When the Scrap Hits the Fun!

My first Chocolate,Coffee and Cards challenge and a freebie!!

2012-06-01T11:29:00.003-07:00

hi all hope you are great!!! I'm so excited!! this is my first card for the Chocolate, Coffe and Cards Design team!! woohoo!! Our theme?

PHOTO INSPIRATION

How does this photo inspire you? Is it the colors, patterns, stars??
Show us!!!

and here is how it inspired me!!

I used this adorable hippo colored with my markers, made some stars and added some buttons and ribbon, used my Martha stewart punches (addicted to them) and I made this fun sentiment that I will share it here with all of you!

The challenge is sponsored by

Prize : $10 GC to Digi Doodle Shop

$10 gift certificate

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:

1. aud sentiments challenge blog ~ add a sentiment

2. copic marker europe ~ summer colors

3. southern girls challenge ~ punches

enjoy

hugs

xMx

Sneak Peek of my new digis...

2012-05-31T10:11:00.000-07:00

Hi all

I have a small sneak peek of my new digis

called Undersea world!!

Yeap a very summery collection of digis with mermaids, fish, octapus, weeds, dolphins and of course a collection of sentiments. Soon in my blog store as digi stamps and svg files for paper piecings!! Also there will be a cd including both digis, svgs, b&w images, colored images, patterned papers, decoupaged sheets, sentiments, svg titles and card kits.

please enjoy the preview!!

thanks for stopping by

hugs

xMx

Creative Craft challenge ~ red blue and white!!

2012-05-30T09:30:00.000-07:00

hey all!!! another challenge for creative craft challenge blog!!!

for this fortnight we have a colour theme of RED, WHITE and BLUE.

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Whom are offering a lovely little selection of goodies

and

Whome offer a choice of fabulous digital images

I've colored my image with my promarkers, used some buttons, my punches and ribbon!!!

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:
1. my mum scraf tshop challenges~ Red white and blue
2. tuesday throw down~ masculine
3. Party time Tuesday ~ anything goes
4. stampin royalty ~ masculine cards

till later
hugs
xMx

Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #16: Fruitylicious

2012-05-29T09:07:00.000-07:00

hello friends hope you are all great!!

well another week passed and we have a new challenge at Tuesday Alchemy Challenge Blogg!!

our theme??? Fruitilicious!!

Meljen's Designs is our sponsor at Tuesday Alchemy this week. So 4 amazing digis can be yours if you win!!!

For the challenge I made a tag.

I used the perfect pear from Meljens, glossy accent,pro markers, glitter, my craft robo to cut border and tag, and paper from stash

I will use this tag with a nice box for a gift to some newly wedds...

I would love to enter my project in the following challenges:

1. Belli Challenge ~ wedding

2. Divas By design ~ anything goes

3. I love promarkers ~ use a digi

4. Everybody art challenge ~ anything but a card

hope you liked it!

hugs

xMx

My favorite wee fairy and a freebie!!

2012-05-26T09:57:00.003-07:00

hi all hope you are great!!! here the weather is a mess!! We have heat and heavy rains...it's crazy!!!

anyway as we had lots of rain today I had some time and made this card....to be honest yesterday I show an older card with this fairy to a friend and she reminded me that I haven't use her for ages!!! and yeap this is one of my favorite fairies ever!!!

so the ingredients for this very spring~y card are the followings:

fairy from wee staps, glitter and blings, prima flowers, die cut swirls, sentiment ( I'm sharing it with all of you), glittery cardstock, patterned paper from stash.

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:

1. aud sentiments ~ A project or card with ANY SENTIMENT

2. Southern Girls ~ Dying to Die cut

3. Crafts and me Challenges ~ fabulous flowers

4. Divas by Designs ~ fabulous flourishes

5. Penny's Challenges ~ anything goes

6. Ruby's Rainbow ~ things with wings

7. ATC's with attitude ~ anything goes

8. dilly beans~ friendship

9. emergency crafters ~ dreamland

10. Pattie's Creations ~ recipe and image (glitter, sentiment, flowers)

and here is your freebie!!!

hope you like my card!! can't wait to read your comments!!

hugs

xMx

Tuesday Alchemy Butterfly challenge!!

2012-05-23T06:10:00.002-07:00

hello all hope you are all great!!!

Again thank you for all the nice comments and lovely emails!!

for the new followers ~ thank you for joining my blog, I will try to send some of my old special freebies asap!!

now let me tell you about our new challenge that we have at Tuesday Alchemy challenge blog! Everything is about butterflies!! heh!!

