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On the road

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  See you Monday!!     Thanks for stopping by! Ginny M

Wishing you a Beautiful Day!!

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A few months ago, Steve and I were in a stamp store and I found this little stamp:     Sometimes you need a simple sentiment to convey a big thought and this one does it for me!!       We're traveling this weekend so I'd like to wish you what ever makes you day beautiful!!   My Card to you!!       Thanks for stopping by!! Ginny M       Images by Nicecrane Designs

3 D Glassy Butterflies

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twinchies I promised a quick tutorial on my glassy Butterflies and I am posting it today. This Techniques is really so easy to so and the results are wonderful!  You will probably already have all the supplies in your stash!  I choose butterflies for this tutorial, but you can use anything you loke for a 3D focal image.  I used a Nicecrane image Called Butterfly Twinchies , you can use a digital or a stamped and clored image Wether you use digitals or hand stamps, you will need two sets. Here I printed two sets of the     Nest step in creating the 3D glassy butterflies Dollop on a thick layer of Modge Podge I use my finger, nothing fancy - just try to get a fairly even coat.     I purchase my Modge Podge on Amazon, for 29.99 a GALLON free shipping!   This takes about two hours to dry   Here you can see the butterflies before I fussy cut them.     The next step requires fussy cutting the focal images.  The Modge Podge give the paper a vinyl feel and makes it very easy to cut. After cutt

Simple things

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Do you ever wonder if all the nurturing you do in life has a lasting effect?  I do! All the stories I have poured in to my kids, all the wonder of life that I have tried to impart, seeding deeply an appreciation of the gift of life.  Beauty, Hope, Joy Kindness, we all hope to engrain these ideals into our offspring.  They grow up and move swiftly into the courses of there lives - sometimes you hear a faint echo and it is so rewarding.   Today I was busy in my room working at the computer when the youngest came in and said "Hi Mom, I think the trees are starting to bud, is there anything for Lunch"?  Now it doesn't seem like much, but there is a history.  Young Steve came into my life when he was 4, I have been his step mother since he was 7.  He became my youngest.  My oldest was already 18, middle child was 14.  Steve brought me back to that sweet time of blowing dandelions, digging up worms and watching the seasons affect the trees.  Accept Steve wasn't into that, S

What's On Your Wordesk Wedensday # 251

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I've been out of the loop for a couple of weeks due to being sicko, but I'm back to show you what's happening at Maxam Made!  Today Is WOYWW# 251 -the Blog hop that pops around the world! It starts at Lovely Julia Dunnit's blog !  You'll find  at least another 75 crafty visits to make, click over with A cuppa and join the fun!  Better yet Join the blog hop! I'm at my standing desk for this project, right now I feel like my whole craft room is a disaster.  It really isn't but I've acquired a few new pieces of equipment in the last two months and I am still trying to find a good place to keep them and work with them.  My major storage area is wall space and there isn't an inch left unused on the walls our counter surfaces.  Steve is working on a solution with me, but right now, I'm feeling  like a sardine.    See the M+M's!!  They came in today as a swap gift goodie!!    I'm am making a Birthday card here and also a DT card for Nicecrane

Wedding!!

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We had a wedding this weekend!!  Our oldest son Roy married Megan  Thursday evening!  They had a very quiet ceremony in South Carolina where they are both working and building a house.  We will be spending some time visiting the Newly wed sin The Summer, needless to say I can hardly wait!   Roy and Megan are both Aeronautical engineers for Boeing and have been together for years! Megan  waited for Roy  to get out of the Marines - That's where they met, in a Tech school, she was Air Force he was Marines.  They both pursued graduate work and this December relocated to SC. We are so happy to officially welcome Megan into the family and hope they will be very happy and blessed!   Thanks for stopping by and here's a beautiful Spring freebie! Ginny M      

Today it felt like Spring!!

