Adopt a Shelter Pet Blog Hop

Welcome to Scrappy and Piggy and the CookingWithCricut.com “Adopt A Shelter Pet” Hop! October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, but we wanted to honor and celebrate all of our furry friends! If you've come from visiting Melin at the Cooking With Cricut blog, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to hop along with us, you can go to CookingWithCricut.com and start at the beginning.

We recently adopted a new puppy. She is a little mutt, but we love her. I have used my cricut to make this layout and display some of her adorable baby pictures.

For this project I used two different cricut cartridges. For the little Snooki dog I used Paper Pups. I have to say this little dog looks a lot like her. For the rest of the layout, I used the Cricut Imagine cartridge Baby Boutique. This cartridge has some great elements. I printed and cut the frame with the crown and the title. The background paper which is kind of hard to see in the picture was also printed on the Imagine as well as the giraffe print border on the bottom. I added some bling to the crown and the title because you can never have enough bling!

I do have a small blog candy package to give away to one person who leaves a comment on this post.

Now it's your turn! Link up your purr-fectly wonderful pet-themed project at CookingWithCricut.com. Here are a few guidelines:

Must follow the challenge topic.
Must be a NEW project for this challenge. No back dated posts please.
Must have a link back to this post on your blog.
Must link your project post through Inlinkz and not just your blog.
Must use your Cricut in some capacity.
Must HAVE FUN!
You may gladly combine challenges . . . we love to pile it on TOO!

The Design Team will pick their three favorites and one lucky person will be chosen randomly to win one of the prize packages being offered in this hop. There is also a prize package for just leaving us some love (a comment) on the CWC blog. One catch, those leaving comments MUST be a CWC follower. Each prize winner will receive a $20 gift voucher-download from PaperCraftingWorld.com. The Design Team’s top three will each receive $5.00 gift voucher-download from PaperCraftingWorld.com.

Now head on over Adrian’s blog at byadrain4u to see what they’ve cooked up for you!

“Adopt A Pet” Blog Hop Participants:
Melin-CWC http://www.CookingWithCricut.com
Mindy - http://scrappyandpiggy.blogspot.com
Adrian - http://www.byadrian4u.blogspot.com
Charlotte - http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com
Madison - http://funkycards.blogspot.com
Nita - http://www.niftynitanotes.blogspot.com
Jill - http://www.jaihartjustlovelydesigns.blogspot.com
Holly - http://ribbonsandglue.blogspot.com
Maria Elena - http://mariaelenaworld.blogspot.com
Linda - http://www.lindascreativity.blogspot.com
Heather http://www.heather-p.blogspot.com
Felicia - http://scrapperinthemaking.blogspot.com
Court - http://courtscraftcorner.blogspot.com
Elizabeth - http://ejoym.blogspot.com
Debbie - http://workinscrappinmomof4.blogspot.com
Dalis - http://stampergirl.com
Jen - http://gator-4-life.blogspot.com

Snow Dog

We had a blizzard here on Christmas Eve and my daughter and the dog just couldn't resist getting outside and playing in all the snow.  It turns out Dingo is a real snow dog.  The Just Buggin challenge this week is to make a project that has something to do with pets, so I figured this was a perfect time to actually make a layout using some of the pictures I took of them playing in the snow.  It's been a long time since I actually made a

layout.  I used Coredinations cardstock for my base and cut some Bazzil swiss dots paper for the reddish strip across the top.  The patterned paper I used is Basic Grey and I think it is from the fruitcake collection.  It's either fruitcake or figgy pudding.  I cut the dog from Paper Pups and added a little snow hat from Everyday Paper Dolls and covered her with some polar white flower soft to make her look like Dingo looks in the picture.  She was almost white when she came in from playing.  I cut the Snow Dog title from Don Juan and welded it together.  I substituted paw prints for the o's.  Well, it feels good to make a layout.  Even if it is only one page, picture were printed and put on paper- that's a big first step!!!!