Random thoughts

I know that for one more time, I have not been regular in posting here.
It is not that I don't create anything. I do and I am ultra happy about that.  In fact, I have been exploring a lot of new things lately and I have made some stuff.

But although I would like to update this little blog of mine more often, it seems that people have shifted from visiting and reading blogs to browsing through pictures in Instagram.  I think it is more convenient as far as (non) writing/reading and explaining is concerned (however, I must say that I get to see big texts there occasionally). So I don't know if trying hard to maintain this blog is worth my (very) limited time.

That's why I don't post regularly here, as I said I would.  So if any of you are interested in seeing what I'm up to, you can visit me @agap_melenia.

This blog will continue to exist, of course, the stats tell me that some people still come here and get inspiration (or whatever they are looking for, anyway), so yes, I won't close it.  Who knows, perhaps at some point they will get tired of the Instagram-mania and this continuous show-off of amazing (?) lives and bodies and return to blogging and writing.

Thanks for visiting!

Wanderlust 2019 - Amaze yourself (oh yes)

Γεια σας και πάλι μετά από πολύ καιρό!!
Είμαι ενθουσιασμένη, επειδή απ' ο,τι φαίνεται η απουσία μου από αυτό το μπλογκ μάλλον σταματάει...

Γύρος νο2 λοιπόν, με νέα ενδιαφέροντα (δηλαδή πράγματα εκτός των 12χ12 συνθέσεων, που ναι μεν συνεχίζω να λατρεύω, αλλά λίγο βαρέθηκα)... Όταν στάματησα το "εντατικό" scrapbooking, με την πάροδο του χρόνου, τα χέρια μου άρχισαν να σκουριάζουν, άρχισα να ξεχνάω τεχνικές, ώσπου έφτασα στο σημείο να βλέπω τα χαρτιά και να αναρωτιέμαι "τι στο καλό έκανα με αυτά".  Οπότε χρειαζόμουν οπωσδήποτε κατι καινούριο, κάτι που να εμπνέει αλλά και κάτι να μου θυμίσει αυτά που ήδη ήξερα.

Κι έτσι ξεκίνησα το Wanderlust 2019.  Ένας χρόνος ατελείωτη έμπνευση και μαθήματα!  To γεγονός ότι μια από τις πιο αγαπημένες μου καλλιτέχνιδες, η Kasia Avery είναι η διοργανώτρια ήταν αρκετό για να αποφασίσω να εγγραφώ!

Σήμερα λοιπόν θέλω να μοιραστώ μαζί σας τη δική μου υλοποίηση του μαθήματος της Athanasia Papantoniou, το οποίο με έφερε πίσω στο χρόνο, θυμίζοντας μου καλούς, παλιούς καιρούς.  Αυτό που βλέπετε, βέβαια, δεν είναι σύνθεση (είναι 8χ8 spread), οπότε χαίρομαι που έκανα κάτι διαφορετικό.  Επειδή όμως είμαι η Μελένια και σε αυτό το course μας ενθαρρύνουν να αποδίδουμε τον εαυτό μας και όχι να αντιγράφουμε απλά τις οδηγίες των καθηγητριών, το μάθημα το προσάρμοσα στα δικά μου μέτρα, προσθέτοντας τις δικές μου πινελιές και αφαιρώντας άλλες ξένες σε μένα.

Χαίρομαι ιδιαίτερα, επειδή δοκίμασα μια τεχνική που δεν είχα κάνει ποτε: να φτιάξω αυτοκόλλητα από ετικέτες (έβαλα ροδέλες, όπως φαίνεται) με embossing και mica powders! Ομολογώ ότι ενθουσιάστηκα και από χθες, έχω εξαφανίσει όλες τις ετικέττες που υπήρχαν! Χαχαχαχα! Αθανασία, ευχαριστώ!

Αυτά και ελπίζω να τα ξαναπούμε σύντομα! Έχω την αίσθηση ότι δε θα αργήσω πάλι τόσο πολύ!

~Μελένια

Peaceful Morning

A peaceful morning... it is, indeed, today.
After more than one year, I scrapped a layout. Some things that troubled me have passed, so I thought to get artistically creative again.  No stress, no pressure.  Just peace.

