Happy National Dairy Month

Aren't the milk moustache ads fun? The Groovy Chicks and I decided to get into National Dairy Month. Wanna see how much fun we had? Cool!

Here is the order of our crazy selves:
Me, Heather, Jen T (2), Darlene, Michelle, Silvana :)
Deb♥

Up Close and Personal

How cool that Doreen is bringing us a layout today from SERENDIPITY??? I think it is uber cool to get close ups of the kids at any age~Good going Doreen!!!
Deb♥


What can I say about this layout other than it really has no purpose except to be silly! We were standing in line at Serendipity in Vegas and the line was taking a little longer than I had hoped, so being bored I snapped the close-up pic of Joseph just to be funny! Well, after viewing it I actually liked it, and thought it would be cute to get a matching pic of Madison. Of course, by this time, she knew what was going on so I couldn't surprise her, but her pic came out cute too so I decided to keep it and scrap them together w/ the first title that came to mind...
This just goes to show boredom is not necessarily a bad thing!

What is Your BirthVerse?

Heather and I have been working together here at IIG for a very long time and she never stops amazing me with her projects! This one below is a great example of that! I have a soft place for Faithbooking layouts. Read on!

p.s. My BirthVerse is:

Psalm 9:9 NIV
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
I Like It! Definately planning a lo with that...thanks Heather!
Deb♥





Did you know that everyone has a Birth Verse? It's true! You can find out what your verse is at www.birthverse.com. Proverbs 4:27 is my triplets birth verse. It says (NIV): "Do not swerve to the right or left; keep your foot from evil."

I had the perfect pic of my boys' feet while they were laying on the floor watching cartoons. I thought it would be really cool to scrap that picture with their birth verse.

I had a lot of fun with this lo. I didn't want to "grunge" it up too much but I am not sure I know how to do a layout otherwise! (haha) I had some fun using grungeboard in ways I hadn't before.

On the grungeboard flourishes, I embossed them with walnut strain distress embossing powder. After it dried, I wiped a little off with my finger and then too walnut stain distress ink back over it.

On the grungeboard arrows, I painted them white. When dried, I sanded the top just a little. I then took walnut stain distress ink over the top and worked it into the embossed grungeboard. I then took a wet papertowl over the top lightly to take a little of the ink back off and make it look more whitewashed.

I used Basic Gray Recess collection. The title was created on my gypsy. The verse was printed on my computer and then I layered it on a Technique Tuesday tile and sanded and inked.

Why not look up your birth verse or someone in your family and create a layout incorporating the verse? I plan to do one for each member in my family!

Jen Goes Hybrid!

Have you heard of the term GDA? It means Good Deal Alert :) When I was heavily couponing a few years ago I ran into GDA's quite a bit, wish we did more often than we do nowadays! Well, when I hear of a GDA for pics I have to pass it along. Here is a great example in how that worked out for Jen! Pretty too :)
Deb♥

A while back Deb told me about a deal that Walgreens was having for a short time that you could get a free collage print with the special promo-code and well, it worked! :) I ordered it online and picked it up at my local store free of charge:) it was great! And so, I thought when I was picking out the pics ,to put my favorite pics from the year and put it on a page as my year in review. I just
love it and it was a super quick page! Tfl!

Get Behind Your Photos!

I think this is a fun technique that Michelle is sharing today! Have you tried it before? It can be freeing :)
Deb♥


I For this page I tried out for the first time a technique I saw done on a page. The page I saw was a heart torn and rolled up with a 8x10 photo behind it! I love the effect and changing it up a bit from just matting your photos!

The idea behind this technique worked great with my photos. Since my daughter was "stuck" behind the torn frame. When I took this picture all my daughter kept doing was throwing her hands up in the air and saying, "Stuck" "Stuck"! So that made my title easy.

To make this page I placed my photos behind the paper with the print side down and traced the space of the photos I wanted shown. Then cut and "X" with my craft knife flipped over the paper and started rolling back the paper. If it got too bulky I rip off the extra bulk and kept rolling until it fit the photos. When I was happy I inked up the rolled edges and then placed my picture behind. I also adhered a strip of paper to the back with the pictures for support. I used my alpha stamps, cut them out and pop dotted the letters around the torn frames. Fussy cut one edge of my journaling tag, rolled the other edges and inked.

