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As a little way of thanking you for your amazing support
during the last few weeks, we are having a Customer Appreciation
Sale! Until Midnight (MST), Monday,
January 21st, almost everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique is on
sale for 18.7% off. (You'll see your discount once you put
your items in the shopping cart.) We've put the commercial products
on sale, too, because our designer friends have been awesome in rallying
around us and we want to make sure that you guys get in on the fun.
Words just can not adequately express how grateful
we are for each and every one of you.
So please, don't miss this chance to save while buying
the goodies that make digital scrapbooking so much fun!
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
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If you have praise, comments, or questions
for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the
message board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom
of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more
of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: Dog Hair and Light Bulbs
Note from Ro: Because I have to put the muses
for the newsletter together at least a week in advance, I am working
on this during the Boutique server crisis. I have every confidence
that by the time you read it, it is all over, the Boutique is working
fabulously, and I am relieved.
I have recently described my life the
past few weeks somewhat like “having
my eyelids pulled over my head and clipped onto the back of my socks.” My
husband asked me if he could get anything for me this afternoon and
I said, “Zanax.” (Just kidding... but only partially...)
It
occurred to me, when I began to work on this grouping of muses, that
perhaps, it would be a good idea for me to go back through my own writing
and see what words of advice I had for myself. You see, I am always
writing words of advice to myself when I muse.
Anyway, I thought that
maybe I have said something in the past that might be helpful. I’m
going to share a few of these “Best
of Ro” muses this week.
By the time you read this note, I am on my
way to Arizona, where I hope to spend some time looking at rocks. Valerie
and I are getting together to make plans for the company, and since
we are required to go somewhere (we live in different states), I have
chosen to set our planning in an environment that has the potential
to unclip my eyelids from my socks. I am hoping to do some useful musing
while I am there.
This particular muse is one that I’ve shown
you in a “Best
of Ro” column before. But it surprises me every time I read it
because I actually said something very useful in it. It is very applicable
to my current situation. I hope you enjoy it.
It’s okay to fail.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000
ways that won't work. – Thomas
Alva Edison
It is said that Thomas Edison tried some pretty strange things on
his way to inventing the light bulb. I don’t know if this is
an actual fact, but I recently heard that one of the thousands of ways
that he tried to conduct electricity was through dog hair.
Dog hair.
Who would think of using dog hair to make a light bulb? It
seems nutty to consider trying that one out.
But, Thomas Edison understood
something that most of us never catch hold of: it’s okay to fail.
In fact, it is mandatory that you do fail. If you don’t
have failures, you will never have any successes; because that means you
won’t have ever tried anything. You will live a boring life.
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If you don’t try anything, you’ll probably end up
sitting on a couch, watching TV all of your life, because that
is safe.
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You won’t need to learn any new skills, because you wouldn’t
want to make a mistake when you are learning in the first place.
(mistakes = failures)
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Why should you take up any hobbies? You will probably make some
messes as you practice and that would be bad.
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Why read books? If you do that, you might accidentally stimulate
your mind into stepping off the sidewalk, onto the street of
possibility, and end up getting run over in the process.
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Why have any dreams? After all, you are too frightened to try
what is required to have you realize your dream. Besides, people
might think that you don’t deserve your dream to come true.
Those examples would be laughable if they weren’t so true. Many
people might not say these kinds of things out loud, but they are feeling
them inside – maybe without even realizing it – and these
thoughts are keeping them locked in a closet so dark that the brightest
sunbeam isn’t finding them.
It is better to have enough ideas
for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no
ideas at all. – Edward DeBono
So, let’s get to the nitty
gritty about failing.
What is the worst thing that could happen to you
if you fail?
When you feel that gut-twisting “I can’t risk
it” sensation
hit you when you consider taking a risk and moving towards a better
life, make yourself stop, step back, and think through all of the worst-case
scenarios you can imagine if you take a chance. Then, think how you
might extricate yourself from the results of the dreaded outcomes.