Browsing through (how much time had passed since I last did that!) various challenge blogs, the best option was to go back scrap-home: 7 Dots Studio. The July challenge is about beauty, serenity and peace.  Green meadows, purple flowers, neat white interiors and lots of my favourite colour: teal/turquoise.  How could I resist at it?

So I pulled one of my favourite 7 Dots Studio papers: Love is in the air - Just dreaming, even though I believe the Garden Party collection would suit perfectly, a wonderful handwriting 7 Dots stencil and some embellishments.

My layout is based, like I already said, on the 7 Dots July Challenge Moodboard

I hope you like my take on the challenge! I enjoyed myself very much creating it!

Have a nice day and maybe I will return here soon...

¬Melenia

Brave the storm

Καλημέρα και πάλι μετά από καιρό!
Χθες είχα την ευκαιρία να κάτσω με δύο φίλες, που ήθελαν να μάθουν τι στο καλό είναι αυτό το scrapbooking, και να πιάσω λίγο τα χαρτιά μου.  Με το ένα και με το άλλο, είπαμε να δοκιμάσουμε να φτιάξουμε καθεμία μια σύνθεση, για να δουν και στην πράξη τι ωραίο και δημιουργικό χόμπυ είναι.

Περάσαμε καλά και συνειδητοποίησα ξανά τη χαρά του να είσαι δημιουργικός και να παίζεις με υλικά και χρώματα.  Επέλεξα μια χειμωνιάτικη φωτογραφία :) - τι άλλο;

και έφτιαξα αυτή τη σύνθεση

Όλα τα υλικά (πλην των τίτλων και των παστών) είναι από τα σετάκια της σκραποφιλενάδας Ερίνας (με έσωσες πάλι, φιλενάδα)!  To βασικό χαρτί είναι 13arts Starlight Collection!

Ελπίζω να σας αρέσει! Οι φίλες μου παντως ξετρελάθηκαν με τη διαδικασία και τις συνθέσεις που οι ίδιες έφτιαξαν και το χόμπυ μάλλον κέρδισε δύο νέα μέλη!

Φιλιά και να περνάτε καλά!

Take note of the blessings

Hello!
Today I felt like scrapping a bit, after seeing the Scrapki-wyzwaniowo March Challenge.  From time to time I take a look at the current challenges and trends in the scrapbooking world, because the truth is... I have missed this world a lot.
The creations I saw from the DT poked and reminded me of how creative I felt when I scrapped.  So I thought to play along with the girls.  Thanks for the inspiration, ladies!

This is what I came up with

The challenge is to incorporate NUMBERS in our creation, in any form we like.  

What I did was use the numbers as a theme (count our blessings and be grateful to God for them) and as an element of my page.  I pulled a lovely paper, stickers and die-cuts from the 7 Dots Studio "Lost & Found" Collection, which happens to be an all-time favourite.  So I hope you like my page!

Remember to count your blessings and have in mind that there are many people in this world who lack them!

Have a nice day! Thanks for stopping by!

Perfect Moment

Γεια σας!  Πέρασε πάλι πολύς καιρός... το έχω παρατήσει το σπιτάκι αυτό, είναι αλήθεια.

Πολλά τρέχουν, πολλά γίνονται, πολλά συμβαίνουν, πολλά είναι στη στροφή, πολλά δεν προβλέπονται καν και έχω βγει εντελώς εκτός του χόμπυ.  Όμως υπάρχουν και στιγμές σύντομης επιστροφής στο χώρο, όπως μια μέρα πριν κανα-δυό βδομάδες, που έτυχε να βρω αυτή την παλιά φωτογραφία μέσα στο κουτί με τις φωτογραφίες που χρησιμοποιούσα για τις συνθέσεις που έκανα για τα Design Teams.  Αυτήν τη φωτό, την οποία θεωρώ απο τις καλύτερες που έχω συναντήσει, την είχα φυλάξει στην άκρη για ένα μεγάλο project, για μια κρίσιμη σύνθεση που ΘΑ έπρεπε κάποια στιγμή να φτιάξω. Όταν λοιπόν την ξανα-είδα, για κάποιο λόγο παρακινήθηκα να την χρησιμοποιήσω ΕΠΙΤΕΛΟΥΣ. Κι ας μην ήταν για μεγάλο project, ούτε για ένα design team.  Απλά για την πάρτη μου και την απόλαυση της στιγμής.

