Isn’t it amazing how these little balls of fur become such a part of the family? The love they give and vice versa is something pretty special. My daughter’s cat has enjoyed laying on my chest ever since we got him…3 1/2 years ago. He will on rare occasions do it to the others in the house, but generally it’s just me…unless I’m gone and he gets desperate…like the other day when all us  girls went to California and he was left for few days with the hubs. I got a selfie of the cat laying on Dan’s chest. Too cute.

So perhaps today is a day for documenting the love of our furry friends, like our friend Miss Laura has done here with her cute little puppy. Fabulous spreads!

 

 

 

 

 

Hey everyone! We welcomed a new addition to our family several months ago – a cute little Maltipoo puppy named Milo – and I figured it was about time to start documenting his cute little self on paper. I decided to go with travelers notebook sized pages, which I will be adding to his own Life Crafted album (from Citrus Twist). 

For his first official layout, I kept it every simple. I used a full page photo on the left side of the spread, adding his name using Kerri’s new Headline Lower XL stamps. I like stamping chunkier font alpha stamps individually, and fussy cutting them out. Not only does this give me more control over placement on my project (I’m not the straightest stamper!), but it also adds a little texture to my pages, since I like to keep them relatively flat. Since I stamped my letters using yellow ink, to match the yellow patterned paper on the opposite page, I used a fine tip pen to lightly outline each letter to help them stand out. For the right side of the spread, I printed out my journaling (copied and pasted from an Instagram post), and added a few pieces of patterned paper. 

The second layout features a couple of cute photos that my youngest daughter, Sarah, took with Milo a few weeks after we got him. I printed the photos as 3×4’s, adhering one on either page of the spread. I stamped the word “love” using the Headline Lower XL stamp set, fussy cutting out each letter individually to adhere on the top half of the left page. I then stamped “the”, taken from the same stamp set, directly to the page above “love” to complete my title. I also stamped a few phrases from the new Block of Togetherness stamp set around the edges of the first photo. After adding a few stamped ink blotches to the white cardstock background, using the Inked stamp set, I finished off the spread with a few puffy star stickers and enamel dots.

I don’t scrap in the travelers notebook size regularly, so I often forget how quick these little pages can go together. I think this size will be perfect for creating simple pages about our newest family member, and documenting his little stories.