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Now is the time to celebrate the new, bold colors of
the season and go after what you want. Why? Because you
can get the digital scrapbooking supplies you love to play with at
a great price! But don't miss it, or you will have nothing! Remember,
the sale ends on Midnight (MST), March 14th.
What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
Have you seen our new 4x6 products? I've been scrapping in this
style for a while now, as you have seen with my Simple Joy Project
muses. I begged and pleaded and threw myself at Valerie's feet to
have our designers make some 4x6 products, and our girls graciously
came through in stunning form! Our customers are already gushing
about them; here's what they are saying:
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I started making 4x6 digital albums for family events like Christmas.
It was much less expensive for printing, especially when I am making
up to 10 albums for gifts. I have really enjoyed working in 4x6,
it seems to go faster for me and my albums come together so much
better. Plus, I can go to the dollar store and buy albums for each
of them!
Now I see that there are several ZOOM Pages for 4x6 albums! OMG!
You designers are awesome! They are beautiful, and it will be so
easy to make mini albums with these (no resizing 12x12 papers!).
And cards! They'll make great cards! I can't wait to get some of
these... and there's a sale!
- Julie (Burnsie)
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I just found some great 4x6 scrapbooks at Target for 99 cents! WooHoo!
And the best part is that you can even slip in your own cover! My little
4x6 printer will be working overtime, that is for sure, and maybe if
I get started now I just might be done by Christmas! LOL!
- Syndee
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These are great!!!! I was thinking yesterday that 4x6 layouts would
be good for my new digital frame. It resizes my 8x8s, but they are
just a little "squished-looking". These zooms are great!
- Tonya (regulargal)
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Perfect timing! My sister and brother in law will be bringing their
new adopted children home from the Ukraine in a few weeks, and my sister
had requested I send some photos of our family to help her children
get to know us, since we live so far away. These will be just the ticket!
- kerryveale
And don't forget the cool new Page
Protectors that work
so well with these 4x6 products. Check out this beautiful example by
Sarah Batdorf using the Brush
Set - 4x6: Fancy Frames:
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Customer Sue (schmoo)
says, "Oh, the one with the page divided to fit multiple 4x6 would
be good for an interesting way to display 4x6 mini albums too. I like
to create 4x6 pages for my kids, but I don't want a pile of 4x6 albums
for myself, so it would be nice to arrange them on one page and keep
them in my 8x8 album for me. Loving it!"
And siskitkat says, "They could hold all of the pictures
from our Adoption Day that I don't use in their album."
We have so many fun, new 4x6 products, we couldn't fit
them all in this newsletter! Stay tuned the rest of the week to see
what else we have, or better yet, run to our newly upgraded boutique
and check them out for yourself!
Have fun...
- Ro
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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.
Life Muses by Ro: The Door
“Where’s the door?” Andrew’s panicky voice
bellowed as he ran down the hall towards my office. “Where’s
the door?”
“What door?” I asked through my sleep-induced
haze.
Before I go on with the story, I need to give you some history.
We recently upgraded the Scrap Girls Boutique. This required that I
work extra long hours for multiple days, through several of which I
was barely able to repeat my own name because of the sheer volume of
information that was coming in my direction. As time went on, I grew
increasingly tired.
I woke up on Thursday morning to the sound of ocean
waves drawing me out to the middle of the ocean. On and on I drifted.
I began to see digital scrapbooking products on rafts and hear conversations
about how wonderful they would be. It was quite enjoyable. But then,
the sound of the ocean disappeared and I realized that my alarm clock
had turned off.
I rolled over and looked at it. “I didn’t
know that the sounds went on for an hour,” I thought. “I’ve
never been that tired before.”
I decided that I had better get
up and take a shower. I had been drawn into the action so quickly the
day before that I wasn’t able
to get out of my nightgown or eat until the day was over. (This is
one of the unique hazards of working out of your house. You get phone
calls and emails at all hours.)
I took my shower, dressed, blew my hair
dry and threw my medicine into the back of my mouth and swallowed.
As I was walking away from the bathroom, I suddenly got a sick feeling. “No.