Create Your Own Embellies!

Silvana is sharing a very sweet Dollbabies layout with us today. She also is giving good advice about creating something from something else. Check out the focus on her cute birdie!
Deb♥

Today I want to share a simple layout and as most of the time in my layouts I like to put just one big picture and use a few embellishments . For this page I used a pic of my daughter from last year went she started crawling and usually I choose the colors of papers and embellishments base on the clothes she is wearing (silly but it works for me , how do you girls choose your paper and colors? ...just curious ) but in this case I had a set of embellishment that I haven't used yet so I took this tag that say "giggles" and I start my layout from there. I like this pink and blue with a little bit of green. The other thing is that I wanted was a little bird for this page, but I didn't have any so from a blue butterfly chipboard I made this cute little birdie =). Hope you girls like it =)

Serendipity by Darlene

Last but not least Darlene is here to show us what she can do with Serendipity. Her daughter is always a cute model so she could not go wrong here!
Deb♥



Serendipity squares? What in the world is that??? Well, my dear bloggy friends, serendipity squares are just too easy and fun to make. Just use any scrap paper in your choice of colors/patterns and glue. Tear your papers in any fashion you like and paste down on a 12x12 sheet of paper. Sounds too easy? IT IS REALLY! And this month on If It’s Groovy, the challenge is to make a serendipity layout. Fun!

I’m pretty happy with the way this layout turned out, and the layout pretty much made itself once I had the background done. I just used 4 sheets of different yellow, red, and blue paper and Modge Podge glue to get it all to stick down. I found that I used about 4x4 inches worth of each paper to make the background. I think I will totally use this technique again when I have scraps laying around. :))

Don’t forget to join me for the fun challenge of making your own serendipity squares layout on IIG. :) I’d love to see what you come up with.

Serendipity by Silvana

I love how Silvana made this challenge work for her in her own style! That's what scrapbooking is all about, being challenged but doing it your own way :) Loving also the decorated embellie!
Deb♥

Hey groovy girls today I have to share my take on this month challenge "Serendipity Challenge" and my work is usually clean and simple so to trying to do a background for my layout with lots a little pieces of papers was hard ...I try =) but I couldn't stand the busy background LOL , so this is what I come out with... still a little busy but I thinks it looks fun =)

I had a package of this square scraps in a few colors for a long time and I haven't use it in a while so this challenge was the perfect excuse , first I pick a picture , then choose scraps in some the colors of the trim in the towel that my DD is wearing, and I glued them to a white cardstock .... but I thought they looked all over the place so I got my sewing machine and sewed all around and in between the scrap to make look like one piece of paper (hey check out the thread , it changes color from white to pink I love it ) after I have my background ready glue the pic and star to look for matching embellishments ....and I found this cute hippo that kind of matched my DD's hippo towel( it was a boy hippo but I make it a girl adding a flower and a pink banner LOL) and that's all , I hope you girls give this technique a try too if you haven't yet.

Serendipity by Jen T

Watch as Jen shows us two ways to use serendipity in scrapbooking and cardmaking. I love how she has turned a wedding layout into a fun and not-so-stuffy page!
Deb♥

Sometimes the paper and the picture are just meant to be together...a marriage of sorts(pun
intended! ..lol!)...that is what I thought when I pulled out the scraps of these papers and the
picture of my husband and I posing for a pic at our wedding. And so I just let the paper scraps tell me where they wanted to go and the hearts in the patterned paper made me think of adding a heart frame and die-cuts and then the page just came together from that..





















I loved using up my
scraps so much for this challenge...I even made this silly little card for my daughters lunchbox.