Could you survive them? Sure, you could. You might not have a great
time while you are untangling your life, but at least you are learning
something about living and about yourself in the process. Chances are
extremely high that you will never have to use your emergency plans.
But, it is empowering to have them in your back pocket, just in case.
It
ain’t easy, Elroy.
We would all love to imagine that life is like
getting on a double-decker train taking us to fame and fortune. It
is whizzing down the track, complete with a five star dining car, flat-screen
high definition televisions, and down-filled mattresses for us to rest
our little heads on. The truth is that we are more likely riding around
on dirty roads in broken down VW buses that are leaking oil. Life boots
us off the train and we have to climb into the VW. Then, we finally
get the VW going again and, if we are particularly persistent, we get
to graduate back to the speedy train.
Ahhh... Those are nice times,
eh? Flinging down the track towards some nice, shiny Christmas tree
bulb that is hanging out there with our name on it...
But, tell the
truth. When are you learning the most? When you are letting someone
do the driving for you or when you have to push the VW bus up the hill
because you want to get to your destination so darn bad? And, do you
really think that people who have accomplished something in this world
had their goals drop in their laps by the great Santa Claus of dream-acquisition?
Nope.
These folks have worked, tried, and have been committed to getting
whatever they have their eye on. They study and learn and experiment.
They talk to people about what they want. They get out and push the
bus.
- If an ambitious woman wants to become the next Martha Stewart,
then she reads cookbooks, bakes up a storm, gardens, and makes la-de-dah
crafts for her home. She makes everyone she knows eat her food experiments
along the way. It is very unlikely that she shops the freezer aisle,
throwing pre-made dinners in her cart, because she is too busy thinking
about something else. Why? Because becoming Martha Stewart feels
important to her and she is willing to work hard for it. Yeah for
her!
- If some guy wants to build a fence around his house and he knows
nothing about fence building, he probably hangs out at Home Depot
and Lowe’s and talks to the experts about what kind of materials
he should use. He buys magazines and books on the topic. He zooms
about the Internet looking for directions. He talks to other people
that have built fences. He might even have one of his buddies who
have built their own fence come over and help him out. But, he wouldn’t
expect that he could order a pile of wood and then build the fence
in thirty minutes without a problem, because if he can’t do
it as fast as a fence contractor, “he must be stupid or something.”
Did you notice the theme in those two examples? These folks are focused,
persistent, and aren’t afraid to ask for help. And, they understand
that they are going to make mistakes along the way. They understand
that this is part of the process they have to go through.
Two steps
forward, one step back, isn’t an old wives' tale.
Actually, maybe
it is an old wives' tale.... Sometimes, you take two steps forward
and then you fall back three or four steps. It is usually only in hindsight
that what first appeared to be a blow was actually a blessing to you
and helped you move closer to your goal.
We often say to each other, “I
wish I had a crystal ball,” meaning
that we would love to see what is coming so that we could know what
to do next. The problem is, if we had one, we would either become so
afraid of what we saw in the ball that we would become paralyzed into
inaction or we would become so confident of our future achievements
that we would swagger out dangerously. I’ll bet we would change
what was in the crystal ball in the process.
I can tell you for certain
that every single disaster in my life has meant that an ultimate improvement
was about to occur. And, I’ve
had some whoppers hit, too. Usually, the improvements seemed unrelated
to the catastrophe that preceded it. But, it was what I had to go through
to beat those calamities into submission, that provided the skills,
knowledge, wisdom, and self-confidence required to obtain the improvement.
I’ve learned that after I’ve sat in a corner for a bit
and have held my mental blankie when life slaps me around, once
I get back up and wander out into the road and see if there are any
more buses waiting for me to push around, I accidentally end up taking
a nice ride on that zippy train.
Elbert Hubbard said, “A failure
is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the
experience.”
You are going to fail sometimes. Don’t think
you won’t. But,
it is completely up to you whether or not you ultimately end up a failure.
