Color The Way: Bugaboo Birthday Celebration Mini Challenges!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Bugaboo Birthday Celebration Mini Challenges!

Bugaboo Mini Challenges - All week!!

As I have explained in my prior posts, Bugaboo Stamps is celebrating their 1st Birthday with a Blog Hop and a week of mini challenges. Yes..I am doing the challenges! How could I pass up this opportunity? Using stamps that I am crazy about and a reason to make cards/projects, what else could I ask for? More hours in the day maybe. Its now after 9pm and I am finally getting around to uploading my card. A little late for my liking, but its been done, just needed to get things typed up here and loaded besides the other 15 things I was trying to do today! I will add to this post as I enter the challenges daily.

Monday Mini Challenge - Blue and White

Ok..without further ado....Here is my Monday submission for the Bugaboo Mini challenge. The theme is Blue and White, so to kick off the start of the mini challenges I thought an announcement card was appropriate.

*Hugs*
~Andrea

3 comments:

AmyJanuary 18, 2011 at 12:08 AM
This is so cute!! I love the sentiment ;) I like how you sketched them side by side. Thanks so much for helping us with the Birthday celebration over at Bugaboo's Catch the Bug!!
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CatherineJanuary 18, 2011 at 9:34 AM
Thank you for joining us at Bugaboo with such a great card ! Good luck ! SMiles from Catherine
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BrendaJanuary 18, 2011 at 4:21 PM
love it!!! Love the ribbon with the image!
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Our Rescue Dogs

Here are some pics of our two dogs that we rescued from shelters.
Sabrina is part schipperke and part chow and is entirely black including her tongue! She only weighs 45 pounds so is a medium sized dog and her hair is as soft as silk! We went to look at puppies at the shelter (Angel Ridge Rescue) but my younger sister saw Sabrina and pointed her out from among all of the dogs that were running around the outdoor play area. What a beautiful sight she was! She was rescued from a home and we had no details on her life before her rescue. She once had a very bad case of separation anxiety, which is now completely gone and she is our sweet loving girl. I call Sabrina my Velcro dog, because she loves being near me. She loves attention and quickly makes friends with everyone because of her sweet temperament.

Jake is part mini schnauzer and part West Highland Terrier and was one of 36 dogs rescued from an apartment (yes..an apartment!) which was running an internet puppy mill for these little sweeties. Jake weighed 15 pounds and had a very severe case of being afraid of everything and everyone. When we saw him at our local animal shelter (Animal Friends) he was hiding under the bed and as soon as I saw his sweet face, I knew in my heart he was what our house and Sabrina needed...a new friend! Jake is now what I call my Super glue dog, because he not only wants to be near me, but he prefers being attached to me permanently!!

After meeting Jake, my older sister adored him from the start. I called up a friend who volunteers at Animal friends and was informed that all 36 had been adopted out. About less than a week or so I got a call that someone had actually returned one of the mini schnauzer/westie mixes! How could they? Why would they? Who cared?? My sister was given the opportunity to own one of Jake's friends/relatives!!

Well as it turned out we are convinced that Zoe (my sisters rescued dog) is Jake's Mother. Jake was approximately 2 years old and Zoe was 8 years old. Their markings are nearly identical and although Jake has a rounder face (like a Westie) they are so similar it is hard to ignore. When they first met each other, they went snout to snout and pounced their noses together like they were kissing each other Hello! It was adorable!!! When Zoe visits, they all are inseparable! Sabrina loves them both and all three of them love spending time together.

I would recommend to EVERYONE to ignore the pricey "purebred or trendy dog of the moment" dogs that you arent sure where they come from and find yourself a wonderful loving companion and friend in a rescue dog! When I heard the following phrase it truly summed up how I feel about adopting a rescue dog for our home: Adopt a rescue....They never forget and love you forever for it!!