I couldn’t
have,” I thought. “Tell me I am wrong.”
I went back
to the cabinet and looked at my pill boxes. It was true. I had grabbed
the wrong ones. It wasn’t night time. It was morning
and I had blown it.
Man.
I took my morning pills (don’t tell my doctor that I did
all of this, okay?) and made up my mind that I was going to get through
the day somehow. I didn’t have the luxury of going back to bed.
It was going to be hard because one of those pills is something very
strong that gives me temporary amnesia.
Yep. Amnesia.
Everyone that has ever seen me take it loves to tell
stories about what happens after I take this small, white thing. They
tell me that they do their best to make sure I go to bed shortly after
I swallow it. But, I couldn’t do that this time, so I decided
that I would force my way through the day – which I did fairly
well.
I concentrated on one thing at a time. I forwarded emails that
I knew I didn’t have the ability to make decisions about under
the circumstances. I moved meetings. I moved slowly and cautiously.
About
8:45 that night, Gary and I were watching a taped version of Survivor.
I was wearing a sweatshirt because the living room was unexpectedly
chilly. I kept thinking, “Why is it so cold in here?”
Gary
suddenly announced, “What happened to the trim around the
front door?”
As soon as he said it, I remembered. We had a “door
event” that
morning.
When Andrew came running down the hall, I went trotting towards
the front door to see what he was talking about. I discovered our elderly
contractor and his lead carpenter engaged in a crisis. And, there was
a hole in my house.
“That’s the wrong door! You got the
wrong door!” the
contractor was yelling.
The carpenter spotted me and held up the trim
in my face. “See... I
still have the trim right here.”
I looked at the hole in the house.
My front door was gone. I knew that was wrong. But, I also knew that
once they finished the basement they were going to install the new
front door we had already purchased.
I patted the carpenter on the arm. “That’s
okay. Just put the new door in there. You’re going to do it anyway.”
The
contractor got agitated.
I continued, “I’ll find it for
you. I’ll find it
and you’ll install it. You’re going to install it anyway.
You’ll install it now.”
“You got the wrong door!” the
contractor repeated. “That’s
not the door you were supposed to install.”
“What door was
he supposed to install?” my foggy mind
asked. Then I remembered. Oh right... they are working on the
basement and there is a door at the bottom of the stairs. It must be
that door.
I looked at the hole in my house. “I’ll find
the new door.” I
wondered if my voice was slurring. I wondered if I sounded inebriated.
I was barely able to think because I should have been in bed sleeping
off my mistake.
I went into the garage and began looking through the
contents of our basement because it is all housed there right now.
Nothing.
“Where is the door?” I yelled at Andrew.
He looked at me
like I had eaten wild mushrooms.
“Go out and look in the shed,
Andrew,” I insisted. “Maybe
it is out there.”
He went out to the shed. Nothing.
I sent him to the basement next.
He located three doors inside of the new utility room. I looked at
them for a long, long, long time. Was there a front door in this pile?
I had purchased that door. I knew what it looked like. What did it
look like?
Hmmmm....
Oh yeah... It was... It was... made out of... fiberglass.
Nope. Not
there.
I went upstairs and said, “I can’t find the door.” I
then went back down the hall to my office, leaving the men to sort
out their problems.
I have no memory of pounding or doors or anything
else that occurred for the next hour or so. Maybe they told me what
happened. Maybe they did not. Probably, they didn’t. I just know
that when I was sitting on my couch at about 8:45 p.m. that evening,
Gary suddenly asked me why there was no trim around the front door.
Oh,
by the way... guess what happened to the new door? Gary
had stored it in the garage behind the refrigerator for safe keeping.
That
will teach me. I need to try to remember that the next time I accidentally
mix up my pills, when I take my night pills in the morning and put
myself into amnesia on a day when someone mistakenly takes off the
front door of my house, I will go and find the new one behind the refrigerator
in the garage.
Of course.
I did check, just to satisfy my curiosity. We now have a
door at the bottom of the stairs. I guess they located that one alright.