So what if it takes you 10,000 tries to get something right? Who cares?
You might end up with something shining out in the dark for us all to
enjoy... just like Edison’s light bulb.
- Ro
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to [email protected]. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
Enjoy Ro's Muses? She now has a blog where she is posting some of our readers' favorites, along with blog-only topics. http://lifemuses-ro.typepad.com/life_muses_by_ro/
Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to print,
save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
PSP Tutorial: Using ScrapSimple
Embellishment Templates: Inky Folded Borders
Note: Tutorial created using PSPXi and Windows Vista.
One of the things that I love about digital scrapbooking is being
able to add realism to my layouts without all of the bulk and lumpiness
of traditional paper. There are many templates that allow you to create
natural effects like rolled or folded paper. I will be using ScrapSimple
Embellishment Templates: Inky Folded Borders for this tutorial,
but the technique is the same for other ScrapSimple Templates when
you would like to maintain the texture and appearance of the underlying
template.
To start, open the layer labeled “BMU_SS_EMBTmplt_InkyFoldedBorders_Worn-Plain” in
PSPXi. Copy and paste as a new image twice. Delete the template
from one of the images and fill it with either a color or a paper of
your choice. The reason we duplicate twice is to make sure that both
images are the same size. We could select the template, duplicate the
layer and then fill, but some of the defined edges may not be as sharp.
We
will now use the template to create a mask for the colored image before
adding it to the template as a new layer. Select Layer> New
Mask Layer> From Image and use the drop-down menu to select
the proper image. (Mine is Image 1. Look at the top of the image.)
Set for "Source Opacity" and click "OK."
We now have our color or paper
in the same shape as the template. We need to copy it to the template
layer, but before we can do this, we need to merge the layer groups.
Make sure you are on the TOP layer of the group and go to Layers> Merge> Merge
Group. Copy and paste as a new layer. You can now close the grouped
mask layer.
Drag the template layer “BMU_SS_EMBTmplt_InkyFoldedBorders_Worn-Trim” onto
the image and position it along the edge, making sure it is the top
most layer in the Layers Palette. Activate the colored layer by clicking
on it; it will turn blue in the Layers Palette.
We will now use Blend
Modes to allow the underlying paper to show through. I am using "Overlay"
for this template. Use the Opacity bar as well to show more or less
of the underlying paper.
I add a drop shadow to the trim layer and create
a New Group before adding the template to my layout.
Create a new layer
group by activating the BOTTOM layer of the group and going to Layers> New
Layer Group and then name the group in the dialogue box that opens
and click "OK." You can now drag the layers into the group starting
at the bottom of the group and moving up as you add them.
I add embellishments
such as these as groups to make it easier if I decide to make changes
after it has been added to my layout. Here, I decide the purple is
a little too bright and mute it down by changing the color in the layer
group.
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Online Classes Available
New
Class Offering!
The
Beauty of Blending Modes - PSE and PS
January 23 and 30, 5 PM ET
New
Class Offering!
Yes,
You Can Do Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements
January 24 and 31, 9 PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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New
Member Chat
Tuesday, January 15th
- 8:00PM ET
Join Welcoming Committee Members Pat & Patti for
an evening of chatting and fun, at the New Members Chat at
8 PM EST. We will be there to answer any questions you may
have about digital scrapbooking or Scrap Girls in general.
This chat is a great way to meet other digi
scrappers and ask any questions that you may have. And, there
is bound to be lots of laughs and a few noises too! We welcome
our more experienced members also to join the party too.
To join, just come to the Scrap Girls Chat
Room by clicking on the “Live Chat” link from either
the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page. Click on the
blue "Rooms" button, and double click on "NewMember".
Life
Moments Crop
Tuesday, January 15th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, Carla (crs),
for another Life Moments Crop. We are building a scrapbook, one
layout at a time, all about you! As scrappers, we tend to neglect
our own stories while focusing on the stories of our loved ones.
This crop series pushes you to focus on yourself and to leave
a legacy for future generations!
