Early Gift

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In the last few years we have started a new tradition around Christmas time. We have started to have an early family gift or two throughout the month before Christmas. The idea behind this is that the kids get to open an early gift and that gift leads to some quality family fun time. This year we had gotten a good deal on laser guns during Black Friday. Instead of saving them we decided to make this the early family gift! It was a huge hit and even Jason and I had fun running around shooting at the kids. 

To scrap this these photos I used a sketch from the Sketch n Scrap blog, one of my favorite sketch challenge sites. 

The Sketch:



My Layout:


To Create this Layout:

Fancy Pants Designs: Happy Holidays by Jackie Eckles - Snowfall paper
Christmas tag and sticker from my stash
Heidi Swapp: Glitter Ephemera 
Bits and Pieces Cricut Cartridge: banner
'Awesome' Cricut Font and Pen: title
Washi tape from stash



Thank you so much for stopping by!



Blessings!



Comments

  1. LoriNovember 18, 2019 at 6:32 PM

    What a fun tradition! Your layout is really cute! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  2. Amy PittsNovember 19, 2019 at 12:08 PM

    Love this page and I love your tradition! Very nice. Thank you for joining along with us over at Sketch N Scrap.

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  3. LisaNovember 20, 2019 at 5:33 AM

    Sounds like a fun tradition!! Great job with the sketch! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  4. DeannaNovember 21, 2019 at 3:08 AM

    Love that beautiful background and great work with the sketch! Thanks so much for joining us at Sketch N Scrap! ~Deanna :)

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  5. StacyLeeNovember 23, 2019 at 4:07 PM

    Sounds like fun! What a terrific job with the sketch, the pictures of your fun family tradition worked perfectly for the multi-photo sketch! The pretty background colors you chose really complement your pictures, too. Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap!

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