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Notice: This afternoon at 2
PM MST, we are going to be upgrading the Scrap Girls Boutique to
our new interface that includes the fun features we've been talking
about. You'll know when the upgrade has been completed because the
Boutique will have a fun new look! So come on by later this afternoon/evening
and take a peek!
See ya
then,
Ro
What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
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for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the
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of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more
of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: Who’s that Lady in the Newsletter?
I tried to sneak it in. I thought I could merely swap it out and that
would be it. I supposed that it would be a minor blip in Internet history...
a blink of a tiny eye... that it would go unnoticed. I believed
that if it did get noticed, the person that saw it would go, “Oh,
new one... interesting.” And, that would be it.
I was wrong.
I believe I’m like most people in one regard: I
am not wild about taking and selecting an “official” photo
of myself that will be used in an official capacity to represent me
to the world. There is a lot of pressure when selecting this photo
because people look at it and make assumptions and judgments about
you based on its appearance.
I have felt the pressure of having an appropriate
official photo in my bio, the newsletter, and elsewhere on our site
because, well, I am attempting to communicate that I am someone that
can be trusted to lead a company such as Scrap Girls. And, I want you
to believe that I am a real individual – not some Internet figment
of imagination.
When I started Scrap Girls in 2004, I used the most
recent official looking photo I had of myself and inserted it here
and there on the site. It was the photo that you are so used to seeing.
In
the last six months, I began to feel uneasy about that photo. For one
thing, I am much older than I was then. For another thing, I feel like
a different person. I also began to be concerned that if you ever met
me you wouldn’t know who I am. I knew that something had
to be done.
A few weeks ago, Valerie and I went back to Arizona to do
some additional planning for the company. We stayed in a location which
has particularly comfortable beds. I had my own room. It had a couch
in a nook that had beautiful, hazy light coming through the window.
I had a relatively new shirt with me that Julianne had picked out (she
is trying to reform me) and I had just gotten my hair done, so it was
fresh and perky. And, I had a brand new camera that needed breaking
in.
It was a formula for a photo session and I took it – literally – as
I take all of my own photos.
When I came home and pulled them into Photoshop,
there was one in particular that I liked very much so I decided that
I would be brave and change out my official site photo. I gave the
new images the old file names, uploaded them to the Scrap Girls web
site and the old pictures disappeared from the planet... pretty
much.
I didn’t anticipate that my new photo would scare people.
A few days later, a brave soul opened a string on the messageboard
entitled, “Who’s
that lady in the newsletter?”
The discussion went on for a while,
each person noting that they weren’t
sure who it was. Perhaps it was Ro, they speculated, but they were
uncertain because this woman looked so different. They were going back
through their newsletters for months trying to find Ro, but all they
could see was the new lady. Where had Ro gone? Had they lost their
minds?
One member assured the rest of them that they had not lost their
minds because she had printed out some of the newsletters. The printed
versions had the old Ro in them.
The speculation continued until I came
along and told them that I am the lady in the newsletter.
Afterwards,
everyone was very kind and gave me compliments, telling me that they
like the new photo. They told me that I look younger in it. But, I
know the truth: I don’t look younger. If you go back
and forth between the two photos you will see that I am not younger
at all. In fact, when I first looked at this set of photos, I was taken
aback because I felt like I was looking at my grandmother’s face.
How had she gotten into Photoshop?
However, I am perfectly content with
my situation and my appearance. I am a 50-year-old woman who feels
much better about herself than the 42-year-old woman ever did. I’m
grateful to be where I am today. I am living a dream that the 42-year-old
woman nearly didn’t
dare to dream. Every day I get up and do the type of things that the
42-year-old woman thought were beyond her reach. And, I see so very
clearly, that all of the blessings I have been given between then and
now are rare gifts that need to be cherished, shined, held, and then
shared with others. I have found many of the answers the 42-year-old
woman was looking for.
I was recently asked, “If you could live
several different lives, what would they be?”
I thought and thought
and thought and thought about what to say. But, I couldn’t come
up with anything other than, “I kind of
like the life I have right now. I think I’ll keep it.”
Is
my life perfect? Absolutely not! The Paxman family has as many family
dramas and traumas as any family out there. I still have the same long-term
illness that I’ve had for 20 years (Fibromyalgia).
I still get stressed out, battle my weight, have issues with uncertainty
and am trying to make something better out of myself.
I think the biggest
difference between the two individuals in these photos is that the
42-year-old woman didn’t understand how blessed
she was. She was looking for something to solve her problems and make
her happy. She was looking for relief and wanted the relief to come
from outside of herself. She thought that if she had a different job,
she would find the happiness she was seeking. Because she was too afraid
to make the change herself, life made it for her. She was laid off
from one job, was let go “because she was too old to fit in” from
another company, and then had an unhappy experience with a third company.
Finally, she started her own business, to try to get her life back
under control.
It took all of the trauma and drama between then and
now for this woman to get it: She now understands how blessed she has
always been. She is not looking for someone to solve her problems and
isn’t
looking for relief, other than the relief she feels during her talks
with God and occasional visits with family members and close confidants.
