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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.
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Name of designer: Amy Lemaniak
Name of layout: My Dream
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Dreams
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Another Typewriter
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to give my word art on my layout a grunge effect. To
do that, I stamped Keri’s Inspired Brush Set onto a new
layer. I then switched to the Eraser Tool and selected one of Brandie
Valenzuela’s
Grungelle Brushes, adjusted the size and then stamped it a few
times on my word art layer. This gave me just the right amount of grunge
effect that I was going for.
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Name of designer: Pat Bowman
Name of layout: College Dreams
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Dreams
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to use the photo cluster in one of the ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Frame It! Edgy 2, but the orientation of the main frame was
landscape, and I needed it to be portrait. To change the orientation,
I rotated the canvas 90 degrees clockwise and then dragged the photo
cluster frames onto my canvas, positioning it where I wanted it.
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Name of designer: Jennifer Okonek
Name of layout: Dream Come True
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Dreams
Other Ingredients:
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Name of designer: Kara Swanson
Name of layout: Endless Wonders
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Dreams
Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I used Melissa Renfro’s Photo Basics for PSE to achieve the
photo effect I wanted – something dramatic yet muted. It was
so easy!
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...
Darts
Another Scrap Girls favorite! You won't want to miss
this one... Check out the Message Board for details and the game!
Already Running...
Check out our Mischief Week Forum (Scrap Girls
Message Board> Fun and Games> Events> Mischief Week 2008)
on our Message Board for all the details on these great games. And
don't miss the random games that are popping up all over the place...
it IS Mischief Week, after all!
Scrap Girl Guess Who (Baby Game)
The team members below have given us a glimpse of their
past. Can you guess who is who? Take a peek at these cuties in this
special Mischief Week Gallery: Gallery> Special
Events, Challenges and Contests> Mischief
Week 2008> Baby
Game Gallery.
If you want to take a go at it send an email to [email protected].
You can only submit only one entry! All entries are due by Tuesday
at 11:59 PM EST. To ensure that everyone who sends an email is accounted
for, please make a post in the appropriate thread on the message board
(Scrap Girls Message Board> Fun and Games> Events> Mischief
Week 2008> Baby Game Information, ScrapGirl Guess Who)
stating that you have sent your answers in to us.
Entries should use
the following format please: Baby Game - UserName in the subject
line. In the body of the email, type your real name and your User
Name, followed by a numerical list of your guesses. For example:
1. Brandie Valenzuela 2. Anna Mansfield, etc.
Baby ScrapGirls: Amanda
Sok - AmandaFace, Amy Lemaniak
- TysMommy, Angela Nussbaum - angelaNussbaum,
Angie Campbell - AngRoCamp, Anna
Mansfield - anna, April Martell
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April Showers, Ariadna Wiczling
- scrapariadna, Brandie Valenzuela
- brandiev, Carla Shute - CRS,
Carol Ann Petersen - Zaz, Christy
VanderWall - ChristyVW, Danna DeMars
- scrappylibrarian, Dee-Ann Decker
- DDecker,
Diane Miller - dinny, Jan Hicks
- ScrappingForever, Janine Buckles
- J9Buckles, Katherine Weaver - KatherineW,
Kelly Favor-Chronister - KellyChron,
Launa Valente - Launa, Marnie Adams
- sprinklz, Mary
Elizabeth O'Toole - NS_Scrapper,
Melanie Johnson - MelJohnson, Pat
Barnes - PBarnes, Rozanne Paxman
- Ro, Shari Payne - PV_Mom_of_2,
Sheri Johnson - Paperdoll Scraps,
Theresa Kavouras - wxchic, Valerie
Randall - varanda
Now for the best part...
PRIZES! Scrap Girls will give away a Collection Biggie and recognition
in Saturday Newsletter to the person with the most correct answers,
a Collection to the first runner up, and a Collection Mini to the
second runner up! How is that for generous? Have FUN! and GOOD
LUCK! (...You're going to need it!)
-
Boutique Bingo. Details for this one are on the Message
Board. You can win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls
Boutique!
-
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. Check them out in Friday's
newsletter or on the message board!
-
Boutique Scavenger Hunt. Check out Friday's newsletter
at http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/Chit_Chat_080425_Fri_Scissors.htm if
you missed the rules on it. There's an automatic $10 Gift Certificate
prize available, as well as three other Gift Certificate opportunities!
