Russian Teacake Cookies

Growing up as kids, I have memories of my mom baking Christmas cookies, and my sister and I would help mix the dough, shape the cookies and bake them. In fact, we even had our own mini-bake ovens. Today, I still enjoy baking Christmas Cookies. One of my favorites of all time is probably
Russian teacake cookies. Nothing compares to homemade cookies.

For this CSI challenge (220) I used stripes, flowers, ribbon, and a decorative border (lace). I journaled about my favorite Christmas cookie, the Russian teacake, homemade, of course.

The original challenge file:

Presents:

That's the best part of Christmas, at least it was as a child. I remember the anticipation, wondering what was in the wrapped presents. Then trying to figure it out by shaking them. Now, it's fun spending time with family and watching my family and niece open presents.

For Csi 219:
I scrapbooked some pictures from Christmas 2015. These are of my sister, her husband, and my niece. We all got together for a Christmas Day: Breakfast, Presents, reading the bible, and Christmas Dinner.

For this challenge, I used snowflakes (glitter and stenciled) ribbon, holiday decoration (pine branches and wrapped present), and journaled about my family celebrating Christmas.

Background paper is Heidi Swapp.
Flower is Prima (colored with green glimmer mist
Pine Branches are die cut from a Cheery Lynn die
Ribbon is Craft Narrows (from Michaels.)
Faux stitching was done Sakura Glaze pen.