Welcome to the team Penny!

We would like to welcome Penny to The Groovy Chick team. As she joins us she has jumped straight in and completed her first challenge which is the one we all just completed with eyes. I think you will love how she interpreted this one :)




First some words from Penny:


Hi, my name is Penny Arnold, and I was SO excited when Deb invited me to join this wonderful design team. I hope to inspire you to create great new and different projects, as I am sure you will inspire me also. I have been scrapbooking since 1999, and love doing altered projects, and scrapbooking lot's of layouts of my spoiled rotten grandchildren Matthew, and Madison! I have been published twice, and have another project coming out soon in the July issue of the Cricut Magazine. I have been on two previous Design Teams for kit clubs. I live in a TINY town in TN, so I'm a southern girl, but I have lived in several states I have a great sense of humor, which I hope my first challenge layout shows! My personal blog can be found here: Scrap-aholic@blogspot.com, it is fairly new, but is has many projects loaded with detailed directions if you would like to try making one for yourself. I have been known to use ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on my layouts so be sure and look for unexpected items on my layouts. Hoping to meet you all soon! Love Penny

Now her awesome lo:



Cross Eye'ed Crazy Boy (the crazy word is printed on the tiny bar between the photos)
This is a layout of my grandson Matthew, while his sister loves to pose for the camera, he hates it, so I have to get whatever shots I want in a hurry. When he is done taking pictures, this is how he poses!

The journaling on the layout reads "This is how he looks at me when he's done taking pictures! Matthew 2008". All the items I used on this page I have had for a VERY long time with the exception of the K & Co. scalloped border, which I turned over so that you see the white (wrong) side. I added the checks to the die cut camera, and I also added a clear round disc to make it look like it had a lens. The "button" on the journal block is really a man's shirt snap. Love Penny

It's in the Eyes: Tammy

I know what you're thinking...I didn't completely follow the challenge, which was to get a "close-up" of the eyes of the one(s) you love. Well, my kids are my heart...the oldest lives in Northern California, and isn't here often enough for me to get the three of them and get close-ups of their eyes. So I thought "I'll pull some of their little kid photos, close ups, and I'll just crop the pictures close to their eyes"...cause I thought, those are the eyes that started it all :) Well, I didn't have the heart to cut up those cute faces...but they are close ups!! I used some DCWV paper, rhinestones, a puffy heart, and I tried a new shadowing technique on my handwriting (which I hardly ever hand write directly onto a layout...yikes!)...can you see the gray shadows? TFL, Tammy

It's in the Eyes: Heather

My little Jackson's eyes speak volumes. Every little thing he is thinking or feeling is expressed through his sweet little eyes. Because of that, I really wanted the focus of the layout to go straight to his sad, puppy dog eyes in this picture. This picture was taken right after he threw a huge fit . . . don't even remember what about now! The saying that the eyes are the windows to the soul is so completely true in his case!

I used Basic Grey's Oliver collection on this layout. A little doodling around the edges with a white pen just to help bring it all together and ta-da!!!

It's in the Eyes: Michelle

I loved having this challenge to do! I try to remember to get close ups BUT sometimes with an active 2 year old...You lucky to get a clear picture!

My kids have the bluest of blue eyes, especially so with my daughter's eyes. We are blessed by those baby blues, they each have! I have brown eyes and my husband has hazel. So, the science doesn't fit...But their Poppy has even bluer baby blues so maybe it just skipped my husband!

I started out referring to a one photo Pagemaps sketch THEN played around and got the "those eyes!" page.
I used snowflake papers since the pictures were taken while they were having fun outside in the snow.

It's in the Eyes: Jean

My 28 year old has blue eyes that reflect her strength and determination. She is such a successful young woman and accomplishes whatever she puts her mind too.
I dug out my stash of Webster's pages and used flower trim and vellum that I have been avoiding!

Pagemaps sketch.

It's in the Eyes: Sheena

I was happy to make a layout about my husband and what I see “in his eyes” To draw attention to just his eyes, I used vellum cut to fit the photo of us, then cut out the section where his eyes are. I left the bottom of the vellum unattached so you can lift and view the whole picture. This whole layout was made primarily with supplies from Echo Park’s “Times and Seasons” line.

If It's Groovy February Challenge

Hi! It is time to share our challenge for this month! Can you believe it is a new month already??? I challenged the girls to create a layout using close up eyes.

Lady Bird Johnson said:

“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”

Absolutely beautiful don't ya think? Keeping that in mind I thought about what beautiful eyes my daughter Katelyn has, so innocent and naive at the tender age of 7. If only we could keep that innocence!

Here she is in the layout I made with this challenge; In the pocket holds my words to her as well as the lyrics to a song Martina McBride sings called "In My Daughter's Eyes".

First the lyrics...

In my daughter's eyes,
I am a hero,
I am strong and wise,
And I know no fear,
But the truth is plain to see,
She was sent to rescue me,
I see who I want to be,
In my daughter's eyes

In my daughter's eyes,
Everyone is equal,
Darkness turns to light,
And the world is at peace,
This miracle god gave to me,
Gives me strength when I am weak,
I find reason to believe,
In my daughter's eyes

And when she wraps her hand around my finger,
How it puts a smile in my heart,
Everything becomes a little clearer,
I realize what life is all about,
It's hanging on when your heart is had enough,
It's giving more when you feel like giving up,
I've seen the light,
It's in my daughter's eyes

In my daughter's eyes,
I can see the future,
A reflection of who I am and what will be,
And though she'll grow and someday leave,
Maybe raise a family,
When I'm gone I hope you see,
How happy she made me,
For I'll be there,
In my daughter's eyes