Maya Road Design Team

2017

Hi Roadies - Happy New year, may the new year bring you Joy, peace and happiness to you and your family.

Today I have created the below  tag for my word for 2017

Confetti -throw the love, kindness and laughter around like confetti.

I have created the tag using

Manilla Shipping Tag

Ornate Resin frame - Sea

Medium vintage flower

Mini Wood embroidery hoop

Twine

Vintage Crafting Tassel

Pearl flower trim

 

I truly do wish you all-  the very best year ever  filled with everything that makes you happy and keeps you safe. And remember throw the confetti around.

 

Have a great day

Teacher Thank You Gift

Hi Roadies! It's Melody here today with a school themed project to share. Most of the schools in my area start this week and life will become a little more scheduled and busy. I like to have a few handmade thank you projects on hand and ready to go. 

 These projects were so easy to put together with Maya Road embellishments. 

I started with a Blackboard Kraft Mail Tag and stamped a sentiment in white ink and embossed with white embossing powder. I added a white Vintage Doily behind the tag.  The wooden embellishments are the perfect touch.  

I added a Felt Rose, two Pearl Ball Pins, and a button from the County Fair Wood Buttons. At the bottom I added a border with Fire Red Stripes Fabric Tape and Sunshine Yellow Mini Pom Pom Trim. 

For the pencil holder I painted an inexpensive mason jar with a coat of gesso and two coats of red paint. Spray paint also works well for this.

I used another Blackboard Kraft Mail Tag and a Framed Sayings for the base of the tag. The small flowers are from the Sentiments Rub Ons. The tag is attached with a Mini Gold Clothes Pin and Shine Gold Twine Cording. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Maya Road Supplies Used:

Blackboard Kraft Mail Tags

Vintage Wood Stitch Scallop and Circle Charms

Vintage Doily Transparency Pieces - White

Wood Measure Once, Cut Twice Embellishments

Wood Tokens

Alterable Wood Bingo Calendar Numbers

Felt Roses - Maroon Red

SCream Pearl Ball Pins

County Fair Wood Buttons

Fabric Tape Stripes - Fire Red

Mini Pom Pom Trim - Sunshine Yellow

Framed Sayings Kraft Pieces - White

Sentiments - Black Rubons

Wood Mini Clothes Pins - Gold

Twine Cording - Shine Gold

Pretty Gift Tags

Hello Roadies!! It's Melody on the blog today. I have some embellished gift tag ideas to share with you. I love the way a pretty gift tag can make even the plainest packing special! 

I have three different themed tag ideas using my pretty Maya Road embellishments. 

My first tag I made with a handmade gift in mind. I used a Maya Road Kraft Notes & Envelope for the base of the tag. I added a sweet "Handmade With Love" Wood Button and embellished the center with a Alterable Wood Bingo Heart Motif. I added the color to the wood with a Copic Marker. 

The Vintage Button Stick Pins, Vintage Wood Mini Ruler, and the Wood Mini Spool are perfect for the handmade theme. The tag is finished off with a Felt Rose in Maroon Red, a small Vintage Doily Transparency in black, and a Like Heart Clip. 

Next up is a Thank You Tag. The sentiment is from the sheet of  Black Rubons and attached to a Framed Sayings Transparency. I love the felt roses and Polka Dot Buttons! I also added a Vintage Oh Snap Camera, a Teardrop Pearl Center, Vintage Wood Stitch Scallop and Circle Charm, and some Mini Pom Pom Trim in Hibiscus Pink. 

 

My final tag, with the sweet Tu-Tu Tulle Flower,  would be perfect for a birthday or a new baby girl. I added one of favorite Metal Vintage Trinkets - Sunny Day Clips at the top, attached with a Wood Mini Clothes Pin in Gold. I altered the color of the metal clip and the word "sweet" from the Love Words Mini Chipboard Set, by dabbing on embossing ink and embossing with Gold embossing powder. 

