Sunday Morning

Hello Ladies.
Today I want to show you what I managed to make yesterday for our on-line crop at Scrapbookers in Greece
Here is the tag for Irini's challenge.

And here is my L.O. for Nektaria's challenge,she had challenged us not to use any scrapbooking supplies...so I used corrugated board from packaging,some baby wipes for my grass and paper from my misting box for my rhinos and my clouds and my flower..I also used my fingers to make my red little flowers...oh yes there also is a little 3D paste in the back-ground

The design of this Lo was inspired by the challenge on Get Creative that wanted us to be inspred by the sun.

OK I am off to make one or two more L.O.s
Love Zeffy!

Let's See Your ATC!!

Hi there my Friends.
Today is a super exciting day here in Athens, because Scrapbookers in Greece are having an on-line crop.
So today I am here to inspire you to make some ATC s to showcase your art....ATC is short for Artist Trading Card see here.
I like my cards to be dimensional and chunky...you all know I love flowers nd lots of embellishments!
I also like my cards to have a word and something metal on them.
Besides that you also know that I LOVE re-cycling or up-cycling as it is also called..so you will see candy-wrappers as well as daily ephemera such as stamps or othe images on some of my cards.
I did a USTREAM show on Zeffy Scraps last night, but I lost the recording...so I made this short video to show you the 2 ATCs I had made on the show.

Here are a couple of my ATCs that I recently made for a swap on the Stamping Ground

ATC.s I made last night.

And so I wish you all a creative week-end..if you have made an ATC that you want to share leave a comment and I will pop over to your blog and take a look..

Zeffy

It is Wednesday

Hi there ladies..yes it is Wednesday again even if it is only 00H10 as I write this. I do not have an interesting desk to show you today..it is so tidy it is boring!!...so if you want to see some real interesting desks pop over to The Stamping Ground
I do however  have an album to show you, I completed this on Sunday night, so I will share some photos and a video with you...
I used a paper line called Summer Fresh from Simple Stories. The kit worked beautifully with this project as it had many blocks  that I used for tags and for journaling spots, as well as  a lot of stickers and other images for embelishments..and I have plenty left-over for some L.O.s.
Here are some pages...Ihave used a couple of papers that are not from Simple Stories as well.

And here is a photo of my grand-son and his dog Winston after a noisy  Sunday  Family brunch

Have a happy Wednesday and I am waiting for my ATCs...so much excitement!
Love
Zeffy

WOYWW and ATC swap

Hi there Ladies.
This is a very late Wednesday post, in fact I almost never played this week...but then I remembered that it is "The" week!! Yes it is WOYWW 3rd Anniversary check out Julies' blog and I have my ATC's ready can you spot them?

The reason why I almost never posted today is that I have a mystery project on the go...some clues on my desk...yes yes the photo is over exposed!
You can also spot my album that I made with Nektaria's papers and also a teeny tiny ATC size booklet I made with the scraps....the book with the flying pigs is my Hand Bound Art Journal made by Moi!!
Will the lady whose name is before mine please mail me her addie so I can post her ATC tomorrow...I will send one or two more ATC's to a couple of ladies...
zeffyk@gmail.com
Love Zeffy.

Smile....

Hi there Scrapbooking Friends.
Today I want to show you a L.O. that has been inspired from many blogs and challenge sites.
I took this photo on my daughters' 2nd wedding anniversary, and knew I needed to scrap it. I told her to smile for me again,next to the same flowers, 2 years later...
The colours and many of the elements are inspired by the clever CSI Team....here is a photo of some of my old stash that I pulled this morning!! Papers are over 2 years old as are the brads and alphas...spot the old envelope...

Here is my L.O.

I used the sketch on Get Creative by Melenia. Here are some details of the ladybugs,...we call little insects Gogos in South Africa, the G sounding like the "ah" in Ahmed!

The ladybirds are paper pieced, glossy accented and crackle accented!

CSI wanted us to use some Gogos sorry insects in our evidence, as well as stitching and paint spots...I also journaled in  a spiraly fashion saying that I hope my Grand-Son who is going to be brought up in Greece will still know what a Gogo is and that he will grow up to respect nature.

