Christmas Tags and a Card for Fun

It was so nice to sit down last night and get a few of these gift tags out of the way. I am pretty good at making sure we have enough wrapping paper in the house via end of season sales. Gift tags, ribbons, etc. always seem superfluous...until I'm wrapping a gift. Not this year! I got the jump on these tags last night while relaxing with my dh. After I had finished making about 16-20 of them, I felt like watercoloring something so I stamped the house and decided to make a card just for fun. This won't be one I'll mass produce, too much time, but I really like how it turned out. We have a gingerbread house kit waiting for assembly, maybe tomorrow. All supplies are from Stampin' Up, except for the cardstock for the gingerbread card. That is stamped on some yummy Fabriano Medioevalis paper I ordered from StarLit Studio.

Tonight is a Christmas play at church. My oldest two each have a fairly significant speaking role and Sophie is an angel (typecasting, I know). It is an interesting format. There are 5 times of 3 "travellers" who will take groups on an "interactive tour of Bethlehem." The "travellers" (Noah and Olivia are both cast in one of these roles) have a dialogue that they perform while escorting a group through the church to various locations (ie. Bethlehem Inn, the census registry, the manger, etc.). They've had extra practices for several weeks for the speaking parts and we have been rehearsing at home. Energies are high here today!