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“7 Things” layout by Jennifer Labre
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
One quick and easy way to highlight a subject in a photo is to make the edges of the photo darker. I do this by using the Burn Tool. On this photo, I used the tool with the settings of Brush Size: 250 px, Hardness: 0%, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 33%. I then simply drag the brush around the edges of the photo and the background a bit to darken it. This helped to really pop my daughter into the forefront of the photo.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Numbers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Campaign Normal
- Font - Carrington
- Font - Café Rojo
- Font - Cricket
- Font - Communication PIEF
“It’s All About the Water” layout by Armi Custodio
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
In order to frame my photos, I used the Magic Wand to selectively erase circles in Melanie Johnson’s Childhood Memories “Groovy” paper. To add depth, I applied a low drop shadow (Size: 7px, Distance: 4px, Opacity: 75%) on the Groovy paper and placed round brown frames from the same collection just below the paper layer.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Summer Traditions
“123 JUMP” layout by Christy VanderWall
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To make the little frogs on the bottom of the page, I placed the “Frog” paper from Shari’s Cabana Collection Biggie on my layout. Then I used Select> Color Range to select the outside part of the frog. Ctrl+J copies the selected part to a new layer. The original paper was then deleted from the layout.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Numbers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Impact
- Font - Century Gothic
“Just the 2 of Us” layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted the title to include a number and a photo clipped to it. For this, I used the bold number ‘2’ from Amanda Sok’s A Blooming Fancy Collection and clipped a paper from Sheri Johnson’s Cabana Paper Super Mini to it. I transformed my photo into a sketch with Brandy Murry’s Sketch It Action and erased parts of it with Brandie Valenzuela’s Brush Set: Grungelle. Finally I added a slight bevel to the layer with the number.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements CS3
Name of challenge: Numbers
“Sunshine” layout by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To get the look of the embellishments weaving in and out of the string, I used my Rectangular Marquee Tool to select the areas of the string that should be above the element and then created a new layer via copy (Ctrl+J or Command+J on a Mac) and dragged the new layer on top of the element. I also decided to place the larger fish on that particular part of my photo because I did not like the water hose in the background and I did not want to mask or clone it out.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, iPhoto
Name of challenge: ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates
“04.22.07” layout by Kim Meeder
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Don’t be afraid to play with your drop shadows. To create the drop shadow on the swirl, I highlighted the swirl layer in my Layers Palette. Next, I brought the Layer Style window up by double clicking on the words “drop shadow.” You could also choose Layer> Layer Style> Drop Shadow. I selected the following settings: Opacity: 51%, Angle: 120 degrees, Distance: 21 px, Spread: 0%, Size: 7 px. Finally, I clicked “Okay.”
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Numbers
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Dirty Ego
- Photo Credit - Brandon Kidd
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A Designer�s Life: Melissa Renfro |
Create Beauty
As I sit here tonight, my life is in transition. For the most part of this year, we have been working at selling our house and finding a new home for our family. We just felt like this was the right time to be able to spread out a little bit and have some more room for us, our ministry activities and our five boys.
At the beginning of the summer, we drove by a house in a rural area of our town. We really loved the idea of living on an acre of land, letting the boys run and ride bikes, growing a garden, etc. While this house was for sale, it was totally out of our price range, but we could tell it would need some work. It had been vacant for quite a while and much of the landscaping was overgrown. We looked in the windows and saw that much of the interior was dated. We thought we might just call and see if our realtor knew anything about it. He walked us through the house and said he would get us some more information.
The house was wonderful. It had all the rooms we needed and space for everything we wanted. It was dated but well cared for. Right away I began to “see” how it should be. I could see curtains on the windows and flowers in the kitchen. I could see how the living room would look with a nice fireplace and mantle and no more wood paneling. I looked out the windows and could imagine the hummingbirds hovering over bright feeders and butterflies fluttering around climbing rose bushes. I could almost hear the joyful shouting of the boys running and playing games around the house.
I am inspired to create beauty. I see beauty in the things that God has created and I want to capture that and, in a small way, create things that reflect that beauty. This house is a great house; it is just waiting for laughter, waiting for joy and life. It is waiting for us. It just needed someone to see a vision of what it could be, the beauty that could be there.
This last weekend we sold our house. By the time you read this, we will be moved into a new house. We are moving into this dream house, a house that needed a dream. We are going to bring life here, a new life, and work on it a little at a time. Even in the little things like paint colors and new lights, we will be able to put in a little creativity and make an older house into a warm home for our family. I will finally have a place to really stretch my creative spirit and be able to try new things and see what becomes of it. We will really be able to make this house our own.
- Melissa
Favorite product I've designed:
ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 and are also available.
