Christmas Cards

Most years I like to scrapbook a page to store the Christmas Cards that we've received this year in.  Maybe kinda weird but I like to look back sometimes and see the cards and letters from our friends and family.




So here is the finished product for 2010. 
I also made a page to match with our Christmas Card.

 The ingredients are to follow...

 First was the paper selection.  Our family photo was taken in October before the snow.  So it was more of a fall picture.  Lots of rich orange and browns.

Our family photo was taken by a young up and coming photographer that lives in our neighborhood.  Kaitlyn  is a senior in high school and extremely talented.  She has quite the eye for photography.

 My inspiration/idea page.

 For Christmas Santa brought me a Cricut Expression.  I found this cool program called Sure Cuts A Lot.  It takes clipart and lets you cut it out with your Cricut machine.

 The "E" didn't turn out quite right so I had to punch out the middle.

 Now for the ribbon...plain brown or...

 or maybe with a little gold...

 or maybe bring in some black

 This is why it takes so long to make a page.  Decisions, decisions, decisions!

 Even the puppy dogs are getting tired out.

 And here is the final result. 

And here are some previous years. 

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