This L.O. will be submitted to Use it Tuesday thanks guys, I used my brads, alphas and 2 sheets of old paper. I also used my re-cycled envelope for a photo mat, so that should make Scrap for Help happy, And because my family is all smiles the ladies at Bird Is the Word will be happy too.
Here is that L.O. that I made of Faye 2 years ago.

She is wearing a Greek Worrior helmut, that her cousin who was here for the wedding had bought that morning from the tourist area Monastiraki....very apt.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Zeffy.

Summer at Last

Hi there My Friends.
This past week I have been playing with ATCs and tiny ATC size books..I will show it all to you  on
Zeffy Scraps
I needed to make a birthday card for today and I also wanted to play along at Simon Says stamp and Show and they want us to show them a Summer Holiday...

When I think Summer I think Greek Islands, so what better paper to use than 7Gypsies Mykonos collection. I wanted to use my Fiskars Threading Water punch but it broke as I cut that blue bazzil!! So we have a bit of paper and some ric-rac symbolizing the sea...
In Summer we have many  religious holidays' which are a good opportunity to get out of our bathing suites and shorts and dress up a little....here you can see Marci in her Sunday best.....all coloured in with Rangers Distress Markers!!
Happy Summery Week-end...
Zeffy

Be Warned!!

Hi there...

Neat Freaks I suggest you do not look further, and pop over to the Stamping Ground and check out Julies'

desk and many more that I am sure are a lot tidier than mine!

What happened? You may ask...well last night I journaled in my brand new art journal that I made on Saturday, it is on the chair....only I am not hasppy to show the page...its from the heart, you understand...the two pages that you see are backgrounds ready for more arty journaling..

Looking at this desk you will not believe if I told you that I spent Monday afternoon re-organizing and sorting out stuff...you can see my new set of  black plastic drawers, I needed something for my new Distress Markers and for my journaling pens.I found the drawers at Leroy Merlin for 10.60 Euros..the only problem with them is that the drawers slide right out!! No stopping system..but they are deep!

I also went and bought myself one more 4 cube Expedit..so now I have a cubby for my journaling sprays,stamps and masks...although it looks that they will live on the floor while journaling....will see how it evolves..
My letter stamps now also have a spot on hand. If anybody has good advice on how to store masks in a handy manner I will love to hear ..oh and that bag behind the blue box thats my dustbin I need an idea for a bin up high so that my stamps and Nesties don't fall into it!

That is it for today, I need to go and tidy up...and then go and see what I get get up to..

Happy scrapping!

Zeffy

Adore

Hi again
I have just finished my L.O. for Case file #19 on CSI  Today I worked with a sketch from Sketches With A Twist although I did not use 3 photos and I also omitted a lot of the embellishments, however the little booklet takes the place of one of the photos. It was an interesting sketch and a lovely starting point for my L.O.

 Blue spotted paper is from Fancy Pants and the background paper and the green paper with the small floral is from Cosmo Cricket "Odds and Ends" The blue butterfly, the banners, the circular embellie and the wood-paper that the booklet is made of is from the free downloadables that are on CSI by Michele Singh

I used a mask from Dylusions to create my back-ground circles and the flowers that are peeping out behind the column,.yes and the ADORE photo mat is from Heidi Swapp.

CSI Evidence.1 bookpapers...    .check

                       2 circles................check

                       3 small patterns    check

                       4 woodgrain.........check

                       5 border punch.....check

    Testimony, some journaling in a circle, the rest of the journaling is in the tab booklet and it says how calm my sister was on her wedding day and how she adores her children!

I forgot to mention that the  ruffled flower was from her wedding favours. oh yes can you can spot the "washi" tape by me?

Keep scrapping.

Love

Zeffy

Super Company!

Morning Scrapbookers.

