Santa Buddy

Here is our Santa Paws Buddy card from 2010. The background is transparent.

Rescue Pets Rock

This design has a transparent background. One version has white text for a dark t-shirt. Another has only the rocker with the pets - no text - so anyone can easily add the name of their own rescue, their rescue transport, their local shelter, their favorite rescue hero ... whatever they want to say about rescue pets.

Each Monday after finishing a post on a successful Sunday rescue transport, Miss Khyra's mom ends with, "RESCUES ROCK!!!!" One day we had the urge to "prove" they do. For real. In a rocking chair.

We wanted Jan to use actual rescue pets from the local shelter. She found the perfect cat photo right away. That handsome tabby is not our Percy. The cat was at the local Petsense but he was up for adoption from the shelter.

There was a cute white dog posing nicely that Jan sat in the chair with him. But when she uploaded the design to zazzle, the dog disappeared into the background of a t-shirt, card or whatever. She must have tried substituting a dozen different dogs, but wasn't happy with any of the results.

Finally, although she hated to "cheat" on her own plan, she decided she would have to use one of us woofies. Then it dawned on her, Merci was adopted from the shelter. (Hey, Jan, we could have told you that.) And so, Merci with her flying flap ears joined the tabby as a poster dog for rescue.

We love this design because rescues really do rock. They make wonderful companions and offer just as much love and loyalty as any purebred. 

Note: the graphics posted here are low quality. The actual designs are high quality.

We have made several variations of this.

Paws for Peace

We always seem to be running late. Our intentions are good but ... well, Jan hogs the computer. We did manage to participate in Mimi Lenox's BlogBlast for Peace 2010, though. We plan to participate on November 4 of this year, and for once we're starting early. The way time is passing, November will be here before we finish typing this post.

So we began with a "Paws for Peace" design for our store. Humans should recognize that animals, too, need peace - peace from human neglect, cruelty and mass "euthanasia."

This design has a transparent background.

The web site says new templates for BBfP will be posted, so keep checking back with blogglastforpeace.com.  BBfP is also on Facebook and they've been doing a countdown of 100 reasons for peace. If you're on FB, check them out.

(This design is not a part of BlogBlast for peace or any campaign. We are expressing our thoughts and feelings on the subject of peace.)

Adopt and Spay-Neuter

Jan tries to put photos she has taken of shelter animals to good use. So our first design post will be on adopt a shelter pet  and also on spay/neuter. We're not going to cover all the designs to date on adoption today. 

In this series, she deliberately used dark photos of dogs and cats behind bars because that's how she sees them at the shelter. Perhaps things are different at a shelter you are familiar with, but here and in many other shelters, this is how they spend their usually brief stay.

Jan always feels sad when she sees the animals in cages. Some are terrified. Most beg for attention.  A few dogs curl into a ball.  Cats try to hide in the litter box. Their eyes beg for freedom. She knows what will happen to most of them.