Traditions - Christmas Crackers

I decided on my Christmas Traditions scrapbooking theme when I sat down for Christmas Lunch at my parents house. We were about to pull the Christmas Crackers. This is one of our good old fashioned British Traditions. So I grabbed the camera to take some photos for my layout.

"Christmas Crackers
No Christmas dinner table is complete without them.

They are part of the dinner table setting, one for each person. They are pulled before the meal starts. We pull them apart by holding one end and someone else across the table the other end. There is a snap inside that bangs when it’s pulled. If you still have the large end you win the gift. Each cracker contains a party hat, a small gift, and the “cracker joke” that is guaranteed to make the adults groan and the kids either puzzled or roar with laughter. Some also have trivia questions included too."

I saved some of the cracker jokes to scan in and add to my layout.

Today's challenge at the CKC blog is to create a layout that is Ombre, using graduating color from darkest shade to the lightest shade. I had a browse through my collection of 2-page sketches for one that would work with that scheme and picked out this one from Pagemaps.

Pagemaps Sketch from April 2009

Here's my completed layout. I found balancing my layout using the dark to light idea over 2 pages very challenging, it would have been simpler for a single pager.

I used items from my CKC challenge kit pulled together from Blue Winter kit by Cilenia Curtis, the free with purchase Be Merry Collab at Scrap Art Studio and By Becca's retired Magic Moments kit.