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“Got Candy?” by Stefanie Harris
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I don’t really have any “classic” Halloween pictures – scary costumes, etc. – so I decided to focus on the relationship between my daughters for this layout. I still used a photo from last Halloween, when everyone was gearing up to go trick-or-treating, but I decided to alter a piece of Word Art from Erica’s Bump in the Night Collection to support my theme. Using a blank tab from the same collection, along with a couple of staples, I typed the word “sister” onto the tab and covered the word “tooth” in the original Word Art. This way, I was able to make my point, and still have a layout themed for Halloween.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Halloween
Other Ingredients:
“Candy Corn Chronicles” by Julie Moberly
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I blended the photo into the paper by setting the Blend Mode of the photo layer to “Darken.” Then I selected the Eraser and loaded Brandie Valenzuela’s Brush Set: Well Worn to erase the hard edges of the photo.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Halloween
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Byington
- Font - Dwerneck
“Scary Faces” by Caroline Kaiser
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted the moon of Erica Hite’s Bump in the Night Collection to be a little more orange. With the Magic Wand (Tolerance 20, Contiguous unchecked), I selected the light cream color of the moon. I used Image> Adjustments> Hue and Saturation and Variations to colorize it in light orange. Then I used the Magic Wand to select the scratches on the moon, right-clicked with my mouse, chose “Layer via Copy” and applied Cheryl Barber’s style Glitter Brights on the new layer.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Halloween
“Wickedly Cute” by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To get a more cohesive look with the photo and Erica Hite’s Bump In the Night Collection, I selected my daughter’s shirt (which was originally a coral-pink) using the Magnetic Lasso. Then I made the selection into a new layer using Cmd+J (Ctrl+J on a PC or you can go to Layer> New Layer> Layer via Copy). Then I placed the solid blue paper from the collection over the shirt layer and grouped them together using a clipping mask and changed the Blend Mode of the paper layer to “Color.” Viola! Now I have a blue shirt that will accent the collection I chose for my layout perfectly!
The big question is... did I really paint her green and pink or is it a digital scrapbooking trick?
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Apple iPhoto
Name of challenge: Halloween
Journaling: What? What are you all looking at? Oh, do I have something in my teeth? Alright, let's get this over with! No I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, and no I did not eat grass as a child! - From Wicked
“Boo” by Kara Swanson
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I clustered the elements and black paper around the photo to draw the viewer's focus to it, and then allowed for white space for the same effect.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Halloween
Other Ingredients:
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A Designer�s Life: dinny [Diane Miller] |
BAD Habits
I have some BAD habits.
I know that I should do something about it, but I just can't help it. I keep on doing it and saying, "It’s not that bad." Well, now it's become critical.
The 160 GB partition of my hard drive has only MBs available and iPhoto won't let me empty my 2GB Compact Flash into it.
My first bad habit... I take TOO many photos! It all started innocently enough when I bought my first digital camera. I took a few photos and they were medium quality. They didn't take up much room on my hard drive, so I wouldn't delete any of them, unless they were REALLY bad.
Fast forward a few years and now my camera can shoot RAW. At first, I stuck with JPG, but once I started shooting RAW, I haven't looked back. I love the flexibility of shooting RAW. It allows me to be lazy sometimes and not set the correct white balance or know that I can fix almost anything later. Since I know that I can fix almost any photo, I rarely delete images. Now, I keep shooting and shooting and saving these really large files.
Second bad habit... I am the worst at printing out any of my photos. If I would just print them out, I could archive them and have room for more. Yeah, right. Since I'm shooting RAW, I want to process them before sending them to be printed and I just never get to it because I keep shooting and don't have time to process them and print them out.
There is something to be said about those old film days when you couldn't take any more photos until you finished a roll of film. When I got the prints back, I just settled for the less than perfect photo.
That leads me to my third bad habit... I am a perfectionist, now that I can be.
I spend WAY too much time adjusting a photo. I think I enjoy that even more than taking the shot!
I do have one good habit... I process my RAW files when I'm scrapping. When working with RAW files, I can process one image and apply the settings to the other photos used in that layout. This way, all of the photos have a consistent look. It also speeds up processing... and I like that.
Are all of these advances in technology any good for us? I think in the long run they are. I never would have scrapped if I couldn't do it digitally.
UPDATED:
I'm saved. A new 650 GB internal hard drive just arrived. I'm planning for that to be exclusively for my photos! Hmmmm... I wonder how soon before I fill that one up! I still have room for three more internal hard drives!
- dinny
Favorite product I've designed:
Natural Collection Biggie
I tend to pull items frequently from this collection because of their neutral colors. (I find they go with lots of other colors.)
![Computer scrapbook layout by dinny [Diane Miller]](http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/081027_DesignersLife_DMI_LO_300.jpg)
Layout by dinny [Diane Miller]
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![dinny [Diane Miller]](http://www.scrapgirls.com/NL/081027_DesignersLife_DMI.jpg)
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Scrap Girls Club Concepts |
The Scrap Girls Monthly Club allows you to get all of the newest looks
while saving money! It is perfect for anyone who wants beautiful, coordinated
digital scrapbooking supplies that are easy to use. You get all the
products shown above, a $29.33 value, for $9.99 or less! 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!
October’s Scrap
Girls Club’s featured designer is Shalae Tippetts.
This digital scrapbooking collection has the rich earthy colors of autumn as well as the homemade atmosphere of your grandma's home. With homemade stitching, embroidery, ruffles and aged textures, you can create some beautiful digital layouts showcasing your fall, home, relationship, or heritage photos. Let’s look
a little closer and see what additional ideas we can come up with for this club.
