(th)INK Positive: Traveling Down Maya Road

Friday, September 13, 2013

Traveling Down Maya Road

Hopping along Maya Road is more like it! Welcome to our Friday Blog Hop as Stampendous finishes up a week long blog collaboration with Maya Road. It has been a LOT of fun! We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have a chipboard binder, a coaster book, and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address. That's all the necessities, now here's the fun stuff! For my project, I decided to make Christmas ornaments!

These are fronts and backs of two different ornaments. These were originally pages from a chipboard album but I figured everybody does albums so I wanted to create something different. The more I looked at the chipboard elements the more I realized a few of them would make perfect hooks for ornaments and so the idea just popped into my noggin! Here's what I was sent:

I received a package of chipboard elements and a chipboard album. I stamped my images, Snowball Fight and Sweet Snowgirl from Stampendous!® Stamps using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest. I trimmed 2 pieces of patterned paper, 'Tis the Season from My Mind's Eye, rounded the corners and adhered them to the album pages. I made sure to punch a hold in the patterned paper to match the hole in the album corner. I adhered my trimmed images to the center and added some Stampendous Chunky White Embossing Enamel to both and some Crystal Embossing Powder to the Sweet Snowgirl piece to make her a little more girly! Using Beacon Zip Dry, I adhered some Stampendous Shaved Ice to the bottom of each ornament front. Using two pieces of the chipboard elements, I used some Stampendous Boss Gloss to both sides and covered them with Silver Tinsel Embossing Powder, punched a hole and attached them to the ornaments with a brad. For the backside, I decided to cover each back with DecoArt® Black Chalkboard Paint so the kids can write a personal message on their ornament. This was a fun twist for me and I hope you like it, too!

Here's the whole Stampendous team that's hopping along today, be sure to leave some love along the way if you wish to be entered to win one of our awesome prizes!