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It’s Day 5  – our last day of Maya Road week on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog! We’ve enjoyed our partnership with Maya Road and hope that you have too! This week has been 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’ve featured 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.

Follow Maya Road on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and on their Design Team Blog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mayaroad

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaroad

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mayaroad/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MayaRoadJourney/videos

DT blog: http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/

Maya Road Designer Project

Our final Maya Road Designer this week is  Anne Jo Lexander from Norway, also called Ania.  You can see her beautiful project below but for now, here is a bit more about Ania:

Definitely not a 20-something-anymore living at an island on the West Coast of Norway with husband and two kids. Found scrapbooking in 2005 and have never looked back since. So while not working as a journalist at the local newspaper I enjoy dividing my spare time pretending to be a photographer, playing with paper and playing games on the PC.

A Very Different Mini Banner/Layout

Welcome back to the final installation of the Maya Road + Paper Crafter’s Library blog swap! This is Ania from Norway, here with yet another different (or maybe not so different??) take on the same 10 products as the other MR-girls and the gals at PCL!

Curious yet? When I signed up for this challenge, I thought; Ooh, a challenge, I love them! Then I got the list over the products and thought; Uhm right, too late to back out, I can’t let them down now….. THEN I got the products in the mail, making me go; Ooookaaaaaaayletseeee…gosh why do I always have to volunteer for challenges?!

And then, once I found the right papers to accompany the products, it  all went like a breeze. Now, while I’m typing this post, I have *no*  idea how the other gals final products looks like..so I am quite  thrilled and curious on how it went for the others (you can scroll down  the blog to find out the other gals’ take on this challenge), I’m sort  of thinking I can’t be alone in creating a minibanner of the banners and tags now, can I…?

I used the Vintage Ornament Butterfly stamp quite a bit here; see the mini kraft tags? On the ones to the right and the left I stamped them with white chalk ink pad and embossed with clear detail embossing powder. Yields a fine, sheer look… on the middle one however, I embossed the butterflies with white detail embossing powder. Next to the photo; a regular stamped butterfly onto a piece of paper that’s cut out.

And then – on the chipboard letters that I covered with white paint first; Butterflies randomly stamped onto the letters.

Tah-dah.

It was fun doing this challenge, and extra fun knowing the other gals got exactly the same MR-products as me!

Here’s the 10 product list we all got to play with:

• love hangers
• canvas triangle banners
• mini kraft tags
• turquoise twine
• coffee brown mini gingham trim
• leaf zipper trim
• turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers
• jonathan alpha chipboard
• Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp
• Vintage Lace Mums – Apple

 Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects

We’re finishing off the week this week with a fun technique video I (Andrea) created for Maya Road which shows you how to use Maya Mists to color in outline stamped images and then how to create the colourful halo effect you see around the stamped image.

Our week wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t share some sort of mixed-media piece with you 😉 I (Andrea) created the canvas below for my 9 year old daughter Julia – she is such a ray of sunshine, especially in a household full of boys (we have 4 boys).  I incorporated all 10 Maya Road products shown at the beginning of this post into this canvas:

1. I used the canvas banners as the petal for my flower.
2. I used the red flower as a focal point flower.
3. I used the leaf green zipper trim as the stem of my yellow flower
4. The gingham trim was the stem of my red flower.
5. The mini kraft tags were the leaves for my yellow flower
6. The vintage love hanger is a leaf for my red flower.
7. I used the twine cording to create my cloud.
8. The butterflies were stamped on the background.
9. The Jonathan chipboard letters were used for the word “Smile”
10. The ruffled flowers were incorporated as part of my “field of flowers”.  Because the yellow ruffled flower was too light in color, I misted it with my Lemon Metallic Maya Mist.

