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Day 4: CHA-W last day update

Well we are done. And with the rush of the day, we still haven't had a chance to download our photos yet so alas tonight's post will be without photos.

We did after spending 5 hours tearing down the booth, get a chance to spend a little time in Anaheim with the little Maya Roadies that have traveled with us. Our bellies are full and a couple of small toys were purchased and we are ready for bed before we all head out!

So we leave you tonight after our 12 hour day with a chance to win one of our $25 GCs! Post here for a chance to win. Good luck!

Day 3 - CHA Update

Wow, we can't believe day 3 is done! And thanks for all the shoe suggestions! Can we just say that over 75% of our staff did wear crocs - the classics, mary janes and new ones too. And we still unfortunately all still had tired feet. We even have anti-fatigue carpet in our booth but alas, still toes that need some TLC

Today we want to share a photo of our staff right before we left for the day:

If we could post a caption bubble above our heads it would say "time to go home and prop our feet and order some Chipotle in!"

Here is also a peek at what our make and take table looked like today - we made some cool flowers with coffee filters, buttons and new Maya Mist:

That is all for tonight! We are off to bed after all of our chipotle eatin'! And remember to check out the DT blog for some awesome ideas while we are away!

Post tonight for a chance to win another $25 GC!

Day 2 - we need new shoes! (CHA-W show)

Wow, is day 2 already over? It was an exciting day at our booth today but our toes hurt like crazy from all the standing! We started the day pretty early with a fire alarm where the entire show had to evacuate the building; luckily it was only a 5 minute wait outside before we were all allowed to back in.

Check out some of the photos from our booth.

It was quite a busy day for us:

Here is our make and take table where we made some banners and everyone got to keep the 5" x 7" binders ( that the chipboard sheet came out ) of to take home!

And that is it for today! Post here for a chance to win a $25 GC to the Maya Road store. We will close all comments tomorrow with a new post tomorrow! Good night, our toes are needing some TLC!

Maya Road CHA-W Day 1 Post

We are back in the hotel room and resting our tired feet today. We did manage to get a couple of photos of our booth today which we wanted to share with you. We only had a couple of moments to snap some photos on our phone but we think this will give you a feel of how things were at the show.

Here is a look at our booth before the day started. You can see we had HUNDREDS of projects to go with all of our samples.

And check out our make and take -  we had such a tremendous response, by 3:30, we had run out of cool tags to make!

Here are some photos of our "sitting area" where customers could review their orders or just prop their feet and check out some of the cute projects from our design team. If you look closely there are some bagpipers playing. This is a show tradition that starts off each and every trade show.

It was a busy day for all of us but we will be back tomorrow to share more photos.

For now we have a giveaway! Post here between now and when we post tomorrow night for a chance at a $25 GC that you can use on the Maya Road website for shopping for your favorite MR products! We have a GC to giveaway each night so make sure you come back each night to post! One chance per person!

Have a GREAT night!

We Will Be Back Soon!

As we mentioned before, we will be off to Maya Road will be at CHA-W very soon!  During each day of the show, we will try to capture some pictures and share some photos of the booth, etc. During each day of the show (which starts Sunday), you will get a chance to win a $25 GC to the Maya Road online store! So make sure you check back!

Have a great time creating while Maya Road is at the show because remember, our products start shipping as soon as we get back and you will need to make room for all the goodies!

Day 7 Peek - Sharing With You ALL The GOODs!

Before we get started, there was a couple of questions on the last post about some of the albums we shared so let's answer those questions:

Q. How did Jess cover the album pages with the holes?

A: Very carefully - LOL! Actually, we asked Jess, she covered each of the pages and then used a hole punch to punch out the hole shape. Then she took a barrel / round shaped sander and sanded inside each of the holes to get a nice fit!

Q: How did Lia do the word "new" on her album?

A: We got to ask Lia this too and she said she used an embossing tinsel that you can heat emboss. If you google the term, you will probably find some different cool colors you like!

Now back to our regularly scheduled peek! We wanted to show you the sticker we will be passing out at the show. Make sure you tell your LSS and online store to stop by our booth if they are going to CHA; tell them what you want to see them order!

