Oh my gosh, I had so much fun making these easy to make healthy dog treats, that both Biscuit and Bandito LOVE!!! I got the recipe (detailed below) from this fabulous book,\u00a0Eco Dog: Healthy Living for Your Pet<\/a><\/span>, which also has great recipes for healthy homemade dog food, gentle cleaners and shampoos, doggy sewing craft projects, and so much more! \u00a0HINT: This could make a great holiday gift!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Then to be able to document this in my December Daily was crazy fun! LOL Seriously, I had a blast! \u00a0I made a little stencil using a Fiskars paw print punch. Then I mixed some brown acrylic paint with some latex caulk to use with the stencil to make it appear as though there were doughy paw prints up the page. I snapped a picture of the doggy cookie cutters and taped them in using some silver and gold glitter washi tape. I hand wrote in some thoughts I had about making these faux gingerbread dog cookies, and finished off the page using the border punch from the Martha Stewart Crafts Punch Around The Page Aspen Set<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to decorate the\u00a0hole reinforcement strips.<\/p>\n

For the next page, I created my own background patterned paper by printing out a close up of the finished cookies (life size). \u00a0Then I decided I wanted to add\u00a0a traditional shaker (not a sewn acetate one like I’ve made recently). I printed out the cookies photo\u00a0again, a bit smaller so it would fit better in the Polaroid frame from the Sizzix Jillibean Soup “I Heart This” Die Set<\/a><\/span>, and used some scrap acetate (from some left over embellishment packaging), some thin strips of foam adhesive, and some pale pink and teal sequins to create a shaker.\u00a0\u00a0HINT: To avoid having the sequins accidentally stick to the sides of the shaker, brush on a thin coating of baby powder or baking soda along the edges before taking the backing off the foam adhesive and adding the back panel of the shaker.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I taped on some sheer teal ribbon to the sides of the page and tied a bow on the front. With the tails of the bow, I created a kind of net\/pocket by taping those to the back of the page too. It’s a loose structure, but it works just fine to hold the shaker card in place.<\/p>\n

The following is a video share of these pages:<\/p>\n