… the story of my life!
.. with Crafty Croppers in Greece!!!
I’m happy to say that Irini announced the Designer Team for the Challenge blog, and I am a part of it!
Starting Monday the next challenge for November goes live …
You still have time until Sunday night to upload October’s challenge and have a chance to win a great prize!!!
October 28th sketch unveiled!!
Must say I really find this one inspiring … so why don’t you get over to the Sassy Lil Sketches blog to see what the Design team has done with it!!!
I participated in the summer mini exchange on the Scrapping in Greece forum.
The topic had been travelling … and I was happy to be partnered off with a very dear friend of mine … Irini Liolia …
She had taken a trip to Paris in July, and I decided to make a minibook for her to keep photos and journaling of that trip …
I had nothing in so far as embellishments or papers to do with Paris.
So I set about making my own embellishments, inspired by my cousin who makes jewellery, using liquid glass … I made a few compositions using photos that I printed off the internet … metal charms, rubons, papers … and then my cousin poured the liquid glass over it …
embellies 1
embellies 2
I decided to use Basic Grey the Capella Collection, as I felt that the colours suited Irini, and there was actually some French writting on the papers … Tim Holtz paper tape, charms, rubons, flowers, brads and ribbons, and some stamping, with plenty of inking …
So here it is, and as always if you want to see a bigger image, just press on the photo …
Cover
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9
Page 10
Back Cover
It was a total pleasure to do!
Maybe one day, I’ll get to Paris and make my own mini! 😉
The Crafty Croppers Gr blog, has turned into a challenge blog so it’s time to GET CREATIVE at Crafty Croppers GR!!!!
They have already announced TWO challenges for October, and the prize is just lovely … go here to see what you can win!!! You still have time … until October 31st!!
I have started out with the first challenge, which was to use Autumn colours and to have a leaf or leaves somewhere …
I was first inspired by a bit of my ‘garbage’ … a piece of paper that I have punched out the design with Martha Stewart’s punch ….
Then I looked for a photo that had leaves in it, found it, and that was it … it all came together afterwards …
Here is what I came up with .. 
The leaves that decorate the page are either diecuts or stenciled out of the negative … I painted around the photo to make a frame, and used a rubon on the paint … but look at Katerina’s expression … doesn’t she look like she’s enjoying the sun, and the sounds around her ??? She truly loved to swing back and forth …
Close up of photo, stamping, painting
I used a journaling card, plus stickers to make the title, highlighted with my glitter pens to make it pop up more …
Close up of journalling
It’s so much fun to get back into the rhythm of scrapping …
Katerina is actually coming to Athens with her Dad to see some dentist tomorrow, and staying for two days, so looking forward to seeing her again …
Check in again tomorrow to see a mini book that I’ve made …
This month we have a brilliant sketch to work with, I realize that I say that each month, but what can I say I love Cherie’s sketches!!!
October 21st sketch
From the moment that I saw the sketch I knew which photos I would use, and the story I needed to tell …
One evening in Apiranthos during August, my two nieces had come to the village one evening to visit me … We usually would go out, I’d treat them, and we’d visit my aunt’s shop, to see the girls [my cousins] and to chat.
Well, I asked Chrisanthy to take the perfect photo of us, and we took about 6 of them, but it was such fun doing this ‘mini’ photo shoot …
The 3 of us
I love that the base paper, looks like a frame, I’ve used all the stuff from Sarah Card’s May kit… and if you have noticed one of the photos are in Cartoon style … no I didn’t do it myself …
the very talented SJ from Little Musings has, I have loved her style for a while, and I asked her to do two drawings for me …
I’m so pleased with the outcome!!!
closeup of artwork, photos
title close up
Life has been incredibly busy, in a good stressful way …
I’ve been busy with work … we’ve added new interactive whiteboards, so we changed all our coursebooks which means a lot of ‘homework’ for me this year to prepare ….
Mom had been away for 7 months, but she’s back now, and in full force, so we are doing a lot of ‘cleaning’ out and errands …
There has been so many family social events, as our family continues to grow …
So, hopefully now, I’ll be able to find some time for my hobbies, and my blog!
I may not have much time to scrap this month,
but there is plenty of inspiration out there!!!
Have you been visiting the Sassy Lil’ Sketches blog???
Their October 7th layout is fab for the multi – photos ….
October 7th sketch
and on the 14th they revealed this month’s card sketch … is it time for Christmas cards yet???
October 14th card sketch
Sorry that I’ve been MIA, but I’m here now, and hopefully will have more to show you!!!
