Still Leaping!

Hi again.
Luckily this day only comes every 4 years....My third post for today. My second L.O.
This time I used Elina's L.O. on Get Creative.
I scrapped another photo from our August holiday. One with Faye and Panagioti, they spent 5 days with us in Lesvos....please note the tummy!

The little flower arrangement was already cut out ....something I was going to use on another L.O. and did not...I used a plain blue bazzil with french dots embossing.
I used my favourite Cobalt Archival ink and my favourite stamps from Pink Paislee " Nantucket"
The floral paper and the label are from the Times and Seasons papers from Echo Park.
I also used 3 stickers from Websters Pages..
Ok now I need to go and clear the holy mess on my desk and floor, before I kill myself leaping over everything and unbury my armchair...so that I can stream on USTREAM tonight.
I will be making a L.O. using a lot of Idea-ology products.....yea man I need to use them, I have been admiring them for far too long!!
Chat tonight on ZEFFY SCRAPS at 21H30.
Love.
Zeffy.
ps. It is blowing like crazy here again and it is freezing cold!! And I am hungry again!

Leaps and Bounds...

Hi again ...
After I posted this morning I decided to do a L.O. for Once Upon A Time, Nadia's sketch is awesome, and this is a photo that I have wanted to scrap since the summer.

It was taken as I was saying bye bye to my son Michael, after he had paid us a surprise visit while we were in Lesvos for the summer. Michael works in Cypus and I have not seen him since Christmas.
Girls cherish the moments with you children,they grow up too fast and  then need to live a life of their own. And then when you can have a little bit of  a vacation with them it is such a blessing!!
Chat with you all tonight on ZEFFY SCRAPS
Love.
Zeffy
papers used are Websters, Winter Fairy Tales  and Ladies and Gents.

Idea

Hi there Girls.
Some ideas are good and others make no logic....
Scrapbooking is good and very very logical to me...
Even though hoarding all of these Idea-ology products is not logical.

So making a lay-out and using lots of these products is logical.....but using a lot (too many) not logical....You get the picture...I Love Tim Holtz......and Idea-ology.....and Alterations......!!!

These are  some of the products that I will be using on my L.O. tonight on my show Zeffy Scraps I will be scrapping a picture of my new love....

Join me at 21h30.

Have a good day.

Zeffy

Some Good News.

Hi there my Scrapbooking Friends.
As you all know I have been on a huge Spring Cleaning binge in the  heart of winter..ok us scrappy ladies are slightly crazy admit it!!
I have also been on a mission to scrap photos that have already been printed and to tell their story, quickly without too much fiddle farting!!
These L.Os may not be award winning but, oh boy the fact that the story in down on paper makes me feel wonderful.

I did this L.O. on Sunday evening on Zeffy Scraps, I used a photo that has been lying between the pages of my daughters album for almost 25 years!! I also used a piece of Kaiser Craft paper that I bought 3 years ago, the flower was an image I had stamped at a crop from someones stamp I don't remember whose it was..I coloured the flower to match the papers....the only thing that was new is the journalling spot that I cut and stamped on the show from a scrap paper!!
Oh yes and the bingo card with the word love on it is from my friend Elina at the Cherry Nest
Today is my son, Michaels' birthday that is the little poppet in the photo in his sisters arms...amazing how fast children grow!!!
I also want to brag a little and tell you all that I was chosen by the DT on Simon Says and Show as one of the Top 3 for this week...that makes me happy! I will show them this L.O. too.
I also want to tell you that my new re-cycled Art Journal is ready...including a canvas cover that I will be teaching....more about that later...
Love Zeffy.

Life must go on....

