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Name of designer: Kelly Favor-Chronister
Name of layout: Flowers
Software used: PSE 4.0
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To change the color of the paint swatch on the “memories” embellishment, I used my magic wand tool (with Contiguous selected and the Tolerance set to 32) to select the paint. I made sure to get the interior sections of closed letters. Then I selected a shade of purple using my color picker tool from one of the photos. To change the color, I went to Enhance> Adjust Color> Adjust Hue/Saturation (or you can use the keyboard shortcut Control+u or Command+u on a mac) and checked the Colorize box. I adjusted the Saturation and Lightness sliders until I was pleased with the final color.
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Name of designer: Stefanie Harris
Name of layout: Spring
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
In order to unify all the pretty patterns and colors for this layout, I simply applied Cheryl Barber’s SS Tools – Styles: Chipboard Textured 4107 Mini to all the elements. This particular style (Inclusions) made the edges look sanded and intensified the colors at the same time, bringing the varying elements together nicely.
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Name of designer: Amy Lemaniak
Name of layout: Signs of Spring
Software used: PSE 5
Name of challenge: Spring
Other Ingredients:
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to show both the entire photo and a close up of the flower in the photo. To get the close up, I used the Marquee tool with the Feathering to about 40 pixels, and drew a circle around the main photo. I dragged my selection onto my layout and played with the blending mode and opacity until I got a look that I liked. Then, to grunge up the edges even more, I used Brandie Valenzuela’s Grungelle Brush Set and went around the edges of my photos to get a grungier feel.
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Name of designer: Jennifer Okonek
Name of layout: A Special Day
Software used: Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Spring
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Name of designer: Launa Valente
Name of layout: Vava's Garden
Software used: Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Using the composite version of the lifted photo frames, I positioned the frame above my photo until I was satisfied with the placement, then with the photo frame layer active I used the magic want to select the inside of the frame, I then went to select, modify and expanded the selection by 10px. The select, inverse, and then making sure my photo layer was selected, delete. This gave me a perfect fit for my photos inside the frames. Then I linked the frame and photo layers, to make sure when I moved them around in the LO they would move together.
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Name of designer: Paula Wright
Name of layout: Finally Spring
Software used: PS CS2
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one thing I did:
I wanted to create what looked like the path of a little boy running, twirling and stopping to explore. I used Melissa Renfro’s dynamic brush set: straight stitch 5001. I have a quick tip for those new users of dynamic brushes. Start on a new layer and begin off the edge, draw your line and end off the edge. Repeat to create the meandering border. It looks like one long line but really it was very easy to do with several short lines of drawing.
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Name of designer: Brenda Peters
Name of layout: You Make Me Laugh
Software used: PSPX
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one thing I did:
Because the background of my photo was really busy I decided to blur it out and give my photo depth of field. To do that I simply duplicated my photo. Then from my layers palette, I activated the bottom photo and applied a Gaussian Blur effect to it. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian> apply a value of 20 and click OK. Now activate the top photo layer and click on the eraser tool. Erase around your subjects until your background is completely eliminated. When erasing up-close to my subjects I use these eraser option settings. Hardness: 50, Step: 35, Density: 100, Opacity: 50.
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Name of designer: Pat Bowman
Name of layout: Spring Flowers
Software used: PSCS3
Name of challenge: Spring
Directions for one thing I did:
This was my first crack at using the new Dynamic Brushes from the Boutique, so I decided I’d better play around with them a bit to see how they worked. I created a new layer and played around with different sizes and colors – each on a new layer – until I found just the right size and color for my layout. Then I deleted the layers I didn’t want to use. I can see that these brushes can be very addicting!
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A Designer's Life: Syndee Nuckles
Just Relax and Start Talking
I admit it. I never know what to say in these Designer’s Life articles. How much of myself do I want to reveal, put out there for the world to view, ponder, mull and judge? What if what I say makes you think less of me somehow? What if what I say sounds dumb?
I still need to learn so many things, one of which is to not over analyze everything - to just relax. I thought it might be fun to answer some questions not only for you to get to know me better, but to have a log of what I am thinking or liking at this very moment. You see, I am constantly changing my mind. Not about important things, but about favorite things, foods, places, books, music, etc… I used to get so upset with myself over it and now I celebrate it because I am NEVER bored. Never. There is always something new to be discovered, something new to hold my interest and, hey, ART is never boring. That’s why I have the best job in the world. I am a mom and an artist. They go hand-in-hand because my children are my canvas.
Eye Color: Hazel. I used to hate this color. I wanted a specific color. Here I was a teenager with hazel eyes, dishwater blonde hair and Marie for a middle name. How much more average can you get? Not to mention, being the middle of three girls. I wanted so much to be unique. Now, I love hazel. I like the name - it’s funky and old-fashioned at the same time. I like that my eyes change depending on what I am wearing or what mood I am in. God knew what He was doing. I know that now more than ever before.