There were so many products incorporated into this canvas that I thought it might be a good idea to include the supply list:

Supplies:

Stamps: She Art Print Texture, Tattered Chicken Wire, Distressed Grid (Christy Tomlinson – Unity); Vintage Ornate Butterflies (Maya Road); Art From The Heart (Wendy Vecchi); Small Typewriter Alphabet (Stampendous)

Ink: Lemon Metallic Maya Mist (Maya Road); Sunshine Yellow, Pool, Lettuce and Aqua Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers, Olive Archival ink (Ranger); Cobalt Teal, Green Gold, Interference Gold and Quinacridone Crimson Golden Fluid Acrylics (Golden Paints); Vivid Lime Green and Brilliant Yellow Green Acrylic Artist Color (Liquitex); May Green and Permanent Green Olive Pitt Pens (Faber Castell)

Paper: She Art DP (Christy Tomlinson)

Accessories: Mini Triangle Banner Canvas Pieces, Kraft Mini Tags, Ruffle Blossoms – Golden Yellow and Turquoise, Leaf Green Zipper trim, Coffee Gingham ribbon, Metal Vintage Trinkets – Love Hangers, Slushie Blue Twine Cording, 2” bottle cap (Maya Road); Claudine Hellmuth multi-medium matte, Claudine Hellmuth gesso, non-stick craft mat (Ranger); Alpha Parts Newsprint pieces (Tim Holtz Idea-ology); Clear Braille Ultra High embossing powder (WOW! Embossing); Standard Circles Small dies, Grand Calibur (Spellbinders); Blackberry Mini Alphabet Stickers (My Little Shoebox); She Art Doodle Art Stitches rub-ons (Christy Tomlinson – Pink Paislee); bubble wrap (Office Supply Store); drywall tape (Hardware Store); non slip shelf liner (Dollar Store); corrugated cardboard on inside of a coffee sleeve (Starbucks); Art Is 6” x 6” template (Crafter’s Workshop); 8” x 10” Canvas (Dick Blick)

Our last project for today is this Bloom Bouquet Box created by Sophia.  Sophia started with a Blume Box which is a special cardboard box lined with a heavy plastic designed to hold flowers.  Sophia decorated it again using all 10 Maya Road products.  

Supplies:

Stamps: Ornate Vintage Butterflies (Maya Road)

Ink: Lime Metallic, Lemon Metallic and Cherry Metallic Maya Mists (Maya Road); VersaMark ink (Tsukineko); Broken China and Seedless Preserves Distress inks (Ranger) Paper: White Smooth CS (Bazzill)

Accessories: Mini Triangle Banner Canvas Pieces, Jonathan Chipboard Alphabet, Leaf Green Zipper trim, Slushie Twine Cording, Vintage Lace Mum – Apple, Ruffle Blossoms – Turquoise (Maya Road); Heat It! tool, Claudine Hellmuth Sticky Back Canvas (Ranger); Square Swatches dies, Grand Calibur (Spellbinders); sponge daubers, paper snips, White embossing powder (Stampin’ Up!); 6” Blume Box (www.blumebox.com); Big Bite (We R Memory Keepers); Fabri-tac (Beacon Adhesives); wire cutters, fabric leaf (Craft Store); Fabric scissors (Fabric Store)

There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.

So there you have it! Day 5 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 Anne Jo Lexander (Ania’s) blog and say hi as well, and of course check out all of her gorgeous creations.  Don’t forget, winners will be drawn today at 4 pm EST and announced here on the blog.

It’s Day 4 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.

Follow Maya Road on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and on their Design Team Blog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mayaroad

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaroad

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mayaroad/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MayaRoadJourney/videos

DT blog: http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/

 Maya Road Designer Project 

Our Maya Road Designer today is Lisa Pace.  You can see her amazing project below, but first, here is a little more about Lisa:

Lisa Pace lives in Frisco, Texas with her husband and two daughters. Lisa started scrapbooking in 2006. Her first book “Delight In The Details,” was published in January of 2010 by North Light Books/F+W Media Inc.  In November of 2011, Lisa collaborated with Pink Persimmon and released her vintage inspired stamp line “Antiquated Collection by Lisa M. Pace”. In January of 2012 her second book “Delight In The Seasons” was published by North Light Books/F+W Media Inc.

