Maya Road Design Team

Maya Road July Card Kit Sneak Peek!

Hi Roadies! It's Melody here on the blog today. I am excited give you a sneak peek of the Maya Road July Card Kit being released later this week! This month's kit is a fun, summer themed card kit with a great stamp set and lots of fun embellishments and trims. 

The kit includes summer themed pattern paper. I love the colors. Here I used one the metal tins, the Tags & Ticket Die, a sentiment and sunglasses from the stamp set, and pretty paper roses and lace trim. 

I finished off the card with a Sand & Shore Seashell Charms. 

How cute is this pattern paper! I love the little umbrella and the cute flamingo pin. 

Here are few more images from the stamp set. 

Our focus this July is CHARMS and we have a special going on all month. Make sure you visit the store and use coupon code CHARMED to get 30% off all chipboard.

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back later in the week for a look at the full card kit!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Victoria Calvin & Summer Card Duo

Hey Roadies! We're back for more inspiring creations from July Guest Designer, Victoria Calvin! If you missed her layout that we shared with you on Wednesday, be sure to check it out.

We love Victoria's use of bold colors and lots of dimension! Thanks so much Victoria for joining us again today! Take it away...

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Travel Mini Album - "These Moments:Denver" by Victoria Calvin

Hello friends! This is Victoria Calvin and I am back with my last guest design project for Maya Road. Today’s project is a chipboard mini album that I created to document my 2016 trip to Denver, Colorado. I plan to feature photos of Estes Park and other points of interest from my vacation. I created this fun mini album using the following Maya Road goodies:

• Maya Road Chipboard Scalloped Pennant Mega Banner Album
• Maya Road Wood Veneer Ruler
• Maya Road Vintage Findings Paper Leaves –Medium
• Maya Road Resin Fancy Frames – Snow White
• Maya Road Resign Fancy Frames – Sunshine Yellow
• Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms – Buttercream
• Maya Road Burlap Flower
• Maya Road Tu Tu Tulle Flowers – Vintage Buttermilk
• Maya Road Resin Flower Set – Cool Grey
• Maya Road Resin Diamond – Tempting Teal
• Maya Road Wood Hashtag Tokens
• Maya Road Steel Dies – Mason Jar Die Set

From my stash: Getaway Collection by Echo Park paper and stickers, various chipboard and wood veneer elements and navy blue acrylic paint.

To begin this mini album, I painted two of the scalloped pennant chipboard pieces (front and back cover) using navy blue acrylic paint by Liquitex Basics. To add continuity, I painted the edges of the inside pennant chipboard pieces using the same navy blue paint.

I embellished the front cover with pattern paper from the Getaway Collection by Echo Park, a Maya Road Burlap flower and paper leaves, and chipboard pieces from my stash.

Next, the I covered the inside pennant pieces with coordinating pattern paper from the Getaway Collection.

Each inside pennant was embellished using Maya Road flowers, paper leaves, resin flowers, resin diamond, hashtag tokens, a mason jar die cut, various chipboard elements from my stash, and stickers from the Getaway Collection by Echo Park. The album is bound using two mini binder clips by Recollections.

 

Overall, I love how this mini album turned out! I cannot wait to fill it with some of the photos I took from my summer trip to Denver. Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Thanks so much Victoria for sharing your talent with us! We absolutely love your beautiful memory projects!

Maya Road Guest Designer: Victoria Calvin

July is hot, hot, hot and so are guest designers this month! We are so excited to bring you another July guest designer whose work you'll love....Victoria Calvin!

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 Victoria and her fabulous creations.

 

 

Victoria Calvin is the owner and online content creator at Victoria Marie Designs where she creates and produces online scrapbooking classes and hosts scrapbooking retreats and crops. Victoria began her journey in the scrapbooking community over 12 years ago, starting first as a very enthusiastic hobbyist, eventually turning her passion for scrapbooking into a full time career. Victoria has been a member of the Scraptastic Club Design Team and the Clique Kit Club Design Team. She has served as a guest designer for Felicity Jane, Cocoa Daisy, and Clique Kit Club and was the member spotlight for Scrapbook Circle. Victoria has been a guest on the Scrap Gals Podcast with Tiffany and Tracy and Live Inspired with Tracie Claiborne where she talked extensively about her classes, experiences as a new entrepreneur, and her scrapbooking journey. Victoria currently resides in Fort Worth, TX with her tiny family of three. 

 

 

Blog: http://www.victoriamarieblog.com

 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/VictoriaMarieScraps

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victoriamariescraps

 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriamariescraps

 

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

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My Love Layout by Victoria Calvin

 

Hello! This is Victoria Calvin and I am excited to be the guest designer for July 2017! A big thank you to the wonderful folks at Maya Road for giving me the opportunity to share a couple of fun creative projects with all of you. Speaking of… let’s take a look at a 12x12 scrapbook layout I created using the following Maya Road goodies:

• Maya Road Resin Fancy Frames – Snow White
• Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms – Buttercream
• Maya Road Tu Tu Tulle Flowers – Vintage Buttermilk
• Maya Road Vintage Findings Paper Leaves – Medium
• Maya Road Bulldog Mini Clip

To begin, I used a floral pattern paper from the Harvest Boutique paper pad by Craft Smith as the background for this layout.  The flower design provided the perfect base for the Maya Road tulle flowers and paper leaves.

 

Next, I layered my photo on another piece of floral pattern paper from the Craft Smith paper pack as well as die cut tabbed index card by Sizzix. The photo is elevated by fun foam for added height and dimension.

