Celebration Candy

Yes, yes, yes, I finally have my act together and I have my blog candy all lined up!
Reasons to celebrate......
                                 My blog is just over a year old.
                                 My birthday went by last month            
                                 We will be married for 28 years on the 4th of October.
                                 My DH Panos has a birthday on the 16th of October !
I have decided to draw the winner live on  USTREAM Zeffy Scrapson the 18th of October.
Please join me on Saturday morning at 10H00 USTREAM Zeffy Scraps and I will explain and tell you all about the blog candy and the 2 prizes that I have. I will be starting a Gate-Fold Mini to house my S.African memories.I am planning to use papers from one of my new kits....come and join me at my desk and you will see.....
Ok Gals off to cut up some chipboard!
Have Fun....oh dear! Forgot to tell you the blog candy rules.....you all know them......leave a comment, please and post a link on your blogs. GOOD_LUCK
Filakia xx

Blog candy from Lena

Lenas birthday give-away....visit Lenas blog to win a chance to win, some lovely paper.
Lena you have reminded me that I have a pile of things to give away too....better get going and get my act together...talk later.
xx Zeffy

Wedding Guest Book for Val.

Happy Monday to all my Friends.
 I hope that you are all settling down to your Autumn chores and that you are all getting ready for a creative winter.
As promised here are some photos and a video of the guest book that I made for my sister Vals' wedding.
I had to use papers from my stash as the wedding was planned in 8 weeks ,so I used mainly Prima papers and a couple from Jillibean and EK success. the rub-ons were mainly from Jilly Bee.
Enjoy.
                                                                      The Hall

                                                                  The Guest Book

Some of the tags

                                                                      The spine

                                                                The Video
                                                 Guest Book for Manolis and Val

A tiny peep of South Africa.

Hi Ladies.
As you all know I have been in South Africa for my sisters' wedding. We had a great time, the wedding was very emotional because this was the second time around for both bride and groom,
and so as I like to say 5 people got married that Saturday! The bride and groom plus their 3 children, a brand new family unit!!

Before I show you the guest book that I made for them, this is a short video to give you a taste of the Drakensberg Mountains. This is where the wedding was held. The Drakensberg mountains has a couple of  World Heritage sites because Bushman Rock Art has been discovered here.
Enjoy.
Zeffy.
P.S. the day after the wedding was my birthday, it was a real blessing to spend it with all my siblings ! Unfortunately I had no laptop with me so I was cyber starved! So I would like to say a belated thank-you for all the birthday wishes that I received, you girls are all so kind.
Something extra!Petals...beautiful

Sleepy Summer and some USTREAM sessions

Hi there Ladies.
I hope that you are all having a super summer and not getting too hot! As you know I am spending some time on the island of Lesvos with my Hubby and Father-in-Law. We have had a couple of hot and lazy weeks,with a lot of eating and drinking and very little scrapping!
My sister is getting married next month and I am making a guest book for her......well lets just say I am trying, it is not easy to create in a make shift area, without all of my toys around me!! You guys should understand!

This is a pile of things that I packed in Athens to bring with me....
This is where I am working...........

This is what I have so far......USTREAM and Here

 I will be streaming again tomorrow morning at 12h00, that is Wednesday 18th August,,,so if you have a few minutes pop in for a quick hello and to check out how this book is progressing.Zeffy Scraps
Keep well, keep cool and enjoy the swimming!!
Love Zeffy

A receipe in a box!!

HI there ladies.
I hope that you are all having a great summer,mine has been hectic!! In amongst the heat and the going and comings I managed to finish Eleftherias receipe box. Lena organizes a mini swap on Scrapbookers in Greece and the swap for June was all about receipes. I asked Eleftheria to give me carte blanche for this project,and I used one of the 2 boxes that I have been saving for this reason.

The box is black and fuschia,so that pretty much dominated my colour scheme. I used whatever papers I had at home ,using mainly the Tiffany Collection for the outsides of the box.

I printed on the cards and then I mounted them onto black card-stock,which I then decorated.I also painted 6 pieces of chipboard and used them to make section dividers,,,on the back of each divider I added a pocket for notes.

I decided that the cards needed to be protected  so I cut plastic A4  sleeves to size and used 2 of the original sealed edges and I sewed the 3rd edge closed on my machine.

Here is an example of a completed card. Please try the receipe its quick and delicious and really

Yummy on the second day!!!Enjoy

See video on previous post.

Lots of love ...stay cool

love

Zeffy

Receipe Box

My Challenge for the Cyber Crop.

Hi there busy Ladies.

As you know from my previous post, we are having a Cyber Crop today at Scrapbookers in Greece

I was asked by Irini to do one of the Challenges for the day.

 I decided that seeing that I was born In S.Africa and that the World Cup Soccer is being held there,that I would challenge the girls to do something Ethnic, and current as well as to make their own embellishment. I have done one or two do it yourself goodies on my USTREAM show.So this is my challenge for the girls... some details

I would also like to give Dimitra Tsanos some credit here, she is Costas' sister and she designed the place -mats and the shops' calling cards.See info about Kozis it has delicious streaks!!

enjoy the crop girls!!!

Filakia Zeffy

Challenges

Hi there ladies.