-
Whack-A-Valerie. Check out Thursday'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
A Designer's Life: Kerry
Veale
Some of My Favorite Things
As designers at Scrap Girls, we are occasionally asked to write an
essay about ourselves for the newsletter. It feels a bit uncomfortable
to me, as I think it is more interesting to learn about other people,
than to talk about myself. (That's one reason I love talking to you
on the Scrap Girls message boards!) So, I thought I'd share a few of
my favorite things; perhaps they will give you a little glimpse of
me.
Favorite Color: Dutch blue
Favorite Flowers: Hydrangeas and roses.
I love the David Austin English roses which have been bred from the
old-fashioned garden roses and modern tea roses, and combine the best
form, fragrance and repeat blooming from each. And, of course, raindrops
on roses.
Favorite Sounds: My family laughing together, the grandfather
clock with its Westminster chimes, birds chirping in the spring, the
garage door opening when my husband returns home late at night from
a long day's work, my son's voice on the answering machine singing
happy birthday to me, my daughter singing in her sweet, clear soprano.
Favorite
Music: Bach, Vivaldi, Andrea Bocelli, Bonnie Rait, The Cars, Beau Soleil.
I still occasionally enjoy some of the bands that were popular when
I was a teenager, like the Eagles, James Taylor, the Carpenters, Cat
Stevens, the soundtrack from the Sound of Music. And, I have loved
hymns my entire life.
Favorite Beverage on Cold Days: Stash Chai Spice
tea sweetened with stevia, with a dollop of whipped cream on top.
Favorite
Movies: Any Jane Austen movie, any Anne of Green Gables movie, Vanity
Fair, the Sound of Music, Miss Potter, Marie Antoinette. If it has
period clothing, old houses and expansive fields of green, then I love
it!
Favorite Sound of Music Memory: In my teens, when left at home alone,
I would walk over to the large cabinet stereo in our lime-green carpeted
living room, slide the Sound of Music LP out of its worn cardboard
cover, place it on the turn table and then sing along with all of the
volume a skinny, little girl with a "choir voice" could
muster. My favorite song at the time was, "I Have Confidence," perhaps
because I didn't have much at the time. But, I felt invincible as I
sang along with Julie Andrews!
Favorite Social Place Available 24/7: The Scrap Girls message board.
Favorite Textures (real, not virtual): My son's buzz-cut, the soft and fuzzy microfiber used for robes and
baby blankets, my dog's velvety soft ears.
Favorite Lullaby I Sang to
My Children: All Through the Night.
Favorite Outings: Craft classes
and antiquing trips with my friend Karen, my children's games and performances,
lunch/dinner out with my husband.
Favorite Authors: Any mystery writer.
Right now, I'm reading Jane and the Barque of Frailty by Stephanie
Barron (Stephanie Barron's mysteries featuring Jane Austen are well-researched,
well-written, and footnoted).
Favorite Smells: Homemade bread baking,
puppy breath, freshly bathed babies, blooming jasmines, Evelyn rose,
ocean breezes.
Best Day of My Life: May 2, 1981 – marrying my
sweetheart.
Favorite Foods: Mexican and Italian
Favorite Little Known Fact About
Me: I wrote a romance novel. A New York editor for one of the main
romance lines actually read it and sent me a very nice rejection letter.
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Kerry
Favorite product I've designed:
Always and Forever Collection
Always and Forever was designed to celebrate those we love on any
occasion throughout the year. I used many of my favorite design elements
in it: antique books, many pieces from my personal collection of antique
paper, flowers from my garden, lace and stitching, and rhinestones.
I love how well it coordinates with products in my Sherbert palette
as well as products from other Scrap Girls designers.
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ScrapSimple Club Concepts
The ScrapSimple club contains items that allow YOU to decide the colors
and looks you will end up for your digital scrapbooking designs because
the ScrapSimple products are completely customizable. You get all the
products shown above, a $19.15 value, for $6.99 or less! And if you
would like to create designs to share or sell, there's even a commercial
club available! Plus, each month we will help you find new ways
to use your club contents to the fullest with this article full of
ideas, tips, and projects to get your creativity going!
April’s Scrap
Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Erica Hite
and Sarah Batdorf. Their club is full of fun products
that can help you get creative in amazing ways. Let’s look
a little closer and see what ideas we can come up with for this club.
