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Jump in! The shopping's fine. And with 17.8%
off until Midnight, May 31st, MDT, you'll be making a splash
with beautiful, new pages created with all your new goodies! Don't
miss out on this one, unless you want to be all wet!
What's New in the Scrap Girls
Boutique?
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If you have praise, comments,
or questions for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know
you can send them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's
easy!
If you are a registered user
of the message board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom
of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more
of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap
Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Life Muses by Ro: Try Something Else
Try something else if that doesn’t work.
I came up with the idea for this muse and then began sifting through
my memories, looking for just the right one to illustrate my point.
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My
first story is about our favorite dog, Gidget, and her determination
to dig out from under our chain link fence no matter what barrier we
put in front of it. She wanted to experience life on the other side
of that fence and would not be held back. We, in turn, kept trying
various tricks to keep her in the yard.
At last, Gidget determined that
she preferred staying in the yard and quit trying to run away. Consequently,
we stopped locking her in the yard. She had all of the freedom she
wanted and yet she used her freedom to remain at home.
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My next thought
I’ll tell you is about my daughter, Julianne.
She is a very determined soul who is quite convincing when making arguments
meant to persuade you that you need to give her what she wants. If
she is told no, she will regroup and will come at you from a different
angle. Another “no” just means that she will put her talents
toward discovering a different means of persuasion.
I used to tell Julianne
that she ought to be a lawyer. She now says she wishes to be a
child psychologist. Since she has personally used all of the excuses
a child can dream up, this might be a successful endeavor. It will
be difficult for a child to get anything by her.
After considering my
story of Julianne, I have decided that it doesn’t
illustrate my point well enough. I need to come up with something more
relevant.
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It occurs to me to tell you about my son, James. Like Gidget,
he spent most of his formative years trying to climb under the family
fence and escape what he considered a less than adequate situation.
(He’s
adopted, doesn’t care for it, and had the attitude for many
years that if he had to be adopted, then he had lost the ‘adoption
lotto’ by being placed with our family.) Because he doesn’t
look like his dad and me, he decided to pretend that he wasn’t
our son.
For ten years, his friends didn’t realize that we were
his parents. Because they are all Latino and because he is tall, dark
and handsome, they thought he was Latino, too. He didn’t do anything
to clear up their confusion because he was trying to run away from
home without actually leaving us. In fact, over time he became so involved
in this false life of his that I had to pull out his birth certificate
and remind him who his birth mother declared him to be.
“There
is no shame in being Caucasian, James,” I said. “You
have to accept who you are.”
Those were frustrating years for
everyone. We tried to keep him involved in the family, to eat dinner
with us, to go places with us, but he always declined. We had multiple
holiday dinners and family events without him because he wouldn’t
show up.
But then, he moved out. He had to start dealing with the realities
of adult life. He found himself coming home and asking his dad and
mom what to do about this... or that... or something else....
Unexpectedly,
I have begun discovering James in the family room, sprawled out on
the floor watching TV with his brother and dad. (The siren song of
the new TV was too strong for him, I suppose.) And then, I stumbled
upon him setting up shelves in the storage room... and putting
things on those shelves... and heard him advise me about the advantages
of having the shelves be of certain heights rather than other heights.
And then, miracle of miracles, after a seven year absence, he chose
to eat Sunday dinner with the family.
I opened the gate to let him go,
but the boy discovered, in his freedom, that he preferred his home
and family.
People are unique. Circumstances are different. Don’t
try to pound your square peg into a diamond-shaped hole. Just wait
awhile. Life has a way of knocking off the fourth corner on its own
and then the peg will fit in just fine. Sometimes, the best thing to
try when we are faced with a difficult situation is to simply wait
it out while repeating, “This, too, shall pass.”
I have
now given you multiple examples of the main theme of this particular
muse. But, more importantly, you have seen me stop and start again
multiple times as I attempted to explain to you that even if your first
few attempts are awkward or failures, if the end goal is worth having,
keep trying... just
keep trying.
- Ro
Note from Ro: Would
you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate, too? Send your own muse
to [email protected]. If it is selected for publication
in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have fun shopping!
Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts;
engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems, another
person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does not have
to agree with musings to enjoy them just as one does not have to be
the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.