Hi there Bloggers.
Life in Athens at the moment is very strange, this unrest and uncertainty is getting under everybodys' skin...The question is, what can we, plain citizens of this country do to change things? All we have is one vote, one vote, can that change the system? Can one vote change the way Greek politicians think?...We have far to go my friends...
All we can do is, try and remain positive through all this, I know its hard.......so scrap some of the anger and fear away!!
I have a L.O. here of me and my darling hubby...you all know he is away working and I miss him so much!
I used Nadias' sketch from Once Upon A Sketch and some Bo Bunny Paper...Welcome Home I think it was...Ironic,yes!

Nadia do forgive me,I just had to use a heart instead of a circle,,,I also changed the perspective of the papers a little...I love my misted panel at the bottom of the  heart.....I misted and then stamped and then journalled!!

Talking of journalling I am dabbling a little in art journalling...I have far to go and I am  going to risk a little and show the gals at the  Craft Barn  my page...a bit naive but anyway!!
By the way this is in my up-cycled home-made journal....the whiter page,the one on the left is  a craft shopping bag!
That is all for today ...maybe I will do some streaming tonight...
Chins up!
Zeffy

Dress Form

Hi there Friends.
This is what, was on my desk this morning...an almost completed dress-form, I worked on it last night on USTREAM .I needed to vacuum my area after the show, is was covered in gold embossing powder!!
Anyway you all now me by now I always like to sleep on a project and add the finishing touches the next day.

This morning I decided on a button, I chose a silver one with a diamante`, the feathers and the scraps of corrugated board...I had actually cut those off a L.O. and had hoarded those scraps!! I mean how bad can I get???You know I keep those shreds for packaging...and I had just posted off my Valentines box,so one or two were still lying on my desk.

                                                       The back view of her wings.

As I told you last night on Zeffy Scraps this project was inspired by the Ranger Designer Challenge for CHS 2012  and I will be entering it to the Simon Says Stamp and Show they challenged  us to show some torn edges, some inking,  a button and some wings this week...
Just Love it!
Zeffy

From This To ???

Hi there my creative  Co-Scrappers.
After seeing all of the super dress-forms that the "famous" Designers made for CHA 2012 I am very inspired and I am planning to alter this bodice I bought in the summer.

Sorry I had already undressed her, before I decided to take pictures and do the whole project tonight on
       USTREAM on my show Zeffy Scraps.

These are some of the things I am planning to use......get out your things and come and join me while I create "live"  tonight at 20H00 on Zeffy Scraps I know it is somewhat early, but I am recovering from flu and as a result I am out of action late at night.
Talk some more tonight...
Zeffy

Precious Dolly

Hi there.
I am sure that you are all well into the new year and settling down to the good old routine once again...
As you all know towards the end of last year I started scrapping old photos,photos taken long before I started scrapping.
This photo of Raphaella has been on my kitchen door for ages,,,and it was starting to perish...I have scanned it and made a copy...but I used the original for this L.O. The photo was taken at her 2nd Birthday Party. She was my baby dolly!! So cute....

I used the sketch from  My Creative Sketches, which I flipped  around as you can well see...I interpreted the diagonal paper or element as a stream of butterflies.....
I used the Websters Pages die cut it is from the Winter Fairy Tales line "Once Upon a Time"  there is also a scrap of Crate paper behind the photo...I stitched around the doilie for added detail as well as a line of stitching in the centre of the L.O. I also added some swirls with Stickels .
Tomorrow morning I will photograph my Valentines project so stay tuned!
Lots of Love.
Zeffy

My "Clip it Up"

Hi there my Friends.
I wish you all a very good month...
I have a video I want  to share today...it is my new embellishment centre...

Here it is in Greek too...especially for my darling Greek friends...

Have a good month.

Kisses.

Zeffy

Remeber ....

Hi there my Scrapbooking Friends.
Remember is such an amazing word, one that is the key to scrapbooking. Photos are all about remebering.
Today  I have scrapped a photo that was taken the first time my youngest daughter held her nephew, the day after he was born...He stared at her intensly while she was chatting to him.  The day before when we first saw him she said something and he turned and looked at her...amazing.

