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I just have to do it. I have to run a sale and spoil you a little bit
during Mischief Week. And so - even though we just barely had a sale
and I knew Valerie might get annoyed with me - I decided to ignore her
advice... Because it is Mischief Week and I have to do some mischief.
I decided that not only would I run a sale, I would run the biggest
sale we have had so far this year. (Neener, neener, neeeeeener...! Put
that in your hat and run around the block with it, Valerie!)
So hop right on it. I don't know when they are going to let me get away
with this kind of sale again. Almost everything
in the Scrap Girls Boutique is 21.9% off! But you know how it goes,
I do have to turn it off soon, so here’s your warning: It
will be over at Midnight, MDT, April 30th.
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.
Mischief Week Continues...
New for Today...
Moss Fairy Treasure Hunt
Be a star and win this treasure hunt! The winner will
get a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique. The rules are
simple...
- Use the clues to find the correct products in the Scrap Girls Boutique.
You will know when you have located them because you will see this
Moss Fairy image on the product details page.
- Send the EXACT product name and the link where the product is found
to [email protected].
Use the subject line: Moss
Fairy for your
email entry, and include your messageboard name and real
name.
- Everyone that gets the correct answers to ALL of the questions
in by Midnight, Wednesday, April 30th, MDT will be entered
into a drawing to win the prize.
- You'll need your keyboard to use this.
- This
is named after someone's best friend.
- Lovely pain
- Ummm....
Yummy!
- Not dirty
- If you are stylish, you are....
- Ahoy, maties!
- Over the hill
- Don't get wet!
- I'm hungry. What
do we have to eat?
Boutique Scavenger Hunt
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Scattered throughout the Scrap Girls boutique are all of
these items that Launa is dreaming about. Find the product page that
each item is shown on, and make note of each item's product page's
name and link.
Send your guesses for this game to [email protected].
Use the subject line: Boutique Scavenger Hunt for your email
entry, and include your message board name and real name.
You have until Wednesday,
April 30th at midnight (MDT) to enter.
The game board has several items
on it (including the background). Now don't panic! You don't have to
find them all to play the game. (Whew!) But anyone who DOES get them
all correct will automatically win a $10 Gift Certificate! No
problem. You've got it. This means more than one person can win a $10
gift certificate. (Anyone this motivated deserves a prize!) The winners
of these gift certificates can get in on the rest of the game, too!
For all players:
- If you get 15 or more correct answers, you will be entered into
a drawing for a $25 Gift Certificate!
- If you get 10-15 correct answers, you will be entered into a drawing
for a $10 Gift Certificate!
- If you get 5-9 correct answers, you will be entered into a drawing
for a $5 Gift Certificate!
Does that sound possible? Hope so!
Already Running...
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Whack-A-Valerie. Check
out yesterday's newsletter at http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/Chit_Chat_080424_Thurs_Mischief.htm if
you missed the rules on it. You can win a $10 Gift Certificate
for this one!
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Never-ending Story. This is happening on the
message board right now. Check the Scrap Girls Message
Board> Fun and Games> Events> Mischief
Week 2008.
- Posting Contest. A favorite at Scrap Girls! The top 10 posters
for the week will win a prize, so get to it!
What else is happening this
week?
Make sure you check the schedule below for upcoming Crops
and Classes. We are having loads of them and there will be surprises
in each one. (Lots of mischief going on!)
We will be having all sorts of games and fun on the message
board, too. You’ll want to keep peeking in the board so you will
know what is going on. So stay alert... Mischief Week means there is
going to be all sorts of silliness and opportunities to win prizes!
See ya on the message board!
- Ro
Life Muses by Ro: Scissors
Note from Ro: Did you know that Scrap Girls has a cool new blog called Scrap Girls Digital Scrapbooking Adventures? If you haven't checked it out yet, you should. It is full of neat posts from our design team about their lives (including our world traveler, Moss). You’ll get to know them a lot better. I just had to show you the post by Shalae Tippetts. It cracked me up because I’ve personally dealt with this issue before.
I have to admit that I am probably a lot more lenient than most moms
when it comes to my children's use of scissors and other arts and crafts
media. Being creative and an artist I've always wanted to encourage
these skills in my children.
I also taught elementary art, and just could not believe how many of
my kindergarten students couldn't even hold a pair of scissors let
alone use them properly to cut things. It was a challenge, and I promised
myself that my kids would go to school knowing how to cut out paper.
