Valentine's card and future generation of scrappers

It's busy around here! With back to work, long hours and exhausting work, scrapping has been really neglected recently. This weekend is super busy since DD is turning 5! She was allowed to invite 4 friends. Boy did we have fun! Can you imagine 5 super energetic, hyped up, sugar loaded 5 year olds? DH was the perfect entertainer and got them even more hyped up. It was hilarious.
DD requested a cake with flowers and hearts. So I made this "Sleeping Beauty Hedge" design for her. My cake decorating skills have really declined since I started scrapping. Somehow paper is more forgiving and does not mind different temperatures.
Whatever, it tasted good and it was pink and sparkly!

To calm them down a bit after 2 hours, I made some Valentine's cards with them. They loved using my cuttlebug to create the "magic paper". Here they are, all proudly holding up their cards. (Yes, I have permission of the parents to post this photo!) I am so happy that DD has really nice, sweet and well brought up friends.
My card turned out really simple. I am still quite happy with it, considering I had 5 helpers.

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Ouch / Sketchy Thursday

My little girl fell of her high bed (1,70 m / about 5,5 feet) while fooling around instead of going to bed. She fell with her head onto the wooden floor. The noise was terrifying! But, she is a hardhead, and nothing happened! We, of course, called the emergency services but they assured us that she was fine. This happened in December, just 4 days before the ballet presentation.

This is for the Sketchy Thursday Guest Designer Challenge. Their price is amazing! A full January kit from Artful Delight full with fabulous pink goodies. The challenge was to use the sketch, plus pink, hearts and journaling.

I stitched the outline of the title for a bit more interest, raised the title and the date with dimensional dots but other than that kept it fairly straight forward to let the photos speak for themselves. They were taken the next day and you can see that she was already in the mood for being silly again!

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Elisabeth

I found this site and I love it! Head over, they got a great sketch challenge!
Elisabeth

Picture Perfect Pencil Lines

Often school photos are not really the best but this one of DD turned out super cute. I used the sketch from Pencil Lines as a basis but decided to keep it straight. It just did not look right otherwise. That is the beauty of the sketches, they are open to interpretation!

The flower is handmade. I used the "new arrival boy" line by pebbles since it fit perfectly the colors of her Austrian Dirndl. (traditional dress)

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Elisabeth

Really simple flower tutorial

Hi there!
For my skiing layout, I just did not have a good flower. So I decided to make one. I based it on one that has been around, but this one looks slightly different.

It takes only 5 minutes to do this flower and it is super simple. I like combining 2 different colors to give more interest.

I used this on this LO
Please let me know if you tried this flower and link back to my blog so I can have a peek!
All the best
Elisabeth

All wrapped up Sketchy Thursday

We went skiing for 3 days to the Semmering, a great family skiing resort just one hour outside of Vienna. DD went to skiing school and I had fun with my niece and my sister and explored the ski resort. It was great but COLD. We look more like astronauts, all wrapped up.

I love the Midnight Frost collection from Bo Bunny. So versatile and easy to use. In my next post, I will show a tutorial how to make this flower.
I used the Tim Holtz tiny attacher for the journaling.

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Tough being sick around here and skiing

I have been very busy lately. DD learnt to ski. We are so lucky to live in Vienna. Just within 1 hours drive, there are several ski resorts. Sorry for the bad quality. I had forgotten my camera and had to use my phone.

Onto scrappy business.
I am not buying any new papers until after the CHA. This gives me a good reason to use what I have in my stash. The patterned paper is from Prima Eire collection. It fit well with the multi colored photo. DH was sick and had fallen asleep on the couch. DD was concerned that he did not have any stuffed animals while he was sleeping and covered him with hers!

I liked playing around with the title, using some liquid pearls.


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All the best,
Elisabeth