Friday Night Sketch with Heather

Happy Friday before Thanksgiving! Want to get a layout ready and just pop the pics in later? This would be a great sketh to do just that :) Thanks Heather! Deb♥

Bring Back Summer!

I cannot take it! It is 37 degrees down here in VA today and I am missing Summer so much! I want to see this again!!! Deb♥

Jen's Bird

Do well call our kids money and bird? I wonder because I hear lots of parents call their kids monkey...and I do that, but the other thing is that I call my youngest Blue bird and here is Jen today talking about her bird too! I guess we must think of cute little baby animals and then relate them to our own cute little babies :)
Deb♥


For this page of my oldest daughter, I just loved how the colors of the papers matched her shirt. I then used matching border and word stickers to anchor her picture on the paper and added the title above( which is one of her many nicknames I call her)and added a bird sticker to go with the title, and that was it a super simple page. tfl!

Vintage Typewriter???

When I was getting this post ready for Tammy to show her work I noticed how she used her "vintage typewriter". I was loving that font and when I read how she got it, well it really struck me that she is right! Typewriters are vintage! And, to think that typing class was offered when I was in school makes me realize how many changes have happened through these years!!! I must go and get myself a typewriter now ;) Deb♥ I recently found some missing photos from my daughter's musical theater shows. So before I started the next book (I believe I've already done FIVE!), I am catching up on some of the old ones. This was her second show, when she was 6 years old (she's 18 now). In this two pager (which is based on a PageMaps sketch), I used Cosmo Cricket - I love doing pages with one manufacturer, because matching is a no brainer, even when it's from different lines (this is two different ones, Nutmeg and Togetherness). I also added a paper doily that I misted, and the journaling page....well, I went to a teacher supply store and they had some of the writing paper on clearance :) I ran it through my vintage typewriter, and done :) Tammy

A Liftateer Project :)

I believe I have mentioned that I have a few groups going on the Fiskateer message board known as The Liftateers and Card Lifters. Michelle is a member there and when this layout was created I asked her if I could show it over here because it is so pink and pretty :) We all need some color in our lives as the leaves start falling off the trees and Winter brings it's colorless days and nights. This one will definitely brighten up a day! Love it!
Deb♥


I am a member of the Liftateers at Fiskateers.com
The Liftateers honor a scrapbook page every week by lifting it! During week 3 we were honored to lift Vicky #1509. Vicky used a circle element and flowers on her page.
I had just got a bag of clothes from another scrappy friend who has a daughter a year older than my daughter. Becky, my daughter was in the middle of a "Fashionista Designer Showcase!" Trying out her new finds and playing the fashion diva that is my daily morning fight. Anyway, when she came in wearing her pink ladies jacket, all I thought was Grease and which character did she fit best! Becky is a cross between Sandi and Rizzio, but she has her own sass in their too!

I was looking for the right pinks to match some thickers letters I had and found the ladybug paper from a Heidi Grace paper pad. I used a scalloped die cut and a stamp set called Love Bug from Close To My Heart. Stamped a few ladybugs around the scallop and fussy cut another by the corner of my pink lady.

A Classy Wedding Gift

Sheena has made a lovely wedding gift to share with us today. We as scrapbookers can only wish that we make new scrappers out of our friends and if one received a beautiful gift such as this one then surely they would consider working in and out of scrapbook albums! Awesome job Sheena!
Deb♥

One of my favorite things to make for weddings and baby showers are personalized picture frames. I choose the frame color and material personally for the recipient. In this case, it was a wedding gift for a friend of mine. I like to use white, cream, gray and black for weddings. Sometimes I will add a poem or in this case their initials. I always make a photo mat for them to add their own picture. I stick to standard sizes, usually 4x6 or 5x7, as they are easy to obtain and no extra work for them. After I was finished, I thought the white frame was a little too stark(my husband agreed) so I cut out large corners to add to the outside, I am really happy with the result. I hope they cherish it for a long time.