We have two sponsors this week Floppy Latte's Digital Designs & The Doodle Garden, so 2 prizes to be won! find some time to stick some butterflies into your projects this week and share it with us!

...for my project...

ok this is a job really...I had a client that asked me to design her and make 300 wedding invitations.

The pics are not so good as the paper was extremely shiny and I couldn't take a decent pic

We used two kind of papers. One was a shiny glittery embossed butterfly paper and the other had a jeans texture also shiny. For graphics I used some wedding rings and butterflies.

Here you can see some of the invis...but I had two enormus boxes with all the 300...heh

I would love to enter my creation in the following challenges:

1. send a smile 4 kids ~ anything goes

2. Bearly Mine ~ anything goes

3. Art with no Boundaries ~ anything goes

thanks for stopping by!!

hugs

xMx

Posh Kitty and a freebie!!!

2012-05-21T13:36:00.002-07:00

Hi all hope you are great!!!

First of all let me say a big I LOVE YOU to my DH as it was his name day today!!! χρονια σου πολλά ματάκια μου!!! σε αγαπάω πολύ πολύ!!!

Ok and now I finished smuching around let me show you my card!!

I used the amazing svg file Posh Kitty from Scrapping Memories and you can find it here

I used my craft robo to cut all the pieces, glue of course, some inks to add details, black and white pen, paper from stash, glitter and gems and a nice sentiment which I'm sharing with all of you!!

It was such fun to make this card!!!

Hope you all gona love my cat!!!

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges

1. Stamp and Create ~ for the ladies

2. Stamps +fun=creativity ~ anything goes

3. Paper Sundaes ~ Pretty in Pink

and here is your freebie!!

thanks for stopping by!!

hugs

xMx

Proud to Design for...

2012-05-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

Chocolate coffee cards Team!! woohooo!! yeahee....

I was picked to be part on this amazing team!!!!

You can read everything here!!!

A big thank you to Jenn (owner of the challenge blog) for picking me!

I will try to do my best!!

So more cards and freebies for all of you guys!!!

stay tuned to see the amazing challenges we have and the super prizes for the winners!!

hugs

xMx

My friend's amazing freebie!!

2012-05-20T13:26:00.002-07:00

Hi all hope you are great!!!

today I want to share you an amazing freebie that my really good friend Tracy gives to everyone who visits her blog!!

Tracy is an amazing lady with lot of creativity and her art is amazing!!!

So you can visit her amazing blog to see her creations and grab some amazing freebies!!!

Look her last freebie!!!

Love this cute little dragon!!!

hope you enjoyed my post

till later

hugs

xMx

Weekly Freebie at Scrapping Memories!!

2012-05-19T12:43:00.003-07:00

Hello all hope you are all great!!

First of all I would like to say a big thank you to all of you who send me so beautiful emails!! You really help me continue blogging and creating!!!

Of course a big warm hello and welcome to the new followers!!!

ok let me show you the new svg and digi freebie from Scrapping Memories

isn't he cute???

of course you should check the new items!!! digis and svgs for all tastes!!!

Will try to blog some things I have made asap

hugs

xMx

Creative Craft Challenge Distressed Projects and a freebie!!!

2012-05-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

hi again!!

new challenge at Creaive Craft Challenge blog! and name of the challenge??? Distressing!!So it's time to start tearing up some papers. Get out that sandpaper, distressing tools and inks and start distressing like a maniac!!

Sponsor for this Week is LILI OF THE VALLEY with a £10 voucher to one lucky winner.

here is my card for the challenge!!

I used a Lotv image and a sentiment I made. Of course I'll share it.
I distressed the pink and the green cardstock with scissors, made a nice heart button with cardstock, glue and glitter, and used ribbons. hope you will like my card!!

and here is the free sentiment!!!

I would love to enter my card in the following challenge:

1. I love Promarkers ~ anything goes

till later hugs

xMx

Tuesday Alchemy Challenge #14: Happy Wedding! and a freebie!!

2012-05-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

wow what a week!!! I'm running from job to job, for papers for everything!!! crazy week crazy life!!!

and the heat!!! oh my God need to begin asap my baths at sea!!!

ok let's go to the good stuff!!

new challenge at Tusday Alchemy and it's all about weddings!!Enter any wedding related project that you make into this week's challenge for a chance to win digital stamps from Karen's Scraps And Graphics!

cool huh??

ok whanna see my creation for this challenge??

tataaaaa

I used the couple stamp from lotv stamps, flowers from my stash ( most of them send by some friends from UK)

ribbon and a sentiment I created and I'm sharing it with all of you!

