Sadie's First Page

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Sadie is our daughter's dog. A Shepherd-Huskie Mix, she weighs in at about 85 pounds and gets around well for a 14-year-old dog. According to the UC Davis Book of Dogs, small-breed dogs (such as small terriers) then become geriatric at about 11 years; medium-breed dogs (such as larger spaniels) at 10 years; large-breed dogs (such as German Shepherd Dogs) at 8 years; and giant-breed dogs (such as Great Danes) at 7 years. (Wikepedia). According to this, Sadie has almost doubled her geriatric years. We thought we were losing her last month, but she rebounded and will be spending the day with me since my daughter is Air Guarding at the drop zone this afternoon.

On Monday night I started playing with a "Pet Pages" project and random stamped background papers and designs. I used a Jeanette R. Lynton's Reflections Scrapbook Program design layout (page 19) as a blueprint and handstamped my designs on Close To My Heart's Colonial White cardstock. Using Close to My Heart's Brown Bag cardstock as a background, I used three Exclusive Inks colors (Blush, Brown Bag and Sweet Leaf) to stamped my background papers. My puppy paws came from CTMH's Welcome Baby set (B1325). The doggie bones came from CTMH's Dog's Life set (C1316). The heart was from CTMH's Love Language (D1343)

Brothers

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As I was deciding on what to do with the second "Club Baby" double-page spread, I started thinking about Brayden's big brother Parker. I have an older brother who was cooler than cool in my kid sister eyes. I hope that Brayden and Parker will get along as well.

The nuclear family is not so nuclear anymore, especially with the "yours, mine and ours" construct. But brothers are brothers whether they are full-, half- or step-.


I appreciate Parker's capacity to love the big bruiser of a little guy who is taking so much of Mom's time and attention. But these pages prove beyond a doubt that "he aint heavey, he's my brother."


This is why I decided to make the second two-page project a brothers project, because no child should feel left behind.

I used Close To My Heart Emporium Level 2 papers to build the 2-page spread along with Sol0 "P" (B1240) and "B" (B1226) stamp sets. My journaling and title I generated on the computer and printed onto in vellum. Stickers are from theEmporium stickese pack, but I'm not sure whether they were Level I or II. The white crocheted flower is from CTMH's White Daisy Collection (Z1136), which be purchased on my website at http://www.dianecook.myctmh.com/. Actually, all of the CTMH products can be purchased on my website.



The two brothers stamped together at the top of the page next to the title is from CTMH's Family Ties -- Children collection. (C1345). I just ordered Family Ties -- Adults (C1346) and am looking forward to pairing them with the children in future projects.


I used Jeannette Lynton's Balanced Blocks layout from Cherish Scrapbook Layouts Made Beautifully Simple (CTMH Item # 9029) as a launchpoint. I normally prefer designing my projects on my computer and deciding what I'll use where. I sort of made this one up as I went along. All in all, I'm happy with the end result . . . now I suppose I'll have to make a page for my daughter-in-law . . .