Happy Day.

Hi everyone. It's a "Happy Day" here, now that we're all on summer vacation. I'm loving some time off with my family. :) Here at Ally Scraps, we're really enjoying having Daniela Dobson here with us for the month. She makes the lovliest cards, check out these super cute ones that she's made just for us.




Instructions
1. Make a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” card from cardstock.
2. Cut patterned paper slightly smaller than the card front, ink edges and adhere .
3. Adhere doily to the top of the card.
4. Make a pinwheel from patterned paper, adhere to the card and add a flower to the center.
5. Add flower border sticker to the bottom and and spell “Happy Day” with letter stickers.
Supplies
Cosmo Cricket Upcycle collection, Repeat
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Scene
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Alpha Stickers
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Element Stickers
Maya Road Ruffle Blossoms
Other supplies
cardstock, doily, toffee ink




Instructions
1. Make a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” card from cardstock.
2. Cut patterned paper slightly smaller than the card, paint edges and adhere to the card.
3. Cut patterned paper to 3 ¾ x 5” and punch a border at the bottom. Paint edges and adhere.
4. Paint edges of chipboard frame and adhere.
5. Cut strips from patterned paper to make a flower. Adhere to center of chipboard frame with foam adhesive.
6. Adhere doily and a button to the flower center.
7. Adhere die cut border to the bottom of the card.
8. Tie twine in a bow. Add two butterflies and spell “hello” with letter stickers.
Supplies
Basic Grey Hello Luscious Collection, Succulent
Basic Grey Hello Luscious Collection, Blissful
Cosmo Cricket Upcycle Collection, Repeat
Cosmo Cricket Upcycle Collection, Butterflies & Doilies
Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Buttons
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Alpha Stickers
Maya Road - Ornate Tags Chipboard Set
Pink Paislee Hometown Summer Collection, Border Stickers
Other supplies
cardstock, twine, paint, border punch, foam adhesive

Have you checked out Daniela's blog lately?? It ROCKS, so many pretty projects there.

Check back here soon too, I'm expecting awesome projects from Linda Albrecht and Beatriz Jennings! :) Take care, Dana

Beatriz Jennings is back, with this lovely altered Bingo card. I love that it's so pretty and feminine.




Instructions
1- Distress Ink edges of Bingo Board. Tie ribbon around paper and adhere to bingo board.
2- Add some lace and embellish with flowers and buttons.
3- Add artisan elements, rub ons and sticker.
4- Add ric rac, buttons and adhesive pearls.



Supply List
Melissa Frances bingo card
Pink Paislee Artisan Elements
Melissa Frances Essie paper
Kaiser Craft Le chateau collection rub ons
Glitz Design Love Nest cardstock stickers

Thanks so much Bety, this is beautiful!. Be sure to check out Bety's blog for even more inspiration! See you soon, Dana :)

June sketch winner announced!

A BIG congrats goes out to Shellye, the winner of our June sketch contest. The challenge was to make 2 cards based on this awesome sketch by Debbie Gaydos.



Here are Shellye's two super cute cards, they are so adorable.





Shellye wins both of these lovely 6 x 6 pads from Fancy Pants. Perfect for avid card makers. :)




It was SO hard to pick a winner this month for our sketch contest. Wow, there are some tremendous card makers out there. Congratulations to everyone who participated.

Check back later this week, for a super cute project from Beatriz Jennings. :) Dana

Summer Days...

There are some artists who make amazing, wonderful mini-albums... and obviously Daniela Dobson is one of those artists. Love this mini-album of her son on vacation. Love that it's so joyous. :)





Instructions
1. Cover each note card with a strip of patterned paper.
2. Embellish the front of the album with stickers, letter stickers, chipboard and a flower. Add twine and tie in a bow.
3. Add embellishments and photos to the inside pages.
4. Tie pages together with seam binding. Add a button with a twine.






Supplies
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Quilt
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Big Dots
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Alpha Stickers
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Chipboard Accents
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Element Stickers
Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Buttons
Cosmo Cricket Upcycle collection, Butterflies & Doilies
Maya Road Ruffle Blossoms
Other supplies
Note cards, Martha Stewart twine, My Mind’s Eye Stamp, Seam Binding, Clearsnap ColorBox Pigment Ink – Canary.



Be sure to check out Daniela Dobson's blog, it's full of wonderful creations. Happy Father's Day to all. See you soon, Dana

P.S. Don't forget that today is the last day to enter our June sketch contest, info here! June Sketch contest.

A big AllyScraps welcome to Daniela Dobson!