I used some papers that were left overs from some invitations I'm making for a client and I embossed them.

hope you will like my card and sentiment!!!

hugs

xMx

This weeks Scrapping Memories Freebies!!

2012-05-12T06:46:00.001-07:00

hello my friends hope you are great!!

have you visited Scrapping memories?? they have some amazing new files!! amazing files with babies, family, wedding, birthday and everyday ofcourse!!

also they have two freebies for all of you!!

1 svg and one digi stamp!!!

here are the previews

enjoy

hugs

xMx

Tuesday Alchemy CH#13 Mother Dear and freebies!!

2012-05-09T12:53:00.002-07:00

Hello all I have some really exciting news!!

Tuesday Alchemy Challenges chose me to become DT!!!

woohooo

I'm so excited!!!

so this weeks challenge it's about mothers!! You can do anything you like!! a card a LO, any project really!! even cookies!! yum yum!!

So I made a nice card using some new designs I made! and ofcourse I will share them with you my friends!!

It's a dummy and a sew thankful sentiment!

I used my craft robo to cut the scissors and the button border.

I used some inks and liquid pearls and stiched the buttons.

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:

1. celebrate the occasion ~ Mothers Day

2. stamp-n-doodle ~ Mothers Day

3. crafty sentiments ~ Mothers Day

4. scrap-creations ~ Mothers Day

5. ladybugs crafts ink ~ Anything but a square

6. die kreativen stempel freunde ~ Mothers Day

7. heart 2 heart~ Mothers Day

Hope you will enjoy my creation!!

hugs

xMx

Scrapping Memories Freebies!!!

2012-05-03T03:11:00.000-07:00

hello all how are you??

Scrapping Memories have some new items on their store and some amazing freebies!!

You should go and check the store!!!

And you can't imagine the new pieces we are making for you!!! Amazing and so inspiring!! The girls do amazing job picking the images and we try to convert them in a way that your cuttng machine will cut them like butter!!

Anyway here are the previews of the freebies: SVG and DIGI file!!! If you use them you can send me a pic of your project and I'll add your project to the gallery!! That will be so inspiring for all of us!!

SVG FILE

DIGI FILE

They are soooooo cute!!!

enjoy!!

hugs

xMx

Everything goes at Creative Craft Challenges!!

2012-05-02T11:27:00.000-07:00

hello my friends!! hope you are great!!!

sorry for not being around, too many obligations!! From next week I hope I will have more time available!!

Ok last week's challenge over at Creative Craft Challenges was only a week long one so there is a new challenge today :)

The challenge is

Anything goes!!

woohoo!! I love this theme heh!

This is my project for the challenge!!

you can see that the box is a slide box with ribbon

Some chocolate cards for my friends!

(patterns are from scrap chick)
so enjoy my chocolates

I would love to enter my project in the following challenges

1. jacksons digital expressions ~ Anything goes

2. lej designs challenge ~ Anything goes

3. paper take weekly~ Anything goes

till later

hugs

xMx

Happy Birthday to my Blog!!

2012-04-28T07:26:00.000-07:00

Oh my!!

one year has just gone!!! I'm really impressed and excited!!

A year with many creations, important decisions, new friendships, new ideas!!

I'm really happy that in one year I managed to have almost 100.000 visits!!

Love all the comments and all the creations that you share with me!!

So to celebrate all this I have some freebies to share with you!!

Yeap ~ FREEBIES~ as many...heh

ok all the people here are more than welcome to grab my sentiments:

and the people who are in my special email freebie list they will receive these:

please consider that my list is big so you might receive your freebies in the next following days.

If only I had some extra time to share my thoughts with you but need to organise my things!! Today I got my desks and my desktop PC!!! woohooo...need to settle in my craft robo and start scrapbooking soon...

please enjoy!!!

I will be thrilled if you sent me comments, emails and wishes...that keeps me going

ps: I have 296 followers ...hope by the end of the day we will reach 300!!!

hugs

xMx

Scrapping Memories Freebies!!!

2012-04-27T10:07:00.001-07:00

hello hello hello!!! hope you are all great!!!
Have you visited Scrapping Memories??
No?? Well go there asap!!! new freebies for all of you!!!

One digi stamp and one Svg file

you can see them below and to go to their shop click HERE!

Aren't they great????

Also tomorrow is a big day for me and my blog!!! My first blog birthday!!! woohooo!!!
So I designed something for my email followers!!
Stay tuned!!

till then
hugs
xMx

Creative Craft Challenge ~ Animal Antics and a free sentiment!

