Maxam Made

I've been very busy all week doing things and not blogging and thankfully not shoveling snow!! But I have been busy in my craft room! I have a few things to post the rest of the week, a product review and a project review.  I love product reviews, If I can get experienced advice about some of the products out there and save $$ I am very happy to spend the few minutes it takes to acquire that information! But Right now it is time to check out every one's Workdesk,  If you'd like to join the fun, go over to Julia's Blog at  http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ ! I've been cutting and scoring and folding since Sunday, and I needed to give my eyes a break so I made this card: These cards were made on 130# cold pressed water color paper.  my Favorite is the Canson XL pads.  this paper is wonderful for cards and you can letter press with it!!  I purchase it when it goes on sale at Michael's.  I get the9x12 and from that I can cut 60 A6ish  cards. I wait until the pads

It is WOYWW#194, the international work desk blog hop that Starts here http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ .  Julia Host's this blog hop weekly but in the meantime, she also writes and stamps for her blog, which is always interesting and worth the few minutes it takes to stop by! My work desk tonight  is pretty clear, Yeah!!  All of my birthday and anniversary cards for March are made, written out, addressed, stamped and in date order ready to go to the post office.  I've got dozens of cards made up for anything else that comes up, they are  filed and ready to go for  the rest of the month. I have kits ready for making : Each of these is for 25 cards     I keep my kits ready for making tucked out of the way on top of this expedite type unit, off my desk out of my way but not out of my sight.   I have stamps and "ideas" pulled for something new I want to try, I found this website lst week: http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/  and I really like the cards posted and

Mail art can get very interesting and very  bizarre.  One interesting movement in art that began around 1916 was called DaDA, you can find information here:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada daDa moved into the small scale mail art trends and went from the nonsensical placement of words and letters to bleeding eyeballs and scary dolls.  SteamPunk is a more modern offshoot of DaDa.  Personally I don't care for it.  I have no desire to view someone Else's "anxt" in art form.  But I do like mail art , I love to jazz up my envelopes with stamps and envelopes and glitter. Once in awhile I will put a crown on a frogs head on an envelope, while he is attempting to catch a dragon fly that has just written out the address on the paper.  My post man loves it, I have heard from the people that receive fun stuff like that, that their post men like it too!   A fast easy way to  really colorful envelopes is to make them your self!   They are EASY!!   First you need paper, for th

It's a quiet night here, I am working on my Sunday School Lesson for tomorrow, working on a few butterflies for the teens in the class:   They are still in the rough stages, but will be ready for tomorrow.   Went for our walk earlier:   Time for a snow Angel, and yes he is!!         This was very good exercise, the snow was unbroken, Luke is standing on an area with only about 6 inches, most of the walk was a trudge of over a foot.  I told Steve we sound like Cybermen walking.. (any Dr. Who Fans?)   Tink is all worn out from Luke chasing him around the house all night - they play- it is pretty funny unless you get in Lukes way- there is no stopping him.  He catches Tink all the time and sends him off the ground with his nose.   Tink thinks one of the best places to sleep in in the clean laundry   I am thankful for the piece of a household of faith, for Steve who is a godly man,  My  best friend and Wonderful  Husband, for all the love and blessing in our lives.   Thank you for stop

We've dug out, repaired the Snow blower and  did a big food shopping, just in time, more snow coming!!  I was very busy today, my women's study group and running a lot of errands.  I got dinner going right away in anticipation of having a few hours in my craft room. In the morning before I left the house I planned out my project,   I needed kiddie birthday cards.  I grabbed a mat stack, the  4.5x6 size, pulled the paper apart and cut them to 4.5x5 to make faces for my cards.  Using a mat stack on precut and folded bases is a super fast way to get a lot of clean and simple cards made. A drawer of ribbons, pulled out my collection of kids stamps - these were on wood and after one attempt at stamping and keeping the image in the right place unsuccessfully, I pulled all my stamps off their woodblocks.  I am so happy I did, with the oddly shaped images, it has made image placement so much easier!! then I glued the card stock to the bases and pressed them under a book.  For economy s

It's Monday and we had a icy / rainy day.  Now it is very  foggy out, it reminded me of the gloom and doom sci fi moves from the 50's  - black and white 1950's!   here is a picture I snapped in our drive ways of the front fence:    That is a four foot high fence!!   Because of today's rain, the snow has dropped down a lot, last night it went to the base of the lawn lamp!   I didn't mind the gray today, we had a nice relaxing day,I spent a lot of time in my craft room and the guys didn't spend to much time dealing with the white stuff.       I made a batch of these cards The original  thought was for a sympathy card and I think would still work as that.      I changed it and put a "praying for you' sentiment on it. The photo doesn't show the contrast of the degrees of black and white (gray) so like life, presenting the gray and not the contrasting of black and white. Sometimes we can feel our lives and prayers  feel  gray, "anyone listening"

Nemo Left us about 2.5 feet of snow, we spent the day digging out and since we live on  a side street we are going to be blanketed in by snow for a little while longer.  We can get out but our street is one of the worst plowed in the town.  Oh well, it is a narrow fully loaded with parked on the street card, so it is no wonder plowing is a problem!  I did get a bunch of cards made though!  Here they are: Use my eCraft to do some cutting and a newish collage stamp                         These Butterfly I stamped with Stazon and then colored with Tim Holtz distress inks.  One coat of polycrylic and when that was dry I added the glitter.  believe it or not it took me 15 minutes to make 8 butterflies!     background is off in the photo, it is almost black.        I also picked up some new Black storage containers at Family Dollar:   These containers are about a 15" long and hold cut papers for card layers     These are about 8" long and hold cards in progress!  The large were 3.