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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?
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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: Doing Whatever I Want
In between the Boutique upgrade and personal issues (remember “The
Door” incident from Tuesday’s newsletter?) last week, I
simply did not have time to write any muses for the newsletter this
week. So, I’m taking this opportunity to bring you some of my “Best
of Ro” muses. Enjoy!
Smooth grey skin slid under my skin as I unsuccessfully tried to push
the animal through the opening in the net. I didn’t understand.
The trainer told me that it would be simple to swim from one side of
the tank to the other with my dolphin. Once we arrived there, we would
pass through the net to the next tank. But as hard as I tried to pull
on the dolphin, he was resisting my efforts.
He clearly didn’t want
to go anywhere with me.
Finally, I swam to the side of the tank, pulled
myself up on the cement and looked disgustedly down at the animal. “You
think you’re
so smart,” I muttered.
“Apparently, he is smarter than you.”
I squinted at the
trainer who was grinning at me. “I guess I
need more help than I thought. How do I do this?”
“You are trying to force that animal to do what you want it
to do. Nothing likes to be forced... water... air... people... Nature
has free will and that dolphin does, too. You have to win the cooperation
of the dolphin by allowing him to do what he does best. Try trusting
him. Try treating him better. See where it takes you.”
When I
got back into the water with the dolphin, he warily swam up next to
me and eyed me as if to say, “Are you going to start
swinging again?” I carefully reached out my hand and stroked
his side. When he swam away, I patiently waited for him to return.
When he did, I talked calmly to him and petted him.
At last, he decided
that I was not going to wage war after all. He allowed me to grab hold
of his fin and off we went, speeding across the tank and through the
net. I was going to get to see what was in the other tank. As we sped
through the opening, I heard my husband say, “What would you
like for breakfast, dear?”
Darn.
It was just a dream.
I pulled my pillow on top of my head and told
him I’d be out
in a bit because I needed to think a little. This dream reminded me
of something and I wanted to figure out what it was.
As I quickly thumbed
through the pages of my life book, I stopped on page 1521 – which
falls somewhere after my 4th birthday. I saw myself playing dolls with
one of my friends in my room. This sounds pretty routine, right? A
four-year-old girl playing dolls with a friend?
Well, it wasn’t
actually. You see, I was the only girl in my family and the only girl
in my neighborhood. This meant that my activities consisted mainly
of playing cowboys, digging holes with shovels, jumping off barns,
putting pollywogs in band-aid cans, or swimming in ditches.
If I wanted
to play dolls, I had to force someone to play dolls with me.
On this
particular day, day 1521, I chose to beat my pal over the head with
my doll until he agreed to be the father of the doll so that I could
be the mother. (Happily for my pal, his family moved away shortly after
this occurrence. He was released from his doll family obligations at
that time.)
I learned to be scrappy as a child because I had to be scrappy
or I wouldn’t survive among all those individuals, the males
of our species. I learned that I often had to force my way into a situation
because those same individuals were just as inclined to ignore me because
I was female.
Shoot! I do not like to be ignored.
Fast forward to day 17,864 in my
life book....
I have stopped trying to force people to play dolls with
me. I have stopped trying to force anyone to do anything. If they don’t
want to cooperate, they are fine. They can just get out of my game.
But
I am good at forcing myself to do things. In fact, I seem to like to
force myself to get from point A to point B and break the sound barrier
in the process. When I am close to achieving one of my business goals,
I really like the effect of the sonic boom as I slide over the finish
line.
Boom! There goes a goal from my list.
Boom! Boom! That was a big one.
I knocked off a whole page of to-do’s
when I completed that goal.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Wow-ee! I’m excited
about that one. That took a lot of work. (It is completely beside the
point that I am now so exhausted that I need an intravenous drip of
chocolate to get me pepped up enough to answer the telephone.)
I get
excited about what I am doing. This is because - for the first time
in my life - I can do whatever I want. I get to use the brain that
God gave me to build a business I believe in. Before I started Scrap
Girls, I spent most of my adult years out there in that male-focused
business world and found that I was either ignored (because good ideas
can’t come from people who play with dolls) or, when I got scrappy
enough to try to get my ideas heard, I was told that I should play
nice (because people who play with dolls aren’t supposed to play
the business game like a boy does).
Shoot! I don’t like to be
ignored.
So when my life changed completely a couple of years ago and
dropped my mentally ill adult son and grandson in my lap (with the
court advising me that I better stay home and make sure they were both
okay), I decided that I was getting a big message from the universe.
It was time for me to step off of a cliff and start doing what I wanted
to do.
I went for broke – literally. I sold off nearly everything
we had of value (including my 1770 German violin) to raise the money
I needed to start the company. I cornered the peanut butter and jelly
market so we would have something to eat for lunch. And I began building
the Scrap Girls web site on my laptop.
