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

Maya Road & Photoplay Product/Blog Swap | 12x12 Layout -SHINE-

Hello Roadies!

 

 

Nathalie here to welcome you  to the last day of the Maya Road and Photoplay Product/Blog swap.  I hope you all had found inspiration on all the projects showcased this week.  Remember to take the time to visit both blogs, and comment along the way, one lucky comment will be winning a gift certificate to the store.  But know let me show you what i created for this swap using the beautiful Maya Road products, and the super fun Mad 4 Plaid collection from Photoplay.

 

 

 

For my project, I wanted to recreate a Christmas tree just like the one my daughter is sit under in the picture.  Since there are so many beautiful patterns in the Photoplay's  Mad 4 Plaid collection,  i tried to combined them all by using 1x12 in long strips to create paper rosettes.  These were then glued -and stacked- to recreate the Christmas tree silhouette.

 

 

 

Once the entire tree shape was created, I started adding details to the center of each rosette using the sequin stickers from the Mad 4 Plaid sticker sheet, along with some of the Maya Road Pearl Button Trim, and Pearl Flower Trim that were cut individually, and glued to the center of each rosette.

 

 

To tie in the picture to the layout, I used a few wood tokens as centers for some of the rosettes -the wood tokens come from the Wood Classic Tokens,  Wood Love Tokens,  Wood Beloved Tokens - .  A little bit of gold acrylic paint was all that was needed to add some shine to each of the tokens.   In addition, since the papers color palette had some grey in it, i added some Silver Star Pins scattered at the edge of the tree.

 

 

 

Every tree needs a topper!, so I pulled some of the Snowflake Chipboard Set, and used gold foil on two of their matching snowflakes (same star, different sizes) to tie in with the gold shine in the wooden tokens; then just glued them together, and affixed it to the top paper rosette.  Our Christmas tree usually has a large bow right under the star, so I added one of the White Pretty Resin Bow to recreate our Christmas tree.

 

 

 The Photoplay's  Mad 4 Plaid collection comes filled with gorgeous papers, and super fun stickers and die cut pieces.   I used some of the stickers to create clusters around the picture, and one of the die cut pieces "SHINE" serves as the title for this project.   To make the small title/die cut pop, i used the Sparkle and Die Steel Die set to create a few star sequin from some of the 6x6  papers from the collection, and then just glued them around the title.

 

 

 

Here is a close up of one of the clusters around the picture, once again,  i used a combination of embellishments, plus I added my favorite charm from the Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charm set to the cluster.  Remember there is a promotion going -30%off the entire collection- on this entire month on all Ken Oliver's collection on the Maya Road on line store.

 

A few flickers of gold paint, and a few lines of journal complete the page.  Can i say that the beautiful Maya Road along with the Mad 4 Plaid collection from Photoplay made it easy to document a memory in July (it was a humid day the day i created this page!!).

 

Remember to stop by the blog to check all the projects created this week, and leave a comment on each entry, there will be a prize for a lucky comment.  As usual, let me know if you have questions on how this came together.

 

See you all soon,

 

 

Maya Road Products used:

Pearl Button Trim

Pearl Flower Trim

 Wood Beloved Tokens 

Wood Classic Tokens

Wood Love Tokens

Wood Beloved Tokens

Silver Star Pins

Snowflake Chipboard Set

Pretty Resin Bow

Sparkle and Die Steel Die set

Ken Oliver Heart & Key Charm set

Steampunk Card by Yasmin Tölche

Hello Roadies! It's Yasmin back again on the blog today with another share! I've made a fun steampunkish card using the fantastic Maya Road products. 

On this card I used my sewing machine to stitch around the egdes of my card. I used some of Maya Roads Kraft tags to layer in the background. I fuzzy cut some fun elements out of paper and glued/stapled the on. By using some of Maya Roads fun elements I got to make a cool face on the lightbulb. 

The fun thing about the embellishment is that they are easy to alter og add more interest too since they are so versatile. 

Products used on this card: 

Lucky Star Wood Buttons

Jute Twine Cording - Earl Grey

Eureka Light Bulb Transparencies

Follow your Arrow Clips 

Mustache Charm

Wood Glasses 

Kraft tags

Thanks for stopping by today! :) 

 

Driftwood Sailboat by Yasmin Tölche

Hello Roadies! It's Yasmin here on the blog today and It's been a while since I've posted anything on the blog but I'm back today with a little project I've made. Hopefully you will like it as much as I do. 

