Welcome Allison Davis as our Guest Diva for the month!

Our Guest Diva for the month is no stranger to us!  It is Allison Davis, herself.  I am lucky enough to know her personally and she is as nice as she seems...and she is funny!  So, let's learn a little more about Allison and see what she created for us.

Allison got her start in scrapbooking about six years ago after her family opened Scrapbook Generation, a scrapbook store in Springfield, Missouri. She is the co-founder of Scrapbook Generation Publishing and is also the co-author of Sketches for Scrapbooking, a series of sketch books aimed at helping scrapbookers save time with detailed, yet simple and creative, yet doable two-page sketches. 

Last July she introduced her own series of sketch books, Sketches for Scrapbooking: One-page Sketches. Allison is also the creator of Sketch Support, a website devoted to sketches with daily posts of projects created by herself and the Sketch Support creative team. 

When Allison isn't scrapbooking she most enjoys spending time with her two boys, Drew and Jackson and her husband, Mike. She also loves baking and decorating cupcakes!

Allison used both the Exit Here and Noah collections and I think you are going to love  them.  Five projects total and quite the treat for you!

Using Exit Here she created this ADORABLE double page layout. Allison knows how to take a double page and rock it out!

A close up of the title work and handstitching.  

Allison loves to handstitch on her layouts.

Love this layering of the cameras!

 And here is a clean and simple card that is super easy to recreate.  You will have to do some detail cutting, though!  

And then with the Noah collection, we have a card and a couple more layouts.

Cute, huh?  You could make this now and be set for Father's Day!

Allison's signature is double page layouts, but I love it when she does a one page. What a sweet picture.  

We began with a double page layout and we are going to end with one!  

Doesn't this make you just want to recreate this immediately?

Close up of that pocket banner and title work.

We love Allison's projects and we hope you do to!  Leave her a comment and let her know that you like them and we will pick one comment from all of them and that person will get their choice of an Exit Here or Noah collection kit!  We will announce the winner on Tuesday, March 20th here on the blog!

Be sure to visit Allison's blog(s).....

Allison Davis and Sketch Support

Third Thursday with Katrina

Hey everyone!  My day to post my projects on the blog here.  I always find it so much more exciting to post the design team Diva's work than my own here!  

I had some fun with the Exit Here collection.  

I think this is my favorite collection for this release. 

As you know, we have cross promotions with different companies in the industry.  It's a great way to support each other.  These arrows are from Basically Bare and I thought they went perfect with my travel themed layout!  Plus they are fun to alter!

I had leftover scored pieces of paper and I wanted to try to use them up.  I free hand cut the two bigger hearts and then I just folded the yellow heart paper and left the ridges.  I used some Scor-Tape on the back of the piece and then just adhered it to my card front.  I did this a while back and it has stayed, in case you are wondering!

Just a fun little tag!

Next up is a layout that I did with the Noah collection that is appearing over at Sketch Support today.  Allison is our Guest Designer this month, so be sure to stop back by tomorrow and check out her fabulous projects she will have up here on the blog.

 I love the punch out sheets, so fun and cute!

I don't know about you, but I am ready for the weekend.  This nice weather is giving me Spring Fever a little too early in the season!  Have a wonderful day.  

First Wednesday with Melanie Jarocki

We are so excited about Melanie's first official posting here on the blog and we think you are going to be too!  We have a three layouts, one of which is a double page layout, and a card!  So, let's hear from Melanie, herself, about her projects today!

Date Birthday Age

For this layout I wanted a really cheerful, happy feel--the Exit Here collection was perfect! I layered 3 of the patterned papers under my photo for special effect. Mixing up the letters on the title gives it a playful look as well. I love adding banners to my projects--this won't be the last of them you see.

You are Loads of Fun Card

It's always great to have products to make boy cards. I have three boys so I want to have special cards and notes for them as well as my girls. The Noah collection's primary colors and fun graphics will get plenty of use in my house! And I love the Cute as a Button burlap buttons to add a finishing touch.

Weekend Getaway

I loved using the little die-cuts from the Messages collection to add 

a little extra detail to my photos.

Jokes

When my oldest son was six years old, he had a heyday making up his own jokes. I used the Messages collection to record a few of them. I printed directly on the ledger paper and then handwrote my journaling on the journaling pocket. Instead of using the die-cut pennants as a banner, I turned them on their side to accent the photo.

I don't know about you, but I LOVE the fact that Melanie used the collections out of the collection theme!  Try doing it sometime and see what you come up with!  

We hope you enjoyed Melanie's projects today and that you will also go visit her at her blog.