Scrap Girls Chit Chat Newsletter: August 6, 2008

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Computer scrapbook layout by Trish Yochum

Layout by Trish Yochum
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Day at the Beach and Brush Set - 4x6: Fabulous Frames are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Debbie Layden

Layout by Debbie Layden
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Grandeur, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Butterfly Dream, Brush Set: Beautiful Distress, AMC_Friendly Font and Lettering Delights Painter's Hand Font are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Brandy Murry

Layout by Brandy Murry
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Pressed for Time II Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Threadbare Shapes Biggie, Brush Set: Playful Swirls, ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Wings 5701 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sugar Coated 6501 are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Anna Mansfield

Layout by Anna Mansfield
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Hodgepodge Collage Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos2 Biggie and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: All Buttoned Up Biggie are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Armi Custodio

Layout by Armi Custodio
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Blooming Branch Biggie 8201, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Felt 8201 Super Biggie, Dynamic Brush Set: Variae Formae 8201, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Edge It PSE 5001, Dynamic Brush Set: Deco Stitch 5001, Brush Set: Grungelle and ScrapSimple Transparency Overlays: Decorate Brushstrokes 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: Contented

When you think of the word “contented,” what image comes to mind? I imagine a grandpa and grandma sitting on their porch, their hands resting on their bellies, smiles on their faces, as they gaze around their yard. They are relaxed because they own their home. They have flowers, a garden and bottles of fruit in their basement. Their grandchildren come to visit on Sundays and they drink limeade in clear glasses. They go on drives in their old car and stop at roadside diners to eat hot turkey sandwiches.

Of course, I am describing my own grandparents who seemed contented to me, despite the struggles they faced. My grandmother often told me about going through the depression and being so poor that she didn’t have a nickel to buy a spool of thread. I repeatedly heard about the time she wanted a new dress for a dance so badly that she carefully unpicked it, turned it inside out and sewed it up again. I was told about the time when the drought got so bad that Grandpa couldn’t raise crops and then the federal government came along and made them kill their pigs because they wanted to try and raise the price of pork. They didn’t have any way of making money, so Grandpa had to go to another state that winter to work, leaving his family behind to get along the best they could.

I was told the hard-times stories of their lives, but I was also told the good-times stories and there were more of those. I heard about dances, parties, plays, socials, visits with families, gardening, sewing and the other interests they had that made life happy and good. My grandparents didn’t sit around and mope when times got hard. They worked hard and then had fun. They played checkers each night, sang at the piano, went sledding and pulled taffy. They knew that it was important to create happy memories for themselves.

In his book Overworked, Don Hawkins wrote that “life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it!”

Even though the depression went away and their financial lives improved, Grandma and Grandpa never ‘got over’ the depression because getting through the depression made them appreciate what they had. I suppose that is why they enjoyed sitting on their front porch on summer evenings talking to their family about everything and nothing at all.

In the book Finding Rest When the Work is Never Done, Patrick Klingaman gives us a method of understanding how contented we are:

How can we gauge our overall level of contentment? A simple method is to compare the time we spend appreciating our current situation with the time we spend wishing for something better. If phrases like “if only” or “as soon as” are a staple in your vocabulary, contentment probably doesn’t describe your outlook. Don’t worry; you are not alone. Most people could identify with at least one of these wish phrases: “if only I had a better job,” “if only my spouse understood me better,” “as soon as I make enough money,” “as soon as our children leave home.” Even one unfulfilled wish can rob us of contentment if we allow ourselves to dwell on it.

He then continues and gives three keys to achieving contentment which are: gratitude, acceptance and service.

I can now see that my grandparents were contented because these three attributes were part of their daily lives. Their experience had taught them to be grateful for each gift God sent to them. They had learned to accept their circumstances and find joy in whatever they could. They were also models of service. My grandmother – who I saw nearly every day of my life – never came to our home without a gift of bread, cookies, jam or other like item. She served her community, her family, her neighbors, her friends and her church faithfully. When I think of Grandma, I think of a busy little woman who was always thinking of others.

I would like to say that I am contented at this moment that you are in my life. You are a blessing to me. I want you to know how important you are to all of us here at Scrap Girls. Thank you so much.

Have a great day,

- 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 Scrapbooking Tutorial: Wrapping a Frame Using ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Flat Ribbons

Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop CS2 with Mac OS X.

ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates are a great way to create tons of unique digital scrapbooking embellishments for your layouts. I am going to show you how to wrap a frame using the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Flat Ribbons.

Begin by opening the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Flat Ribbons PNG file of your choice. I am going to be using the striped ribbon for this example.

Screenshot: Open frame file

Now, open the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Vintage Portrait Frames 1 PNG file of your choice. I will be using #4 from this set.

Screenshot: Create a new blank file

In order to give yourself ample working space, open a new 12x12 blank file by choosing File> New, and make sure it is set to inches. Specify 12” for both height and width, 300 for the resolution, “RGB” for the color mode and “Transparent” for the background contents.

Screenshot: Drag files onto new document

Now, drag your ribbon template file and your photo frame file over to your newly created 12x12 blank document.

Screenshot: Check layer placement

Next, we are going to wrap the ribbon around the frame by using a clipping mask. To do this, make sure your ribbon layer is on top of the frame layer in your Layers Palette.

Screenshot: Create clipping mask

Position your ribbon where you would like it to look wrapped around the frame. Make sure your ribbon layer is active in the Layers Palette by clicking on it before you move the ribbon. Once you have the ribbon positioned where you would like it, press Ctrl+G (Command+G on a Mac) to “clip” it to the frame layer beneath it, thereby hiding the parts of the ribbon that extend beyond the sides of the frame. **Note that when using this method, you’ll need to make sure that the placement of the ribbon itself is not overlapping the open portion of the frame, as it will hide that part of the ribbon as well. I have placed my ribbon under the bottom of the frame opening as shown.

Now that your ribbon has been “clipped” to the frame, you can add color and shadows to it to make it look more realistic. Start with the ribbon layer by clicking on it in the Layers Palette. Set your foreground color in the Tools Palette for the color you would like the ribbon to be. I am going to use a green color.

Screenshot: Colorize ribbon

With that color selected, press Ctrl+U (Command+U on a Mac) and when the box pops open, check the box next to “Colorize” on the bottom right and then move the Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders just a bit until you are happy with the resulting ribbon color. (Make sure the “Preview” box at the bottom right is also checked so that you can see the changes as they happen.)

Screenshot: Colorize frame

You can also give your frame some color by following the same steps listed above for coloring the ribbon. Set your foreground color to the color you’d like your frame to be first.

Now you can go ahead and add your drop shadow to your clipped ribbon layer. **Note that the shadow itself will also clip itself to the frame layer so that you will only see shadowing on the frame itself and nowhere outside of it.

Screenshot: Add drop shadow to ribbon

In the Layers Palette, click on the ribbon layer to make it active. Next, click on the layer styles button at the bottom of the Layers Palette. (The layer styles button looks like a black circle with the letter “f” inside of it.) When you click on the layer styles button, a menu will drop down and you will choose “Drop Shadow.” You will want to give your ribbon layer a subtle drop shadow that slightly takes on the color of the ribbon itself. To do this, I am choosing these options to coordinate with my green ribbon:

Blend Mode: “Multiply,” with color set to a darker greenish-grey
Opacity: 60%
Angle: 120 degrees, check “Use Global Light”
Distance: 8 px
Spread: 9%
Size: 5 px

Leave the rest underneath as is. **Note that you will want to check the “Preview” box here as well so that you can see the drop shadow changes as you create them.

Screenshot: Add several layers of ribbon

Get creative and add a few layers of ribbons, possibly turning them at an angle as well. To achieve the effect in this example, simply copy the existing ribbon layer by clicking on it in the Layers Palette and dragging it down to the New Layer button at the bottom of the Palette. (The New Layer button looks like a tiny square inside of a larger square.) Once you have a copy of the ribbon layer, press Ctrl+T (Command+T on a Mac) and turn the corner handles to rotate the ribbon.

You can explore many other options with layering of various styles of ribbon and strings to get a very textured and interesting effects. Have fun!

Computer scrapbook layout by Keri Schueller

Layout by Keri Schueller
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Flat Ribbons, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: In Bloom Biggie and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Vintage Portrait Frames are also available.

Keri Schueller

Tutorial written by Keri Schueller

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?

Crops and Chats

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, August 6th - 12:00Noon ET

Join your host April Showers 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 August 6, we'll do a 10 photo challenge! Create a layout using any colors, any theme, but 10 photos! Sound daunting? Try a template!

