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“New Dad” layout by Kim Meeder
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
In order to have a ribbon that perfectly matched my layout, I used Brandy Murry’s ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Ribbons To Go II. After opening the PNG file, I created a copy to work with by choosing Image> Duplicate and closed my original PNG file. Next, I selected Image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation. In the Hue/Saturation window, I checked the boxes next to "Preview" and "Colorize." I played with the sliders until I had the perfect turquoise color. Finally, I checked "OK" and dragged the newly colored ribbon onto my layout. It’s as easy as that.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Fathers
“Unique” layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To achieve this erased effect on the edges of the green background in which the sketch is blended, I first turned the Blend Mode of the layer with the green paper to ‘Lighter Color.’ Then I clipped (Ctrl+Alt+G) it to Shalae’s ScrapSimple Paper Template Artistic Edges ‘Brush’ in order to erase the edges.
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Commercial license versions
of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Corrugated 1, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Extra - Masking Tape Biggie, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artistic Edges, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Brushed Metal 4901 - Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Leather 4901, Dynamic Brush Set: Basic Stitching 4901 Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Punch Out 5401, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching And Holes 4103, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Sketch It PS 8501, Brush Set: Stamp A Date, Brush Set: Grungelle, Lettering Delights Painter's Hand Font, Lettering Delights Mother's Typewriter Font and Lettering Delights Antique Poster Font are also available. |
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Fathers
“Look Up To You” layout by Janine Buckles
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To blend the large picture of my husband and Evan into my background, I selected the thumbnail image of it in the Layers Palette and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light." It’s amazing how something so simple can create such an “Oh, aren’t you clever!” look! Give it a try!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Fathers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Typewriter
- Font - HansHand
“Father” layout by Paula Wright
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
One of the things that I love about digital scrapping is being able to blend type into the background. By selecting different Blend Modes such as "Overlay," "Soft light" or "Multiply" and adjusting the Opacity of the layer, you can easily make it look like your type was hand lettered on your background. If you haven’t tried this technique, you can learn all about it in Shalae Tippets’ Mastering Brushes eBook in the boutique.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Fathers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - OPointe_Fait
- Font - Rub This
- Font - Air Stamp
- Font - Typewriter
“Daddy” layout by Jo Corne
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create my headline, first I typed in the word "Daddy" in the Impact font. I then clipped my photo to the word, making sure I got as much of my dh and our kids' faces into the letters. I then duplicated the word and used Mandy Steward's ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Acrylic Bubbles 1801 to give the letters the glossy, 3D bubble look.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Fathers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - LubalGraphMed
- Font - Impact
Journaling:
"Walk a Little slower, Daddy,"
said a little child so small.
I'm following in your footsteps
and I don't want to fall.
Sometimes your steps are very fast,
sometimes they're hard to see;
So walk a little slower Daddy,
for you are leading me.
Someday when I'm all grown up,
You're what I want to be.
Then I will have a little child
who'll want to follow me.
And I would want to lead just right,
and know that I was true;
So, walk a little slower, Daddy,
for I must follow you!!
- author unknown
“She Adores You” layout by Stefanie Harris
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
When the quality of a picture is somewhat less than desirable, you have to get creative when incorporating it into your layout. In this case, I liked the facial expressions in both photos, but since one was obviously less clear than the other was (hubby took the pictures on his camera phone on two different days – it’s a “playground tradition” of sorts), I didn’t want to give them equal “weight” on my page.
I took the lesser quality of the two and used the “Overlay” Blend Mode to blend it into my corrugated paper (to which I had already applied the Watercolor Layer Style). Depending on your photo, it may fade out too much, in which case you can duplicate the layer and then adjust the Opacity of one of the two layers until you get just the look you want.
