Holiday Tradition: Christmas Eve with Stephanie

Hi, Stephanie here! Today I have my traditions layout to share with you.

Traditions are such an important part of the holidays for me, especially Christmas.

Although my family has many of them, the Christmas eve candlelight service at our church is my favorite tradition of all. 

Last year I took these pictures during it and have wanted to scrap them for a while, so this assignment came along and now I'm happy.

Home For The Holidays is such a great Christmas collection. I always like the shades of red and green that Doodlebug uses for their Christmas themes. I love the addition of grey and some of the sugar coated cardstock sheets make this collection super versatile.  

With this collection I like that you can either deck your layouts in full red and green color and patterns or you can let them be soft with the white and grey then add little pops of red and green where needed like I did with mine.

Whatever your holiday traditions may be, I think you'll find Home For The Holidays the perfect collection to tell their story.

Holiday Memories & Gift Candles by Jodi

Hi everyone! Jodi here today to share with you a couple of gifts that I made! The first gift I made is for my coworker, but she is much more than that to my family! I wanted to create a personalized gift since she helps so much with my three kids. I decorated a little house (Maya Road)  and added some winter pictures to tie in the whole winter scene.  

I used some Washi Tape to create the roof and added the fancy frill sticker at the bottom for a fun touch to the roof! I wanted to create garland so I diecut 6 hearts and added some bling to resemble Christmas Lights, and used the twine to hang the lights. I added the wreath sticker to the center of the roof to tie it all together:

I had one square left over and decided to create a little home scene with Doodlepops:

I love how this project turned out, and I hope she will love it too!

My next project I had both my older kids help me with! We created some candle holders by wrapping washi tape from the Home for the Holidays collection around each glass candle holder. We then added some die cut hearts to two sides  and of course the cute bows that tie it all together! A simple but super cute project that my kids can not wait to give to their teachers!

Gift Card Holder + Holiday Treat Set

Gift Card Holder
by Tya Smith

A big Ho-Ho-Hello to You! Tya here and I am going to show to you today a nifty little gift card holder that would be perfect for a special teacher, co-worker, or neighbor. Gift card holders are somewhat impersonal and not so cute. I decided to use my stash from the Home for the Holidays line to jazz the gift card up. I  used this tutorial on Splitcoaststampers as well. I adore fun fold cards. They add such a wow factor to giving a card!

Diagonal Double Pocket Card 

Along with the gift card ,I added one of our cute pixies and then slipped a little treat in the top fold as well. I love that this also doubles as a greeting card on the inside so that you can add a personal sentiment wishing the recipient a Happy Holiday!
Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to pick up some Home for the Holidays so you can make your own holders!

Treat Mix with Card

by Stephanie Buice

Hello everyone, Stephanie here to share with you a gift that I made for my hubby to give to one of his co-workers/friends. She's always been so helpful and giving to us so I thought I'd take my turn and return the favor. My motto is that giving is always better than receiving and this time of year is my favorite to do just that, to give.

For this project I baked up some of my hubby's favorites and put them in a canister that she could reuse for other goodies on her desk at work.This came together rather quickly which is perfect for me in all the crazy that's happening right now. 

Mostly everything I used is from the home for the holidays collection, I adhered a 4x6 simply put card to the front of it with some Doodlebug washi tape and decorated the top of the container with some patterned paper and a mini bow. I then filled that baby up and called it quits, done, fini, haha.

Here's a close up of the goodies and 4x6 card:

To finish off this gift I made a card to match, the mini doodlepops also made this a quick part of the project. 

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did making it. So go pull out some Doodlebug goodness and spread some Christmas cheer, giving really is better I promise.