We are so pleased to welcome Daniela Dobson as a special guest designer here at AllyScraps. We've admired her work for a long time, and we are so happy to have her with us. Here is Daniela, I'll let her tell you a little about herself.



"My name is Daniela and I live in Dallas, TX. I am married to Peter and we have a little boy, Alex, who is 3 years old. He keeps me busy and my days are filled taking care of him. I have been scrapbooking and stamping for over 8 years. I really enjoy challenges and strive to be innovative. I love recording every day moments, especially now, with my son. I am a night owl and I stay up way too late creating. I love patterned paper and I am a collector of things, stamps in particular, they are everywhere. When I am not crafting I can be found spending time with my two boys, watching reality TV, cooking or reading."





You are My Sunshine card
instructions
1. Make 3 ½ x 5 ½ “ card from green cardstock.
2. Cut a strip of patterned paper to 2 ¾ x 4 ½ “. Adhere a strip of border punched patterned paper to each side.
3. Adhere tissue paper to the bottom of patterned paper. Distress the edges with scissors. Adhere to the front of the card.
4. Machine stitch four doilies over the bottom seam.
5. Tie twine to chipboard shape and adhere to the card.
6. Adhere sun and two butterflies.
Supplies
Cosmo Cricket Upcycle collection, Repeat
Cosmo Cricket Upsycle collection, Butterflies & Doilies
Echo Park Summer Days collection, Rainbow
Echo Park Summer Days collection, Chipboard Accents
Pink Paislee Soiree collection, Printed Tissue
Other Supplies
Twine, sewing machine, Bazzill Basics Paper cardstock, Fiskars border punch





The Grass is Greener with YOU card
Instructions
1. Make a 5 x 5” card from green cardstock.
2. Cut a piece of patterned paper to 4 ¾ x 4 ¾” and adhere to the card front.
3. Cut sun sticker in half and adhere to the top edge of the card
4. Adhere green border sticker to the bottom of the card.
5. Adhere two flowers and add a button tied with twine to flower centers.
6. Adhere sentiment sticker and tie twine around the front of the card.
Supplies
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Scene
Echo Park Summer Days Collection, Element Stickers
Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Buttons
Other supplies
Martha Stewart green twine, Bazzill Basics Paper cardstock

Thank you so much to Daniela for her lovely cards!! Be sure to check out her blog, and enjoy. Dana

Getting creative with a sketch.

When I asked Roree Rumph to do a card based on this month's contest sketch, I expected something fabulous. What I did not expect what this project! A tag banner with each tag based on the sketch, how creative.



Here is June's contest sketch, for cards (or projects!) by our own Debbie Gaydos.



Roree is always so great about giving us easy to follow instructions for her projects... here they are.

Instructions
1. Paint the chipboard coasters with white acrylic paint, multiple coats, and let dry. Distress the edges with a file. Then, punch a hole in the left corner of each of the coaster to match the one on the right.
2. Cut out three patterned paper panels (blue, pink, and orange) to 3 3/4 x 2 3/8" for the base of each coaster. Distress the edges with file, Hand sew cross stitches at the corner of the pink and blue patterned paper panels with green embroidery thread, and adhere the panels to the coasters.
3. Add a double row of machine stitching around the patterned paper panels on each coaster with orange thread.
4. Cut out three patterned paper panels (blue, pink, and orange) to 1 3/4 x 2 1/8". Add a 1 3/4 x 3/4" strip of another pink patterned paper to the lighter pink patterned paper panel. Distress the edges with file, round the corners, and adhere the panels to the coasters.
5. Using the Cricut Expression 2 and Just a Note cartridge, cut out two flowers (at 3 1/2" and 3 3/4") and a circle (at 3 1/2") from the pink and heart patterned papers, and two butterflies (at 4") and swirl (2 1/2") from the green and heart patterned paper.
6. Hand cut the flower stem and leaf from green patterned paper, and the banner shapes from blue and heart patterned paper.
7. Layer the shapes, sew on buttons with green, yellow and orange embroidery thread, and adhere the shapes to the coasters.
8. Add brads to the corrugated Kraft letters, and adhere the letters to the coasters.
9. Thread the coasters with green ribbon, knot the ends, and trim off the excess.