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Note from Ro: Answer
a survey question and maybe you'll win a portable hard drive!
Okay blog and Scrap Girls newsletter fans...
I'm going to do a question survey in my blog and
then draw a name from the people who respond to the question
to see who wins this portable external hard drive. It
will be perfect to take with you when you go to crops, on vacation
or even perhaps, the Scrap
Girls Digital Scrap Link Convention in Salt Lake City this
October! (That is, if you hurry up and get one of the remaining
slots.) You can throw your photos and supplies on it you want
to use while you are away from home and then transfer them back
onto your bigger computer or storage media when you come back
again. Awesome!
Just enter your reply at the bottom of the blog
post and you'll be entered into the contest. You must give
me your email address (it won't be visible to blog viewers)
so that I can email you should you win. It would be best if
you subscribe to my blog because I will announce the winner
in it, and that will make sure you find out if you are the
winner!
Western Digital WDXMS1200TN Passport 120 GB USB 2.0 Portable
Hard Drive
QUESTION: How did you find
Scrap Girls?
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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: Shalae
Tippetts
My Original
Original by Shalae Tippetts
This is one of the first scrapbook layouts that I created
with an old digital kit. I look at it now and am overwhelmed by all
that pink and grey that is dominating the whole layout. It’s
just too much and the picture gets lost in all of it. I didn’t
mind the design aspect so much and decided to keep a similar feel in
my new layout. The photo also has a lot of blue tones in it and was
taken with a lower quality camera. This resulted in the picture showing
lots of noise and being more pixilated.
My Do Over
The first thing that I decided do is to readjust the photo. I have
another similar photo that I really like and want to add it to the
layout also. First, I adjust the variations of color on the photos
to create more realistic colors and lighting. I apply a slight Gaussian
blur to the photo to lessen the noise and pixels. I then adjust the
levels until I get a photo that is decent, despite the poor camera
it was taken with. I then add some Aged Photo Frames to finish the
photos.
Next, I chose lighter papers, as I want my pictures to be the focal
point of my digital scrapbook layout. I arrange the two photos on the
left side in a similar format to my earlier layout. I then add a strip
of paper and a ribbon going horizontal to mimic my horizontal lines
in the first layout. I choose papers and colors that will not be too
distracting or bold, taking away from the focal point of my photos.
I then add a few scrapbook embellishments to pull your eye to the
photos and to mimic the title and circles I had in my first layout.
I decide to add a different title, but place it in the same bottom
left-hand corner. I add a digital sticker to create an uneven cluster
with the photos. I need something to balance out these two embellishments
and decide to put a wrapped ribbon across the top of the large photo,
pulling the two photos together with the way the ribbon overlaps and
touches the bottom photo.
To finish it off, I put some very simple small
journaling across the top of the ribbon to create that additional horizontal
element that the earlier layout had a lot of. By keeping all of the
horizontal elements to a minimum, it puts the emphasis on my photos,
rather than the background. My finished layout is simple, clean and
puts the dominance on my cute little girl, rather than the harsh, bright
pink backgrounds of my original layout.
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May 27 and June 3 - 1:00PM ET
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June 6 and 27 - 4:00PM ET
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June 3 and 10 - 9:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
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You asked for it. You begged for it. You
demanded it. And now, we are pleased to announce that yes,
it is finally going to happen... Scrap Girls is having a digital
scrapbooking convention!
Here are the facts:
When: October 9-11th, 2008
- Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October
9th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 11th.
How many people may attend?
- Registration for our event has been open for just a few
weeks and we are already 71% sold out. Only
35 registration openings are still available. If
you wait too long to sign up, there is a chance you will
miss out on this awesome event. We don't want that to happen
to you, so sign up now!
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
Location: To-die-for historic building called
the "Officer's Club", located at historic Fort Douglas
UPDATE: Lynda Angelastro
and April Anderton from Digital Scrapbook Magazine have volunteered
to come! They are going to teach a class about how to get published,
and they are bringing goodies for our treat bags!
For more information, or to sign up, please visit our Scrap
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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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High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, May 28th
- 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 May 28, we'll do an embellishment challenge!
Create a layout using all of these elements: patterned paper,
photo corners and a brush! Use any brush you'd like, and embellishments
from any collection!