Lisa is the Special Projects Coordinator for Maya Road and a signature designer with Blossom Bucket, Inc. who she recently designed a vintage inspired jewelry line which is scheduled to debut in January 2013. Lisa recently started working on her third technique based book with North Light Books/F+W Media Inc., which is scheduled for publication in January 2014.

You can find Lisa’s wide variety of mixed media classes, online workshops and tutorials on her blog at http://lisapace.com/

Fly ~ 8” x 10” Inspirational Canvas

Supplies Used:

Maya Road – Love Hangers, Canvas Triangle Banners, Mini Kraft Tags, Turquoise Twine Cording, Coffee Brown Mini Gingham Trim, Leaf Zipper Trim, Turquoise and Yellow Ruffle Flowers, Jonathan Alpha Chipboard, Ornate Vintage Butterflies Stamp, Vintage Lace Mums – Apple

Ranger Industries – Archival Ink Jet Black ~ Diamond Stickles ~ Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo , Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint Clear Rock Candy, Tim Holtz Distress Markers Mustard Seed, Spun Sugar, Barn Door, Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans ~ Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints Traditional Tan, Blank Canvas, Charcoal Black, Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi –Medium Matte, Claudine Hellmuth Studio Artist Brushes

Misc: Basic Scrapbook Supplies, Fabric Adhesive, Vintage Book Pages, Watercolors, Word Stickers

About the project:

For this project, I wanted to create an inspirational canvas for my daughter, Ansley. She graduates High School in a few days and thought this would be a fun piece for her to have filled with lots of inspirational words.

Once I attached the book pages to the canvas I decided to give the background a slight conservatory feel and used the ornate vintage butterflies stamp set to create the background. Once stamped using markers I colored in each of the butterflies then carefully accented each one with diamond stickles. While the diamond stickles was drying I painted a scallop edge all around the canvas and the Jonathan alpha chipboard letters “fly”. After the paint and stickles dried I completely covered the entire top of the canvas using clear rock candy crackle paint and set it aside to dry.

While the crackle paint was drying I arranged the mini kraft tags as I wanted them to appear on the canvas then decided on which word stickers (always, dream, love, smile, grow, adore, &) to use for each tag. I then inked and distressed the edges of each tag and using a black pen outlined each word sticker. Once I had the mini kraft tags arranged as I liked I applied watercolor to three canvas triangle banner pieces. Once these dried I attached a Jonathan alpha chipboard piece to each banner to spell out “fly”. I then attached the canvas triangle banner pieces to the turquoise twine cording, tied a bow and attached each end of the turquoise twine cording to a love hanger.

Once everything was completely dry I attached the kraft mini tags, the vintage mum – apple, a bow created from coffee brown mini gingham trim, the love hanger mini “fly” banner and turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers as shown. To accent the edge of the canvas I attached leaf zipper trim all along the outer edge.

Don’t forget you still have a chance to win our giveaway! Make sure to go read the details on this post.

Hugs! Lisa M. Pace

Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects

With the end of the school year just around the corner, our first project for today with a free video tutorial is a simple card with a masculine feel to it – perfect for a tween or teenage boy.  In this card Tracy uses the zipper trim and canvas banner to create an arrow depicting encouragement for her son to keep moving forward.  

Download the pdf handout here

You can watch a video on how Tracy created this Way 2 Go card below.