As most of you know we have been very busy here in Greece this passed week. My friend Irini is organising a crop that is being hosted on Scrapbookers in Greece The Cyber Crop will be on Saturday and this week has been full of pre-crop challenges.

We had to make tags using stamps and inks for the first challenge . The second pre-crop challenge,which was the best for me, was to only use, one photo, one sheet of paper, and one pen. I loved what the girls did take a look...amazing what one can do with limited resources!!!

I would like to share my two entries.

Have fun scrapping.....talk again later...

Love Zeffy

Tags and more Tags

Hi there ladies, I have been so busy thay I am turning into a night owl!!

I have done a couple of streamings on USTREAM...I am having fun and I think that I am entertaining my fellow Greek Scrappers with my bad Greek! Either that or else they are teasing me big time! Whatever....at my age all that matters is that I am doing what I love doing and I am enjoying the journey.(( maybe too many I..s in that sentance! ))

Anyway yesterday I made a couple of tags, I had promised my sister that I would send her some to have for her gifts.My son left for South Africa this evening on a long-awaited trip that his dad had promised him. My Hubby believes in bribing the children and he had promised Michael that he could go and visit his buddies once he completed his degree....well thats done and the good news is that he passed all his subjects and the degree is now his!!! And so he enters into another phase of his life....my baby.
O.K. back to scrapping..I thought I would share with you one of the tags I made on Monday on the show, you will notice that the flower still needs a little bling....too late now its on its way to Africa...lots of diamonds there!

I will be streaming again this afternoon ie. Wednesday 16th june at 18h30 I will be making a LO. Not sure what, just yet, I suspect that  we will all make it together on the show .So please join us Here

Keep well, keep cool amd always be happy.

Lots O Love, your crazy scrappy friend Zeffy

A Quick Post

Hi there my friends.
I hope that you are having a very good and restful Sunday. I had a lot of fun doing the live show on Wednesday...I must admit that I had a chuckle at my Greek when I saw the replay.  The 2 Mini Photo Albums are now completed and I am now working on the mini for my sister Val. When she was here last month I promised that I would send her a bunch of tags. On Monday 14th June 18h30 I will be streaming here so please come and join me  and we can have some fun. I will be making tags for  my sister Val.

U-Stream

Hi there ladies,

I have been thinking of this idea for a while now...we do not have anybody streaming scrapbook shows in Greek,so I thought that I would give it my best shot. Even though my Greek is not perfect I can share a few of the things that I have learnt about scrapbooking over the past 2 years. Click here to join my friends  (on Chat) and I, having some fun time together...I will be on U-Stream live tomorrow at 19h30 and I will be making a photo album for my sister Val. This is a very basic album, an excellant item for beginners to attempt.

Before I close I would like to mention that my Greek may not be perfect but I can read Greek so any questions in Greek will be answered to the best of my ability...as for my English speaking friends please join us too  the more the merrier!

Lots o love till tomorrow evening

kisses Zeffy

A card and hand-made paper flowers

you can see the LO. that I made with these flowers in my previous post...enjoy.

Sisters

Hi there Ladies.
These past two weeks I have been suffering  from loneliness.....two of my children are out of the house at the moment . And my middle sister Val has gone back home to South Africa!! So this morning I did a L.O. of us three sisters...Val, Vickie and I

We were challenged at Scrapbookiers in Greece to make a L.O.using hand -made flowers. I made my flowers on Friday . I used papers from Sarahs Cards' January kit . The papers are Lily Bee, Vintage Poppy collection. The quote about "live.laugh and love" was used by Cathy in one of her lay-outs.

That's all for today....

Happy Scrapping

Love Zeffy

Zeffy's Scrapping Area Part 2

Zeffy's Scrap Area Part 1

Photos of Guest Book

Hi there Friends.
I have edited the rest of the photos of the Guest Book. I had shown you the front pages in an earlier post.
As I have said  the majority of papers are from the new Prima collections namely Pastiche and Shabby Chic...I just loved the papers the moment I saw them. Anyway being in Greece one has to think ahead because we need to order via the net. As I tend to do things at the last minute I did not have enough paper!!!So as usual I had to think of another plan ,and as you can see I combined a sheet of Mariposa paper and some other Bazzill I think it is....not too sure it was in my stash for a while.
I also used my new Martha Stewart border punch that was fantastic,as well as the Monarch butterfly from M.S.
If you have any questions about the construction of the book feel free to as me, I am also willing to show anybody that is interested how I bound the pages together and how I covered the book.

Enjoy and keep well.

Guest book.wmv

Wedding Photos

Hi there Ladies ...I have finally stopped spinning and have been able to take some long hard breaths.The wedding is over, and all we have are fantastic memories and lots of lovely photos....here are some photos of my beautiful daughter Faye as a bride ....No they have not been scrapped (yet).  Seeing that we all avid scrappers I am absolutely sure that you will not mind seeing some of the photos so that I can share these happy moments together I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind wishes.

This last photo is of me with my DH Panos, my youngest daughter Raphaella, she is so vivacious and my handsome son Michael..The gentleman with the moustache is my father in law Michael Snr.

Hopefully I will have some scrapping to show you in my next post. Keep well and be happy.