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“Happy Smiles” layout by Stefanie Harris
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
The focal picture in my layout started out as somewhat of a mistake. Haley was being a bit, erm, “camera shy,” and I ended up capturing her as she ducked out of the frame. As I looked at it more closely, however, I decided it sums up her personality perfectly... and that cropping out all the extra space on the right side of the photo would diminish that.
When you have “extra” space like this in a photo, why not use it as an element in and of itself? By using the grassy area as my journaling block, I maintain the feeling of the picture, and cut down on the number of elements I have to add to my page. This page was super-simple to put together, but is still visually interesting! (I added my signature at the bottom of the journaling using my Wacom pen and tablet.)
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Children
Journaling: Okay... so it wasn’t all smiles on this particular day. You are such an animated child, and it isn’t difficult to know exactly how you’re feeling at any given point. But, BABY! When you smile, the whole world lights up. The sun seems brighter. Everyone feels happy. Not to put you under too much pressure or anything, but could you just smile ALL the time? Just sayin’.
“Be Natural” layout by Kara Swanson
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To achieve the aged look of the photo, I edited it using Adobe Lightroom and chose to apply the Aged Photo preset to it. I corrected for exposure and then popped it into PSE, resized, added a frame and dropped it into my layout.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, Adobe Lightroom
Name of challenge: Children
“Busy” layout by Kim Meeder
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
In order to substitute another title for the original title of the layout template, I did not add that layer of the template to my layout. Instead, I chose an alpha from Dinny’s Cozy Collection; however, the alphas had a white paper background that I did not want to use.
I opened my “B” alpha file, chose Image> Duplicate and closed my original file. Next, I chose my Magic Wand Tool with “Contiguous” checked. I clicked on the white background and marching ants appeared around the outside border of the “B.” I made sure my “add to selection” was highlighted on the tool bar and clicked on the white closed areas within the letter “B.” Then, I hit Delete. Next, I used the Move Tool to drag my alpha onto my layout. I repeated this process with the other letters, but there was no need to use the “add to selection” with these letters.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Children
“Half Full” layout by Jo Corne
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create the look of ‘water’ falling into my cup, I used one of Dinny Miller’s ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Waves 3801 and rotated it into position. I then filled the wave with the Cloudy paper from Brandy Murry’s gorgeous RainDance Collection. To use the shape as a type area, I used my Magic Wand to highlight the wave, then created a new layer. I used the Path drop-down menu to turn the highlighted wave outline into a path and finally, using my Text Tool, clicked inside the path and started typing.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Accomplishments
Other Ingredients:
“Birthday Boy” layout by Paula Wright
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
There was a water theme to this birthday party. To reinforce that theme, you can create realistic water very easily using ScrapSimple Tools and Styles. All you have to do is open ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: WaterDrops 5301 Biggie, select the drops you want and bring them onto your layout. Load ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Water 6101 and apply the style to the drop shape. Instantly, it looks as though there was water spilled on your layout. It couldn’t be easier or less messy! Go ahead and get wet!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Children
“Child” layout by Pat Bowman
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I thought the blues of the papers in the Becoming Collection would highlight my granddaughter’s beautiful blue eyes. To bring attention to her eyes, I duplicated my photo and then applied the ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Distressed Photo Sepia 1801 Mini to the top layer. Then I added a layer mask to this layer, chose a soft round brush and painted with black on the layer mask to reveal her blue eyes from the bottom layer. Remember when working with layer masks, “Black to Reveal and White to Conceal.” Once I was through, I merged the two layers and placed the photo on my layout.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Children
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“My Girl” layout by Jennifer Okonek
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Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Children
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Instant Message Freak
- Font - Junior
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. |
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A Designer�s Life: Melanie Johnson |
Trust Your Inner Artist
As the mom of three small boys, I could tell you what my days are like attempting to raise them and work creatively, but I suspect that many of you, especially those of you with small children yourself, can fill in most of the blanks. The short version is that my life is very sticky - literally - and I’m constantly challenged to find enough time to be creative. Let’s don’t even talk about the state of my house!
No, today I want to tell the story of a young girl who enjoyed drawing pictures on her prized chalkboard as she taught her dolls their ABC's. This little girl grew into an adolescent who created a Georgia history scrapbook in seventh grade that was the envy of her classmates. She’d given up drawing years ago, since it had become apparent that her brother was much more talented in that area than she was, but she still loved the creative pursuit in assembling scrapbooks and she made many with enthusiasm as more years passed. Photography became her favorite hobby and she looked forward to checking the mail each day for a blue and white Clark’s envelope filled with her latest photos.