Serendipity by Doreen

Here is another Groovy Chick putting her spin on the challegne this month having never tried it before. Trying new things can be a lot of fun and secretly addicting if we aren't watching out, lol! Look at what Doreen has brought us today :)
Deb♥


I had never heard of Serendipty squares before this challenge.
The basic concept is to rip or cut scraps of paper into 1-2 inches in size and randomly adhere them to a piece of paper to create a new piece of paper. It is suggested that the paper scraps used are w/in the same color family so that they blend well together.
It is an interesting technique, but could I do it?
I went thru my stash of scraps, but unfortunately, regardless of the fact that I had tons, I just couldn’t envision any of them together.
Feeling a bet frustrated I went thru my pictures. As I was looking my eyes locked in on these pictures of my kids at Disneyland. What grabbed my attention were all the different colors on the pictures. They were so bright and fun and at that instant I knew I was going to go a another route w/ my layout: instead using papers in the same color family I was going to mimic the colors in the pictures and make my squares out of lots of different colored papers! Once that was decided, the layout creating process was a snap!
While I was looking thru my scrap stash I came across some $1 Target Card Making kits. In those kits was an assortment of different, bright colored envelopes. I knew I wasn’t going to use the envelopes as is, so I grabbed them and my square punch, and punched until there was nothing left to punch!
After that was done, I chose my BG paper. I knew I wanted some of the BG to show so I chose white since my squares were already full of color. As the rules say, I randomly adhered my squares here and there and everywhere! That part was a lot of fun. I felt like a little kid in art class!
With the main part of the layout done, it was just a matter of adding my pictures, title and journaling strips (white to balance out the white BG) and a couple of flowers as accent pieces. I also went back and outlined the squares you could see w/ my Zig pen just to add a little extra dimension.
All I all it was a fun quick layout to create!

Serendipity by Michelle

I love the team we have assembled here at IIG. I hope you do too! Most of us have been together for a very long time now and Michelle being our newbie is fitting in nicely when I hear how she was wanting to try Serendipity :) Go girl! A nice shout out to Jen, her Sister Chick, for a great idea that I know will make Michelle's daughter a happy little girl too! Read on...
Deb♥


So we were given this challenge create a page using Serendipity Squares. I have always wanted to try using Serendipity Squares in a project. I am so glad that I was challenged to do this!

The pictures I used on this page were originally planned to be used for my Absolutely Incredible Kids Day Challenge-Letter to a Child, but the colors in the picture were not working with the papers I wanted to use. Well, I am so glad that it happened that way! Because I love how this page came out!

I used ripped up scraps of purple, turquoise and pink. Added images of Taylor Swift that I found online and shrunk down to the size of the scrap pieces. Also copied some of her song lyrics too! I torn them up and randomly placed them over the entire surface of my 12x12 paper. I didn't place them under the pictures, but made sure there was some overlapping. I had already had matted my photos from the original plan so I just inked up the edges with Close To My Heart Blush Ink. I used Basic Grey-mini monogram sticker letters in Granola. I only matted them on the purple because they got lost by themselves.
Under each photo is journaling attached to the floss you can see on the page. One reads: "You the best thing that's ever been mine!" A line from the song "Mine" and the other is about how we came to these pictures. The other reads: "We were shopping with Grandma. Looking for hair clips for your Christmas pictures. You found these glasses and put them on. My Little Taylor Swift!" That's what came to my mind and when I grabbed my phone to get the pictures. Becky, my daughter totally reminded me of Taylor in the video from "You Belong To Me".

So, the best part of all was how Becky went nuts when she saw the page. Saying, "It's me and Taylor!" "I love it! I love you Mommy!"

I want to thank Jen(DT-If It's Groovy)for the idea of putting the page in "12x 12 frame in her room she'd prob love that...so she can look at it all the time....." I love that idea!

Serendipity by Heather

I don't think it is a big secret that when I come up with a challenge I want it to be "out there" so I don't typically choose the kind of challenge you may find everywhere else. I want to push The Groovy Chicks and our awesome friends who play along to do something outside of the norm. Look what happens when Heather is challenged! One word: Art!
Deb♥


I was not so sure about this challenge at all! Yes, I have lots of scraps but that wasn't the issue. My problem was making a lo using so much patterned and colored paper and yet not have it detract from the picture. Well, I think I just may have figured it out!!!

I took some Scenic Route paper that I had left over and began cutting into all different sizes of squares/rectangles. I knew I wanted this paper as my background because the pic was taken during the 4th of July parade this past summer. I wanted the red/white/blue/star theme to prevail.

