I am in Canada right now, lazing away on Wolfe Island. It's located on the St. Lawrence River, 3 miles from the city of Kingston, Ontario. I'll have little or no access to the internet while I'm here (except infrequent trips to the library) but I've scheduled this post to publish while I am away! We won't be back until the 26th . . . and yet my 'colour groupies' friends should have all received their ATCs by now. I must say before sharing them with you, that we have had a "thing" for colors related to food and drink this year.

We started the year off in January with Mustard & Olive. Then there was Peach & Cream for our theme in April. May was "Chocolate" (not just brown!) with Red, and in September it's a 'Lemon & Lime' combo ~ yummy!! Hmmm . . . . for August, the month I am celebrating here, the color combo for the ATCs we are sharing is Olive & Wine. Here are the ATCs I created on that theme for the entire group which includes me.

For Debby:

For Caryl:

For Frieda:

For Tristan:

One for me:

The ATCs were all made by simply gluing fabric around a thin piece of 2.5" x 3.5" cardstock; in fact, I made them while visiting my parents in Florida last month! Yes, they are all fabric, but with no sewing this time. I love the olive green frog fabric and finally had a chance to use it . . . I added ripped pieces of wine colored paper, then glued on a few wine-colored beads and wrapped each ATC with olive green and wine embroidery threads twisted together. I left the edges raw and used Twinkling H2Os in a berry-wine colour to accent the edges. Two or three of the ATCs have velvet leaves glued on.

I hope you enjoy viewing them almost as much as I do creating them!

lenna young andrews, July 11th, 2009