I used Websters Pages Winter Fairy Tales "Once Upon A  Time". I misted my page using the Ideology swirl before I started using Glimmer Mists "Blue Trunk Bay" "Lemon Zest" and "Yellow Daisy"
I started this L.O. on my USTREAM channel called Zeffy Scraps.
Get Creative has a challenge using masks and mists this month and Bird Is The Word has a challenge to use the word "Remember" in our title.
I wish you all a great week ,with lots of creativity.
Zeffy.

My First Lay-out of my Grand-Son ( Edited!)

Hi there my Scrapbooking friends.
Today I want to share with you my first L.O. of my Grand-Son and the first L.O. of  2012.
This  photo was taken minutes after he was born, his daddy is holding him. This is when I first saw him, Raphaella took this pic on her cel. phone.He looked just like a little pixie with his little hat!! It was the week before Christmas.
I took up Irene's challenge on Get Creative and only used 12 items to make this L.O.

 3 Sheets of paper ( 4 actually...see end of post)

                 1.Prima Annalee "Romance"

           2.Prima Annalee 'Parlor"

                   3.Creative Imaginations I.O.D

A journaling spot

                    4. Prima Annalee Collection.

             5. A Prima Mirror Clock

  6. A white flower

 7. A blue flower.

8. A red button.

9. White Alphas

           10. A blue marking pen.

That's it for now ladies...I have many many more pictures to scrap so I will be back soon.

I hope you have a great week-end.

Love Zeffy.

 EDIT:    P.S....ha ha I was so rushed to get this posted, and I am so surprised that no one has made a comment ,but, I have left out 2 items......

my fourth paper was my photo  mat.....so

11. Prima Annalle(I think,it was a scrap)

 12. A Darling Photo

Last post of 2011

Hi there my Friends.
Tomorrow is the last day of 2011.So I thought I would  like to share with you one of my favourite photos taken this past week ...it is of my new Grand-Son in his moses basket on the kitchen table amongst some of the flowers that they received on the occasion of his birth. I loved the colors, they almost give us an indication of what the next years will bring...fun and games!!

I would like to wish you all a very very Happy New Year,may 2012 bring us joy,happiness and health...and ladies always remember life is like a mirror..it always reflects your mood....so stay happy,creative and remeber lets live life to the fullest.
Lots of Love and good wishes.
Zeffy

Merry Christmas.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.
I hope you all have an amazing time with your Family and friends!
My son come home today and this is what he bought for me.He said "Ma as soon as I saw this I knew you would love it."

Yes it is a Christmas wreath made entirley with sweeties in wrappers.With a few gold baubles and some red berries and a Father Christmas that lights up. A lady who lives in Cyprus, by the name of Koulla made it, and I think it is so sweet.
That is it, for now, going to pop my pork into the oven, and tomorrow I will tackle that bird.
Remember, be good!
Zeffy

It is almost Christmas!

Hi there my dear Friends.
Or should I say ho ho ho?
I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy festive season, and to also show you what I made out of a tiny pine-cone the night before my daughter gave birth to my beautiful Grand-son!

I was extremely distracted, but nevertheless this is the result a tiny pine -elf....I saw the idea on facebook..I used a bit of batting wrapped in a scrap left from the baby's new swaddling blankets for the face,I embroidered the eyes and mouth (had no patience to get the eyes the same!  So he looks like he is winking!)
The hat is made of felt decorated with twine and Stickles...a little bell is on the tip. And ,the scarf is a strip of paper, (I am a paper addict after all!)decorated with spots of Stickles.
May the spirit of Christ shine in your hearts.
God Bless.
Zeffy

A Christmas Tag (12)

Hi there my Friends.
I hope that you are all well?
Last night I finished off Tag 12 ....as you all know I made some of Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas,in fact I made 10.
Here is tag 12  without further ado,the details are in the video that is at the end of this post.
Tag 12

Here is the video too. Enjoy.