This mornings' L.O. was inspired by this fabulous photo of all of my Scrapbooking Friends in Athens and by Shimelle's Super Size project on 2 Peas in a Bucket.
My friend Lena, form Enjoy Scrapping asked us to tell her why we enjoy scrapbooking so much as a challenge for NSD.
Besides enjoying and getting tremendous pleasure from playing with paper I have been blessed with the honour of meeting many fantastic and faboulously creative friends here in Athens and all over the world!!
This photo was taken on Friday at a surprise birthday part we organized for our sweet friend Katerina Laiopoulou
Have a great day..
Zeffy

Delusions of Dyan

Hi there Scrapbooking Buddies.
Yes we are at the end of another week...Wednesday came and went and I only remembered about WOWW on Thurday morning!! Sorry Ladies I will pop over and visit over the week-end.
As you realize I was pre-occupied with all sorts of things and the Greek situation is not making things very easy for a lot of families in Greece including mine!!

The one consolation however is..my new toys from Dylusions...my work is far, far, from perfect and no-where near the fabulous Dyan Reaveley!! But here is something I made for my album, that I created with Nektaria's beautiful papers...the book is almost finished I still  need to personolize it with photos, journaling and finer embellishments, I am having fun working on something that will be mine!!

I was also playing around last night and made this tag..

Have a lovely week-end and hopefully I will see you on Sunday with my submission for Color Stories Inspiration...Oh yes check it out I was STAR Witness this week!!
Zeffy.

My Mom

Hi Ladies.
Mothers Day has come and gone and I have only now got down to upload my L.O. that I made about 10 days ago on Zeffy Scraps

I made this L.O.because I was inspired by the talented Gals on Get Creative to create a L.O. about our Mothers using lots of flowers!!
I went Prima crazy,using the Songbirds collection the paper name "Zephyr" I chose it because my Mom loved wild flowers and this paper reminded me of them. By the way some people also called me Zephyr as I was growing up..
My journaling is personal and emotional so it is tucked away and the glassine envelope hold more journaling paying homage to her!!!A young woman that left home at 17 and became a Mum at 19 in a new country without her family.......
Here is to all the Mums out there!
I salute you...
Zeffy.

It is Sunday...again

Hi there my Friends.
It is amazing how time just flies ...we are almost in the middle of May..
Yes, Sunday is the closing day for CSI case files. I worked on this L.O.this morning and it is almost 3.30pm and I have not posted yet!!!
This was Case File #18...a beauty...

And here is my L.O.

This L.O looks a little top heavy to me...I think it's the big flowers, but I loved this photo of my niece and nephew..and Athina's head was cropped so I added a flower mmmmm....not a good move what do you think...I also journaled on the flowers, I liked that!
Both of these lovely children are my brothers' and they live in South africa so I hardle ever see them, so sad!
Papers are from Kaiser Craft "Sweet Nothings and the telephone embellie is from My Minds Eye Stella Rose.
The twirled ribbon is from a swap, it's lovely..
Have a good Sunday.
Zeffy

What a Wednesday!!!

Hi hi hi....
I am high today...and if it was not for Julie at the Stamping Ground I would not be cyber surfing nor posting I would be playing!!!
Firstly check out my desk!!! Woopeee.....

These are papers that I downloaded and printed,last night they have been created by my friend Nektaria from
Nektaria's Creative Garden  the papers are almost a steampunk/shabby chic, gotto love them,  I made a tag or two last night...now I am dying to go and start my  album.
Another thing you can spot on my desk is a bag of (washi) tape I madelast night,I painted and stamped masking tape....

If I swing my chair,I have an ottoman behind me and on it is this delicious box all the way from the UK......
Look how beutifull packed everything was...including ribbon,twine and charms!!!

Yes, it is my order from Art fron the Heart all my new DYLUSIONS toys....I planning great stuff to make with these!!

Off to play....woyww girls I will visit your blogs tonight....

Wishing you a great day.

Zeffy

Some Colour Inspiration.

Hello there.
As another week comes to an end it is time to show you my L.O. that was inspired by file # 17 at
CSI. I was very happy this week because I was on the CSI watch list.
Anyway I don't know how and why you scrap, but as I was telling a friend the other day, scrapping for me  must come from the heart! I need to feel the passion for the L.O. I am working on...
I had an idea for this challenge and it was more about  the enviroment  around our neighbourhood....that plan went out the window when I accidently found this photo whilst looking for an old photo of my Mum..........this phot made my heart sing it made me happy I needed to scrap it.....Viola!!!