Friday Night Sketch with Heather

Hey Everyone Happy Veteran's Day Friday! Heather s back tonight with a new sketch for us to try out. Enjoy! Deb♥

11-11-11 Say What???

I am pretty sure I wrote some time ago about how the numbers 1:11 and 11:11 appear to me on the clocks all the time. Not only do I see them there, but I also see them on windshield stickers, license plates, coupon expiration dates, prices, my odometer, my blood sugar monitor, etc!

Do you have a number too?

Well today is MY DAY! Some say that my angels are trying to reach me. Sounds good to me!

Now of course this is a very important calendar day today and to show who is most important today let me just send a shout out to all of our Veterans :) THANK YOU for your service! Thank you to those who will one day serve and become a veteran. You are all appreciated!!!
Deb♥

Water Color with Viji

Water Color is such a fantastic way to add uniqueness to any project. See for yourself in Viji's beautiful cards!!!
Deb♥

I used Water Color Pencils and colored the background.I let it dry a bit,then inked up my stamps with brown ink and stamped on the watercolor background. Added some twine, stamped the message and done! Know any more techniques with water color pencils, post a link here! I would love to try them out!

Heather Goes Vintage

Some of my favorite scrapbook pages are the ones that have a vintage feel to them. Heather's is perfect for the paper line that she has used. Like her, I feel that working with the Timepiece collection is a great start to a wonderful vintage piece of art :)
Deb♥


When I started looking through pictures that I had taken of our family trip to Kentucky over the Memorial Day holiday this year, I just knew that I would be scrapping this picture of my husband and his father that I took while we hiked. I will be the first to admit that vintage is not exactly my type of scrapping. But with this new collection (Timepiece by Bo Bunny), I knew that I could make this happen. So that's just what I did! I used the Timepiece collection and went right to work! I added in some flowers that I had inked and some chipboard embellies and buttons from the same collection. I love how this layout ended up. Hope you do too!!!

My Scrappy Style: Groovy Deb♥

My style may change from time to time, but I think what best describes me is collagy. Is that a word? I like stuff! Stuff all over the page and stuff in corners. I like to combine things that otherwise might not be combined because that is me :) made this layout at a crop and came home and had to Deborahfy it by adding even more things like the cheer embellishment that wasn't there, the ribbon on the stars, the outlining on one of the stars. See more is better right? LOL!

My Scrappy Style: Jen T

My scrappy style? Don't laugh but for me it depends on lots of things .it depends on the picture I am using, the mood I am in , the trend I am into at that time..LOL! Lately I have been into diecut papers and simple embellies like my page here of my dd 9 yrs old as a tween.. Here, I just let the paper help me frame the photo added a diecut scroll and a pretty flower to enhance my pic. Simple. That day I felt simple...so my scrappy style ...a little of everything mood and all! :) tfl!

My Scrappy Style: Michelle

Have you determined what your scrapbooking style is? Well, I have thought about it before, but never thought of one style.
BUT after looking at what I have been doing lately....
I think it is best described as Shabby Rustic Distressed....I think of it as a play on Shabby Chic style. I like inked and/or paper distressed edges, torn papers, inked up BUT usually in neutrals and earth tones, which gives it that Rustic/Earthy feel.

After looking at Scrapbook.com I guess the best fit is a cross between Distressed/Shabby Chic