The final touches are Alterable Crochet Scallop Lace Trim, a Vintage Doily Transparency in white, and a couple pretty Vintage Pearl Pins in Hot Pink.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

Supply List: 

Kraft Notes & Envelope

"Handmade With Love" Wood Buttons

 Alterable Wood Bingo Heart Motif

Vintage Button Stick Pins

Wood Mini Spools

Vintage Wood Mini Ruler

Felt Rose in Maroon Red

Vintage Doily Transparency

Like Heart Clip

Black Rubons

Framed Sayings Transparency

Polka Dot Buttons

Oh Snap Camera

Teardrop Pearl Center

Vintage Wood Stitch Scallop and Circle Charm

 Mini Pom Pom Trim

 Tu-Tu Tulle Flower

Metal Vintage Trinkets - Sunny Day Clips

Wood Mini Clothes Pin

Love Words Mini Chipboard Set

Alterable Crochet Scallop Lace Trim

Vintage Pearl Pins

Modern Vintage Flair

Hello!  Welcome to the Maya Road Design Team blog.  My turn today and I have a  layout and a card to share.  Although my very favorite look is vintage and I tend to create with that in mind, I think that these 2 projects actually add in a bit of modern flair with the hexagons and the chevron pattern.  Hopefully the two styles have mixed well :-)

My favorite part of this layout is that beautiful new Antique Pink Vintage Lace Tape.  It is the perfect soft and creamy pink color.  The painted Natural Wood Buttons are so good too.  I think that every layout needs a button or two and being able to paint them up and distress them is fun.

I was in a painting mood so I also painted the Vintage Edge Kraft Envelope and the small metal Ornate Frame. 

The pink rose is made from one of the flower sections from the Afternoon Tea Trim in the Carnation color.  I added somealighter green colored paint to a Fabric Leaf then toppied it off with some clear glitter. 

Trinket pins are always a staple for any project so I used the Crystal Star and a Pale Pink Pearl Ball pin.  Another favorite from the CHA Summer release is the Time Flies Transparency clocks... I definitely need more of those!

This Thank You card would be great for sending out after a birthday party or other special occasion when gifts are received.  I put a photo of the birthday boy on it to personalize it a bit more.

Lots of chipboard pieces on this... the new Photo Frames are awesome.  I added some thick gesso to it and then added the date stamp.  Once dry I rubbed on some watered down black paint then buffed most of it off of the top so that it remained in the impression of the numbers.

I also used the Hexagon Chipboards and a star from the Super Nova set and a heart from Shot through the Heart.

Also used was a new mini wood Photo Frame, Metal Bicycle Clip, Star Trinket pins, Sentiments Black Rubon and Tomato Twine Cording.

Thanks for stopping by!

Believe Clipboard - The Design Team Challenge

Hello Roadies!  It's Ronda here today to share with you one of my favorite "features" of CHA.  For many shows now, the design team has taken on a challenge creating a unique piece that reflects who they are.  Every tradeshow I look forward to seeing everyone's creations.  This past summer show we did clipboards.  Yes, I said clipboards! 

It was an amazingly fun challenge...challenge being the correct word.  While I loved the idea of using a clipboard, I struggled at first to find my direction.  The beauty of Maya Road products is that they cross all kinds of styles and arts.  I took a deep breath and created the kind of mixed media art I love. 

I began my clipboard by layering bits & pieces of Maya Road products I adore. It's almost like a treasure hunt...can you find: Kraft Stickers (Hearts & Arrows), Transparency Clocks (Black & White), 2 Measuring Tape Trims, Small Kraft & Polka Dot Envelopes, 3 stamp stets, Chipboard Alpha, Kraft Light Bulb, & Wood frames.  Yes they are all on here!  I wrote out some thoughts on the background with a waterproof black pen and then added a layer of gesso across the clipboard. 

I began painting the background with Maya Road mists.  I love the rich color it brings to all my creations.  I even painted "Me" with Maya Road Mists combined with a little bit of gesso.  It's what makes them so versitile.  You can use Maya Mists on almost any surface with the right preparations.  

I wanted to give the clipboard a title so at the very beginning I added chipboard letters to the base.  I covered them with gesso and maya mists as well as doodled around them with a waterproof black pen. 

The lessons we always learn from these challenges is how Maya Road fits into so many different styles and that a challenge is a good creative push.  I encourage you to take on our challenge by using a clipboard with some Maya Road products to create your own unique piece!

Maya Road and Fiskars swap, Day 4

Hello and welcome!  It's so nice of you to stop in to see another project combining Maya Road and Fiskars. It is a great combination.

