A very special birthday!

Today is my little nephew's first birthday...it seems so weird,last year this time he wasn't even born yet!!Of course for an event like this a card and a good birthday present were self explanatory.And since I wouldn't be able to attend my mom and dad had the honours of giving it to him(and telling me that he loves it,but of course,I wouldn't really know either way,would I??)



This is what I got him.My sister ain't exactly planning to teach him greek.I disagree,lol!!So he's gonna learn it one way or the other,and learning through playing seems like a good plan ;)

For the card I decided to go with a big one...never did it occur to me that when opened it would look like a giant M but oh well,I still think it looks rather cute.The paper is from the same Winnie the Pooh collection I bought to make his mini album with and the stamp I found online here as a freebie.Ain't it the cutest??The letters spelling "gefeliciteerd"(which means congratulations in dutch) I cut out from a 12x12 piece of paper...then because I didn't feel they "popped" enough on the background paper,I glued them on light teal cardstock and re-cut them...yes my hands were very sore afterwards ;)



The inside I kept simple,a light blue smaller one and a few stickers from different collections...



I hope you like it!!

The other cards ;)

Ok like I said in my previous post (and since I gave Melenia hers) these are the other cards I've made.

This one is the one I've made for Melenia.It's another card I've seen on Dawn's youtube channel and I loved the idea of a card that's sort of a frame!I used blue shades and my little butterfly punch and a few gems I had lying around.The paper with the leaves I actually made myself,I stamped the same image over and over again with dark blue ink and then using my ink blending tool I applied silver ink all over the card.I hope you and most importantly Melenia like it!



This next card I made for my mom.She 's got her birthday this Friday and I wanted to make something special for her.I've used this technique before in the mini I've made for Sander,but this time I used it for a card.I've found the way to make this in the blog of a very talented person,that makes gorgeous things,check her blog out here if you want to.



This last card I've made around the same time as the others,but I saw today what the new challenge for Get Creative is (check it out here) and I think it suits the challenge very well.You can't quite see it,but the colors are pink,purple and a very light mint green.The way to make this card can also be found on Dawn's youtube channel.





Well as the say in the movies:"That's all folks"...I hope you like them!!

Two spring cards!!

The weather has been very nice around here these past few days and so I was inspired by it!!Also I wanted to take part in the March third challenge of Get Creative,were we are supposed to make a layout or card using at least 5 flowers.Now people who know me know I'm not the flower type of gal,but like I said,spring has come 'round and I was inspired!!

This is what I came up with,I used a simple tri-fold card and cut it free hand.I used both parts of my cardstock and made two cards that I decorated differently.




I also have a few more cards ready(I've been busy lately,lol) but I'll just show you these two now and the others in another post.

I hope you like them!!

Two cards today

Hey everyone!

Today I'm showing you two cards I made a few days back.The first one is a card for a couple that's expecting their second child,a baby girl any moment now.The father doesn't like pink at all,so I decided not to use those colours.I wanted to use bright,happy colours and two of my favorite colours are green and orange.I also had this really cute sticker I wanted to use.It came together but I'm not entirely happy with it,and I might make a new one if inspiration strikes before it's time to send it...


The second card I've made for my best friend.She had her birthday a couple of days back and even though I was sick I wanted to make her a card.I love making cards that I haven't made before,different,crazy and interesting shapes and like always I could find something interesting at Dawn's youtube channel.The card was very simple to make,but looks really cute.I decided to go a different route than Dawn did,so instead of sticking the pinwheel part on the card I added a brad in the middle,so the pinwheel actually turns.Because I didn't have a stamp or sticker or rub on that said happy birthday I found this cute little printable stamp and printed it on matching paper and then cut around it.I think it turned out pretty cute,and my friend said she liked it,so mission accomplished!!


I hope you like them too!!

I'm an aunt!!

