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Hi there Ladies.
I have had a very busy two weeks. Not much scrapping happening at my house these days. but nevertheless I decided to sign up for Shimeele's class Something from[almost] Nothing anyway ,as she promises that we can complete this course anytime.....I will complete this book after "The Wedding". Last week we were away for my Mother in Law's memorial service and I  decided it was a perfect time to make the cover of my book "Celebrate Life".
It is Spring in Greece and on the island of Lesvos the mountains and fields are full of beautiful spring flowers,I tried to capture that feeling in my drawing.I wish I could draw better!! I had my pencil crayons with me and this is what I drew on aquarelle paper.I also cut out some words from a magazine

As the whole objective of this course is to use up what we have stashed,I did just that. I am a squirrel of note I HOARD!!!I believe in re-cycling so the hoarding takes on gigantic proportions, to add insult to injury scrapping supplies fall short in Greece and are almost non existant so I also keep things that I may be able to alter and use.....sorry I am rambling now!! Anyway I have a pile of shopping bags that I was planning to use as pages for albums,so I used the smaller ones for this book(I have bigger ones for a 30x30 album too!!)
So here are the pages, now that I see the photo, I thnk I should iron the paper first. It is going to be a post bound album.

The paper on the back cover is from my decoupage stash and it has been  in my paper folder  for about 10 years, dont you just love the South African Louries and King-Fishers??
Have a lovely Saturday, don't forget to celebrate life!
Zeffy

Secret-Santa or Fairy God-Mother?

Today I received a parcel from Weezie. I was totally overwhelmed by such kindness!! Weezie was my Secret-Santa back in December on Life on the {Scrap}Beach and she posted me a stunning gift.The parcel had all sorts of things in it, amongst which were some beautiful note books and folios that Weezie had covered. I was thrilled  to own something created by her,as Ihad  always admired Weezies  "Amazing Albums"(Minis). A couple of weeks later Weezie mailed me and told me that she found the lovely Mariposa paper on sale and that she had bought some for me.
 Ok I was expecting a pad or two.......but wow today I received this huge box of  goodies.I loved the paper .But I was thrilled with all the hand made roses made with the Que Sera-Sera Papers.are they not just too stunnung?

This is Weezies beautiful card all Glimmer misted and please notice the re-cycled buckle.

I opened the tissue paper last, and in that was this beautiful Concertina Box to match the books which she had sent at Christmas. I think that it is absolutely perfect, please note the little feet,they are huge dew drops!!!

 Thank -you Weezie for this amazingly generous gesture, I feel as if I have had a visit from my Fairy God-Mother.
May God bless you.
Love Zeffy

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Valentines Chocolate box

Hi there girls.
I hope that you are all well, and that you did not eat too many chocolates on Valentines day!
I ate almost the whole box of these Lindt chocies in November last year, I thought that the box was so cute I kept it, I have a pink one too...yes I ate those too with the help of hubby and a friend.

This year I thought that I would use the box for a mini for my hubby for Valentines day. Seeing that the tin was re-cycled I used a dishwashing tablet container for the corrugated board and some packaging for the other two pages.I wet the board and removed the top layer of cardboard, at least some of it. I then cut hearts out of tissue paper and some sweet wrappers, for the front page. I also added some pink acrylic paint and then I Mod-podged all 3 pages

My papers are K&CO Rough and Tumble and Prima.

As You Can se there are a lot of tags and secret journaling spots, there is even a love letter...that is where I wrote all that I loved about Pano!!!

I don't know if you noticed but I kept embellishments to a minimun due to space restrictions of the tin.

That is all for now girls, my son has gone ski-ing and has taken the camera that I do my videos with, so I guess the recording of various projects will have to wait till after his return.

I wish all my fellow Orthodox scrappers a good Lent.

All the best

Love Zeffy

Mini for Carlene

Here are the last few pages of the Mini that I made for Carlene for the TWS at Life on the {Scrap}Beach

 I must also tell you that yesterday I received my mini from Carlene it is absolutely georgeous..I will post pictures later...

Ttfn

love

Zeffy

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MY MINI for the JanuaryTWS

Hi there Scrappers.
Firstly I would like to thank you for all your lovely comments....I appreciate the feed back,so please leave a comment

My swap partner Charlene received her mini yesterday,and now that she has seen it I feel that I can share it with you. I made a video but it is 13 minutes long and I am not at all sure how to edit it,so I guess the pictures will have to do for now.The papers are mostly DCWV the Que Sera Sera collections and the envelopes with the tags are Basic Grey I think Lemonade Collection enjoy. I am willing to answer any questions.

As you can see I had three sections to the book.ie Review, Reflect and Renew....I still need to crop the last couple of pictures...so hang on for the next post to see the last couple of pages,

Bye for now.

Zeffy

Good evening Ladies.
As we say here in Greece, I wish you all a good week and an even better month!
On saturday we had a crop in Athens,and I attended some of the lessons. The following lay-outs are what we did during Elina's one lesson.

She first taght us how to erase a background (without Photoshop)  We only used some water and a paint brush and after some rubbing we removed the top layer of colour off the photo,and then we added another background with acrylic paints. One can add all sorts of things,your imagination can run wild!

Elina emphesised continuously that we should not be afraid to TEAR up our precious paper....And this is what we did in the next layout, we let rip, we inked and curled and this is the result.

