Just wanted to share my last Maya Road projects which went to CHA recently.
This is a tabbed chipboard binder mini book, covered with some of my favourite fabric, Park Slope by Erin McMorris:
Some new cute stamps which I used for some card making:
This was a small coaster chipboard album coloured with some Maya Mist. This book contained some photos of Phoebe's fundraising efforts recently:
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Cheers
Fiona x
We've been busy here since my last post. I've actually been on a road trip and driven to Lismore and Ballina since my last post. Paul and I drove Phoebe to Lismore to compete in the Little Athletics State Multi event. We had a lot of fun, even though it was very tiring driving such a long way in such a short time. Emily didn't come with us, she had a long weekend with her nana and poppa here in Sydney which everyone enjoyed (including Hugo the dog).
Last week Phoebe coloured her hair for the World's Greatest Shave. She went with blue hair and a purple fringe.
She had a few friends around to celebrate the event and help colour the hair.
We made colour co-ordinated cupcakes for afternoon tea ...
Phoebe has raised over $200.00 through online and cash donations. I know a few blog readers kindly sponsored her, thank you very much.
She has now washed her hair, and quite a bit of the blue remains, and possibly will for some time, I think.
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Emily recently worked on a project for school. Her task was to make a photographic essay for her Connected Curriculum subject. She has been out and about on excursions taking photos of her local environment. This project was pulling all her information together. She used a Maya Road sheer tab binder album, and made this book while we wereaway in Lismore. Here's a few photos of her book.
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A quick Ribbons Galore update. I have added a few very cute bunny ribbons which are perfect for Easter projects.
Speaking of Easter... I have some exciting things lined up. But you'll have to check back in a few days to find out more.
That's about all. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Cheers
Fiona x
It was my turn to post over on the Maya Road Design Team blog last week. I wrote about a little book I made for Emily's birthday. Lots more photos of the book are on the MR blog.
I was also excited to receive this publication in the mail a few weeks back. I had a set of cards published in Australian Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft and one of my cards was featured on the cover (Celebrate You - top right). I didn't know this card would be on the cover, so that was an extra little surprise.
Hope you have a great week.
Thanks for visiting.
Cheers
Fiona xx
Yesterday we picked some of Phoebe's produce from her veggie patch. It's only a small space (we converted the old sand pit in the back yard to a veggie patch a few years ago), but she grows some fabulous veggies and herbs.
This year she's grown three different varieties of tomatoes... and basil (summer would be the same without fresh basil in our garden), as well as some other herbs.
This is our second "harvest" from the garden recently.
So dinner last night was fresh tomato and basil pasta. Very quick easy and delicious. Here's how...
Roughly chop the tomatoes, no need to peel the tomatoes and keep all the juices and seeds.
Heat some olive oil in a fry pan, add a little garlic (1-2 cloves, chopped) and cook. Add the tomatoes and gently cook for about half and hour, stirring occasionally.
Towards the end add a splash of balsamic vinegar and a splash of mirin (if you don't have mirin, add a couple of teaspoons of brown sugar).
Cook your pasta, drain, etc.
While cooking the pasta pick the basil leaves from the stems, don't bother cutting them up, they are yummier left whole.
When all is ready, toss the pasta into the sauce and stir around to cover the pasta.
Toss the basil into the pasta/tomato sauce combo and let them wilt slightly. Plate up and enjoy with Parmesan cheese.
We were talking last night after our dinner saying how some of our favourite meals are often the most simple to cook.
And now for some crafting....
Here is another Maya Road project created for their CHA booth.
The chipboard book used as the base is the Car Key Chipboard Coaster Book. There are quite a few new products used through this album. Some new trinkets flowers mixed with old.
New little sheer birdies...
I've used some older tags from a coaster book as the mounts for the quotes. The little birdies rub-ons are very cute and match the sheer birdies perfectly.
We, the design team, were asked to create a Valentines tag for the Maya Road booth as well.
I used pieces from the Maya Road Love Key chain Set which I then covered in Stampendous Fun Flock, which gives a fabulous fuzzy-flock finish to the chipboard.
I've also added a couple of the new trims from Maya Road. The Pink Vintage Sequins Edging and a new large pom pom trim.
That's about all for now. My girls are now back at school, settled in nicely, new teachers, new classrooms and new schedules to learn.
Don't forget there is still a day or two left to enter the RAK. Leave a comment on this post, you might win a set of Maya Road Cupcakes stamps.
Thanks for visiting, hope you have a great weekend.
Cheers
Fiona x
...but it is summer and school holidays.
It's been about a month since my last post. We've been enjoying the laziness of school holidays. I love having my girls home.
Christmas was nice and relaxing.
New Year was... nice and relaxing. We were at Hawks Nest for about a week... nice and relaxing. We packed a picnic and headed for Jimmy's Beach for New Years eve to watch the fireworks over at Nelson Bay. There were hundreds of people on Jimmy's Beach (busiest I've ever seen it!), many bonfires were blazing. It was a great night.
January has been nice and relaxing. Many trips to the beach, catching up with friends, movies, shopping, staying cool during our hot weather.
Here's a photo taken at Balmoral Beach. There have been several days spent sitting under the trees chatting with friends while we watch the kids enjoy themselves.
