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Digital Scrapbooking News

 

Cute Stuff

Layout by Diane Miller [dinny]
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Layout by Ann Hetzel Gunkel
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Layout by Kerry Veale
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Layout by Laurel Lakey
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These products are included in this month's Scrap Girls Club offering. Members receive a substantial discount on these club supplies. They are also available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals who would rather not join a club.

 

Layout by Keri Schueller
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Note: Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Vintage Nursery are also available.

Layout by Gillian Hurst
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Note: Commercial license versions of African Beat Prints Brush Set Biggie are also available.

Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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Project by Ariadna Wiczling
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Note: Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Kids Business Cards 1 - 6 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Felt 5201 are also available.

Layout by Melissa Renfro
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Layout by Brandy Murry
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Note: Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos Biggie are also available.

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: What Do I Want To Do?

Marriage is a whirl of things that need to be done, so many deadlines you can count them. You get the kids registered for school, scouts, music, Sunday school and day care. If they miss anything, you need to call and explain, send in checks on time and help with homework.

That isn’t the half of it; there is driving. Drive to church, to the soccer field, to camp, to daycare, sharing rides with other parents and eliminating other parents who aren’t responsible or sober. Kids have to be dressed right for the right occasion or change in the weather or the nursery teacher will ask, “Did she dress herself today?”

All of the above is complicated by the plans and needs of the army. They will tell us when and where to move. They will let us know if they have a house or an apartment and when it will be available. So, you pack up four kids and a dog and head west.

Getting married as a teenager has its pros and cons. We didn’t have time to get used to an uncluttered house and a simple schedule. We grew and changed our ways together. After the kids, we started college together. I know, it was a backwards way of doing things, but this is what worked. Our schedule had to be coordinated with who was going to be home for the kids. That left us few choices. Since we moved at the whim of the army, we took courses where and when we could fit them in. We rushed through assignments and took required courses first, in case the next location didn’t offer those necessary classes.

After the army, we had to slow down. With kids in high school, we needed to become permanent, find a home. Where would home be? A job might dictate this.

Now, fast forward to our final home, our last move, we think. The kids are grown and on their own. College is complete. Evenings are free. What do I want to do with my time? I’m not sure.

Do I want to read a book? Do I want to go for a walk? Do I want to take an art class? Or, do I want to take a computer class? What do I want? I’m not sure.

Do I want to eat out or do I want to eat a sandwich in front of TV? When so many decisions are made for you for so long, you tend to wonder, what do I really want?

Do I want to work in the garden first or do I want to scrapbook all day and garden in the cool evening? Do I want the grandkids over for the weekend or just for a few hours? Do I want them to come over and enjoy each other’s company or just a few at a time so that I can quietly enjoy their company? Do I want to read a mystery or do I want to read non-fiction? Do I want to stay in this home near my daughter or move closer to my son and his family? What do I really want? I’m not sure what I really want.

We are raising two grandchildren. The other choices were not even an option.  Do I want them in private school or public school? Right now, I think I will just scrapbook another page of the grandkids and decide not to decide right now.

- Dee Ryan

 

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.

What Customers Are Saying...

I thoroughly enjoy the daily emails. I love your products... of which I have quite a few... and I have never had a problem. Keep up the good work!


I've been a Scrap Girls fan for awhile now. Since May, I've been a designer and I appreciate the availability of quality you can count on - especially in commercial use products. Thanks for continuing to put forth products that I can count on. Angie was also very helpful when I suffered a computer gremlin and lost some things and that kind help is wonderful!


Thanks so much for your email. You must know that although I haven’t purchased anything for personal use at Scrap Girls, it is my favorite digi site to buy commercial use items. I LOVE the huge selection! I have spent lots of money at your store and am always happy with my shopping experience and my purchased products.


It is kind of exciting to get a note from someone who is "famous," at least in my scrapbooking sphere! I always love the things I order from Scrap Girls! I think your designers are brilliant! I just switched over to digital scrapping this year, so there is always a little learning curve, but I have always gotten a response when I have asked. I also think your University tab on your website is very helpful.


I am just getting into digital scrapbooking (or any other kind of scrapbooking) and am really starting to enjoy it. But, what I enjoy the most is the honesty about the problems your server has been having. Since you are keeping everyone updated, we feel a part of the team. At least I do. I'm more understanding when things go wrong and I know what it is. So, a heartfelt thank you. I will continue to buy from your site because I trust you guys (gals)!


