixed media projects. I teach and design for The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, Texas.  I love sharing my art with others.  You can follow my projects and classes on Facebook

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

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Campfire Mini Album by Gena Glover

Maya Road Supplies:

 

Felt Blossom Turqouise

Felt Roses Chocolate Brown

Mixed Mini Wood Slices

Jewel Center Burlap Blossom Natural

Wood Wild & Free Tokens

Chipboard Landscape Binder

Mega Wood Etched Button

Pearl Mum Trim

Wood Vintage Mason Jar

 

 

I love the Maya Road chipboard albums and create many of my classes using them. I found the new Photoplay Campfire paper and knew I would be perfect for this project.  The Maya Road pieces accent it beautifully!

I began by painting the edges of the Landscape Album with brown paint and covering each of the pages with different patterned pages from the collection.  For the cover, I added foam tape to the back of my Natural Burlap Blossom so that it would be a little easier to tuck some of the pieces behind it and give it even more dimension. Once the burlap flower was set I tucked a Mega Wood Etched button underneath and layered a cut paper circle and a token from the Wood Wild Token set. I added Wood Slices and two pieces from Pearl Mum Trim. To bring it all together I added a strip of the Pearl Mum Trim along the bottom.

Here is a close up of the layering…

 

 

Here is a peek of the pages…

 

 

 

I wrapped some jute around the Wood Mason Jar ad added the Pearl Button piece in the center.

 

 

I love the Envelopes to add extra little places for journaling or extra pictures.

 

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Thanks so much Gena! With summer on the horizon, this mini album is a wonderful place to store all those camping memories!

Check back in Friday for another gorgeous project from Gena!

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

A little fun with the Maya Road wood pallet

Hello Roadies! It is Yvonne here to share my Maya Road wood pallet for CHA 2017.

 

I had so much fun dressing up my wood pallet. The pallet was first painted with chalkboard paint in aqua and then I sanded some parts of it for a slightly distressed look.

 

Can you spot the Maya Road goodies I've used on my wood pallet?

Crystal flower button

Vintage Ken Oliver clocks and hands 

Resin mini mums turquoise sea

Ornate resin frame

Geometric leaf die

Felt blossom in turquoise

Vintage findings paper leaves

Kraft envelope landscape

Satin Scallop Edge Bloom

Trinket pin - vintage pearl

Vintage crafting tassels in fog grey and milk white

 

This month's a great time to stock up on wood products! 

 

My Love Story

Hi Roadies! Belly's on the blog today. Valentines' Day is coming in short, let's get started to make something for your love. I've remade my favorite spool album this time with a valentine theme, which featuring a lot of lovely Maya Road new steel dies.

Love so much this rose pyramid, I die cut quite a lot of felt and fabric roses using Maya Road Rolled Flower Die and adhere on a paper cone. On the top part of the flower cone, I put a DIY Kraft Note Envelope decorated with twine and die cuts from Maya Road Steel dies - Vintage Doilies and Tags and Ticket Dies, I stamped a tiny little red heart on the tag.

Next to the flower cone, on top of the spool album, I tied and burlap bow decorated with lovely Maya Road Wood Token, twine and felt die cuts, Geometric Leaf Die for the green leaf, Celebrate Cupcake Die for the little red flower, the score cut on the flower is super great.

On the album pages, I used a lot of kraft, wood, burlap, and also a lot of die cuts using Maya Road Steel Dies, can you name some of them?

 

Enjoy!!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

 

Maya Road Guest Designer: Gloria Stengel & a Holiday Instagram Album

Once again we have Gloria Stengel guest designing with us today! If you missed Gloria, her bio and first post on Wednesday, be sure to check it out here.

Thanks so much for joining us again today Gloria! Your project is fab for the holidays! Take it away!

Good morning, Roadies! It's Gloria from Scraps of Life with you again today! I have created a fun mini album for all your Christmas Instagram photos!

I love the idea of doing a little "December Daily" type mini album with little square photos inside! This would be a great project to take to a family holiday party, or other event where people take a lot of photos with mobile phones. You can print the photos at slightly smaller than 4" x 4" and just stick one photo per page!

I covered the album with decorative paper in a traditional red and green scheme. I wanted to add some pops of gold throughout, and I also added the wood and kraft tones for that vintage look.

This little 4x4 Binder Book contains 8 chipboard pages, each 4" x 4". The actual mini album is approximately 5" x 4 3/8" with a sturdy metal ring-binding . I covered each chipboard page with decorative Christmas paper. I won't add any embellishments to the pages until I figure out which photos to use.

I had fun adding lots of little "bits and bobs" to the front of my album. I started by cutting "Noel" with the Noel Holiday Die Bundle. I cut the lettering several times and stacked the die cuts together for a bit more dimension. I die cut the tiny snowflakes from the Noel set a few times and added some pizzazz with a gold star and some pearls.