2012-04-25T05:06:00.000-07:00

Hello hello hello!!!

New challenge over at Creative Craft Challenge blog!! Animal Antics!! and we have great sponsors too!!!

Joanna Sheen, Bugaboo, Robyns Fetish!!!

So pop on over to see what's going on and join in this amazing fortnight challenge!!

Ok my DT card it's with this amazing elephant from Bugaboo!! She is sooooo cute!!! I created a fun sentiment that I'm sharing it with al of you!!

I used glossy accent, my new martha stewart punch,die cut, some gem hearts and ribbon!

Hope you will love my card as I do!!!

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:

1. creative card crew ~ use ribbon

2. deep ocean challenge blog ~ use punches

3. Flourishes Boutique ~ Bingo (Pink, Ribbon, Die Cut)

4. Scrap Creations ~ girly thing

5. Ribbon Carousel Challenge ~ANYTHING Goes with There She GOES

and here is the sentiment I used. You are all welcome to save it and using it with your projects!!!

and some news for my blog...well today found some time and checked my blogs statistics. I was really impressed when I saw that 98000 + people has visited my blog!!! and my stupid blog hit counter has broke down twice so I have lost my hits.... anyway I would like to tell you a big thank you for visiting me and writing me comments!!!

that's it for now

hugs

xMx

Tuesday Alchemy DT Call

2012-04-24T05:36:00.000-07:00

Hey guys this is a post for a Dt Call.

I decided to try my luck in the DT call for the Tuesday Alchemy challenge blog. I have been scrapbooking and cardmaking for some time now and I love it!!! Here are some samples of my work

enjoy

hugs

xMx

Easter chocolate box and freebies!!

2012-04-18T12:05:00.002-07:00

Hi all hope you are all great!!! Well Easter is almost finished but I have some projects to share with all of you that I've made for my friends. Unfortunatelly with moving and other jobs didn't have the time to blog them so you will see some easter projects the following days.

Anyway todays project is an altered card box from eggs. I used a paper shelter image, flowers~ skeleton leaves, ribbon, sentiments I made, glitter, and my Martha Stuart punch! I really love this cute box!! Inside it holds 6 chocolate eggs ( like Kinder eggs).

I would love to enter my project in the following challenges:

1. Hooked on Craft challenges ~ Easter

2. Art with no Boundaries ~ Anything goes

3. Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges ~ Easter

4. Crafty Sentiments ~ Use a digi

5. Tuesday Throwdown~ Recycling
6. Recycle, Re-Purpose &Re-Invent challenge blog

We have to answer a Question at Recycle, Re - Prpose & Re-Invent challenge Blog
What is the weirdest item you are hoarding and what will you do with it?????
Strange thing I have hoarded are some really old pantiles to paint them...

I know that the Easter sentiment you can't use it right away but you can keep it for next year. The chocolate sentiment can be used anytime!!!

Hope you enjoyed my creation

hugs

xMx

Big Saturday and Easter Sunday!!

2012-04-15T15:11:00.001-07:00

so...we are in the 2 last days of the big Easter celebrations..

let me share with you some customs we have for Easter. Easter for Greeks is the biggest celebration of all. We celebrate Easter more than every other Orthodox countries and societies on the world!! Kids accept gifts and their Easter candles ~ the ones that carry the Holly flame in our houses~ from their Godparents. So every Godparent brings an Easter Candle, clothes or shoes, chocolate eggs and an easter bun to his/hers godchild. Godparents supposed to bring these goods to their godchildren until the age of 18. My Godmother still brings me my Easter Candle, my Easter bun and she always brings me something for my house (towels, sheets etc ~ I'm quite big to bring me fluffy and cute dresses heh) but this year she is quite sick ~ she is 82 years old!!! so she couldn't come but she is always in my prayers!! So I made my own candles for me and hubby!! I really like them and they had big success!!woohooo.

Anyway let's continue with the customs. Big Thursday~ we dye the eggs red . that means that Christ's blood painted the eggs. Big Friday ~ we have the Litany of Epitaphs. Big Sunday ~ at 00.00 midnight we celebrate Ressurection of Christ. We go at Church, light our candles with the Holly Flame and when we come back at 3.00 am we make a chross outside our doorstep and we eat the traditional magiritsa ~ a soup based in vegatables and insides of lamb...I don't like it. Old people did this cause the wanted to prepare their stomachs for the big feast after 40 days of fasting. We bump our red eggs to wish for the Easter and then the guys preparing the lamb and the kokoretsi for Sunday.