Yeah I know I should probably do a Merry Christmas post or something like that,but in this house,Jesus' birthday is secondary to my little nephew's:Sander!My sister finally gave birth on the 22nd of December to a healthy,huge (54cm and 4100gr) baby boy!I wish I could share a picture,cause he's really adorable,but I don't think my sister and brother in law would be very happy about that(they're kind of private) so you're just gonna have to take my word for it when I say:he's gorgeous!

As you all know I have been away for a few days to go to Thessaloniki for exams.So in case she gave birth while I was away I had to be prepared,so I made two cards before I went.Problem was,we had no idea what it was(I mean we knew it was a baby,but not if it was a boy or a girl).My sis thought it would be funny if they knew but none of the others did,so even though they knew pretty early on,they left us guessing till the very last day!So my cards had to be gender neutral!It was really tough to do that,so I came up with something "funny" to punish them both!

This is the card I made for my sis:




And this is the card I made for my brother in law.I have to say that he hates Winnie the Pooh,he told us he thinks he's gay because he constantly hugs Piglet and says "Oh bother"(of course he said that right after I had just bought a Winnie the Pooh paper pack to make their present baby mini album with).






In the comments I tell him how he should get used to it,since my sis will probably say that a lot with two men in the house(I had a baby girl version too,lol).

And this is the card I made today for my parents to send.As you can see,knowing the gender makes colour selection a lot easier!Also my sis loves giraffes,the whole room is decorated in them so it was easy to choose a theme.The little giraffe is a printable stamp I found online(sorry don't remember where) and the giraffe print cardstock I printed myself.The Welcome baby sentiment I bought a while back(as part of the mini album kit I still have to make) from Sfragidomania,I have to thank them once again,they did an excellent job!The ribbon I bought from a local craft store.




I hope you like them!!

"I feel it in my fingers...

...I feel it in my toes.Christmas is all around us,and so the feeling grows.".Have you seen this movie??I love it,it's probably one of my favorite Christmas movies(probably because even though it's a chick flick it's got some pretty funny scenes as well,I mean who didn't laugh when Hugh Grant busted a move as England's new Prime Minister?).And for those who have no idea what the hell I'm talking about,I'm reffering to the movie "Love Actually"...now go rent it and watch!



Okay with Christmas just around the corner and with me leaving in a couple of days for a week(yeah going to Thessaloniki,exams,yada,yada,yada,you know the drill) it was about time I started making my christmas cards.As most of you probably know I usually end up doing the same card over and over as many times I need it,just using different colours.But I loved all the different kinds of christmas cards some of my scrappers friends make every year so I decided to try it.Of course you can't change your whole personality by pushing a button so even though I tried different things,colours and themes for my cards the basic shape is the same.I decided I wanted to make triangular Christmas cards.We had gotten one a few years back and I loved how special it was,so I immediatelly then and there decided I'll make triangular cards as well some day,and the day has come!




Trying to make a triangle card isn't as easy as it sounds.Lucky for me I was able to find a template here (btw I loved the shaker card thingy,too bad I didn't have the supplies to make one,but some day ;)).As you see it has both the patterns for the base card and the shaker part of the card which is very usefull.It also has templates for triangle envelopes which I still have to make(but if it's a pain I might go for square ones ;)).So after having made a template out of cardstock it was easy to just trace around that one for all the other cards I made!And after that it was card making time!





I won't bore you with all the details on how I decided to make each card(and how many other ideas I had and tried that failed misserably,seriously,with all the paper I threw away I must have destroyed at least half a forest!) and I'm just gonna show you what I came up with.I'm not as happy with all of them(some I love,some I don't) but all in all it was fun making them!




I hope you like them!




P.S I have to thank my friends Eudokia and Lena.The first for giving me some of the patterned papers you see on some of the cards and the "Just for you" christmas ball cutout and the second for the two little sentiments on two of the cards.

Thank you

I made this card for the Stamp Simply challenge.The challenge asks us to be inspired by mother nature and make a card inspired by one of the seasons.Fall is my favorite,so it was obvious I'd go in that direction!It's a pretty simple card,but I hope you'll like it!

I've been bad...

