Scrap Girls Chit Chat Newsletter: October 3, 2008

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Computer scrapbook layout by Cherise Oleson

Layout by Cherise Oleson
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Commercial license versions of Lettering Delights Dear Diary Font are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Stephanie Harris

Layout by Stephanie Harris
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Art and Soul - Draw, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: On Edge, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Collage Frames - Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sanded Edge 6301 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stained Wood 5103 are also available.

Computer scrapbook layouts by Brandy Murry

Layout by Brandy Murry
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Nuptials Biggie and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Nuptials Biggie are also available.

Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda McGee

Layout by Amanda McGee
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Ties and Tags, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 and Lettering Delights Mother's Typewriter Font are also available.

Computer scrapbook project by Thao Cosgrove

Project by Thao Cosgrove
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Calendar: Big Design 2009 and Lettering Delights Artistic Font are also available.

If you have praise, comments, or questions for any of our Product Designers or Layout Artists, 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.

Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!

It's getting close now... can you believe there is less than one week until our Convention starts? The excitement is really building around our message board. We have some wonderful things lined up to share with you, and we're excited to tell you a bit about them here!

One of our special guest instructors will be none other than Nichole Van from nicholeV photography. She will be presenting, “Making Art Out of the Ordinary: Mastering Light, Location and Composition.” Here's a short description:

Ever wonder how those professional photographers manage to find such incredible locations? And how do they always get that amazing light in their photos? Wouldn’t it be fun to create art out of the everyday, ordinary things you see? Nichole will discuss how to assess and best photograph any given location and how to “see” and use natural light effectively, getting perfect light in your photos. She’ll also discuss how to compose artistic photographs based on principles of classic composition and then how to bring all these elements out when editing in Photoshop. Come learn how to create art out of your life!

Photo: Nichole Van Photography

Nichole has such wonderful photography skills, we know you'll be as excited as we are to have her come share her expertise with us!

Some of our other special guest speakers include April Anderton and Lynda Angelastro from Digital Scrapbooking Magazine. They will be giving pointers on how to get published! We also have special sponsors Carbonite in on this, too.

If you'd like to come and learn from Nichole, April and Lynda, in addition to all the other great things we have planned for you, hurry and sign up now! We only have TWO spots left! That's right... JUST TWO! Stay tuned to hear more about our Convention!

Life Muses by Ro: A Big Mistake

Have you ever made a mistake? A big mistake?

I have.

Let’s see... which of my many mistakes shall I tell you about today? I’ve made some whoppers.

Don’t get the wrong idea; I’ve never done anything immoral or illegal. I’ve mostly concentrated my mistake efforts as the jester that seemingly lives to amuse and confuse people who live in the Land of Mistakedom.

Back to one of my whopper mistakes. Which one to tell you? Hmmmm... I’ve got one for you. I just made this mistake last week.

Gary and Julianne drove me over to the bank on our way to an appointment. They waited in the car while I went inside to do my banking.

It just so happened that we were driving – for the first time – a new-used car we purchased a few hours previously for Julianne as a replacement for the totaled car that one of her friends had “borrowed” without permission. And so, in honor of the first time out, Julianne was in the driver’s seat.

Because it was a new-to-us car, I wasn’t used to looking for it and, frankly, I hadn’t noticed too much what it did look like. I knew it was a very dark blue.

When I came out of the bank, I first looked for my gold Camry. Once I remembered that I hadn’t driven myself to the bank, I recalled that we arrived in the new-used car. I looked for a car that might be it.

Then I spotted it. As I walked over to the passenger’s seat, I thought, “Hey, look at the windows. They’re dark. That’s nice.”

I opened the door and noticed a backpack on the floor. I thought, “That’s odd. Why did Gary put that there?”

I climbed in and was about to ask about the backpack when I heard, “I don’t think you’re in the right car.”

I whipped my eyes over to the driver’s seat. A young man was grinning at me.

I began looking around for the door handle. I wanted to get out fast! I mumbled something about being confused because it was the first time I had ridden in my daughter’s car and that his is about the same color. I looked in the back seat and saw a little boy staring at the crazy lady who had just climbed into his family’s car uninvited.

