Holy Smoke!! I just finished looking at every single page in this thread and I am absolutely blown away by your work, Hollybelle. That book must be stunning!
I've been lurking in the Scrapbooking forum after discovering it several months ago, and I do enjoy seeing everyone's work and especially stealing layout ideas from the challenges, not that I've actually made any of them reality. I wish I had more time to scrap, I only seem to find the drive to get it done when I am making albums to give away to family.
I use very basic photoshop skills infrequently at work, and when scrapping I mostly do things the "old-fashioned" way, doing only titles and some journaling with the computer. But I was compelled to post after looking at this thread!