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:

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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!

Asia King 
Cyndi Bundy 
Jamie Martin
Janelle Stollfus
Jennifer Dove
Krissy Fossmeyer
Kristine Reynolds 
Lea Kimmel 
Stephanie Lee
Suzanne Czosek 
Tenia Nelson
Tobi Crawford 

Here's the link for the Maya Road team, be sure to leave them some love, too!

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you again soon with more Stampendous and Dreamweaver goodness to share!  Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Lea

The Road's Calling My Name!

Maya Road, that is!  I am just in love with this company and their products!  Maya Road will have one grand prize, you can earn entries by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page.

We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I havea 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 Elementsand 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 nitty gritty, now here's my first project for this week.

This is one of the awesome products I received to create with.  I love flowers so this was definitely a good choice for me!  These flowers are beige so I knew they would be easy to alter the color of them and, if you know me, you know my choice of mediums is Copic markers!  I got out my trusty air compressor and set about air brushing three flowers for my project.  I used R27 and R59 to color them but I made a point of giving them a bit of a shabby look by not getting every little nook and cranny!  Of course the rhinestone in the middle was also covered with color!

This was one of those cards that started out as something totally different, however I took a different turn and I love the simplicity of the final project. For starters, I airbrushed my flowers, then I stamped my sentiment on vellum using Stampendous Boss Gloss and heat embossed it with Detail Black Embossing Powder from Stampendous.  I created my card base from Bazzill Bling CS.  I had this scrap of patterned paper in my stash and trimmed it to fit and adhered it to the base.  (Truth is, this paper was my inspiration for the card!)  Next I used some glue dots to attach the vellum piece to the patterned paper.  I determined where my flowers were going to be adhered and trimmed three pieces of May Arts Leaves Ribbon in Parrot Green the perfect length.  I trimmed the bottom leaves off each piece and tied them together with some May Arts Baker's Twine in Red.  I adhered the flowers and "stems" to the card, added a couple of leaves in the corner of my vellum piece and, voila!, it was done!  Here's a side view to give you a better feel for how fluffy these flowers are.  

A couple of my teammates are playing along today so be sure to stop by their blogs and leave them some love!

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer
The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll have a Dreamweaver post tomorrow and another Stampendous and Maya Road post on Friday.  Hope to see you back soon!

Hugs,

Lea