To the left side of the photo, I layered a grouping of the Maya Road Tulle Mini Blooms and Tu Tu Tulle Flowers along with two clusters of the Maya Road Paper Leaves. Tucked into this floral cluster is a Maya Road Resin Fancy Frame, a scalloped cork circle and a gold glitter butterfly from my stash. The title was created using Thickers Beautiful and Patchwork sticker fonts. To finish the layout, I added a Maya Road Mini Clip to the top left of the photo that is adorned with a tiny twine bow.

 

I absolutely love the overall look of this layout! The gorgeous Maya Road floral elements perfectly highlight the floral design of the patter paper and add a small touch of whimsy to the layout.

I will be back in a few days with another fun project featuring a Maya Road pennant chipboard album! Stay tuned!

 

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 Check back in Friday for another gorgeous project from Victoria!

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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

 

Tag You Are It

Hi Roadies!  It's Katrina, from Paper Scissors and Glue, here today to share a couple of tags that I made with you.  I am needing to get a couple of gifts purchased and given, so I though a tag with some Maya Road products would be a nice personal touch.  I also thought it would be fun to use multiple tags on a tag!

To make these, for my base tags, I used the #5 Kraft Shipping Tag and then covered that with some pattern paper, trimming it to fit.  NOTE: The papers I used here are digital , which are a great option if you don't have anything to match or just aren't "feeling" it with the paper you have in your stash.  I also used a corrugated kraft tag just as it was on each of my tags. 

The first tag, I used a trio effect and lined 2 smaller and varying sized tags up with the bigger tag.  Place some Bias Tape Trim at the bottom to give the tag a little border.  A Tulle Mini Bloom in Bluebird on top of the bias tape trim, gives the tag a little springy, bright feel.  I added some of the Popsicle Blue Twine Cording for a bow at the top of the tag, I ran the twine thru all the tags and then just tied a bow.

I love the Fanciful Thank You steel die and knew it would look perfect on this tag.  I cut it out of some heavyweight cardstock three times and then just layered and glued them together.  I love how it looks like chipboard or an acrylic piece!

This tag has a lot of kraft, white and resin to it!  I trimmed down a small Kraft Polka Dotted envelope and tucked it under a Scroll Frame Journaling Tag that I was using as the focus of the tag.  I used smaller tags here again and fanned them instead of stacking right on top of each other. 

And resin bits are a weakness of mine!  Did you know that Maya Road now has these new fun resin flowers??  LOVE! And there are three different sizes in the package, perfection I tell you!  I teamed them up with a wooden token and a Mini Wood Embroidery Hoop.  The token fit perfectly inside the hoop! I tucked a couple of vintage leaves under the kraft journaling tag, because it was just a little "bare" and needed something!  That's the great thing with Maya Road products, you can always find a fun filler if you need it!

So now I have a couple of fun tags for gift giving and I may just skip the card!!  Thanks for stopping by the Maya Road Blog today!!!

 

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%!

A textured card with charms

Hello Roadies! It's Yvonne here to share with you a textured card inspired by this month's Maya Road Shop Promo - charms!

I created some texture with a stencil and ceramic stucco on a watercolour card base.

Once that was dry, I created my embellishment cluster with Maya Road goodies. Can you spot which ones I used? 

I went with the Mini Arrow Charm, the Vintage Ken Oliver Clock Charm, the Resin Diamond in Snow White, the Resin Flower Set in Shocking Pink, the Felt Rose in Princess Pink, diecut from the "With Love" Script Die and Pearl Button Trim .

Hope you've been inspired to create with your Maya Road charms! Don't forget to use the coupon code CHARMED for 30% off your purchase of charms at the Maya Road Shop! 

 

 

Maya Road Guest Designer: Nicole Nowosad & Summer Card Duo

Hey Roadies! We're back for more inspiring creations from July Guest Designer, Nicole Nowosad! If you missed her stacked pallet project that we shared with you on Wednesday, be sure to check it out.

We love Nicole's vibrant use of color and pattern paired up with fun embellishments.  She's even giving us a Maya Road mists flash-back! Anyone else still have some of those? Thanks so much Nicole for joining us again today! Take it away...

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Summer Card Duo by Nicole Nowosad

Good morning ! I am excited to be back again a guest this month! I decided to create a few fun cards using some great Maya Road embellishments for today.

 

I created this first card with some good old Maya Road mists -truth is, these are still my favorite mists, even though I have had them quite a while! I painted some of the mist to the card base and set to dry.

 

I diecut a sentiment on my Silhouette Cameo and then added some Resin Flowers in both shocking pink  and  sunshine yellow with an Acrylic Token too.

 

 

I added some Maya Road embellishments to the front of this card base that I created, they were the perfect addition to some punched items from my stash.

 

I added an Ornate Resin frame in white and then layered my sentiment overtop, and added in more of those fun Resin Flowers in both shocking pink  and  sunshine yellow to finish off the card!

 

Thanks so much for joining me today and Maya Road for asking me to guest this month!

 

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Thanks so much Nicol for sharing your talent with us! We absolutely love your card creations!

 

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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Maya Road and Simple Stories Swap Week Winner!

Hey Roadies! We are back with a winner from the Maya Road + Simple Stories Blog Swap! Thanks so much to all of you who joined us for the fun!

Are you the winner?

One person is the lucky and randomly drawn winner of this fab $20.00 coupon to our Maya Road on-line store! It's absolutely full of our wonderful product line.

Miriam Pranter! That's you! Congrats and we hope you enjoy this gift voucher. Please drop us a note here to claim your prize!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to all our Maya Road fans for all great blog swap participation!

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