The man began to roar with laughter. He roared so loudly and completely that his Adam’s apple throbbed as it made room for the sound. The more I tried to explain what happened, the harder he laughed.

I managed to escape and quickly located our car. Then, I looked back. I had climbed into a black car. Our car is blue. I had made a big, silly mistake because the two vehicles looked nothing alike. Embarrassment doesn’t quite cover how I felt at that moment. I felt foolish.

The good thing about my escapade is that, perhaps, I’d made up my “goofy mistake” quotient for at least several months.

But, you never know... I could trip, say the wrong thing, walk out of a restroom with my skirt tucked into the back of my nylons, reach out and hold the wrong hand at the mall, pour sour milk on a bowl of cereal, brush my teeth with hemorrhoid cream, or an endless list of things. I’ve done these things before and so it seems likely that I’ll do them again.

I ought to know; I’ve done them all.

But you know what? I think it is okay that I make mistakes. Making mistakes means that I’m doing something. Messing up is part of this life. When we make mistakes, we learn humility. We learn that we aren’t infallible. We learn compassion for other people and, if we are wise, we learn to laugh at ourselves.

Here’s to the desire that all of our mistakes make us giggle. And, here’s to the hope that I will not climb into someone else’s car for at least another week.

Mistakenly yours,

- Ro

Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems, another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does not have to agree with musings to enjoy them, just as one does not have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.

Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate? Send your own muse to [email protected]. If it is selected for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have fun shopping!

Ro is now spotlighting various Scrap Girls members, showing layouts, and running contests in her blog. If you end up being spotlighted in it, you'll get a little gift from her. Subscribe to her blog so you don't miss what is going on!

Ro has recently spotlighted Pireps, CharleneJ and Soozlou.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: Creating Personalized Album Window Inserts

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

I love to shop the clearance section; you never know what you might find. A few years back, I found some beautiful 8”x8” scrapbook albums, each of which had a window insert on the cover to place a photo. I didn’t necessarily want to place a photo in mine since the albums are family albums. So, using my digital scrapbooking supplies, I was able to personalize my album covers. This is a great little project that can help even the plainest of albums look super!

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Album

First, we need to take a look at your album cover. The window is one size, but the pocket that it is in is a larger size. Most albums already come with a faux photo like this album.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Trace window opening

Remove the faux photo and turn it around so that the white is showing. (Note: If your album did not come with a faux photo, simply cut a piece of white paper to size to fit in the pocket behind the front cover. Make sure that it fits in the pocket with little room to shift or move.) Write the word “top” at the top of that piece of paper and reinsert it so the word top IS at the top. Using a pencil, draw an outline of the window directly on the insert.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Add 1/8" border

Remove the insert and draw a box about 1/8” outside the box you just traced. This will allow for some extra wiggle room on your insert.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Measure paper

Using a ruler, measure the outside dimensions of the paper and record the measurement...

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Measure outside interior box

...and the larger inside box. Record this measurement.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Create new document using paper's dimensions

Now, go to your computer. Open a new document in which the measurements are the same as the entire insert (your first measurement).

Create a new layer.

Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Select “Fixed Size.” Plug in the size of the interior measurements (your second measurement). Place the marquee square in the middle of your document or, looking at your drawing, in the place where it falls on your actual insert.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Go to Edit> Stroke

Now, go to Edit> Stroke.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Assign center stroke in red

Assign a center stroke of about 3px in a bright color. I use red.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Don't extend readable design past stroke

This layer becomes your boundary layer. Use it to make sure that your readable design does not extend beyond this square. (Note: You will want to make sure that your background covers your entire document to make trimming easier after you print out your image.)

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Turn off stroke layer before printing

After you are finished with your design, turn off the layer containing the safe area boundary before you print.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Printing setup

Set up your picture for printing. Remember to UNCHECK the button that says “Scale to Fit Media” since you want this to print at actual size.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Print and trim your insert

Print your image and cut it right to the edge of your image. Now, place your new insert into your album. You now have a personalized album cover. Imagine the possibilities and have fun!