By matting the pic on a solid red piece of paper and then using the arrow and other embellies to frame around the pic, I think it pulls the eye right to the middle and to the picture.

I did have to do some doodling on the arrow and journaling spot so that it wouldn't blend into the background so much! But overall, I was pleased with the "quilted" look of the lo! Will definitely be trying this again!!!

Are You Interested in our June Challenge?

This month The Groovy Chicks will be showing their works Serendipity Style. Have you created serendipity before? Take pieces of similar colored pieces of scrap paper, tear them into somewhat equal shapes, then adhere them to a cardstock of similar color. It is a GREAT way to use your scraps!!!

Here is mine to start us off this month! MY daughter dressed up as a beautiful doll of Asia for Halloween 2010. I had a hard time finding just the right paper so I created mine this way.


Come on back over the next week to see all of the designers showing theirs as well :)

Thanks for being here!
Deb♥

And the Winner is...

On our What Color Challenge it was a lot of fun seeing everyone's take! After collecting entries from scrapbook.com, Fiskateers and my inbox everyone was given a chance at the win. One winner has been chosen and her name is:
Sandra! Send me your address for some goodies :)
Deb♥


Here is her lo...she said that her color was Rainbow! I never knew the quiz had a rainbow, lol! Awesome!!!

Hand Written Journaling

To journal is really important to a layout, we know that...have you considered having someone else write it for you? I decided after I made this layout to have my daughter to write her take on what was going on that caused this photo. So many people say they don't like their own handwriting, but to me no matter what it looks like, flavor is added to the layout. My daughter not once said to me that she doesn't like hers, lol! Try having someone else do it for you!
Deb♥

Friday Night Sketch with Silvana

Hey Y'all! Are you scrapbooking tonight? Hee is sketch Silvana made to get you jumpstarted :) Enjoy!
Deb♥

Ribbitt, Thanks NanaBeth!

This is long overdue for me to show off but I still wanted to :) When we celebrated National Frog Month here at IIG, a friend who I met over on the Fiskateer board a few years ago was sweet enough to keep in mind that I like cute unreal frogs "). She sent me happy mail one day. When I opened it I found this beauty! I proudly display it in my living room for all to see who come in! Thanks Beth for the time it took you to work on this and for being so thoughtful!
Deb♥

My Baby Girl

Why do our little dollbabies grow up so fast? This one of mine will be 16 this summer and it is so hard to think that once upon a time she was this sweet little baby and that in just a few years she will be heading off to college. Wow, where does time go? Enjoy those precious baby moments. I am so glad I had another baby picture to scrapbook of Kristen!!!
Deb♥

Made with Soul :)

Brought to us by Heather:


I had this 8x10 piece of backed canvas in my scrappy room for awhile. Never was real sure what I was going to do with it! I thought about painting on it. No, maybe not. You see, besides scrapbooking, I don't feel like I am a very crafty person - especially when it comes to painting or drawing.

One day I seen an idea similar to this on a website. I knew right then what I was going to use that canvas for. I not only knew what I was going to use it for, but I also knew that I was going to use it as a birthday gift for a sweet friend of mine - who also happens to be our Praise Team leader at church. I knew it had to be something good because she IS crafty! In fact, she is an art teacher! What have I gotten myself into????

I picked papers that I knew would match her living room. I wanted to keep with a music theme so I included the music circles also. All the circles were punched out using a Creative Memories punch. I then lined up the circles and adhered them to the canvas, leaving room for my stamped saying. On top of some of the circles, I then added a few embellies for some dimension. I stamped the "Then Sings My Soul" with the hearts. I then took some Distress Stain around the edges of the canvas. (If you like distress ink, you will love the distress stains also!)

I had a frame all picked out for this. However, when I put the canvas in it, it wasn't right. I then remembered some old frames that I had that were beaten up. I had planned to alter them. But once I put the canvas art inside, I decided not to do anything with the frame. I like how it looked kinda rustic/distressed next to the canvas.

Don't be afraid to try new things! It's amazing what you might find in your house that you can use . . . and still using your scrapbooking supplies!!!

