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Cute Stuff
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Included in this month's ScrapSimple
Club offering. Members receive a substantial discount on club supplies.
Also available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those
individuals who would rather not join a club.
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Included in this month's Scrap
Girls Club offering. Members receive a substantial discount on
club supplies. Also available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices
for those individuals who would rather not join a club.
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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.
Customer Muse: You Are Not
Alone
After reading many of Ro’s muses, I have been inspired and encouraged
to write down my experiences with anxiety. I started suffering from
what was diagnosed as anxiety when I was 21.
I don’t really remember
how it started or exactly when – it
just happened. If I had to eat or drink anything when people were around,
I would start to feel physically sick, get hot and sweaty and start
shaking. I would do everything I could to not eat out; even if it meant
telling friends that I was not feeling well and would not be going
out with them!
While at home, I had no energy. I would come home from
work, go to my bedroom and just sit and read or do cross-stitch – both
would take my mind off of everything going on around me. The cross-stitch
and reading were my ways of blocking out the world, the anxiety and
being able to cope.
Since I lived at home with my parents, they started
to get worried about me and in the end, my mom persuaded me to visit
one of the doctors at the local health center. By this time, I was
imagining the worst possible problems and diseases that I could have
to cause my symptoms.
I was lucky and the doctor that I went to recognized
my problem as anxiety. It was good to know what the problem was, but
this only brought up more and more questions. My doctor decided to
refer me to the psychiatric department of the local hospital, as they
ran a series of anxiety workshops.
I was a mess before the first workshop.
I could not concentrate on anything, I felt sick, I had the shakes,
and the butterflies bouncing around in my tummy were huge.
One of my
big problems was (and still is) dealing with the unknown. I am able
to imagine 101 different possibilities of what is going to happen (most
of them negative) and they run around and around my brain like a stuck
record. I have, however, found from experience that when the “future” does
arrive, it is never as bad as I had expected and all of the anxiety
just disappears in a puff of smoke.
At the first anxiety workshop, I
found that there was going to be a group of eight of us working together
over the next year or so to understand and cope with our anxiety. Just
knowing that others were also going through what I was experiencing
was a great help.
If nothing else, it was a great opportunity to see
that anxiety did not care about where you came from or what you did.
Our group of eight included a full-time mom, a nurse, a student and
an administrative assistant.
It was amazing to hear the range of symptoms
suffered by the group. Mine were nothing when compared with some experienced
by others: heart palpitations, blurred vision, fainting and hyperventilating
(rapid breathing) to name a few of the more extreme. Most of us also
suffered from more minor symptoms: hot or cold flashes, shaking, butterflies
and sweating. Among the eight of us, we were able to put together
a list of over 30 symptoms that we suffered from.
Over the years since
this first workshop session, I have found that the anxiety is a part
of me and will always be with me, day in and day out. The big difference
now is that I can control it (most of the time) and it does not control
me or what I want to do. It has given me experiences in life which
I am able to use to help others who are also suffering from anxiety.
From just explaining what anxiety is, to ways in which people can help
understand their anxiety, to hope to cope with it and move on in life.
Anxiety
has no boundaries. It can be experienced by anyone at any time of life.
The symptoms will be different from person to person and the way in
which people will cope will also be different.
The big thing is, don’t
be afraid to ask for help – you are
not alone.
- Helen Tarbox
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.
Way Cool Scrap Girl: Melanie
J.
Thao Stole My Heart From Alton Brown
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There I was, happily feasting on asphalt with Alton Brown, throwing
down with Bobby Flay, and watching with rapt fascination battle after
battle of Iron Chefs when, on the last day of November 2006, a virtual
rabbit hole led me to Scrap Girls and this layout by Thao Cosgrove.
This
scrapbook page was like no scrapbook page I’d ever seen,
much less created myself. I lost myself in the details of it for
a long, long time that night. I kept revisiting the vibrant colors,
the emotion of the photo, the beauty of the quote - the sheer perfection
of the layout itself. My own pitiful attempts at scrapbooking came
to mind in stark contrast - piles upon piles of supplies never used,
for fear of “messing them up” and, before that, oversized
books full of crumbling, yellowed paper and fading newsprint. If
it was possible to do this on a computer, I thought, then take me
to your leader!
I wrote to Thao that night and she immediately responded
with enthusiasm and advice. If I hadn’t been hooked before,
I absolutely was then. I signed up for the Scrap Girls newsletter,
became a member of the board, read as much as I could about scrapping
and started fervently wishing for an updated copy of Photoshop.
I’ve
been thinking about this a lot lately because as November comes to
a close, I’m coming up on my first anniversary with
digital scrapbooking. I don’t really know what made me think
of it, but as I was preparing for Thanksgiving this year, I had the
sudden thought that my year-ago self had never even heard of digital
scrapbooking. I was completely unaware as I ate my turkey dinner
last year that my life was about to undergo one of the most radical
changes ever. That, in the span of only a couple of days, I would
willingly walk away from any and all diversions (especially all of
the Food Network shows that I had come to love over the course of
that summer) and become a digital scrapbooking devotee.
Each of us
has had this experience in one way or another - benchmark events
that mark the end of one thing and the beginning of another - graduation,
marriage, the birth of a child, death of a loved one, a move to a
new place. Each of these new “afters” can
cause you to ponder the before.
Now, a year later, I have a hard time
remembering what in the world I did with all of my time back then.