I know,I know...I have neglected my blog for all this time and I don't even have a good excuse for it.I wasn't busy,I wasn't away,I was home and completely unispired...Inspiration still hasn't really come knocking,and these days it seems I only scrap when I've got a reason.
Fortunatelly life never is short of excuses and reasons to scrap,and this was no exception.My dear,dear friend Mary had her beatiful baby boy last Monday and of course,that's reason enough not only to celebrate but to scrap as well!
It started on Monday itself when my friend Eudokia and I made this diaper cake as a present for Mary.We were a little nervous,because neither of us had ever done something like this before,but it turned out to be pretty easy and lots of fun!We caught the diaper cake fever and now we only need a new pregnant friend ;) I think the result came out rather cute,and Mary said she liked it so mission accomplished ;)

Of course a card with my wishes for the baby couldn't be missed!!!I had decided to make another type of card(using the Kirigami technique) but after I made it I wasn't impressed.The card was beatiful(the insert that is) but I had made it on thin paper(because I thought that would be better,in order to do the folding etc) and the weight was too much.I tried correcting it,but there was no saving it,so here I was,a few hours before we would go see Mary and card-less...So off to Youtube for inspiration.Luckily the 'tube is full of wonderfull scrappers,who are kind and gracious enough not only to share their work with us,but give us tutorials as well.One of those wonderfull scrappers I always seem to be going back to is Dawn.She is such an inspiration,and she's shown me some incredible things I can do with cardstock and patterned paper!
Anyway I decided to go for the Shutter card.It looks really complicated but is really easy to make.Of course I made it my own,using baby oriented patterned paper and cute stickers!I hope you like it,but most of all I hope Mary liked it!


Mary I wish you and your wonderful family all the best.I hope you'll enjoy so many sweet,happy,warm,loving memories with your two little boys and you'll let us witness it all through your beautiful scrap-work!!!

Congratulations!!

Ok since I'm almost home where I can scrap again I decided to post a little card I made for one of my friends who graduated from University this December.Unfortunately I couldn't be here,because my brother was graduating a few weeks after her(and it wasn't possible for me to make the trip twice,nor to stay somewhere the time in between those two graduations).I knew I was going to see her now though,so I decided to make a little card to accompany the gift I will give her(which I still haven't bought and I have no idea whatsoever).
It's a really simple card,nothing complex about it,just some cardstock in two different colours and some stickers and a ribbon but I really like the sentiment inside(I found it online).The little key was one of the two Lena sent me with her gift,and I added it to remind her that she and she alone holds the key to her success.I hope she'll like it (along with the gift,if I think of something :S)

Birthday cards

With an upcoming birthday and me not being here (since I'm leaving next Wednesday for Thessaloniki for a month) I needed to make a birthday card for my friend Chrysa.Like I've explained before I wasn't much home or inspired during the holiday season but these past few days I've been feeling the need to start scrapping again.So last night and even though it was past 12 am I decided that snoozers are loosers and that I needed to make a few cards otherwise the creativity would pass and I'd still be left with nothing.Like I said in a previous post,they aren't my usual cup of tea,they are a bit different.Part of it has to do with the fact we finally have a printer again and i was dying to use it to do something different.This is what I came up with:

Card #1

This was the first card I made and it actually was the most time consuming of the three.I found the templates for the birdie here,printed them out,used them on cardstock and patterned paper and made my own little birdie.I decided not to write the popular "A little birdie told me" on the outside of the card since my friend Melenia had used the exact same phrase on one of her cards and I didn't want to copy her like that(even though I couldn't resist and I did write it on the inside).I think it tured out pretty cute but you tell me ;)


Card #2

This was the second card I made and to be honest I set out trying to do something else,which didn't work and I ended up with this one,but I think of the 3 it's my favorite.It's pretty simple,I just did a google search for images on "Happy birthday" and I found this really cute "me to you" image.I printed it out and used it as the center of my card and then just added a little bit of flair with ribbons and (glitter) stickers.You can't really see it in the picture but I framed the image instead of just matting it,I thought it gave it a somewhat more professional look ;)