I can't thank you enough for taking care of this for me at such a late date. I can't sing praises loud enough or long enough to the excellent customer service you have there at Scrap Girls. Never have I had this top notch service from anyone before! It is not only the fantastic products that you supply, but the care for your customers that will keep me coming back for more. I would like to take the time to THANK everyone there at Scrap Girls for the joyful relationship that has developed. May you all have a great new year, as well as a prosperous one, for you truly deserve it.


Ro, I would just like to thank you for that lovely Christmas story which you sent each day. I couldn’t get to the computer quickly enough each day to read the next installment of Henry's life. I hope that you and your family had a lovely Christmas and hope that you have a happy new year and 2008 is good for you and that you have better health than in 2007. As a Christian, it is lovely to have something to read each day and your little stories are good to read. Keep up the good work and happy holidays to you and your staff.


I want to tell you how excited I am with your CD [Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed] and your products. Your service was excellent. I received my CD on Christmas Eve and was able to start using it Christmas night. After looking at just five clips, I have almost completed a layout! I had been attempting to teach myself Adobe Photoshop with the tutorials and I was so frustrated at how complicated it seemed. I have new hope that I will be able to master the software and go on to enjoy a whole new level of scrapbooking! Thank you for such a helpful product. I look forward to ordering from you again in the near future.


I just wanted to thank you all for making this Christmas extra special. I have been receiving your newsletters for a few months now and I look forward to it every day. Your team of designers is truly talented and I am amazed at what is offered in the shop. I see something I like in every newsletter. Thanks for the Christmas freebies and the fun competitions you have thought of. I am also enjoying seeing what Christmas is like in your part of the world. In Australia, it's warming up and it's great to see your layouts with snow and your unique Christmas traditions. But, some things are the same all over the world and the sense of family and getting together is universal. It's great to be part of the Scrap Girls family.

Layout and Contest Winners

Weekly Layout Winners:

Layout by msyellow
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Layout by scrappinchar
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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!

Online Classes Available

Conquering the Fear of Patterned Paper
March 1 and 8, 3:00PM ET

This in-depth class is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to use patterns. Patterns can be overwhelming and challenging to use. Learn some simple rules and guidelines to make them easier. Discuss different types of patterns, and how to effectively combine them. Study real examples, and see how applying the rules can improve your layouts.

Important: This is an Intermediate Level class open to all software program users. Students are, however, required to understand the basic skills taught in the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program for their software prior to starting the course. This information will not be reviewed as part of the course!

Enrolling in this course without understanding these basic skills may cause you to feel lost and frustrated when you attend the classes. We want you to have a great experience. So please, if you are uncertain that you have enough skills to take this course, use the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program to build an adequate foundation prior to the classes starting. Thanks!

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?

Did you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look for this icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the message board forum listing. We have two feeds:

  1. Scrap Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter on the board.)
  2. Scrap Girls Radio Digital Scrapbooking Podcast (This is a sound broadcast with tips and tricks, inside news and dirt, chat/crop updates and more. Ro is your show host.)

You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows Media Player, iTunes, or even your iPod - if you load the mp3 file it on it. Just download the mp3 file to your computer and away you go... or simply click on the podcast link and the podcast will start right in your browser. You can also access the podcast through the Scrap Girls Radio forum on the message board.

Quote Challenge Crop
Sunday, February 24th - Time TBA

Come join angelaNussbaum and kazbar73 for the Quote Challenge Crop!

Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll 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 I will 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 on Sunday, 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!

Aussie Quote Challenge Crop
Monday, February 25th -
9:00PM Australian ESDT

Come join kazbar73 & ScrappingJo for an Aussie Quote Challenge Crop! Here's how it will work. On Monday, 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!

The chat will start at 9PM Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Saving Time. Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!

New Members Chat
Tuesday, February 26th - 8:00PM ET

Join Patti and Pat (ruralscrapper and PBarnes) in the Live Chat/New Member Chat room on February 26th, 8pm ET. All members are welcome, not just newcomers. Bring any questions you have about Scrap Girls in general or software questions - whatever - and we'll do our best to answer them! Hope to see you there.

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, February 27th -
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 Feb. 27, we'll do a design elements challenge! Create a layout using the design principal of dominance! Not sure what that means? We'll explain and discuss at the crop!

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, February 27th - 9:00PM ET

Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum) @ 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!