Before the late, late nights and early, early mornings spent creating
layouts, making my own digital scrapping supplies, creating fun and
meaningful gifts for friends and family, even taking the very scary
step of starting to do my own freelance graphic design for a local
corporation. I took pictures and occasionally journaled - I’ve
always done those things - but, I never had an outlet with which
to showcase them. This is why digital scrapbooking is so exciting
to me. It takes all of the ways that I love to express myself creatively
and combines them into a form that is art, memoir and most of all,
treasure.
Last Christmas, I was proud of myself for thinking ahead
far enough in advance to put together one of those online books featuring
family photos, perfect bound with a beautiful hard cover. If you’ve
been a digi scrapper for any length of time, you can imagine my disappointment
when I opened the books to find tiny captions that you could barely
read under page after identical page of tiny rectangular photos.
It captured the moments of the year, but not in any way that was
beautiful or very thoughtful.
This year, I’ll be making my own
books and designing each and every piece of each and every page.
I’ve also designed my own
Christmas cards, as well as a good number of the families in my community,
through a joint venture with a friend and fellow entrepreneur who’s
started her own photography business. (Who also happens to be one
of my very first Scrap Girls converts!) Just this morning, my kids
and I enjoyed putting together an Advent chain made from simple strips
of paper beautifully decorated with Erica Hite’s A Joyful Season
Christmas collection. I’m giving my sister-in-law a custom
designed purse when we celebrate her birthday this weekend and will
be making all sorts of custom touches - gift tags, bags, and cards
- to include with our gifts.
With one year under my belt, I can say
unequivocally that no creative pursuit has ever brought me as much
joy and satisfaction as digital scrapbooking has. Certainly not my
attempt to create an Ace of Cakes inspired fondant-wrapped cake.
There
won’t be any Furi knives on my Christmas wish list this
year. Give me a gift certificate for scrapping supplies and I’ll
be as happy as a clam.
Somehow, I think the Food Network will do just
fine without me.
- Melanie J., Huntersville, NC
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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!
Layout and Contest Winners
Weekly Layout Winners:
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Included in this month's Scrap Girls Club
offering. Members receive a substantial discount on club supplies. Also available
elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals who would
rather not join a club.
Want to see your layouts make
an appearance
in the Scrap Girls' newsletters?
Simply post your digital or paper
layouts that use Scrap Girls products in our online gallery, and
if we choose your layout to be featured in the newsletter, you'll
win a prize! To be considered, don't forget to list the Scrap Girls'
products that you used in your layout.
Congratulations to this week's selectees.
Please email [email protected] to get your prize!
Contest Winners:
December Layout Contest Winner
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Congratulations, Kricket!
You are the December Layout Contest winner! Kricket’s layout
depicting the song “Go Tell It on the Mountain” truly
does show an inspiring view as seen from her brother’s photograph.
Simply adding the verses turns it into a work of art. Great job,
Kricket!
Mid-December Layout Contest
Winner
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Congratulations, LaLo1103,
for being the Mid-December Layout Contest winner! LaLo1103’s
layout revealing her New Year’s Resolution to finish reading
the entire Bible is not only inspiring, but wonderfully done as
well. Good luck to you, LaLo1103, as you set out to accomplish this
goal!
Online Classes Available
Ten
Beginner Tips On Type
January 30 and February 6, 9 PM ET
New
Class Offering!
Cooking Up Color Schemes
February 5 and 12, 9 PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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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!
Desktop Crop
Wednesday, January 30th
- 9:00PM ET
Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum)
at 9PM EST for the Desktop Challenge Crop.
Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've
liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with
your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background
for your enjoyment? A few hours before the chat, we will provide
you with a source of inspiration, so stay tuned!
Art
Inspiration Challenge
Thursday, January 31st
- 9:00PM ET
Join Scrappinjo and ruralscrapper,
for the Art Inspiration Crop on Thursday, January 31st at 9
pm EST.
We will provide a piece of art to be used as inspiration for
your layouts. You can use the color scheme, the composition,
or any part of the art as the starting point for your own layout
- the only rule is that you use your imagination!
Quote Challenge Crop
Sunday, February 3rd
- Time TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for
the Quote Challenge Crop! Here's how it will work. On Sunday,
we will post a thread on the challenge board giving you the
quote which you will use to make your own word art. It's not
hard, and we'll even have a layout with a Word Art example.
Then
we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our
Word Art layout! We'll post the time in that day's thread,
as the time changes around each time to allow participation
by our international folks.
Everyone can participate and create
a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you
there!
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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-January
Layout Contest: The new year can be a time for new
beginnings and fresh starts. Maybe you've recently reorganized
a room, put an addition on or remodeled your home. Or, maybe
you are working on turning over a new leaf in your life.
We want to see your layouts about something that's giving
you a fresh start (past or present). Post your layouts in
the correct gallery, and
if your layout is chosen, you'll win a $10 GC to the Boutique!
All layouts are due by February 14, 2008 at Midnight, ET!
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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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!
* 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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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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You Are Not Alone
Saturday, January 26, 2008 |
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In this issue:
-
Cute Stuff
- Customer Muse
- Way Cool Scrap Girl: Melanie J.
- Layout and Contest Winners
- 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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This special weekly Customer Edition
of the Scrap Girls newsletter is created for you by a virtual
army of Scrap Girls team members and customers. 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
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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
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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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