I am totally stoked at being featured on the Tracy Ann Digital Art girls blog with my "You Bring My Heart Joy" LO today... I have been a fan of Tracy Ann's for a looong time and she is really quite a wonderful designer in considering her customers... at the moment she has reduced her prices by 30% because the Australian dollar is so weak against the US dollar and she wants her customers to still be able to access her designs.

Check out the TADA girls blog to see my LO!

Btw - sorry for the lack of LOs lately... I've only done a couple of late... I've been rather distracted by the Evolve photography workshop I'm doing with Sheye Rosemeyer which is running for 6 weeks... one and a half weeks is down, only four and half weeks to go... I'm having a ball and learning so much... so scrapping has kind of been put on the back burner for for the moment while I soak in all this amazing photography knowledge, so that I can take brilliant photos (well, I can only hope!) and then scrap them! :)

Btw - be sure you drop by my blog on Saturday November 1st... it's Digital Scrapbooking Day and there might be something nice here on my blog for you all... :)

Wowsers... I've been honoured with a "Layout of the Week" award over at Nuts4Digi for my "A Golden Moment" LO... This has totally made my day - I'm feeling very special.. :)

Check me out here.

Well, I have a backlog of LOs to share... so I better start posting them

First of the rank - possibly one of my favourite layered LOs to date using Cuppycake's Fanciful kit.




Credits -
Fanciful - Cuppycake Digital Designs @ Scrap Orchard
Font – Poor Richard


Cuppycake also has a fantastic new kit out called Jenna's Garden and here's my LO using this bright and adorable kit.




Credits -
Jenna's Garden
Font - VTPortableRemington


At Nuts4Digi, I got to work with Fiona Renwick Designs this month - here's what I did with her Dianne kit.




Credits -
Dianne - Fiona Renwick Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font – My Own Topher



Journalling Reads –
Basking in the afternoon glow you sat in the grass, deep in thought.
This was a golden moment.

Credits -
Dianne - Fiona Renwick Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font - High Tower Text, Typical Writer, Teletype, Adobe Caslon Pro


And last but not least - here are a whole heap of LOs I did waaaaay back in August for Donna... I didn't want to post until N4D came back online... these LOs are all using Donna's fun Cuteness kit!




Journalling Reads -
We spent a silly afternoon playing and giggling on the bed.You thought trying to touch the big lens on Mummy’s camera was a hilarious game!

Credits -
Cuteness - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font - You All Everybody, Pea Walker



Credits -
Cuteness - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Curled Border Template & Action Set - Marcie Reckinger & Traci Murphy
Font - Pea Lacy, Pea Sue's Print



Journalling Reads -
Kicking your feet and watching them is an amusing pasttime...

Credits -
Cuteness - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font – Pea Walker



Journalling Reads –
Look at that serious face of concentration…

Credits -
Cuteness - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font - 28 Days Later, Estrya's Handwriting


And this LO, is just one I did for me -




Credits -
Word Art - Sugarplum Paperie - Word Art Frames
Beauty Within - Tracy Ann Digital Art
Details 3 - Tracy Ann Digital Art
Stamp Frame with Overlay - Everyday Princess - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi

So I have seen some simply amazing LOs over at DST with extractions and I have been wanting to try and emulate some of these amazing designs myself... I've tried extractions a couple of times, but the results have always been really lame... I always have a lot of trouble extracting little B's hair, because it is so fine and sticks up everywhere! I think generally I'm too impatient for the whole extraction genre, because I like to scrap pretty quickly and finish a LO in a night or at most 2 nights... However, I decided to slow down for a moment and give it a proper go. Armed with the magic wand and some pain-staking handiwork using an eraser, I finally did an extraction that I was happy with came up with this LO. Although it's quite simple, it went through quite a lot of iterations to get to this point and I think this is possibly the longest I've ever spent on a LO. It's so completely different to any LO I've done and I finally got to use some of Jofia's stuff (I oogle her stuff a lot and I bought 3 things from her, but never know what to do with it because it's so different to my regular style). I am totally chuffed about this LO... I love how it turned out...




