Christmas Cookies

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  I had a lovely holiday and what made it so special was my family.  I am so fortunate that my  family lives near me and we are able to be together.

I finished this layout today and while I was working on it I thought of my kids when they were younger and decorated their special cookies for Santa.  My mom found the recipe in a magazine 55 years ago, and the cookies have been made every year since then.  My kids are  older now and do not help with the decorating, only the eating.

I used several different  papers on this layout; We R Memory Keepers, Merry & Bright, Die Cuts With A View Glittered Christmas Stack and K & Company Christmas Deluxe Stack. I also used several Cricut cartridges.  I used the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to cut out the large circle, then used the Cricut Design Studio to cut out a frame to go around the circle.

I used Joys of the Season cartridge to cut out the word Christmas

I used Winter Woodland cartridge to cut out the word Cookies and From My Kitchen for the pink matting.

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Christmas Cheer to cut out the candy canes, and then added Stickles to them.  I used Xmas Red, Lime Green and Pink.

The scalloped die cut is from We R Memory Keepers.  I added some aqua velvet ribbon by Flair Designs, and some flat backed colored pearls, and then placed I red doily on top which I inked. 

All of the embellishments are from my stash. Most are by Jolees, Bazzill and Recollections.  I also had a big bag full of buttons and found the gingerbread men in there along with the gumdrops.   Some I have had for ages and it felt good to finally use them.  I also added some gingerbread men by Me and My Big Ideas.

 

The family traditions embellishment is from Bazzill.  I think I bought it 3 years ago.  I was delighted to see that it went with my layout.

 Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!  Now what should I work on next??