By the way, she LOVED it! Took it home and put it on top of her piano!!!

Travel with Jen to Ocean City!!!

Is it beach time yet? Has this not been a long Winter? I am in the SE and I know the amount of daily sunlight never seemed like enough. Bring on the pool and ocean! Let's go virtually with Jen T :)
Deb♥

My family and I love doing road trips around n.j. and one of our absolute favorite places to go is ocean city, nj. The reason I made a page about this pic and place is because ocean city is a place that also has special meaning to me and my family . My dh spent summers there as a kid with his grandma, my fil and family vacationed there, we have vacationed there and most importantly my husband and I got engaged there. Funny how a pic of your favorite place or spot can evoke so many memories huh?! Tfl.!

A Little Birdie Told Me...

...that our very own Michelle has a challenge on her blog this month too. I hope you are working on you What Color Are You Challenge, but thought you would like to have a heads-up for Michelle's challenge as well :)

Here is link over to see her blog and directly to the lik describing her challenge can be found here.

Have fun!

Anniversary Memories

Last month Kevin and I celebrated our 17th anniversary! WOW, it seems like yesterday that we walked down the aisle! Here is a layout I made to add to our book that needs a lot more work, lol! All these years and not nearly enough pics to prove it made me think more about it when I created this one.

Purple Peace!

Are you wearing purple today? Each year on May 16 there is a call to wear purple in hopes of reaching ALIENS and it can be any shade! So if you are going out today paint your toenails, fingernails and break out your best purple hat. We need ET to visit ;) and aid in helping the maintaining of peace between all of us!

Have fun today!

BOOOOOOOOOOOO

Doreen is here with a trick for our treat!
Deb♥


Overlapping is my Friend
-Halloween Age 6-

Hi All!

First of all, I know it's a bit strange that I scrapped Halloween pics when its Springtime but you gotta scrap what inspires you and, as you can see, these pics are from 2007 so they needed to be scrapped!
Since I scrap what inspires me and not chronologically, expect a lot of this from me!

Now to get to the meaning of my title 'overlapping is my friend'...
I was having such a hard time getting these pics to look right on my layout! Soooooooo hard! Because 2 were horizontal and 2 were vertical I could not get them to look asthetically pleasing when I laid the photos down straight and evenly spaced apart. I literally spent about 20 mins just trying to get the pics in a position that I liked! Seriously thats a lot of time when you don't have much to spare! So frustrated I just randomly piled the pics on top of each other, and well golly-gee-wilikers....I liked it! Sure I had to arrange them a bit to make sure I didn't cover too much of each pic and that they looked balanced but other than that there was no fuss. I then carried on the overlapping technique w/ my skull embellie, which I got off the internet, and my 'life rocks' word bubble embellie.
And although the title and borders do not technically overlap w/ each other, the closeness of them kinda gives them the same feeling.

All this overlapping also allowed lots of negative space w/out having to remove any of the pics or embellies and I love negative space!
So as I said, overlapping is my friend...perhaps I can even go so far as to say it is my BFF, LOL!

What Color Are You? Darlene

Have you been working on your Lucky Color Challenge to play alongside of The Groovy Chicks? Look on our blog over to the right where you can still find the Quibblo quiz for fun and then leave us a link showing where we can see yours!

We have another Groovy Chick, Darlene, today with hers that she calls Mellow Yellow. Come on and enter yours too! You may be the winner of a box filled with scrapbook paper that needs a home!
Deb♥


Our challenge this month for If It’s Groovy was to use our lucky color as inspiration for a monochromatic layout. My lucky color just so happened to be yellow—maybe because I am so optimistic and cheerful (hence the yellow? Haha).

I used orange-ish Glimmer Mist and a Crafters Workshop circle template for the scalloped background on the yellow paper. I also used scraps of single yellow flowers, brads, buttons, some plastic petals and stems, and butterfly for embellishments. I hadn’t made a monochromatic layout in so long so this was fun to put together.

I found that doing this monochromatic layout helped me make a bit of a dent in my yellow nicknacks, so perhaps I can make some more monochromatic layouts so that I can keep getting my stash used up finally!