Photography was my first love and I really love giving my photos a “finished” look by using the smart glow on color photos. I love the look of black and white photos as well as the chocolate-colored pictures. For this layout, I wanted a soft black and white look to blend into the background paper. Using these actions, I was able to get that soft look.
Layout by Melissa Renfro
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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!
August’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Melissa Renfro and Trish Yochum. 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:
- Autumn
- Enjoying a meal outside, particularly on a patio with lots of hanging plants or vines (use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu)
- Wine tasting party
- Home remodeling layouts (use grungy template in ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Tuscany)
- Kids putting olives on their fingers (use olives from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu)
- Feminine layouts (using the flower templates from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Tuscany)
- Nature (use leaf and vines from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu and Brush Set: Grapevine)
- Playing in dirt (using the grungy textured templates from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Tuscany to create the look)
- Summer
- Document a trip to a Italian movie festival (do a Google search for one that might be in your area)
- Vintage (create a older, distressed look with ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Tuscany)
- Gardening or flowers, especially of beautiful sunflowers you grow or find
Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Embellishment ideas:
- Cluster several sunflowers from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu to create a bouquet; add the raffia bow to “tie” them.
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu paper for sharing a recipe.
- Create a photo frame grapevine brushes in Brush Set: Grapevine.
- Clip a little photo to center of sunflowers in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu to create sunflower frames.
- Add a single capitalized letter to labels created with the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own: Tuscan Labels to design a decorative monogram.
- Place beads on the strings in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks.
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks vertically and without the string as hangers of photos or frames.
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks along with ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Curled or ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Shapely Curled Edges to create a “tied back” effect.
- Create a frame in the center of labels from the ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Tuscan Label.
- Hang photos on the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks as a sort of clothesline or how you would see photos hung drying in a dark room.
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks in a row to "lace" together two papers.
- Create unique photo corners with ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks by leaving off the loop part.
- Use a single ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks vertically to dangle an alpha or a charm from a string.
- Use the peeling paint templates in ScrapSimple Paper Template: Tuscany to add texture to a photograph using Blend Modes.
- Add texture to a wooden frame template such as ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Frames Biggie by using ScrapSimple Paper Template: Tuscany.
- Sunflowers in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu can be grouped together to created a “virtual” field of sunflowers on a layout.
- The vines and leaves in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu can be used to frame a whole page.
- Create tabs with the tieback parts in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks.
- Use ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Tuscan Label as a journaling spot.
- Rotate ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Tuscan Labels for a different look.
- Use the fibers in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks without the tieback parts on a photo so it looks tied around it.
- Create borders with the sun and the grape in ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Tuscan Labels.
- The different parts of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks can be assembled to create borders.
- Add an extra “loop” to each tieback in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tiebacks to create string frames.
Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Card ideas:
- Use Brush Set: Grapevines for menu cards for a formal occasion
- Add olives in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu to a recipe card.
- Invitations for an Italian movie night at your home
- Create dinner invitations with the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu for a parent's night out or a family get together.
- Create a card with baking instructions for a dinner (such as lasagna) that you might make and drop off to a friend that is not feeling well.
- Gift card for a bottle of wine
- Use sunflowers in ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Tuscan Menu to create a happy, cheery card.
- Create an invitation for a wine tasting party.
Card by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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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!
Have fun!
P.S. We hope you are enjoying one of our newest articles, Club Concepts. Each Monday, we give you ideas on how to use your current club selections in many different ways. We give you ideas for layout themes, embellishments, tips, cards, quotes, projects, and more! Well, we have realized that in creating these articles, we were leaving out one of the most important voices in our club... yours! So, we would like to announce that we will be looking for your help in creating these articles. And, of course, there are prizes involved!
How can you get involved, you may ask? Simply post your new layout using the current club selection (either the Scrap Girls club or the ScrapSimple club) in our Scrap Girls Club Members Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used, as well as a short (1-2 sentence) description of the unique idea or theme your layout shows off. If your layout and its corresponding tip is chosen, they will be showcased in our Club Concepts article, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! |
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What's Happening at Scrap Girls? |
If you have never been to the Scrap Girls Chat Room before or have questions about it, this tutorial, Chat Basics, will provide lots of helpful information.
Crops and Chats |
Life Moments Chat and Crop
Tuesday, September 2nd - 9:00PM ET
Join Pat (PBarnes) 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 do a layout about our first car. It doesn't matter if you don't have a photo. You can see if you can find an image on the Internet or just do a journaling layout. Hope to see you there!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, September 3rd - 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 September 3, we'll do a monochromatic challenge! Create a layout using shades of yellow! No other colors except black and white allowed!
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, September 4th - 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 September 4th, at 1 PM ET, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!
New Member Chat
Thursday, September 4th - 9:00PM ET
Join Pat (PBarnes) and Carol Ann (Zaz) for the New Member Chat at 9 PM ET in the Live Chat room lobby.