If we find that we have any leftover from the show, we will make sure to stick some in the sneak peek winner packages!

Now if you are ready to see all the goods, check out our FULL catalog here. Here is a look at one of the pages:

So for tonight's giveaway, check out the catalog and let us know what your favorite thing is in a comment. List your top 3. And we will pick a winner after CHA.

And we are going to ask that you spread the word about Maya Road - it is because of your support that we continue to be able to bring you amazing products at prices that we work hard to keep reasonable for everyone.

We will be sharing more of what we have planned for the time during CHA-W later this week so make sure you check back and thank you always for your support of our company!

Day 6 Peeks - You Do Not Want To "Mist" This!

So we hope everyone had a great weekend! We are back with our Day 6 Peeks (not peaks like mountains) and look what we have to share with you - some of our new Maya Mists! We are introducing a new metallics line - 6 new colors in all. These Metallic Mists are colored and the shine is amazing.

Let's get to them!

What about an amazing amazing iridescent color? This was just sprayed (2 coats) onto our raw chipboard and you get shine like this.

Now what about a pretty turquoise color; again check out the metallic feel of this:

And what about a beautiful bronze color:

These Maya Mists are designed to work with all of our chipboard. The colors are amazing rich (meaning lots of pigments in there) and our chipboard dries to the touch quite nicely and quickly!

And we wanted you to get a close up look at some of our new chipboard albums too! Check this triangle banner out. Our big triangle banner has been so popular that we made one slightly smaller and cuter! It comes with pretty much ALL the chipboard pieces you will need to decorate it and you will get the rings too. We give you the rings because we want you to be able to also use the banner as an album - decorate it on the front as a banner and put all your memories on the back as the album! When you are done hanging it, you can use the rings to set the album aside to remember your special event! All of this for only $5 retail. How great is that?

  Check out what Jessica made with this banner:

Check out this one from Andrea:

And look at our layer book here:

Check out what Katie did with it:

And check out what Lia did with the same album; same album totally different feel.

And check out this one from Jessica:

And that is it for tonight! Make sure you leave a comment if you want a chance tonight to win one of the Maya Road prize packs we are giving away! Check back tomorrow as we have one more post to make before CHA-W! We will be sharing the whole enchilada with you then!

PS, check out some of the amazing ideas from our Design Team on the DT blog - Lisa posted a great one today using our Maya Road chipboard bird coasters!

 

 

Day 5 Peeks Are Here!

Yes, we are still going to post on a Friday night. We didn't want to let you down with our weeks of peeks - can't let a Friday Night get in the way! BUT we will take a weekend break and come back to more peeks on Monday. You need to make sure you check back.

And you DEFINITELY want to check back during the 4 days of CHA as we do updates and we have some gift certificates we will be giving away for Maya Road stuff (more on that later).

So back to our peeks - today is our stamp day. We love our stamps. Each of our sets is designed to work with all of our other products. All of our stamps are made of high quality photo polymer in the US. They are the perfect way to get crisp images on your projects!

Let's get started with our 2 big sets: the bingo card - with interchangeable header and our crowns! These will come packaged in our signature tins.

Check out what Wendy did with them here:

 

And check out how different it looks when Aubrey puts the bingo card stamp into action:

Here is a project from Katie using a crown stamp from the set:

 

And with our 2 biggie sets, we have some smaller ones too! Check these ones out.Some notes and a set of scrolls. Did we mention the notes will fit on a chipboard keychain we are coming out with?

Here is a project from Sandy using one of the note stamps:

 

And what about some days of the week and clocks - can you believe in this 2" x 3" area we fit 9 different clock pieces of stamps? And the days of the week stamp are perfect if you are documenting your daily life! The days are separate from the journaling portion.

And finally this is one of our favorite stamps. It is a build - a - tree set. You can use these stamps a TON of ways! Make Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall trees by changing the number of leaves you use. Add a birdie or owl or pear for that special touch!