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 – Early Edition
Thursday, May 29th
- 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 29th, at 1 PM EST, in Chat Room #001!
Hope to see you there!
Swap
Crop Chat
Friday, May 30th
- 9:00PM 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, for a fun chat at 9PM
ET!
Pajama
Party
Saturday, May 31st
- 9:00PM ET
Join angelaNussbaum and scrappylibrarian for
the monthly Pajama Party. We will start the chat at 9PM and we
will party! So put on your pajamas, get your snacks together
and meet us in the chat room lobby. Oh, and of course there will
be scrapping and chocolate involved!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 4th
- 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 June 4, we'll do a 3-photo challenge! Create a layout using
3 photos, no more, no less!
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
Challenge Crop
Wednesday, June 4th - 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!
Aussie Chat Colour Chat
Monday, June 9th - 9:00PM
*Australian Eastern Standard Time*
Join Karen (Kazbar73)
for a Aussie Colour Chat and Challenge. Watch the boards on Monday
for the colour, then complete a layout and join me in the Live
Chat Lobby at 9PM Australian Eastern Standard Time. Hope to see
you there.
Let's
Leave Some Love Chat
Monday, June 9th - 1:00PM ET
Come join me (Launa)
and leave some love in the gallery. Bring a link to a layout
of your own that needs a little love and two links of layouts
that belong to someone else that need some love! Let's recognize
all that awesome talent we have out there! I'm sure at some point
chocolate will be discussed! So join me on Monday, June 9th at
1:00 EST in the Scrap Girls Chat Room! See ya there!!
High
Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 11th - 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 June 11, we'll do a favorite quote challenge! Create a layout
using a quote you love! Can be a famous quote, a quote from
an obscure poet or a quote from a child! Any quote will do!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special
High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done
in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room!
We hope you'll join us!
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May
Events
May Board Game: Bingo
It's that time again!
Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Message Board
Forum in May! Pick 25 words from the list provided in the forum
and send them in an e-mail to [email protected] with
a subject line saying "BINGO CARD" and including
your message board user name by Sunday, May 4th in order to
play in the first round, which will begin Monday May 5th. Each
day, members of the Welcoming Committee will call 5 random
words from the Bingo list. Match just 15 of those words to
win a BINGO. You must be first to call bingo in the forum to
win that round. After a winner is called, the boards can be
cleared and a new round will begin the following day. All winners
win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Boutique! We like to see lots
of winners, so please remember that each person can only win
one round during the month. Have fun!
If you miss the first
round cutoff date, you can still play! Just send in your Bingo
card at any time during the month and you'll be eligible to
begin playing when a new round starts. Everyone who sends in
a Bingo card will receive a confirmation email that their card
has been received. If you do not receive confirmation within
24 hours, please re-send your list of words. We cannot be held
responsible for misdirected emails.
May Layout Contests:
Layout
Contest: Life is short and passes us by in
a flash. Scrapbooking helps us remember the good times, and
the not-so-good times, too. We've all experienced loss in
our lives, but have you scrapped about that loss? For the
May Layout Contest, create a layout about someone or something
you've lost and remember the good times. Upload your layout
to the May Layout Contest Gallery and you could win a $10
Gift Certificate to the boutique! The contest runs until
May 31st, at midnight EST!
Mid-May Layout
Contest: In this crazy, busy world we live in, it's
hard to find time for ourselves. Between work, family and other
obligations, life gets hectic. We all deserve to make time
to relax and concentrate on
ourselves! What do you do to spoil yourself? What is your guilty
pleasure? Create a layout about how you spoil yourself, your
guilty pleasure, and you could win a $10 Gift Certificate to
the Boutique! Just upload your layout to the Mid-May Layout Contest
Gallery before June 14th at Midnight EST, and you could win!
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.)
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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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Try Something Else
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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In this issue:
- 17.8% Off Summer Blastoff Sale!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Designer Do-Over: Shalae Tippetts
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!
- 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
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Created for you
by Erica Hite
Alert! Alert!
SATURDAY is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls
club and still get this great group of products at this amazing
price. Don't delay... sign up now!
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 Template Set
- 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template Set
- 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.
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Created for you
by Ariadna Wiczling and Syndee Nuckles
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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