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What's New in the Scrap Girls
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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: Scrap Girls Aunties
Drowning in a sea of technical server issues that seemed destined
to swallow me whole, I wandered out to the Scrap Girls message board
to see if I could find something to distract me. It would take a lot,
I knew, because I was feeling stunned that as soon as one issue was
solved, another issue seemed to appear... and as soon as that
one was solved, another one was uncovered. I had been telling the customers
everything I knew in detail throughout the entire ordeal, but suddenly
I wasn’t aware of what I knew... except that I wanted it
to stop.
I longed to wake up and find that it was all a dream and that
my happy purple site was happy again. I ached to have the balance restored,
to feel the edgy nervousness I had been carrying in my gut removed.
I wanted to sleep again minus troubled dreams that made me feel like
the sixth grade girl who had unfortunate shoes that she couldn’t
escape.
Valerie and I had been in meetings all day long, planning for
the upcoming year and she could see that I was becoming increasingly
agitated as the day went along. She told me to get off of the computer
and I tried to obey her. I waved goodnight to her, shut my hotel room
door, but instead of taking the hot bath she suggested, I went to my
computer to check my email, “just in case....”
Just in case
some new problems were discovered....
I sighed as I realized that it
was a blessing that I had checked my computer again because there were
two new issues that needed immediate attention.
I wanted to cry, but
I couldn’t. When you are numb, you are unable
to cry.
And so, I decided to read the Scrap Girls message board. As
I began to check for new messages, I came across a thread in which
our member Zaz – whose real name is Carol Ann – was thankfully
telling everyone that her family was safely home from Haiti with Janae
and that they were all in tears because of the virtual baby shower
that the Scrap Girls aunts had set up for them.
Virtual Baby Shower?
I had missed something while I was in meetings
and talking about servers.
I need to tell you a little bit about Carol
Ann at this point so that the rest of the story will make sense to
you. Zaz is a happy, optimistic person who brightens the Scrap Girls
message board. She is fun to have at chats, is always quick on the
draw when we have games, and has lots of interesting ideas to share.
It didn’t take long after she
introduced herself to become a board favorite because, hey... it
is nearly impossible to not like someone that likes you – and
Zaz likes everyone!
It just so happens that Scrap Girls happens to be
a rather supportive place and so it is not unusual that when our members
have a life crisis or feel that they need special help, they share
what they are facing and ask for prayers and pep talks.
Zaz told us
about her own struggle to adopt a cute little girl from Haiti. It had
become a long, drawn out affair lasting from Janae’s
babyhood through toddlerhood. The biological mother had agreed to the
adoption long before, but everything was endlessly delayed in red tape.
Zaz
asked us to pray for her and she received numerous replies of support.
Over time, people began asking for Janae reports. “What
is happening with Janae?” someone would ask. “Have you
heard anything new?”
Zaz began giving us regular Janae bulletins
as a result, which were very popular strings, as this important life
drama was being played out in front of our eyes. We longed for Zaz
to have Janae home. We wanted them to all be happy and to have the
tension over because we knew that the situation was agonizing for Zaz
and her family.
Right before Christmas everything heated up. The final
details were stuck and Zaz worried about what was occurring, especially
with the holidays coming. Someone discovered that there is a website
where you can go out and light a candle as a visual indicator that
you are praying.
A candle lighting place on that website was set up
especially for the purpose of praying Janae home to Zaz. Many of the
Scrap Girls members began lighting candles and they reported how the
candle burning process was going. Some of the members relit their candles
multiple times to keep the prayers going longer.
(I might add, at this
point, that people of all faiths are welcome, loved and accepted at
Scrap Girls. And, the funny thing about it, everyone understands this
fact without anyone saying it. I’ve never made
a formal statement about it before because frankly, it hasn’t
been necessary. We have members of all faiths imaginable participating
with us and every one of them enrich our lives in amazing ways. How
blessed we are to have this little corner in the world, where we seem
to accept each other because we are all brothers and sisters who are
children of God. We are united by a desire to learn, to grow, to share,
and oh... what is that other thing? Oh yeah... digital
scrapbooking!)
Okay... back to my story....
Finally, the good news came. Janae was
coming home! Zaz announced the good news to the “Scrap Girls
Aunties” and everyone
cheered with joy.
And then Zaz, her husband and their son left for Haiti
and the aunts went into action: They organized a virtual homecoming
shower for Janae.