For a finishing touch – and to add to the feeling that the picture is part of the paper – I used the Well Worn Brushes on a low Opacity to erase and blend the edges of the photo.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Fathers
Other Ingredients:
Journaling: “Yes, Mister Tough Guy... it may be difficult for you to admit, but Haley DOES adore her Daddy. You are strict, but you can also be silly. You are structured, but you also enjoy some spur-of-the-moment fun. You often have to play the “bad guy” when it comes to making this family run the way it should, but I can tell - when I see the way our little girl looks at you – that she absolutely loves you! You may give me a hard time about her being a “Mama’s Girl,” but make no mistake. You have just as much of her heart!”
“Daddy & His Boy” layout by Amy Lemaniak
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Have you ever accidentally done something and had it turn out to be really cool? Well, that’s exactly what happened to me when I was making the word “Daddy” on this page. I started by creating a text box and typing “Daddy” in the text box. I then applied a dark brown paper style from Shalae’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper 4901-Biggie. I then decided to try out one of the teal styles from Durin’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Wrinkles 5101 Super Biggie and was surprised at the result it had. Just a touch of the brown was showing through the teal and gave a really cool, aged look to it.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Fathers
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
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A Designer�s Life: Brandy Murry |
From the Heart
Growing up in a small town in Georgia, we learned to live from the heart. We were a family of females with Momma being the center of our universe. She is the sun, moon and stars to us girls. Sandwiched in the middle of two sisters was a great place to grow up. Though we didn’t have much, there was always yummy southern food and loads of lively chatter and, above all, we loved each other.
A favorite memory is of dressing up my little sister, Jessie, in ballerina costumes and taking her picture. Being nine years younger, she was a real live baby doll to play with. Jessie would always sit in my lap while we read stories, especially “The Narnia Chronicles” by C.S. Lewis. That is where my love of taking pictures for scrapbooking must have started, because those are the memories you want to keep. Even today, Jessie is still my baby, though she is expecting twins of her own now. Come fall, there will be lots of twin babies in future layouts for Scrap Girls, as it was with my other sister Blain and my niece Emily, whom you have maybe seen in many of my layouts.
For our birthdays, Momma would let us choose anything we wanted for our supper. My choice was always salmon croquettes, green butter beans and tomato gravy. If you didn’t grow up in the south, you might never have had this menu, but it is heaven! Yum, I wish I could share a plate with ya’ll right now.
Art has always been a big part of my life. I was forever drawing, painting and taking pictures. One of my first jobs was working for a photographer. I learned a lot from him and was fascinated watching him dress people up for those early glamour shots. After graduating from high school, I got a grant to graphic design school. But life was hard and I had to work three jobs to afford school. Finally, it was just too much. I had to quit school to work full-time. That was a very difficult time and a part of my heart closed when I quit design school.
In the next few years, leaving home, getting married and moving to the big city of Dallas, Texas all seemed to swarm together. I worked in visual merchandising for a chain of furniture stores, buying furniture and creating the room setting for stores. After a move, I found a new job for a home builder. New home construction was booming. I quickly moved up within the company and became a regional manager. It was wonderful to help people make their own dream of building a home come true. For ten years, that was the focus of my life. The hustle and competition of sales, friends and family and then everything changed. The economy shifted, new home sales fell off, my marriage ended and I moved again. This is where Scrap Girls came into my life.
I am so HAPPY! It is as if my life has come full circle. I am doing what I have always dreamed of doing. Designing products and creating layouts for Scrap Girls feels like coming home. My heart had closed a bit 20 years ago and now it is full.
Today, I travel with my sweetheart, Jeroen, taking pictures, capturing moments and turning them into layouts. With me traveling back and forth to The Netherlands, as Jeroen is Dutch, it has easily become one of my favorite places in the world. There is nothing like Holland in spring. The countryside is so fresh, pure and green. When the hyacinths are in bloom, the whole country smells like a flower and it vibrates with color.
But even after seeing Paris and Amsterdam and all of the beautiful places, a perfect day would still include a plate of salmon croquettes with tomato gravy. Taking pictures, designing and spending time with my loved ones. Though my home today isn’t exactly what I imagined, over the years I have learned that life changes, you may be where you thought you never ever would be. Home, a place to belong, becomes important. I always thought a home was made of sticks and bricks, but the saying “home is where the heart is” has never been more true. It was never a place, it was always the people.
