Building Houses

This year we added gingerbread house building to our fun Christmas activities! We bought kits from Michael's and spread everything out to make sure we were set. I took bunches of pictures and was super excited when I found the cute gingerbread house sticker on the sticker sheet from BoBunny's Mistletoe collection! BoBunny's layout inspiration for December featured this photo which again reminded me of the gingerbread houses...

It also worked out perfectly for the December Child's Play Challenges December challenge using a gingerbread house as inspiration!

I used a sketch from Scrap Much? for inspiration on my layout to take advantage of using strips of the fun colored papers...

and created this layout...

A Winter's List

Having caught up with printing photos, I was super excited to get some new winter papers including Echo Park's Winter Wishes line.

I used a sketch from Scrap Much?...

to inspire my layout...

I also did the scrappy friends NOEL challenge..
for Kerys's blog I did N-number in the title
for Kristi B's blog I did O-used an oval
for Rochelle's blog I did E-used five eyelets
for Brenda's blog I did L-used lined paper and a list

The Paper Loft Sketch Challenge

I picked up some adorable bicycle paper from The Paper Loft at CKC Seattle and I have so many bike riding pictures I was excited to use it! The line is called Everyday Life and features pretty colors of blues, yellows, and red.

This month on The Paper Loft blog, they are hosting a sketch challenge. Of course I love a sketch challenge to get me inspired.

I used the design for the base of my layout and I added photos on top. I featured photos of Jack riding the modified bikes at Lattin's Cider Mill.

I pleated the paper to make it look ribbon like, added some buttons and fabric Thickers for the title.

Frosted Designs Twelve Days of Christmas

This month I have been participating in Frosted Designs 12 Days of Christmas challenges! With fun winter and Christmas inspiration, I was able to complete all twelve challenges!
The First Day of Christmas: Use on bird on your layout
I also used the sketch for December at C'est Magnifique Kits here.

The Second Day of Christmas: Use two stamps on your project

The Third Day of Christmas: Use three mists/inks/paints

The Fourth Day of Christmas: Use four different patterned papers

The Fifth Day of Christmas: Use five gold things ( I used two gold pearl flourishes, one gold rhinestone accent, gold paper in the background, and the gold frame.)

The Sixth Day of Christmas: Use six washi tape strips

The Seventh Day of Christmas: Use seven snowflakes

The Eight Day of Christmas: Use eight brands/products on your pages
(I used Bo Bunny paper, My Mind's Eye paper, Colobok cardstock, DCWV cardstock, Little Yellow Bicycle corrugated pieces, American Crafts Thickers, American Crafts stamps, Heidi Swapp star)

The Ninth Day of Christmas: Use nine pearls/sparkles

The Tenth Day of Christmas: Use ten buttons

The Eleventh Day of Christmas: Use eleven banner flags

The Twelfth Day of Christmas: use twelve brads
For this layout I also used the Midweek Mojo sketch at Scrapbook Steals found here.

Sketch N Scrap

December at Sketch N Scrap featured some elegant and simple layouts for inspiration.
I used Sketch #237...

to inspire this layout of Luke and Hannah on our Santa Train ride:

This sketch, #239...

inspired this layout of Hannah & Hannah getting ready for their recital:

Bo Bunny Mistletoe

I've been trying to keep up with this year's Christmas photos so I won't get further behind and was inspired when I picked up some new papers.
BoBunny's Mistletoe line has a playful childlike feel to it which was perfect for photos of the kids.

I used a sketch from Sketch N Scrap here for inspiration...

for this layout...

My Creative Sketches December Sketch

I am working on getting some of our Christmas photos scrapped now, rather than waiting as long as I usually do! This week I was inspired by a sketch on My Creative Sketches...

and used papers I just got in my Webster's Warehouse Box that just arrived!