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Your spirit will go "ahhhh" when you find how amazing
it is to be a digital scrapbooker. So go ahead... take a leap of faith
and try it. And now is the perfect time to get started because you
can get a great deal on your digital scrapbooking
supplies! But remember, the sale ends
on Midnight (MST), February 29th. Don't miss it or it
will fly away...
Cute Stuff
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Name of designer: Amy Lemaniak
Name of layout: Down on the Farm
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
For this layout, I scraplifted Janine’s (J9Buckles)
layout "D & J
September 2007".
I really liked how her photo took center stage on her layout. I actually
decided to use two photos instead of just one, but I still tried to
keep the same general feel of her layout. I also used Arianda’s
new ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Paper Piercing. They
are so cool and easy to use. Once I put them onto my layout, I applied
the "Multiply" Blend Mode to make it look as though there are actually
holes pierced into the paper.
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Name of designer: Pat Bowman
Name of layout: Beauty
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I scraplifted kimmybutton's "Thankful" for this layout.
I wanted to dress up the title I made from the Intertwined Word
Art Brush Set. To do this I needed to put the flower and leaves
on their own layers. I used my Magic Wand Tool, with Tolerance set
to "0" and Contiguous checked. I clicked on the first leaf and jumped
the selection to a new layer using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+J.
Then I did the same thing with the other leaf and the flower. Once
I had them on separate layers, I was able to drag the papers I selected
to color them with and created a clipping mask (Layer> Create
Clipping Mask) for each piece. Once I had the flower and leaves
colored, I went back to the word art layer and erased those elements.
I recolored the words by using a Color Overlay Style.
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Name of designer: Jennifer Okonek
Name of layout: Beauty in Nature
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Other Ingredients:
This is a scraplift of Canyon Momma's “The Land of Laurel”.
Journaling:
I have to admit that I am guilty of taking my surroundings for granted.
I go through my day not paying much attention to the beauty of even
the simplest of things, a butterfly fluttering on a flower, a soft
breeze caressing my cheek, a gentle rain and its sweet melody as it
falls to the earth. Occasionally, I have to step back and try to savor
the beauty, often it’s during winter when I long for those spring,
summer or fall days... and usually it’s through photos such as
these that I really appreciate the colors, the magic of nature. I need
to stop and appreciate more in the moment - while I love these photos,
I am guilty of letting life’s beauty pass me by all too quickly.
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Name of designer: Paula Wright
Name of layout: Forever
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
This is a scraplift of mom_of_twins'
layout, "Forever Summer".
Because I was scraplifting a great page and the background paper
for this layout was so beautiful, special techniques weren’t
really necessary. I did use frames in a different way. I layered
five frames around the photo to add depth. I started with the
paper frame around the photo and merged that layer, then added brushes,
glitter and the wonderful Victorian frame from the collection. The
Brocadelicious Collection makes any layout look magical.
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Name of designer: Stefanie Harris
Name of layout: Downtown
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Other Ingredients:
- Font - ITC Bookman SWA
- Font - Caflisch Script Pro
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
The inspiration for this scraplifted layout was “Piazza
San Marco” by TallCool69.
The combination of elements, color and simple style really appealed
to me. (Forget about the fact that I’m a nerd when it comes
to cool architecture!)
Since the layout centered on a place, I figured
I’d do the same
with mine. I happened to have a few nice photos of the downtown area
of the town where I used to live, so that’s what I used. I knew
I’d be using a frame around my layout, which cut down the amount
of space I had to work with, so I altered the Lifted Photos Template from
three photos to two by “cutting” it with the Rectangular
Marquee Tool. Whenever you do something like this, be sure to adjust
your drop shadow as well. I “cut” the shadow slightly larger
so it would still peek out past the end of the frame, and then softened
it with a brush from Brandie Valenzuela’s Well Worn Brush Set.
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.
A Designer's Life: Angie
Briggs
Yes, I’m lucky!
Recently, I was on the phone with a customer, when all of a sudden
my husband came home with the boys from school. Instantly, my house
went from the nice silence of the day to a complete madhouse. Backpacks
are dropped at the front door, coats thrown over the couch and all
I can hear is, “Mom! Mom!” Obviously, the customer on the
other end of the phone could hear the changes also. The next comment
was, “Oh, you get to work from home. How lucky you are!”
Lucky.
Yes, I am.
Especially considering how much my life has changed in the
last six years. After the boys were born, we made the decision to move
from California back to my hometown in Missouri. We knew that this
would be a major change, especially for my husband who was born and
raised in California. But, due to the cost of living in California
and the fact that we had no family around there and most of our friends
were moving out of the Bay area, we thought that this would be the
best thing.