You
can find these scissors and other art supplies available in the craft
drawers in our computer room/office. Now this has come back to haunt
me, and you would think I would make it even slightly harder to make
them attainable. The scariest thing that I heard come from my daughters
mouth was a proud exclamation of "Mom! Look! I cut Mirian's hair!" She
was so proud of herself for her ability, and was quite shocked and
felt bad at mom's surprise outcry of "Oh No! What have you done!" I
never thought I would find myself crying at something like this, but
I did. I cried when I saw her hair. It was butched in every direction,
right up to her scalp. It had taken an entire year to finally get her
hair long enough for a small ponytail on top and little curls at the
bottom, and now it looked horrible.
It took some explaining to Savannah
why this was not a good thing to do, and how we never do this. Only
mom or people that are trained to cut hair are allowed to cut hair.
Well I guess I didn't learn the first time. A couple of weeks ago I heard a similar statement... "Mom! Mirian is cutting her hair!" I rushed into the other room expecting to find a haircut like her previous sibling haircut. Her hair has grown a lot longer this time, and I came to find that she had cut both sides up to her ears and left the back long since she couldn't reach it.
I breathed a sigh of relief that at least this cut was workable, but it required another talking and lesson about who is allowed to cut hair. She's now sporting a more shorter pixie cut, the best that mom could do based on her lack of hair cutting training.
Have I learned my lesson yet? Nope not yet. I guess I keep thinking hair grows back. Plus I enjoy too much seeing my little girls get excited about creating something from their own little minds as they cut, tape and glue paper together to create little masterpieces.
- Shalae Tippetts
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: Taking Apart ScrapSimple Paper Templates
Note: Tutorial Created Using Photoshop CS3 on a PC.
There are exciting things to do with ScrapSimple Paper Templates. Each series of templates has different characteristics. Some templates are re-colored best using a single color, while others provide many more possibilities. Those templates which have distinct color variations, such as black and white, work best for the digital scrapbooking technique I will show you.
Using the Leaf Flourish template from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Victorian Scalloperoo, I’m going to show you how to take it apart so that you can add more detail to your design.
The Magic Wand will be your good friend for this technique. You can either choose it in the tool bar on the left side of your screen, or simply hit the letter W on your keyboard and you will have access to the basic Magic Wand tool. When you choose it, you will have a few boxes at the top of your screen. You will check or uncheck those boxes depending on how you want to use the tool.
I want to select all of the white portions of my template. To do this, I will make sure that the “Contiguous” box is unchecked and click on any white portion of the template. When I do this, marching ants appear around all of the white parts of the template. At this point, I can copy and paste this selection if I wish to have it on a new layer or I can simply manipulate it right there. I like to copy and paste, as that leaves the original layer untouched. You can see the marching ants in the image below.
In order to select only the portion of white that is in the leaf border, I check the Contiguous box, hold down the Alt key and click in the large white space. Holding down the Alt key and using any selection tool will allow you to subtract from a selection.
Now that I have only the large white portion selected, I will add a couple of templates from the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Office Use Only into that area as an overlay. There are a few ways to do this. I like to invert the selection by clicking Shift + I. I then drag the overlay into position by using the Move tool and holding down Shift as I drop it onto the page. This causes the overlay to fit into place in the same position it held before. Now, I hit Delete and the area that I don’t want will be gone and I’m left with the selection from the large white area.
I still have the large white area of the template selected in the middle. I need to increase the selection by a few pixels to ensure that the entire white area is covered. Go to Select>Modify>Expand and put in 3 pixels. You will have increased the size of your selection just slightly. Next, I create a new layer and hit Shift+F5 to fill that area with the soft pink color I’ve chosen.
At this point, if you continue having the pink layer on top, you will begin covering up some of the detail in the template with pink. We want to have the pink beneath the detail. I recommend creating a duplicate layer of the template. Go to the Layers Palette, right-click on the template layer and select duplicate layer. A dialogue will pop up asking you if you want a duplicate, click yes and Photoshop will create a duplicate of the template.
Now that you have a duplicate of the template, it is safe to make changes to the top layer of the template. Again, using your Magic Wand, select all of the areas of white in the template. (Remember to uncheck the Contiguous box so that you can select all of the white.) Click Delete. The white is gone and you are left with the black frame. In the Layers Palette, move the black frame above the pink layer. It will look like this in your Layers Palette.
You are now ready to color the leaf shapes. Go to your original template and use the Magic Wand to select all of the white. Check the Contiguous box and with the Magic Wand tool and while holding down the Alt key click inside the large white portion. Notice that now only the leaves are selected.
Once again, you will need to modify the size of the selection, expanding it again as you did before. After you modify your selection, create a new layer and fill the layer with the color you’ve chosen. I chose a soft aqua to complement the pink.