The paper is from Sassafras there is coloured music paper on the other side and the little border under the denim is its border strip...I used some of the downloadables from CSI, eg. the banners and the Horoscope wheel.
Some of the evidence that I used was the music paper,stars, something translucent (I used vellum)circles.
My testimony was my jouranling that I wrote in two circles.
"You are the centre of MY UNIVERSE.Even though Libra and Virgo do not make a good pair...
My Love...You are the energy that gives me life. You are the sunshine of my day.You are the star of my nights.
Without you I am but an empty core!
You are my light,you are my breath,my heart......
I leave you on that sentimental note...
Zeffy

Hi there...
Last night I did a little USTREAMing, its been ages since the last show on  Zeffy Scraps. I decided that I needed to make some cards  for some weddings and birthdays that we have coming up. Over at Simon Says Stamp and Show,the guys want to see some colour....a kaleidoscope of colour in fact. So here is my Marci card.

I coloured the stamp."Marci with Rose" with my new Distress Markers, I do not have many colours,but it was fun playing around with my new water brush and also with  the white pigment ink marker from Ranger called Picket Fence. ( I am not a pro stamp colour inner!) The pink border around the Melissa Frances paper is Worn Lipstick Distress Stain.

Elina from Cherry Nest gave me two Embossing powders from Lindys Stamp Gang to try, she is now stocking the products at her on-line store. So I decided to emboss the lace detail  I used the Byzantine Bronze  embossing powder and as it is a fine powder it was perfect for the intricate detail of the lace...

I must also mention that the sentiment stickers are from Anna Griffin. I added the doily behind the sticker.

Here is the second card I made last night...this lollipop flower is my favourite....it is not stuck on,because I am not sure I can part with this flower yet.....crazy hey?...I played around today trying to find a way to duplicate this pretty flower,  I have some paper drying will ,will see how my flowers turn out when they are dry....

That's it I am off to bed, did a lot of housework today and I am bushed!!(S.African slang for knackered!)

Zeffy

What's on my Workdesk and some up- cycled Drawers

Hi there Friends,
I took some photos to show my desk, for WOYWW and wow when I see this photo I realiselise how untidy I am!! Lucky for me I can function amongst clutter!! I took all these things out yesterday afternoon so I could make some cards on my show Zeffy Scraps on USTREAM....but my Laptop was so slow last night that I spent the evening removing about 1000 photos plus instead!!

Amongst the ribbon and lace you will see a Melissa Grances Paper pad C'est la Vie...not mad for it, a bit washed out.. and some yummy Sentiment Stickers from Anna Griffin.. hopefully by the end of today they will turn into lovely wedding cards!!
This is a cute box we will be making at my workshop on Saturday, National scrapbooking Day..

This box is great for storing photos or journaling spots!

And last but not least my pride and joy!! My lovely wooden drawers that I picked up on the roadside turned into shelves for my rubber stamps and a cork-board..

Yesterday on my walk I spotted a wooded cubby, maybe I should go and save that too??

Heres wishing you a good month.

Love.

Zeffy.

Sweet Brown Eyes

Hi there I hope you are having a pleasing Sunday and a very good long week-end.

Yesterday I had a lot of fun working on  Case File #16 yes I am talking about CSI....I think it is becoming an addiction.....but their Challenges are such fun and very, very inspirational...I had fun working on this pretty L.O. using pinks, greys, sparkle, bling , feathers and the sweetest of all, a photo of my Faye.

This is my Sweet Faye at 9 months old...I would call her my Little Night Owl...she would lie awake at 2....3 in the morning and just gaze at me with her big brown eyes!!! It was not easy especially seeing that we would get up at 6 am to go to work....

I used the very interesting sketch #68 from Sketchabilities I was going to make some banners from the grey spotted paper from Echo Park " Be Mine"  for the top corner....but then I decided on the "vintage "bling intead seeing that I had used some next to my photo....Michele Singh thanks for your lovely papers again , I used the music paper to make a flower.