Οπότε έκατσα, αφήνοντας τις τρομερές απαιτήσεις που έχω από τον εαυτό μου στην άκρη, και έφτιαξα μια αγορίστικη σύνθεση, για να ευχαριστηθώ την φωτογραφία και να περάσω καλά.  Η αλήθεια είναι ότι, επειδή έχω πολυυυυυυυυυυύ καιρό βγει από όλο αυτό το πράγμα που λέγεται "scrapping layouts", δυσκολεύτηκα αρκετά να μην ενδώσω στην κυρίαρχη -ακόμα- τάση του "φορτώνω την Άρτα και τα Γιάννενα", αυτή που κάποτε κι εγώ υπηρετούσα, με μεγάλο ζήλο.  Τα βρήκα λίγο σκούρα να την κρατήσω απλή.  Τα όμορφα υλικά είναι ακόμα σε σημείο καθημερινής πρόσβασης, άρα ένας μεγάλος πειρασμός χαχαχα.

Τελος πάντων. Αυτό έκανα. Κλασικό στήσιμο, ένα σχετικά μεγάλο cluster αριστερά κι αυτά.

Τα χρώματα 100% κρατήθηκαν αντρικά. Ελπίζω να σας αρέσει.

7 Dots Studio Illumination Collection

Εις το επανειδείν!  Φιλιά πολλά και να περνάτε καλά!

~Μελένια

My secret story

Good morning!

I would like to share I page I made recently.  Life has been a little bit more difficult for me lately, so I haven't scrapped as much as I wanted.  I'm very happy I made the following page.

It talks about our secret stories, our secret selves.  I think that many people are not what they seem or do or say.  Either they have to align with other people's wishes/demands or conform with the daily circumstances, but in reality they are not what they appear to be. They can lead a totally different life but they just wear a mask to survive.  I don't know how many of you can identify with this, but at least I do.

So this page is about our secret stories.  

As you see I have followed the rule of "1" in almost every element of my page.  One flower, one chipboard, one die-cut, one acrylic, one paste, one stencil.  I don't think I needed more.

7 Dots Studio Cold Country die-cut and chipboard.  

Of course. 

I got to go now. I hope you have a wonderful month.

~Melenia

Explore the incredible beauty of Fall

Hello...
I know I have been away for very long. For reasons of technical nature, mostly.
Anyway, here I am today to share a page I made yesterday.
It was a cloudy day, which I had missed. It finally rained (some hail, too) and I got ecstatic.

Not much to say about this simple layout, it is a kinda "let's see where we left it at" quick warm up thing (time is not a friend of mine). I have kept the big quantities of brown, dark red, copper and mustard yellow that we find in forests in Fall, while allowing some green to pop up in small doses.

7 Dots Studio Domestic Goddess (the ultimate Fall collection)

and some bits and pieces.  

***The chipboard swirls I used are a gift from my amazing friend, Nadyunya***

Fall is one of my two favourite seasons (Winter is the other, of course). I find it incredibly beautiful and inspiring.  It can be silent and serene, although sometimes it is stormy and loud.  It always points inwards and coaxes me to look within.

I hope I have transmitted these feelings of mine in the page.

I hope we all have a wonderful Autumn (ok, the Northern Hemisphere).  I think it officially starts today, doesn't it?

¬ Melenia

Love yourself and shine

Γεια σας μετά απο αρκετό καιρό!
Σήμερα είχα λίγο ελεύθερο χρόνο και σκέφτηκα να ξαναπιάσω τα χαρτόνια μου - η αλήθεια είναι ότι τα χέρια μου έχουν χάσει την σβελτάδα τους πλεον και χρειάζομαι εξάσκηση πάλι.

Λοιπόν έφτιαξα αυτή τη σύνθεση που βλέπετε παρακάτω.
Κουράστηκα με τα φορτωμένα μου γενικά και νομίζω ότι κουράστηκε και ο κόσμος.  Σε λίγο καιρό θα αλλάξει η μόδα, έχω την αίσθηση.  Ισως όχι προς το απόλυτο clean & simple (πρέπει να πουληθούν όλες αυτές οι παστες και οι χαντρες και τα μελάνια), αλλά στο πιο συμμαζεμένο. Υπάρχει μεγάλη πιθανότητα να πέσω έξω στις προβλέψεις βεβαια, αυτό όμως μου λέει το ένστικτό μου κι είπα να το ακολουθήσω.