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We had a very nice sunny day here in Western Massachusetts!  Finally? Spring is here?  Who knows, we could still have a NorEaster come our way!! It was spring in my craft room today!  With the seasons changing I also have more light in my Craft room and that is always wonderful!  I am also starting to feel better after being sick for 2 weeks - I'm never sick like that!!  Oh well That is a part of life. I made a set of four cards this Afternoon, using beautiful vintage spring images from Nicecrane Designs  :                                                                                          You can tell I have feeling better on my mind!     I also used the Birds and Blossoms set to make trading and calling cards, Here's one:     Today's Freebie: A beautiful bookplate to color or leave in Black and White  For even more inspiring creations, Stop over  to Ignacio Molina's blog , you'll be wow'ed!! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day Ginny M   

Apparently and a freebie

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There is something like a mini - flu - plague going on around here.  It is an interesting when your Dr. walks in the room and says okay I don't want to get to close to you.  Gee thanks!  It is now official, I'm really sick, only I'm some great meds so I'm on the mend. yay! It's about time!  Last night because I couldn't sleep from coughing so much so I got up and made space in my craft room for the new baby coming home: I got one second hand for a really good deal.  I've had it with my ecraft machine and it's constant chewing of my good papers.  This is the Expression it's adoption was a result of it's former owner upgrading to an Explore.  Lucky Me!!  My main purpose for the machine is flowers and labels for journals I am making and selling.                               I am hoping to be back to card making tomorrow! but in the Meantime I will leave you with this beautiful Leonardo Da Vinci drawing as a freebie for your collection:     Thank yo

Get well wishes and a freebie

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I  received this lovely get well card yesterday from my friend Crystal AKA 'Superstamp girl' I like it so much that I think I am going to use it for the colors of my new craft room! I think I might swap the pink for an orange. Stop over to Crystals for some stampin' up inspiration!!   I also received this sweet card From Jenn, the owner of 'Addicted to Making Cards' FB group   Jenn is a awesome moderator for this group. ATCM was my first group in the FB genre - so many of the Yahoo Groups have gone over to FB because of the Yahoo issues.  At first I was a little intimidated by the pace , but now I love it, so nice to have so much interaction and pictures to go with it! Just thought it was so mice to receive a card especially since I am a new member!     And lastly I'm leaving you with a freebie.  I still seem to have a zero level of energy , just enough to keep drinking tea and catching up on old stamp magazine issues!   Why This image; a gerbil?  I don't kn

Printing on Vellum Technique

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I'm feeling a little bit better today and decided to make my cards for the March OSA Koi Swap.  Last Week I asked my friend Ignacio the owner and graphic designer at Nicecrane if he had a Koi images, When he replied to me it was "I do now"!  He had worked up a new set of Japanese Koi digital stamps! This gave me 5 images to choose from !     When I do these swap I always try to make my cards unique, we all do , that is half the fun of it!  Two months ago I did another Koi swap and I wanted this one to look very different from the last one, but I loved the technique so I did want to repeat that!   This was January's card:                                           Koi on Vellum over a Nicecrane texture image   For this months card I did another  vellum printing overlay  - very simple but very beautiful!  The key with this is having an excellent graphic to print out, these Koi are perfect  for this technique!     I printed out on 29# vellum.  You can see the detail on

Being Still

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Being still is a very good thing to due when you have the flu! I'm feeling better but not better enough!  Today I  can't seem to look at anything very long with out my eye balls feeling like the are crossing over each other!  I need to get some beautiful images colored for NiceCrane designs but I can' t focus long enough to do it right, so it is going to have to wait till tomorrow.  Ignacio did a new sheet of spring themed art "A child's garden of verses " I love the girl with the watering can!! What beautiful spring and summer cards these images will make!!   I did get a simple card done for National Jewel day  challenge:   I love this verse, it says so much with so few words.   I hope you all have a great day and thank you for stopping by! Ginny M 

Ugh, I have the flu and a freebie

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Yep, it struck last night and even typing hurts right now, So I won't have much of a post today!  I'm leaving you with two flu freebies!! Enjoy, I'm going back to sleep! right click and save.   Have a great day!! Ginny M