So Easter Sunday....ok...hmmm let me try to describe it with few words....food, food and more food!!! people go wild!!! 20 kilos of lamb on the spit!!! yeah... 20 kilos for max 10 people!!!!amazing huh??? traditional dances, food, red eggs, wine, tzatziki,kokoretsi, and more food till the end of day...yeap crazy I know. well hubby and I don't do any of the above...we try to be reasonable!! heh but his parents do all the above!!! so this year we went to celebrate Easter with them and all this happened. My FIL this year didn't tried to stuff me with all this food!! but of course he gave me so much food to take back to our home that I'm sure will last for 2 weeks lol!!!

oh also i want you all meet John the lamb. I think this lamb is very lucky as he didn't have the destiny of other poor lambs...anyway he is so cute and he drinks a huge bottle of milk in les than 2 min!!! amazing huh???

ok that's it for tonight...I need a soda even if I didn't ate so much...just in memory of all this food...and consider that Greeks are in a huge crisis right now!!! are they?????? I know hubby and I are but what about all the other people spending more than 500 euros for just the Easter Sunday meal???people traveling around Geece when fuels costs 2 euros per litre!!!???

we spent 100 euros for food, fuels and some chocolates for friends and family. but not for the Easter day. for the Big week and the week before... I wonder how people managed with all this Easter frenzy...

anyway sorry for bothering you with my thoughts and the strange ways of Greeks...hope you found something interesting here....

also I'll try to cardmake more the following days

till then

hugs

xMx

Big Thursday and Big Friday...

2012-04-15T14:41:00.000-07:00

hello my fellow bloggers, hope each and everyone is great!!!

Happy Easter to all Orthodox!!

Today I have some really unequal posts for all of you...it's a Greek traditional Big Week ~ the Week before Easter and how we spend it. Actually it's not the whole week. Just a summary to the very big Events. The entire week we spent 2-4 hours every day in Church, we are fasting (some people fast for 40 days), and we are preparing for the Resurrection of Christ and our Easter. Big Thursday is a very important day as after Church were we have heard from priests the 12 Gospels, people stay to grace with flowers the Epitaph ~ it's the place we put the wooden body of Christ after the removal of Christ from the cross on Big Friday~ this take us all night as we have to tack lots of flowers. This year we decorated the Epitaph with white and yellow flowers as you can see. In the town were we live we have 3 main Churches, so each Church decorates its own Epitaph. So at 21.00 hours on Big Friday all the Epitaphs meet in the big square to begin the Litany. All people holds candles and escort the Epitaphs around the town. then the Epitaphs return back to their churches.

you can see some pics to take a taste, hope you gona like them. Sorry for the blurry pics but all things happened too fast!!!

enjoy

hugs

xMx

Creative Craft Challenges - Sketch and a freebie!!!

2012-04-10T15:33:00.000-07:00

hello hello hello!!!

well yeap it's me from hubbys netbook!!! still!!!! I miss my laptop.....

anyway...let's see some more exciting news!!

It's time for a new challenge over at Creative Craft Challenge blog!!woohooo!!!Our sponsor is Kenny K and they are offering 4 digi images of the winner choice!!!!!!

so this is the sketch we must use

I used this sexy Kenny K image and also made a nice sentiment for all of you ( scroll down to grab it)

I colored the image with my markers, used some glitter, my craft robo to cut some shapes and patterned paper....

hope you will like it!!!

I would love to enter my card in the following challenges:

1. Anything goes challenge blog~ anything goes

2. Catch the bug ~ anything goes

and here is the free sentiment!!!

enjoy

hugs

xMx

Scrapping Memories new freebies!!!

2012-04-10T15:14:00.000-07:00

Hello all!! hope you are great!!

well I'm not so great....as my laprop got sick and hubby had to do a very serious operation!!! boohooohooo...now he has lent me his precious netbook to check emails, and write some posts....thanks sweetie!!!

the good thing is that we managed to save all my files and work!!! phew....imagine to loose all your digi stamps, your pics of your work and most important all the files frome graphic design job!! Even I keep a monthly backup I design things everyday and adding new bits and bops in my files so imagine the horor!!!

but let's move on...

hope you have visited Scrapping Memories shop.... if not shame on you!!!! (ok I'm joking) but you should go there asap to download their new freebies, svg files and digi stamps and to check out the new files the girls have added!! trust me as I help them with the svg files I know that they cut out like butter and they are super cute!!! when I have my craft room back I will make some cards using some files....

so this weeks freebies... in svg file and digi stamp!!

super or what????

enjoy

thanks for stopping by

hugs xMx