You are probably wondering what on earth a virtual
shower could be. Virtual baby gifts? Electronic clothing to be placed
on computer-generated babies?
Well, no. It was nothing like that.
This was not a shower in the traditional sense of the word. Yes, there
were gifts, but they are not the kind that Janae will wear and outgrow.
Instead, Janae and her new family were given gifts of the heart.
The
Scrap Girls Aunties created layouts to welcome her home... lots
and lots of layouts, all uploaded to a special gallery just for this
purpose.
The shower had been organized while I was meeting and worrying
and feeling sorry for myself because I was stuck in “server red
tape” that
seemed to stretch out to the end of eternity... which never ends...
All of this kindness and carrying on had been going on while I had
been thinking about something else entirely. Just when I was feeling
kind of hopeless and wondering how long I could continue fixing issues,
I found evidence that there were reasons that I could keep going – and
that I would have help to keep going. I had evidence that the Lord
would answer my prayers and everything would be okay.
I found the evidence
that Scrap Girls is a very special place. And, I had evidence that
it would continue, because it is now about so much more than me and
my individual concerns. I could see that I am just a small little cog
in the mechanism.
Scrap Girls has taken on a life of its own and has
become a testimony that people do care about each other... that
they love each other... that
they pray for each other... that they help each other... that
they enjoy learning, laughing, sharing and yes, even scrapbooking together.
I
discovered all of this evidence in a gallery created by the Scrap Girls
Aunts to welcome Janae home. The layouts were their gifts from the
heart. Their layouts were their celebration of life and of the thing
that had happened as they knew each other. Their layouts were a way
to express how much they cared about a little girl from Haiti that
they had never met.
It was while I browsed through this very large gallery
of “Welcome
Home Janae” layouts that I knew that somehow, the issues would
end. I knew that everything would be set right again and we would move
forward and be strong. I knew that the prayers of our members in our
behalf would be answered in the same way that the prayers for Zaz and
her family were answered.
I am very happy to be a member of a purple
site called Scrap Girls. I’m honored to be associated with such
fine people. And, I am delighted to say that I am “one of the
girls....”
Thanks, Scrap Girls Aunties. You didn’t know
that when you were giving a virtual shower of love, you showered it
all over the Internet and someone who needed that love received it...
me.
- Ro
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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.
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Tutorial: Using Templates,
Brushes and Styles to Create an Aged Paper Effect
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop
CS2 with Mac OS X.
Crumpled, ripped, curled and stained aren’t typically delightful
descriptors, but add anything of the sort to my digital scrapbook page
and I’m quite delighted. There are numerous ways to achieve this
kind of aged paper effect digitally and I’m going to share a
few with you here.
I am using "KSC_SS_Paper_Timeless_5.png" from my ScrapSimple
Paper Templates: Timless as my starting point. You
can also try using other ScrapSimple
Paper Templates, like Stained,
Folded,
Aged,
Scruffy,
Curled
Edges, Raw
Material or Wrinkled.
There are many ways to create various different kinds of embellishments
using the same piece of paper in different ways.
I am going to start
out with the basic shape of a photo frame as seen in the picture above.
This frame looks boring now, but with the use of templates, styles
and brushes, it will become a beautiful embellishment to use in your
layouts.
The
next thing I am going to do is find my digital file of "KSC_SS_Paper_Timeless_5.png".
In the picture above,
I move my paper tempate over to my working frame file and scale it
down by hitting Cmd+T (Ctrl+T on a PC) and hold down
the Shift key while dragging a corner handle to resize
it proportionately. I then position the paper over my frame shape in
a way that will take full advantage of all of those great tears, folds
and curls once I create the frame shape out of the scanned paper.
In
the picture above, you can see that I have selected the frame layer
(bottom layer) and by clicking on the frame’s thumbnail in the
Layers Palette, while holding down the Control key, I am selecting
the frame shape. There should be marching ants in the shape of your
frame that are visible on your paper template layer.
With the frame shape
selected, I select the paper template layer (top layer) and hit Cmd+Shift+I to
inverse my selection and press Delete to erase all of the contents
on the paper layer outside of the frame shape selection. As you can
see, I am now left with the paper template in the shape of the frame
and the frame layer still exists below it.
Next, I simply need to click
on the frame layer and drag it to the trash icon at the bottom of the
Layers Palette to delete it.
I am now left with the paper template in
the shape of my original frame and I’m ready to use brushes and
layer styles to create depth.
