Put on your Party Hat!

The super groooooovy scrapbook blog "If it's Groovy" is turning a year old and YOU can get a present for joining the party. From Jan 4-30th, there will be a blog hop through many of the Groovy Girl designers blogs with challenges and PRIZES!

For my party game, I challenge you to create a page that has a birthday party hat (or crown) on it. It can be in the photo or as a page elements such as a sticker, die-cut, stamp, paper, what-ever. Digi or paper.
I will showcase all the entries here on the blog. To submit an entry, post a comment to this thread linking to your page. Or email directly to me at amyleighallred@hotmail.com. Make sure I can contact you if you win. To get you started, here is a page from me with a giant party hat in the center!


And if you win (number randomly selected from random.org from all the entries), I'll send you this Birthday Girl embellishment pack filled with pink birthday goodies, both handmade and store-bought and sent with love!


And here are the entries I have received so far. Keep them coming! I love to see great work.

Check out the main page for more blogs, challenges, and prizes. ifitsgroovy.blogspot.com/

I like candy

Don't you love pinatas at birthday parties? I do!
Want some candy? Here is some blog candy. Enjoy!

Hat's off (and onto your scrap page)

How about this idea- unstaple one of those paper party hats and use that as part of your page!

Here are a few more scrap-pages I did with party hats on them.
Party hats can also fit the party THEME, like these below.



Now, show me yours!

Party on!

To inspire you (ok, really to show off my own work), here are a few more pages that I have done with birthday party hats.

Who's birthday is it?

Jan 4-10th is a special birthday and YOU can get the presents. Stay tuned and get ready to scrap those birthday photos. Check back here on Jan 4th to see how you can join the party!

And a hint to my upcoming challenge, put on your thinking caps and look at this page I did for my father-in-law's birthday.

1980's BIG Hair Challenge

Welcome to my "Back to the 80's" challenge for the If It's Groovy Blog Hop Crop! If you haven't checked out "If It's Groovy" lately (http://ifitsgroovy.blogspot.com/) now is a great time. The Design Team is having a blog hop crop and offering tons of great prizes on several great blogs.

Here is my challenge to YOU! My fondest memory of the 1980s was BIG Hair. I admittedly was a "Hair Bear" and thought the bigger the better. I bought so much Vavoom hairspray and "ratted" my hair, that even on a motorcycle, it wouldn't move! So in honor of my 1980s memory, my challenge to you is create a scrapbook layout (any size but I'm sure the bigger the better) about HAIR. The theme has to be "hair" related- Big Hair, hair styles over the years, donating hair, first hair cut, new look, etc. It doesn't have to be 1980s specific (but it's groovy if it is!). So get hairy with it.

Here is my layout for this challenge and also the prize that I have up for grabs to the winner of this challenge! To enter for a chance to win the below prize, either email a photo of your layout to me at amyleighallred@hotmail.com or post your link to your layout in the comments section. Be sure to leave a way for me to get in touch with you if you win! Layouts are DUE June 14, 2009. I will select a winner from all qualifying entries. Yes, you can enter more then once!

Hope you didn't miss the blog challenge before mine: Lynnette's 80's Icon/Fad/Toy at http://windingroadhousewife.blogspot.com/

Next, grab your mouse and click on over to my fellow Design Team Member Marci's blog http://marcisscrappingspot.blogspot.com/ to check out her Groovy 80's Challenge and prize!

Good luck and happy scrapping.
Keep it Groovy.

Now check out all the HAIRy entries. I'm lovin' it!

Tea Time

May makes me think of May flowers, May Day poles, Mother's Day, My birthday and Tea Time. There is just something so relaxing and elegant about a proper tea. Even better, you get to share it if with family and/or friends. I even collect tea cups and pots. It started with a lovely cup my grandmother gave me when I was about 10 and grew from there.

This year, I hosted a Mother's tea at my church. I had to bring ALL my tea cups, formal settings, wine glasses, linens, fresh flowers, decorations, and gifts for the attendees. I loved it! I made chocolate cups and placed fresh strawberries in it. I scrapped some bookmarks and gave out tea lights, Cashew Rocha, tea bags and gift boxes. Oh what work but soo worth it. My mother, 2 of my 3 sisters and niece came. At my table, two friends from MOPs (Mothers of Preschoolers) and a friend from my Bible Study plus her darling teen daughter joined me.

In addition, locally we have an excellent tea parlour and some of my mommy group friends and I spent hours enjoying a formal tea and chatting. I've been with this group of women for 5 years. We have evolved but more importantly, we have grown closer each year. I love that we have extablished this Tea tradition together each May.

"You only know how strong a women is when you put her in hot water."