Maxam Made

I hope everyone has had a great week, if not well then I hope this week will be better and that the New Year will be your best ever!  Last year was not the best ever for my family, but like other trials and tribulations that we have gone through we have come to the end of the year, stronger, healthier and happier.  Steve and I have been through a lot together, together we made it through! We always look forward with a happy expectation of a coming new year. We've had a happy house full, my kids from the west coast are here for 8 wonderful days!  I'll post family pictures tomorrow, I need to get a shot of some of the more photo shy members.. In between cooking and caring I did get some crafting time in yesterday and made the following cards: This card is for an an OSA Swap " anyway but folded in half  mingles"     This is a 6" petal card, the inside opens to a card that opens again - hatch like..     This card is for a monthly mingle color- motif challenge It was

Merry Christmas!  Thank you for sharing your time with me, in the last 9 months I've had almost 5,000 visitors and that actually amazes me!  Blogging has been a wonderful experience, especially this year when my life seemed to be in a blender on high for more than half of it.  All is well and I can take a moment to be thankful and appreciative.  I appreciate the many, many Blessings The Lord had showered on my this year. His staying power in the time of crisis and His abiding joy when the morning  and answers don't come soon enough.  I hope my blog has been helpful and possibly inspiring to you and that you have felt the time you invested in reading it payed you a dividend.  I love all of the comments that are posted and they help me develop as an artist and author. I celebrate the Redeemer, born of a virgin in a humble stable, the Baby who came to became a man and  bore our sins so that we might be free of the curse of sin and live with Him in Eternity. I thought of this Scrip

I missed my "Work Desk Weds".  Not because I wasn't working , but because I was.  I finished all 93 of my Christmas cards.  A Batch cards for sale and started making Christmas presents.  I also tried something fun with my embossing machine ! I had cut a lovely piece of gold wrapping paper the Wrong size for the gift I was going to wrap, so I cut it into 5x6 pieces and put them through my embossing machine with wonderful results! After Embossing Cards made with the sheets: Luke getting in the picture.... Not getting enough attention, it is WALK time!  and Yes that is how tall he is, his big head over my desk!  When he wants attention he puts his head under my elbow and flips it up! A set of shadow boxes I made for my mom:       These are 4x6 and my mother is very fond of Asian art also.   I started organizing my Stickles and Liquid Pearls.  The stitckles here are resting on double sided dimensional tape that I use for card making, it is really some type of auto adhesive th

It is Work Desk Wednesday in Australia and that is Where the The Blog hop Queen resides and hosts this bit of fun!  Julia Rains from here http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/  Stop of and see what  fun the Court is up to! Busy week here STILL TRYING TO GET CHRISTMAS CARDS DONE ( I am yelling at myself if you were wondering) Last few days I have been busy selling stuff related to MaxamMade on Ebay.  With all of the sales I like to include and extra and a personal thank you card with my MMS business card.  So that is what is on my desk tonight, a batch of thank yous.   Little ATC images I like     A little inked up       Liners and bases, these white bases are my 100# bright white and they are so nice and heavy they give the card a great quality feeling, this is my favorite weight for the card bases!   New Craft mat here, I paid 7.99 for it at Aldies grocery store, is is an oven liner!  Works great as a craft mat too!     All done!  aren't they cute?  I use my ATG gun and adhere a bu

Just a few cards to show, I made these from left over project bits and pieces while Steve and I watched a movie last night!       I don't like the saying in that bird stamp, Im going to cut it out.     These cards are all A6 or larger size.   I hope you are having a nice weekend! thanks for stopping by, Ginny

How is everyone doing this busy holiday season?  Mine really won't start until tomorrow, then the decorations come out,, and the Jolly begins!  We don't go crazy this time of the year, because we are pentecostal we spend all year long celebrating the Saviour, and don't get real involved with the commercialism of the times.  We do have lots of fun, but I never mind putting the tree away! On Monday I went through my made card file, and discovered a lot of cards I really don't like and hadn't sent out.  either they just didn't say mail me I'm going to make someone smile or they were having construction issues.  on one batch I discovered all the dimensional foamies dried up and with very little effort the item fell off the card!  Booo! some the paper had gotten wavy? other just were BLAH!   I've been back to stamping  for about two years and started doing a lot of mailings a year and a half ago.  So a current project right now is rebuilding/ remaking/trashin

It is WOYWW #183 !!   The world wide desk hop that starts here:   http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ Grab a cuppa and a bite to eat and enjoy the trip!! Busy day here trying to catch up:     Cut papers in to card bases 140 sheet of 12x12 C’oredinations TH papers, I love the colors.       129 more stamps unmounted   Carded and put into order here, now I can readily grab my stamps, these are my   sentiment and scripture stamps, my Asian stamps and in the bottom drawer, feminine , masculine and frames.     592 fit in this small handy space!     Then I made  my oldest  his birthday card .    Roy is graduating UW this year, aerospace engineering   R+D.   He’ll be 28. No" Pop" these papers     This is a 6.5x5 card   Supplies:   And Introducing, Tom. He lives in Ashdod Israel, he adopted my friends to bring them comfort and smiles in a stressful time, sometimes there is just nothing like a baby to bring joy, even a four footed one!   Thanks you for stopping by, have a great week