Computer scrapbook project by Theresa Kavouras

Project by Theresa Kavouras
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Theresa Kavouras

Tutorial written by Theresa Kavouras

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

Leavin' Love Chat
Monday, October 6th - 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, October 6th, at 1:00 ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room! See ya there!!

Life Moments Chat
Tuesday, October 7th - 1:00PM ET

Join me (PV Mom of 2 - Shari) in the chatroom at 1 PM Eastern Time for the Life Moments Crop. Topic TBD soon. See you there!

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, October 8th - 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 October 8, we'll do a simple style challenge! Create a layout using the clean and simple style - no extra visual clutter, clear large-font journaling, clean straight lines, etc.

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!

New Member Chat
Tuesday, October 14th - 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.

High Noon Crop
Wednesday, October 15th - 12:00Noon ET

On October 15th, we'll do a wave challenge! Create a layout using a wave or a swirl in some way on your page. It can be a paper cut out in a wave shape, a funky swirly brush, an embellishment that has waves and swirls - just use a wave in some way!

NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, October 16th - 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 October 16th, at 1 PM ET, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!

Heritage Crop
Thursday, October 16th - 8:00PM ET

Do you have boxes of heritage photos just waiting to be restored and scrapped? Are there family stories just waiting for you to write down and preserve? Then this is the crop for you!

Join April (April Showers) and Carla (CRS) for the Heritage Crop and Chat! We'll help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy.

Quote Chat & Challenge
Sunday, October 19th - 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!

October Events

October Board Game: Posting Contest!

Have you ever been described as “garrulous?” How about “loquacious?” Or “voluble?” If so, then this is the game for you!

It's time to put your chatty nature to the test and get posting! We want to see you post the most! The top 10 posters this month will each win a gift certificate to the boutique! (Top 1-3 will each get a $10 GC, 4-6 will each get a $5 GC, and 7-10 will each get a $3 GC!) We've got a system to keep track of your posts. If you want to keep your own tally, feel free to note your post count before you start posting on Wednesday October 1st. Contest ends on Friday October 31st at Midnight MT!

So go on with your gabby girl self! This is the month for you!

Layout Contests:

October Layout Contest: Has someone ever done something for you that you will never forget or maybe gone above and beyond for you? This month’s contest is the perfect opportunity to document it or thank them for it. We want to see your layouts commemorating those that have made a difference in your life, no matter how big or small. Post your layouts to the October Gallery by Midnight ET on October 31st. If your layout is chosen you will win a $10 gift certificate to the boutique! Be sure to include the credits for products used in the description or under the Details button.

September Mid-Month Layout Contest: Dreams are one of the most fascinating things we can experience. Now is your chance to scrap one of the dreams you’ve had, or to create a “dreamy” layout. Maybe you have a dream that you’ve always had since you were a child, or a dream that you had a week ago. Let’s see those dreamy layouts uploaded to the Mid-September Gallery by midnight, October 15th, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)

Today's Freebie

Computer scrapbook layout by Theresa Kavouras

Layout by Theresa Kavouras
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Designer Freebie by Theresa Kavouras coordinates with her Fire Station Collection Mini



Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Instamatic and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: All Stitched-Circles, Blanket Biggie 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.

A Big Mistake
Friday, October 3, 2008

In This Issue:

- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Digital Scrapbook Tutorial: Creating Personalized Album Window Inserts
- 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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P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance, please email [email protected] or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!

Scrap Girls is Having a Convention!

Scrap Girls Digital Scrap Link Convention

Here are the facts:

When: October 9-11th, 2008

Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October 9th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 11th.

How many people may attend?

Only 2 openings are still available! THAT'S RIGHT! JUST TWO!

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 important to 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

All of our Online Training Classes are currently full. Please check back soon for more exciting learning opportunities!

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 Melissa Renfro using September's Scrap Girls Club
Layout by Angie Briggs using October's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Shalae Tippetts

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 commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple club is also available here.

Computer scrapbook layout by Debbie Layden using September's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Debbie Layden using September's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Brandie Valenzuela and Durin Eberhart

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.

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!

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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