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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
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Before you stands a great block of marble. Inside the block is a statue of a man with loving eyes, who will look at you forever and give you peace. But before you can gaze upon his face, you must extract him from the marble.
You tell your friends, “There is a great man inside of the marble.”
“I do not see him,” they reply. “I see a block of stone.”
But you do not let their failure to see the statue discourage you. He is there. You know it. You sense it. You feel it.
You take out your tools and begin patiently chipping away at the marble. Because this is a great block of stone, the chipping will continue for a long time. It may be possible that years will pass before you see your statue emerge from its marble encasing. But as long as you keep chipping... chipping... chipping away, you will eventually stand in front of your kindly-eyed man and gaze at his eyes.
Thus the artist believes. Thus the man is able to continue his work in the face of great odds. He does not consider how many chips it will take until his statue stands before him. He concentrates on making each cut accurate so that he will not destroy, but find his goal.
And so it is with any great goal. It is accomplished by endless chipping away at the mountain of tasks until we realize our dream. But if we stop in the middle of the chipping because we tire of it the work, if we fail to continue because we can’t keep our dream placed firmly in our minds, if we wander away from the sheer monotony of the task of chipping because we wish to do something more exciting, we will never see our objective standing before our eyes.
I am convinced that the difficulty many people have in their lives is that they tire of monotony of chipping. They feel that they must get all of the chipping done at once (or in a very short amount of time) or they have failed. They imagine that there might be some other thing available to them in their life that will not require some measure of monotonous chipping. Or they don’t stand back at the beginning of their journey and consider how much chipping this goal might take to achieve and ask if the end goal is worth the moments they must give up in other areas of their life so that they might chip, chip, chip away.
Sometimes, when people ask me how to achieve a certain goal, I will begin to describe all of the many things that must be done to realize it. When they respond to the list of tasks, I can hear the dismay in their voices and I can feel their defensiveness towards their new truth vibrating through space. This is not what they wished to hear. This is not what they wanted to know. They wanted to learn that it was going to be easy. They hoped to find out that they would be able to achieve it in a few days, weeks or months.
But most major goals, if they are worthy, are made up of strings of small goal-pearls and small goal-pearls are achieved by chip, chip, chipping away at tasks that are often grueling or tedious in nature.
My mother once told me, “Rozanne, you must learn to love to work because you will spend most of your life doing it.”
How wise she was. How right she was. I have learned to enjoy mundane chipping that accompanies even the most satisfying work. I know tedious chipping gets me closer to my goals because I anticipate the satisfaction I’ll feel once I accomplish them. And while I am not a master artist that can bring forth a man with kindly eyes from a block of marble, I am able to use my God-given talents through my effort and His help and guidance to make lives a little bit better and that is good enough for me.
- Ro
Note: I used ScrapSimple Tools Styles – Punch Out 5401 (also available with a commercial license) and a photograph I had to create the block of marble.
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.
Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate? 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!
Ro is now spotlighting various Scrap Girls members, showing layouts, and running contests in her blog. If you end up being spotlighted in it, you'll get a little gift from her. Subscribe to her blog so you don't miss what is going on! |
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Best of the Message Board |
These questions and answers come
from the users on our messageboard. We thought you might find them
useful and interesting too. Enjoy!
Question: I would like to know how to fix (sun) lighting on a face in a photo please. I use Photoshop Elements 5.0, but I am very new to the program and still learning how to do things. I have posted a photo, “I CAN read, Grandma,” in the Family gallery which will show the problem for those that would like to see what needs to be fixed. All help is appreciated. Thanks heaps!
Answer 1: First of all, welcome to Scrap Girls! I have to recommend a book that I borrowed from our local library, “The Photoshop Elements 5 Book For Digital Photographers” by Scott Kelby. I have it requested again and I would love to purchase it. It has lots of great techniques and tricks for fixing your photos!
Answer 2: I will add my hello and welcome also! In PSE 5, I would go to Enhance> Adjust Lighting> Shadows/Highlights. You can play with those sliders and see what you get. You can also go to Enhance> Lighting> Levels and try moving the right marker in towards the center a bit.
If those don't get the results you want, you might want to try using the Burn Tool with a large, soft brush. You might have to play with the Exposure (in the options bar) a bit to get it subtle. Another good book is Matt Kloskowski's “The Photoshop Elements 5 Restoration & Retouching Book.”
Answer 3: I would go with the suggestion to play with the sliders on Shadows/Highlights. Just don't try to get rid of it too much. I think the way that the sunlight is hitting her face there really adds something to that photo.
It may look great as a black and white shot, too.
