Paws To Read - by Debbie
October 06, 2025
I'm sooooo excited to be playing with Gerda Steiner Designs release of "Peaking Over Puppies" and "Puppies and Cake." I usually like putting the images onto cards, but these puppies insisted on making an appearance on a bookmark. This bookmark will be making its way to the local library where my sheltie, Lucy and I volunteer (we're a certified animal therapy team). Every Saturday, she looks forward to kids coming and practicing their reading while she listens on.
You don't need any special die to create a bookmark, but I happened to have a stitched bookmark die from Lawn Fawn that I used for this one. It's so much fun to mix and match the puppies from the two sets, but I thought these four fit this one quite nicely. I fussy cut out the images and also cut the paws out separately so it would look like they were hanging on to the bookmark.
I chose to identify the breeds in this bookmark as a bulldog, a pug, a shih tzu, and a shetland sheepdog (the latter of course in honor of Lucy). I actually used Google AI to help identify some copic color combinations by breed:
Bulldog-E55, E53, E50
Pug-E35, E33, E31
Shih Tzu-E47, E44, E43, E42, E41
Sheltie-E35, E33, E31, E19, E18, E08
For all of their noses I used E79 and E74 and a white gel pen.
Who wouldn't love practicing reading with these cute little pups looking on, ready to mark (bookmark that is) the page. Enjoy!!
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