So here we are now – Scrap
Girls is built and we are doing great. I am having a ball. Actually,
I am having so much fun that I am beginning to have contests with myself
where I say, “Let’s
see just how fast I can type. Let’s see how quickly I can spin
in my chair. Let’s find out how many of the ideas that drip out
of my head and into the notebooks stacked all over my office counter
I can implement this week.”
And then, while I am whirling and
spinning and spiraling about, my little self starts to rebel and shout
out, “What are you doing
to yourself? Why are you forcing yourself to work all of the time?”
I
can tell when I’ve gotten myself into a work-frenzied jam
fairly easily. The key symptom is that my brain begins moving about
like a street carnival when my body tries to lie down at night for
much needed sleep. The body wants to quiet down but my brain is enjoying
the addicting “Boom! Boom! Boom!” of achieving goals so
much that it wants to keep playing the game 24 hours a day.
The solution:
Do something else.
And so I start going out here and there: I go to
a movie. I see a play. I wander the streets. I paint my house. I hang
out and do nothing. Frankly, I can now do what I want with my time
because I am now in charge of my life and my schedule. Nobody is telling
me that someone who plays with dolls can’t be in charge.
Awesome.
So when I start having a little too much fun running this
outfit and my brain is whirling too much, I just break up my regular
routine enough that my brain knows it is okay to stop thinking about
business every hour of every day.
You might be scratching your head
right now wondering how a little girl from a small town who once enjoyed
jumping off barns could end up having so much fun running a business.
It’s
simple.
Nobody is ignoring me anymore – not even myself.
- 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.
Tutorial: Adding Wings to Photos
Note: Tutorial was created using Adobe
Photoshop CS2 with Windows XP.
Adding wings to your photos can add a touch of whimsy and fun to your
digital scrapbooking layouts. They are great with themes about babies,
children, springtime, heritage, fantasy or romance. There are wing
embellishments in several Scrap Girls products including the following:
Let’s begin by opening a photo and dragging it onto a new 12x12
file. I recommend a frontal view for the easiest application. Open
a set of wing embellishments. Here, I will be using “Wings1Left.png” and “Wings1Right.png” from
the Art Journal Collection Biggie. Drag these wings onto the
new file, above the photo.
Now, select the layer with the first wing
and set the Opacity to 70%. This will make it semi-transparent so that
you can nudge the wing to where you want it. Repeat this for the second
wing.
Next, zoom into the first wing. With your Lasso Tool (with Anti-Alias
on and a Feather level of 1 px), select the area of the wing that covers
the body of the person in your photo.
Delete this part of the wing layer.
Repeat this for the second wing
layer.
Reset the Opacity of both wing layers to 100%. Next, to soften
the edges of the cut edges, use the Eraser Tool and select a basic
round brush and adjust the settings. Here, I’ve placed the Diameter
size at 60 px, Hardness at 50% and Opacity at 20%.
Carefully erase part
of the edge to soften. You will not need to erase much, just a little
to soften the wings’ edges.
Then, choose the Burn Tool and set
its Exposure low, such as at 10%.
Carefully go over the edges again.
This will give the edges, where it touches the body, a darker, shadowy
look.
Here’s my finished photo.
An alternative to placing wings this
way is to select and eliminate all of the background around the person
so that the wings are easily placed underneath the person. This latter
method requires using the Lasso and Eraser Tools to cut around the
entire person in the photo.
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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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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!
New Member Chat - Early Edition
Tuesday, March 18th - 3:00PM
ET
Join Dee (DDecker)
at 3:00 PM ET for a fun chat to get to know our newest members.
We will discuss the message board, gallery, chocolate and so
much more! Everyone is welcome, new or not so new! Not sure
how to get there? Just click the "chat room" button
at the top of this newsletter; you will need JavaScript enabled
to access the chat room.
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 19th
-
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 19, we'll do an All About Me challenge!
Create a layout focusing on your favorite food!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat
room! We hope you'll join us!
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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
won't know how old you actually are!) |
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Check our message
board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening
at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless
otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check
out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York'
as the location for the Eastern time zone.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater
kit section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the
large number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital
scrapbooking as much as we do, and we have thousands of products
to feed your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's
so addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all
day long, every day of the week, and each day of the year.
You don't have to wonder about important questions like how
to back up your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to
scrapbook digitally (and which one to buy), or what type of
computer software is required to create digital scrapbooking
layouts. The answers are all here for you - in one easy to
use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a
little bit of extra fun!
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* 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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Doing Whatever I Want
Wednesday, March 12, 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
- Tutorial: Adding Wings to Photos
- 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
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
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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