I finished these two layouts today I hope you like them,let me know what you think.
Thats all for now folks, keep well and have a great month !
Zeffy

I Love 2 Scrap

Hi there ladies,
I wanted to quickly share with you this top that I scrapped for our crop tomorrow morning...sorry this morning....in 9 hours time!!! It is really great to have the opportunity to meet up with all the Greek scrappers...they are so talented!
Anyway I bought the top on sale and I had a lot of tiny buttons,that were given to me by Vicky and Lena,and as I don't tend to use buttons on my L.Os I decided in the store that I would sew the buttons along the collar. Whilst I was sewing on the buttons I thought I would take the whole project a step further.So I used my cuttlebig die to cut out the word 'love' and my sizzlets to cut out the rest.I used some felt,by the way the cuttlebug die made a clean cut,the rest of the letters I had to cut out with a pair of scissors.The 2 was cut free-hand.I then decorated the letters with some dimensional paint and glitter and then stuck them on with some German fabric glue.
Thats all for now, and if I am not too exhaused after tomorrows fun and games I will post photos of the mini that I made for Carlene....she should be receiving it any day this week.
Ttfn, going to sleep so that I can be all shiny eyed and bushy tailed for tomorrows crop.
Love
Zeffy

A Quick Photo Wallet for a Friend.

This is my latest Birthday card for friends...something that they can use to journal their day,on their birthdays. This is made from one sheet of 30x30cm paper. There are a couple of tutorials on You Tube.

Videos as I promised

Here is a video, of a mini album that I made for myself last year. Most of the paper is S.E.I.

No scrapping this past week-end!

Hi there ladies,
this past week-end we spent in the  mountains around Karpenisi, a very beautiful area in the centre of Greece.Here are some of my favourite shots.

The hike up to the Black Cave was the biggest blessing of the week-end, I felt as if I was in Paradise!! So I have come back,rested and relaxed and full of inspiration and all ready to go...

Keep well and keep watching I should post some videos of two minis some time soon!!

TTFN.

Zeffy

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Another Month Goes By!

Hi there ladies,
Well its almost time to get back into daily routine, my life is still so hectic. I never seem to have enough time to do the things the I love. Anyway yesterday I spent the morning scrapping and I did some lay-outs for the January Challenge on Life on the {Scrap} Beach

Challenge #1 was Resolutions for 2010.Quit Smoking...do not use black,white or grey in your lay-out.
My numbers 2010 look grey in the photo they are actually silver foil that has been inked with cranberry alcohol ink.

Challenge #2 Resolutions for 2010 Quit Drinking.....use no ink!  Difficult for me because I love inking everything!! I used fibre, ribbon, flowers and bling to add colour.

 Challenge #4 was  Spend More Time with Family...Something that I have neglected slightly since I have started scrapping! This is a picture taken, just before we set up our christmas tree this passed December.

 This Last Challenge #8 is the L.O. that I actually made first because I knew straight away what Iwanted to do, I used only die cuts,alphas and paper that were already cut.  This is why I Love the {Scrap} Beach.

I hope that you all have a wonderful week...I am off to tidy my home,make lunch and try and complete my Mini for my swap partner Charlene...its getting there!!

Bye for now ...keep well

This is a L.O. that I had worked out in my mind well before Christmas.We were challenged at http://scrapgreece.ning.com/ to do a layout using gesso and stamps and also to make our own paper using stamps that we have coloured for the December challenge. Anyway with the mad Christmas rush I did not get to scrap this page on time for the challenge ,but I made it non the less last night. I used a christmas card that is a  rare find these days, it picture the birth of Christ. It is a photo of the iconography  on one of the walls of a church in Panorama,Thessalonika.
I used Tim Holtz masks and stamps, that I coloured with Perfect Pearlst. The corner stamp is Inkandinkado and I used a 3D glimmer paint to make the gold dots.The little dove is also a stamp that I embossed with black.The dies are Cuttlebug.
Wishing you all the best for 2010.

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A Happy New Year

A Quick post to wish all my new freinds a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the hours of  fun I have had with you...in person as well as on the internet. You are all an inspiration to me as well as very generous, when I see all the RAKs I know that we are all blessed. to be able to give each other such JOY....
I wish that most of your dreams come true in 2010..that you have health and happiness.
Enjoy tonight!
God Bless

My Frog Prince

This is one of my favourite ornaments.The Frog Prince climbing up the branches to another frog sitting further up....Maybe I will take another photo of both of them  next week...
In the foreground is a beaded star from South Africa...I had a whole box of these,but  my husband gave them to the maid instead of bringing them over to Greece!!Boo Hoo lucky maid...
This is just a quick post....off to pack talk again next week.
Filakia( Kisses)

Gingerbread card.

Hi Ladies,
My daughter wanted me to make her a card to send to America to her fiance's God-daughters,they are 4 little girls.Anyway the idea was to make a composition with Gingerbread men that each little girls could have as her own. then Faye,  my daughter said why don't you make them hold hands and this is what turned out . A gingerbread garland,I then added an extra tag for the wishes as we did not want to write on the back of the little figures in case we ruin them.
I hope that you have all done your baking and decorating and are now enjoying your festive homes.
I will be away for a few days, will catch up again on Sunday God willing.
Oh by the way we are going to have a crop again on Sunday ....what fun to see some of my new friends again.
Bye for a while.
Peace and good cheer to all