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Ro
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.
Best of the Message Board
These questions and answers come
from the users on our messageboard. We thought you might find them
useful and interesting too. Enjoy!
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Question: I may have to
bite the bullet and buy a laptop. My desktop needs a huge additional
hard drive if I am going to continue using it for digital scrapping.
I would like the portability of a laptop, so maybe I should just
get the laptop, with a big hard drive and be done with it!
I
know VERY little about laptops, so I need advice. Did you buy
a laptop and wish you had done something differently? Is there
a feature that you really like or don't like, or wish you had?
I will be using it at home, so it can be plugged in there, but
I will also be using it at work, where it cannot. I like using
my Wacom tablet, but really can't use it while at work, so that
may have to be used only at home. A CD burner is a must, as I
make copies of layouts for relatives.
Another, somewhat related
question... can I create some sort of "docking station" at
home that will easily attach to the Internet, printer, Wacom,
external hard drive, speakers, power, etc? (I have heard that
term used, but I do not know what it really means.) I have a
wireless arrangement in my house now, but it was set up so that
my roommate’s computer can use our cable Internet without
having wires everywhere. My desktop is wired.
Any and all ideas
would be mighty welcome. I will most likely buy a Dell.
Answer 1: Buy the biggest
amount of memory and hard drive that you can afford. Laptops
are pricey and so is their memory (even on sale). Remember, hard
drives are very expensive compared to desktops also. There are
some good deals out there on desktops with cool, flat screen
monitors, with TV's and all of the bells and whistles that you
probably won’t ever use, but are fun to have. Ask yourself
how often you are really going to move the laptop around, unless
you travel or something.
I want a new PC and after having this
cool laptop, I am seriously considering a new desktop because
of the deals that are way too hard to pass up. If I could buy
a new one right now, I would definitely have three gigs of memory,
at least 200 gigs of hard drive and while I was in a shopping
mode, I would just buy the external hard drive (EHD) right then.
With an off and on switch on it, just unplug the EHD and then
I am off.
Answer 2: I agree and, for
the money, you can buy a lot more computer if you get a desktop.
However, if you do decide on a laptop, be sure that you get enough
RAM and hard drive space. These are terribly expensive to upgrade
later!
Answer 3: Lots of RAM!
If you are going to run Photoshop, get one with at least a 7200
RPM drive. Dell is great! I have a Dell Latitude 630 (refurbished)
and I adore it!
Answer 4: Yes, you can definitely
get a laptop with a docking station. I have a Dell Latitude that
I just love. The docking station is in my computer room, which
means that I can use it there and still be able to use my big
monitor and comfortable keyboard (I don't know if I'll ever really
enjoy using the laptop's keyboard), printer, etc. But, then,
I can just undock and take it with me.
We have three floors in
our house and I love the flexibility this gives me. It's nice
to be able to use the computer in the evenings in the living
room while my husband is watching TV or reading. We can do different
activities, but still be "together." And, if I'm doing
laundry all day, I just take it down to the first floor so that
I can keep my eye on things. I can actually get all of my laundry
done this way!
Oh yes, as much RAM as it will hold, big hard
drive, CD/DVD burner and especially an EHD.
Answer 5: I love my little
12-inch laptop, but it's not the best choice for digital scrapping.
I love the trans-reflective screen, though; pictures and Scrap
Girls graphics look great on it. So, I tend to use my desktop
for bigger scrapping projects.
Even if you get a big hard drive,
I still recommend you get an EHD for a backup. I keep my supplies
on mine and back it up to a spare drive on my desktop. This way
I don't clutter up the hard drive on my laptop. I also wish I
would have gotten Bluetooth built into mine.
Make sure it has
plenty of USB ports. When I shopped for a laptop for work, there
were anywhere from two to four USB slots. The more the better
I say.
I love the portability of my laptop, too. My husband and
I sit next to each other with our laptops in the living room
or I take it to bed to read, on long trips, etc.
For trips, I
have an inverter in the car for power - it plugs into the cigarette
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Question: I'm using so
much space - a common issue, I see. My husband and I talked about
adding an external hard drive. Is that as readily accessible
as my C drive? Or, is it/should it be used as a backup place?