I have chosen to apply the Aged Paper
Style 5201_1 as seen in the above picture. The problem with what
you see in that screen shot is that it doesn’t allow for those
great folds to show through, so I need to go in and adjust the Blend
Mode of the Pattern Overlay within the style.
To allow the folds and
other depth of the original paper to show through, I double-click on
the area to the right of the layer name to open the Layer Style Palette
and set the Blend Mode to "Color Burn" and the Opacity to 51% in the
Pattern Overlay section. The first picture above shows the settings
of the Layer Style dialogue box and the second picture shows the results
of those settings.
I want
to use brushes next to further age the paper frame, so I need to create
a new layer above the frame layer. I then merge them together to “flatten” the
styles and allow the layer to be brushed on. To do this, I create a
new layer by clicking on the new layer icon at the bottom of the Layers
Palette and then hold down the Shift key and press Ctrl+E (Cmd+E on
a Mac) to merge the two selected layers.
Now, I am going to choose a
foreground color to use for distressing and choose a brush. I have
opted to use the Ultimate Grunge Brush Set. I haven’t
changed any of the brush settings in the dialogue box, but I did set
the Mode at the top of the screen to "Linear Burn" and the
Opacity to 20%. These options will be available to you as long as you
have the Brush Tool selected. Next, I lock the transparent pixels of
the frame layer by clicking on the lock icon at the top of the Layers
Palette as shown in the picture above. This allows me to paint anywhere
on the screen, but the transparent pixels will not be affected.
I brush
on my frame here and there at random and now I have a great aged frame
full of texture and depth!
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Tutorial written by Keri Schueller
Online Classes Available
The
Beauty of Blending Modes - PSE and PS
January 23 and 30, 5 PM ET
Yes,
You Can Do Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements
January 24 and 31, 9 PM ET
New
Class Offering!
Ten
Beginner Tips On Type
January 30 and February 6, 9 PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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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!
Sketch
Crop and Challenge
Thursday, January 24th
- 8:30PM ET
Hey there, ladies! Do you need a jump-start
for a scrapbook layout? Are you looking for some inspiration
that will spur on your creativity? Then look no further than
Thursday night's Sketch Crop and Challenge with your host, Laurel (that's
me!).
Come join us for a free downloadable sketch
that you can use to create one, two, or twenty layouts! The
sky's the limit! I'll post a link to the sketch during the
day on Thursday, January 24th, and then you'll have the chance
to download it and get started. Then we'll meet in the chat
room on Thursday night at 8:30pm ET to talk about the sketch,
share ideas on how to use it, and just have an all-around good
time.
What is a sketch? A sketch is a flattened
JPG document that has spots for photos, a title, journaling,
and embellishments. You can follow the sketch exactly as shown,
or you can use it as inspiration for your own layout look.
It's all up to you!
And don't worry, if you can't make the crop,
you can still download and use the sketch. Hope to see you
there!
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!
Australian
Chat
Monday, January 28th
-
9:00PM Australia Eastern Time
Come join kazbar73 and ScrappingJo for
our first ever Australian Chat and Crop! We thought it would
be a great idea to celebrate Australia Day and what it means
to you. The challenge is to scrap a page about your favourite
past time/Australia day outing, etc.
Then come along on Monday, 28 January and
join us in the chat room to discuss your layouts and how you
all celebrated Australia Day 2008. Look forward to seeing you
all there.
For the Americans, this chat will be at
6am EST. All are welcome to join.
New
Member Chat - Early Edition
Tuesday, January 29th
- 3:00PM ET
Join Dee Decker (DDecker)
for the early edition of our New Member chat at 3:00 Pm EST.
Everyone is welcome to join us as we meet new members and answer
questions about the Message board, Chat room, Gallery, chocolate,
and anything else that may come up!
New
Member Chat
Tuesday, January 29th
- 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".
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, January
30th -
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 30, we'll do an All About Me
challenge! Create a layout using a quote you love!
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!
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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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Check our message
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"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
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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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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Scrap Girls Aunties
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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In this issue:
- What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Using Templates, Brushes and Styles to Create
an Aged Paper Effect
- 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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The Scrap Girls newsletter is
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
P.S. Your email address is
safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with
anyone!
P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance,
please email [email protected] or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!
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Scrap Girls Clubs
Scrap Girls Monthly Club |
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Join
the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with
the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking
looks while saving! (A $26.93 value for $9.99 or less!)
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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