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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: Playtime Has Arrived
“What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is
a principle on which society is not founded.” – Claude
Adrien Helvetius
Confessions are good for the soul and I have something I want
to confess. Over time, as I worked with my team to manage Scrap Girls,
digital scrapbooking started to feel like a chore for me. I spent less
and less time on it. I did it when my work required it. When I created
layouts, I became tense and worried that they weren’t good enough,
as I am fully aware that I could not be considered an artistic genius
digital scrapbooker. I don’t think I am a digital scrapbooking
talent. In fact, I believe that I am one of the most ordinary scrapbookers
to arrive in the industry. I am running Scrap Girls because I have
other skills to bring to the table.
Perhaps, it is my scrapping ordinariness
that makes me passionate about what I am doing at Scrap Girls. I love
teaching people how to digitally scrapbook. I know that it can feel
overwhelming to look at layouts created by extremely talented individuals
and be too harsh when judging your own results. I get that some people
are intimidated by software and are looking for a quick way to gain
the skills they need. I am looking for ways that Scrap Girls can help
people get past their own fears and gaps in their knowledge so that
they can get in on the fun, too. That is why I constantly say, “Enjoy
your layouts. They are your layouts. They are beautiful because they
are yours.”
Anyway, here I am, an ordinary scrapbooker running
a digital scrapbooking company.
I have been a scrapbooker (both paper
and now digital) for years upon years. I often say that my “pre-professional” days
were the happiest because I was “scrapbook innocent.” Those
were the days when scrapbooking was my hobby. I was a consumer and
I was in love.
But then I started working for some paper companies and
picked up the idea that I wasn’t good enough to be scrapbooking.
(Huh?) I needed to stick to my function as a Product Manager and Director
of Marketing. (Huh?) When I started up Scrap Girls, I had to try to
get past my fears and take scrapbooking up again. I had to scrap again
to survive.
As time went on, and as the company grew, I found myself
doing fewer and fewer layouts. I was too busy. I couldn’t get
my supplies filed. I had more important work to do. I wanted to get
away from my computer and do something else. But, since I am someone
that needs an artistic outlet, I turned to my journal, as I write,
scribble, draw, color, rip, paste and staple things into it.
One day,
I thought, “I would like to put some photos in here
on this topic. It seems silly not to show pictures I have about it.”
So,
I went to my computer, fully intending to print out some plain photos
and stick them in my journal. Immediately, the digital scrapbooker
in me reared her head and I had rebellious thoughts. “What if
I digitally scrapbooked these photos using a 4x6 size so that I could
print them on photo paper? They would fit in my journal that way.”
I
say that my thoughts were rebellious because at that time, the majority
of layouts were 12x12 (printed at 8x8). It seems silly now, but I felt
like I was jumping off of a bridge when I did this.
I created a new
4x6 document and began. I quickly found that I had to scale everything
down to approximately 45-50%, but once I did, I could use all
of my regular supplies. I noticed that the photo had to be the dominate
factor on the layout. This solved the “fear
of the large empty canvas” issue I had been having since beginning
to digitally scrapbook.
Unexpectedly, I became eager to scrap and found
I was scrapping a lot of photos I had wanted to use, but
they had seemed too difficult to use on a large layout. The small size
was perfect for the small “musey” topics
I enjoy working on. I realized I could use these small topic layouts
to create a series that would tell a story and the story could be displayed
in an album.
I became more and more excited about what I was doing and,
within a few hours, I had scrapped nine or ten layouts. I printed them
out, stuck them in my notebook, intending to show them to Valerie at
our impending business trip.
We were at a restaurant when I pulled them
out. I became so animated that she had to calm me down a little bit. “I
want layout templates,” I
told her. “I want kits. I want everything there is to make these
layouts go faster and faster for me. I don’t care if anyone else
in the world uses them, but I am in love and I want this stuff.”
Valerie,
who is a wise one supreme, nodded her head, wrote my ramblings in her
book and came home and got a team of designers together. They kept
their doings secret from me as much as they could because Valerie wanted
to surprise me.