Our next project for today is our Paper Crafter’s Library Member exclusive project – and it’s an Altered Spool Frame.  I started by cutting down a wooden dowel of approximately 1/4″ diameter and then I glued it inside a wooden spool using a hot glue gun.  The spool measures about 1 1/2″ wide by 2″ high.  I painted the spool and dowel in yellow.  I wrapped Maya Road Blackberry Twine Cording around the spool and then tied some in a bow around the bottom of the dowel.  The scalloped frame was created using two pieces of Maya Road chipboard which I embossed with my Wow! Black Glint embossing glitter.  The little cluster of embellishments was created using two of the ruffled flowers, some Maya Road tulle and a couple of Maya Road trinket pins.

The picture below is a close-up of the embellishment cluster we created.

This last picture is a close up of the back of the frame.  Both pictures – the front and the back were taken when my husband and I went on a Mediterranean Cruise.

There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.

So there you have it! Day 4 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 Lisa Pace’s blog and say hi as well, and of course check out all of her gorgeous creations.

It’s Day 3 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.

Follow Maya Road on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and on their Design Team Blog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mayaroad

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaroad

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mayaroad/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MayaRoadJourney/videos

DT blog: http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/

 Maya Road Designer Project

Our next Maya Road Designer is Sarah Moore.  You can see her beautiful project below, but first, here is a bit more about Sarah:

Hi I am Sarah Moore from Townsville, in north Queensland Australia.  I am married to Steve, a Australian Army Officer so we are always on the move!!. We have been married for nearly 15 years We have 3 kids Aimee 20, Alex 15 and James 13,  and two cats called Latte and Lucy. I am a self confessed Maya Road junkie. I have been scrapbooking since 2003 and have enjoyed every minute of it. It’s also been a great way to meet people all over the world. I feel honoured to be asked to be on the Maya Road Design Team and look forward to making some fantastic projects to share. I have been lucky enough to have had some of my work published in several magazines here in Australia and in Scrapbook Trends, 2 Memory Makers idea books and Creating Keepsake.

Scallop Basic Album Project

Hi Roadies, Sarah here from Sunny Townsville. I am excited to share my challenge project with you all. It was a great challenge with fantastic items!

So this is my creation  :

I used the Scallop Basic Album, which I love, as it has both chipboard pages and craft.

These are the 10 items we had to use:

the ten items you’ll be getting are:

1. love hangers

2. canvas triangle banners

3. mini kraft tags

4. turquoise twine

5. coffee brown mini gingham trim

6. leaf zipper trim

7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers

8. jonathan alpha chipboard

9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp

10. Vintage Lace Mums – Apple

I used the zipper trim to create leaves, i used the same principles used in the Zipper Trim Mini Butterfly Tutorial below, They turned out great!

I have a secret love of mini kraft tags…..LOVE THEM!!! I wanted to try something a little different so I thought it would look fantastic all layered over each other.

Above I have used the stamp, blossom flower and kraft tag (which I have cut to form a leaf. The stamped Butterflies also have extra ink and glossy accent.

And below is a collage of all the pages I created

Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects

As some of you know, my 91 year old grandfather lives with my family.  In fact he’s been living with us since 2008.  He and my grandma moved in with us about 2 months after our 5th child was born.  Unfortunately, about 4 months later my grandmother passed away unexpectedly. Despite being part of the hustle and bustle of our family, it was really difficult for my grandpa. About a year ago, knowing how much he loved animals, we decided to buy a little dog that could keep him company during the day while we were working and the older kids were at school. Enter our little pom-poo “Ginger”.  Papa (the name we call my grandpa), absolutely adores Ginger, that’s why I thought it would be nice to create an altered frame for him, about him and Ginger.

I purchased the frame from the dollar store.  Because I like to add dimension to my wall art, instead of spending the extra money on a shadow box, I built my collage of elements on top of the glass of the frame.  I incorporated a wide array of Maya Road products – including the chipboard letters, the tags, the flowers, the zipper trim and the twine.  I also added in a few additional Maya Road Trims, and used some sewing pins as trinket pins.  I do have a free video tutorial for you all which you can watch below.

Download the pdf handout here

My second project for today is this 5″ x 7″ thank you card I created which once again incorporated many of the Maya Road products we were sent, along with some Echo Park Papers.

