I have done some... they just take me FOREVER to complete for exactly the same reason... I think part of the key to making it outstanding is good photography... I LOVE CathyZ's clean magazine design style of scrapping... but I think part of what makes her pages stand out is the fact that her pictures are outstanding and she has such a great sense of design concepts... I took her design class and seriously LOVED it!!!
I also love Celeste's gallery
here's a few that I've done... again, they took me tons longer than my normal clustery stuff LOL