Γι' αυτό αποφάσισα να κάνω κάτι λίιιιγο διαφορετικό. Όλα σε μικρότερη κλίμακα. Ακόμα πιο καθαρά. Με επίκεντρο τη φωτογραφία αλλά σε συμμετρία και αρμονία με τα υπόλοιπα στοιχεία, φυσικά πάντα με κομψότητα.  Με περισσότερο white space και περισσότερη αντίθεση.

Γι' αυτή τη σύνθεση εμπνεύστηκα από την πρόκληση Μαϊου του Scrapki-Wyzwaniowo 

{ευχαριστώ, Valia Katzaki, για την πρόταση ;) }

και χρησιμοποίησα αυτό το όμορφο σκετς του Scrap Africa

Χαίρομαι πολύ που βρήκα χρόνο και ασχολήθηκα λίγο με το άθλημα!  Ελπίζω να σας αρέσει η σελίδα μου! Καλό Σαββατοκύριακο να έχετε! Ευχαριστώ για την επίσκεψη!

Break free - a canvas

Hello my friends!
Today I want to show you a canvas I made.
When it comes to these little art pieces, I feel that I'm just a beginner so I thought to get some experience by practice (practice is ALWAYS a good idea!).

I happened to see a lovely Mixed Media Place moodboard the other day and it became my starting point.  I got inspired by the butterfly of the top left photo and the softness of the moodboard in general. As the message of my canvas is "break free" (which means that it needs to have an airy feel), I tried to give motion to the creation by making a light blue trail on the right - like a soft breeze that blows on the cluster from the left and takes everything with it.

Lots of 13 arts media (of course), as you see

some details

The Mixed Media place moodboard

I think I could do better than this, but as I said, experience is achieved by constant practice.  

Now that I'm examining it more thoroughly, I believe that I should correct a few details. 

But I'm ok with it, as it is!

Anyway, I hope you like it.  So that's everything for now!  Have a beautiful day!

Love is worth waiting for

Good morning!
Yesterday Berry71Bleu published my guest-designer's take on the lovely March Challenge.
It is an honour to be invited as a special guest in an amazing challenge blog, such as Berry71Bleu. Thank you very much, ladies! 

So today I thought to share my layout here as well.

My page

and the Berry71Bleu March moodboard

This page was inspired by a very dear friend of mine, Tusia Lech, who is also the designer of the 7 Dots Studio Verano Azul Collection.  I had her in my mind while making it - I guess that's why this page came out as a very delicate, soft, tender and elegant creation.

So as love is the biggest and most valuable emotion a human can experience, it is worthy of our patience. Believe in love and it will come to you. This is what I think.

I had mentioned in a previous post here that I intend to make less loaded pages. I'm happy that this one is not full of small details and mixed-media techniques. I'm trying to prove to myself that I can be more minimalistic lol.

I want to submit this page to the current 7 Dots Studio challenge, whose theme is EMOTIONS. I will take part in it as a contestant, not as a member of the DT - a nice first time :).

Look at the inspirational circle

So I hope this layout inspires you to talk about love and wait for love and create about love. It is much needed lately...

Have a nice weekend!

2 scoops of ice-cream

Good morning...
Here I am again to share a page I created today for the More than Words March challenge.
A really messy one. I mixed up a lot of different media (gesso, mists, a pencil, glitter) and my hands got dirty - actually they have several patches of brown, teal and green inks.

I chose to talk about little pleasures in life that can be very blissful :).
One of them is mocha ice-cream.  I just adore it. Whenever I have some, I feel like I'm in heaven! I love the flavours of coffee and chocolate together! So 2 scoops of mocha ice-cream are just a little bit of magic for me...

I pulled my elements and paper from the 7 Dots Studio Thoughtskeeper Collection which I mainly combined with a modern photo as well as with lots of 13 Arts white gesso.  I always use this one instead of modelling paste, it works better for me, as it's thick and steady.  So I put some on my title and then added gold glitter on it. I also used it with 2 stencils for extra texture.

