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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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Layouts by Sarah Batdorf
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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: Stop, Look and Listen
Stop, look and listen before you cross the street.
Cars can go faster than little children’s feet.
This little rhyme was drilled into our kindergarten class as a means
of attempting to keep us safe as we walked to school each morning.
I was sitting in my Sacred Space chair this morning, looking out of
my window at my trees that are starting to turn green, when all of
the many things I can do, should do or might do began flooding through
my mind.
My mind darted about here and there, trying to come up with
a method of turning off the flow. “Should I write it down?” I
wondered. But I quickly realized that this wouldn’t work because
I already have pages of items listed in my notebook.
My mind started
to freeze up. But then, I heard the phrase, “Stop,
look and listen before you cross the street...”
I considered how
it might apply to my situation. “Yes, I need
to stop and breathe,” I realized. “I am overwhelmed.”
I
began to breathe in and out slowly.
“Look? I need to look? At
what?” I asked myself.
“Look up. Just look up.”
I looked up again and out of the
window. As soon as I did, I felt more relaxed. I was reminded that
I spent too much time with my head buried in my computer screen. I
don’t walk away often enough
and give my brain time to rest when I am feeling stressed. I don’t
sit back occasionally and look around the room. I simply need to give
my brain a chance to catch up and the mere act of looking elsewhere
can do this.
“Listen. How can I listen?”
The answer came. “Sit
here and listen to yourself. Just listen until the item you need to
work on first comes to your mind. When it does, do it. Then, stop and
listen again.”
“Yes, that’s it,” I thought,
relieved. “I
have to keep reminding myself that I can only do one thing at a time.
Just keep chipping away at the issues and, eventually, I’ll see
progress.”
And so, I listened... I listened and I heard, “Write
this down.”
And so, I have done that. My first task of the day
was to say to you, “Stop,
look and listen before you cross the street...”
-
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.
Tutorial: Demystifying Clipping Masks
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop
CS3 with Windows XP.
I love clipping masks and use them in every layout. Literally. They're
a great and non-destructive way to “cut” shapes from digital
scrapbooking papers, elements and photos. For your shape, you can use
digital layout templates' elements, paper and embellishment templates,
custom shapes, brushes and fonts. Here's how you create a clipping
mask in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
For my layout, I first chose
my focal-point photograph. It's a very warm picture of my husband and
me from our wedding photo album. It has a lot of curves in its composition,
so I decided to echo that in my layout. I found the ScrapSimple
Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Rip Torn in the Scrap Girls
Boutique to be perfect for my project.
To create a clipping mask, you
need to drag the picture over the rectangular shape. Now, create the
clipping mask using one of these methods:
- Press Ctrl+G (Command+G for Mac) for Photoshop CS
and PSE and Alt+Ctrl+G (Option+Command+G for Mac)
for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 or
After you create a clipping mask, your Layers Palette
will look like this.
The great thing about clipping masks is that you
can move both layers independently. So if you decide that some part
of the picture doesn't show or shows too much, you can easily make
changes. You can even resize both layers independently. But if you
want to move/resize them together, you need to select both layers.
Clipping
masks are also useful when you want to apply the Adjustment Layer to
only one of the layers. For example, when you want to change the color
of one of the embellishments.
Remember that you may have more than one
layer clipped. For example, you may clip a photograph and then change
it to black and white with a clipped Adjustment Layer above. The advantage
of this method is that you can always go back and tweak your Adjustment
Layer.
For this layout, I left my photos in color. To complement their
colors, I chose the Feather Collection papers and elements.
I clipped one of the papers with ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Scalloperoo to
give it a nice scalloped edge. I clipped the rest of the photographs,
embellished the page, added drop shadows and typed the journaling.
Here's my finished layout:
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Online Classes Available
A
Month of Memories
June 6 and 27 - 4:00PM ET
How
to Emboss and Texturize with ScrapSimple Templates in PSE
June 3 and 10 - 9:00PM ET
What's Happening at Scrap
Girls?
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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
33 of the 120 originally available 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.)
Designer Freebie
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also
note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this
freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available
as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Free Digital Scrapbooking Starter Kit
The free digital scrapbooking stater
kit section is a standard newsletter feature for the benefit of the
large number of new subscribers that join our list every day.
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Would you like a chance to try
digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection
Biggie offers you samples of some of our most popular product
types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple
Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout
Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital
scrapbooking as much as we do, and we have thousands of products
to feed your new addiction!
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If you read nothing else, read
this!
15 Things You NEED to
Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's
so addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook "starter
kit" turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking
into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages
- packed full of the information, ideas and help people need
when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers
questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all
day long, every day of the week, and each day of the year.
You don't have to wonder about important questions like how
to back up your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to
scrapbook digitally (and which one to buy), or what type of
computer software is required to create digital scrapbooking
layouts. The answers are all here for you - in one easy to
use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun "Warning"
Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a
little bit of extra fun!
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* There is a "free download"
button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them
in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items.
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Stop, Look and Listen
Wednesday, May 28, 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
- Tutorial: Demystifying Clipping Masks
- 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
Layout by Laurel Lakey using
May's Scrap Girls Club
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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.
Layout by Ariadna Wiczling
using May's ScrapSimple Club
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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
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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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