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Name of designer: Jo Corne
Name of layout: Ooh La La
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements CS3
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I chose Mary’s (goofyemt96)
gorgeous layout, Dakota2007,
as I loved the use of white space, the two-color set up, not that I’ve
kept to that myself, LOL and the sheer joy of the photo itself.
To
get Kerry’s Brocante Frame to fit the size of my photo,
first I rasterised the frame, then I used the Rectangular Marquee
Tool to select the area of the frame that I wanted to shift in closer
to make the frame narrower. I then used the Direct Selection Tool,
placed it over my selection and, holding down the Shift key,
moved the selected area of the frame towards the edge of the photo
until it fit to size around the photo.
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Name of designer: Jennifer Okonek
Name of layout: My Eyes
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Love
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Junko's Typewriter
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Name of designer: Brenda Peters
Name of layout: Make Each Moment Count
Software used: Corel Paint Shop Pro X
Name of challenge: Love
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I liked the texture of the Curled Edges Template and the color
of the Scenic Route Paper, so I blended the two of them together
using the "Burn" Blend Mode setting. Then with
the Grunge Brush, I lightly erased small portions of the Curled
Edges Template.
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Name of designer: Brandy Murry
Name of layout: So Amazing
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Scraplift a Member
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Yorkshire
- Font - Arabic Typesetting
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
This is a scraplift of Eressea86's
layout, "The World Is Amazing".
Using the Soft Edged Frames in PSE5, I had the left side of the photo
blend into the paper, then I used the "Hard Light" Blend Mode. A
little erasing of some of the harder edges of the photo made it blend
in nicely.
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Name of designer: Stefanie Harris
Name of layout: The Longest Journey
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Circles
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Sometimes, one element on your page will dictate how you lay out everything
else. The great thing is, even when using templates, all you have to
do is flip or rotate your layers to accommodate this need. For this
layout, I used the “Longest Journey” brush (from Jan Hicks’ Life
Quotes 2 Set) as my starting point. Given the positioning and
constraints of the paper and layout templates I was using, I had to
flip horizontally and even free transform the template layers to accommodate
that element. The result is a consistent flow, which reinforces the
circular theme going on.
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: Sarah
Batdorf
A Thousand Random Thoughts
Childhood Glimpse. Thankfully, my memory cells are dying, and I can’t
remember ever hearing a disappointed voice saying, “Why can’t
you be more like your sister?” or whom ever the goodie-two-shoes
happened to be. I wasn’t a notoriously bad kid, but I sometimes
rebelled or did thoughtless things like poking the eyes out of the
missionaries’ prayer cards. When I was nine, my brother and I
were caught snickering over our misdeed. We had reworked a complete
bulletin board into sightless missionaries. It’s actually disrespectful
to take a thumbtack to the photographed pupils. Our mortified parents
were momentarily speechless before we were rewarded with a deserving
punishment, and a life lesson on respecting other peoples’ property.
Mom and Dad get credit for showing me right from wrong without making
me feel like I wanted to be someone else entirely.
First Impressions. When I first meet a group of people, I am reserved and watchful. In
grade school, I was certainly muted, and probably labeled as shy. On
my home turf, my brothers’ nickname for me was “Mouth.” Picture
a scrawny, undersized miss, who favored survival on potato products,
loudly supervising parents and siblings alike. I gleefully announce
that girl still comes out to play once in a while.
I’m Okay. In
high school, I didn’t smile a whole lot.
I didn’t realize that I wasn’t smiling. To me I was just
busy thinking my own thoughts, and having a relaxed face. Being a serious
thinker, peers would cautiously approach me, and inquire if I was in
a negative mood. Even these days I do sporadically get the concerned
question, “Are you alright?” Wow, I never thought of myself
as such a solemn creature. God rescued me from getting too serious
when he hooked me up with my husband Bill. Bill puts that grin on my
face, and makes me feel jubilant and giddy inside.
Brief History. I
was born in Connecticut, but haven’t lived
there much. Our family migrated every year while my parents were in
training to be missionaries. I was six when it finally sank in, and
I realized that Jesus loved me enough to die for my sins. After I turned
nine we uprooted once again for the big move to Papua New Guinea. It
was right after we arrived to that country that my brother and I vandalized
our dorm information board. Being an MK (missionary kid) was a dominating
part of my... but that is a story for another time. I lived
in PNG until after I graduated high school. Then I moved back to the
States, and attended Bible school. After Bible school, I came to Pennsylvania
to be near my sister. I connected with Bill, and we were married in
1998.
Children. Now life is full with two beautiful children. At five,
Molly is sassy, bossy, silly and brilliant. The first two are from
me, and the brilliant is from her dad. At three, Markus is a thinker
and a ham. I can see those wheels turning, and the things he spouts
out could fill up a book of quotes.
Scrap Girls. I’m not one to
excel at any thing. Somewhere inside there is a desire for a creative
outlet that became realized when I explored digital scrapbooking, and
learned the principles of designing a layout. Gradually that evolved
into creating papers and embellishments. Scrap Girls seemed like an
impossible dream, but I applied for the product design team. I was
a bit crushed, but not entirely surprised when I didn’t
hear back. A year went by, and I sent in another application. I’m
still pinching myself that I’m here.
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Sarah
Favorite product I've designed:
Becoming Collection Biggie
The Becoming Collection Biggie is a favorite product of mine.
