On-line Crop, May 9th

Just a quick reminder.



The team and our special guest, Jana, have all been working on our games and challenges. We'll have loads of inspiration and prizes.

Why not come on over to the forum and say hello?

See you all soon!

April Design Team REVEAL!

Hi everyone! We're so lucky at AllyScraps to have a fabulous sketch designer as a part of our design team. Debbie Gaydos' sketches are so inspiring, and we decided to make our April Design Team reveal based on a 2 page sketch by Debbie. Here's her sketch and what we came up with.



Debbie Gaydos
This is one of my favorite layouts of Debbie's, and it's easy to see how it inspired such an amazing sketch! It's so fun and colorful, and I especially like the fun mulitcolored title. Debbie used papers from Studio 8's Dinosaur Land paper collection. Perfect for her themed pictures. Love your layout Debbie.



Dana DiGennaro
I also used Studio 8 paper for my take on the sketch. I used the Celebrate collection, perfect for my build-a-bear themed birthday page. I had fun using the banner cutouts for part of my title, and loved using the stickers popped up on my page for lots of dimension.



Morag Cutts
Morag's fun Disney page used papers from the Sassafrass Lass Bungle Jungle collection. Morag always amazes me with her hand cutting, and I also really like the fun, bright colors of this layout. She used a fun font for her title too, it's the Umbrella font thickers from American Crafts. Great job Morag.



Raechelle Bellus
Raechelle used such fun pictures on her layout, and I love how she fit so many pictures across the 2 page spread. Her layout features brand new Fancy Pants paper. The On a Whim paper paper collection really does a great job of enhancing the playful aspect of Rae's pictures. She also used a multicolored title and some fun hadcut details. Thanks for sharing Rae!



Christine Hertel
Chris used the My Little Shoe Box Who's There collection for her super birthday themed layout. Wow Chris, love the way you did your title, her letters are cut with her Silhoutte diecutting machine. Super cute. Love the patterned papers she chose too... awesome job Chris!



Thanks so much for taking a look this month. Hope you are inspired by Debbie's awesome sketch and by our layouts based on her sketch. I know the images are small on the blog, but if you click on the photos, you can take a look at a bigger version! Thanks and enjoy.

~ Dana

On-line Crop & Freebies!

Happy May Day!

Do you remember when this used to be a celebrated holiday? Flower baskets, and May Day poles, with ribbons? It was the best, and I miss it so Im celebrating it this year. Im sending flowers and ribbon with all orders recieved today through Sunday.

I have just added some great new products in the store. Three fabulous lines from Crate Paper



I just love the cute designs which are all double-sided of course.



There are die-cut papers and beautiful accessories too. Be sure to check them out here.






Summer Cool line from Imaginise is perfect for those warmer days ahead



Two truly beautiful releases from Webster's Pages are also double-sided with gorgeous patterns on the front and back.



While you are here be sure to check out We R Memory Keepers, Bella Blvd, Scrap Within Reach, Sassafras Lass, Fancy Pants Designs, Kaiser Craft, Jenni Bowlin, and so many others. See all the new products here

Remember shipping is still only $4.95 on all order shipped within the U.S.

Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day. Will you still be feeling SCRAPPY next week? Well, we will too! So, come on over to AllyScraps for our super fun and exciting crop on Saturday, May 9th from 2-8 EST.

We will be celebrating 5 years of AllyScraps and our love of all things scrapbook. There will be hourly scrapbook challenges, tons of games, BINGO and loads of prizes too. We hope that you will join us for lots of fun, a chance to meet some new scrappy friends and a whole lot of inspiration.

Have a great weekend.

Cathy

Combining words to make a title

Have you ever struggled to come up with a creative title to explain the photos? I did with this layout, until the idea to put two words together. The title of this layout is 'slurfing'. I combined the words sledding and surfing, because that is basically what Skylar was doing in the photos. In addition to making up the title, I added a definition of the word to give the title more meaning. It's a fun and clever way to explain an event or moment, give it a try!

Purrrfect Project Friday

Time is just flying by!

This week's purrfect project challenge is One for the Boys.

I tend to create projects that are quite girly - who can resist all those pretty things on offer? So to create something more masculine is some what of a challenge for me.

Firstly, Rita has created a gorgeous frame for a baby boy.



I love the idea of including the hand and foot print in the frame. And just take a look at the denim swatch and metal tag.



I'm obviously along the same wavelength as Rita, creating a frame for my DS. I've gone for a grunge/urban look to reflect his age. He still loves to play although he is definately growing up too fast!



I've stamped and painted over the patterned paper to give it a bit more grunge. The robots are by Stampendous.



So why not join in with this week's challenge? Create something for a boy or man. It can be anything such as a card, tag, gift, etc. as long as it's not a traditional scrapbook layout. See here for all the info. You'll get a entry into the monthly prize draw for every project you upload!

I can't wait to see what you do!

Morag x