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Computer scrapbook layout by Sarah Batdorf

Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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Canada Day Collection Mini AMC_Friendly Font ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Felt Biggie 6501
  ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Stapled Ribbon  
Commercial license versions of AMC_Friendly Font, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Felt Biggie 6501 and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Stapled Ribbon are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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Brush Set: Mixed Years 2000 Super Biggie Extra Extra Collection Mini Brush Set: Fanciful Frames
Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Mixed Years 2000 Super Biggie and Brush Set: Fanciful Frames are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Durin Eberhart

Layout by Durin Eberhart
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Faux Finish 2 Pretty Little Spring Collection Mini ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Scruffy
Blossoms & Blooms - Summer Embellishment Biggie Pretty Primavera Collection Biggie Legacy Collection Biggie
  ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Darling 3  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Faux Finish 2, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Scruffy and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Darling 3 are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Jo Corne

Layout by Jo Corne
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Brush Set: Heart and Swirls Sea Glass Collection Mini ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sea Glass 6401
  ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001  
Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Heart and Swirls, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sea Glass 6401 and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Angie Briggs

Layout by Angie Briggs
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Basic: Brown Paper Mini ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Marginal Two Little Birdy Collection
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Marginal Two are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Thao Cosgrove

Layouts by Thao Cosgrove
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ScrapSimple Transparency Overlays: Pretty Primavera Pretty Primavera Collection Biggie Sisterly Collection Mini
Euphoria Collection   Abstract Expressionism Frames Embellishment Mini
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Transparency Overlays: Pretty Primavera are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Cherise Oleson

Layout by Cherise Oleson
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ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 Blessings Assemble Your Own Zoom Albums - 12x12: Vacation Brush Set - 4x6: Scribble Circles
Love Notes Collection ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Grunged Metals Super Biggie 4103 ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching And Holes 4103
Brush Set: Afterglow Brush Set: Grungelle Scenic Route Collection Biggie
  Lettering Delights Dear Diary Font  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 Blessings, Brush Set - 4x6: Scribble Circles, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Grunged Metals Super Biggie 4103, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching And Holes 4103, Brush Set: Afterglow, Brush Set: Grungelle and Lettering Delights Dear Diary Font are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layouts by Melanie Johnson

Layouts by Melanie Johnson
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ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x6 Childhood Memories Childhood Memories Collection Biggie Childhood Memories Paper Mini
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glitter Brights Super Biggie 4101   ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper Textures 4901
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x6 Childhood Memories, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glitter Brights Super Biggie 4101 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper Textures 4901 are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Mandy Steward

Layout by Mandy Steward
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bursting ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Coffee Stains Brush Set: Techno Grunge Mini 2
EHI_Nessa Font Nessa Collection Biggie Little Birdy Embellishment
  Endearing You Paper Biggie  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bursting, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Coffee Stains and EHI_Nessa Font are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Syndee Nuckles

Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sanded Edge Black 6302 Isn't It Romantic Collection ScrapSimple Paper Templates: On the Edge 2
  ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Mother  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sanded Edge Black 6302, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: On the Edge 2 and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Mother are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layouts by Amanda Sok

Layouts by Amanda Sok
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Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages - 4x6: Techno Grunge * Techno Grunge Collection Mini

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Computer scrapbook layout by Ariadna Wiczling

Layout by Ariadna Wiczling
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Little Zoo Collection ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Paper Piercing ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos - Doubles Biggie
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Torn Edges   Brush Set: Stamped Dates
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Paper Piercing, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos - Doubles Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Torn Edges and Brush Set: Stamped Dates 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: 10 Things

10 Things I Can’t Do Anymore

  1. Round-offs. This is a merged cartwheel/flip.

  2. Resist a good pair of red flip-flops.

  3. Take my little children to the park.

  4. Braid my long locks.

  5. Carry my books home from school.

  6. Drive my dad’s old beat up truck.

  7. Remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday.

  8. Wear high heels.

  9. Admire my naturally blond hair. (Apparently, blond hair doesn’t like speeding. When I got into the 40’s, it turned gray with fright.)

  10. Talk to my grandmother while eating her homemade ice cream.

I’m glad I made this little list. It brought back a few good memories. I think I need to scrapbook them because there are some fairly interesting stories in this list. Maybe, someday, I’ll tell you one or two.

See ya,

- Ro

 

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.

Designer Do-Over: Caroline Kaiser

The Original

Computer scrapbook layout by Caroline Kaiser

Original layout by Caroline Kaiser

Looking at this older layout in my gallery from my very beginnings, I always knew that one day it would need a do-over. I love the picture of my sweet Lily, but the layout doesn’t really tell the story. It’s about her first book, and unless you read the text (which is in my mother-tongue), nothing really refers to it. There is not enough variation in the colors of the elements, the patterned paper is too busy, and there is no design principle applied on the layout.