I have created a few projects during January. CHA-W 09 is just around the corner, and I have sent a few projects off to the US for the Maya Road stand. Here's one of the my mini albums... using a new chipboard suitcase book. You can view the new Maya Road catalog HERE.
I still have lots of photos on my camera which I haven't checked yet, once I have I'll post more project photos very soon.
These little cupcake cards {below} were made for the Maya Road Design Team blog. We, the design team members, are now writing posts on the blog. Every few days a new post is published over there. So far there have been lots of great ideas, so make sure you bookmark it and visit regularly.
I've used the Maya Road Cupcakes stamp set. Instructions are on the MR DT blog.
I LOVE this set of stamps, and I actually have ONE SPARE. So I'm going to start the new year off with a RAK. If you leave me a comment here on this post by January 31, your name will be included in the draw for this set of MAYA ROAD CUPCAKES STAMPS. I'll post anywhere in the world! edited: thanks for all your lovely comments, I now have a winner.
Good luck, have fun and thanks for visiting my blog.
Cheers
Fiona x
These are the last of my Maya Road projects from CHA-S08.
Australia Day album using Maya Road's sheer scroll album:
Flower tags using Maya Road chipboard tags, ribbons and flower chipboards. I've also used one of my favourites at the moment, fabric covered buttons:
Below is a card set I made for the latest Creative Paper magazine. I've used lots of Maya Road chipboard and rub-ons, Ranger Crackle Paints and Luxe Designs papers and rub-ons. This was my first time published in this magazine, so that was pretty exciting. This magazine has a really fresh new look and feel.
I've popped more images over in the gallery of my website, if you'd like to see more.
Hope you're all having a great weekend.
Thanks for visiting.
Fiona x
Here's a couple more Maya Road project using two of their new chipboard books, the Scroll Binder Book and the Wings Album, both released last week at CHA-S 08.
First up is the Scroll Binder Book. The shaping of this book is gorgeous. The paper I've used throughout this book is from the Office Lingo collection by Pink Paislee, one of my new favourites.
The "phoebe" is made from the Maya Road Noah chipboard alphabet set. The letters in this set are a great size. Being smaller than the original MR chipboard letters you can fit a larger title to the front on a book:
The 100% Girl Sheer Calendar Turn fitted well with the theme of this little book:
Inside page, a MR chipboard tree shape and a new sheer ticket:
And a few inside pages from the book, my favourite photos of Phoebe growing up over the last 10 years:
And another newly released album from Maya Road, their chipboard Wings Album. This little book now documents the lullaby I used to sing to my girls when they were babies and little girls. They used to love this song, and as they got a little older would sing along with me. I wanted to put the words down in writing, just so we have them around. Papers used inside the book are by Sweetwater from their Giggle Girl collection.
Some inside pages:
That's me and Emily over 12 years ago:
And me and Phoebe over 9 years ago:
I've a few smaller Maya Road projects to show, but I think that's about enough for today's blog post!
Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope you're all having a great week.
Cheers
Fiona x
Maya Road is making some gorgeous stamps, both in sets and single stamps (which are called singletons). You can see the stamp sets (including new CHA releases) in the Maya Road CHA-S Catalog.
A couple of my favourites have features in some of my projects which have gone to CHA.
I've used owl stamp (below) on a few little projects.
The tiny owl stamp and the 'what a hoot' have been used below, with Pink Paisley paper on the background.
The owl stamped on acetate and coloured and mounted on a round tag with Scenic Route paper:
These owls were stamped on linen fabric then embroidered:
And while I was making little fabric hanging ornaments, I used the new Maya Road cupcake singleton stamp for these:
I love cupcakes. And now Maya Road have several new cupcake themed products. There's the stamp (which I mentioned above), but also there's
Below I've used a chipboard cupcake shape from the cupcake coaster album as the base for the felt cupcake below. This book is a Maya Road sheer tab binder book, which I covered with fabric slip cover which I sewed.
And a few pages from inside my cupcake book. This book holds most of my cupcake secrets, the recipes, the frostings, the fun stuff. Being the binder style book, I'll be able to add more pages as I go along, with more fun ideas.
This book was lots of fun to make.
That's all for today, I'll gather some more photos of my Maya Road projects and post very soon.
Thanks for visiting.
Cheers
Fiona x
It was my turn to post over at the Pursuit of CraftYness blog a week or so back (yes, just catching up now). I created a little farewell book with Phoebe for one of her friends.
This is a little project I had in Stamping and Papercraft magazine a couple of issues back (yes again, just catching up now). This project used an Urban Lily Secret Keeper Card as the base. The card slides open to reveal the invitation details.
I've been very busy working through my Maya Road projects for CHA-Summer. They are now in the mail making their way to the US. There's lots of yummy new products coming out for Maya Road
Maya Road is exhibiting at the National Stationery Show in New York. The design team has been creating some new projects to display at the show. Make sure you check the Maya Road DT girls blogs (they are listed in the left column) to see their projects.
Here are my projects, using lots of the recently released products from CHA-W. One of my favourite new products are the MR Johathan Chipbaord Alphabet Set. They are such a great sized chipboard alphabet (small than the other MR alphabet sets).
Thank You Card materials:
Love Card materials:
Journey Card materials:
The Girls Frame materials:
Nature Girl album materials:
Thanks for visiting.
Hope you all have a great week.
Cheers
Fiona x