I love to rummage around down at the shoreline where I live and you can find all sorts of things that's floated in from the ocean. So I collect interesting pieces of driftwood and this time I figured that I wood just make a little boat.

So the boat is made by pieces of driftwood and twigs. I decorated it with paper to make sails added lace and other things. To keep the sails to the mast I used Maya Road Twine and it worked perfectly!

The Canvas banners where perfect in the top of the mast along with one of the star wooden buttons. I also use the new die set "Sand and Sea" to die cut out the words Sea and a couple of starfish. 

Products used on this project: 

Sand and Sea Die-Set 

Lucky Star Wooden Buttons

Twine Jute Cording - Popsicle Blue

Triangle Banners - Canvas

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a look at my project today! 

Pallet Art

Pallet art has always been super cool to me! This week I decided to have my kids help out with some pallet transfer art:

I had my daughter and niece with me on some mornings this week and we decided to transfer one of their cousin photos onto a 6" x 8" ken oliver scroll pallet. Here is a collage of them at work:

A couple of tips on creating these:

1. You have to use a laser transfer photo (or laser copy photo).
2. If your photo has words on it you need to flip it before transferring to the pallet (or the words will be backwards on the print).
3. Burnish your copy onto the pallet with firm strokes so that the transfer goes smoothly.
4. A sponge makes an easy tool for removing the paper .
5. Be careful around edges as the medium transfer can easily be broken there.
6. Just when you think you have removed all the paper, there will be more that shows up. There is a fine balance between what you cam remove and what is left.

And when you are 7 and 8 and done, this is what it looks like:

These were done on our 6" x 8" scroll pallets . And all Ken Oliver products are on sale this month for 30% off. Use the code KOlove to save on the Ken Oliver Collection!

 

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!!!

 

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 & Simple Stories Product Swap | Day 5

Hello Roadies!

 

It's Nathalie, and i am the so happy to be part of  the Maya Road & Simple Stories product swap.  I hope you all have been inspired by all the beautiful projects members of both design teams have been sharing this week.  

 

 

 

I am lucky to serve as a member on both design teams, so this project was a dream to work on.   Today, I am bringing you a new layout that was completely inspired by the floral designs in the new Summer Days collection by Simple Stories.

 

 

The flowers in this collection resemble the ones from the  Maya Road Flower Die Set.   So i pulled some white texture card stock, and cut a few of the flower die cuts.  Since I wanted to make this page cheery and fun, I pulled the So Much Fun paper from the Summer Days collection to serve as the mat for this layout.

 

 

 

 

The color lines in the paper was the  starting point for the color blocking in the die cuts.  I simply used watercolors and inks to try (at best!) to replicate the colors of the paper lines in the die cut flowers, and leaves. To tie in the design, the centers of all the flowers were cut from the B side of the Lazy Days paper.  

 

 

 

Once the picture of one of my littles was set in the center of the page, all the flowers were attached to the page following the color line they landed on.  Now it came time to decorate, and embellish!

 

 

I chose to add some wood tokens from the Wood Snapshot Token set, and the Wood 24/7 Journaling Tokens as centers in two of the flowers closest to the picture on each corner.  A Resin Diamond in Snow White as well a few Vintage Pearl - Trinket Pins were added around some of the flowers to bring the white color in the layout's mat.   

 

 

In addition, i used some of the papers and stickers from the collection to cover some pieces from the Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti Set and Love Chipboard Banner so that they also continue the colorful striped pattern in the layout papers.  A little bit of glue attaches the paper to the chipboard, then a bit of fussy cutting, and you can easily create new chipboard stickers for your projects.  These pieces were then used to frame the picture in the layout along with a few more stickers and paper pieces from the Simple Stories Summer Days collection.

 

 

 

I love the final look of this layout; lots of dimension and different textures bring the happiness of cheerfulness of a pool day on a hot day to the layout.  The Summer Days collection from Simple Stories is just beautiful, and our super versatile Maya Road products bring that special touch to this project.  They are a match made in "Craft" heaven!!

 

I hope you all have been inspired this week!  Don't forget to check the new Simple Stories  blog for more inspiration, and their new collections...

Website - https://www.simplestories.com

Blog - https://www.simplestories.com/blog

Facebook - http://bit.ly/1ntY7fw

Instagram - Simple Stories - https://www.instagram.com/simplestories_/

Instagram - Carpe Diem - https://www.instagram.com/carpediemplanners/

and all the newly released Maya Road products (there are so many new goodies) available on line.   Remember to comment on this week's blog posts, one lucky comment will be receiving a $20 gift certificate to the store (YAY!!!).    

