Discover and feeling really empty

What an odd feeling. My mother took my DD skiing for 4 days. Boy, the apartment feels empty! Sigh. I am glad that my mother tries to have a good relationship with her, although she usually live in Australia. But I do miss my little baby. I do not think I have ever been away from her for so long. My mother tells me that they are having a blast. That's the most important!


Now for my layout. Since I am waiting for the new papers to buy, I try to use up my stash! I also make an effort to do a bit more journaling. We went to the Museum of Natural History. At our local supermarket, one gets one pack of animal stickers for free. DD and DN love to collect them and we looked at all the animals of which we already had the stickers. So much fun!!

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Steps of Knowledge

DD loves going to museums! This is perfect, since I love them, too. Her favorite at the moment is the museum of natural history here in Vienna. I love this photo as she ascends the stairs to her favorite exhibits. With her serious face it almost looks like she is climbing the steps to knowledge.

Here is a close up of the flower/bird cluster. I went a bit nuts on the pearls but I love it. This is for the Friday challenge of Frosted Designs: monochromatic. It was an additional challenge for me since I scrapped in green. Something I do not do often!


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All the best,
Elisabeth

Farm Fun - Creative Srappers #140

My job requires a lot of my time at the moment. Therefore I only had time for a simple layout (and even this one was spread out over several days). I was simply too tired to do anything!

With winter hitting hard on us again, I needed some summer colors. Last summer we had a perfect day on the farm where DD then even walked the goat (or did the goat walk her?) A day full of feeding cows, cutting grass, "helping" on the farm. A real adventure for a city girl.

I got my new MS punch to work and I love it. The little dots are perfect to add some stitching. A bit of fussy cutting and that was it already. When I have time later, I might add a bit to the green background. On the photo it does seem a bit too green.

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Playing possum and all about me

On the weekend, I took DD and my niece to the museum of natural history, one of DD's favorite museums. Amongst others, we learnt that a possum acts dead and sticks its tongue out if it feels threaten. Both girls had to try this out right there in the museum. We had so much much!
A bit on the scrappy side. I hardly ever scrap about myself. Usually, I am the one with the camera in my hand. This is a layout about things I like and love. If you wonder what Grammelknödel are: dumplings with lard greaves


Here is a close up:

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Ingrediences for the perfect party / Sketchy Thursday.

Here is now the layout from my DD's birthday party. I based in on a sketch by Sketchy Thursday. It is great to have such a constant source of inspiration.

Since we had so many balloons (and still around the apartment LOL) I wanted to include them in the layout. I just made little ovals, used 3d foam pads and added a bit of silver.


I made the flower but just twisting some ribbon and tulle. Very simple.




The journaling reads:
Ingrediences for the perfect party.
5 friends
30 pink balloons
9 games
1 cake
129 sweeties
5 valentine's cards.

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All the best,
Elisabeth

Taming the letter monster plus mini box tutorial

DD loves her new Montessori reading cards. However, the letters were all over the place. I decided to give them a home (and save my sanity) by creating these mini boxes. Now, all letters are nicely cleaned up and she can actually find what she needs.

Here is what I did. Super simple and so useful. I used lots of pink themed papers, just what I had laying around. Scraps work great for this one.

Here is what you need: For one box you need two papers. 4x4 inch and 4,5 x 4,5 (this will be the lid)

Step 1. Score the paper like this.


Step 2. Fold the papers


Step 3: turn it over and repeat on other side.

Step 4: Keep folding

Step 5: Open it up again

Step 6: Make cuts on the sides and put glue in the middle.

Step 7: Start folding the sides over.



Step 8: Fold the flap over.



Step 9: Just press it down on the glue.

Step 10: Cut a little triangle on the side for a better grip.


Done!

All cleaned up and tidy!!
If you have any questions, just leave me a comment and I will try to explain it a bit better.
Thanks for stopping by!
All the best,
Elisabeth

Marina - Creative Scrappers 139

This cute little girl is the daughter of a good friend of mine. She is just a few months younger than my own DD and we try to meet on a regular basis. Given that we both work, it does not happen nearly often enough but when we meet, we have lots of fun together. She is just as active and funny as my DD however here I caught her fully concentrating on coloring in her book.


The LO is based on the sketch by Creative Scrappers 139. You can find the sketch here. I liked using the bella paper. The soft colors remind me of spring! With Vienna being rainy, cold and gray, this is the perfect therapy!

Here is a trick to get the punched paper line up exactly with the die cut. With an exacto knife, make small incisions in the die cut, just where you will want the punched papers strips. Then slide it through, with a pencil mark along the cut parts, pull the paper strips back out and cut with scissors along the pencil marks. Repeat on the other side and you have a perfectly matched paper strip!

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All the best,
Elisabeth