The topic for this crop will be Sports! Were
you an athlete in high school? Did you faithfully attend every
Friday night football game? Are you active in any sports right
now? Let’s scrap those stories! We’ll be meeting
in the Life Moments Chat Room at 9 PM EST pm Tuesday, January
15th. Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, January
16th -
12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and
themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun,
new challenge each week!
On January 16, we'll do a 2-page layout challenge!
Create a layout on any topic, with any colors, but make sure
it's a two-page spread!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and
upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed
what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends and
have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
Sketch
Crop Challenge
Thursday, January 17th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz,
for a Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, January 17th at 9pm
ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start on your layouts?
Then this challenge is for you! A few hours before the challenge
begins, I'll post a sketch for you to use as the starting point
for your page. You can be inspired by the basic arrangement,
the amount of photos, or copy it literally. All interpretations
are welcome and encouraged! Looking forward to seeing you there!
We'll be meeting in the "Chat_and_Crop" room
of the chat. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link (above right).
Once you are in the lobby, click on the "Show Rooms" button (on
the upper left), then select "Chat_and_Crop" from the list on
the left side.
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, January
23rd -
12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for
the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These
crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and
themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun,
new challenge each week!
On January 23, we'll do a three-photo challenge!
Create a layout using three photos - no more, no less!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and
upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed
what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends and
have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
Swap
Crop Chat
Friday, January 25th
- 9:00PM ET
Come join Carla (crs)
for a fun chat celebrating all the wonderful layouts from the
swap crop! We'll meet at 9 PM EST. Hope to see you there!
Scraplift
Crop
Sunday, January 27th - 5:00PM
ET
Join AngelaNussbaum and TysMommy on
Sunday, January 27th at 5pm EST for a Scraplifting Crop.
A few hours before the crop we will tell you
the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be able to
chose one of their layouts to be your inspiration. During the
crop we will also help explain about scraplifting, how to use
a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving credit.
Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join
us, you're sure to enjoy it!
ATC
Crop Resumes
Sunday, January 27th - 7:00PM
ET
Please join Pat Bowman for the return of the
ATC Chat/Crop on Sunday, January 27 at 7:00 pm ET. Not sure what
time that is where you are? Click HERE!
These crops will be held on the last Sunday
of every month. Since Valentine's Day is very soon, the theme
for our first crop will be "Hearts". Create an ATC, and include
a heart in some way. Let's see how creative we can be! Even if
you don’t know a thing about ATCs (Artist Trading Cards)
be sure and stop in for a warm welcome, information, inspiration
and just plain fun!
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January
Events
January Board Game: Progressive
Word Scramble
Here's how it works. The object of the game
is to correctly guess a boutique item by solving clues and unscrambling
letters we give you. Each day you are given a letter or several
letters of the name of a boutique item as well as a clue. You
won't know how many letters are in the boutique item name until
it is complete. We will keep giving clues until a correct guess
is made.
The designer's name is not included as part
of the puzzle, and the word "collection" is not included as
part of the puzzle either. Letters from any other words in product
names (such as "biggie", "brush", or "transparency") may be given
as part of the puzzle.
Here is an example:
Day 1 Letters: i
Day 1 Hint: I'm oh so pretty
Day 2 Letters: t n
Day 2 Hint: I know you'll love my soft reds, and blues, and greens
Day 3 Letters: u o i
Day 3 Hint: It was so nice of Angie to give me some flowers
Answer: Angie Briggs' Intuition Collection
Be the first to answer it correctly and win
a $5.00 Gift Certificate to the Boutique! You are only allowed
ONE guess per daily clue, and you are only allowed ONE win per
month. When you make your guess, you MUST link it to the boutique
item you are referencing. We will play the game daily during
the entire month of January. When a correct answer is given,
the new puzzle will start the following day.
January Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: You could win a $10 Gift Certificate
to the Boutique! With New Year’s Day here, we tend
to think in terms of our resolutions for the year ahead.