I decided to make a layout with a photo of the beautiful blooms on the snowball bush that is in my backyard.  It is one of my favorite signs of spring.

The little banner near the bottom of the page was made using the Fiskar's Square-A-Licious Punch.  I just folded the punched pieces over some of the Maya Road Twine Cording.  I think that the banners are so sweet.  They also include a Vintage Wood Spool, chipboard Mixed Blossoms, a Scalloped Frame, Love Pennant Banner pieces, and a Velvet Resin Blossom.

I also used a Fiskars Notebook Border Punch, which is used on the patterned paper that is behind the photo.  You can do so many things with punches and of course Maya Road products.

Other Maya road items used: Vintage Kraft Envelope, Cream Ruffle Blossom, Sentiments Black Rub Ons, Gingham Fabric Tape, Trinket Pins, Grey Velvet Pleat, Vintage Edge Mum.

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap.  Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway!  Make sure to go read the details on this post

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Maya Road and Fiskars Swap, day 1

Hello there, welcome back to the Maya Road and Fiskars Swap!

This is Lia and Ania calling the shots today, ready to share brilliant inspiration (we hope!) with you using Fiskars and Maya Road products!

First out is a little box with two of the three shapes from the brilliant Fiskars 3-in-1 corner punch, Starlet. The punch creates pretty corners perfect for large squares, and is supereasy to use.  This particular shape can be used to add to a romantic, farmerish feel to any of your projects. A single Butterfly Chipboard is used as the focal point on the box, with the Clementine Orange Twine Cording as a subtle accent behind. (Oh, and Ania wants to apologize in advance here for the weird way the actually very, very cute glitter acts on her photos. She promises it's way dang cuter in real life than she manages to capture on film..eh..the camera sensor)

Nevertheless, here's another shape from the same punch, which is very, very easy to sort of turn and then the punch is ready w/another shape for you - Ania thinks it makes a cute name tag. And psst, notice the new, cute burlap posies, from the recent mid-show release.. Don't you love how it's both cute and down to earth-ish?

Now, we're not done yet - we're saving the best for the last because here comes Lia with her incredible cute little wreath!

Lia admits to loving the combination of turquoise, pink and yellow on her projects -  and that was the starting point of this wreath. After she wrapped the styrofoam wreath with three layers of bright turquoise yarn, she adhered two rounds of Tu-Tu Tulle - Ballerina Pink around the wreath.

 

She then glittered the Lisa Lowercase Alphabet chipboards, and added to a piece of patterned transparency on her wreath. She continued to embellish the wreath with a piece of painted Scroll Corners chipboard, a piece of Kraft Our Town - Black, a Vintage Kraft Boy/Girl Pin, and a Wood Bird Cage.

 

 

And let's not forget the Fiskars love. Lia professes to loving her Fiskars punches, and she even used three different punches on this wreath! The Fiskars Double Bubble Border Punch was used as the base for the Alphabet chipboards, X-Large Cloud Squeeze Punch for the white and blue clouds on the top of the wreath, and Oopsie Daisy Squeeze Punch for mini flowers clusters around the wreath. The mini flowers were also topped with Green Resin Blossoms.

 

We'll wrap this wreath up by pointing out the perfect finishing touch - the scatterings of Vintage Pale Pink Pearl Ball pins which Lia simply pushed into random spots around the styrofoam. The pale pink balls truly lights up this wreath and ties nicely colorwise with the tu-tu-tulle!

Talk about inspiration overload - and this is just the first day of the swap!

Thanks for joining us today for our blog swap! Don't forget that you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Love,

Lia and Ania

Out Mini Album

Hello Roadies!  It's Ronda here today to share with you my Out mini album using the new Journal Memory Binder that is a large 7.5" x 9" and comes with 4 tabbed chipboard pages.  I used it for my One Little Word for this year.  It's a perfect album to document your year in one album. 

First I covered the outside of the album with book text.  I decide to go with Sense & Sensibility since it's one of my favorite book.  Next I added a few sprinkles of diluted turquoise mist and some vintage thread.  I layered lots of maya road embellishments on top of the white doily.  I wanted the title to stand out so I used the Lisa alphabet with a white paint base + the same diluted turquoise mist. 