Height: Almost 5’6”. I like to round up! The funny thing is that when I graduated high school, I was all of 5’ 3” and had been told that you stop growing by 18. But, I grew almost another three inches by the time I turned 21.
Right or Left-Handed: Right, but I like to see how much I can do with my left hand. I wouldn’t want it to feel left out.
Your Weakness: Chocolate and purses and shoes. I LOVE shoes. I once had 100 pair. Love me, love my shoes.
Your Fears: I don’t believe in saying them out loud; you never know who might be listening.
Best Physical Feature: My hands.
Your Bedtime: Whenever I can get my brain to turn off, usually early in the morning.
Do You Sing: I love to, not that it sounds great, but it makes me happy.
Have You Been In Love: Every day of my life.
Do You Believe in Yourself: Yes, finally.
Do You Like Thunderstorms: YES! I like to think it’s God reminding us of His presence.
What Is Your Favorite Color: I love them all!
Number of Things in My Past I Regret: I guess I’ve finally learned not to regret, but to learn from the things I would like to do over.
Do You Like to Clean: HA! That would be a big NO!
Do You Like to Cook: Another big NO, much to my mother’s horror. I do like to bake.
Believe in Love at First Sight: I would like to think it’s possible.
Phone or IM: Phone - I love to talk on the phone and hear the inflections in a person’s voice. It’s amazing how much of one’s personality comes alive in their voice.
Morning or Night Person: I don’t think I even have to answer this… do I? (Night)
Are You a Collector of Anything: I like to collect everything bright, beautiful, sparkly or unusual. The best thing? My kids are all collectors, too. It just makes me smile.
If You had Super Powers, what would it be: I would fly - it sure would save on time wasted in traffic, not to mention gas!
What’s on Your Mind Right Before Falling Asleep? My kids and what my next design project will be.
Favorite Animal: Orca whale - they are beautiful, strong and smart.
If You Had $1 million Dollars: Buy a house out in the country, but not far from Starbucks and the library!
Bad Habits: I like to snack at night and have a terrible sweet tooth.
Three of Your Best Personality Traits: Upbeat and positive, good sense of humor, what you see is what you get.
Three of Your Worst Personality Traits: I am super insecure, too sensitive and I talk too much.
Mostly a Clean or Messy Person: Creatively messy.
Five goals on Your Life’s To-Do List:
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Teach my kids the value of being true to oneself and finding what makes them happy
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Learn piano
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Learn how to say NO
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Experience art and life every day
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Be happy being ME
Name One Thing You Miss About Being a Kid: My metabolism!
Name One Thing You Love About Being an Adult: The freedom to be ME and not having to live up to someone else’s version or vision of/for me.
What Would Be Your Dream Job? Be a designer at Scrap Girls, working from home. Oh, yeah! I AM a designer at Scrap Girls! Lucky me!
Name One Thing People Might Not Know About You: I used to wear high heels every day for about six years.
If You Had to Change Your Name, What Would it Be? Something like Bronwyn or Isabella or something creative and artsy!
Well, that’s a bit about me. For today, anyway. Happy Scrappin’
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My favorite product I've designed:
Isn't It Romantic Collection
I love the versatility of this collection. While it lends itself to anniversary, Valentine’s and wedding layouts, it can be used for any theme. I am proud of some of the unique embellishments that I was able to create for this collection.
Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Themed Thoughts
We’ve noticed various requests popping up here and there on the message boards, people looking for things from licensed characters like Disney Princesses, Pixar’s Cars and Winnie the Pooh. Since we cannot do collections with licensed characters in them, we’ve come up with an article to help you use those great Scrap Girls products you already have (or should have!) in your stash for these types of themes.
Disney Princesses
Do you have pictures with your little ones meeting Cinderella for the first time or dressing up as Belle for Halloween? Then we’ve got some ideas for you!
How about using A Princess Collection with all of its bright colors, pretty ribbons, crowns and wand? There’s also a Brush Set: A Princess, along with Brush Set: Fairy Princess and even an Assemble Your Own: Wand.
You can use these along with Assemble Your Own: Family Labels and the birds from Altered State Altar Card to create a great title, as seen in the layout below. Also used below is a shoe from the Anna Grace Collection, covered with a paper from the Just the Basics papers, with the ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Frosted Glass 6401 style applied to it. The bright papers are from the Basic Brights papers biggie, which coordinate wonderfully with the bright colors of the princess dress, which was taken from the Wedding Dress Card, and colored to match the layout.
Layout by Launa Valente
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Also, the Harvest Pumpkin Collection has a pumpkin for Cinderella’s coach, and you can find apples for poisoning in the Harvest Pumpkin Collection, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Precious 1, and Digital Stickers: Fall Fun Biggie.
If you’re looking for something to work with Ariel from The Little Mermaid, try Water Paper for an ‘under the ocean’ feel, with animals from the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Silly Sea, and you can add a water feel to any title with the ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Water 6101. You can write your journaling on a wave shape with the ScrapSimple Type Paths: Waves 3801, along with the ScrapSimple Tools – Shapes: Waves 3801.