Of course, I talked about my new love in a podcast and
started showing you 4x6 layouts in the newsletters. I went to Walmart
and purchased two beautiful albums that hold hundreds of 4x6 photos
for $5.00 a piece. (Score!)
One day, I told Valerie, “I think
I’ve given people a
few hints about the 4x6 project, V.”
She laughed and said, “You
think? I wouldn’t exactly call
those hints, Ro.”
And then, oh boy! It came time to release our
4x6 project to the world. When I saw what the designers had made...
all of that beautiful 4x6 stuff... there were brushes, Assemble
Your Zoom Kits, ScrapSimple Digital Album Templates and more. I felt
like Christmas had arrived. In fact, I was giddy. My orphan child,
4x6, was now a legitimate member of the digital scrapbooking community.
I
continue to create layouts in streaks of joy. For the first time since
2002, I am enjoying this hobby in a way that imbues sheer and utter
pleasure. It is now just a nice side benefit that I can show you some
of the layouts I make because they make nice “muse-starters” for
the newsletters.
Digital scrapbooking 4x6 layouts = Playtime for Ro.
Isn’t it
amazing? I think so.
-
Ro
P.S. - I need to say that we had a few 4x6 Brag Books in the Scrap
Girls Boutique prior to my light-bulb experience. But, since I am not
a “brag book” sort of individual, I had overlooked them.
These forward thinking designers need a great big pat on the back!
Sometimes, it is just the right time for things to happen and I think
it is 4x6’s time. They go fast, are fun, are cheap to print,
and the albums are found everywhere!
I will also continue to do square
12x12 (printed at 8x8) layouts because often, that is the size that
works the best. This is the best thing about digital scrapbooking.
We can do whatever we want. We are in control of our world.
Layout by Ro
Supplies:
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own
muse to [email protected]. If it is selected
for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have
fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems,
another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does
not have to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not
have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
Enjoy Ro's Muses? She now has a blog where she is posting some of our readers' favorites, along with blog-only topics. http://lifemuses-ro.typepad.com/life_muses_by_ro/
Enjoy an eBook collection of Ro's
popular Life Muses from the first half of 2006 in an easy way to print,
save, or purchase as a gift for someone you love.
Designer Do-Over: Brandy
Murry
My Original
Original by Brandy Murry
I want to redo the cover of the scrapbook I started in
2005 entitled, “Images of Us.” I keep adding to the album,
but have never redone the cover since I created it almost three years
ago. Oh my, has it been that long?
My Do Over
To begin, I take the original photo and decide to use the color version.
After getting my placement down, I duplicate the picture and split
it into two, so that I can blend the two separate pictures into the
background. To do this, all I do is lower the Opacity to approximately
50% and use the Eraser Tool with a grunge brush to soften the edges.
Once this is complete, I add my main embellishments.
Now, it is time to
place my text. I want a layered look for the title and subtitles. Since
this is a cover for a scrapbook, there will not be journaling on this
page.
To begin, I start with the title I want to stand out the most,
the main title. In order to make it jump to the front, I make sure
that it is in a dark color that contrasts with the page well.
I want
the secondary title to be softened a bit, so it will not fight
with the main title. When you have other text or alphas on your pages
that are blocky, a script as your secondary title really works nicely.
As I want these words to be read together, I keep the font the same
and lower the Opacity so that they are soft, but change the color of
the word “Images” so that it stands out just
a little from the rest.
The final set of subtitles includes the information.
I always try to add the date or dates to a page. In 100 years, my family
may be looking at this and wondering when this was. So, this information
is always important to me. Again, I'll change the font to something
different and smaller since this is a subtitle.
To complete the page,
I add my final layer of embellishments, those fun little things that
really bring your page together. This is always the most fun! My problem
is keeping them to a minimum and not over embellishing. I often have
to pull back, but that is the great thing about digital scrapbooking...
you can add or remove as you please, no mess and no waste!