The Do-Over

Screenshot: Add Twigs & Twine papers

First, I decided to use the 12x12 format for my layout, just because I love it better at the moment. I placed the photo on my file and used two different papers underneath to highlight it. I rotated it slightly and then I chose the background paper that would fit the colors of the photo without being too busy. For the papers, I used Paula Wright’s Twigs and Twine Collection; the colors are just perfect for this layout.

Screenshot: Add staped ribbon

I decided to add some interest to my photo by adding Amanda Sok’s Wrapped Frames. To prepare the placement for my title and journaling, I placed Sarah Batdorf’s Stapled Ribbon under the layered photo.

Screenshot: Add title

For the title, I used Amanda Sok’s Alpha from her Ponder Collection. They are bold and I overlapped them slightly to make them look like books on a shelf. Because I wanted to have the same texture in the alpha and on the background papers, I clipped a paper from Paula Wright’s Twigs and Twine Collection to the alpha and changed the color of each single letter to fit the colors in the photo with Image> Adjustment> Hue and Saturation (“Colorize” box checked). I added a text layer with the word ‘First’ and my journaling to make it complete.

Screenshot: Add corner fold

Looking at my layout so far, I thought it would need to be balanced out and added Theresa Kavouras’ Corner Folds Off Center to the upper left corner, and changed the color of the fold to fit the green of the papers with Image> Adjustment> Hue and Saturation (“Colorize” box checked).

At last, to give the layout more interest, I added some details like the books and the worm from Trish Yochum’s Story Time Collection and the tag from Amanda McGee’s Country Garden Collection. I changed the colors of all the elements to fit the color scheme of my layout either with Image> Adjustment> Color Variations or Image> Adjustment> Replace Color.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Caroline Kaiser

Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Twigs And Twine Collection ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Stapled Ribbon Story Time Collection Mini
Country Garden Collection Biggie Ponder Collection ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Corner Folds - Off Center Biggie
Wrapped Frames Embellishment Mini ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Cardstock Textures 6301 ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper Textures 4902
ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stamped 5001 ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Inked Edges 1801 Mini Brush Set: Well Worn
  Lettering Delights Birthday Bash Font  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Stapled Ribbon, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Corner Folds - Off Center Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Cardstock Textures 6301, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper Textures 4902, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stamped 5001, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Inked Edges 1801 Mini, Brush Set: Well Worn and Lettering Delights Birthday Bash Font are also available.

Caroline Kaiser

Designer Do-Over by Caroline Kaiser

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
Crops and Chats

New Classes Available!

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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Textile Inspiration Chat/Crop
Wednesday, July 2nd - 9:00PM ET

Join Launa & Zaz, for a Textile Challenge and Crop, we will meet Wednesday, July 2nd, at 9pm ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!

Do the patterns, textures, and colors of textiles fascinate 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!

I can't wait to see what you come up with!! See you there!

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Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, July 7th - 9:00PM
*Australian Eastern Standard Time*

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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Leavin' Love Chat
Monday, July 7th - 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, July 7th, at 1:00 ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room! See ya there!

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New Classes Available!

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Life Moments Crop and Chat
Tuesday, July 8th - 8:00PM ET

Join April (April Showers) for our next Life Moments Crop and Chat. These Crops are about building a scrapbook all about you, one layout at a time.

This week we will be scrapping our vacation memories. Hope there isn't anyone who's never had one. Can't wait to see you 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!

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NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, July 10th - 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 July 10th, at 1 PM EST, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!

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Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, July 10th - 9:00PM ET

Join me, sprinklz, for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, July 10th 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.

New Classes Available!

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July Events

July Board Game: Layout Reveal

Whether you travel on vacation or entertain right in your own backyard, summertime means fun! This month, we'll be having some fun as we play Layout Reveal!

Every day, a member of the Welcoming Committee will post a layout that is partially covered in a message board thread. A new section of the layout will be revealed each day until someone correctly guesses which layout it is. Once a layout is correctly identified, a new layout will be featured starting the following day.

Layouts will be found in the boutique on product details pages.

If you are the first to guess one of the layouts correctly, you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the boutique!

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Layout Contests:

July Layout Contest: Is the high cost of traveling keeping you close to home this summer? For this layout contest, we want you to be a tourist in your own town. Do a layout of your favorite place to visit in or near your town, a place you like to take out-of-towners when they visit, or an historical landmark. Upload your layouts to the July Layout Gallery by July 31st at midnight and if your layout is chosen, you will 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 Brandy Hackman

Layout by Brandy Hackman
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Sassy's Stardust & Cinnamon Collection Mini Special
Designer Freebie by Brandy Hackman coordinates with her Sassy's Stardust & Cinnamon Collection Mini

Sassy's Stardust & Cinnamon Collection Mini Scrap Girls Relax Collection Biggie Abstract Expressionism 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.

10 Things
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Scrap Girls Guarantee

In This Issue:

- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Designer Do-Over: Caroline Kaiser
- 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

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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 19 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” 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: 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 July Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking club, designed for you by Amanda McGee.

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 Amanda McGee using July's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Amanda McGee

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 Ursula Schneider 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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