As more years passed, the girl - who had now become a young woman - continued to take photos: first of her friends, then more and more of the landscape. She found herself living in Montana, far from her Georgia roots and family, and suddenly her mother became the one looking forward to receiving photos in the mail. In addition to photography, the young woman realized that she had instinctively surrounded herself with creative people: she worked as the editor of a magazine, donated her time to the support of a local reading series, and had lots of friends who were artists or authors themselves. She interviewed and wrote articles about creative people. She even wrote letters home on paper she’d made herself with handmade deckles. But if anyone had asked her whether she thought of herself as creative, she would have immediately responded with an emphatic no. Her mindset seemed to be that if she was doing it - whatever “it” was - it couldn’t be art.
Fast-forward five more years to a young, thirty-something woman employed by a software company in a very right-brained environment. While successfully managing a staff of editors, whose very jobs existed because of rules and precision, she found herself using her free time to teach herself how to create Polaroid transfers and stained glass, planting morning glories on an indoor trellis she placed in the dining room of her apartment, and spending outrageous amounts of money in art supply stores.
But do you know what? She still would have said no if you’d asked her if she were an artist. She would have downplayed any of her art store purchases as just foolish indulgences from someone who had too much time and money on her hands, while continuing to admire from afar those of her friends who were self-described artists.
As she married, had her first baby, and began a career as a stay-at-home mom, both time and money began to be in shorter supply. The creative urges that once fueled her pastimes were set aside for maintaining a home and caring for her growing family. Acrylic paints were set aside for finger paints; sketchbooks neglected for storybooks instead. A series of failed work-from-home creative pursuits made her wonder whether she would ever find the right niche.
Then she discovered Scrap Girls.
In just a couple of days’ time, she began to amass a collection of digital scrapbooking supplies to rival her art supply stash and she was hooked. The more pages she completed, the more her confidence increased in herself. Slowly, she began to see an artist reflected back at her from her computer screen: an artist whose voice - although she had successfully managed to minimize it for most of her life - could still be heard.
I, of course, am the girl/young woman/mother of this little story. In spite of the fact that I surrounded myself with creative friends and art supplies my entire life, I didn’t really have the courage to fully trust my instincts until I found Scrap Girls and the incredible community that Ro has created online. My story is proof that if you have the courage to listen to that creative voice inside you, you can achieve your heart’s desire with a little encouragement and help from your friends. Thanks to Scrap Girls, I have both, and have never felt more creatively fulfilled in my entire life.
- Melanie
Favorite product I've designed:
Planet Earth Collection Biggie
I love the bright colors and hand-drawn elements of this kit. Although it was designed with an Earth Day focus, I think it’s extremely versatile, especially for kids.
Layout by Melanie Johnson
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ScrapSimple Club Concepts |
The ScrapSimple club contains items that allow YOU to decide the colors and looks you will end up for your digital scrapbooking designs because the ScrapSimple products are completely customizable. You get all the products shown above, a $19.15 value, for $6.99 or less! And if you would like to create designs to share or sell, there's even a commercial club available! Plus, each month we will help you find new ways to use your club contents to the fullest with this article full of ideas, tips, and projects to get your creativity going!
June’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Amanda Sok and Ursula Schneider. Their club is full of fun products that can help you document your photos and get creative in amazing ways. Our entire Scrap Girls staff has put their heads together and come up with some ideas to help you get the most out of your fun, new digital scrapbooking toys!
Layout Ideas:
- International Peace Gardens
- Theatre showings of the Mikado or Miss Saigon
- Fortune-telling at fairs with ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Victorian Trading Card
- Sodoku puzzles
- Chinese takeout and movie night
- Weddings and tea parties
- Visiting Chinatown
- International travel
Layout by Stefanie Harris
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Embellishment Ideas:
- Use the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Asian Fans or Brush Set: Victorian Frame with the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Victorian Trading Card to create ATC's.
- Make trading cards for your each member of your family using the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Victorian Trading Card.
- Use the fans to show photos. The spoked fans can show a “slice of life” theme, showing slices of your day or month.
Layout by Ursula Schneider
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Tips and Tricks:
- Use Brush Set: Victorian Frame on a photo, but delete the part that is outside the photo. This gives an edged look.
- Fans make unique photo corners if shrunken down.
- Use the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Asian Fans to make a few different fans, then translate those into a pattern and make your own patterned paper.