Won’t you give this lucky color challenge a spin? :))

Friday Night Sketch with Silvana

Hey! It's Friday; Let's scrapbook!!!
Here is another sketch and example from Silvana :) Enjoy!
Deb♥

Works for Me!

Silvana has a question. I think after seeing her project you will know why "works for me" is my answer ") Looks great Silvana!
Deb♥














I was in the mood for making something colorful and since I love butterflies and they are so beautiful and colorful I decided to make a butterfly card, and this is what I come out with =)..... I decided to add black as a contrasting color and I think the color combo works good...what do you think?

A 2 Pager from Michelle!

Ah Yes, those were the days. Remember once upon a time when EVERYONE did 2 pagers? A great majority of people have gotten away from them and I am glad to see Michelle bring one to us today to show that they are still a great way to tell a story with the use of more than one photo!!!
Deb♥

Congrats to TeenaBugg38!

Here is the comment from TeenaBugg 38 who left this comment telling me "Where in the World" she would be scrapping on NSD and now Teena you are the winner! Please email me at groovydeb@yahoo.com with the mailing info so I can mail you some goodies for hopping along with the kats of LGP :)
Deb♥

HA! You sound like me!! Even on a bookmark i would probably clutter it up with all kinds of goodies!!! I think it turned out GROOVY!!!! (I am lovin your blog...the peace sign curser did freak be out at first tho.....I thought I had pushed something on my laptop keyboard.....lol) Almost forgot....I am visiting you by way of Knoxville TN! I am originally from Louisville Ky....they ahve a teeny lil race going on today and I have been so homesick with Derby Fever all week so I am loving that NSD is providing me with a distraction......I have been doing nothing except chasing kids, printing off sketch challnges, playing a few NSD games on a few blogs and hip hopping all over blogland.....oh and I made some Jello Shooters.......LOL. Have a great day!

Online Blog Hop In Progress!

UPDATING THIS THREAD!!!

THIS CROP IS STILL HAPPENING!!!

COME ON BY THROUGH MAY 9!!!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day:)


Here it is Scrappers and Crafters, OUR day! Isn't it the coolest? I am SO happy that you took a moment of this special holiday to check in with If It's Groovy. To celebrate today I am participating in a blog hop with the Kats of Let's Get Peachy so if you just stopped by click the link back to LGP to start the hop!It is the first hop for LGP and I am sure you will be inspired! Just in case you get lost along the way I have all of the hostesses at the bottom of this post :)



Here is a little bookmark I made to show off today, but it is not an ordinary bookmark it is Deborahfied, lol! It's true I love "stuff" on a page, stuff on a card, and stuff on a bookmark! Why not right?
























































I have some blog candy for ya! Want this? Just leave me a message and tell me where in the world that you live and are celebrating your NSD today!!!































Here is a list of participants in this fun holiday hop, Be sure to check everyone out and leave luv on their blogs too!

1. Let's Get Peachy- Peachy Laura
http://getpeachy.blogspot.com

2. Crafty Scraps of Stuff- Peachy Kat Daphne
http://craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com

3. Create Something Everyday- Peachy Kat Kimmy
http://lostinadreamofjosh.blogspot.com/

4. From Me 2 U Papercrafting-Peachy Kat Tammy G.
http://www.fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com/

5. Greets n Treats- Peachy Kat Becky
http://greetsntreats.blogspot.com

YOU ARE HERE
6. If It's Groovy- Peachy Kat Groovy Deb

7. Kristin's Craft Corner- Kristin
http://www.kristinscraftcorner.blogspot.com

8. Polkadotrentz- Peachy Kat Sarah
http://polkadotrentz.blogspot.com/

9. Queen of the Crop- Liese
http://www.queen-of-the-crop.blogspot.com

10. Rather B Scrappin-Peachy Kat Lisa
http://thejourneyoflisaslife.blogspot.com/

11. Scrappy Doodads-Peachy Kat Tammy K.
http://alwaystheapprenticehandicrafter.blogspot.com/

12. The Crafty Fruglaista- Peachy Kat Cindy
http://www.thecraftyfrugalista.blogspot.com

13. The Scrappy Cottage-Peachy Kat Cherrie
http://thescrappycottage.blogspot.com/

14. Back To LGP
http://getpeachy.blogspot.com

What Color Are You? Michelle

So I took the Facebook Quiz "What Color Are You?" So, you will never guess what color it came up....FIRE RED...How did you know? OK, now to use all red in a Layout. Some stuff about red first: personally it is now my go to color. Also, my mom did tell me I look good in red. If I remember right it was back when you never listened to what your mom said.