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, August 7th - 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 August 7th, at 1 PM ET, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!

Scraplift Crop
Sunday, August 10th - 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!

Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, 11 August - 8:30PM *Australian Eastern Standard Time*

Please join Jo (ScrappingJo) and Karen (Kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat. This week we will have an art inspired challenge. On Sunday, 10 August, we will post a picture for you to take some inspiration from. Create your layout then come and meet Jo & Karen in the Chat Room at 8.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (Please take note of the time change).

For all our other International Ladies, the chat will start at 6.30am New York time on Monday, 11 July. We look forward to seeing you all at the chat.

Leavin' Love Chat
Monday, August 11th - 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, August 11th, at 1:00 ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room! See ya there!!

NSBR Chat
Monday, August 11th - 9:00PM 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, Carla (CRS) on August 11th at 9 pm et! Hope to see you there!

Get Published Chat
Tuesday, August 12th - 9:00PM ET

Join Angela (angelaNussbaum), Amy (tysMommy) and Christy (christyVW) for the Get Published Chat on August 12th at 9 PM ET.

Do you want to see your layouts in magazines, but you are not quite sure how? Do you need a little more confidence with your layouts? During the Get Published Chat, we will talk about current calls, give constructive criticism on requested layouts, and we will answer your questions about submitting to magazines.

As with most of our chats, there will also be a challenge. To help you further your chances of being published, we will select a call, and challenge you to do a layout with that theme! Be sure you come to this informative Monthly chat, you will be glad you did!

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, August 13th - 12:00Noon ET

On August 13, we'll do a Kitchen Sink challenge! Create a layout using the color red, a button, three or more photos and a tag! Add any other embellishments you'd like, and any other colors as well!

August Events

August Board Game: BINGO!

It's that time again! Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Message Board Forum in August! Pick 25 words from the list provided in the forum and send them in an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject line saying “BINGO CARD” and including your message board user name by Sunday, August 3rd in order to play in the first round which will begin Monday, August 4th.

Each day, members of the Welcoming Committee will call 5 random words from the Bingo list. Match just 15 of those words to win a BINGO. You must be first to call bingo in the forum to win that round. After a winner is called, the boards can be cleared and a new round will begin the following day. All winners receive a $5 Gift Certificate to the boutique! We like to see lots of winners, so please remember that each person can only win one round during the month. Have fun!

If you miss the first round cutoff date, you can still play! Just send in your Bingo card at any time during the month and you'll be eligible to begin playing when the next new round starts. Everyone who sends in a Bingo card will receive a confirmation email that their card has been received. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours, please re-send your list of words. We cannot be held responsible for misdirected emails.

Layout Contests:

August Layout Contest: We all have had some magical events in our life. We want to see your layouts that describe a time before or during a magical event in your life like a wedding, a prom, a special vacation, or maybe the birth of a child. Upload your layouts to the August Layout Gallery by August 31st at Midnight, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Mid-July Layout Contest: Do you have a dream destination to which you would like to travel in the future, or maybe a dream place where you’ve already been? We want to see your layout of this dream destination. Upload your layouts to the July Mid-month Layout Gallery by August 15th at midnight and you could win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique if your layout is chosen!

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 Sarah Batdorf

Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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Designer Freebie by Angie Briggs coordinates with her His and Hers Collection, part of this month's Scrap Girls Club offering!


Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos Biggie -Weathered 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.

Contented
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

In This Issue:

- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial: Wrapping a Frame Using ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Flat Ribbons
- 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

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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 9 openings are still available!

We're starting our final countdown now; don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! 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 - Conquering the Fear of Patterned Paper
Conquering the Fear of Patterned Paper
August 14 and 21 - 9:30PM ET

This in-depth digital scrapbooking class is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to use patterns. Patterns can be overwhelming and challenging to use. Learn some simple rules and guidelines to make them easier. Discuss different types of patterns, and how to effectively combine them. Study real examples, and see how applying the rules can improve your layouts.

Important: This is an Intermediate Level class open to all software program users. Students are, however, required to understand the basic skills taught in the Scrapbook Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Secrets Revealed program for their software 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 Angie Briggs using August's Scrap Girls Club
Layout by Angie Briggs using August's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Angie Briggs

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 Keri Schueller using July's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Keri Schueller using July's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Brandy Hackman and Keri Schueller

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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