Next, I hit Ctrl+U to bring up the Hue/Saturation dialogue box. While the black frame portion of the template is active, I move the lightness slider all the way to the right to make that layer white. Notice how the whole paper is softened up.
I want to have a bit more definition to the white portion. While holding down the Ctrl key, click on the template frame layer, now white, to select it. Add a light stroke to this selection to define the white just a bit – Edit>Stroke. I select a dark gray for the color and choose 3 pxs for the stroke size. Make sure you click the “inside” option so that the stroke will form inside of your selection. Here is the result. A lightly defined white border surrounds the soft aqua.
Finally, I will add a bit more texture to the pink portion of my paper. I will use a template from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Office Use Only, Gossip Mill. Since I want the texture to be a part of only the pink portion of my paper, I will place it one layer above the pink layer and hit Ctrl+Alt+G to create a mask that allows only the part inside the pink layer to show.
Finally, I need to color the two overlay templates that I have chosen to get the finished look. For the Gossip Mill template, I choose a soft aqua color to fill the template with color and reduce the opacity to 32%. To fill the template, choose the color you want by setting the foreground color to your choice. Ctrl+click inside that template layer to select it and then click Shift+F5 to fill.
For the floral template, select that template’s layer in the Layers Palette. I chose a strawberry color. This time, rather than filling it with color, I bring up the Hue/Saturation dialogue box by hitting Ctrl+U and choose the Colorize option. This allows me to play with the saturation and lightness levels to achieve just the look I want.
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Scheduled Mischief Week Events!
Friday, April 25
- 10:00AM ET - Color Challenge
- 1:00PM ET - Mess or Masterpiece Challenge
- 4:00PM ET - Swap Crop
- 7:00PM ET - Build your own Pizza Challenge
- 9:00PM ET - Customer Challenge
Saturday, April 26
- 9:00AM ET - Color Challenge
- 10:00AM ET - Wacky Scraplift Crop
- 4:00PM ET - Free Mini Class: Photo Montage
- 8:00PM ET - Cram the Chat Room!
- 9:00PM ET - Guess the Baby
- 10:00PM ET - Pajama Party
Sunday, April 27
- 5:00PM ET - Quote Challenge
- 7:00PM ET - ATC Swap Crop
- 9:00PM ET - Free Mini Class: Recoloring
Monday, April 28
- 4:00PM ET - Free Mini Class: Quick and Easy Photo Enhancements
- 5:00PM ET - Get Creative with Photos Crop/Chat
- 8:00PM ET - Free Mini PSE Class - Silly Portraits from Photos
- 9:00PM ET - Desktop Challenge
Tuesday, April 29
- 12:00 Noon ET - Freebie Challenge
- 4:00PM ET - "Up to Mischief" crop
- 8:00PM ET - Oddball Trivia & Mischevious Facts
- 9:00PM ET - Crazy Ad Challenge
Wednesday, April 30
- 12:00 Noon ET - High Noon Chat
- 1:00PM ET - NSBR Chat
- 8:00PM ET - Zaz & Shari's Sensational Scrap Girls Adventure
- 9:00PM ET - Hodgepodge Sketch Challenge
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April
Swap Crop Chat
Friday, April 25th
- 4:00PM ET
It's time for the Swap Crop Chat! We've
done the swapping, and created the layouts, now it's time to
chat about all the gorgeous layouts! I don't know what it is,
but these swaps bring out the best in everyone. This is the
time to chat about the theme, the beautiful layouts and learn
about the swap crop if you haven't participated before. I'll
even reveal the theme for next month! Join me, Carla (crs)
for a fun chat.
ATC
Swap Crop
Sunday, April 27th
- 7:00PM
ET
Please join me, Pat Bowman, in the chat
room for our monthly ATC Swap Crop and Chat at 7:00 PM. This
month's theme will be SONGS. You can interpret that theme in
any way you see fit! You can be serious or quirky - whatever
you decide!! If you are a beginner and don't think you can
play because you don't know how - think again. We welcome newcomers
and will be glad to show you the ropes. Remember, the only
real rules for ATCs are that they must be sized 2.5 x 3.5 inches.
Let's have some fun!
Quote
Challenge Crop
Sunday, April 27th
- 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!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 30th
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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 April 30, we'll do a "Push yourself" challenge! Create
a layout that really pushes your personal style - either something
you've never done before, or a layout that is very much your
style - just INTENSELY your style!
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!
NSBR Chat
Wednesday, April 30th
-1:00PM
ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything! It’s a great way to meet new people and get to know everyone. Catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have any questions, we'll try to answer them. So, join me, Launa for some fun on April 30th, at 1 PM EST, in the Chat Room! Hope to see you there!
