It’s Day 2 of Maya Road week on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog! We’re thrilled to be partnering with Maya Road for a week filled with fantastic project ideas featuring Maya Road Products. Since discovering the Maya Road booth at CHA, we’ve been absolute Maya Road Junkies – or to use Maya Road terminology – “Roadies”. They have such a fantastic array of products which can act as building blocks to just about any project you can think of – they’ve got tons of chipboards, albums, trims, trinkets, Mists, stamps, rub-ons…..and that doesn’t even scratch the surface!
Every day this week we’ll be featuring projects both from Maya Road Design Team members as well as some of our Paper Crafter’s Library Designers/Educators. As part of this week’s projects we – and the Maya Road Design Team challenged ourselves to create as many different projects as we could with the collection of Maya Road products shown below. Our goal was to show you how incredibly versatile these products are and how many different looks you can achieve with them. I have to tell you, I was blown away in seeing every one’s projects and what a different spin everyone puts on those same products. So as the week progresses, you’re going to see these products appearing over and over again in the projects. For ongoing inspiration using Maya Road products be sure to visit the Maya Road blog or the Maya Road Facebook page.
Maya Road Prize Pack
As with our other manufacturer spotlights, at the end of this week two lucky winners will receive a Maya Road prize pack. Winners will be drawn from all the comments left here on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog or the Paper Crafter’s Library Facebook page. Remember, each comment you leave is one entry, so be sure to visit every day not only for the great project ideas, but also to enter your name into our give-away. One winner will receive the goodies shown below which includes 5 rolls of May Road’s awesome twine cording each with over 100 yards, and 8 of their wooden spools. The second winner will receive the prize pictured below that, which is an assortment of the same products we used in our projects throughout the week along with a few different trims.
About Maya Road
Maya Road was born in 2003. Two sisters, Deborah and Caroline, were spending the weekend together, and went shopping for all of the latest scrapbooking supplies. As they browsed the aisles, they were struck by how difficult it was to find unique scrapbooking products and how expensive products were. They started chatting about products they wanted to see, and they brainstormed how they could combine their business knowledge and design skills to produce the unique products for scrapbooking. Thus, Maya Road was formed.
After much soul-searching, they decided to launch Maya Road nationally with 38 unique products at HIA (the prior name for CHA Tradeshow) in 2004. Since then Maya Road has added over 2000 new products to their line. Creative items include such as chipboard, trims, twines, metals, Maya Mists, embellishments and more.
Maya Road was founded on a belief in each person’s creative ability and on the commitment to making high quality scrapbooking products available and affordable to everyone. Maya Road believes that scrapbooking and memory keeping should be an everyday event available to everyone.
Our signature products are carried in over 1000 scrapbooking stores in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and beyond. People often ask where the term “Maya Road” comes from. Maya is actually a combination of nicknames, Caroline and Deborah, had as kids. They looked up “Maya” and realized it meant “The Art of Creation” and thus, Maya Road was born.
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Design Team Project
Our next Maya Roady Designer is Julia Stainton. You can see her stunning creations below but first, here is a bit more about Julia:
Creating things has always been a passion of mine. I simply can’t remember a time that I haven’t been creating something. My name is Julia Stainton and while I’ve tried almost every craft under the sun, for the past 12 years I’ve been mostly focused on paper crafting. The past six years have been especially busy crafting ones as I moved into freelance design… designing for numerous magazines and design teams. I love experimenting with many styles and types of projects but I’m always going back to stamping, cardmaking and a shabby layered style. The past couple years I’ve been excited to do some product design for Lily Bee Design and have released three scrapbooking collections. The beginning of this year brought me another dream come true when I was asked to join the Maya Road team.
My husband and I have been married for 22 years and have five children aged from 21 down to 6. They keep me busy and I’m thrilled to have them all at home this summer. We live in Ontario between a few of the Great Lakes and spend as much time out on the water as possible each summer. I’m a pretty shy girl who loves to stay at home crafting, reading and baking. Oh yes, I also love wasting time on Pinterest and I’m totally addicted to chocolate.
Three Card Designs
Welcome to day two of the Maya Road + Paper Crafter’s Library Blog Swap! It’s Julia here today with three cards to share with you featuring the same products that you’ll be seeing all week. I always find it so inspiring to see how many different designers use the exact same product for such unique results.I’ve used each product at least once in the card trio and you’ll find that I’ve used many of them in more than one card design. My favorite was the Butterfly Stamp set and you’ll find that I’ve used it on each of the designs. Why? Well…I love stamping and with the myriad of techniques that you can stamp with, a stamp set is one of the best crafting investments I can think of. Think almost endless possibilities.
