Happy Monday, all! For our friends in the United States, we hope you are enjoying your M.L.K. Day holiday. We are so excited to kick off a new week with a fresh face for our 2024 Creative Team: Allison Davis!

Allison has created our issue sketches for the past year, and has been sharing the most amazing layouts inspired by them! You loved them so much that we invited Allison to teach our new Sketches 2024 class, which just began this month! Let’s get to know Allison a bit better today!

Hi, I’m Allison and I’ve been scrapbooking for about 17 years. I got my start when my family decided to open a scrapbook store in Springfield, MO called Scrapbook Generation. A few years after we opened the store I started creating sketches and producing monthly sketch bundles and books while teaching and sharing how to adjust and customize sketches through my website, online classes, and YouTube channel. I have been married to my husband, Mike, for almost 20 years and we have two sons, Drew and Jackson. Drew is continuing the “generation” element of SG as the third generation working at our store. It truly is a family business!

What is your favorite technique, Allison?

My favorite technique, by far, is hand-stitching. I’ve been known to spend days stitching on a project and it truly is a labor of love, I very much enjoy every aspect of it from start to finish. I’m often called “crazy” on more ambitious projects with lots and lots of stitching, but it’s something that as long as my hands are able, I’ll be stitching!

What is your favorite type of project to create and why?

I have always been drawn to the water so naturally I am drawn to creating water-themed layouts. It’s like I’ve made it my personal mission to find as many ways as possible to create waves or splashes with patterned paper. Lucky for me I also have a son and a dog that loves the water as well so there is no shortage of swimming and beach photos in this house!

What is one of your crafty goals in the upcoming year?

My two sons and I love Taylor Swift and I really want to create a lyric album of all her music. Drew and Jackson are going to help me take and create photos that compliment the lyrics to our favorite songs and then I will create a layout for that song. I think it will be a fun way to mix my favorite music and my favorite hobby. The first layout I’ve got planned involves costumes and props that we bought a few weeks ago and I’m so excited to take the pictures and get started on the layout. It will be fun to see how many layouts I can get done for that album in 2024.

What is your favorite color combination?

I love working with blues and greens (probably because of my obsession with water) and sometimes with some yellow and a little bit of black as an accent.

What are you most excited about in your craft for 2024?

I think what I am most excited about for next year is the class I am teaching with SCT called Sketches 2024. I love teaching others how to use, adapt, and customize sketches so the idea of spending a whole year doing just that has me super giddy about 2024. Plus I get to connect with other scrapbookers and see what they do with my sketches. I always enjoy that!

Check out a few of Allison’s favourite recent layouts:

Follow Allison at the links below, and be sure to leave her a ‘welcome!’ comment on this post! We are so excited to have Allison join the SCT team!

Find more of Allison’s creations here: Instagram | YouTube | Facebook

Don’t miss what Allison is sharing in the Sketches 2024 classroom, too! You can still join the class, and get access to this month’s sketch and three amazing layouts created with it!

Click HERE to learn more & register for Sketches 2024!

We still have quite a few spaces to fill on this grid! Who do you think will pop up tomorrow? Be sure to stop by to find out!