There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.

So there you have it! Day 3 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.

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.

Follow Maya Road on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and on their Design Team Blog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mayaroad

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaroad

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mayaroad/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MayaRoadJourney/videos

DT blog: http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/

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.

Download the pdf handout here

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.

Welcome to 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.

Follow Maya Road on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and on their Design Team Blog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/mayaroad

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaroad

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/mayaroad/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MayaRoadJourney/videos

DT blog: http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/

Maya Road Design Project

Our first Maya Road Designer is Shelley Haganman.  You can see  Shelley’s project below, but first, here is a little more about Shelley:

I have been scrapping since 2002 when my LSS opened. I started teaching classes there and did some Design Team work for Designs by Reminisce. Over the last 10 years I have designed for Maya Road, Zutter, Creative Therapy, Pink Trike Designs, and report for The Scrap Review.  Last year I had the pleasure of teaching a class hosted by Maya Road and The Crafty Scrapper at Artistic Journey in Texas.

In January 2012 I opened my first Etsy store called {a flair for buttons} where I currently design,make, and sell custom flair buttons.  I LOVE creating mini albums and altered projects. I have a deep love for Maya Road and all their incredible products. They are like family to me and I so enjoy working with them

“Grow” Magnetic Drawer Altered Project

Supplies used:
1. love hangers
2. canvas triangle banners
3. mini kraft tags
4. turquoise twine
5. coffee brown mini gingham trim
6. leaf zipper trim
7. turquoise and yellow ruffle flowers
8. jonathan alpha chipboard
9.  Ornate Vintage Butterflies stamp
10. Vintage Lace Mums

Miscellaneous items: Vintage sheet music, burlap, adhesive, Faber-Castell markers, pop dots.

About the project: For this project we were challenged to used only 10 Maya Road products. Now normally this would be very hard for me to do! I love Maya Road and limiting myself period would be a struggle. But for the sake of the challenge, 10 it is!

I decided to do an altered project. I found this little beauty at a flea market and knew it would be just perfect for this project. It is a wooden drawer with a metal back.  Perfect for using Maya Road goodies and some magnets.  I simply hand cut some of my vintage music paper, canvas, and burlap a bit wider then my Maya Road Lace Mum and stacked them to make my flowers.  I attached a piece of the brown gingham ribbon to act as the stems!  The butterflies were stamped twice, colored, and then one pop dotted on top of the other to give the butterflies some dimension.

I used the twine to string my canvas triangles and then hung that by the metal hangers. I covered my nails holding the wire hangers with the cute ruffle flowers. The kraft tags were used as leaves.  At the bottom I just layered the zipper trim to create my “grass”.I used the chipboard alphabet to spell grow.  I then added magnets to  all the items on the drawer  so I could move them around and rearrange them.

I had so much fun creating this little vingette and really enjoyed the challenge of using only 10 Maya Road items.  Now you get to take a look at the projects created by the Paper Crafter’s Library Designers/Educators:

Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects

As the week progresses, you’ll see a whole variety of different projects created – from this scrapbook layout, to cards, to altered items, to mixed media. We’re kicking off the week with a simple scrapbook page created by Tracy Wegener that showcases virtually all the products that Maya Road sent us, other than the red flower.  Tracy dyed the canvas banners using one of Maya Road’s Maya Mists to create a simple but colourful backdrop to the greeting.  We have a video tutorial below on how Tracy created this page.

Download the pdf handout here 

You can view a video on how Tracy created this scrapbook page below.

Part 1

Part 2

Tracy’s second project is the card you see below.  She used the Maya Road Ornate Butterfly stamp set to create the background of the card – she stamped it in VersaMark and then clear embossed over it.  The canvas flags were died using some Scattered Straw Distress Ink, and then stamped with a Wendy Vecchi script stamp to give them added texture.

There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.

So there you have it! Day 1 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.