- Use the torn edge paper on the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Far East as a base, then add a pattern to it from other templates.
Layout by Ursula Schneider
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We hope this article gives you some ideas to get you
scrapping! We’d love to see what you come up with. You can share ideas and tips on the message board, plus there’s
a special
gallery available for you to show off your Club creations and inspire
each other, so start creating!
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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
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 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!
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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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!
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Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.) |
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Layout by Amanda McGee
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Designer Freebie by Amanda McGee coordinates with her Fruit Smoothie Collection Biggie, part of this month's Scrap
Girls Club offering!
* There is a “free download” button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available as gifts for about two newsletter cycles. |
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Trust Your Inner Artist
Monday, July 7, 2008
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- 18.9% Off Summer Storm Sale!
- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Melanie Johnson
- ScrapSimple Club Concepts
- 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
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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!
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Scrap Girls is Having a Convention! |
Here are the facts:
When: October 9-11th, 2008
Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October 9th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 11th.
How many people may attend?
Only 19 openings out of 120 are still available. Space is selling out quickly so don't delay.
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
Sign up now!
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If you read nothing else, read this!
15 Things You NEED to Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's so addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!
Free eBook “starter kit” turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking into reality today!
This dynamite eBook is 65 pages - packed full of the information, ideas and help people need when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all day long, every day of the week, and each day of the year. You don't have to wonder about important questions like how to back up your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to scrapbook digitally (and which one to buy), or what type of computer software is required to create digital scrapbooking layouts. The answers are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!
Bonus! Download the fun “Warning” Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a little bit of extra fun!
Would you like a chance to try digital scrapbooking yourself?
Scrap Girls' Refresh Collection Biggie offers you free samples of some of our most popular product types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template, or experiment with a brush.
We know you'll love digital scrapbooking as much as we do, and we have thousands of products to feed your new addiction!
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X
Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9
Do you wish you could learn how to scrapbook digitally, but feel kind of intimated? Well, here's the solution for you. These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!
After you watch the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...
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Create your own digital scrapbook layouts using the latest, most popular techniques
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Manage all of the important basics that digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
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Understand how to save your files for printing or sharing them with your friends and family over the Internet
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Make your own textured brush
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Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
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Make your own simple backgrounds
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See how easy it is to manage transparent embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to look like they are “real”
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Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing techniques
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Learn about transparency and lighting effects
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Make your own digital torn paper edges
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Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
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Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
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Know the secret of putting text on a curve or in a circle
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Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded edges on your photos
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Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make digital scrapbooking a breeze
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Be able to place digital embellishments on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
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Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
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Learn how to install and use purchased textures
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Understand some advanced techniques such as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
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Learn how to adjust black and white photos to sepia
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And lots more!
Start to Finish eBooklets
Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
Nothing could be simpler than learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create a finished project!
More Titles Available |
MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!
*NEW!* MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)
- MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0
It's time for you to stop playing catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more advanced tricks that you see other people and professional digital scrapbookers doing.
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Take the world's easiest shortcuts to creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
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Make sure that you don't make the biggest mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
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Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap Girls ScrapSimple products.
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Dip your digital scrapbooking self into some of those “other” cool tools that are sitting there waiting in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing pen, and more.
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See how easy it is to install and manage new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make things that are creative and unique.
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Learn advanced tricks for using tools that you already know and love.
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Watch me make some beautiful papers and get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
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See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do that with, too...)
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Get “IN” on creating your own brush sets. (You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all along.)
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Find out why Custom Shapes are so importantto you. (Bet you didn't know...)
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Learn how to cut out a title from a background or a photo.
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And even more...
Note: These are NOT beginning tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers, where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed series before you try to use it.
eBooks!
Scrap Girls offers a large catalog of eBooks covering topics that will expand your digital scrapbooking abilities to new heights. Here are just a few samples:
Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements (Photoshop version also available!)
Digital Photography Simplified
Ten Basic Design Principles
Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revialize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2
See more titles |
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! |
Join the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking looks while saving! (A $27.94 value for $9.99 or less!)
The Scrap Girls Club contents are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business day to the 1st).
With the Scrap Girls Club, you will receive:
Layout by 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!) |
Join the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99 or less!)
The new ScrapSimple Club contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest business day to the 15th).
With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:
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1 ScrapSimple Paper Template Set
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1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template Set
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1 Brush Set
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1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
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1 Designer's Choice Item
A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple club is also available here.
Layout by 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! |
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!
 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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