Scrap Girls Chit Chat Newsletter: July 4, 2008

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Computer scrapbook layout by Mandy Steward

Layout by Mandy Steward
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bursting Offset and Brush Set: Stamped Dates are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Thao Cosgrove

Layout by Thao Cosgrove
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Circles Couture Biggie, Brush Set - 4x6: Techno Grunge Borders, Brush Set: Mixed Months Super Biggie, Brush Set: Mixed Years 2000 Super Biggie, Brush Set: Paint Stroke and Lettering Delights Underwood Pica Font are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Ariadna Wiczling

Layout by Ariadna Wiczling
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Little Zoo: Giraffe And Zebra, Brush Set: Painted Swirls, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 Blessings, Brush Set: Stamped Dates, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching And Holes 4103 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Grunged Metals Super Biggie 4103 are also available.

Computer scrapbook project by Jo Corne

Layout by Jo Corne
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: She's All That, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Studio 2 Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Metallic Stitching 6401 Super Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glitter Metals Mini 4102, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stitch 'n Holes 8302 Running Stitch and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Wrinkles 5101 Super Biggie are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Melanie Johnson

Layout by Melanie Johnson
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Childhood Memories Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Bitsy 3801 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paper Textures 4901 are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages - 4x6: Young Man

Computer scrapbook layout by Erica Hite

Layout by Erica Hite
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Doodled Greetings, Brush Set: Paint Stroke and Dynamic Brush Set: Doodle Borders 5402 are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Angie Briggs

Layout by Angie Briggs
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Computer scrapbook layout by Syndee Nuckles

Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set - 4x6: Fancy Frames 2 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sanded Edge Black 6302 are also available.

Project by Ariadna Wiczling

Project by Ariadna Wiczling
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Little Zoo 1 - Biggie and AMC_Chalk Talk Font are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Cherise Oleson

Layout by Cherise Oleson
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x6 Blessings, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Grunged Metals Super Biggie 4103, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Grunged Metals Super Biggie 4103, Brush Set: Bitsy FRAME Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Chipboard 1801 Mini are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Thao Cosgrove

Layout by Thao Cosgrove
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Commercial license versions of AMC_Thoughtful Font are also available.

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: People Pleezers Anonymous

People Pleezers Anonymous

President: Calling to order today’s meeting of the People Pleezers Society. Will everyone please take their seats?

Secretary: Madam President. Point of order, if I may...

President: You may.

Secretary: You said “please.” Please don’t say please. According to the bylaws of our society, you are forbidden to use the word “please” in any of your communications with group members.

President: Oh dear. I’m so sorry. I did do that, didn’t I? Will you forgive me?

Secretary: Of course. (looking at audience) We will all forgive Madam President, won’t we? We all just want to be friends.

Audience: Of course we will. You’re forgiven. It was just a small gaffe.

Secretary: You see, Madam President? We are all in agreement. You have been forgiven. So, please... move forward with the meeting now.

President: Pl-pl-pl.... You just said...

Secretary: (looking up from her notebook) You wanted me, Madam President? Did you have a question?

President: N-n-nooo. I guess not. It’s just that I thought I heard you say something. But I guess I was wrong. Yes... that is it. I was wrong. So sorry to have troubled you. Please forgive me.

Secretary: No trouble. But please, Madam President... for the sake of everyone in this room... I beg you to stop using the forbidden word.

President: Which is...?

Secretary: Oh please, Madam President! Don’t tell me that you have forgotten what it is now? You are throwing it around so carelessly and yet, you insist that you can’t remember what it is.

President: It’s just that I’m not sure now. I mean... if you are using it... then maybe I am confused about which word I am not supposed to be using.

Secretary: Me? Using the forbidden word? Please, Madam President, really! I think you’ve forgotten who I am.

President: You are the founder of the society.

Secretary: Exactly.

President: And you decided what the rules of the society would be?

Secretary: That’s right.

President: And you asked me to be the very first president because you thought it would be a nice way for me to practice standing up for myself?

Secretary: You seem to remember everything so well. But you are failing to remember that since we are a society of individuals who are straining to overcome our tendency to desire to please everyone we come in contact with, even if it often distracts us from our true purpose in life and even if it makes us completely miserable, we have forbidden the use of the word “please” from all written and verbal communications. Your failure to conform to this mandate makes me wonder if I have done the correct thing in nominating you to become our president.

President: I’m so sorry. I’ll try to do better. Will you forgive me?

Secretary: (looks at audience) Should we forgive our president?

Audience: Yes! Please... let’s forgive her. Don’t be harsh. Let’s all be friends. She didn’t mean any harm. Please get this over with ladies... this discussion is getting a little tiresome.