 

I am comment away if you have questions on how this came together (though it might take a few extra hours, as this goes live we are on route to beautiful Ecuador!, but my phone is with me, so i will get to the comments as soon as I arrive in Quito!)

 

Thanks for Stopping by!

 

 

Maya Road Products used:

Flower Die Set

Wood Snapshot Token Set

Wood  24/7 journaling Tokens

 Resin Diamond - Snow White

Trinket Pins - Vintage Pearl

Mini Chipboard Heart Confetti Set

Love Chipboard Banner

 

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Summer State of Mind: Maya Road and Simple Stories Blog Swap Day 1

Hi Roadies! It's Julia here kicking off Day  1 of the Maya Road and Simple Stories Product Swap! I couldn't be more excited as these companies are two of my favorites and I just love how well the product pairs up beautifully!

I'm using lots of fabulous paper crafting goodies from both companies and the new Simple Stories Summer Days line has me in a summer state of mind.

 

My first creation is a layout of my daughter and her boyfriend. They've been out and about enjoying this beautiful time of year in Ottawa and I loved their photos so much, I'll admit to swiping the pictures off them...with permission of course! Ottawa is know for it's gorgeous flowers and parliament buildings and culture and each time I visit, I'm always amazed.

 

 

I've used a mix of the Summer Days line paired up with lots of Maya Road flowers and other embellishments. I love the Wood Slices for adding in fun texture and accents to the design.

The layout is inspired by  Page Maps sketch and I've added in stitching details to tie it all together. Maya Road has a fun line of new summer themed dies that go perfectly with these papers. I've used the new Tropical Flowers Die Set to die cut paper leaves to layer under the tulle flowers.

While I had all these fabulous embellishments and papers out, I just couldn't put them away until I created a few cards as well!

The You are My Sunshine card features a fun flamingo sticker from Simple Stories layered over an ornate resin piece from Maya Road. I love how all the fun colors pop against the white background.

And finally, a mix of this and that...stickers, die-cuts, wood, flowers, resin and twine. I love to mix everything up for a fun and unique look! There's really no right or wrong and it's all grouped together on the free printable library card that you can find here.

 Simple Stories is a great place for gorgeous papers and inspiration. Be sure to check them out!

Website - https://www.simplestories.com

Blog - https://www.simplestories.com/blog

Facebook - http://bit.ly/1ntY7fw

Instagram - Simple Stories - https://www.instagram.com/simplestories_/

Instagram - Carpe Diem - https://www.instagram.com/carpediemplanners/

 

Maya Road Supplies:

Tropical Flowers Die Set

Ken Oliver Vintage Paper Leaves

Vintage Findings Paper Leaves Medium

Gold Bulldog Clips

Ballerina Pink Tu-Tu Tulle Flowers

Tulle Mini Blooms

Mixed Mini Wood Slices

Vintage Wood Ticket Tokens

Follow Your Arrow Clips

Wood Embroidery Hoops

Medium Vintage Paper Flowers Red

Small Vintage Paper Flowers Pink

Resin Fancy Frames - Snow White

Resin Flower Set - Sunshine Yellow

 

 Thanks so much for joining me today! Be sure to stop visit Simple Stories for more inspiring ideas! And don't forget...comment each day on the Maya Road blog for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Maya Road on-line store! Good luck!

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Ah um ... do not disturb!

 

Hi Roadies! Belly's on the blog today. The chipboard promotion is now live, 30% off all chipboard using the coupon code CHIPCHIP, remember to check out on Maya Road site.

 

Chipboard works great together with various techniques and you certainly sometimes don't want to use a lot of time to alter them. On this layout, I used only two very very simple coloring methods on the chipboard, let me show you.

 

The main technique I used on the chipboard is pressing Distress Ink directly on them, you can also work with other kinds of ink too, see the above example of the green arrows and big button, also the red heart chipboard. If you would like to make them shine, Glossy Accents or UT are the choices.

 

 

The second technique I used on the chipboard alphabets is just spray o. If you want to have a shinny gold color, you cannot use water-based spray ink, it is important to use the home decor one, this can give you a cool shinny and more rich gold color than the water-based one.

 

Other Maya Road products I used on this layout:
Geometric Blossom Die
Acrylic Mason Jars - Classic
Crystal Flower Buttons
Medium Vintage Paper Flowers - Red
Small Vintage Paper Flowers - Red
Wood Holiday Tokens
Vintage Crafting Tassels (Gold Cap) - Ocean Blue

 

Enjoy!!!