But I did do some researching here is what I found:
Physically red - increases enthusiasm, stimulates energy and can increase the blood pressure, respiration, heartbeat, and pulse rate, encourages action and confidence (OK the power tie, I know!)and provides a sense of protection from fears and anxiety.

Red is the color for the base or root chakra. This chakra is located at the base of the spine and allows us to be grounded and connect to the universal energies. First chakra, base of the spine. Groundedness, trust, belonging, lessens feelings of mistrust.

Interesting information about red
* Red is the highest arc of the rainbow.

* Red is the first color you lose sight of at twilight.

* The longest wavelength of light is red.

* Feng shui recommends painting the front door of a home red to invite prosperity to the residents.

* Bees can't see the color red, but they can see all other bright colors. Red flowers are usually pollinated by birds, butterflies, bats, and wind, rather than bees.
(These interesting tidbits came from: http://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-messages-meanings/color-meaning-symbolism-psychology/all-about-the-color-red.html)

So, to do the layout I figured I should be wearing RED. Since it is not often you will find me in red. I colorized myself RED. My Background Paper was the reverse side of a patterned paper called "play scooter" from American Crafts. Using scraps from mostly red papers I cut strips in various widths and lengths. I used 5 long strips going vertically and weaved in the rest horizontally. Used a RED ink for some of the cardstock to add texture with background stamps. Cut our two hearts for around the picture. Finally inked up the ivory on the "Alpha Stax" Damask letters I had from Colorbok.

What Color Are You? Silvana

When you begin creating a scrapbook page do you start by choosing the photo? Most people do and then try to get colors that are similar to the colors found in the photos. Are you scared of creating a lo with no color as the main start to your project? Have you taken the quiz to playlong with us this month? We hope so and are waiting on your creationg! If you did and ended up with the color white let us know if it was a difficult task or just the opposite??

I think Silvana did a fantastic job when she took on this challenge! Her layout is so elegant and one I am sure Mia Isabella will absolutely cherish one day in the future!!!
Deb♥























I'm so thankful for this challenge, me? a white layout? never in a million years!!!!! just love fun and bright colors too much =).

For this month's challenge I took the quiz What color are you? and I got white ... I don't know if the answer was accurate for the most part ...but I'll take it as long as it says something nice about me LOL ...now that was the fun part ....making a white layout was another thing ...I even thought of taking the quiz again to see if a get another color =) but I decide to stick with it and went to my desk to look for a picture and I choose this one of Mia Isabella at her first birthday just because she was wearing this white dress and it gave me a starting point then I took everything white that I have (paper, embellishments, flowers, etc) and what do you know ideas start pouring in. I was sure that a white page would be really hard for me to do, but I was completely wrong it was so easy and it even didn't tale me that long. I wanted to use a white emboss paper as a base but didn't have any =) so I used a border punch and make a couple of strips just to add some texture, also for texture and so my white flowers pop up a little I use paint in a butter-cream white color to make a circle and then add all the vines and flowers (cut with my Cricut)for a little bit of color. To match her dress I used baby pink and the final touch the white pearls =)......I LOVE this page, thanks again for this challenge Deb.
And What color are you? Go find out and show us what you can do =) maybe you be surprised like me and ended up making one of your favorites layouts.

What Color Are You? Jen T

Who doesn't love blue? I bet if we took a poll a huge majority of people may say they love blue since we think of ocean and beautiful blue skies. I think we should add this lo to that list of things we think of because the depth in Jen's blue is amazing. See for yourself :)
Deb♥


This color challenge was so fun! I took the quiz and my color came out to be blue....which is ironic because one of my favorite colors is blue. For this challenge I realized that I have blue all over my house- on the walls, couch ETC....but not so much in my scrappy and crafting supplies. So, with a little stash digging I came up with all the goodies that went into this page of my daughter and I at her first concert. T.F.l.!

