Fabulous

Scrapbook Layout created for Maya Road  - FABULOUS -

Hello!

I hope you all are doing well.   Today, I am sharing the first projects created for Maya Road (i still cannot believe that I am part of their Design Team!).  I was lucky to receive a large assortment of Maya Road products, they are all so beautiful, but i was drawn to the "Rolled Flower die".  

For this layout, I am using the beautiful Paige Evans, Take Me Away collection.  I started by hand-stitching a large heart in a piece of heavy card stock.  I cut  a large number of flowers from the paper collection, and started to fill the inside of the heart with the rolled flowers (i made sure to use my hot glue gun to ensure the flowers will stay in place).

I debated about keeping this just as art to hang around the apartment!

I chose a picture of my daughter on our Thanksgiving walk (we already celebrated it here in Canada).  and used a piece of pink vellum to layer behind the picture, making sure there was a bit of paper hanging from the bottom of the picture.  Next i used some metallic watercolor to add some shine to a piece of Ken Oliver's vintage trim, and layered it under the picture.  I had to trim some of the excess vellum behind the trim.

I added  a few of the tassels, and one  of the arrow charms to the picture as a way to bring the attention to the picture.  I found this clear acetate butterfly amongst the  products, and love how it looked nested in the flowers.

The flowers are just too beautiful, and the butterfly was a soft touch to the piece.

I used one of the large word foam words as the title of this layout, "FABULOUS", and added  all my journal and date to the back of the piece, as when finished finished, we wanted to use it as piece in our apartment.  Here is the final layout:

We love the final look of this layout, the soft rolled flowers and subtle details from the Maya Road products are perfect to document my beautiful daughter.

I am so blessed to be able to play with all the Maya Road products, and look forward to draw more inspiration from them.

Thanks for visiting today!

Materials Used:

Steel Rolled Flower Die #3288  -Maya Road

Perfect Shot Arrow - Vintage Findings - Maya Road

Crafting Tassels in Turquoise Trail  - Maya Road

Scallop Dot Trim - Ken Oliver's Vintage trims - Maya Road

Acetate butterfly in white - Maya Road,

Metallic semi-watercolor palette - Prima Marketing

Pink vellum

Patterned paper #2,3,4,9,15 - Take Me Away collection by Paige Evans - Pink Paislee

Word foam thickers - Take Me Away collection - Pink Paislee

Marshmallow heavy card stock - Bazzill

You Are Home

Scrapbook Layout created for Maya Road   - YOU ARE HOME -

Hello there!

Today, i am sharing my first projects as part of the Maya Road Design Team (I am so blessed and happy for the opportunity!).  I created two projects for my first blog post, this is the first one, and the other is in the following post.

a close up to the embelishment cluster in the layout

I fell in love with all these Maya Road dies as soon as I opened the box (they are all related to embroidery and sewing! -some of my favorite things), so i build the layout based on this small cluster.  I started by cutting the pieces from a few of the die sets from Maya Road using Pink Paislee's Take Me Away collection.  In order to tie the cluster together, I dyed a piece of Ken Oliver's seam binding in the colors of the papers and used it behind the die cut pieces. To finish the cluster, I added a small wood embroidery hoop and added a few of the chipboard stickers along the cluster.

Next i used a cut file from the Silhouette store to create the title for this piece.  I cut the word home, and then i used a small offset of the word to cut the white border around it.   A few hand stitches tied this layout theme together.  I used the little flowers from the dress form die to add embelishments along the entire page.

I added the picture of my family, my home! to the layout.  Using papers from the Take Me Away collection, i layered the picture along with a corrugated card board tag, and  one of the large spool die-cut piece.  I love the small wood veneer button (I wished i had a thousand more of them!, but there was only this one), and placed it as part of the cluster in the picture.  Here is final layout:

I am truly loving how i am able to customize the Maya Road products to my style.   I love that they are so beautiful and versatile  at the same time.

Thanks for visiting today.

See you all soon!

Materials used:

Bobbin & Scissor die,  Needle & Spool die,  Vintage Dress Form die - Maya Road

Seam Binding - Ken Oliver trims - Maya Road

Wood veneer circle - Maya Road

Kraft corrugated tag - Maya Road

Mini wooden embroidery hoop - Maya Road

White card stock - American Crafts

Patterned Papers - 2, 22 and 6x6 paper pad - Take Me Away collection by Paige Evans - Pink Paislee

Chipboard stickers - Take Me Away collection  by Paige Evans - Pink Paislee

Metallic semi-watercolor palette - Prima Marketing.

Maya Road - Announcement.

Maya Road - Design Team-

Hello all!

I am so very excited to share with you all that i have accepted a position as part of the Maya Road Design Team!

November 01, 2016

Welcoming Nathalie DeSousa to the Maya Road Team

We couldn't be more excited to be adding another designer to the Maya Road Design Team! Our talented designers are hand-picked to bring you inspiring projects and we are thrilled to introduce you to Nathalie DeSousa!

Nathalie is an amazing and prolific scrapbooker with a fresh eye and works her magic with our dies and embellishments. In her our words, here's a little about Nathlie...

Hi, I am Nathalie DeSousa (aka Tachita, my nickname since birth). I grew up in beautiful Ecuador, but have called Toronto, Canada, my home for the past 25 years. I am a stay-at- home wife and mom of two teenagers and a Boston terrier – he is my baby, but don’t tell my kids I said so!-.

My mom introduced me to arts and crafts at a very early age, since then I have been hooked on anything homemade. I started scrapbooking when my kids were younger, as a way to document their lives; but it was when they got older that I dove completely into this paper craft, and love every minute! In the past years, I have been blessed to work in different design teams, and some of my work has been published in Canadian scrapbooking magazines. I find each of these experiences has been wonderful, and brought so much inspiration to my work.

I am honored and thrilled to be joining the Maya Road team! I love the designs, textures, and overall versatility of their products. I cannot wait to start this new adventure with all this beautiful products, and see how they complement my projects. It is truly an honor!

Want a peek of what Nathalie has in store for you here on the Maya Road Design Team blog? Check it...

Sweet, right?! To see more of Nathlie's work be sure to stop by her blog, Living an Inspired Life. Please join us in welcoming Nathalie to Maya Road!

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Here is the link to the post on the Maya Road Design Team blog:

http://mayaroad.typepad.com/dt/2016/11/welcoming-nathalie-desousa-to-the-maya-road-team.html

I am so blessed, and my thanks go first to God, and then to Caroline and Julia for putting their faith on me!

See you all pretty soon!