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Do-Over written by Brandy Murry
Online Classes Available
Exploring
Design Styles: Shabby Chic, Collage, Graphic, Eclectic
April 9, 16, 23 and 30 - 9:00PM ET
New
Class Offering!
The
Art and Importance of Journaling
April 10 and 17 - 9:00PM 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.)
New! Subscribe to
our Podcast through iTunes! Learn how on our forum.
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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Life
Moments Crop and Chat
Tuesday, April 1st - 9:00PM
ET
Join April
Showers in Chat Room #1 for the next installment of
our Life Moments Chat and Crop!
This week, we will scrap and chat about your
favorite room in your house. Do you have a cozy nook where you
like to read, or is your favorite spot wherever your computer
is? You can focus on your favorite spot any home you’ve
lived in - or even your dream home. Looking forward to seeing
you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April
2nd -
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 April 2, we'll do a black and white challenge! Create a layout
using black and white - either black and white papers and elements,
or black and white photos, but not both!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
Textile
Inspiration Chat & Crop
Wednesday, April 2nd
- 9:00PM ET
Join me, Launa,
for a Textile Challenge and Crop. We will meet the first Wednesday
of each month at 9pm EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Do the paterns, textures, and colors of textiles facinate you?
Do you get inspiration from anything from pillows to your grandmothers
apron? Then this challenge is for you! A few hours before the
challenge begins, I'll post a textile for you to use as the starting
point for your page. You may be inspired by the colors, placement
of patterns, textures... just let it be your inspiration!
I can't wait to see what you come up with! See you there!
NSBR
Chat - Early Edition!
Thursday, April 3rd
- 1:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking
and usually chocolate. It’s a great chance to meet new
friends, catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax!
If you have a problem, we’ll lend an ear or a shoulder
to cry on. Have some great news to share? We’d love to
celebrate with you. So, join me, Shari (PV
Mom of 2), on April 3rd, at 1 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat
Room! Hope to see you there!
NSBR
Chat
Monday, April 7th -
9:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking
related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking.
It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what
everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we’ll
lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to
share? We’d love to celebrate with you. So, join us, Carla
(crs) and Carol Ann (Zaz),
on April 7th, at 9 PM EST, in the NSBR Chat Room! Hope to see
you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 9th
-
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 April 9, we'll do a pastel challenge! Create a layout using
pastels!
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!
New
Member Chat
Tuesday, April 15th
- 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 Live Chat button above, you will
need JavaScript enabled to access the chat room.
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April
Events
April Board Game: Who Am I?
In honor of the month that starts the silliest
way possible... it's time to get our silliness on! This month
we'll be getting to know some silly and little known facts
about our Scrap Girls Team Members as we play a rousing game
of "Who Am I?" Every
day, a member of the Welcoming Committee will post a fact about
one of the ScrapGirls Team Members and ask, "Who Am I?" A
new fact will be added daily until someone correctly guesses
which team member is being described. Once a team member is
correctly guessed, a new team member will be featured starting
the following day.
Team Members include anyone featured on
the "About
Us" page of the ScrapGirls website including Product
Design Team, Layout Artist Team, Welcoming Committee, etc.
Answers to the “Who Am I?” puzzles can be found
anywhere on the ScrapGirls site... including Gallery Layouts,
team member bios, Boutique Layouts, etc.
If you are the first
to guess one of the team members correctly you will win a $5
Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Remember you
may only win ONCE during the monthly message board game. We
want as many people to win prizes as possible!
April Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: Say "Yes" to life! With springtime
arriving here in the northern hemisphere, now is a good time
to scrap the new life that is around you. Your subject might
be new plants, baby animals, new babies, or even a new life
in God. Post your layout about the new life around you to
the April Monthly contest gallery before Midnight (EST) on
April 30th and you could win $10 to the Scrap Girls 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 and win a $25 Gift Certificate
to the Scrap Girls Boutique, 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.
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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Playtime Has Arrived
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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In this issue:
-
What's New
in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Designer Do-Over: Brandy Murry
- 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 Keri Schueller
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Created for you
by Keri Schueller
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 Thao Cosgrove 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
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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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