Of course, there were huge adjustments the first couple
of years. We were living with my parents. I was staying home with the
boys because we could not find a job that paid enough to make it worth
me going back to work. My husband found a job in his field, but he
hated it. I started doing some babysitting for extra income. To help
keep myself sane while watching a whole house of kids, I started scrapbooking.
Within
the next year, my passion went from paper scrapbooking to digital scrapbooking.
My husband found another job in the same field that he didn’t
hate as much, but it still wasn’t his dream job.
I fell in love with digital scrapbooking. I loved creating layouts
and showing everyone what I’d done. To help supply my “needs,” I
applied for and was accepted on several different creative teams. How
perfect was this? I could create layouts, watch kids and have a great
time.
As the boys grew older, my husband and I realized that things
were going to have to change. By this time, we had been living with
my parents for almost five years. The boys had a year before they would
start kindergarten and he had just applied for and had two interviews
with a company doing what would be his dream job. But, for us to make
the next move and have a house of our own, we needed an additional
income. We came to the conclusion that when the boys started school
I would go back to work.
Soon after, my passion (or should I say obsession)
for digital scrapbooking went to the next level. I started playing
around by creating freebies and posting them at different sites here
and there, never thinking anything more than “fun” would
come from it. One day, I was contacted by someone that was opening
a digital store and was interested in seeing if I wanted to sell my
product there. Wow! What a shock! This was not something I was looking
for and to have them contact me, I was honored. But, I knew at that
time that if I did go into selling, there was only one store that I
would want to do it at... Scrap
Girls.
So, I discussed it with my husband and we decided that since
we had a year before the boys went to school, I could give designing
a try. If, at the end of the year it wasn’t working out, then
I would still have to find a job outside of the home so that we could
take that next step.
I contacted Rozanne at probably the worst possible
time (during the Christmas craziness) and got a “welcome to
the team” but
we’d have to wait until after the first of the year due to the
Christmas rush. Wait? I could wait forever. I couldn’t believe
that I had just got accepted designing for my dream site. The next
few months I designed and released product, living day-to-day on the
high of “I’m a member of my dream team.”
Shortly after,
Rozanne and I were talking one day and she asked me about helping her
with the customer service for Scrap Girls. What? You’ve got to
be kidding me! What a perfect opportunity. I know customer service
is a job that you either love or hate, but I had worked it for five
years in California and I loved it. Where else can you do the same
job day after day, but no two days are alike? So, I jumped at the chance.
Within
that year, right before the boys started kindergarten, our lives changed
so quickly that it was hard to keep up. Not only was I designing for
Scrap Girls, I was doing customer service for them and loving each
day. My husband finally, after a year of going back and forth with
this new company, got the job of his dreams that he is absolutely in
love with. And, best of all, we found and purchased our dream home.
So,
yes, I’m lucky! My daily commute is from one end of my house
to the other. I don’t have to go out when it’s cold, snowing
or raining. When the boys have days off, I don’t have to worry
about getting a sitter for them or calling in sick when they can’t
go to school. I can go to the store or run errands during the day when
it’s not so crowded and, most of all, I get to work from the comforts
of my home with a group of women that I admire and adore. Yes, I am lucky!
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Angie
Favorite product I've designed:
Fit To Be Tied Embellishments
I love the flexibility of this embellishment set. You can mix and
match them and add other embellishments to them. They are the perfect
finishing touch to any layout.
Layout by Angie Briggs
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ScrapSimple Club Concepts
The ScrapSimple club contains items that allow YOU to decide the colors
and looks you will end up for your digital scrapbooking designs because
the ScrapSimple products are completely customizable. You get all the
products shown above, a $19.15 value, for $6.99 or less! And if you
would like to create designs to share or sell, there's even a commercial
club available! Plus, each month we will help you find new ways
to use your club contents to the fullest with this article full of
ideas, tips, and projects to get your creativity going!
February’s Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Brandie
Valenzuela and Shalae Tippetts.
Their club is full of fun products that can help you get creative
in amazing ways. Let’s
look a little closer and see what ideas we can come up with for this
club.
Layout ideas:
- Use the mouse brush on a "This is my computer..." or "I
love digi scrapbooking!" layout.
- ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Antiqued would make a nice "life
plan" layout
("Where I'm Going") or retrospective ("Where I've
Been) - both in the literal and figurative sense.
- The ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bent Up
can be used for art class layouts, especially papermaking classes.
- Layouts
concerning archaeology or antiques.
- Heritage or history layouts
- Ballet
- Create an investigative reporter's
little notepad for a layout with a "Caught
Red Handed" type theme showing evidence written on the pad of
paper.
Layout by Laurel Lakey
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Embellishment ideas:
- The ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Matchbooklet could be
used to make a map. This would work well for layouts about travel,
getting lost, life maps, new directions in life, or even geocaching!
- You can also use it to make a 'start-to-finish'
project with the stamp of approval at the end. Think of a home
remodeling project, a sewing project, etc.
