Another 3 page layout...here's the 2 page spread
Page 1 has a background of Home for the Holidays paper from the Merry Christmas collection from Echo Park. It was actually the back of my intro page paper and I loved it, so easy easy! The journaling block is from Ali Edwards Christmas Celebrations Element Pack from Designer Digitals. I created a blank doc in PS, dropped the journal block in, added the text and printed it on Cream Puff cardstock. The font is CK_ journaling, a free download from Creating Keepsakes
The journaling reads: Our advent activity today: hot cocoa by the fire. Daddy and Brecon went out together especially to buy marshmellos for our drinks. They even picked out the kind with holiday colors and shapes. We all made our own cocoa and Brecon chose the penguin mug (of course). Mommy and Brecon had chocolate with “smarshmarllos” and Daddy had caramel.Yum! We all cuddled up with our mugs in front of the fire to watch football It was a bit messy, Brecon had a hard time keeping his mug steady (he was too excited), but we had a fun time. Brecon liked seeing everyone get a cocoa “mushtash.” I wasn’t sure he’d like the hot chocolate, but he drank it right up. Loving these cozy times together!
Page 2: Another modified DD template. I think I used Peace and Joy for this one: turned off the overlay, and flipped the whole template vertically. I added a couple of digital elements at the bottom and printed the whole thing to fit the big box of my dated overlay page. The cocoa cups was a 3 step process: first I stamped 3 cups directly onto the cardstock page and added some red stitching for them to sit on. Next I stamped a cup onto 3 different patterned papers and fussy cut each of them out, cutting off the steam swirls. I stamped the 3 cups once more onto brown cardstock and fussy cut just the oval for the cocoa. Then I assembled the cups over the image on the cardstock and glued the cocoa ovals on top. Took a bit of time but I really love the result. Supplies: "celebrate" digital sticker from the Ali Edwards Christmas Celebrations Element pack from Designer Digitals; "most wonderful" word strip from the Ali Edwards Holiday Word Art set from Designer Digitals; brown cardstock from the Natural collection by DCWV; Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black by Tsukineko; red dot paper from Yuletide Designer Paper Collection by K& Co; Victorian Greetings paper from Christmas Past Collection by Graphics 45;
cocoa cup stamp by Michael's
a closer look at the cocoa cups
page 3 is one of my favorite pics from the whole season. Brecon loves that penguin mug! I used a DD template here (don't remember which since I erased the text) and added part of a brush from the Ali Edwards Handdrawn Holiday set from Designer Digitals (I just erased the part I didn't want to use here). I also added a little sparkly flourish brush, but I can't remember at the moment where I got it! I'll link it when I figure it out.
More to come soon!
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