color challenge no.21

well it's been quite some time, huh!? hope everyone had a very special holiday season and is getting back into the swing of things. i know i am.

i stayed up way too late last night to make a card for dawn's challenge this week. it's been on my to-do list for several days but time is getting away from me. other things keep popping up lately and i haven't had time to do a whole lot of scrapping.

can i just say how much i love dawn's challenges? she seems like the sweetest gal. her colors this week are chocolate, light yellow, cream and light teal. hope you like my card! (ps we had to buy a new computer over the holidays - ug i know right...both my desktop and michael's laptop went kaput at the same time - so! this is the first time i've used this version of Paint so i hope my picture cropping isnt' too crazy! haha!)

xoxo andie...

handmade christmas cards

morning!

i wanted to share the christmas cards that i made this year. the stamp set is from american crafts...isn't that ornament so sweet?! although i still have not worked myself up to making everyone on the list a handmade card, i did about half of them this year, so 16 total were handmade by me. that is a lot of trimming and gluing!

xoxo andie...

color challenge no.20

hiya!

this week i remembered to check the deadline for dawn's raspberry suite color challenge. last week i missed it by a couple of days! haha...so goes life. the challenge colors this time are soooo cute and cozy and i just loved working on this one. i decided to make a cute little tag this time, as i am getting quite the collection of cards.

but if you've got time, check out the card drives that jennifer mcquire (jennifermcquire has been promoting...it makes you feel so good to create something cute to send to a special little child. i sent some around halloween time, one for a girl named kate & one for a little boy named eric. she's added a lot more kids this time around so go make some cards!!!

do you have your christmas shopping completed yet? i sure do not! i have barely started...i've just been busy with stuff around the house. and both the laptop and desktop computers died this weekend...so we had to go buy a new one over the weekend. talk about an unexpected expense...especially around the holidays!

hope your week is fantastic!

xoxo andie...

cute new owl

morning!

my birthday was a couple of weeks ago and i told my mom all that i wanted was this cute little owl die-cut. of course, she sent that one thing along with a package of other fun scrapbooking stuff, which i love love love! i made a couple of cards to share using my cute new owl. the only hard thing is gluing down the eyes and beak because the pieces are soooo tiny.

it's just starting to get cold where i live and i'm already ready for springtime! once christmas is over, just bring back that warm summer sun, mother nature. i can skip all of the cold stuff!

xoxo andie...

Color Challenge No.19

well hello there...hope everyone had a lovely thanksgiving. mine was good! the mr. and i stayed home this year and i cooked thanksgiving dinner for us, plus his 2nd cousin and his son ended up joining us. everything went well...& the turkey was delicious. only mishap was the dinner rolls got a little too done but they were still edible, so no complaints. i only started to panic at the very end when everything was getting done at the same time...i was trying to stir the gravy and mash the potatoes at one time, while the corn casserole timer was buzzing and i needed to put in the buns in the oven all at once!

anyhow, i made this card for dawn's raspberry suite color challenge no. 19. i just clicked over to her blog only to find out that this challenge ended 2 days ago. nothing wrong with being a little late, right? but alas, i thought i would share this card anyhow.

have a great evening!

p.s. i'm putting up the christmas tree tomorrow! can't wait!

xoxo andie...

A Birthday Card

Morning!

I just wanted to share this cute card I made for my mom for her birthday. That owl is from a cute stamp set I got recently made by TPC Studio. Not much else is new...

Have a goodie!

xoxo andie...

a new challenge

hello all...it's sure been awhile...i've been busy at home & have hardly had time for scrapping! plus i started reading twilight (i succumbed finally! eeek it's so good!) my mr. is finishing up the living room remodel and then i decided to start painting the sunroom. you can see what it is looking like in the background of my pic. it was a knotty wood room, and i decided it needed to be brightened up! but it's sure been a lot of work...and it's not even done yet!

anyhow! i've been noticing challenges some of you have been doing for embellish magazine and decided to join in this week...especially because owls are my favorite thing in the whole world. if i could, i'd decorate my whole house in owls...but that might not go over well with the mr. so i will just have to settle with a couple here and there + having fun with them on my cards and scrapbooking! so this is what i came up with for embellish magazine.com's color challenge with owls!