Milk & Cookies Collection: Surgary Sweet Layout by Mendi

Hello Doodlebugs!  It's Mendi here today with a couple happy holiday layouts using Doodlebug's adorable Milk & Cookies collection.

For my first layout, I went bright and airy, using many of the candy embellishments from the collection.  I thought it would be fun to substitute a few of the polka-dots in my paper for peppermints.  To help them stand out, I popped them up with foam dots and then layered them with the coordinating epoxy sprinkles from the collection.

I repeated the idea of layering, taking the holly berry sprinkles and layering them over my patterned paper border.   These photos of my daughter were taken on our sofa so I couldn't resist sneaking in my favorite image from the collection with the little Santa in the big overstuffed chair.  It makes me smile every time I see it.  ;)  For my gumdrop border I layered the clear acrylic gumdrops from the Odds & Ends pack with the gumdrops from the Icon Sticker sheet.  Love how the two look when mixed together!  

For my title I turned to the new Abigail alphabet stickers to spell out the word "favorite" and paired them with a word sticker from the This & That sticker sheet.  Since it was a bit tiny, I helped it stand out by mounting it on a banner and a little heart sprinkle.  Love how it all came together!

For my second layout today I couldn't resist using all the adorable gingerbread men from the collection to document our annual tradition of making a cookie gingerbread inspired house that my husband brings back from Japan each year.

I dressed up my gingerbread men using some of the tiny heart sprinkles found in the Milk & Cookies sprinkle set and paired the "sweet" word from the icon stickers with the word "tradition" spelled out with more of the cute Abigail alphabet stickers. To give my page a little color and an extra touch of sweetness, I create a patchwork scalloped border (using THIS die).  You could also achieve similar results by cutting apart a scalloped border from different prints and piecing it back together.  When I had it adhered to my page, I added a zig-zag stitch between each piece to continue the fun homespun feel.

I hope you will pull out that box of Christmas photos from years past and document some of your sweet holiday memories.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.  :)