How about taking some time to reflect on the year that has
just passed? You could look at the resolutions you made last
year at this time and scrap about how you did at keeping
them. Or on a less serious note, you could do a retrospective
of your year with a few (or several) photos that highlight
your year. Maybe there is one event in your year that was
extra special, like a wedding, a birth, or a death in the
family. So let’s see your layouts highlighting the
year just past.
Mid-December
Layout Contest: The end of 2007 is upon us. 2008 will
be starting soon! Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions?
We want you to scrap them! Show us your layouts featuring your
New Year Resolutions and you could win a $10 Gift Certificate
to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Post your layouts to the Monthly
Contest Gallery between December 15th and January 14th to be
eligible. Good Luck!
Ongoing Opportunities
Customer
Muses: It occurred to us recently that it
might be wonderful for our readers to share with each other
their own versions of Ro's Life Muses. We know each of you
has a wonderful story to tell. To have your own essay considered
for publication as a muse in the column for our special Saturday
newsletter, send your essay to [email protected].
If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift Certificate
to the Scrap Girls Boutique.
Way
Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to have
all of you meet some of the amazing people that have become
Scrap Girls! We'd love to introduce you to our readers, too!
If you would like to be spotlighted, send the following items
to [email protected] :
- 500-900 word essay about your
experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and specific
examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created that
uses Scrap Girls products.
- A complete list of any and all supplies used on the layout.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun to
see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.
If your entry is selected, you'll
win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Customer
Freebies: We get a lot of requests from you
asking if you could share a freebie with your Scrap Girls
friends, and we have come up with a way to do it. On Saturdays
we will be sharing freebies created by you, if they are available.
If you are interested in participating, download this
PDF with the specifications and you'll be on your way.Please
note that if you choose to use any Scrap Girls tools or templates
in your submission, commercial licenses for those products
are required. (Even our own designers must purchase commercial
licenses for any items they wish to use in a non-personal
manner!) If your freebie is chosen, you will receive a $10
Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Suggest
a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for
a gallery layout challenge? Submit it to [email protected].
If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize (such
as a brush set, paper set, embellishment set, etc.). The
prize will be a surprise, but you'll be sure to like it because
you will get to pick out the one you like best (from the
category you'll be assigned to shop in when you are notified
that we are going to use your challenge idea). Friday will
be Customer Challenge Day so keep an eye out on the message
board calendar. It will be fun to see what YOU come up with
for us to do!
 Note
from Ro: Scrap Girls is
now giving away birthday gifts to our message board members! Of
course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday
presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure
because most people like money... Oops! Did I say that? No.
I didn't say that. You did NOT hear me say that.
Anyway, make sure your message
board email address is current and that you have the correct
date entered into your profile or you'll miss out on the birthday
present! (You will only be entering the month and the date so
don't be shy. We won't know how old you actually are!) |
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board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as
the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
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in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater kit
section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the large
number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital scrapbooking
as much as we do, and we have thousands of products to feed
your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's so
addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all day
long, every day of the week, and each day of the year. You don't
have to wonder about important questions like how to back up
your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to scrapbook digitally
(and which one to buy), or what type of computer software is
required to create digital scrapbooking layouts. The answers
are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a little
bit of extra fun!
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in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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Dog Hair and Light Bulbs
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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In this issue:
- 18.7% Off Customer Appreciation Sale!
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- PSP Tutorial: Using ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates:
Inky Folded Borders
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Contests
- Ongoing Opportunities
- Designer Freebie
- Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Educational Products |
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created for you by a virtual army of Scrap Girls team members.
Without them, we couldn't possibly share these resources with
you, and I'm very grateful for their ongoing help and support.
I hope you enjoy today's issue as
much as we enjoyed putting it together.