This first card uses the smallest of the butterfly stamps on a little Kraft tag. Maya Road has a variety of sweet little tags that make a great place to stamp an accent or a sentiment. Chipboard is another one of those staple products that I just can’t get enough of. An easy way to add color and texture to plain chipboard is to cover it with a crackle paint finish. The Zipper Trims can be used to add texture and interest to a design. They can be stapled on, stitched or adhered with a strong adhesive.
My second card design uses the larger butterfly images stamped onto a manila tag in different colors of ink. Sometimes simple stamping is all you need. The tag on this card is also stamped. Stamping on canvas is as simple as stamping on paper. I like to test my ink on a scrap of canvas first to make sure I’ll get a crisp and clean impression. To get a more soft and shabby look to the beautiful Apple Mums, they were inked with a white ink stain. The zipper trim makes some abstract leaves by folding the trim in half and then stapling.
For my final design, I’ve used another simple stamping technique. Heat embossing is easy and adds dimension and shine to your stamping. If you emboss clear embossing powder over a clear embossing or watermark ink you end up with a beautiful tone on tone effect. As you can see the kraft looks beautiful embossed and the stamping will be a lovely warm brown. Since I first saw the sweet little Metal Vintage Trinket Love Hangers, I’ve been dying to hang tags from them. The stamped and embossed tags are each tied with twine.
Maya Road has been a favorite of mine for years. The product is high quality, on trend but timeless, and it mixes with every style and patterned paper line out there. What could be better?
Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects
One of the things I mentioned at the beginning of this post is how incredibly versatile Maya Road products are. For today’s free video tutorial we wanted to show you that you don’t have to be a Paper Crafter to enjoy Maya Road products, and you don’t have to have a lot of time. Below you can see a set of hair accessories created by Tracy which simply utilize some of the Maya Road flowers. She created a hair elastic, hair band, and two different styles of barettes.
You can view a video on how Tracy created these hair accessories here:
Our second project for today utilized 9 out of the 10 products sent to us by Maya Road. This project was created by Andrea Walford (me). It’s an Altered Burlap Gift Bag that measures 5″ x 7″. You can use it to package small coordinating note-cards, you could put a gift card in there, a small gift, a few treats……I purchased the burlap bag years ago at a packaging store because I thought they were really neat and then they sat in my cupboard since then. When we received the Maya Road products they went so perfectly with the burlap that I immediately knew what I wanted to do.
Using a ribbon threading needle I threaded Maya Road’s Slushie Blue Twine Cording through the burlap to create a decorated border. I stained and stamped my canvas banner and hung it from the adorable vintage love hanger with more twine, and then attached my Kraft tag to the hanger as well, this time using the gingham ribbon. I colored my Jonathan Chipboard letter with some chalk ink and then stuck it onto the tag. I then hung the hanger from the embroidered twine border. I clustered the flowers and then used the beautiful Leaf Green Zipper Trim to create the leaves for my larger flower.
Here you can see a close up of my cluster of embellishments.
There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.
So there you have it! Day 2 of our celebration of Maya Road! I hope you have enjoyed all the projects that our design team and the Maya Road design team have created for you.
A Bit About Paper Crafter’s Library
The world of paper crafting is HUGE! Whether you are a beginner, or you’ve been creating for years, the sheer number of different products, tools, techniques and project ideas can be overwhelming. After spending 6 years helping thousands of paper crafters around the world become more successful in the creative space through her series of kits, digital tutorials and online classes, Andrea Walford began looking for a new approach to education. In 2011 she launched Paper Crafter’s Library – the first, and still to this day, only website that provides an all-in-one learning solution for paper crafters. With almost 800 videos currently in their library and 4-5 new videos added each week, Paper Crafter’s Library offers comprehensive training on products, tools, techniques, and project ideas. From beginner through to advanced, whether your interest is in stamping, card making, scrapbooking, creating 3D items or altered art – you’ll find all the resources you need to navigate the world of paper crafting in ONE place, organized and indexed so that it’s quick and easy to find.
Be sure to sign up for our free email newsletter which features weekly video tutorials. For more information about Paper Crafter’s Library and how we can help you take your paper crafting to the next level, check out the Benefits of Becoming a Member.
Maya Road Give-Away
To enter to win one of the Maya Road prize packs please leave your comment below. Winners will be drawn from all the comments left either here on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog or the Paper Crafter’s Library Facebook page. For ongoing inspiration using Maya Road products be sure to visit the Maya Road blog or the Maya Road Facebook page. Be sure to take a minute to stop by Julia Stainton’s blog and say hi as well, and of course check out all of her gorgeous creations.
I love the projects and I love Maya Road .. they have the cutest stuff !!
Wow, the projects above are all so beautiful. I love them!