Have a Hoot..

Love.

Zeffy

Life Can Be Hard Sometime

Hi it's me again..
This is a L.O. made with a photo that I have been wanting to scrap for the past 2 weeks or so..the past 3 weeks have not been easy...
When I was looking around for challenges to  inspire me  I saw this blog on facebook  I knew I wanted to give their sketch a try and work with my masks and mists and stamps....

I did sketch #160 from Skissedilla I first masked a honeycomb pattern, with some Lindys..need to work on being more bold...you can just about see it the rest is under the photo!! Then a masked with some Distress inks...Barn Door and Black Soot....I also stamped some flowers with Black Archival ink and also with some Distress inks...Scattered Straw..you can almost not see that either...I used Prima papers as you can see...the Songbird Collection and the bird and the word fly is from their canvas resist elements.
The black splodges are some of my new black gesso...it is very runny and i got tempted to blow it with a straw..thats why its so flat!!
I have not participated in Bird is the Word challenge blog for ages...so I decided to use the word Future in my title.
Have a very good week-end....
Zeffy.

Passion

Hi there Scrapbooking Friends.

Those who know me will know that I am a passionate person...I believe that whatever we do in life, is done a lot better if we do it with passion.
We love more, we create with more zeal, we cook better, we function more efficiently with the magic ingredient "passion"
So on Monday when I saw the challenge on Simon says Stamp and Show I knew right away what word I would use.
I decided to make a plaque that would look like an old metal  hanging info sign.
Lettters and owl  are from the Ideology Seasonal Stack.

I altered a piece of chipboard, with gears, I painted the whole thing with black gesso ,then I added some tissue paper for some texture. I inked the gears with Chipped Saphire and Broken China. I then embossed it all using Tims' technique to create faux rusted metal.
As I used the gears in a previous L.O. to symbolise baby growing so I used the gears again , this time to look like they are churning out the word PASSION.
I also used elements that I am passionate about, namely flowers, crystals, ribbon, lace, owls and lastly my favourite material is the embossed foil, I used that for my one gear and rose....oh yes I also love beads...can you spot those?
This sign will eventually hang on my home-made shelf/cork board, made entirely from junk that I found on the side of the road

I showed one of these drawers lined with corks, yesterday on my blog and today I received mail at my g-mail acount offering me 2 months free subs to a wine magazine!!! That's Gooogle for you!
Anyway I have joined the drawers with a random piece of wood I found in a skip..so that is what determined the space between the drawers....an extra shelf.

The wall with the black and white picture is actually a retaining column ie. it has a lot of steel in it (at least I hope so!) So putting shelves on it have not been an option as drilling holes in this wall will be a nightmare. I am hoping my new creation that I have so passionately made, will be able to sit on the black table and hang off one strong hook....just in case we have an hearthquake, God forbid and it comes toppling down!
Sorry for this long post....
Goodnight.
Zeffy
P.S. I may still use the Mariposa butterfly on the chain ....I love butterflies too!!

Whats on My Desk Wednesday and a Special Card

Hi there My Friends.
I have pulled myself out of my languid state of limbo, made a list of all I want to do and today I got very busy!!
Here is a sneek peek at my desk, I am working on a project for Simon Says Stamp and Show guess my word? I will show you the project tomorrow...it's almost done....woopee!!

On Monday I was wondering about a background , I was thinking of a faux metal technique that Tim does and then yesterday I saw Bella's blog and that was that, I also used the gears and tissue paper, on black Gesso,but after inking I used clear embossing powder....more of this tomorrow....

This  drawer is also lying in my scrapbooking area....I am planning to make a cork board out of this drawer....as in inspiration board...I am hoping to marry photo 1 with photo 2 tomorrow...plus another drawer...we will see what happens...
Now if you want to take a look at more very very interesting desks. Pop over to Julia and see everybodies working areas...
Yesterday was my youngest daughters' birthday...how time flies!
Here is the card that I made for her.

I used the sketch that is on Get Creative mmm I tweeted,I mean tweeked it a little ,I am sure it is fine.

