Scrapbook Trends and Studio Calico

As I said in a previous post I had a layout published in Scrapbook Trends magazine... I've had a few layouts published in US magazines before and they've paid by cheque. Aussie banks charge about $15 to cash a US cheque (total rip-off!!!). So when ST said they pay with product instead of by cheque I thought that sounded like a great alternative! That's another reason why I was so excited to be receiving my parcel from them (four months late!). Here's the product they sent. All Studio Calico - mostly from the Homefront range, with a bit of Anthroplogie as well.


Not really the kind of products I would normally buy, but there are some nice things in there! So I used the products to create this layout. The only things I added were the crochet flower and brad. I love how it turned out! The photo was taken on one of our frequent trips from Grafton to Sydney - about a 10 hour trip not counting stops. We used to leave at about 3am, us kids in our jarmies, try to sleep in the car, and stop at Taree for breakfast in a park. We'd get dressed, go to the loo, eat our cold boiled eggs or cereal, have a run around then back into the car for the rest of the trip. We's usually get to our cousins' place in Southern Sydney about mid afternoon. It was a looooong trip. Wouldn't it have been awesome to have had portable DVD players back then...