Yet again, I'm well overdue to post my layouts before I get too many that it takes all day just to write up this post! So if you want to see the credits for what I've used, just click the images and they will take you through to my Gallery at DST where everything is linked back to the designer's stores.
First up, I did this last night for the font challenge at ScrapbookGraphics this month. Love the fonts that Jessica Bolton chooses and I loved using goodies from Studio Gypsy and some pics of my grandmother and great grandmother.


The layout below was created in Jessica Sprague's DIGI IN DEEPER class which I started this week. I did her advanced class DIGI IN DEEP a few years back I think and what we learnt to do just in this one lesson has been amazing. Love the brushes that Jessica linked us up to and we even learnt to create that starburst in the background along with the mask.

I have also recently joined Paula Kesselring's Creative Team. Paula sells exclusively at Deviant Scrap and the first two pages I have created with her goodies have gotten mentioned on the Gallery Stand Outs blog (GSO blog) which is fabulous! I adore Paula's fun coloured goodies and for this layout below, I scanned in some of my 5 year olds drawings. I had fun colouring them with Paula's new Pop Up Studio brushes.

The layout below was created with an affirmation in this year's Art Journal Caravan (on the yellow post-it note). Again, I love how these goodies look so realistic when layed out in front of you. 
This layout below is with LDrag Design's beautiful new kit Scent of Romance and I paid tribute to my parents who celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary on the 17th February this year.

This is a photo of my very young grandparents clipped into the mask.

Now Studio Rosey Posey has done it again and released Discovery of the Heart at ScrapbookGraphics and I love how rich the dark colours are and all those amazing vintage goodies in there. It coordinates perfectly with her old Discovery kit and this is my grandmother's debut photo from 1938.

The following layout has been accepted by Scrapbooking Memories Magazine as a maybe for publishing. Next I just need to wait for the commissioning letter and it will be published. So fingers crossed it will make it into an issue soon.

There's a couple of fab freebies from Sarah Barber Design in this self-portrait layout I did for Sarah's February Art Journal Challenge over at Digiridoo Scraps. See details of the freebies in my last post.

Studio Rosey Posey has done a gorgeous collaboration with Trixie Scraps and I also used one of Studio Buttercup's templates which I totally adore too! Lorilei is guesting over at ScrapMatters for the month of February, so go check out her store there.

And how's this for collaboration bliss - Studio Gypsy, Studio Rosey Posey, Flergs and Dawn Inskip! They made the most adorable sweet kit and I've used a mashup of their goodies in this page below.

And another beautiful kit from Studio Rosey Posey featuring my grandparents wedding photo clipped into the heart mask. 
And it's been a while since I've done much for SherrieJD, so here's a couple using some of her new goodies.


And my time as a VIP creative team member for Tangie Baxter has come to an end after 6 fun months of seeing the goings-on in the creative team forum. I'm still in the Art Journal Caravan for this year and have already purchased some of the awesome new fonts Tangie has released, so I'll be stalking her still LOL!

I adore this gothic arch page below that I have featured in the February edition of The Artisan Notebook. It was submitted with Tangie's AJC in this issue and I adore how it all came together. It's not supposed to have the white in the background but I've given up trying to get it to load properly as a PNG file!
And not sure if this one will go into the March edition of The Artisan Notebook or not, but it's all using goodies from Tangie which I didn't keep a track of, so it's not up in any of my Gallery's as yet. Click the image if you want to see it larger.

So that's about it for the layout side of things. Now to some other news and happenings in digi-land!
Sarah Barber Design is having a creative team call and is also looking for someone to do her marketing for her so check this ad out!

For those of you who can't see the ad, this is what it says:
creative team call
Looking to add a few new members to my creative team. If you love the quirky and different, my team is for you!
personal marketing assistant
New position available! I don’t necessarily need the most talented person for this job, but someone who avidly loves and has a great passion for this hobby. Must be outgoing, friendly, and a chatterbox, willing to advertise for me on several site forums and social networks. Access to my products is a given, but won’t be under the restraints of the creative team. If this is you, please email me at sarahbarber.design@yahoo.com for more details.
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And my youngest son has started Prep this year, so I have no kiddos home during the day anymore! Both of my boys go to the same primary school and they couldn't be more excited to be able to spend time together during the day playing with one another's buddies. Ryan got a lot of his 4 year old Kinder buddies in his class plus an old neighbour, so he's happy to go and play and learn. Great to see. I took these pics on their first day back on 4th February.
And my other exciting news is that in the May 2011 issue of Scrapbooking Memories Magazine (Vol. 13, No. 6), I'm going to have two digital layouts published, both using products from Digiridoo Scraps and I'm also going to be featured in the Digi Zone section where you'll see my mugshot and a profile about me and my scrapping. I was a little excited when I was asked if I wanted to go into their feature! Of course I would and I love SBM. I think my buddie Angela will also have two of her layouts published in the next couple of issues but hers are traditionally scrapped pages, not digi although Ange has learnt a few tricks from me so maybe one day she might do an all-out digi page! I've recently had my first layouts published with them - two so far - then these two and another one that is going to be in the March issue (Vol. 13, No. 4) so it's great to see your pages featured in print rather than in digiland!