Answer 4: You can try this. (I have PS though, not PSE, so the commands may be slightly different.) Using a soft-edged Selection Tool - either a very soft-edged quick mask or a large feathered selection - select the area on her face that is over exposed. Then you can use Curves (if they're in PSE), Levels or the other sliders above. This should allow you to change just that area of the photo, and if the feathering is soft enough, it shouldn't leave you a hard line between what's been changed and what's not. I would duplicate the layer and work on the duplicated layer first, just to make sure. I wouldn't fix it too much because I actually like the lighting on her face. Hope this helps and welcome to Scrap Girls!
Question: I have filled up both of my internal hard drives! I currently have a single EHD to back up the internal HDs. I am having virtual memory problems because the HDs are maxed out. What I want to do is add RAM to my computer and eliminate files. Before I do that, I want to back up my EHD with another EHD. I am trying to decide if I want another desktop EHD or a portable EHD. Eventually, I could have an additional desktop EHD as well as a portable EHD, but for right now I need to choose one or other.
I have never deleted ANY files from my internal HD and doing so freaks me out! I need speed and space. My computer is all jammed up right now and I feel a sense of urgency to open space up before my computer can't think at all anymore. What do you all think about a portable EHD over a desktop EHD? Are they as reliable? Anyone have problems with the portable? Or should I just get an additional desktop EHD and use a thumb drive or DVD's to carry files around? (Like to Utah in October.)
Answer 1: I’ve only had my portable EHD for a short time, so maybe I'm not the best one to answer this. I did, however, take it on a trip and it was great that you can just pick it up and go. The desktop ones are quite a bit larger, so I don’t think it would be as easy. Plus, you have to have room for a larger one in your work area. I have all of my scrapping things on my EHD and none on my IHD. I think it runs a lot nicer that way. Plus, I burn backups quite often, just in case. Sounds like you have a big decision ahead of you. I hope you figure out what is right for you.
Answer 2: I happen to have both. I initially purchased a desktop EHD (relies on electrical power) and moved all of my scrapping supplies to it. It freed up my laptop and it was necessary. I burn DVDs of all my zip files each month and I use Mozy to back up both my laptop and my EHD. Now that I had all of my supplies on the EHD, I found that it was not at all helpful for scrapping away from home. So, I purchased a small portable that powers with a USB port. It also contains all of my supplies, plus some newsletter tutorials, etc. to help me if I’m away from home or on vacation. I just love this set up. So, that being said, my two cents would be to vote for a portable, back up all files to DVDs and delete them from your computer hard drive, and then back up automatically with an online company.
Question: Hi all. I purchased Melissa Renfro's ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Paper Tears PSE 5001 the other day and when I opened the file up, it had three things in it: an .ASL file, an .ATN file and a .TPL file. I know the ASL is a styles thing and ATN is the action, but it wasn't clear on what the TPL file was. Do I need to install it? And if so, where in the world does it go? I tried looking in all of the folders for PSE (I have PSE 6) and couldn't see anything with TPL to it. Thanks for the help!
Answer 1: This action comes with a wonderful PDF file that explains everything, complete with screen shots. You might want to check the download. If you didn't get it, you might email Angie at [email protected] and see if she can send it to you! It really helps a lot!
Response Answer: Yes, I have read the PDF file that came with it and it did not seem to help me. It said the file was a "tool preset file" and that I will find these in my folders, but I have not found anything like this. The instructions just didn't help me much.
Answer 2: With PSE open, drag and drop the TPL file over PSE and it will automatically go where it needs to go. This will work with actions and brushes, too. |
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What's Happening at Scrap Girls? |
Crops and Chats |
Life Moments Crop and Chat
Tuesday, June 3rd -
4:00PM ET
Join April (April
Showers) for the
next installment in our Life Moments Chat and Crop
at 4 PM ET, Tuesday, June 3rd, in the Live Chat Room.
Our theme for this week is Graduation. If you don't
have any photos, try using memorabilia you may have
collected such as diploma, programs, yearbooks, etc.
Hope you can come to the chat to share your graduation
memories, but if not, try to do a layout anyway to
add to your album about yourself.
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 three photo
challenge! Create a layout using three 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 Inspiration Chat
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 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!
We can't
wait to see what you come up with!! See you there!
Quote/Word Art Crop
Sunday, June 8th -
Time TBA
Come join angelaNussbaum for
the Quote Challenge Crop! Here's how it will work.
On
Sunday, I'll post a thread on the challenge board giving
you the quote which you will use to make your own word
art. It's not hard, and I will even have a layout with
a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room
to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout!
We'll
post the time on Sunday, as the time changes around
each time to allow participation by our international
folks. Everyone can participate and create a layout,
even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!
Aussie 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!