Launa Valente used the ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates – Layered: Storybook Castles to create a whimsical backdrop for a photo of her daughters dressed up as princesses, wearing a crown from the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bedazzled.
Layout by Launa Valente
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NASCAR
Do you or someone in your family have an obsession with everything NASCAR? What about cars in general, or is there a little one in your life who loves Lightning McQueen? Then how about using the FASTCAR Collection mini (or its Brush Set and Paper Templates). Or the Cruising Collection to showcase that love!
Jo Corne did a layout using these collections, as shown below. And notice how she cleverly used a race flag for the R in the title. So cute!
Layout by Jo Corne
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For the title piece shown below, I used the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: License Plate – 3D Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Rusted License Plate 6102, and ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Weather 1501 for the lightning shape.
Layout by Laurel Lakey
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Winnie the Pooh
When I was a little girl, I loved TIgger from Winnie the Pooh, and since I’ve had my son, I have tried to pass on a love of Tigger to him. This included dressing him in various Tigger outfits and accessories from the time he was only 3 months old. But since we don’t have a specific Tigger collection, I decided to think outside the box, using ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Animal Prints Biggie to mimic his orange and black stripes.
Layout by Laurel Lakey
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For Winnie the Pooh layouts, there are a lot of things you could use! For instance, how about creating a forest by using the Forest Path paper, Naturescape Collection Biggie, and Leaves of Time Texture Set. You can also find bees and butterflies in the Spring Signs Collection, Baby Cake Embellishment Biggie, Brush Set: Grunged Butterflies, Brush Set: Le Jardin, Delightful Embellishments, and Dynamic Brush Set: Garden Party 6301 Biggie. A great idea for a blustery day type of layout is to use the Dynamic Brush Set: Variae Formae 8201 to create a windy feeling to the background. You can find a blue balloon for Christopher Robin in the Assemble Your Own: Birthday Party Balloons!
I want to stress that these suggestions are not an exhaustive list -- they just represent a small percentage of the type of products you can find if you look creatively and think outside the box.
I hope that with these great products at your disposal you’ll be able to creatively use those themed photos to make wonderful layouts that you’ll treasure.
Have fun!
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Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, March 24th
- 9:00PM ET
(Australian Eastern Standard
Daylight Savings Time!)
Please come join Karen (kazbar73) & Jo (ScrappingJo) @ 9PM (Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Saving Time)on Monday March 24th for the Desktop Challenge Crop.
Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background for your enjoyment? Come join us in the Chat room and learn how to jazz up your desktop.
New
Members Chat
Tuesday, March 25th
- 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
25, at 8PM 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 26th
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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 26, we'll do a fave photo challenge!
Create a layout showcasing a recently taken favorite photo!
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!
Signature Challenge & Chat
Wednesday, March 26th
- TBA
Have you wondered how everyone creates those cool signatures on the message board? Come join Dee (DDecker) for a fun chat and challenge to find out how to create, upload and insert them into your profile. Dee will post a challenge earlier in the day to help you get started then during the chat we wil work on our siggy's and answer questions!
Art Inspiration Challenge/Crop
Thursday, March 27th
-9:00PM ET
Join Scrappinjo and ruralscrapper, for the Art Inspiration Crop on Thursday, March 27th at 9 pm EST.
We will provide a piece of art to be used as inspiration for your layouts. You can use the color scheme, the composition, or any part of the art as the starting point for your own layout - the only rule is that you use your imagination!
March Swap Crop Chat
Friday, March 28th
- TBA
Come join Carla and all the Swap Croppers for a fun chat about all the beautiful heritage layouts! Curious about swap crops? We'll explain it all. Swap crops are fun and addicting!
Time TBA!
ATC Crop Chat
Saturday, March 29th
- 7:00PM ET
Please join me, Pat Bowman, in the ATC Chat room at 7PM ET for our monthly ATC crop and swap! Yes, I said "swap." We are now going to be exchanging our little mini works of art! The theme of this swap will be Random Advice. Create an ATC that displays some random advice. It can be any kind of advice you'd like to share. You can be serious or quirky - it's totally up to you! Remember, the only real rules for ATCs are that they must be sized 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Let's have some fun!
Please note, that I am having this chat on Saturday rather than Sunday this time. Hope you can make it!
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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-March Layout
Contest: It’s time to get into shape, and we want
to see your layouts about how you are doing it. From organizing
your workspace, planning your family’s hectic schedule
or trying to make it to the gym at 5AM to squeeze in that workout,
let’s see how you’re shaping up your life. Post
your layout to the mid-month gallery by midnight EST on April
14th, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift
Certificatae to the Boutique!
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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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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Get to Know Syndee Nuckles
Monday, March 24, 2008
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In this issue:
-
Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Syndee Nuckles
- Themed Thoughts
- 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 $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 Angie Briggs using
March's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you
by Angie Briggs and Thao Cosgrove
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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