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Name of designer: Christy VanderWall
Name of layout: Laugh
Software used: Photoshop CS3/PSE 6.0
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create the block of papers and photo, I first used my custom shape tool to create a rectangle with rounded corners using a corner radius of 100 pixels. I then simplified the layer and cut it into 3 pieces on three layers. I then turned on the ‘snap to grid’, added some space between my new pieces and stretched the long piece to match the new, spaced height of the other two pieces.
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Name of designer: Joanne Yarin
Name of layout: Tropical Dream
Software used: Photoshop CS3
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To use Brandy’s curled edge frame from her Stylize collection, I first placed the frame over my photo and then selected the frame by doing Ctrl+Click (Command+Click on Mac) on the thumbnail in the layers palette. I then inverted the selection by pressing Ctrl+I (Command+I for Mac) to select the blank space. Using my magic wand tool set to subtract, I selected the area inside the frame to turn it off. I then expanded my selection by 2 pixels, selected my photo layer in the layers palette, and pressed Delete. This erased the part of my photo that was outside the curled frame. I applied one of Jan’s curled edges shadow styles to give it a more three-dimensional, realistic look.
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Name of designer: Kara Swanson
Name of layout: Smile
Software used: PSE 4.0
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I liked the word art from the kit but wanted to use it as a brush and change the color. Under the edit menu, I selected define as brush, chose my color and stamped it on to the layout.
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Name of designer: Pat Bowman
Name of layout: Flowers
Software used: PSCS3
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I love the stamped look of Brandy Hackman’s A Little Worn Out Alpha, and even though it is white it is very easy to change the color to match your layout. Once I positioned the letters for the word in the way I wanted I merged the letter layers together. Then I created a new layer above my stamped word, sampled a color from the paper and darkened it. Then I filled the new layer with my new color and created a clipping mask by right clicking and selecting Create Clipping Mask from the pop-out menu.
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Name of designer: Amy Lemaniak
Name of layout: Memorable moments
Software used: PSE 5
Other Ingredients:
- Fonts: Felix Titling & TXT Nuptials
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create my little vellum envelope that I wanted to put a bunch of cute embellishments in, I started by using Erica’s ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Deluxe Tags Super Biggie 5401. I chose an envelope shape that I liked, filled an empty layer, then applied Erica’s ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Colored Vellum 5401. Now my envelope was transparent. I added several floral embellishments and made sure they were on the layer below the envelope. It gave a neat appearance of the elements being tucked into the vellum envelope.
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Name of designer: Jo Corne
Name of layout: Beach Babe
Software used: Photoshop CS3
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To give my layout its frame, I used Erica Hites’ ScrapSimple Paper Stitched Border. I placed it over my layout, gave it one of Durin Eberharts gorgeous ‘unique’ styles and then, by holding down my shift key, I ‘punched it out’ with Erica Hites’ every useful PunchOut style.
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Name of designer: Paula Wright
Name of layout: School Boys
Software used: PS CS2
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To give my layout its frame, I used Erica Hites’ ScrapSimple Paper Stitched Border. I placed it over my layout, gave it one of Durin Eberharts gorgeous ‘unique’ styles and then, by holding down my shift key, I ‘punched it out’ with Erica Hites’ every useful PunchOut style.
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Name of designer: Jennifer Okonek
Name of layout: Glasses
Software used: Photoshop CS2
Other Ingredients:
- Fonts: adi1, junko’s typewriter
Journaling Reads:
For as long as I can remember, I have gotten headaches. When I was about 18, they were a daily occurrence. I was told that they could be caused from my eyes, so I went to see the eye doctor. He pretty much told me that my vision was excellent, but that glasses could help take some of the eye strain away and hopefully help the headaches. Well, I still get headaches, but I have discovered that I only need to wear the glasses when I need to see far, like while driving. So, it’s a very rare occurrence for anyone to see me wear them. In fact, I think this may be the only photo of me in them! Yes, I sometimes wear glasses.
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for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send
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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.
Life Muses by Ro: Miss Maeser Hall
“You have to do this!” they all shouted at me. “It will be perfect.”
I wasn’t so sure. Why would I want to enter a beauty pageant – even a micro-organism level pageant such as Miss Maeser Hall? I had serious concerns.
But, my roommates wanted someone to enter and since I was the musician in the group, they nominated me. I could sing. I was reasonably attractive. I hadn’t scared away large groups of people yet. I was their candidate.
One of the girls ran off to the dorm mother’s room and retrieved the rules for our review. Upon her return, we learned that I was to be interviewed, had to perform a talent, and was expected to bake a cake from scratch.
We all looked at each other. A cake?
One of the girls said, “I know just the thing. You can make a German chocolate cake. The recipe is inside of the chocolate package.”
They all nodded at each other and I acquiesced. Since I’d made my share of cakes (although, from boxes) I wasn’t too concerned about that. Okay. I’d make a cake. And, since I had been singing in public for years, the talent portion wouldn’t be a problem. I also reasoned that the interview portion would be fairly simple. After all, how hard could it be to answer some questions?
Someone suggested that we practice the interview process, but the idea was quickly abandoned since none of us had actually been through a pageant interview before. I would be on my own.
Pageant day arrived. My cake was baked and looked delicious, sitting on one of the hand-me-down plates someone’s mother had given us. I wore my best Sunday dress and my accompanist had arrived, so all was in order.
We trooped into our dorm’s basement gathering room to see who my competition was. Four girls were sitting in chairs, their roommates standing behind them like protective warriors. Apparently, they were the best of their own room’s lot, too.