Journalling Reads -
One summer morning, you found yourself the perfect
spot to enjoy some breakfast. You sat there so intently, licking the butter off your toast and enjoying yourself so very much.

And all I could think whilst you sat there was how you looked like a perfect angel as you sat there, bathed in that golden glow of morning light...

Credits -
Background Paper, Light Burst - Beautiful Day - Jofia Designs
Clouds - Diamond Rain - Jofia Designs
Wings - Once Upon A Time - Caroline B. @ Nuts4Digi
Sparkle - Breath of Fresh Air - Weeds & Wildflowers
Font - Freebooter Script, Snowshoe

Here's one of my latest LOs using one of my all time favourite photos of little B and Donna's uber cute Everyday Princess kit...




Credits –
Everyday Princess - Donna Duncombe Designs @ Nuts4Digi
Font - Pea Mandy, Pea Sara


And here's 2 LOs I've created using Digi Illusion's gorgeous Butterflies are Free kit -




Credits=
Butterflies Are Free - Digi Illusions @ Nuts4Digi
Font - Pea Mystie Caps, Pea Olson



Credits=
Butterflies Are Free - Digi Illusions @ Nuts4Digi
Font - Pea Mandy, Pea Nancy

Has it already been almost a month since I last posted here? Wowsers! All I can say is it has been *really* hectic around here for the last few weeks... and it's almost about to return to a normal pace... hopefully in the next week or so!

I've been trying to catchup on things in digi-land when I've been taking breaks from unpacking... I'm not there yet, but I'm on the way... So much has happened in the span of a few short weeks...

First up, Donna has opened up her new store over at The Hybrid Shoppe. She's doing great things with her latest digi kits and is now also creating hybrid stuff, such as this ultra cute ATC album -





She also revamped her Adore kit and the first LO I've done in about a month is using this kit -






Journalling Reads -
You just love playing with stickers... and you thought putting them all over my face was the best fun you’d had in ages... And as silly as it was, I just loved having you “decorate” me!

Credits -
Adore - Donna Duncombe Designs available at The Hybrid Shoppe & Nuts4Digi
Font - Pea Lacy


Secondly (but not by any means any less exciting) Rachel of Cuppycake Digital Designs announced while I was away that she is now and exclusive designer for Scrap Orchard! Woo hoo! Congratulations Rach! This is such exciting, knock-your-socks-off great news! She's released a whole bunch of stuff at her new store, one of which is her new sparkling, gorgeous Fanciful kit -




And here's what I've whipped up tonight with it -



Journalling Reads -
My poor sick girl... you were so tired you fell asleep at 6pm while I was holding you.... I didn’t have the heart to wake you... you had been so sick and miserable all day, so I just let you have a little nap on the floor of the lounge room... You are beautiful .... even when you’re sick...

Credits -
Fanciful - Cuppycake Digital Designs @ Scrap Orchard
Font - Pea Mandy


Thirdly, Nuts4Digiis back up! After a month of problems due to a server migration gone a bit awry... Nuts4Digi is back in business... so pop over and check out the great Back to Business Competition going on!




Now hasn't that been one mega huge post from me! Off to lala land for me... but I'll be back soon to share more stuff!

Well, this here could be my only layout for September! Heading into the home stretch of packing before we move house in exactly a week and then will be without internet for a couple of weeks and visiting family back home... and by the time I get back it'll be the end of September... so I highly doubt I'm going to get anything done scrap-wise after tonight!




Credits -
Background Paper - Mountain Rain - Trish Jones Designs
Photo Overlay - Worn Photo Overlay 2 - Something Blue Studios
Circles - Cherry Fudge - Trish Jones Designs
Date Circle - Date Stamps - Trish Jones Designs
Textures - Texture Strips - Trish Jones Designs


This LO is totally different to my usual style... a lot grungier than I'm used to, but I kinda like how it turned out.

Btw... I hear there's a going to be a new store opening up soon... you better keep your eyes and ears open for the grand opening... I would say keep an eye on my blog for details, but since I'm about to go missing for a bit, maybe you should just go pop on over to mousey's blog and keep an eye on her blog for the latest breaking news on the subject... :)