Hugs, Uta
Ohhhh, these are all beautiful projects 🙂
Julia and Andrea, fabulous projects. I love your use of the zipper as leaves. It adds texture and interest.
I love those cards! They are amazing! And making your own (hair-) accessories is an idea I see myself using for my little girl while she’s growing up!! It is so cute!!
Great projects! I think my favorite little detail has to be the zipper leaves. Very creative! Thanks for the inspiration and “how-tos.”
These cards are so pretty. I love those butterfly images and also the use of the zip in the 3rd card. Cute!
Lovely projects. I like the use of zipper trim on the cards and how easy the hair accessories are to make. I like all the embellishments on the burlap bag too.
Super great projects!!! I love the clear embossing on Kraft with the uber beautiful butterfly stamp!!! Thank you so very much for sharing and thank you to Maya road for sponsoring this uber fun week of fun and education!!! be blessed
~Beyond Measure
Tammy
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Hi Love this site and love them flowers -great projects
These projects are so cute and the hair acc are adorable!!!!
I am so impressed with all the wonderful projects you girls have created with these Maya Road products…and it’s only Tuesday!!! Thanks so much for the video, too ~ perfect timing for a project I can work on with my granddaughter this coming weekend…also, thank you for the video tutorial and a chance to win!!!
I hadn’t heard of Maya Road before, our local big box xstores dont carry anything good, and we don’t have any scrapbooking stores around. I keep telling my hubby we need to move closer to some of the good stores, but he is not amused.
I just started making hair bows, and the ones you are showing here are very cute! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Oh my, you have just inspired me to make some hair accessories for my grandchildren. But all of these projects are wonderful. I need to get some if these Maya Road Products. Thanks for the inspiration. BEAUTIFUL!!!
Love how versatile these products are! From cards, to hair things, to bags, they work so perfectly. Thanks!
I’ve been a fan of Juia’s for many years. Her projects and designs are always inspiring. Thanks, Tracy, for the cute hair accessories. Makes me wish I had hair long enough to hold one! What great gifts, though. Your project is really nice, Andrea. Off to find me some burlap
Love the hair accessory embellishment projects.
I like these projects very much!
These are beautiful! Very inspiring!
Gorgeous product and projects! I love the partnerships youve made.
Oh my goodness, I am LOVIN’ these Maya Road products, especially the little hangers (which are darling), the flowers and the use of zippers, which I never would have thought to use!! Please enter me to win the prize package at the end of the week because I want to try this for myself!!!
Thank you to PCL and Maya Road for collaborating this week and bringing us terrific ideas for these products.
Thanks for the inspiration. I will be using your ideas for gifts for our next family reunion.
These are so cute! I now have tons of ideas to use for my new little granddaughter!!! Thanks
a bunch!
I am loving Maya Road weeK. Great products and fabulous projects. Thank you for the inspiration.
Very cute, a must try!!
These projects are great and so inspiring! Love the double embossing!
Gorgeous projects ladies! Thx for the chance to win !
Adorable projects! I love that you were able to get so many of the products onto your one bag! Cute!
Another creative use for that green zipper….I would never have thought of that! Great projects!
enjoyed your video, I like the page you did.
Love the detail and layering. Beautiful projects.
Love, Love, Love the zipper used as leaves on the second card. Out of the box and wonderful!!!
Hi Andrea
All those projects are very cool!
Have a nice week
Great tutorial. The mums are lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Love these great hair projects. I love making these things for my daughter!!
Nice array of projects today! Very pretty cards from Julia, the hair accessories would make great stocking stuffers, and the burlap gift bag is a unique change from the everyday paper bags…thank you for sharing so many ideas!
Just in time tutorial my daughter has an old dress she loves with roses on it. Know she can still keep a part of her favorite dress. As always thanks for your inspiring projects, something my girls and i can do together.
Adorable hair bands, flowers, etc. What a great idea for Christmas gifts.
Love Maya Rd! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Love, love, love these – especially the use of the zipper for leaves.
Wow what pretty creations…love the tags on the cards and the beautiful flowers.
Fantastic projects! I’m loving those Maya Road products and this week so far has been great!!
love the hair accessories….my 5 year old granddaughter will love them all!!
Gorgeous hair accessories. Great idea – my girls will love me when I make some 🙂
WOW! Fabulous projects … TFS
love the projects, love Maya Road, love the prizes…mahalo
Flowers are my absolute fave embellishment and Maya Road’s are awesome!
Maya Road rocks! And using the zipper as leaves is such a cool idea! Thanks!
I am so in love this product. All of the projects are amazing. Thank you for the chance to learn such great techniques.