It’s
about changes that happen throughout life. Growing with the changes
and becoming the person God is making me into. The colors in this collection
I am drawn to, the green of the grass, and the blue of the sky.
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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:
- The ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bent Up can be
used for layouts about dressing
up, especially layouts with those dresses from the sixties with
JUST the strip of ruffles on the edges!
- The "From The Kitchen
of" seal is perfect for recipe
cards or recipe-themed layouts.
- ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Antiqued could
be used for a Geography Bee layout.
- You could also use the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Antiqued for nature
layouts or the "mess" of Christmas orBirthday
(when the gift wrap is all over the floor).
- ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Matchbooklet can be
used with a layout of a matchbook collection (many people collect
these from restaurants, travels, etc.).
- The ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bent Up
could be great on pages about sewing.
Embellishment ideas:
- Use Brandie's ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals to
commemorate the date of a travel layout.
- Use the circle brush (without
the bar in the bar in the middle) from ScrapSimple Layer Your
Own Brushes: Worn Seals to "circle" something
you want to bring attention to in our layout.
- ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Matchbooklet ideas:
- secret
messages
- show a collection (smashed pennies from travels,
stamps, etc.)
- a progressive album through the years (now and then pictures, before
or after pictures, or growing up as it progresses in the album).
- a
small "favors" coupon
book
- a photo strip
Card and Printable ideas:
- "From the computer of" from the ScrapSimple Layer
Your Own Brushes: Worn Seals is great to place on
the back of digitally created cards.
- Create a gift mix for cookies
or other goodies and a gift tag and instructions with the "From
the Kitchen of" seal.
Tie onto the mix.
Tips and Techniques:
- You can use the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Antiqued on
top of preexisting papers to grunge them up.
- Use the Grungelle Brush Set to grunge up a clean piece of
word art to match a more grungy layout.
- And the brushes are great for giving a worn look to
any premade embellishment, too!
- Or, use them to add a bit of color to an already premade paper.
Such as if you have a nice blue paper, you could use the brushes
to easily add some red, white, or another color on top.
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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
All of our Online Training
Classes are currently full. Please check back soon for more exciting
learning opportunities!
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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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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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!
Textile
Challenge Crop/Chat
Wednesday, March
5th - 9:00PM ET
Join me, Launa,
for a Textile Challenge and Crop. We will meet Wednesday, March
5th at 9pm EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Do the patterns, textures, and colors of textiles
facinate you? Do you get inspiration from anything from pillows
to your grandmothers apron? Then this challenge is for you!
A few hours before the challenge begins, I'll
post a textile for you to use as the starting point for your
page. You may be inspired by the colors, placement of patterns,
textures... just let it be your inspiration! I can't wait to
see what you come up with!! See you there!
Life
Moments Crop
Wednesday, March 5th - 10:00PM
ET
It's time for the next installment of our
popular Life Moments Crop! This time we will be scrapping about
our first homes. Whether it was a teeny tiny apartment, or even
living with mom and dad, let's get those "First Home" photos
and memories scrapped! Join Amy (TysMommy)
in the Life Moments Chat Room at 10 pm ET for a fun hour of reminiscing
and scrapping! Hope to see you there!
Scraplift Crop
Sunday, March 9th - 5:00PM
ET
Join AngelaNussbaum and TysMommy 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 choose 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!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, March
12th -
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 12, we'll do a 3-photo challenge!
Create a layout using three photos!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
Sketch
Challenge and Crop
Thursday, March 13th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz,
for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, March 13th at 9pm
ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start on your layouts? Then this challenge
is for you!
A few hours before the challenge begins, I'll post a sketch for
you to use as the starting point for your page. You can be inspired
by the basic arrangement, the amount of photos, or copy it literally.
All interpretations are welcome and encouraged! Looking forward
to seeing you there!
We'll be meeting in the "Chat_and_Crop" room of the chat. To
join, click on the "Live Chat" link (above right). Once you are
in the lobby, click on the "Show Rooms" button (on the upper
left), then select "Chat_and_Crop" from the list on the left
side.
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March
Events
March Board Game: Posting Contest
Are you ready for a workout? It's
important to warm up before exercising, so try this with me.
Open your hands and stretch your fingers as wide as they'll
stretch. Now
make a very tight fist. Again.... Stretch! Make
a fist! Stretch! Make a fist! There you go! You're
now sufficiently warmed up for this month's message board game.
It's
time to put those fingers to the test and get chatty. We want
to see you post the most! The top 10 posters this month will
each win a gift certificate to the boutique! (Top 1-3 will
each get a $10 GC, 4-6 will each get a $5 GC and 7-10 will
each get a $3 GC!) We've got a system to keep track of
your posts. If you want to keep your own tally, note your post
count before you start posting on Saturday March 1st. Contest
ends on Monday March 31st at midnight ET!
Remember to repeat
your stretching exercises as necessary throughout the month!
March Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: This month we want to see your layouts
of people or things that are on the move! It could
be a great action sports shot, someone running a marathon,
or even a child running through the grass. It could
even be your pet flying across your photo. So, give
us your best action shot and the story behind it posted to
the March gallery before midnight EST on March 31st and you
could win $10 to the boutique!
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.)
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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 Sarah Batdorf
Monday, March 3, 2008
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In this issue:
-
Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Sarah Batdorf
- 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
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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 $27.94 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 Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
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Created for you
by Valerie Randall
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 Shalae Tippetts
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!) |
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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 & 6.0
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 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)
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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