'3's a charm' & some good news

Have you been checking out the Ella Publishing blog for the past few days? The Ella Friends have all been working with the same 2-page sketch by Donna Jannuzzi to illustrate the versatility of sketches and 2-page layouts. The sketch can be found in this book:

That's Double-Page Design. A very handy tool for getting back in the swing of making double pagers. It definitely helped me. I shared 2 of my layouts here last week, here are some detail shots of layout number 3, now up on the Ella blog.

You can check it out the full layout here.

Now, some more good news. I am so excited to be a new member of the Practicing Creativity Design Team.

(Like, beyond happy!) Founder Courtney Baker releases new stamps each month & they are pretty fab.  Got my first official set as team member yesterday and I'm looking so forward to getting crafty with those new releases. Can't wait to share them with you at the end of the month! Meantime, check out the shop here, and the blog here.
Ok, off to work for me, now - and supposedly more snow on the way. sigh. Counting down the days til' Spring now, for sure!!