NSBR Chat *Early Edition*
Thursday, May 1st
-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 May 1st, at 1 PM EST, in Chat Room #001!
Hope to see you there!
Textile Inspiration Chat/Crop
Friday, April 2nd
- 9:00PM
ET
Join Launa & Zaz, 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!
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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-April
Layout Contest: Everybody’s life needs a little
silliness in it. For the mid-month contest, we want you to
scrap something silly. It could be photos of your kids, pets
or yourself doing something silly, a practical joke you played
on someone, or a silly story. Post your layout sharing something
silly by midnight on May 14th and you might win $10 to the
Scrap Girls 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
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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.)
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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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Friday, April 25, 2008
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In this issue:
- 21.9% Off Mischief Week Sale!
- What's New in the Scrap
Girls Boutique?
- Mischief Week Events
- Life Muses by Ro
- Tutorial: Taking Apart ScrapSimple Paper Templates
- 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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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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the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking looks
while saving! (A $26.93 value for $9.99 or less!)
The Scrap Girls Club contents
are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business
day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you
will receive:
Layout by Keri Schueller
using April's Scrap Girls Club
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view
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:
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1 ScrapSimple Paper Templates Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template
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1 Brush Set
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1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
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1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple
club is also available here.
Layout by Erica Hite using
April's ScrapSimple Club
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view
Created for you
by Erica Hite and Sarah Batdorf
If you prefer not to join a club,
the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices in
the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking the What's
New? section of the Boutique.
(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents
are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices
once the associated club month is released. But all club contents
are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for each
month!) |
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Educational Products
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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*NEW!* MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions
6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
MORE
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements
versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 & 5.0
It's time for you to stop playing
catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more
advanced tricks that you see other people and professional
digital scrapbookers doing.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to
creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest
mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create
layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple products.
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Dip your digital scrapbooking self into
some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there
waiting in your software for you to use such as paths,
masks, the drawing pen, and more.
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See how easy it is to install and manage
new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you
can make things that are creative and unique.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools
that you already know and love.
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Watch me make some beautiful papers and
get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear...
That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind
to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside
of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside
of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
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See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm
betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used
to do that with, too...)
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Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets.
(You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets
frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this
trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all
along.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so important
to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background
or a photo.
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And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning
tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used
Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself
in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have
to understand layers, where things are located, and all of
the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed series before you try
to use it. |
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Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! |
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Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop)
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Are you wishing you could learn
how to scrapbook digitally, but feeling kind of intimated by it?
These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll
see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why
she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic
movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having
Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons.
You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook
Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts
using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that
digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for printing
or sharing them with your friends and family over the internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent
embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to
look like they are "real"
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing
techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment
or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve
or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded
edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make
digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments
on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital
paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such
as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos
to sepia
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And lots more!
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Mastering Brushes |
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Mastering Brushes for
Photoshop Elements
This ebook was created from the popular online class Creative
Brushwork. It is perfect for the scrapbooker who wants
to go above and beyond the basic brushing techniques taught
in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop
Elements. Make your layouts shine with the polish that
advanced brushwork can bring!
Photoshop
version also available! |
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The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins |
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If you're at all curious about
filters and plug-ins, then The Beginners Guide to Filters
and Plug-ins for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (Windows) is what you need! This 70 page ebook contains everything
you need to know to get started - what they are, what they do,
how to set up your computer, where to find them, how to get
them into your software, and more.
Paint
Shop Pro (PSP) version also available! |
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Digital Photography Simplified |
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Digital Photography Simplified
eBook: This eBook (full of easy to understand information
and photographic examples) is tailored to the beginning digital
photographer who wants to take better photos. More advanced
photographers will also benefit from this eBook with the sections
that get you out of your comfort zone.
So get ready to turn that dial away from AUTO and start taking
extraordinary photos! |
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Ten Beginner Tips on Type |
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If you're creating a digital scrapbooking layout, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be using type on your pages somewhere. But did you know that type can make or break your page? What typeface will you use? What size font? Where will you place it on your page?
If you want to take some beginner steps towards improving the type on your layouts, and thereby improving the overall look of your layouts, then this eBook is perfect for you. It's written in a very simple style, focusing on one digitally scrapbooked layout while walking you through ten tips that take type from mundane and awkward to eye-catching and cohesive. |
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Scrapbook Secrets for Microsoft Word |
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Look here to see all
of the things that you will learn with Scrapbook Secrets for
Microsoft Word, as it has a different set of benefits. |
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Start to Finish eBooklets |
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Start
to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page | |