(That's what we are thinking of.) I currently back up my digital
stuff to CDs, adding to the collection once a month. Thanks for
any advice.
Answer 1: I have all of
my scrapbooking stuff on an EHD. It's just like your regular
hard drive, but most are portable. That's what I love about
mine! I can scrap on any computer as long as Photoshop is installed
on it. I can go back and forth between my desktop and laptop
without any problem. It's really pretty cool! I also back up
onto DVDs as another way of safekeeping.
Answer 2: I use my EHD
as another hard drive. All of my photos and scrapping supplies
are stored there and backed up to DVDs. My EHDs have a USB
port to connect to the computer and I can remove it and plug
it in on another computer. I have a shortcut to the EHD right
on my desktop so that it's easy to access. If you click on
My Computer, it will be listed with your other hard drives
(C drive and any backup drives you may have).
Answer 3: I also have
an EHD that I use to store all of my photos, scrapbook stuff
and layouts. If I kept it on my computer, my computer C drive
would be too full and too slow to also run Photoshop. I had
been backing up to DVDs, but I just joined Mozy to be the backup
off-site as added security. I love the EHD and I also take
it with me when I go away or to visit my daughter. I travel
with my laptop and my EHD. At home, I mostly use the EHD on
my desktop, but it is so handy and my life is on that EHD.
It is very easy to use. When you go to save something, you
just save it to the drive that is the EHD (mine is "G")
rather than saving stuff to your hard drive.
Answer 4: They have come
out with a new EHD that is very small and extremely portable.
They are also supposed to be very durable so that you can take
them to and from work in your purse every day. That’s
part of the reason why I want one.
Another reason why I want
a new, small one is that I have a laptop and I'm always sitting
in different places using it. I have one of the older ones
that is bigger (not huge) but you have to worry about it getting
proper air flow and not being dropped and it needs a power
source. It is hooked up to my computer desk along with the
printer and scanner. When I want to use it, I have to sit there,
so I only use it for a back-up. Granted, if you have desktop
and not a laptop, this isn’t an issue because it’s
not portable.
The new ones are in a hard case so you don't
have to worry about dropping it (short little drops, not like
10 stories). You don't have to worry about it getting enough
air and its power source is the computer... you don't
have to be near an outlet. Once I get one of these (not out
in Japan yet... so I have to wait until I am back in the states
or it comes out here), I will use it like my computer’s
hard drive and not just for back-ups. I can also use it to
replace my USB because I can take it to and from work everyday.
If you have a laptop, I would suggest going with one of the
new ones like this one. You can get them with a few GB for
less money, too.
One of my co-workers came back with one after
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Online Classes Available
Demystifying
Layer Masks in PS
March 18 and 25, 3:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
 Did
you know that you can subscribe to Scrap Girls RSS feeds? Look
for this icon at the bottom left-hand corner of the message board
forum listing. We have two feeds:
 Scrap
Girls Digital Scrapbooking Message Board (See the latest chatter
on the board.)- Scrap
Girls Radio Digital Scrapbooking Podcast (This is a sound
broadcast with tips and tricks, inside news and dirt, chat/crop
updates and more. Ro is your show host.)
You can listen to the podcast with QuickTime, Windows
Media Player, iTunes, or even your iPod - if you load the mp3 file
it on it. Just download the mp3 file to your computer and away you
go... or simply click on the podcast link and the podcast will start
right in your browser. You can also access the podcast through the
Scrap Girls Radio forum on the message board.
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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!
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 9PM 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. 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 your
category! 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
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.
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! (You will
only be entering the month and the date, so don't be shy. We
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board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
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Designer Freebie
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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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* 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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The Door
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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In this issue:
- 18.7% Off Spring into Action Sale!
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Best of the Message Board
- 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
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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
Alert! Alert!
FRIDAY is the last day you can sign up for the ScrapSimple
club and still get this great group of tools at this amazing
price. Don't delay... sign up now!
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
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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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