Like I already said, I was inspired by the More than Words March challenge.

I hope you like my page! Thank you very much for visiting my blog and for your beautiful comments.  They are much appreciated!

Inspire

Hello hello!
A quick post before I leave for work, in order to share a page I just made (inspiration knocked my door today) :)

I played with the 7 Dots Studio Yuletide Collection, though the theme of my page is not Christmas-y. I combined red, brown and bright blue (colours that are strong and intense) and talked about the glitter that we have inside our souls and that we should let shine out from time to time. It will surely inspire people.  As you see the photo is quite modern and the feel of the collection somewhat vintage. But yes, 7 Dots Studio Collections make miracles and can combine both styles. Love you, 7 Dots Studio!

I based my layout on the following sketch from Anna's Scrap March challenge, 

that I flipped to the right

Ok that's everything for now!

I will be back in a couple of days to share another page!

Have an awesome day!

Coffee time

Good morning everyone!
It's been almost 2 months since my last post here.
I didn't mean it to happen, but life is always unpredictable.


The reality in everyday life here in Greece has been even tougher the last 3-4 months, for the Greek people as well as the refugees that are stuck/locked/stranded here.  The countries that create the mess in these people's homelands just refuse to give shelter/accept/take care of them- how responsible is this, eh?  I could say a lot more on this subject but we all KNOW what's going on.

I need to say, though, that I'm very proud that most of my fellow Greeks, despite their hard economic problems and their struggle to survive, HELP the refugees by providing food, clothes, toys and play for the kids, medicines. I expected nothing less than that from them. It's just majestic.  I know that some of the refugees are going to be sent/distributed in my island soon, so I'm looking forward to helping them alongside with the other citizens of Greece.

So yesterday, in order to distract myself a bit from all these hard situations, I scrapped.
I made a colorful and playful page, having focused on this special time of the day, when we all sit and have COFFEE (with some delicious croissants, from time to time)! For me, that time is after I wake up.  Coffee is pure bliss, don't you agree?

So this is my layout

As you probably already noticed, I avoided layering and overloading.  This is something I intend to do even more in my next layouts. So the most prominent feature here is the word stickers.  And because I am a 7 Dots Studio girl, I worked with the Verano Azul Collection again. :)

Verano Azul - Dazzle me

Verano Azul - Word Stickers

Verano Azul - Tags

Verano Azul - Stickers

Verano Azul - Die cuts

The reason I chose this collection over the others is the fact that it contains all the beautiful colours the Lindy's Stamp Gang March challenge palette requires:

So I used the following mists:

Cotton Candy Pink

Steampunk Sepia

Time Travel Teal

I also played with Crafty Life March Challenge which is actually a bingo challenge.

I used the far right vertical combination Patterned Paper/Die-cuts/Flowers.  Apart from those, it's evident that I used some mists and chipboard, too.

Chipboards	Lace/ Ribbons	Patterned Paper (s)
Rubons	Mists	Die Cuts
Stamps	Crystals	Flowers

That's all from me now! I hope you have a great week and remember to be thankful for all you are given. Nothing  in life is to be taken for granted.

Dreamer

Hello hello!
Here I am again... today it seemed like a good day to play with a challenge.
So I browsed through my challenge blogs list and I noticed that More than Words January main challenge has a very interesting one.  Its theme is Personality & Selfie.

I happened to have one selfie that I took one and a half year ago, so I thought "why not".
It's not easy at all to illustrate one's personality in just one layout, therefore I decided to focus on just one aspect of my profile.

I am a dreamer. I dream to excel at many things. I'm never satisfied with my achievements, my knowledge, myself. I dream to become more than I am everyday.  Frankly I don't know how realistic all these are, I guess I'm a bit nuts lol.

Anyway I tried to create a page wherein someone could see this trait of mine in a vintage, classic, dark, not too bold, but full of small details style. Again, I aimed at grace, harmony, balance and elegance (of course the latter is not news, I always want that in my creations).

I used the 7 Dots Studio "Lost & Found" collection.  And 13 Arts media.

I think it's time for me to experiment with a more modern style in my layout.  I hope (or shall I say dream?) I will manage to make a clean & simple, modern page soon.

