Lauren Bavin lives in Auckland New Zealand, the mother of 3 children: Cameron 18, Matthew, 16 Hannah 9, and wife of Steve. Lauren has never really paper scrapped- but has been digitally scrapbooking for nearly 9 years, but it was like she had found her passion in life when she discovered digital scrapbooking. She had been searching on the net for ways to improve her digital photos and ran across some of the digital scrapbooking sites, and she was hooked in seconds. Her style is a constantly evolving thing but generally that of a paper scrapbooker without the bulk of “real “ embellishment

She loves all styles of digital scrapbooking, but her forte is probably the recreation of realistic elements for paper style pages. Self-taught, she has used Paint Shop Pro and Picture It, Illustrator and many other applications but her trule love is Photoshop!!!

In her real life (when she has one!) she loves to read – her favorite authors are Lee Child and Harlen Coben but has a very eclectic taste and will read just about anything recommended to her, and favorite TV program would probably be "24", but changes her preferences with the wind!
Lauren works full time for DSP , designing, and teaching digital scrapbooking and is honoured that this passion can be now called her career.

She also loves to entertain and does quite a bit of it – scouring her (hundreds of) cookbooks for wonderful recipes to try out. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have time to do as much of this as she used to. Lauren has traveled quite extensively, especially in her early adult years as do many New Zealanders and since joining DSP the highlight of her work experience has been the visits to the USA to participate in tradeshows and crops for DSP and in doing so meeting many of the wonderful members DSP has that she now can call friends.