So, Here is a page I did from one of our many visits to my Aunt and Uncle's property in PA. We would usually visit Labor Day Weekend every year and every once in a while Memorial Day Weekend. My Aunt and Uncle own 150 Acres of wooded and farm land that has a portion that cover half a side of a mountain.
This page is the opening page of our trip Labor Day Weekend 2007. I have been wanting to scrap this set of pictures forever. This was also, my daughter's 1st visit too!
I used a Close to my Heart paper kit called Felicity. I distressed the background cream paper base by inking up the edges. I had used half of one of the die-cut papers in a previous project. So, I cut another die-cut paper in half and divided them up into 2 pieces. Giving me 2 of each pattern to form the die-cut circle background. Cut the fawns and my letters out on the Cricut using a Kraft cardstock. Before I removed the letters from the mat. I inked them up otherwise it would be to difficult to ink each letter. Double Matted the photos using some pattern paper and Kraft cardstock inked edges, of course! Used a cotton twill ribbon, some fibers and a orange button to embellish. Added the moon from a scrap and the inked tag with my journaling.
Journaling reads:
Our yearly trips to Aunt Stella & Uncle Bob's!
This was your 1st visit to the farm as they call
it, Fawn Hollow Farms. For years, I used to go before
the house was even built. Sometimes with my parents
or even your 2nd cousins.

Love how it has that earthy farm feeling.....

Friday Night Sketch with Michelle

Ready for the weekend? I will be off scrapbooking a few hours from my home and can use some sketches to take along. You too? Here is one from Michelle and a project she completed using it :) Enjoy!
Deb♥

My Scrappy Style: Heather

I knew this challenge was going to be so much fun the second I seen it!! And honestly, I think I knew exactly what my style is! I love to distress and ink and grunge stuff up!!! Shoot - I live with 5 men, what else would one expect?

So this is my "STYLE"! This picture was taken at a little girls birthday party. She was having a fashion show birthday party. Well, my boys attened as the "fashion crashers"! This is a pic of my little Grant that was taken at the party . . . dressed in his AC/DC t-shirt, a bandana (doo rag) on his head, some chains and cuff on his wrist!

I used some Tim Holtz papers to show my style! (I LOVE TIMMY!!) After distressing and tearing and inking, I layered the papers. I had a diecut star and journaling block but they didn't really "match" the papers. To make them fit into the lo, I took a swipe of 3 different distress inks across my craft mat. I then sprayed them with water and then put my diecuts on them to cover the original color. I then used the Rock Princess cricut cartridge to cut out the skull and title. Added a few mini staples to the project and it was complete!

I have had fun working on this challenge and getting to share it with you! Hope you enjoyed and thanks for looking!!!!! ~ Heather

My Scrappy Style: Tammy

When we were asked to do a layout with our "scrappy style", I struggled a little. I looked up styles, and didn't feel I fit into one sort of style. I change all the time, and go back to old ones, and love finding new styles to try. So I did mine to show my "scrappy formula" LOL! I have things I do on most of my pages no matter what style I use for that layout.
1. Two pagers. I always do two pagers...an old habit that is hard for me to break.

2. Sketches, I love following sketches. Sometimes I use a two page sketch, and sometimes I use two one page sketches that I think work together. I used a Pagemaps sketch for this, and I used it as a suggestion, and changed it up a little. I love Pagemaps :) Sometimes I like to scraplift too...which to me is like using a sketch.

3. I scrap in order. If I'm doing a book, I hate to scrap out of page order (I have OCD, and it hurts my head LOL!). This summer I decided to work on four books at a time, so that I don't get bored, but I still scrap each one in order.

4. I love to embellish, sometimes to the extreme! I love clustering my embellies too! I used Little Yellow Bicycle and American Crafts on this layout.

My Scrappy Style: Sheena

What’s my scrapbook style? Hmm, good question. I was not sure what my style was, so I explored the web in search of the answer. At times I was more confused than when I started. In the end, I think I fall into the “classic” style with a bit of “clean and simple”, “distressed” and a dash of “artsy/sophisticated ”. I think as scrappers we are always evolving so it is hard to just put ourselves in one category. Sometimes the pictures themselves dictate the style, more playful photos can lend themselves to a more “cutesy” style, while formal graduation photos may lead you to use a more elegant, sophisticated style. Whatever style you create in, it’s important to have fun and enjoy the process.