NSBR Chat – Early Edition
Thursday, June 12th - 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 June 12th, at 1 PM ET, in Chat Room #001! Hope to see you there! |
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June Events |
June Board Game: Chocolate Scavenger Hunt
What's sweeter than chocolate and shopping in the Scrap Girls boutique? That's right... NOTHING! This month we've combined those two super sweet things to create a game worth sinking your teeth into and a prize worth drooling over!
Every day (June 2nd-June 30th), a member of the Welcoming Committee will post a new clue on the Message Board. Use the clues to find the correct products in the Scrap Girls Boutique. You will know when you have located them because you will see a candy-coated Scrap Girls chocolate on the product details page.
Send the EXACT product names and the accompanying links where the products are found to [email protected]. Use the subject line: JUNE MESSAGE BOARD GAME for your email entry, and include your messageboard name and real name. You have until Midnight Mountain Time, on Tuesday, July 1st to submit your answers.
Everyone who finds ALL 29 hidden chocolates will be entered in a drawing for one of three $10 Gift Certificates! Find 20+ candies and be entered in a drawing for one of two $5 Gift Certificates! Find 10+ hidden chocolates and be entered in a drawing for one of two $3 Gift Certificates!
Layout Contests:
June Layout
Contest: Did you know that June is National Candy Month? Digital scrapbooking is the ultimate no fat, no sugar treat – how sweet! For this month’s contest we want you to do a “Yummy” layout using colors and textures that say “yummy” to you – from bright colors that might represent a sweet treat to the luscious browns like melt-in-your-mouth chocolates. Post your layouts to the monthly gallery by Midnight ET, June 30th, and yours might be chosen to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique.
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!
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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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Chipping Away
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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In this issue:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Best of the Message Board
- Online Classes Currently Available
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!
- Contests
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
- Designer Freebie
- Getting Started
- Expand Your Skills
- Scrap Girls Clubs |
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 is Having a 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?
Only 27 openings out of
120 are still available. Space is selling out quickly,
so don't delay.
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
Sign up now!
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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!
Would you like a chance to try digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls Refresh Collection Biggie offers you free 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!
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
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
Do you wish you could learn how to scrapbook digitally, but feel kind of intimated? Well, here's the solution for you. These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for printing or sharing them with your friends and family over the internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to look like they are "real"
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos to sepia
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And lots more!
Start to Finish eBooklets
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!
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MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
*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.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap Girls ScrapSimple products.
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Dip your digital scrapbooking self into some of those "other" cool tools that are sitting there waiting in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing pen, and more.
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See how easy it is to install and manage new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make things that are creative and unique.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools that you already know and love.
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Watch me make some beautiful papers and get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
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See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do that with, too...)
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Get "IN" on creating your own brush sets. (You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all along.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so important to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background or a photo.
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And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers, where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed series before you try to use it.
eBooks!
Scrap Girls offers a large catalog of eBooks covering topics that will expand your digital scrapbooking abilities to new heights. Here are just a few samples:
Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements (Photoshop version also available!)
Digital Photography Simplified
Ten Basic Design Principles
Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revialize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2
See more titles
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How to Emboss and Texturize with ScrapSimple Templates in PSE
June 3 and 10 - 9:00PM ET
This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on Embossing and Texturizing is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the versatility and flexibility of the line of ScrapSimple Mission: Embossable products in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This class comes with the Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Emboss & Texturize with ScrapSimple Templates. If you have already bought this eBooklet, email [email protected] to receive a store credit to use towards the purchase of this class. This class will teach you how to use ScrapSimple: Mission Embossable templates with coordinating ScrapSimple paper templates.
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop Elements users only. Students are required to understand the basic skills taught in the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program prior to starting the course. This information will not be reviewed as part of the course!
Enrolling in this course without understanding these basic skills may cause you to feel lost and frustrated when you attend the classes. We want you to have a great experience. So please, if you are uncertain that you have enough skills to take this course, use the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program to build an adequate foundation prior to the classes starting. Thanks!
The Hidden Power of Adjustment Layers in PSE
June 12 and 19 - 3:00PM ET
This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on Adjustment Layers is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the versatility and flexibility of Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This class will teach you how to use Adjustment Layers to make your photos pop off the page.
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop Elements users only. Students are required to understand the basic skills taught in the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program prior to starting the course. This information will not be reviewed as part of the course!
Enrolling in this course without understanding these basic skills may cause you to feel lost and frustrated when you attend the classes. We want you to have a great experience. So please, if you are uncertain that you have enough skills to take this course, use the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program to build an adequate foundation prior to the classes starting. Thanks!
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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:
Layout by Brandy Hackman
using June's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you
by Brandy Hackman
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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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 Template Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template Set
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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 Laurel Lakey
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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Customer
Muses: Would you like to share your own Life Muse
with our readers? 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, plus a complete list of thos
products.
- 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!
 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 to participate. |
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