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Digital Scrapbooking News

Sweetest Sale Ever! 14.7% off of nearly everything in the Boutique until Midnight, June 30th (MT).

Coupon: Extra 7.7% off! Code is Blessed_ByU

We are blessed by you, our customers, here at Scrap Girls, and we know it!

To show our appreciation, we have a coupon just for our faithful newsletter readers that will allow you to receive an EXTRA 7.7% off our sale prices!

That means when you use this special newsletter coupon during our current Sweetest Sale Ever, you'll get an amazing *21.4% off nearly everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique! Opportunities like this don't come along very often, so take advantage of this great offer before it expires at Midnight (MT), June 30th!

(*The reason that the discount doesn't add up as you might expect is because the store takes the extra discount from the sale price total.)

What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?

Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda McGee

Layout by Amanda McGee
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Front Porch Collection Mini Greenhouse Embellishments Sea Glass Collection Mini
ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 Lettering Delights Painter's Hand Font
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 and Lettering Delights Painter's Hand Font are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Trish Yochum

Layout by Trish Yochum
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Assemble Your Own: Photo Key Chain Oh Brother Collection Mini ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Enveloped
Be Natural Collection Samantha Collection Vista Linda Collection Biggie
Caffeinated Collection Mini ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Sails & Whales Biggie
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Enveloped and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Sails & Whales Biggie are also available.

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Online Class - Ten Beginner Tips On Type

Computer scrapbook layout by Mandy Steward

Layout by Mandy Steward
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Online Class - Ten Beginner Tips On Type Little One Paper Biggie Blue Christmas Paper Biggie
Fancy Free Collection Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Framed Ink 1801 Mini Gypsy Boots Collection Biggie
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Framed Ink 1801 Mini are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Caroline Kaiser

Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Brush Set: Sorbet Summer Sorbet Summer Collection ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos - Doubles Biggie
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Extra - Masking Tape Biggie ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Eyelet Edges Brush Set: Stamped Dates
AMC_Happy Font Lettering Delights Monique Font Brush Set: Well Worn
Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Sorbet Summer, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos - Doubles Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Extra - Masking Tape Biggie, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Eyelet Edges, Brush Set: Stamped Dates, AMC_Happy Font, Lettering Delights Monique Font and Brush Set: Well Worn are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Mandy Steward

Layout by Mandy Steward
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ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 To Have To Hold Endearing You Embellishments Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Epoxy 1801 Mini
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Inked Edges 1801 Mini Whitewashed Wedding Collection Biggie All About Marriage Collection Biggie
Ever After Collection Biggie
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 To Have To Hold, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Epoxy 1801 Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Inked Edges 1801 Mini are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Brandy Murry

Layout by Brandy Murry
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Shabby Fabulous Transparency Overlay

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Computer scrapbook layout by Laurel Lakey

Layout by Laurel Lakey
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Happy Summer Collection Mini ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Windowpane Frames ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Paper Tears 5001
Euphoria Collection
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Windowpane Frames and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Paper Tears 5001 are also available.

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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: Goodbye, Old Friend

Note from Ro: I laughed out loud when I read the post Marnie made in the Scrap Girls blog, Digital Scrapbooking Adventures. What a funny take on replacing computer equipment!

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After living in two countries and two different states, and after living through hundreds of digi layouts, thousands of pictures, and uncountable documents, my poor monitor finally died.

He lived a good long life: seven years in monitor aging is quite a lengthy time and for one of the initial series of flat panel LCDs, it is something of an accomplishment.

During his tenure, my monitor witnessed many of our family events. He saw the photos of our lovely visit to Paris, our adventures while stationed in Spain, and our Navy travels in California and Hawaii. He witnessed the creation of my stepsister’s wedding invitations, of my little doodles, and my first weak attempts at computer graphics. He was there back before I discovered layers and was working in Corel Draw. He was there when I took my first step into layers with PSP and when I took the giant leap into the wonderful world of Photoshop CS2.

Without my dear departed monitor, I wouldn’t have taken my first digital scrapbooking class or made my early, very embarrassing and amateurish, digital scrapbooking layouts. He helped me create my initial book proposal and then bring that book into fruition. He saw my first sketch, was there for my first sketch book, my second, and then a healthy bit of my next project. The monitor was my partner in designing my digital stickers, brushes and collections.

He was there all the time enabling me to see my beautiful, wonderful, exciting digital world. He was my window into cyberspace and my door to the message board and chat room. He was what made it all possible – for without a monitor, there is no conduit, no visuals, to make the bytes come to life.

Goodbye, old friend.

Photo: New monitor

And, a big eyebrow raising “hey” and high five welcome to my new buddy: twenty-four inches of widescreen, high-def viewing pleasure. It’s a pleasure to meet you!

- Marnie

Marnie Adams

P.S. Apparently my monitor was married to my printer. After six years of cohabitation, my printer refused to print anymore on the same day my monitor blinked off for the last time. They now are in their final resting place, side by side, just as they were over all those years.