My Scrappy Style: Viji

I love two page,colorful layouts! I don't do vintage. I do very light distressing. I love primary color palette. On this layout, I have done everything which I love. I love making banners, inking the edges, Squeeze Punches, lots of photos, hand written journaling, border punch, and my latest obsession -Bakers Twine!

I used Fiskars Leaf it to Me Squeeze Punch for the leaves. I inked the leaves to give it a more fall look. I did the photo border with the Fiskars Leaves Border Punch. I love how it came. It took some planning to get it all lined up on the corners. I cut the title and the scallop ovals on Pazzles Inspiration. These are some of my favorite pics. I love fall!

I hope you like my layout!I had fun making it:)

November Groovy Challenge of the Month

Hey Everyone! This month we here at If It's Groovy are going to share with you layouts that show our Scrappy Style. Do you know yours? Maybe you are many different styles?
We are ready to show you what style we consider ourselves to be and would love it if you play along! There will be a prize given. Sorry but this will only be open to USA during the holiday months.

Happy Halloween Night!

Well almost! I will be heading out this evening to a park in my city where there will be a Halloween get together with the other city residents coming out with their kids. Let me show you what Halloween was like LAST Halloween when we went Truck-or-Treating at church. The preacher is dressed as Charlie Brown himself...so cute! My daughter was a China doll and my oldest daughter made quite a scare with her burned up looking grody face! We had fun, but it is onto something new this year since it is a school night.

Take your flashlights tonight!!!
Deb♥

Happy Halloween!

It is here! The biggest spookiest night of the year! If you have not made a card for your little goblin let Jen inspire you with one of hers :)She also is showing off an altered frame project that is sure to help decorate the home!!!

Have a wonderful time tonight!!!
Deb♥


From Jen:
Boo! Did I scare you?! Lol! I made this card to spread some Halloween happiness to a friend..To make this card, I just used up my Halloween papers scraps . Added a ghost brad and glitter stickers with a paper rosette and vintage button and wahla! A bootiful card in no time :)tfl! Happy Halloween!




More from Jen:
Happy Halloween!! Today I just wanted to share with you all a frame that I made. I used an old frame I no
longer used and then painted it tan and then used Tim. Holtz black distress paint as the final coat. Let it dry
and watch crackling happen! ( so fun!) Then I ripped a page of text from a antique design book I had and
used that as the matte of the pic frame. Then I added a owl silhouette ( I got a whole pack of silhouette
diecuts in the Halloween section of my dollar store) added some glitter glue over the top of it. Then let is dry
good. Adhere the diecut to the text paper and assemble frame. Happy spooky decorating!!

Halloween It's a Wrap!

If you are giving away few treats for Halloween don't forget to make a cute tag like Sheena has done for hers!
Deb♥

I recently bought this new Halloween stamp set called "Wicked" I just love it and couldn't wait to play. I created this Halloween tag using the witch and title from it. I used an ink blending tool to make the background and the flourishes were from a stamp set I have had for awhile. It is fun to mix and match stamp sets. I really enjoyed making the Autumn tag. I again used an ink blending tool to create the background with 4 colors of ink . With each leaf I used 5 colors in different spots on the stamp to create the autumn leaf look. I really like the effect. I hope you will pull out some tags, ink and stamps and play today!

Halloween Dinner is Served!

Ewwww if you have not thought about Halloween dinner yet this is a cool and very wicked way to serve up a ghoulicious meal!!! Just look at the decorated lamp too. Good idea!
Deb♥

I been waiting for a reason to make these cute witch legs for a sandwich platter. Well, the time as come! I am having "Family Dinner" this weekend at my house. "Family Dinner" it has been termed, since there are 7 families that participate in the rotation of having everyone over for dinner. Since it is a few days before Halloween I am running on the theme. Going to tempt my first time making Pea Soup (AKA Witch's Brew), Sand Witch's, Mummy Dogs and some cool Witch's Brew Cupcakes.