Ally Scraps supplies
Maya Road Chipboard Postage Stamp Coaster
Echo Park Playground Collection, Capture the Flag
Echo Park Playground Collection, Hide & Seek
Echo Park Playground Collection, Merry Go Round
Echo Park Playground Collection, Tag Journaling Cards
Echo Park Playground Collection, Heads Up Seven Up
Echo Park Playground Collection, Red Rover
Echo Park Playground Collection, Jump Rope
Jillibean Soup Corrugated Alpha, Kraft
Pink Paislee Soiree Collection, Twine
Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Buttons
Other supplies
Ribbon, brads, green and orange embroidery thread, white acrylic paint, corner punch, hole punch, sewing machine and orange thread

Thanks soo much to Roree for being with us again this month. She is so amazing and so wonderful to work with, we always feel honored to have her wonderful projects on our blog! Roree's blog is filled with even more projects to inspire you, hope you will take a look.

Have a great weekend. Dana

PS If you'd like to enter our June contest based on Debbie's sketch, take a look here. :)

oh happy day.

Do you make many cards?? I haven't made any in a while, but the beautiful cards that Roree Rumph makes has been inspiring me to start cardmaking again! Take a look at her newest creations, 2 cards that are so cute and adorable.



Hi card
1. Make a 4 x 5 1/2" card from a coordinating cardstock. Cover the front with the blue patterned paper, and distress the edges with a file.
2. Cut out a thin strip from the heart patterned paper and a thin strip from the orange patterned paper (scalloping one edge with decorative scissors), and adhere the strips to the card. Hand sew and 'x' pattern on the card with the pink/yellow twine, and tie a bow. Trim the ends.
3. Cut out the pink journaling spot from the journaling tag patterned paper, cut it in half on an angle, and adhere the pieces to each side of the card.
4. Machine sew the journaling spot halves on the outside edge with orange thread and a decorative stitch. Hand sew French knots at the center of each stitch, alternating with yellow, blue, and green embroidery thread.
5. Sew a button onto the balloon sticker, and adhere it to the card.
6. Adhere the corrugated Kraft letters 'hi" to the card to finish.




Oh happy day card
1. Make a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4" card from a coordinating cardstock. Cover the front with the blue patterned paper, and distress the edges with a file.
2. Cut out four thin strips from the orange patterned paper, and adhere them around the outside edges of the card. Trim the ends.
3. Cover two of the cupcake chipboard tops with the heart patterned paper, distress the edges with a file, and adhere the chipboard to the card.
4. Punch out three circle from the circle patterned paper, and machine sew around the outside edges with a sewing machine and coordinating thread. Then, machine sew three triangle shapes with the coordinating thread and white section of the circle patterned paper. Sew a coordinating button onto each circle, adhere the stitched triangle to the bottom, tie with blue/white twine, and adhere the balloon shapes to the card.
5. Adhere the alphabet stickers to scrap pieces of patterned paper to spell 'oh' and 'happy', and machine sew around the outside edges with green thread. Trim off the excess patterned paper, and adhere the words to the card.
6. Adhere the corrugated Kraft letters 'day' to the card to finish the sentiment, and layer and adhere two heart stickers to the center of the 'a'.



Supplies
Echo Park Playground Collection, Capture the Flag
Echo Park Playground Collection, Double Dutch
Echo Park Playground Collection, Tag Journaling Cards
Echo Park Playground Collection, Heads Up Seven Up
Echo Park Playground Collection, Element Sticker
Echo Park Playground Collection, Alpha Sticker
Jillibean Soup - Corrugated Alpha, Kraft
Maya Road Mini Chipboard Set, Cupcakes
Pink Paislee Soiree Collection, Twine
Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Buttons
Yellow, green, and blue embroidery thread - DMC
Sewing machine and orange, yellow, green, and red thread
Decorative Scissors - Provo Craft
File - Basic Grey
1" circle punch - EK Success

Be sure to check out Roree's blog, it's filled with TONS of gorgeous cards to inspire you! Also, have you checked out our June sketch contest?? it's a CARD sketch. :) Enjoy the sunshine. Dana

June SKETCH contest... with a twist. :)

It's time for our June sketch contest, and we're going to try something new! How about a sketch for all of you card makers?? Here it is, our awesome June contest sketch from Debbie Gaydos.



Our prize is designed for card makers too, TWO 6x6 papers pads from Fancy Pants. The winner will get BOTH Beach Babe and Beach Bum.




To change things up a little, you need to made TWO cards. One using the sketch above as it is, a second one using the sketch mirror image, backwards or upside down... you decide. Finish your project and e-mail the image (less than 500 kb please)to us by Sunday, June 19th at midnight Eastern time. We will choose a winner soon after. Send your cards to allyscraps@gmail.com. Have fun and good luck!

Dana