The feature this week is special. It was a milestone in my "scrapping life". Here is my precious "first train ride" album:

First time I saw the train album from Kaisercraft the light bulb lit straight away. I knew I wanted to try this digitally. I didn't even ever consider going through the work of cutting each paper and photo to fit the album's shape. I even went out to Weston Park to find the train ride and take the photos to decorate my album. This was my first shaped mini album, and first proper hybrid album. I was so happy with the result I approached Michelle Coleman about making the template available to LDD costumers. I wanted to make sure other digital artists could do the same and wanted to save them the work of scanning and measuring everything up. I got much more than I have asked. Michelle Coleman ended up giving me a designer spot at Little Dreamer Designs because of it. Here is the template:

Not too long after that I decided to submit my album for publication and sure enough it got accepted. It was published on the issue 73 of For Keeps Creative Paper(Jan 09) and I was especially happy with the attention they have given it. Nicely photographed! Here is a peek (pages 84-95) :

Latest achievement of this little treasure was this week, and that is why I am showcasing it today. It won Scrapper's Choice of the Year 2009 for Best Hybrid Project (nominated). Made my day! Especially because it was with this project, which is so special to me :) Thanks for everyone who nominated me, who visits my blog, who has a peek in my galleries, you don't even have to say hi, your positive thoughts sure must be keeping my creative juices going :) Thank you!