I then began to stack some wood embellishments, starting with the Mini Wood Embroidery Hoop. Next, I added a Wood Beloved Token, which looked like a wreath, but it had a heart in the center. To cover up the heart, I glued a Bronze Christmas Tree Charm to the top of the token. To finish off my wood-themed embellishments, I added a Mini Wood Slice, which totally looks like the bottom that you chop off the Christmas tree! I glued the larger snowflakes to the wood slice and topped everything off with a twine bow made from Lemon Yellow Jute and Twine Cording.

I decided to add Kraft 4" Square Note Envelopes to the inside front and back covers. I replaced the white twine closures with Tomato Red Twine Cording. For the inside front cover, I added some detail to the envelope with a die cut shape made with the So Deer Steal Die. Mr. Deer is wearing a smart, twine bow!

The inside back cover also has an envelope with a "wonky" tree made with the Noel Holiday Die Bundle. I die cut the tree twice, once from green paper and once from plaid paper. Then I re-assembled the tree.

The spine and back cover are all decorated, too! I added a Saffron Yellow Vintage Crafting Tassel to the spine. The tassel is attached to the inside of the spine with more of the Lemon Yellow Jute and Twine Cording.

Thanks for stopping by today. I had a blast during my guest DT spot!

 - Gloria Stengel

Maya Road Products Used:

4x4 Binder Book

Noel Holiday Die Bundle - coming soon!

Mini Wood Embroidery Hoop

Wood Beloved Tokens

Bronze Christmas Tree Charm

Mixed Mini Wood Slices

Lemon Yellow Jute and Twine Cording

 Kraft 4" Square Note Envelopes

Tomato Red Twine Cording

So Dear Steal Die

Saffron Yellow Vintage Crafting Tassel

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Random Moments And Keeping It Simple

Hi there Roadies!  It's Katrina from Paper, Scissors and Glue today to share a layout with you.  Do you capture and scrap the random moments?  Or are you an event type of scrapper? I love the random moments and I have a page with one of those pictures on it to share today.  I also went a little more simpler with embellishments than I normally do.  Sometimes it's nice to change up your routine!

I love the colors in this collection, but I loved the way the kraft library pocket played off of them when I was putting the layout together.  I think it's my favorite thing about the layout. I love embellishing pockets and envelopes with all the fun little bits and bobs!  Here I just wrapped some twine (one of my favs to do), added a die cut and then one of the stitchable wooden tokens on the pocket front.

  

I continued the heart theme on to the other side, with some of the chipboard hearts that Maya Road has.  The collection I used also had chipboard hearts as additional embellishments, so I thought it would be fun to mix the two.  To keep some flow, I painted the Maya hearts with some white acrylic paint.  Then I decided to dress them up with some sequins and enamel dots as little touches.  I love how they all look together.

This was one of my cleaner layouts, since I usually like a lot of "stuff" on projects.  But as you can see, sometimes it's better to go simple and keep the focus on the picture!  So, I hope I inspired you to mix it  up a little bit!  With colder weather coming here in the US, it's the perfect time to get a little extra scrapping time and try something new!

Maya Road Supplies

Kraft Library Cards w/Envelopes (K1347)

Vintage Wood Stitch Heart and Arrow Charms (WD2730)

Wood You've Been Framed Embellishments (WD2287)

Love Token

Mini Chipboard heart Confetti Set (C2359)

 

Envelope Hello

Hi Roadies!  It's Katrina from Paper, Scissors and Glue here to share a card with  you today.  I am going to admit I went a little nuts with this card, but I love how it turned out!

Have you tried using black in your card making or crafting?  It makes all of the colors pop that you are working with. That is why I chose a black card base, to make all those fun colors just yell "hello" at you!  Black will also make your white seem whiter.

I started with a Kraft Polka Dotted envelope.  To make it a little fun, I opened it up and then lined the inside with one of the papers from the pattern paper collection I was working with. I then used the Notepaper Die to tuck a little "note" inside.  I did trim it down, so it would just stick out a little from the envelope.  Then I tucked one of the Blackboard Kraft Post Tags  in behind the notepaper to set off the colors a little more.  A little silver acrylic mason jar was just a extra touch to the sentiment that I used.

And I am a big lover of trims, so the crocheted elastic trim was too cute not to put on the envelope!  Add a transparent butterfly and you have a fun card to send to a special someone or just to leave as a secret pal!

So try some black with your projects the next time you create.  You will LOVE the results!

Maya Road Supplies

Vintage Butterfly Transparency Pieces-White (T2764)

Crocheted Elastic Lace Trim-White (CCT2976)

Acrylic Mason Jars-Shine (AC3266)

Blackboard Kraft Post Tags (K2902)

Notepaper Die (DIE3350)

Kraft Note Envelopes-White Polka Dot (K2031)