Card #3

Again nothing fancy,when doing the search I mentioned above I also stumpled across this really cute image of Snoopy and I decided to go for it...it was a big picture so refraiming it and trying to get it to print right on a smaller size was a bit of a headache but when I finally did it,it was worth the effort...I used orange ink and I coloured the Happy Birthday so it would stand out,give a bit of colour to the card and also match it with the base colour of my card which I decided I wanted to make out of orange cardstock since Snoopy is such a happy,playful character.The green frame just seemed like the most obvious choice(I really love the colour combination of lime green and orange) and I added two flowers layered on top of each other and I used a brad to secure them to place.I think it's such a fun card and I'm really liking it!




So this is it,like I said the cards are a bit different than my usual style,but that's what scrapbooking is all about,experimenting.Now tell me,which one should I send to Chrysa ;)

As promised...

Ok as promised last night here are all the cards I've received from my lovely scrapbooking friends!!!Girls thank you all so much,your cards are lovely and one of a kind!

Out of the office...

Ok,ok I know I was gone for a bit too long maybe(I can honestly say I was never good in keeping a diary as a kid so why should a blog be any different,lol) but it was due to the holidays etc etc...I didn't have much time nor was I in the mood to scrap.I've been busy studying for my upcoming exams(fear not,lots of older projects for that scrapless month ;)) which practically takes up most of my daytime and that in addition to many friends living abroad coming over for Xmas holidays and the added stress (and fights that come along with it) during the holiday season,which meant I wasn't much home during the nighttime resulted in me not being creative at all...
But I'm back,tonight creativity struck and I made three birthday cards(which are a bit different then the stuff I normally do).Since it got pretty late(but hey if you are feeling it,flow with it cause you never know when it might come back) and since my photography skills aren't the best(and taking pics at nighttime doesn't help much either) I'm gonna leave you all in anticipation for tomorrow when I'll post pics of all the cards I made tonight and also all the lovely christmas cards I've received from my scrapping friends!

xx

Merry Christmas!!!!

Today is the 24th of December so it's Christmas Eve...so in the spirit of the days I decided to show you the christmas cards I did this year....I did two different sets,one set of 30 which was a bit simpler because there were so many of them.These cards i made for my mom so she could send them to our relatives and friends in holland.They're really very simple to make,what i did was find a picture of a christmas tree I liked on the internet,printed it out in the size i wanted,cut it out and then used the paper that was left as a template...so basically I printed out a tree and then cut it out of the paper and threw it away,lol.But that did leave me with a cool template I could use!I then glued the paper on some thin cardboard(to make it more stable and durable) and using my ink blenind tool applied glue on the coloured cardstock I used for my cards.Then I sprinkled glitter on the cardstock which of course stuck on the glue...voila,a glittery chrismas tree with literally almost no effort from my part...I realise now that my instructions are a bit vague and complicated to maybe i'll make a video demonstrating it somewhere along the road...

Ok the next set I made were 14 cards I made from a stitching cards pattern(you can find it here).I really enjoyed making these cards because it combines two of my favorite things,embroidery and scrapbooking!They aren't really that hard to make(even though they look like they are and also like they are really time consuming),once you get the hang of it and make the first 2-3 cards and you know exactly where you need to enter and where you need to exit with your thread it gets really easy and it's lot's of fun to see how you can make a very interesting pattern with just a little thread and a few beads...I will admit that they are a bit material consuming though,there goes a lot of thread into these and also 15 beads per card(which you could also maybe substitute with glitter glue dots or small round stickers).I made lots of different color combinations that aren't really traditional christmassy but I looked at the colours of the beads I had and went from there.


I know the numbers don't match,but I made of some colors two cards(the blue and the red one) and I also forgot to photograph one of them so yeah...after making 44 cards I was not only exhausted but I literally don't want to make another christmas card for the next year or so...good thing I won't have to ;)

Merry Christmas to you all,may these days bring you all you ever desired and wished for!!!And here's to a better(hopefully much better for me personally) 2010!!!