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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your patience as we announce the winners of sneak peek week! If you find yourself on the winning list, you have from now til August 15th to contact us and let us know. Use the contact us form, give us the day of your win and you will get a MR prize pack chock full of at least $20 of NEW Maya Road goodies!

Thanks to everyone who checked out all our goodies!

Day 1:

These are heavenly! I love the mist and the doilies!!! Thank you for the chance to win Maya Road!!!

Posted by: kim wilson | July 15, 2010 at 11:56 PM

Day 2:

I love the stamps most of all!

Posted by: Shay | July 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM

Day 3:

I am so into the pleated stuff at the moment and that pleated ribbon looks absolutely divine!! I also love the big scallop pieces that you can punch and make your own album with, totally cool!

Posted by: Kim M | July 20, 2010 at 07:43 AM

Day 4:

Some of the items look like lollies, hence good enough to eat but my fave is the roses by far.

Posted by: Dale T (Australia) | July 21, 2010 at 04:06 AM

Day 5:

OK, here's my wish list: organdy roses, velvet pleated flowers, satin posies, mini chipboard scallop banner set, resin flowers, chipboard windows, pleated ribbons, crochet trims (all of them!), ledger stamp set. And those are just at the top of my list! I'm glad to see that your stamps are photopolymer and not acrylic. I ordered clear stamps from another company and was so disappointed in the quality. I'll never buy acrylic again!

Posted by: Jessica Canham | July 23, 2010 at 04:47 PM

Thanks everyone and look for our CHA-S release soon!

Sneak Peek Week Wrap Up and Flower Tutorial

THANK YOU to everyone who made our Sneak Peek Week so special. We did read all the comments and we will pick the random winners by Friday of this week. Thank you for everyone who asked their retailer to carry our items. We had an amazing show and we cannot be more grateful to you all!

CHA-S was amazing. Check out this photo of our booth before the festivities began:

It is always interesting as CHA starts with a procession of bagpipers that walk down each aisle of the booths before the show officially starts! 

We had talked about some of our new trims right before CHA started and the wonderful things you could make with them. Here is a sample of some of the flowers you can make with our new pleated ribbons:

Our ribbons are very cool and retail for about $1.00 or so a yard. They are pre-plated and available in both satin and grosgrain like this. It takes close to 2 yards to make each yard of our pleated ribbon trim:

 

With about 18" - 24" of this ribbon you can create some FABULOUS flowers. Here is a list of supplies you will need:

1. Maya Road New Pleat Ribbon (in satin or grosgrain) - you will want it in every color (18" - 24" per flower - this is all arriving next week)
2. Strong Quick Dry Adhesive (like Helmar or Beacon) or a Glue Gun
3. Maya Road Foundations Chipboard or Motifs Chipboard (you want the circles from here unpunched)
4. Maya Road Trinket Buttons (we love Earth)
5. Maya Road Leaves (coming next week)

Start with all your supplies:

Step 1:

Put a big dot of glue in the middle of your chipboard circle

Step 2:

Start rolling your ribbon in a spiral in your hand, when you get about a 1/2" spiral put down on the glue. Hold til it grabs the adhesive and sticks on. You will need to work fast!

Step 3:

Continue adding the glue to the chipboard and spiral the ribbon around the circle. Keep wrapping til you come to the end of the chipboard circle and tuck in the ribbon and trim excess.

Step 4:

Now find a button you like and nest it in the middle of the flower - glue in place. Add the leaf to the backside if desired (you can also finish off the back of the chipboard piece with a piece of felt to cover it if desired or mist the chipboard piece first to match your flower and then create the flower.

Step 5:

Repeat for all the other flowers you want to create! Once you get the hang of it, this flower takes only 10 minutes to make!

Here is how the flower looks when you make it out of the grosgrain pleated ribbon:

Easy as pie. We hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!