Until then... have awesome days! And be dreaming!

Take a deep breath and....

... open the door of your soul.  You will find sparkle and shine inside.

This is what I would like to do in 2016.
And it is the theme of the layout I made in order to tell just that.

Of course I have used 7 Dots Studio products again (Soulmates).

I admit that it's a bit overloaded with bits'n'pieces, I guess that having quite some time to scrap, I needed to unleash all the scrap energy I had stored (lol).  As I'm comparing this page with my previous one, I realize that the amount of embellishments I put on a cardstock usually depends on my mood. A form of expression, too, isn't it? Very artistically talkative I was this time indeed.

Ok without further ado

Since I hadn't scrapped for some weeks, I drew inspiration from the following Berry71Bleu Moodboard (January Challenge)

The combination of black/blue/green is AWESOME.

That's everything from me for now, I guess!
Until next time.... take a deep breath, open the door of your soul and look into it!


Thanks for stopping by!

Live simply

Hello, hello!

Back with some scrapping today.
A simple, not overloaded layout I really enjoyed making it, because it was the result of a bet with myself. I thought to share my train of thought while creating my page, I hope you find it useful.

Ok this is the story:
My friend and owner of ScrapsNPieces store, Myrto sent me an awesome, big package a couple of months ago (when I still was a member of the ScrapsNPieces DT).  This nice package had been left aside for a while, so today I thought to grant it a bit of my attention, as I really felt I needed to scrap. So I opened it and my fingers went through all the beautiful stuff Myrto had sent me.  And then a question popped up.  "Can you create a layout with colours of the goodies that are in the package?".  "Oh yes, sure", I thought.

When I looked at the colours of the sprays that my friend had chosen, I found the following:

                               

Great!

INTERESTING COMBINATION, don't you think?

I don't believe Myrto had this combo in mind when putting the little bottles in the box, I guess it was randomly done.

I could use the three of them, but all of them???

Anyway, this was the challenge.  I loved loved loved loved the second colour (iced spruce), so it just HAD to dominate the layout.  The black soot was to be added in very small doses, ok with that. Now the problem was how I would combine two colours that seem like not getting along with each other with two cold colours  and not create an eye-hurting colourful circus. This troubled me a little bit.   Finally I decided to mix the rusty hinge with the festive berries and spray the chipboard Myrto sent with them.  Risky, but it looked like the only option.

And this page is the result of this

What do you think?  As you see, I used some substantial amount of water on my cardstock, in order to create the watercolor effect on the background.  Now the best white/cream cardstock that withstands so much water is this one

Χαρτι watercolor 300gsm

which you can find at the ScrapsNPieces store

I also used this stamp

along with the chipboard, Tim Holtz mask and 7 Dots Studio Lost & Found Collection that you see in my page.

Now because I had quite some time to scrap, I drew my inspiration to build the layout from the following C'est Magnifique sketch:

I think it is just lovely, do you agree?

So that's everything from me now! I hope you liked my page!

Thanks for stopping by!

On my Christmas Wishlist

Καλημέρα και Καλό Μήνα!
Επιτέλους Δεκέμβριος, αν και εδώ που είμαι δεν μοιάζει πολύ για χειμώνα... :(

Τέλος παντων, ακόμα και με συνεχείς λιακάδες, ο Δεκέμβριος (αρα η Χριστουγεννιάτικη περίοδος) είναι εδώ και έτσι σιγά-σιγά μπαίνουμε στο κλίμα των ημερών :)

Λοιπόν είμαι προσκεκλημένη στο Crafty Life αυτό το μήνα (ευχαριστώ, Μαρία!) και η πρόκληση του Δεκέμβρη δεν θα μπορούσε παρά να είναι Χριστουγεννιάτικη.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year"

***7 Dots Studio Yuletide Collection***

Ένας από τους λόγους που αυτός ο μήνας είναι ίσως ο πιο υπέροχος είναι το γεγονός ότι κάνουμε... λίστες!  Απο δώρα, φυσικά.  Πολλές φορές σκέφτομαι "α, αυτό θα το πάρω τα Χριστούγεννα" ή "πόσο θα χαιρόταν ο/η... με αυτό το αντικείμενο".  Ένα από τα πράγματα που ήταν πάντα στις Χριστουγεννιάτικες λίστες μου (και μέχρι τώρα δεν έχω αξιωθεί να πάρω) είναι ένα ζευγάρι γκλιτερένιες μπαλαρίνες.   Δεν έχω τολμήσει να τις παρω ακόμα επειδή δεν έχω καταφέρει να ταιριάξω το στυλ μου με ένα τέτοιο είδος παπουτσιών, όμως πάντα μα πάντα τις έχω στο πίσω μέρος του μυαλού μου.