I added two extra dividers to the interior of the album.  The album will document my One little word throughout the year so each divider represents two months.  I also put watercolor paper between the dividers making this my art journal one little word album.  Here's a look at the interior divider pages:

As you can see I kept the design elements pretty consistent on each interior page, just changing up some of the elements & Maya Mist colors on the background.  I used the Just my Type stamp set on each page, abbreviating the months.  I also stamped each background with the Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamps. 

Here's my first art journal entry for January.  On the back as January closes, I will journal more about my month.  On the front, you can see I used Maya Road mists to cover the background.  I also added some stamped images & rub-ons to complete the look. 

Hope you are inspired to document your year in a different way!

You Hold My Heart

Thanks for visiting the Maya Road Design Team blog today!  I have a layout to share of my sweet baby boy, grandchild.  If you have a grandchild you know how they are the most amazing little things and can wrap your heart right around their finger.  If you don't, well just wait and see because someday you will be in awe of their every move.  Maybe it is because they don't live with us and we have to part so often, but they sure do steal your heart and many of the happy thoughts in a day.  This layout was a perfect way to express my thoughts of him.



One of my assignments for CHA was to focus on chipboard, which is so easy because Maya Road has the best ever chipboard sets.  On my layout I used the Love Mini Chipboard Set, Scallop Frames Chipboard Set, a couple of the Chipboard Tags, The William Mini Chipbaord, and the letter "R" from the "Lisa" uppercase set for Riley's name.

 As you can see I covered some of the chipboard pieces with patterned paper and others were painted or glittered.  On one of the 2 hearts near the bottom of the layout I covered it with patterned paper then added some Distress Crackle medium and stitched it up the center.  On the other one I added some micro beads to the crackle medium and a small puffy heart. 

When I use paint on chipboard I like to distress it up with a little sandpaper.  It just takes a light rub to expose some of the chipboard below the paint surface.  Then you can leave it just like that or you can add a coating of Mod Podge or other sealer for a glossy finish.

I love those chipboard tags and how they come with that little reinforcement circle...works great tied off with the Twine Cording.  Here I used the new color of " Blueberry", which you can see on the Maya Road Company Blog post HERE.

I also used Linen Burlap Trim, Wood Alterable Buttons, a Vintage Music Box Key, Border Scroll Rub ons, Vintage Wallpaper Clear Stamp, several Trinket Pins and a cute Vintage Cherries Finding.  Isn't Maya Road amazing?!?!  Perfect embellishments to go along with my perfect baby boys photo.  Don't forget that you can see all of the new product from CHA winter at the Maya Road Company Blog or download the new catalog HERE.

Have a wonderful day!

 

 

Complex Simplicity

Hello,  I am glad that you stopped by today!   I made a layout that features a photo of my sister.  She means so much to me... I am so grateful for her and the memories that we make together.  This photograph of her just says so much about her and I wanted to make a layout that would represent her personality and style also.



I know that I put way too much time  into the layouts that I make... I think forever on what the subject should be and I tend to stare, stare, stare at the photos.  It becomes quite the complex situation ;-)  You know how they say "A picture is worth a thousand words"?  I guess that I hope to capture a few of the perfect words and that is always so hard for me. 

I could have said so many different things about my sister... about her talents, her life, her loves.  So whether I choose my own words or the words of a poet, I  must write something.  Hours later (yes, I said hours!)  I thankfully complete my layouts.  The one final thing that makes a part of my creation process easy is using Maya Road products. 



I love the Burlap Rose and Linen Burlap Trim for this layout.  It fits perfectly with my sister, her horses and her lifestyle.  The Mixed Blossom Mini Chipboard set and the Jonathan Chipboard Alphabet that I painted up are so simple and easy to use. 

To me, nothing is ever complete without a Trinket Pin or two... or three!  I also like to use the Alterable Wood Buttons.  Painting them and distressing with sandpaper and ink, or sprinkling on a touch of glitter adds a nice touch and some pops of color throughout the page. 

So for someone who creates as slowly as I do, a complex process can be toned down a bit by using the  right product.  Thank goodness for the many Maya Road items that add simplicity to my projects! 

Have a wonderful day,

Other Maya Road product used:
Chipboard Scallop Frames
Tutu Tulle Trim
Vintage Raspberry Bead
Fabric Leaves
Scroll Rub Ons- white
Simgleton Stamp Strip