 

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!

Ro has recently spotlighted Pireps, CharleneJ and Soozlou.

Way Cool Stuff Product Review: ScrapSimple Alpha Templates

Note: Tutorial written using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

I don’t know about you, but there are so many times I want a certain style alpha for a layout title that doesn’t quite match what the designer has created for the collection. Don’t get me wrong. I love the alphas that we get with our collections here at Scrap Girls, but sometimes I just want something else to fit the feeling I am trying to invoke with a layout. Luckily for us, that’s where the ScrapSimple Alpha Templates step in to save the day!

This being summertime, I am hoping to catch up on some beloved reading, and I thought it would be fun to make myself a “monogrammed” bookmark. I wanted something bright and bold so I wouldn’t misplace it.

I love the bright pretty colors in Erica Hite’s Cherish Collection Biggie, and I also love the alpha that is part of her Chic Embroidery Collection. Unfortunately, the colors of the two collections do not go together, but that’s no problem because I can create my own letters using papers from the Cherish Collection with the ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: Chic Embroidery.

Screenshot: Letter template

Screenshot: Template layers

There are three layers for the ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: Chic Embroidery. The first layer is the alpha base, the next layer up is for the stitching holes and the top layer is for the stitching. We have everything we need now to make some stitched alphas.

First, I chose one of the papers from Erica’s Cherish Collection for the base and resized it to 3x3 inches because the alpha base was sized just a bit smaller than that. I dragged the paper over onto the base, created a clipping mask and then merged the paper down.

Screenshot: Added stitching layer style

For the stitching layer, I have found that Cheryl Barber's ScrapSimple Tools-Styles: Stitching & Holes series is perfect to add the texture and shape needed to created realistic stitching. Here you can see where I have applied one of the stitching styles from set 4103.

Screenshot: Layer style menu

The next step was to change the stitching color. First, I sampled a rose color from another paper from the Cherish Collection for my stitching. Then, I double-clicked on the effects icon to bring up the layer style menu on the stitching layer.

Screenshot: Choose 'Color Overlay'

I then selected “Color Overlay” to change the color to my rose color. I left the holes alone.

Screenshot: Finished letter

Here is the finished letter.

I went on to complete my other two initials and placed them on one of the bookmark bases from Melissa Renfro’s ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Bookmarks that I had added one of the Cherish papers to. I added rather substantial drop shadows to give the illusion of them being mounted with pop dots. Then, I added some of the plastic flower embellishments from Erica’s Daydream Collection.

And, here is my bookmark:

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Bookmark by Pat Bowman

Bookmark by Pat Bowman
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ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Bookmarks Cherish Collection Biggie Daydream Collection Biggie
  ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: Chic Embroidery  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Alpha Templates: Chic Embroidery are also available.

Pat Bowman

Pat Bowman lives with her husband of twelve years in the Cleveland, OH area. She has been scrapbooking digitally for over three years and loves being a member of the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team. Working full-time as a systems engineer for a global process automation firm, she travels frequently, but is able to take her scrapbooking with her on a laptop computer. Pat is also a serious hobby photographer and uses a Nikon D50 Digital SLR.

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
Crops and Chats

New Classes Available!

NSBR Chat – Early Edition
Thursday, June 26th - 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 26th, at 1 PM EST, in Chat Room #001! Hope to see you there!

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Desktop Crop
Friday, June 27th - 9:00PM ET

Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum) @ 9PM EST for the Desktop Challenge Crop.

Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background for your enjoyment?

A few hours before the chat, we will provide you with a source of inspiration, so stay tuned!

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Quote/Word Art Crop
Sunday, June 29th - 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!

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ATC Swap Crop
Sunday, June 29th - 7:00PM ET

Please join me, Pat Bowman, in the chat room for our monthly ATC Swap Crop and Chat at 7:00 PM.

This month's theme will be GETTING TO KNOW YOU. Create an ATC that you feel represents who you are, or how you would like people to know you. Introduce yourself to us! You can interpret that theme in any way you see fit! You can be serious or quirky - whatever you decide!! You aren't required to use your own picture if you feel hesitant about that.

If you are a beginner and don't think you can play because you don't know how - think again. We welcome newcomers and will be glad to show you the ropes. Remember, the only real rules for ATCs are that they must be sized 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Let's have some fun!

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New Classes Available!

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NSBR Chat
Monday, June 30th - 9:00PM ET

What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking. It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we’ll lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to share? We’d love to celebrate with you.

So join me, Carla (crs), on June 30th, at 9 PM ET, in the chat room! Hope to see you there!

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High Noon Crop
Wednesday, July 2nd - 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 July 2, we'll do a brush challenge! Create a layout using a brush! Any brush will do, just use it prominantly! Alter a photo or a paper, or create your own paper!