- The "Always and Forever" seal is nice with a special
date, like an anniversary, or the names of a couple around the outside.
- Write love notes,
like the notes a wife might put in her husband's lunchbox or pocket
as he leaves for work, with the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates:
Matchbooklet.
- Or, you could decorate the closed matchbooklet and just use it
as an embellishment.
- You can use the stitching from the ScrapSimple Embellishment
Templates: Bent Up by itself on a layout or to sew other things to your layouts.
- Use the circle (with the
bar in the middle) from the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes:
Worn Seals with a Layer Style as a ribbon slide or
as a "no" over
a picture (like no girls, or no swimming).
- Make a list of favorites and write them on a ScrapSimple
Embellishment Templates: Matchbooklet page.
Card and Printable ideas:
- Use ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals to "sign" your
printed cards.
- ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Antiqued would make a nice
background for a regional recipe card, along with the kitchen seal
from the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals set.
Tips and Techniques:
- Use the Grungelle Brush Set as an eraser, sometimes
lowering the opacity, to make your journaling less "perfect" looking,
even if the layout isn't grungy.
- Use the Grungelle Brush Set to erase photo edges for
an artsy look.
- You can make a new photo look old by using a sepia tone filter
(like Mandy's ScrapSimple
Tools - Styles: Distressed Photo Sepia 1801 Mini or Melissa's ScrapSimple
Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001), then add distressing by using the Grungelle
Brush Set in
Burn Mode.
- You can also use the Grungelle Brush Set to erase around
your photo subject, giving a grungy silhouette look.
Layout by Amy Lemaniak
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Mini Tutorial: Creating Charms using ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals
Mini Tutorial by Christy VanderWall created using Adobe Photoshop
CS3
To create a fun tag for this layout, I used the ScrapSimple Layer
Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals and a Grunged Metal Style. Here are some
simple instructions on how to create fun tags for your own layout!
- Create a new layer. Do all of the following steps on this
same layer.
- Select the Brush Tool and load the Worn Seals Brush
Set.
- Select the "Base1" Brush and stamp on your layer.
This may require four to five ‘stamps’ to get a non-transparent
circle.
- Select the "Base3" Brush, size it appropriately,
then stamp to make the ring on your tag.
- Select the Eraser Tool, and
with the ‘Forever’ brush
sized appropriately, stamp (erase) on the tag.
- Then select
the ‘Heart’ brush, size it appropriately,
and stamp (erase) on the tag.
- While holding the Ctrl key,
click on the thumbnail of your tag layer (the marching ants will
appear around your tag).
- Press Alt+Backspace. This will fill
your tag in with your foreground color, making sure the layers are
not at all transparent.
- If you don’t want a little grunge in
the center of your heart, use the Eraser Tool to remove any extra ‘stuff’ in
the center.
- Apply your style. For this tag, I used Grunged Metals
4101 – "Copper
2" and "Rust 2" combined.
And there you have it! A simple way to make
your own fun tag charms!
Layout by Christy VanderWall
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We hope this article gives you some ideas to get you
scrapping! We’d love to see what you come up with. There’s
even a special
gallery available for you to show off your Club creations and inspire
each other, so start creating!
Have fun!
Online Classes Available
Conquering
the Fear of Patterned Paper
March 1 and 8, 3:00PM ET
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:
 Scrap
Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter
on the board.)- 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.
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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!
Sketch Crop
Thursday, February 28th
- 5:00PM ET
Join me, laurellakey,
for a Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, February 28th at 5pm
ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room.
Like getting a little jump start
on your layouts while still keeping true to your own style? Then
this challenge is for you! A few hours before the challenge begins,
I'll post a sketch for you to use as the starting point for your
page. You can be inspired by the basic arrangement, the amount
of photos, or copy it literally. It's all up to you, the sky
is the limit!
What's a sketch? A sketch is a flattened JPG
image with specific places for your photos, elements, journaling
and title. You get to keep the free sketch as part of the challenge.
Use it as many times as you'd like! Looking forward to seeing
you there!
We'll be meeting in the "Chat_and_Crop" room of the
Live Chat section. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link (in
the purple bar at the top of this page). Once you are in the
lobby, click on the "Show
Rooms" button (on the upper left), then select "Chat_and_Crop" from
the list on the left side.
*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!
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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!) |
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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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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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Get to Know Angie Briggs
Monday, February 25, 2008
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In this issue:
- 16.7% Off Leap of Faith Sale!
-
Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Angie Briggs
- ScrapSimple Club Concepts
- 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 Syndee Nuckles
using February's Scrap Girls Club
larger
view
Created for you
by Syndee Nuckles
Alert! Alert! FRIDAY is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls
club and still get this great group of products at this amazing
price. Don't delay... sign up now!
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 Brandie Valenzuela
using February's ScrapSimple Club
larger
view
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!) |
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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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