Kim
k1i2m3@cox.net
Beautiful flower projects. I can’t seem to resist flowers on everything!
love, love, love these projects….thanks for sharing
Wow, those are lovely projects! Maya Road has some really cute products. Thanks.
Wow. Colours can make a world of difference can’t they.
I love your cards, especially the pastel one. Beautiful.
This is the cutest idea, I can’t wait to make these with my daughter and her friends!
Have to try stamping on canvas! I always thought it would be fuzzy but Julia’s cards were beautiful. And the hair band just rocked, I love it!
What a versatile array of great Day 2 projects! The cards are lovely, the hair clips are very pretty, and that burlap bag is way fun!
One of my favorite companies! The hair accessories are just beautiful, they’ll make wonderful gifts to
own or give away.
All the projects are wonderful!!!!!!!!!
Wow ,wonderful projects today.Thanks to all for sharing.
Love Maya Road and carry them in my shop. The headband is gorgeous and the clips are so easy to make! Can’t wait to see more!
Love the idea of using the flowers to create another avenue of creativity. I cannot wait to try the concept but for present wrapping. Love the idea of creating a flower bouquet or field of flowers as a topper for a present
thank you so much for the insperation on my birthday I have been crafting all day and those cards are great. As a roadie I love it all!
All the creations are gret but my fvorite is Julia’s second card. I wish my hair was long enough to use the great hair accessories.
As a sewer, quilter and paper crafter, I have been a huge Maya Road fan for a long time because their products are so versatile and the quality is great too.
Such beautiful work from all of the designers…so fun to see everyone’s creative interpretation.
Thanks for the great video, I loved all the great projects!
Love the burlap bag. It could be used on a door as a welcome sign. Great use of the twine.
Such great projects! How clever to use the zipper as leaves. Thanks for the inspiration!
Stunning cards!!
My four year old would love the hair clips. She has short hair (that she cut her self > < !).
Fabulous projects today! Maya Road has great products!
DeniseB
Very elegant look. Love it.
Love all the cards and projects.
The hair accessories are so clever. My little girl would LOVE that 😀
Always great projects and products.
WOW! I love the toulle embellished flower for the headband and the burlap bag is such a cute idea!
Love the projects. I love to wear headbands. Thanks for sharing.
I keep seeing that zipper idea, and I keep wondering why I haven’t done it. I think I have a zipper or two in my embellishment drawer screaming to come out, LOL.
Amazing projects and tutorials. Love the Info about Maya Roads History! Thank you!
OMG! I have never heard of Maya Road and I am so glad you introduced me! What awesome products!! These cards are beautiful and I love love love the unique embellishments! So many little details! Ok, I am inspired now……will you write me a note so I can skip school I mean work today???? Thanks fo much for introducing me to this amazing line!!! Now following on FB, Pinterest and Youtube!! Yayyy
OMG, these projects are absolutely stunning!
The hair embellishments are so pretty. I know of one young woman who would love to be wearing them in her hair. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas.
I just love seeing how people use their Bakers Twine. It is so multi purpose!! I love Bakers Twine!!!!
I also love the use of the butterfly stamp and the pretty flowers. I don’t think anyone can ever have enough flowers! I know I can’t!
I love all the projects. The cards are beautiful and the hair accessories are adorable. Thanks so much for your inspiration. Julie
Whats not to like??? The cards are so unique. Like the zippers on them accessories are adorable. QUESTION: Do you know where you can buy zipper by the yard??? JoAnn Fabric had it but no more> Help!!!
Thanks so much for sharing the great projects!! I especially like the ideo on the hair accessories. I have a little girl who is only 10 months but was born with a ton of hair so we have always had clips in it and have moved onto ponytails now. We are forever losing all the really cute clips that I buy her (which aren’t that cheap) and now I’m going to try making my own after seeing just how easy it is. Thank you
Hi Love this site and love them flowers -great projects
Love the Maya Road embellishments – so different!
I love the hair accessories Tracy Wegner showed how to make. I am so excited to make some for my daughters! Also my younger daughter’s birthday is coming up and I am planning on making the hair bands as party favors!! I know it will be a big hit. Thanks so much for the tutorial, love it!! 🙂
I love the cards! I’ve never thought of stamping on canvas, just using it plain for a background, so love your idea! Love that butterfly stamp! Does it also come on a sticker? Think I may have used it in a class. Loved it then and now even more. Gotta get me some!
Lovely projects! I think I need to make some of the hair accessories! My neice would love them!!!
these hair embellishments are great my granddaughters would love this
These hair embellishments look so easy to be made. TY for sharing.
Loving the hair accessories, will make great little gifts for our favorite little granddaughter!
Wow! I love all the beautiful projects. Especially the hair pieces.
Zipper leaves…. sweet!
Great Projects!