Saturday, October 4, 2025
Shaker card by Noga Shefer
Hi :) My name is Noga. I live in Israel, married to Yaniv and have two cute boys and a dog. In the morning I work in marketing in our nursery and at night I create cards. This is my therapy :)
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Did someone say cake?!?!?!?
Cake, treat, dinner, you name it and a pup is going to come running when they hear one of those words!! And with Gerda Steiner Designs release of "Peeking Over Puppies" and "Puppies and Cake" they are sure to come running, or peeking out, at the sound of the word "cake!"
I thought the Knock Knock, Who's There? interactive die from Lawn Fawn was the perfect die to showcase these puppies and their readiness for a big old piece of cake!! The little fence section that comes with the "Peeking Over Puppies" set works perfectly for setting the scene and hiding the pug until he hears the word "cake." To accommodate the die, I stamped out the fence multiple times across the card about 1/2" above the bottom of the card and then just extended the lines of the fence with a black pen.
I fussy cut out the pups and for the two peeking over the fence, I cut out the paws separately, so they could hang over the fence. I colored with copic markers with these breeds in mind:
Pug-E35, E33, E31
Goldendoodle-YR23, YR21, E43, E42
Shih Tzu-E47, E44, E43, E42, E41
Their noses are done with E79 and E74 white gel pen.
Fence-E25, E23, E21
Now, who's ready for some CAKE?!?!?
Paws To Read
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!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
A CAS card by Noga Shefer
Hi :) My name is Noga. I live in Israel, married to Yaniv and have two cute boys and a dog. In the morning I work in marketing in our nursery and at night I create cards. This is my therapy :)
It's Time to PAW-TY with Cake!
I took pups from both sets and the cake from "Puppies and Cake" to make this scene. It takes a little masking (my biggest fear), but then it's super easy!
See you again soon!