On my Christmas Wishlist λοιπόν... :)

Η σύνθεση δεν είναι φορτωμένη, όπως βλέπετε, I just held my horses, επειδή τείνω να το παρα-κάνω τελευταία. 

Για ποιο λόγο είναι ο Δεκέμβρης the most wonderful time of the year για σας;  Σκραπάρετε τους λόγους σας και παίξτε με το Crafty Life!  Να σημειώσω ότι το θέμα μπορεί να ερμηνευτεί όπως θέλετε, η δική μου ερμηνεία δεν είναι δεσμευτική, εννοείται!

Φιλιά πολλά και καλή βδομάδα!

Be who you want to be - 7 Dots Studio Nov-Dec challenge

Hello again!
Here I am to share my last page as a 7 Dots Studio DT member (sigh).
It was made for the new challenge, whose theme is "VINTAGE".

Although I don't do them very often, I love doing vintage projects. They emit the greatness of a lost, old world, full of grandeur and grace.  They make me feel nostalgic and at the same time they prompt me to move forward and look to the future.  The message I want to get across with this page is that we must be who we want to be, starting with questioning everything in our lives.  We won't forget our stories, we'll have to record them, but let's not linger in the past.  Lost and Found Collection at its full glory, again.

Products used: Lost & Found - Typewriter; Lost & Found - Element Stickers 6x12; Lost & Found - Word Stickers 6x12; Lost & Found - Chipboard; Lost & Found - Die-cut Elements 6x12; Lost & Found - Clear Stamps

This is the amazing inspirational circle

I guess that's everything!  I will be back soon. Thank you very much for your warm comments on my previous post, I do appreciate them.  As for my scrapbooking ventures, actually there is none ahead, for the moment (only a couple of guest dt spots).  I would never quit a DT just to hop onto the next one. 

Anyway... see you soon!

Christmas blessings

Good morning everyone!

Today I would like to share with you one of my two last pages as a 7 Dots Studio DT member. There is only one more, that you will see in a couple of days!  I decided to step down from the DT and I already feel nostalgic. As I'm typing these lines I still don't believe it. It was not easy at all to make such decision, but given the circumstances it was a right one.

I need to thank Tusia Lech for believing in my scrapping skills 2,5 years ago. I will be forever thankful for the trust, love and kindness she has showed me all this time.  7 Dots Studio collections have been a huge inspiration and have accompanied me throughout my scrapbooking journey. They were the reason why I won challenges and my pages got known by people.  Therefore I would like to express my love and gratitude to this girl and I would like to meet her one day in person! Tusia Lech, thank you!

So in my last page for the 7 Dots Studio blog, I wanted to talk about BLESSINGS and GRATITUDE.

Christmas for me is a time to reflect on all the blessings God gave the world, when He sent His only Son to save the world. A time to be grateful for everything He has granted us.  I chose a Pinterest photo that depicts abundance, at least this is what I see in it.  So my layout had to be full and rich in texture, depth and colour. And this is what I have tried to do, I hope you can see these elements in my layout.  I used the awesome Yuletide Collection - what else could fit more?  The colour combo is the colours I usually like for Christmas decorations - I don't go traditional, this deep purple, gold and rich red convey exactly my feelings during the Christmas season.

7 Dots products used: Yuletide - Sugarplum; Yuletide - Tags 12x12; Yuletide - Word Stickers 6x12; Yuletide - Element Stickers 6x12; UWS - Lost & Found Handwriting Stencil; UWS - Yuletide Flairs

I also got inspired by the Scrap Around the World November moodboard, that is all about Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year. I kept its grey/silver colour for my background, although like I already said, I opted for richer and deeper colours.

I hope you like my page! One more is coming in soon! 

Thank you for visiting my blog!