25 Ιουνίου 2014

3 pages for 7 Dots Studio

Hello everyone!  I'm very happy today, because my country's National Football Team advanced to the next round of the World Cup in Brazil!!!  Greece beat Ivory Coast in the most unexpected way, but the victory was well-deserved!

Ok, before I get carried out, let's talk about scrapbooking!
It's my turn today to share with you 3 pages I made recently with the stunning collections of 7 Dots Studio. I hope they will inspire you!


"Find yourself"
.... in books. I love books and I remember myself as a child walking around holding a book or locked in my room spending time with a literature or history book instead of studying school's lessons.  Reading has been my favourite pastime and I believe it has shaped my character very much.  So this layout features my love for books...
I have used "Nature Walk" collection along with a vibrant, bold and strong colour combination, all blended together in the big embellishment cluster.



a closer look





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"Practice"
Now this is a totally different page, style-wise. Because it features the modern and light Illumination Collection and it's a layout on my daughter's determination to achieve whatever she sets out to do, it's quite simple, as far as mixed media techniques are concerned.  Some gesso and some watercolours together with stamps and that's all.  The Illumination Collection always inspires me to use it in my kids' themed pages, because of its light, happy and soft colours.  The best part of it is that it doesn't need much to make the project stand out!




(details)








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"Beautiful Moments"
When I first saw this photo at Pinterest I knew I was in love.  Floating lanterns are a big love of mine because they are fragile, sensitive and harmonious.  This photo comes from a festival in Thailand I think, which I would love to attend one day, of course... 
I used the Domestic Goddess collection (for some reason I felt that it matched with the colours of the East) and tried to design the page in a way that would give a sense of lightness. I also wanted to create the effect of the trembling lights of the lanterns, so my embellishments just float across the page. The use of the Glass fillers helps a great deal in that.





take a look at the 13 Arts glass fillers, what a texture they create!!!






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This was a long post, I guess!  I hope my pages will inspire you!
I'll be back soon!! Have a nice day!

20 Ιουνίου 2014

My favourite

Hello everyone!

The new 7 Dots challenge has gone live and it is all about....

STAMPING!

Do you love using stamps? Do you love 7 Dots Stamps?  If yes, you just have to play with us!!!
Use as many 7 Dots Stamps as possible in your project and I'm sure you'll create something wonderful (perhaps you'll win a bag of goodies, too)!

So this is our inspirational circle

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And this is my page



and some details





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This page is all about my favourite fictional hero, John Thornton from Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South novel. So it's a masculine page and I wanted to illustrate this wonderful character using the amazing 7 Dots stamps (for a grungy feel) and very few other embellishments. The "you are my favourite" stamp served as a title!  You may notice that my hero's photo is actually a sketch, which I found at Pinterest and loved it the moment I saw it. I used the techniques that Stephanie Papin showed at the Pop&Colours 2 seminar, which I believe were the right choice for this type of layout.  


Deadline for entering your projects: July 19th, 2014.

So will you play along? 
Hope you will!

Have a nice day!

12 Ιουνίου 2014

Love means

Γεια σας και πάλι!!!
Σήμερα είναι μια πολύ όμορφη μέρα για μένα, επειδή εκτός την ανακοίνωση μου για τη συμμετοχή μου στο DT του 13 Arts, θα μοιραστώ μαζί σας την πρώτη μου σύνθεση ως μέλος της Σχεδιαστικής Ομάδας του 2 Crafty Chipboard!

Είμαστε προσκεκλημένες ως guest designers στο Scrap Around the World κι έτσι έφτιαξα μια σύνθεση εμπνευσμένη (χρωματικά και θεματικά) από το υπέροχο, γεμάτο αντιθέσεις moodboard της Di Garling



http://scraparoundtheworld.blogspot.gr/2014/06/june-2014-challenge-14-stunning.html

(Ο χρωματικός συνδυασμός είναι από τους αγαπημένους μου... )




Τα chipboard που χρησιμοποίησα είναι





και φυσικά τα χαρτιά και οι σφραγίδες είναι 7 Dots Studio - Cold Country!

Τα μιστς είναι 13 Arts (καινούρια μεγάλη αγάπη)!!


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Ελπίζω να σας αρέσει και να σας εμπνεύσει η σελίδα μου!! Όλη η ομάδα του 2 Crafty έδωσε πολύ όμορφες δημιουργίες... μπορείτε να δείτε εδώ!