*RESCHEDULED!*
ATC Crop Chat

Sunday, March 2nd - 7:00PM ET

Please join Pat Bowman in the ATC Crop Chat Room at 7:00 pm ET for our rescheduled February ATC chat/crop. All are welcome!

Our inspiration will be the Groovy 60's. Create an ATC card that represents your feelings of the 60's. What does the 60's make you think of or feel? Maybe it's a song, maybe it's a movie or TV show, maybe it's the fashion, maybe it's the wild colors - only you know, and we want to see it!

NSBR Crop
Monday, March 3rd - 9:00PM ET

What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking. It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we’ll lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to share? We’d love to celebrate with you. So, join me, Carla (crs), on March 3rd, at 9 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat Room! Hope to see you there!

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 5th -
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 March 5, we'll do a design elements challenge! Create a layout using the design principal of contrast! Not sure what that means? We'll explain and discuss at the crop!

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!

February Events

February Board Game: Bingo

Yep, it is time for everyone’s favorite game... Bingo!!!

I know you want to play, so here is how you do it. Please pick 25 of the 80 words and phrases listed in the thread on the message board and send them in an e-mail to [email protected]. Please make the subject of your email "BINGO Card" and include your Scrap Girls forum user name (for example: BINGO CARD wxchic or BINGO CARD AngRoCamp). Please PUT THE SAME THING in your e-mail followed by your 25 words. I don’t need your real name, just your screen name!

You have until Midnight EST on Sunday, February 3rd to sign up for the first round of Bingo! Any e-mails received after that will be included in the next round of Bingo. I cannot be held responsible for misdirected emails. You do not have to register for each round of Bingo once you are playing. Your card is good through all the rounds. (You will receive a response from me that I have received your card. If you do not get that response within 24 hours, let me know!)

On Monday, February 4th, the welcoming committee will start calling words 5 at a time and keeping calling 5 words a day (weekends NOW included) until someone posts that they have a Bingo. What is a Bingo? You have a Bingo when they have called 15 of your 25 words. If the Bingo is valid (which we will verify using the e-mails that you've sent us), we'll clear the cards and start over.

Want to know what you're playing for? Each winner will receive a $5.00 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Have fun! Remember you may only win ONCE. We want everyone to have the chance to be a winner!

February Layout Contests:

Layout Contest: February is here and love is in the air! It’s time for chocolates, roses and romance. Do you have a special Valentine? Who is the special someone you trust your heart and soul with... the person you would do anything for? Let’s pay tribute to these wonderful people by creating a layout for the February Layout Contest! Post your layouts to the February Layout Contest section of the Gallery before February 29th at Midnight EST for a chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Boutique. Good Luck!

Mid-February Layout Contest: Faith is a very powerful attribute. On the Scrap Girls Message Board, we have all witnessed the power of faith. For the Mid-February Layout Contest, we’d like to see your layouts about faith…your religion, a leap of faith, your faith in another person or object…whatever moves you. The contest will run from February 15th until March 15th at midnight, EST time. To be eligible to win a $10 gift card to the boutique, please post your layouts in the Mid-February Layout Contest section of the Gallery. Have fun and 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!)

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.)

Customer Freebie

Layout by Theresa Kavouras
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Designer Freebie coordinates with Sweet Success Collection Mini


 

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.

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!

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!

* 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.

What Do I Want To Do?
Saturday, February 23, 2008

 
Scrap Girls Guarantee
 
 


 
 

In this issue:

- Cute Stuff
- Customer Muse
- What Customers Are Saying...
- 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

 
 


 

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!

Better Business Bureau Reliability Program
 


Scrap Girls Clubs
Scrap Girls Monthly Club
 
 

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 Syndee Nuckles using February's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Syndee Nuckles

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!)

 
 


ScrapSimple Monthly Club
 
 

ScrapSimple Monthly Club for January

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 Brandie Valenzuela using February's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Brandie Valenzuela and Shalae Tippetts

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!)

 
 


Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
 
 

*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.

 
 


Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
 
 

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0

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!
 
 


Mastering Brushes
 
 

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!

 
 


The Beginners Guide to Filters and Plug-ins
 
 

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!

 
 


Digital Photography Simplified
 
 

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!

 
 


Ten Beginner Tips on Type
 
 

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.

 
 


Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft Word
 
 

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for MS Word

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.

 
 


Start to Finish eBooklets
 
 

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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