- Brandy
Favorite product I've designed:
Dreams May Come Collection
Dreams May Come brings out the painter in me. I love blending the papers together and merging photos to create unique layouts.
Layout by Brandy Murry
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Themed Thoughts: Graduation |
We’ve noticed various requests popping up here and there on
the message boards, people looking for themed items in collections.
Even though our fabulous designers are great at taking requests, they
can only do so much! So, to tide you over until they can get to everybody's
requests, we’ve
come up with an article to help you use those great Scrap Girls products
you already have (or should have!) in your stash for these types of
themes.
If you've got a young one graduation from Kindergarten or Elementary
school, take a look at these products:
You can always use your child's school colors as a base for a great
graduation layout. Try some of these basics:
For the ceremony itself, these products are great:
If you want things to be more school-oriented, these products will
be perfect:
For dignified and elegant layouts to suit the mood of your graduation
photos, these will be great:
Layout by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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I want to stress that these suggestions are not an exhaustive list
-- they just represent a small percentage of the type of products you
can find if you look creatively and think outside the box.
I hope that with these great products at your disposal you’ll
be able to creatively use those themed photos to make wonderful layouts
that you’ll treasure.
Have fun! |
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What's Happening at Scrap Girls? |
Crops and Chats |
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!!
New Members Chat
Tuesday, June 10th -
8:00PM ET
Join Welcoming Committee Members PBarnes (Pat) & ruralscrapper (Patti) for an evening of chatting and fun at the New Members Chat, Tuesday, June 10th, at 8 pm ET! We will be there to answer any questions you may have about digital scrapbooking or Scrap Girls in general.
This chat is a great way to meet other digi scrappers and ask any questions that you may have. And, there is bound to be lots of laughs and a few noises, too! We welcome our more experienced members also to join the party, too.
To join, just come to the Scrap Girls Chat Room by clicking on the “Live Chat” link from either the Message Board or the Scrap Girls home page.
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!
Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, June 12th - 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz, for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, June 12th at 9pm ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start on your layouts? Then this challenge is for you! A few hours before the challenge begins, I'll post a sketch for you to use as the starting point for your page. You can be inspired by the basic arrangement, the amount of photos, or copy it literally. All interpretations are welcome and encouraged! Looking forward to seeing you there!
We'll be meeting in the "00_Room_1" room of the chat. To join, click on the "Live Chat" link (above right). Once you are in the lobby, click on the "Show Rooms" button (on the upper left), then select "00_Room_1" from the list on the left side.
Recipe Swap Chat
Friday, June 13th - 9:00PM ET
Join Scrappylibrarian for our monthly Recipe Swap Chat. We will meet up in the Chat Room at 9 pm ET. Check the message board on Thursday, June 12 for this month's recipe theme and info on the swap. Hope to see you there!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 18th - 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 18, we'll do a favorite photo challenge! Create a layout using a photo you love! Can be any photo, just make sure you love it!
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!
Ad Inspiration Chat
Wednesday, June 18th - 9:00PM ET
Join Pat & Launa for an Ad Inspiration Chat and Crop in the Scrap Girls Chat Room Wednesday, June 18th, at 9:00 ET. We will use a magazine ad to inspire a layout, there is no wrong answer!! Come join the fun!
The Ad will be posted a couple of hours before the challenge. Come join us for some chattin', croppin', and FUN! |
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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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Layout by Ariadna Wiczling
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Designer Freebie by Ariadna Wiczling coordinates with her ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set: Countdown Clock, part of this month's ScrapSimple
Club offering!
* 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. |
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From the Heart
Monday, June 9, 2008
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In this issue:
- 16.7% Off Ultimate Treat Sale!
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Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Brandy Murry
- Themed Thoughts: Graduation
- 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 24 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
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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
larger view
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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