Ro
CEO - Scrap Girls, LLC
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The Scrap Girls Club contents
are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business
day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you
will receive:
- 1 Collection Biggie
- 1 Paper Super Mini
- 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
- 1 Embellishment Set
- 1 Card and Envelope Set (printable version
only)
- 1 Easy Page
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
Layout by Amanda Sok using
January's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Amanda Sok
Remember, these items are available
separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would
rather not join a club.
(Note: The Scrap Girls
Club contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the
Boutique at their regular prices once the associated club month
is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never
seen before product releases for each month!) |
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ScrapSimple Monthly Club |
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Join
the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest
ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99
or less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club
contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest
business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you
will receive:
- 1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
- 1 Brush Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
Layout by Melissa Renfro
using January's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Melissa Renfro and Theresa Kavouras
If you prefer not to join a club,
the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices
in the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking
the What's
New? section of the Boutique.
(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents
are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices
once the associated club month is released. But all club contents
are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for
each month!) |
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Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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*NEW!* MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions
6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements
versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 & 5.0
It's time for you to stop playing
catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more
advanced tricks that you see other people and professional
digital scrapbookers doing.
- Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
- Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
- Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
- Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there
waiting in your software for you to use such as paths,
masks, the drawing pen, and more.
- See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you
can make things that are creative and unique.
- Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
- Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear...
That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind
to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside
of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside
of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
- See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used
to do that with, too...)
- Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets
frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this
trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all
along.)
- Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
- Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
- And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used
Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself
in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have
to understand layers, where things are located, and all of
the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
to use it. |
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop)
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Are you wishing you could learn
how to scrapbook digitally, but feeling kind of intimated by
it? These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook.
You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about
why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short,
one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down.
It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking
lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
- Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
- Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
- Understand how to save your files for
printing or sharing them with your friends and family over
the internet
- Make your own textured brush
- Learn how to install and use purchased
brushes
- Make your own simple backgrounds
- See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts
to look like they are "real"
- Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
- Learn about transparency and lighting
effects
- Make your own digital torn paper edges
- Be able to isolate a single item in an
embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit
your fancy
- Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
- Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
- Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
- Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
- Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
- Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
- Learn how to install and use purchased
textures
- Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
- Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
- And lots more!
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Mastering Brushes |
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Mastering Brushes for
Photoshop Elements
This ebook was created from the popular online class Creative
Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who wants
to go above and beyond the basic brushing techniques taught
in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
Elements. Make your layouts shine with the polish that
advanced brushwork can bring!
Photoshop
version also available! |
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The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins |
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If you're at all curious about
filters and plug-ins, then The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Windows) is what you need! This 70 page ebook contains everything
you need to know to get started - what they are, what they do,
how to set up your computer, where to find them, how to get
them into your software, and more.
Paint
Shop Pro (PSP) version also available! |
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
eBook: This eBook (full of easy to understand information
and photographic examples) is tailored to the beginning digital
photographer who wants to take better photos. More advanced
photographers will also benefit from this eBook with the sections
that get you out of your comfort zone.
So get ready to turn that dial away from AUTO and start taking
extraordinary photos! |
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Ten Beginner Tips on Type |
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If you're creating a digital scrapbooking layout, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be using type on your pages somewhere. But did you know that type can make or break your page? What typeface will you use? What size font? Where will you place it on your page?
If you want to take some beginner steps towards improving the type on your layouts, and thereby improving the overall look of your layouts, then this eBook is perfect for you. It's written in a very simple style, focusing on one digitally scrapbooked layout while walking you through ten tips that take type from mundane and awkward to eye-catching and cohesive. |
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Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft Word |
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Look here to see all
of the things that you will learn with Scrapbook Secrets for
Microsoft Word, as it has a different set of benefits. |
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Start to Finish eBooklets |
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Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
Nothing could be simpler than
learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish
eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots
will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included
with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create
a finished project!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to use ScrapSimple Tools: Custom
Shapes & Patterns also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PS: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Emboss & Texturize with
ScrapSimple Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using ScrapSimple
Card Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper &
Photo Templates also available!
Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: The Beauty of Blending Modes: Using
them with ScrapSimple Products also available! |
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