Layout ideas:
- Use the tree template from ScrapSimple
Paper Templates: Family Branch to document reading a favorite
nature story, like The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
- Family portraits will look good with any of these paper templates
or frames.
- Use the word art from the Brush
Set: Fabricated to create Family Reunion pages.
- The leaf and tree paper templates would make great backgrounds
for landscape layouts.
- Create a woodland-themed background that may be used to archive
your family tree.
- Make a page talking about what you have observed in nature lately.
- Or you could use the tree template from ScrapSimple Paper Templates:
Family Branch for an African themed layout, like a safari
or something. It woudl look great as a silhouette of an African
acacia in the savanna.
- How about using the hinged frame embellishments to do a layout
about your parents' love story... how they met, where he proposed,
etc.
- The tree and the leaf border from ScrapSimple Paper Templates:
Family Branch can be used for layouts
of fall or the forest.
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Embellishment ideas:
- Use the hinges from ScrapSimple
Embellishment Templates: Archived to attach elements to each other
or the background.
- Use the hinges from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Archived to
create a series of hinged journaling plaques.
- Use the hinges and frames from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates:
Archived or the hinges and the plaques from ScrapSimple
Layer Your Own Brushes: Word Panels - Curves to make a mini
book.
- Also, those little labels would be perfect to use on the tree to
make a labeled, custom family tree. This would be great if you have
an unconventional family system!
- The fabric paper template from ScrapSimple
Paper Templates: Family Room can be used to apply some
texture to a frame, a tag, a photo matte...
- Use the journaling blocks from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates:
Archived to make abstract background shapes.
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Card and Printable ideas:
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Archived to make Christmas ornaments. Print out
separate frame layers and place a picture between them.
- The ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Word Panels - Curves could
be used to create name tags to print out for presents or table decorations.
- Or, use ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Word Panels - Curves to
print a decorative return
address label on an envelope.
Mini Tutorial: How to Make Your own Photo
Frame
- Open a new document and place the Scrap Simple Paper Template
Family Room Floral on it.
- Open your picture; move and resize the template above to see
which part of it you want to use as your frame.
- Select this part of the template that you want to use with the
Lasso Tool. Select> Inverse and Delete the part of
the template that you don’t need.
- Duplicate the template layer to have four different layers.
Rotate and flip them with Edit> Transform to have a
frame all around the picture. Merge the four layers.
- With the Lasso Tool again, choose the different parts of the
template that you want to color differently. Right-click on
the selection and use "Layer via Cut". In my layout, I have three
different layers.
- Color the layers, play with the Blend Modes or apply a
different style on them. I have colored the parts of the flowers
pink and yellow with the Blend Mode set to "Screen" and "Overlay"
and applied Erica Hite’s Punch Out Style on one layer.
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We hope this article gives you some ideas to get you
scrapping! We’d love to see what you come up with. There’s
even a special
gallery available for you to show off your Club creations and inspire
each other, so start creating!
Have fun!
Online Classes Available
All of our Online Training Classes are currently full.
Please check back soon for more exciting learning opportunities!
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.
Scheduled Mischief Week
Events!
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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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
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, May 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 grandmother's
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
Monday, May 5th - 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 me, Carla
(crs), on May 5th, at 9
PM EST, in Room #1! Hope to see you there!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, May 7th -
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!
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!
Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, May 8th - 9:00PM
ET
Join me, sprinklz,
for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, May 8th at 9pm ET
in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start
on your layouts? Then this challenge is for you! A few hours
before the challenge begins, I'll post a sketch for you to use
as the starting point for your page.
You can be inspired by the
basic arrangement, the amount of photos, or copy it literally.
All interpretations are welcome and encouraged! Looking forward
to seeing you there!
We'll be meeting in the "00_Room_1" room
of the chat. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link.
Once you are in the lobby, click on the "Show Rooms" button
(on the upper left), then select "00_Room_1" from
the list on the left side.
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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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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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Some of My Favorite Things
Monday, April 28, 2008
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In this issue:
- 21.9% Off Mischief Week Sale!
- Cute
Stuff
- Mischief Week Events
- A Designer's Life: Brandy Hackman
- ScrapSimple Club Concepts
- 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 $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
larger
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
larger
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 & 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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