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!!!

ABC's...

I know,I know,I've been gone for so long!!Even though I was counting down the days till I came back from Thessaloniki from my exams(I did great BTW ;)) once I came here there were other matters pressing me for time(like "making" my new apartment livable and to my tastes, photos will come soon) so no time for creation.
At this point I need to say I met a great friend while in Thessaloniki,Maria and she gave me a wonderful present!Thank you so much Maria!!!I love everything you gave me.
As you might guess I was dying to use my new products,so I decided to try something new!I took a cereal box and decided to make my own alpha's from it.I used an acrylic paint dabber to color them and the glitters are from an old pair of jeans.At the time I wasn't sure why I kept them,but in the end,I'm glad I did ;)
Now I only need to use them in a layout or album ;)

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)

Another blog candy!

Wow,my friends have been feeling very very generous these past few days.They are offering blog candies left and right!!!Lucky for us!!This time Roula is offering presents because her blog reached 100000 visits!!!Congratulations Roula!!You can find the post about the candy and instructions on how to enter here.Good luck everyone!!!And thank you Roula for all these wonderfull presents!

Crafty croppers blog candy week!!!

I'm hopeless,I've been trying to add the links to these great candies in my sidebar but I have no idea how to do it,and even when I think I've found of a way it doesn't work the way I want it to work!!!Feel free to give me lessons on how to do that in your comments ;)

Anyway,Irini organised the second crop for Greek scrappers this past weekend.Unfortunately once again I was unable to attend,as I'm still in Thessaloniki due to exams!But the ever so sweet Irini,is offering all of us girls who weren't able to actually be there a little piece of heaven.She's declared this week "Blog candy week" and she's been posting a different candy everyday!!!Irini thank you so much,the opportunity to win something from somewhere we all wanted to be is priceless!!!
So here are the links to all the different candies so far(don't know if there's more to come,but a girl can dream ;)) and the instructions on how to enter for a chance to win.I'll add to the list if more come!
Blog candy #1
Blog candy #2
Blog candy #3
Blog candy #4

Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

I know it's been a while,trust me,I KNOW!!!Ugh I'm here for such a short period of time,but it feels like ages already...according to my best friend it's because I have associated Thessaloniki and being here with all those nasty feelings about failure and still being a student,etc.Who knows,self-psychology is not my thing(even though I'm pretty good at psychoanalysing every other person in this world ;)).Thankfully(?) my exam period is almost over,I've got one more exam coming tomorrow and then the final one on Thursday and then I'm done!Woohoo!!At this point,I don't even care how I did/'ll do,I just wanna be done with it!
Ladies,I've seen all the wonderful things you've posted over this past week,week and a half,but I've been very busy with studying and couldn't leave you comments like I planned.You all make such fine pieces of work you both inspire and intimidate the hell out of me ;) I can't wait to see what you all have been doing for the album swap,and hopefully what I'll see won't discourage me of taking part in the next one ;)
Hopefully till soon!!!

xx

Breda

I know I've been absent for a while,but not without a good reason.It's my exam period and after a break I took last year in order to see what I want to do,this one is the first exam period I'm back,full time!Monday and Tuesday were two rough days since I had my first exams(one of which was oral,which I hate) but that is behind us now and we can focus (for a little while) on the fun stuff!!!
This one is the last of the four layouts I did the last two nights before leaving Heraklion to come to Thessaloniki.It's alongside the previous one I posted,my favorite so far (saved the best for last ;)).The pictures are taken in the city of Breda in the Netherlands.I spent two months last summer in Holland,part of my figuring out what to do plan and worked in Rotterdam zoo for 6 weeks(I really should do something with those pictures as well).Most weekends I got together with my friend Nina and we would visit festivals and just do fun stuff.These pictures are taken in the city she lives in,where I spent a lovely day,cycling to a nearby village(I hadn't been on a bicycle for over ten years!) and just having plain old silly girl fun!
I loved the colour of the background paper so much(again Core'dinations) and I wanted to use it badly and I think it suits the photographs perfectly.My aim was to put the photos kinda random,I wanted to give the impression they accidentally fell into place on the paper(Melenia,great minds huh?).I loved the dotted paper(which is from Dovecraft the Masculine collection) and I thought it gave a great contrast to the whole layout.I also cut the letters from that same paper.And of course I couldn't help but to add some of Holland's national colour in the form of the buttons ;)