What Color Are You? Challenge Groovy Deb♥

When I took the color quiz to come up wioth my color for this challenge I came up with orange and the next time I took it was red. SO I don't know how acurate these quizzes are but they are a lot of fun I think. So, having said that I did two layouts, one in orange and one in red :)

Here is my orange lo which shows me doing two of my fave things, taking pics (look closely to see my refelction) and the other wearing flip flops. I really wish I lived in a climate where the season for flip flops was every day!
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Here is the red one which includes Zorry our black and white cat. Everytime I scrap a picture of him I think b/w! Such a classic color combo isn't it?
Thanks for coming by and don't forget to take our challenge and send to me at groovydeb@yahoo.com :)
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Shout out to my step daughter Kellie!!!
Happy Birthday!!! Love, ESM♥

What Color Are You? Challenge Doreen

I love the the way Doreen has used her negative space this month! Wow what a great lo. Let's see what she has to sayt about making it...
Deb♥




The challenge this month was to take a quiz to determine what our "Lucky Color" is and then create a layout using as much of that color as possible.
According to the quiz my lucky color is white. I have to admit I was not happy w/ the result. For me the color white is really hard for me to scrap with. And I knew I wouldn't be able to make the entire layout white. I choose to use white as my BG color and then go from there. Luckily I just came back from Vegas and took pics at the Sugar Factory that I was really excited to scrap! Double lucky that the pics are colorful so I could scrap them w/out too much added color. Besides the white BG I used white letters and punched flowers out of white paper. To allow the flowers to stand out I simply outlined them w/ my black zig pen. A few splashes of color and some journaling completed my layout.And...as always seems to be the way with these challenges...I love the end result! Of course it could just be because I have a pic of Kim, my fav celebrity, on my layout! LOL!

What Color Are You? Heather

Heather wears green well! I like how she manages to get an awesome color that she is not accustomed to working with to bring out her beautiful eyes!
Deb♥

"Green?" Really? This is not going to be easy!!! So the quiz tells me I have green blood, but what exactly does that mean? Well, I will tell you . . .

Green Bloods have a tranquil nature and their emotions are balanced, but when they do tip, watch out. Green Bloods try to be optimistic ones, so they don't have to spend time feeling uncomfortable in worry. Green Bloods usually have acute senses that are sharp, eyes for finding the needle in the haystack, ears to listen to wispy whispers, and a nose to be rejuvenated by the pine needle scent in the forest, scented candles, and flowers erupting from the ground. They enjoy socializing with others greatly.




I must admit, this is a pretty good description of me! My hubby agrees, especially with the "watch out" part and the acute senses, which he deems is because of my OCD! LOL! He just might be right!

And though this might be an accurate description of me, I still wasn't sure how I was going to do a monochromatic layout about it. I first decided though that since the quiz describes none other then me, that I would do a layout of . . . you got it . . . ME! And ever since I heard the song "Free To Be Me" by Christian artist Francesca Battistelli, I knew I wanted to do a layout of myself with that title and some of the song lyrics. Still, green?

Thank heavens for Basic Gray! lol! I pulled out these patterned papers from the Boxer Collection. I then found some cardstock to match and went to town! I really hate ripping paper but I always love how it turns out!! The bling and flower are by Prima, the butterfly from Petaloo, the title was done using AC Thickers, and the date/flower stem stickers are also by Basic Gray (Marjolaine collection).

So, even though I wasn't sure about using green, I was thrilled with how it turned out! The journaling/lyrics say "Cause I got a couple dents in my fender, got a couple rips in my jeans, try to put the pieces together but perfection is my enemy (OCD C: ). On my own I'm so clumsy, but on Your shoulders I can see, I'm free to be me and You're free to be You. . . But You look at my heart and You tell me that I've got all You seek." Isn't that the truth? No matter what I have been through, God sees what's in my heart and it is in Him that I am "Free to be Me"! He loves me regardless!