The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is the ideal time to document the holidays, while the memories are still as fresh as the mistletoe. Join me in pulling out  the Hip Kit Club December 2017 Main Kit and those perfectly imperfect holiday photos (are there any other kind?) and get scrapping!

‘Tis the season for gift-opening in bad lighting, frightfully disheveled hair on Christmas morning, fruitless efforts to get every family member to smile at the same time, and — in my case — a failed attempt to get that much-coveted super-cute-dog-with-lights photo. This layout serves as a tribute to the dogs who remind us in a most Griswoldian fashion to keep it real.Many of the December main kit’s papers have a painterly feel and a vibrant, festive technicolor pop, which I love. Because this kit is destined to be rendered into itty bitty scraps,  you may be relieved to learn that those scraps come together quite nicely in a layered and stitched photo mat.So don’t hesitate in giving those seemingly “flawed” photos a home on your next layout. They have a knack for prompting exactly the kinds of holiday stories and memories we all should be documenting.