Secretary: The members have spoken. You are forgiven.

President: Then may I continue with our agenda?

Secretary: If you’d please...

I am a card carrying member of the People Pleezers Society. I should be, because I started it about 15 minutes ago. The society was initiated after a long tortuous day in which I suffered because I told someone that something hurt my feelings and I finally took control of a festering issue that I couldn’t get fixed minus my interference. I didn’t like it, but I spoke up and said that my feelings had been hurt and I took the risk that someone was going to be mad because I had finally taken the reigns and fixed a problem.

It is my job to fix things like that. It’s my life and so I’m supposed to speak up when I’m feeling bad about something. But when you are a card carrying member of the People Pleezers Society, you know that after you do what you must, you carry around in your gut (sometimes for days) a dreadful Chicken-Little-Sky-Is-Falling feeling. You have said and done things that likely have caused people to not be pleased. In fact, they are likely mad, upset, complaining to their husband, kicking their chairs, throwing things out of windows, eating excessive chocolate, or sitting in their closets just because you spoke up.

Oh – but it gets worse. Because you actually went ahead and did something that had a very high likelihood of causing someone you value highly to be upset, you believe your behavior may cause mountains to tear apart in a major earthquake, opening a raging river that roars down your street to carry your little yellow house away to the ocean.

There are two sides of being a People Pleezer:

One side of you is inclined to do and say things that you don’t want to do or say because you can’t bear to see anyone suffer.
One side of you agonizes if you have to do something likely to cause someone to feel upset. You’d rather stick your hand through plate glass than have another person angry or hurt by you.

Why? Because you are a card-carrying member of the People Pleezers Society.

Meeting adjourned.

- 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.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: Decorating with Word Art

Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Windows Vista.

Digital scrapbooking word art certainly isn't just for decorating your layouts. Here's an easy and decorative way to display some of your favorite Scrap Girls word art and papers around your home in an altered frame.

What you will need: A frame, digital scrapbooking papers and word art, Mod Podge, a craft knife, ruler and coordinating acrylic paint, if desired.

Decide what size frame you will be working with and begin by making a blank canvas in the same size. Choose your word art and a background paper that matches. If you're working with a smaller frame size (4x6 or 5x7) it’s best to resize your background papers to 7x7 or smaller before moving them onto your canvas. This way you'll get more detail of the paper when you print.

Screenshot: Add paper and word art

Move your paper and word art onto your blank canvas. Center your word art on your canvas and add a drop shadow, if preferred. Note: Keep in mind that most frames crop somewhere between a 1/8th and a 1/4th of an inch off the edges when your finished product is placed into a frame. Print your file.

Screenshot: Attach paper to frame

Next, decide what patterned paper you wish to cover your frame with. Measure the face of your frame and print your paper size accordingly. Apply a small amount of Mod Podge on the face of your frame. Lay your patterned paper face down on the table and apply firm pressure to the frame.

Screenshot: Trim excess paper from frame

After the glue has dried, use a craft knife to cut the excess paper from around the edges and the inside portion of the frame. You may paint the edges around the frame with acrylic paint if you choose.

Coat the patterned paper with a small amount of Mod Podge. This will help adhere and seal the paper to the frame. After it’s dry, insert your word art and display it!

Computer scrapbook layout by Melanie Johnson

Project by Amanda Sok
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Amanda Sok

Tutorial written by Amanda Sok

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?

Crops and Chats

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

Scraplift Crop
Sunday, July 13th - 5:00PM ET

Join TysMommy and angelaNussbaum for a Scraplifting Crop.

A few hours before the crop, we will tell you the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be able to choose one of their layouts to be your inspiration. During the crop we will also help explain about scraplifting, how to use a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving credit.

Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join us, you're sure to enjoy it!

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, July 16th - 12:00Noon ET

On July 16, we'll do a stripes challenge! Create a layout using stripes! Either in your photo, or papers, visible journaling lines, whatever you can think of... find a way to use stripes!

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!

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!

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 Christy VanderWall

Layout by Christy VanderWall
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Designer Freebie by Shalae Tippetts coordinates with her Freedom Collection Mini


Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Sew Torn Up are also available.

* 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.

People Pleezers Anonymous
Friday, July 4, 2008

In This Issue:

- 18.9% Off Summer Storm Sale!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: Decorating with Word Art
- 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

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!

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

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...

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

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!

*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 (Photoshop version also available!)

Digital Photography Simplified

Ten Basic Design Principles

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

See more titles

Available Online Classes

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

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

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!

div 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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