Keep Calm,be happy.
Love.
Zeffy

Tag 9 and Tag 11 (2011)

Good Evening Scrapbooking Pals.
I spent the evening yestreday making Tag 9 and Tag 11...and I have just completed Tag 12...you will have to wait till tomorrow for that as I want to photograph it in the daylight
Anyway I  loved the technique that was used for Tag 9, as I say in the video,my whole point of doing these tags was to experience new techniques,so I improvised with what I have on hand, as a result my tags are not the same as Tims'
Tag 9

Tag 11

Tag 11 was fun to make and it was the first time that I used Glossy paper,and I loved the result,you should try it.Oh yes the little leaves are shrink plastic that was covered with UTEE and heated with the heat gun...they look like mother of pearl.
Here is the video too.

Keep well,
Love Zeffy.

Tag 5 ,6 and 7 Inspired by Tim Holtz.

Hi there...
I wonder if anybody will read this...if you are all as busy as I am  then you are all frantically rushing around getting stuff done.
Here are  3 more tags...please note Miss Snowie was Tag 4....not 5 as I said!
 For more details check video at the end of this post...My voice goes all funny again and dissapears for a while....
Tag 5...loved this one!!

Tag 6

Tag 7

Here is my video.

 It wish you all a very good week-end....
This is the 10th full moon of my daughters' pregnancy...and as my good old Gran used to say "A woman needs to see 10 full moons before she gives birth" So we are waiting....
Zeffy

Tag 4 (2011)Miss Snowie

This is my take on Tims' tag.
I drew and cut out my snowman out of grunge board,painted "her"  decided she is a she...after decorating het hat!
the only colour distress that that I had that would suit this tag was"Dusty Concord" ...remember I also do not have "Picket Fence"
So I resorted to putting some acrylic paint diluted in a little water on my mat....a swipe of Broken China Distress ink and some Dusty Concorde distress stain....I sprayed my Tag with some homemade "glimmer mist" made out of Antique linen re-inker....I was happy with the result......I also stamped my snowflake with Dusty Concord...love how they turn out...you should try it....unfortunately my swirl was inked with white chalk ink......boring!!!

As you can see I used my Scrollwork  on the edge die...and I used grunge board numbers..I will tell you what I did to my poor numbers when I do a video...lets just say they were "Processed!"
Tag No 5 is looking good...of course I do not have reflections stamps..so I made a plan....again.
Keep crafting......craftiness required for these tags!!
Love.Zeffy

12 Tags of Christamas...here we go!

Hi there Crafty People.
I hope that you are all well, and having a good December.
I have been doing Tims'12 Tags of Christmas,,,,,, Alla Zeffy! Because I have to improvise as I do not own most of the things that Tim is using.
So here is Tag 1,2 and 3
I made Tag 1 on USTREAM on Zeffy Scraps so you can see how I cut my cones and Holly
Here is TAG 1

TAG 2

TAG 3

And here is a video of all three.

I wish you all a good Sunday...whats left of it...and I am off to have lunch and then get down to making TAG 4.....
Love Zeffy

December the 1st!!!

Hi there.
 Christmas frenzy has started with a bang!!
Tims 12 tags of Christmas and I have neither the die nor the embossing folder! So I have to improvise..
Shimelles' Journal you Christmas...doing that this year...
12 days of Christmas Photography class.....doing that too....No time for links today...
And Miss Arts Papercrafting Take 2 doing that too...the following L.O. was inspired byNicole Nowosad's 10 miute L.O......me doing a L.O. in 10 minutes! Impossible!!! So I gave myself half an hour.This is the result.

Sassafras paper masked and misted then stamped...Bo Bunny"Welcome Home" paper (how appropriate!) torn and inked ,Petaloo flowers and packaging.
So Gals have a good month...hope to get back to you again today with more goodies..
Love Zeffy