Faimly Time ~ Scraps of Darkness

I truly hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families & friends.  I myself had an ongoing 3 days of never ending "excitement".  I really crashed afterward.  I am hoping for a relaxing New Year and wish you all the same.

I made this page for my family Christmas party that has been skipped the past 2 years due to my mom's passing on Dec 20, 2010.  Shame on us kids for skipping it last year!  Finally we came through and had one.  This page was my white elephant gift, which I did frame.  I wanted to see my siblings fight tooth and nail over this, since it is a very special memory of my mom's last Christmas in 2009, and of course because I made this lol.  My SIL is the one who unwrapped this and ran down the hallway to hide it, so no one would "steal" it from her.  Great reaction, right lol?

 

The papers, burlap and the Artisan swirl for used for the title are from previous Scraps of Darkness kits. 

I made this bow embrace the page, letting it flow some for 3D effects.  I tried to add different elements for 3D effects, since this was going to be framed, I had no worries of bulkiness.

Joy

This is a page I made to frame for my family's White Elephant gift exchange ( I better watch them fight over it or else lol). I have some amazing friends who contributed to this lo. Thank you so much. This is almost all of us at our annual family Christmas party in 2009.

I really tried to do something different, so I did some wet distressing and added some lace to some corners. I made my own garland with ribbon, candy canes and bows.

The gold leaves, I cut from a big arrangement.

The reindeer is an ornament from the dollar store.

The presents are ornaments, that I cut in half and rearranged to fit better on the page.