Happy Halloween Eve!

One more day and then it is lots of BOOOOOOO's! Let me show you what Tammy made!
Deb♥

I bought this frame at Salvation Army - I love to repurpose things! It originally had a seashell in each frame, and was matted. These frames are only about 3"x3". I took the stuff out, I also repainted the frames (same color, they needed touching up). I used some Pink Paislee paper for the background - I don't really keep a lot of "themed" paper, and don't have ANY Halloween paper LOL, but I thought this orange was perfect. The letters are black glitter, and are also Pink Paislee. I used Stickles to make a spider web on the top one, and added a spider sticker. The middle one I just glued a bunch of googley eyes and chalked the edges. And the bottom one I added a cute Jolee's scarecrow sticker. My plan is to change it out for each season, let's see if I can keep up on that ;)
Tammy

Halloween Costumes

Are the idea running around in your head and still you cannot come up with anything? Try one of these from Sheena's children!
Deb♥


I was recently working with some older photos and was frustrated by the composition of the photos. I can't go back and retake the pictures but what I did do was scan in the photos and create a collage. This enabled me to adjust the photos so they had more of the girls in their costumes and less of the background, creating a more balanced layout.

Halloween Dress Up

Aren't babies just ADORABLE dressed up in their first costumes??? Here is Viji's CUTE son showing off his :)
Deb♥

Anurag is 3 months old in this picture. The dress was a little too big for him. He looked so cute! I used Pazzles Inpiration to cut the Circle and the scallop Circle, the title and the pumpkins. I used stickles to dress up my pumpkins! I am just learning how to use the machine. It has a learning curve, but I am loving it! I had a lot of trouble with the ribbon. I still haven't found a glue which will hold it in place. Suggestions are welcome! I totally love violet and orange together! What do you think?

Happy Halloween! Have Fun!

Happy Halloween Treats!

"I don't like Candy Corn" has played in my head over and over for the last few years when Nickelodean comes on TV...but the thing about candy corn is that it does make a cute insert for a pop put card. Here is what mine looks like :)
Deb♥

Happy Halloween Eve Eve!

Some of us around IIG are gearing up for Halloween and would like to show you a few things we made. Are you ready for the festivities? Have fun and be safe as you take the little kiddies out :)

First up is Michelle with a card. Have you made yours?
Deb♥

Friday Night Card Sketch with Michelle

Michelle is back tonight to show us a beautiful card along with the sketch. Enjoy!
Deb♥

Photo Tray Decor

This was a gift for a girlfriend . . .

Her niece had recently taken some excellent pics of her kids. I loved the sepia pics and just knew they would go great with the Bo Bunny Timepiece collection I had purchased recently!

I used this collection for all the background papers and for most of the embellishments. The initial letters were some that I have had FOREVER and they were white. So I used some Distress Stain and Ink to change their color to match. I then used some alcohol inks to change the appearance of what was a silver dragonfly (on the E), the chipboard gear (on the T), the brad (by the N) to pull out the hearts and the key on the fence (top right). The metal letters were from an old stash. I used zipdry to adhere them. I cut the gear and the fence using Tim Holtz dies and then whitewashed and inked the fence. The quote on the bottom was from the collection. I used pop dots to add dimension. I then added some bling, buttons and ribbon to dress it up!

What a fun gift and at minimal expense. I had everything except the photo tray ($10 at Hobby Lobby . . . and wait for a 40% coupon hehe). FYI. . . She and her husband both loved it!



