Time for traditions with EAD!!!

Well I think this is my favorite time of year (minus the cold). I love getting all the holiday decorations out and setting up the tree. Today for our blog hop we are sharing traditions. My tradition is that after we've ate our big Thanksgiving meals we get out the Christmas tree and holiday decorations and start putting them up. I love decorating the tree. I also love finding ornaments for our tree since we got married 3 years ago and didn't bring any ornaments with us. Our first ornament we got together is a pretty silver heart that says our Christmas together 2006, and our most recent one is a wood piece with a turtle design on it that we found in Hawaii this past June. I've also had a fascination with penguins since I was little so I've picked up a bunch of them along the way too. In amongst these ornaments are brightly colored glass ornaments too that I think mean just as much to me as the other ones. Call me crazy they are just regular ornaments with no special meaning or story to go with them, but each one is pretty and different. They complete the tree perfectly! Another tradition I had as a little kid was around this time of year I had my Mom read me my favorite book - The Velveteen Rabbit. I look forward to someday sharing that book when I have children!




Ok, on to my project. I decided to do a 2 page layout featuring my tree and a few of my favorite ornaments. I used a few different sets of vinyl which include - Alphabet(title and brackets around jouraling), Christmas Friends(curly brackets around title), Christmas Sentiments 1 (holly leaves and berries), Christmas Sentiments 2(red star/flower), and Snowflakes (silver snowflake).
I used scrap pieces for my little squares and outlined them with a glitter pen and the snowflake, holly leaves, and star/flower with a white gel pen.

My Recipe:
*Vinyl-Alphabet(title and brackets around jouraling), Christmas Friends(curly brackets around title), Christmas Sentiments 1 (holly leaves and berries), Christmas Sentiments 2(red star/flower), and Snowflakes (silver snowflake)
*white gel pen, glitter pen
*kraft, red,and green cardstock
*red and green markers
*corner rounder


Well I hope you enjoyed my traditions. Make sure you check out the rest of the design team

Amy - Jenn - Lynnette - Raechelle

for their traditions. Make sure you leave us all some love and then head back over to the EAD Designs blog to let Emily know you visited us and you'll be entered in for a chance to win a gift certificate to the store!