Layout ideas:
- Telling the story about an old house you, your family, or your ancestors lived in.
- Family Reunion
- Cheerleader layouts (using ruffles from Hearth Collection Biggie)
- Layout about a homemade entry, like sewing items, to a fair.
- Favorite fall home-baked goodies (pies, bread, etc.)
- Photos of old buildings, houses, or barns
- Trips to the pumpkin patch, apple orchard, or harvest/fall festival
- Family posed photos, especially with fall color outfits
- Hiking
- Create a view from a window, using ruffled border (Hearth Collection Biggie) as a window valance. (Particularly great with products like ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Windows or ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Windowpane Frames.)
Layout by mtorres_usa
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Congratulations, mtorres_usa! We loved your idea so much we had to share it with everybody! Please contact [email protected] to claim your gift.
Project/Printable ideas:
- Use Hearth Embellishment Mini to create mini album or poster to hang in your home for a little one to help learn different shapes.
- Use the Hearth Collection Biggie alpha to make a “girlie” alphabet book. It would also be perfect for making a personalized story book.
- Create labels to decorate herb jars.
- Print onto fabric and put over the top of jams to give as gifts.
- Make kitchen helper magnets with equivalents, measurements, substitutions, etc.
- Decorate an old-fashioned clock.
- Design “This Book Belongs To:” type labels; print and adhere inside the cover of your books.
- Use the products to create your own sewing-themed labels for gifts.
- Create a cute to-do list.
Project by Julie Moberly
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Quotes:
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Hearts stitched to each other with love are bound together forever.
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Where we love is home... home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Home is where your story begins.
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Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
-W.J. Cameron
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A hug warms the soul & places a smile in the heart.
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What’s stitched with love will never tear.
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Winter is an etching, Spring is a watercolor, Summer an oil painting, and Autumn a mosaic of them all.
-Stanley Horowitz
Layout by Julie Moberly
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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!
And remember, this club will be expiring in just a few days! So if you like these ideas, don't hesitate to sign up today, or you will miss your chance to get in on these tremendous savings! It's like buying the Collection Biggie and getting the coordinating Paper Super Mini, Word Art, Embellishment Set, Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set and Designer's Choice Item for free! Now, that's a bargain. Don't miss out!
Have fun!
- The Scrap Girls Team
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 |
Aussie Recipe Chat
Monday, 27 October - 9:00PM *Australian Eastern Daylight Time*
Please join Jo (scrappingJo) and Karen (kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat. This week, we will create layouts with our favourite Summer recipes. If you would like to swap recipe layouts, the easiest way to do this is to create 4x6 layouts, that way everyone can print them out from home.
We will meet in the chat room at 9pm Australian Eastern Time. Looking forward to seeing you all there.
PS - For all our international ladies, we will be in the chat room on Monday, 27 October at 6am New York time.
NSBR Chat
Monday, October 27th - 1:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything! It’s a great way to meet new people and get to know everyone. Catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have any questions, we'll try to answer them.
So, join me, Launa, for some fun on October 27th, at 1 PM ET, in the Chat Room! Hope to see you there!
New Member Chat
Tuesday, October 28th - 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 29th - 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 29th, we'll do a favorite photo challenge! Create a layout using a favoriute photo - recent or old, of you, your kids, a vacation, whatever! Put those amazing, wonderful, reminiscent photos in a 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!
Desktop Crop and Chat
Wednesday, October 29th - 8:00PM ET
Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum) and Becca @ 8PM ET for the Desktop Challenge Crop.
Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background for your enjoyment? A few hours before the chat, we will provide you with a source of inspiration, so stay tuned.
NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, October 30th - 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 (Shari - PV Mom) and Michelle (Shelbi), on October 30th, at 1PM ET, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, November 5th - 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 November 5th, we'll do a repetition challenge! Create a layout using the design principle of repetition. Unsure of what that is? Come find out, we'll discuss this design principle throughout the crop!
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!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, November 12th - 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 November 12th, we'll do a dominance challenge! Create a layout using the design principle of dominance. Unsure of what that is? Come find out, we'll discuss this design principle throughout the crop!
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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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.
October Mid-Month Layout Contest: Do you enjoy volunteering or helping out in your community? Whether it is at your local church or you are the founder of a non-profit, giving of your time and efforts really can make a difference to those around you. So, let’s see your layouts about how you help those around you or volunteer your time and what it means to you. Post your layouts to the October Mid-month Gallery and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.) |
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Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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Designer Freebie by Shalae Tippetts coordinates with her Hearth Collection Biggie, part of this month's Scrap Girls Club offering!
* There is a “free download” button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available as gifts for about two newsletter cycles. |
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BAD Habits
Monday, October 27, 2008
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: dinny [Diane Miller]
- Scrap Girls Club Concepts
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Designer Freebie
- Getting Started
- Expand Your Skills
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
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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 and 7.0
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 important to 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 |
All of our Online Training Classes are currently full. Please check back soon for more exciting learning opportunities! |
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 Shalae Tippetts using October's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Shalae Tippetts
Alert! Alert! FRIDAY is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls club and still get this great group of products at this amazing price. Don't delay... sign up now!
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 commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple club is also available here.
Layout by Amanda McGee using October's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Amanda McGee and Cherise Oleson
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! 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.
- Permission to use your statement.
Club Concepts: We would like to announce that we will be looking for your help in creating these Club Concepts articles. 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: If you are interested in sharing your freebie creations with your Scrap Girls friends, 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! 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... 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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