All of the “pageant girls” looked at each other sympathetically while the roommates silently challenged, “Bring it on. Our girl is better than your girl.”
When it was my turn to be interviewed, I was escorted into a tiny room and sat across the table from three men. They began asking me random questions such as, “What is your favorite season?” (I didn’t have one. I liked them all.) “What is your major?” (I don’t know yet.) “Why should you be Miss Maeser?” (I don’t remember having an answer for them, since I was ambivalent on the topic.)
Next, we all followed the men to the “cake eating” portion of the pageant. They sliced, tasted, nodded and wrote things on their clipboards. One of the girls nervously whispered to me, “Mine doesn’t have frosting because it is a pound cake. Mother never puts frosting on pound cake.”
I looked at my four layer tower of chocolate gooeyness and suspected that it would win some sort of prize. It did. I was declared the winner of the cake portion of the contest.
We all went back to the basement for the talent portion of the evening. One of the girls started to sing a song from Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. “All alone in my corner… All alone in my chair… I can be whatever I want to be…”
She pathetically looked out over the crowd and sniffed.
She continued singing and wailing and sniffing and I began to be concerned about her welfare. She turned pale. I worried she might not finish her song. “Come on,” I thought. “You can do this. Don’t break down. Don’t break down.”
But, she did. A couple of phrases before the end of the last chorus, she suddenly stopped singing and tragically looked over her right shoulder. And then, she dropped her head into her hands and began to cry.
The room became completely silent as we watched her in horror.
I couldn’t bear it. I’d had my own share of performance disasters and I couldn’t stand having this group of girls (and three random male judges) watch this perfectly nice girl fall apart in front of us. I jumped up and started to drag her away so as to end the moment as quickly as I could. Unfortunately, I had not taken more than a few steps with her on my arm when she shouted, “What are you doing? I’m not through singing!”
Oops.
Needless to say, I did not win Miss Maeser Hall 1976. But man, can I make a great chocolate cake!
- Ro
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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.
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Tutorial: Adding an Image to Notebook Embellishments
Note: Tutorial created using Photoshop CS2 with Windows XP.
In this tutorial, I’m going apply an image to a notebook embellishment from Endearing You Collection Biggie. However, this technique can also be used with ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spiral Bound or Life Journals Paper Mini.
First, open the notebook embellishment from Endearing You Collection Biggie and the photo of your choice. Here, my photo has been edited in a sepia tone.
Next, drag your photo onto your notebook layer and place it either towards the left or right page of the notebook. Be sure that the photo layer is above the notebook layer in the Layers Palette. Next, right-click on the photo layer to choose Create Clipping Mask.
You will notice that the photo will wrap inside the boundaries of the notebook image. We’re going to edit the photo next so it looks more realistic.
First, set the photo layer’s Opacity to 85% or so. This will help you see the layer underneath as you edit the photo. It will also make the photo appear more subtle on top of the notebook by allow some of the notebook’s surface to come through.
Next, with the Eraser tool, select a basic round brush with these settings: Diameter: 60px, Hardness: 60%, and Opacity: 40%.
Gently begin to erase the edges of the photo layer so the photo blends into the notebook’s pages. You can change the opacity as you go to if you like to the eraser to be softer. Here, my photo is beginning to look better and you can now see the edges of the notebook, which the photo layer had previously covered.
At this point I am going to use a brush from Sketchbook Pencil Brush Set as an eraser to add more richness. You may also experiment with different brush shapes and images to edit your photo.
For best results, set the opacity level low. The lower the opacity, the softer the erasing will be. Erasing softly and gradually makes it easier to control how seamless the photo’s edges will appear over the notebook.
Here is what my final photo looks like.
Layout by Thao Cosgrove
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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
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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!
Book Club Discussion Chat
Wednesday, March 12th
- 9:00PM ET
We've revealed our first ever Scrap Girls Book Club selection. Now it's time to discuss it! Shari (PV Mom of 2) and Carol Ann (Zaz) would love to hear what you think about the book "Made From Scratch" by Sandra Lee! Let's get together and have a good time at 9 PM Eastern. What time is that in your neck of the woods? Click here to find out!
Hope to see you there!
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.
Secret Scrap Girls Revealed Chat
Friday, March 14th
- 9:00PM ET
Secret Scrap Girls Pals! Come join Tracey and angelaNussbaum for our Revealing Chat! We will be meeting in the chat room on March 14th, @ 9PM EST. We will be discovering who our Secret Pal really is? Did you think you knew? Did you have it right? Come join us in the fun of discovering!
Recipe Challenge Chat
Saturday, March 15th
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, scrappylibrarian, for our monthly Recipe Swap Chat at 9 PM EST! Check the message board on Thursday, March 13 for our topic for this month!
Quote Challenge Chat
Sunday, March 16th
- TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for the Quote Challenge Crop!
Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll post a thread on the challenge board giving you the quote which you will use to make your own word art. It's not hard, and I will even have a layout with a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout!
We'll post the time on Sunday, as the time changes around each time to allow participation by our international folks.
Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!
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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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at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
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the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
Layout by Brandy Hackman
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* There is a "free download"
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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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Miss Maeser Hall
Friday, March 7, 2008
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In this issue:
- Cute Stuff
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Adding an Image to Notebook Embellishments
- 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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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:
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:
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1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
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1 Brush Set
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1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
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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
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.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
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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.
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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.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
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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.)
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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...)
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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.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
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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...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for printing
or sharing them with your friends and family over the internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to
look like they are "real"
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment
or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
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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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