I mounted some Kaisercraft "Sweet Nothings" on some craft looking cardstock...I used a scrap of Tiffany's for the sentiment do you remeber this paper line it is from WRMK.?

The birdcage is from Sizzix..thank-you Elvira and the paper lace is also from Sizzix die Vintage Lace.

So tell me ladies what is so therapeutic about colouring in??

 I had so much fun making my little bird...

That is all for now...catch you tomorrow.
Zeffy

Monsters Beware!!

Hi there Friends...
I am posting in a rush....and all I need right now is a new Blogger set-Up!
Anyway I had some Mojo to scrap this week-end and thanks to the inspiration of the challenge on CSI and a lovely photo of my daughter...this is what I came up with, oh yes I also used Elina's sketch on that is on Get Creative

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I must thank Michele Singh for here lovely free downloads...I had fun using the prints especially the monsters....you can see the one has a chain around his foot..and the little orange one is double...he has a little acetate double (Double trouble!)
The little poam I wrote says. "Monsters you had better fear,
                                                when my Mommy is near.
                                                Better for you to be,
                                                far than near!
I used a bit of dictionary paper as a mat and just by chance, right at the bottom it has a definition of Night Lighting!!! How apt.
I used a metal chin to grab the monster and on the top I have a metal washer and a brad.
I don't know if you can see that the word Imagination is printed on acetate.
I also gave my L.O. a zig-zag stitching around the border, so as to pull everything together.
have a good Sunday afternoon, I am off to lunch with my sister and family.
Love
Zeffy

Black Envelope Album for Val

Hi there Scrapbookers.
Here is the album that I created for my sisters 50th..I looked through all of my photo albums and then decided to make something that would house photos from different stages in her life...not an easy job...I waded through the hundreds of loose photos too...then I scanned,edited and printed the photos I was going to use...
I have cut open 4 of the 8 envelope to make pockets for large black folios that house lots of fun photos as my sister Val is a very fun loving person!
At the very last moment I decided to decorate a box so that the album could be safely transported and stored.The decorations on the box are very very basic.
The papers are from IOD...and I just love them.

I kept the cover of the Album very simple too as no flowers I tried to use seemed to want to work with the Popies..the plaque under the name Val is made from embossed toilet paper!! That I misted like crazy with Lindy's mists....although I did add some paint dabber at the end......just to highlight the raised areas!

I must apologise for the photos and for the video...I recorded these very very quickly as I was pressed for time!!
Here are some of the pages and the video is at the end of  this post.

 Val is my sons' God-Mother.. Michael just loves her..the lady holding up the baby is my darling Mom!I kept these pages simple...if you look carefully you will see a tag peeking out of the top of the page...not crazy for this kind of pocket.

As you can see I used lots of different fold-out pages to create extra real estate...this album has almost 100 photos in it!!

The paper on this last page that you see above is from Prima Papers.

Enjoy the video....

Lots of Love.

Zeffy

Wishing you all a Blessed Easter

Hi there my Friends.
I have been lying low for a while....as you all know, I have not posted for a while...
I want to take this oportunity to wish you all a good and Blessed Easter...a bit late you may say..yes this year the Greek Orthodox Easter is a week after the Latin Easter.
Anyway I have been busy baking and dying eggs,,,,will make the last of my Easter breads tomorrow morning....
Last Sunday was my sisters 50th Birthday,and I decided to make her a canvas and an album as a gift.
today I want to share the canvas with you.

I went to town with this project...I had fun....I painted, I misted and how I loved misting....I used my new Lindy's Stamp Gang mists.... from the Starburst and the Moonshadow range...what vibrant colours !!

I must tell you that their embossing powders are fab as well...

I go into all the detail on my video...which I filmed while sitting on the floor..so it is a little strange..

I was very happy with the results of my embossed toilet paper....just love the end result, you ladies should try it...I will show you how I went about the process on USTREAM in the coming weeks.

I also made Val an album, with lots of photos ...Hopefully I will get to uploading that in the next couple of days.

Enjoy the video.

Have  a good week-end.

Zeffy