She now understands that happiness doesn’t come from situations,
where she lives, careers, her neighbors, her house, her clothing, what
her children do or do not do, or if she does or does not have enough
time to do everything she wants to do in a single day. She understands
that life will have ups and downs, but she can be peaceful and happy
most of the time if she is grateful. And, she understands that she
finds far more happiness in sharing than she ever used to have while
trying to receive.
I think the question, “Who is that lady in
the newsletter?” was
perfectly on point.
The woman in the photo in 2001 was named Rozanne.
That is what everyone called her when the photo was taken. Rozanne
wasn’t as happy
as she could have been because she didn’t understand how blessed
she was. She still believed that happiness was linked to circumstances
and events. She thought that if she moved to better circumstances,
she would be happier. She wasn’t amused much and was considered
an extremely serious individual.
The woman in the photo in 2008 is named
Ro. She has been around the block a few times on the way to appreciate
the house she has always owned. In her journeys, she has learned that
she can be happy sitting on a curb, on a couch, on the lawn, or in
a tree. If she is asked to sit on a curb, she will respond by taking
a photo of a rock in the curb and then will write an essay about it.
It doesn’t take much
to amuse Ro. Ro writes in her journal and sits in her room every day
and makes lists of the things she is grateful for. Life feels like
an adventure to Ro.
So, now... who is that lady in the newsletter?
Me. It’s
just me.
- Ro
P.S. - My husband felt that since I was discussing before
and after photos of myself, I needed to show you a “before the
before” photo just in case you ever meet me before I grow up.
(It’s his idea of a funny joke.)
This is me in first grade.
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.
Designer Do-Over: Cherise Oleson
My Original:
Original Layout by Cherise Oleson
When I was looking for a layout to do-over for this assignment,
I started looking at some of the first digital layouts that I did.
This was one of my very first layouts, just after I had discovered
digital scrapbooking. There are some things I like about the layout,
but there are several other things that I don’t think are quite
working. Since I had previously only paper scrapped, I was trying to
stay too true to the look of paper scrapping. Now that I have discovered
the magic of the tools and techniques in digital scrapbooking, I think
there are some things that could definitely be improved on this layout.
My Do-Over:
I
really like the larger photo of my son and I definitely wanted to keep
it in the new layout. But the smaller photo was lacking a bit. I found
a similar photo to this one, but with my son NOT looking at the camera.
I thought it fit the feeling I wanted to convey in the layout a bit
better... like I was capturing him playing, rather than interrupting
him playing.
Because the second photo was a little out of focus, I decided
to incorporate that fact into the layout, instead of pretending that
it wasn’t
blurry.
First, I wanted to create a background to complement the layout.
I choose a semi-solid textured paper template from ScrapSimple Paper
Templates: Mardi Gras. I sampled a muted blue from my son’s
shirt, then applied it on top of the paper template, using the "Color"
Blend Mode and 100% Opacity. Next, I enlarged the out of focus photo
of my son playing to fill the bulk of the page and layered it on top
of the background paper, using the "Multiply" Blend Mode
and 60% Opacity. To blend the edge of the enlarged photo into the background
paper, I selected the right edge of the photo with the Rectangular
Marquee Tool, feathered it at 200 pixels, and hit Delete. This
is the result.
Now I was ready to place the main photo. I wanted to use a
frame for the main photo to offset it and make it stand out just a
bit. I used Embellishment Biggie: Old Photo Frames to find the
right one. I used a piece of Mesh Frame from the Stylize Collection to
place behind my photo to make it pop.
After those were in place, I
still felt like the frame needed a little something extra and decided
to apply some stitching on it. I used ScrapSimple Tools - Actions:
Stitching And Holes 4101 - Straight Stitching to stitch the frame
down. I sampled the same muted blue from my son’s shirt to apply
a color overlay to the stitching, so that it would all coordinate.
Now
for the finishing touches... I wanted to add some brushwork around
the edges of the paper to give it a little depth and interest. I used
some brushes from the Afterglow Brush Set, because they are
swirly and create movement, without being too feminine. I placed a
tag for the title and text details and then added a brad and a clip
to hold it all together!
And here is the finished layout. I think it
accents the photos much better than the original and uses color sparingly
to complement the photos, rather than compete with them.
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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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High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 5th
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12:00Noon ET
Join your host PBarnes 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!
New Members Chat
Tuesday, March 11th - 8:00PM
ET
Join Welcoming Committee Members Pat (PBarnes) & Patti
(ruralscrapper) for an evening
of chatting and fun, at the New Members Chat, Tuesday, March
11, at 8 pm ET! We will be there to answer any questions you
may have about digital scrapbooking or Scrap Girls in general.
This
chat is a great way to meet other digi scrappers and ask any
questions that you may have. And, there is bound to be lots of
laughs and a few noises too! We welcome our more experienced
members also to join the party too.
To join, just come to the
Scrap Girls Chat Room by clicking on the “Live Chat” link
from either the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page. Click
on the "Rooms" button, and
double click on "NewMember".
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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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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Who’s that Lady in the Newsletter?
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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In this issue:
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Designer Do-Over: Cherise Oleson
- 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 $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
Layout by Valerie Randall
using March's Scrap Girls Club
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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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