And check out this sweet tree that Jessica did:

 

Now we know you all are looking at these peeks but if you don't leave a comment, you won't have a chance at the daily sneak peek week giveaways! We will be posting the winners of each daily peek right after CHA - but you gotta comment if you want a chance! There might look like there are a lot of comments, but your chance of winning is better than the lottery if you post! So have fun and good luck!

More from us Monday!

 

Day 4 - You'll Want More

There was a couple of questions about when things would be shipping - as we mentioned in a prior post, pretty much everything will be shipping (EXCEPT for the trims and flowers)right after CHA-W. With that begin said, we are tracking our container like a kid tracks Santa on Christmas Eve to make sure it arrives on time. There is always the clearing customs factor but if everything goes smoothly, everything will be ready to go the week after we get back from CHA (again except for the trim and flowers which will be mid/late March).

So back to our peeks today. When we started our sheers a couple of years ago, they caught on like wildfire. With that we have a couple of different things here for you. Let's start off with some of our sheer owls:

These cuties come in our blister packs so you get a whole gaggle of them for your use - perfect for card making and more!

And who can forget the owl's distant relative, the birds:

The mini owls and birds come in a blister pack which each holds about 24 of these fowl friends and retails for about $3.50 in the US. How tweet is that?

Next, our ever popular larger sheer sets (that come in our signature tins) - what about some clocks with hands? We took these from our set of rubons we made a while ago and translated them into these clocks. You get over  70 pieces (yes 70) in this set for $8.00. Layer them, use them all separate for your projects - you will have enough! Did we also mention these come in brown and cream?

 

And what about some tags (real tags that you can hang on things); these come 36 to a set and retail for about $8.00. They will also come in brown and cream.

 

And these ones are our sheer keychains - our sheer luggage tags; we have actually flown with one of these on its original chain across 2 continents and 10,000 miles on a checked bag and it still made it - how cool is that? These luggage tags are printed on even a higher gauge sheer material than our other sheers. This set will retail for $2.00.

And since we only have a sneak peek week (not month) we wanted to share with you some other things we are excited about. Check out these two chipboard coasters.

Here is our song bird (who is a big 5" across) - the first page is die cut out for you. Oh yeah and he retails for less than $2.50.

And one of the favorites of our DT - check out this coffee cup (or tea or hot chocolate - whatever you prefer) - this one is also a large 5.5" across and less than $2.50!!

So now, let's leave you with day 4 inspiration:

From Lia - how cute are these marshmellows:

And from Sandy, a wonderful use of the sheer journaling and sheer luggage tags:

What about a cute song bird from Caroline:

And check out this little owl on one of Lia's purse projects:

 

And finally the clock sheers in this layout here (did you notice that the background was created with our Silver Maya Mist sprayed over a paper doilie?)        

And that is it for day 4; but you know we still have more - so leave a comment and make sure you check back tomorrow. We aren't done yet!

A *MINI* Peek For Day 3

Wow, is it already day 3? We are back to share with you some tiny peeks - things that we think you will absolutely LOVE. Are you ready?

Check out our new mini chipboards - these come packaged in blister packs and each set contains from 28 -70 pieces of chipboard!

Here is the first one - the trees chipboard - do you see the tiny baby bird with it?

And what about some mini chipboard tags - we didn't sacrifice good quality thick chipboard for these:

And for the boys (and other gear heads) in our lives, what about some little gears?

And we have some of our favorites - what about some Jonathan Chipboard letters in mini:

And to give you an idea on these alphabet's size, check them out in comparsion to our original Jonathan chipboard letters:

And here is what they look like in the packaging:

The retail on these are pretty sweet too! They range from about $3.00 to $3.50 in the US. How cool is that?

And now some projects to inspire you - let's start with one from Katie:

And here is are the trees and birds from Caroline:

   

And what about some more gears - here is a funny one from Aubrey:

And finally one using the mini chipboard letters too (do you see a new Maya Mist color coming?)

These mini chipboards are great for mini albums, inchies, twinchies and more. If you don't feel like covering them with patterned papers, ink them, paint them or use Maya Mist on them.For the Maya Mists, spray, allow to dry and you are done!

Leave a comment here for a chance to win a new Maya Road CHA-W prize pack. Enjoy!