The queen of photo tray altering is Heather so she is back to show us one she made :)
Deb♥

Home Sweet Home with Groovy Deb♥

Hey Everyone! It is my turn to show off my hometown! Well, I grew up in Colonial Heights, located in VA. It is there that you will find the headquarters of Robert E. Lee also known as Violet Bank. It is a beautiful landscape that has been maintained for a great many years. In fact, once upon a time when Colonial Heights was not even on a map Violet Bank was our city library. Now it is just used as a museum. The kids heading to school dances can often be found posing on the steps and one of the most fascinating facts about this piece of land is that is is the home of the most enormous tree called the Cucumber Tree! Here are a few pics and my lo :) TFL!
Deb♥

Home Sweet Home with Tammy

I love where I live, the locals are nice, the tourists can be annoying, but it's all worth it! I live in Huntington Beach, California. We are the next beach north of Newport Beach...the beach city in the television series The O.C. My pictues show some of my favorite places: the middle two are the pier at sunset, and the Newland House...a historical home/museum...which is where I got married. Then, clockwise from the top: part of the boardwalk at the beach; the water tower house (yes, they made a house from an old water tower, it's right near where Sandra Bullock lived when she was still married to Jesse James); our famous naked surfer statue (people always try to dress him!); the harbor; the view under the pier; the wetlands (couldn't find pelicans this day, pelicans are my favorite); the main lifeguard tower on the pier; and a couple of lifeguard towers on the beach. When I took a picture of my layout, it looked flat, so I took another of it laying down to try and show the dimension. I had the idea to do it like those dimensional collage frames, have you seen those? I like the way they look :) I used Bella Blvd. paper (Sunny Happy Skies) TFL, Tammy

Home Sweet Home with Heather

It's funny that when I first received this challenge from Groovy Deb, I hadn't a clue why people would want to come to the town that I live in. Though it's much bigger then the town I grew up in (and much more shopping options), it just doesn't seem like there is much to do.

So I decided to change it up a bit and do a layout on my hometown . . . the town that I was born and raised in. The town that I visit often (only 20 minutes away). The town that I hold many dear memories of. That town is Fairmount, Indiana. Never heard of it? I am not surprised! However, I bet you have heard of the actor, James Dean. Yup, he was born and raised (just like me except several years difference) and buried in Fairmount, IN. Oh yes, and of course you know Garfield, everyone's favorite lasagna eating cat! Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, is also from Indiana. So, I took the 2 things that most people know Fairmount for and used that as my pic. This Garfield dressed as James Dean actually stands outside the Fairmount Historical Museum.

But of course I have many other reasons for loving this town, besides the Annual James Dean Run festival and car show that is held every year the last weekend of September - the same weekend that James Byron Dean died back in 1955. In fact, I decided to do my journaling on the reasons I visit Fairmount. A few of the reasons: the Madison-Grant Argylls (a scottish warrior); a town where you can still let your kids ride their bikes all over town without having to worry about them . . . as long as they are still in by dark or call from a friends house to check in; where your friends from elementary school are still your best friends 30 years later; where everybody knows your name . . . and everything about you whether you want them to or not! haha; but most importantly, because that is where a lot of my family still reside.

Bet you didn't know that when you opened up IIG today that you would also get a history lesson! haha!! Hope you enjoyed my short little walk back through time and why I will always call this my hometown, even if I don't currently live there!

Home Sweet Home with Viji

I had a lot of fun making this layout. Chennai is my home town back in India! It is a colorful place with lots of traditions, festivals, foods, beaches! This layout reminds me of home ! So many fond memories!! Chennai is gateway to the South, and its culture is distinctly different from that of any other city in India. Tamil tradition and culture is essentially the celebration of the beauty, which is exemplified through dance, clothing, and sculptures.

I started out with a white cardstock. Stuck the photo. Then I decided to use my water color pencils and used a good old toothbrush to spray the color on the paper. I covered my photo with a scrap piece of cardstock. You can see the close up picture to see the result. I like the soft colors of the water color pencils. It came out pretty cool. I made tabs of different colors for writing down what's special about my home town! The different colors signify my colorful hometown! Then just stamped on the layout for the title,accent and the border. All the stamps are by Fiskars. Love these ones! Very simple and quick layout. Hope you like it!