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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Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, July 7th - 9:00PM AEST

Please join Jo (ScrappingJo) and Karen (kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat on Monday 7 July 2008. This week we will have a quote challange. What is a quote challenge you may ask? Karen will post a quote on the boards early Monday morning and it is up to you to create a layout incorporating that quote. We will meet in the Live Chat Lobby at 9pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. For those girls in the USA who love to come and chat with us Aussie girls, the chat will be on Monday 7 July starting at 7am (New York time). Looking forward to seeing you all there.

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High Noon Crop
Wednesday, July 9th - 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 July 9, we'll do a red, white and blue challenge! Create a layout using the colors red, white and blue! Americans will have 4th of July photos to scrap, but the color combo works well together no matter what your nationality!

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!

New Classes Available!

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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!

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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-June Layout Contest: What kind of candy would you be? Scrap a layout that shows what you think you’d be - something sweet but tart, something rich and chocolatey, or something nutty? Post your layout to the mid-month gallery by Midnight ET, on July 14th, and your layout may be chosen to win $10 to the boutique!

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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.)

Today's Freebie

Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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Braden Ribbon Special
Designer Freebie by Amanda Sok coordinates with her Braden Collection

Braden Collection Doodle Dandy Collection Biggie Blackberry Collection Mini
GraphX Collection Biggie

* 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.

Goodbye, Old Friend
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Scrap Girls Guarantee


In This Issue:

- 14.7% Off Sweetest Sale Ever!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Way Cool Stuff Product Review: ScrapSimple Alpha Templates
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Designer Freebie
- Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!
- Getting Started
- Expand Your Skills
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU


Note from Ro
Ro Paxman

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!

Better Business Bureau Reliability Program

Scrap Girls is Having a Convention!
Scrap Girls Digital Scrap Link 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 22 openings out of 120 are still available. Space is selling out quickly so don't delay.

Where: Salt Lake City, Utah

Officer's Club
Sign up now!


Getting Started

15 Things You NEED to Know to become a GREAT digital scrapbooker

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!

Scrap Girls Refresh Collection Biggie

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 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...

  • 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!

Start to Finish eBooklets

How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
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!

More Titles Available


Expand Your Skills

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop

*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&qrduo; 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 importantto you. (Bet you didn't know...)
  • Learn how to cut out a title from a background or a photo.
  • And even more...

Note: These are NOT beginning tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers, where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed series before you try to use it.

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
Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements
(Photoshop version also available!)

Digital Photography Simplified
Digital Photography Simplified

Ten Basic Design Principles eBook
Ten Basic Design Principles

Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revitalize Your  Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2 eBook
Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revialize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2

See more titles


Available Online Classes

New Classes Available!

Online Class - Yes, You Can Do Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements
Yes, You Can Do Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements

June 30 and July 7 - 3:00PM ET

This in-depth class on Layer Masks is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the power of masks in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This class will teach you how to use masks to make selective adjustments to both photos and layouts.

Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop Elements users. 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!

New Classes Available!

Online Class: Photo Fixes You Need to Know: Photoshop
Photo Fixes You Need to Know: Photoshop

July 1 and 8 - 4:00PM ET

This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on basic photo retouching is the perfect opportunity to learn about color correction and photo refinement techniques. Using various methods, this class will teach you how to retouch and prep photos for printing, digital scrapbooking, and web uploading.

Important: This Intermediate Level computer scrapbooking class is for Adobe Photoshop users, versions CS2 and CS3 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!

New Classes Available!

Online Class - Photo Fixes You Need to Know: PSE
Photo Fixes You Need to Know: PSE

July 3 and 10 - 9:30PM ET

We all want our photos to take center stage on our scrapbook layouts. But sometimes our pictures aren’t up for the challenge. Learn some photo fixes to really make your pictures stand out. Banish blemishes, correct colors and lighting like a pro using the tools and techniques taught in this class. Your pictures will become the perfect focus for all of your layouts.

Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop Element 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!

New Classes Available!

Online Class - Ten Beginner Tips On Type
Ten Beginner Tips On Type

July 15 and 22 - 3:00PM ET

This in-depth class is a wonderful opportunity to learn the basics of typography. This class comes with the Ten Beginner Tips on Type eBook. If you have already bought this eBook, email [email protected] to receive a store credit to use towards the purchase of this class. Learn simple rules and guidelines to use multiple fonts together more effectively. Discuss different ways to make journaling and title a cohesive part of every layout. Study real examples, and see how applying the rules can improve your layouts.

Important: This Intermediate Level class is for all digital scrapbooking programs. 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!


Scrap Girls Monthly Club

The June Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking club, designed for you by Brandy Hackman.

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

Digital scrapbooking layout by Brandy Hackman using June's Scrap Girls Club
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!)


ScrapSimple Monthly Club

The June ScrapSimple digital scrapbooking club selection by Amanda Sok and Ursula Schneider

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.

Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok using June's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Amanda Sok using June's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Amanda Sok and Ursula Schneider

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!


Opportunities for You!

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 those 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!

divScrap 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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