This is a great place to ask questions about getting around the Scrap Girls site or about digital scrapbooking in general - and a great place to make some new friends. All are welcome, new and long time members included.
You do need to have Java installed on your computer to access the Live Chat.
Quote Chat & Challenge
Sunday, September 7th - Time TBA
Come join Pat (PBarnes) for the Quote Challenge Crop! Including a quote on your layout can be a touching and meaningful addition, especially if you use the quote to create your own word art.
Here's how it will work. On Sunday, I'll post a thread on the Chat section of the board giving you the quote that you will use to make your own word art. It's not hard, and I will even have a layout with a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout!
We'll post the time on Sunday, as the time changes around each time to allow participation by our international folks. Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!
Aussie Colour Chat and Challenge
Monday, September 8th - 8:30PM *Australian Eastern Standard Time*
Join Karen (Kazbar73) and Jo (ScrappingJo) for a Aussie Colour Chat and Challenge. Watch the boards on Monday for the colour, then complete a layout and join us in the Live Chat Lobby at 8.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. Hope to see you there.
PS - For all you American Girls, who are more than welcome to join our chats, it will be on Monday, 8 September, at 6.30am New York time.
NSBR Chat
Monday, September 8th - 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) at 9 pm et in the chat room!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, September 10th - 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 September 10, we'll do a geometric challenge! Create a layout using at leat one triangle somewhere on your page!
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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September Events |
September Board Game: Guess that ScrapGirl!
It's Back-to-School time and with it come memories of our own childhood. What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you dream big? This month, join us on the Message Board for a game of "Guess that ScrapGirl!" and find out what our ScrapGirls team members dreamed of becoming when they were little girls.
Every day during the month of September, a member of the Welcoming Committee will post a school-aged photo of one of the ScrapGirls team members. Identify the team member and then create and keep an ongoing list with your answers on it, and send your completed list to [email protected] no later than midnight October 2nd. (You can find current photos of all team members in the About Us section of the ScrapGirls home page.)
Everyone who correctly identifies all 30 team members will be entered in a drawing for one of three $10 Gift Certificates! Correctly identify 20+ team members and be entered in a drawing for one of two $5 Gift Certificates! Identify 10+ and be entered in a drawing for one of two $3 Gift Certificates!
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!
August Mid-Month Layout Contest: The story of your life is unwritten. We’d love to see a layout that has a story of something in your life most people don’t know about you. Do you have a hidden talent to share, a special award you received, or maybe an embarrassing moment? Upload your layouts to the August Mid-month Layout Gallery by September 15th at midnight and you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique if your layout is chosen!
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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 Laurel Lakey
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Designer Freebie by Brandy Murry coordinates with her High School Edge Collection Biggie
* There is a “free download” button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available as gifts for about two newsletter cycles. |
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Create Beauty
Monday, September 1, 2008
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Melissa Renfro
- 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 6 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
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 |
10 Basic Design Principles
September 4 and 11 - 3:00PM ET
Do you ever find yourself struggling with a layout, feeling like something is off, but not sure what? There are some simple rules that can help. This digital scrapbooking class is the place to learn the basics of layout design. Discover how to make a visually balanced layout, using a grid. Learn simple rules and guidelines to make layout design a snap. Study real examples, and see how applying the rules can improve your layouts.
Important: This class is for all digital scrapbookers who want to learn basic layout principles.
Kitchen Kreations with Wacom Bamboo
September 10 and 17 - 1:00PM ET
This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on Wacom Bamboo is the perfect opportunity to learn various ways to best utilize your graphics tablet. Discuss tips for customizing your graphics tablet, making it more “you-friendly.” Then experiment with several techniques for enhancing layouts with pressure-sensitive settings and the new dynamic brush sets.
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet users, who also use Adobe Photoshop Elements, versions 4 and up and/or Adobe Photoshop, versions 7 and up. 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 Melissa Renfro using September's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Melissa Renfro
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 Melissa Renfro using August's ScrapSimple Club
larger view
Created for you by Melissa Renfro and Trish Yochum
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.
Club Concepts: We hope you are enjoying one of our newest articles, Club Concepts. Each Monday, we give you ideas on how to use your current club selections in many different ways. Well, we have realized that in creating these articles, we were leaving out one of the most important voices in our club... yours! So, we would like to announce that we will be looking for your help in creating these articles.
How can you get involved, you may ask? Simply post your new layout using the current club selection (either the Scrap Girls club or the ScrapSimple club) in our Scrap Girls Club Members Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used, as well as a short (1-2 sentence) description of the unique idea or theme your layout shows off. If your layout and its corresponding tip is chosen, they will be showcased in our Club Concepts article, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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. 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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