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“No More Pictures!” by Janine Buckles
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I added a piece of tape from Shalae’s Extra – Tape Embellishment over the top of the black and white circular frame, but it was solid and didn’t match the look of the pieces of tape on the cardboard papers. In order to make it look similar, I selected the tape layer by clicking on its thumbnail image in the Layers Palette. Then I clicked the arrow next to Opacity (at the top of the Layers Palette) and moved the slider until the tape looked the way I wanted it. It was a simple technique, but it made a big difference and kept the look of the different tape pieces consistent.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layouts
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Marydale
- Font - Problem Secretary
- Font - Problem Secretary Normal
Journaling: You were so patient whenever I got out my camera, but when you'd had enough you sure let me know! When you started to make these faces I knew it was time to find something else to do. It was just so hard because all I wanted to do was look at you.
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“Little Hands” by Julie Moberly
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
In order to make the journaling appear to be printed on the ribbon, I changed the Blend Mode of the text to “Linear Light.”
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layouts
Other Ingredients:
Journaling: Little hands, left & right, dabble & stroke colorful paints. Delicately, yet deliberately, they manipulate brushes, swabs, and sponges. Dipping & dripping, swirling & patting colorful paints. Little hands create big art.
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“A is for Alexander” by Jo Corne
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create the acrylic bubble look over the smaller photos of Alexander, I duplicated each photo. Then, I gave each of those duplicated photo layers Mandy Steward’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Acrylic Bubbles 1801. Finally, I merged each photo with its “twin” to minimize the number of photo layers on my layout.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layouts
Other Ingredients:
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“You Are So Alive” by Armi Custodio
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
The acrylic elements in my layout were done with different Blend Modes. For the alphas from Mandy Steward’s Overlayed Collection, I used “Linear Dodge,” the round frames, also from the same collection, “Vivid Light,” and Ariadna Wiczling’s swirl from her Acrylic Love Embellishments , at “Normal.” For all acrylics, I used Theresa Kavouras’ ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Shadowing Transparent Objects 5301. It really takes out the guesswork when you need to apply shadows to acrylics and other translucent embellishments.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layouts
Other Ingredients:
Journaling: I’m not biased. Everyone says so, even total strangers at the checkout line. You just exude life in everything you say and do. You are drawn to people, and people are drawn to you. This is a gift. I know you will use it well.
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“Fresh” by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
When I saw Mandy Steward’s Overlayed Collection in the boutique, I knew I had to have it. I played with it some, but I stumbled across a thread on the Scrap Girl’s message board with lots of great ideas and was totally inspired!
I experimented with the embellishments, applying different layer styles and Blend Modes to them, but I ultimately liked the look of Cheryl Barber’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glass Clear Super Biggie 4102. To get the look on the alpha and the date tag, I duplicated each layer and applied the style to the top layer. This allowed me to get the beveled look of the glass and yet still keep the black grungy look of the original embellishments.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Apple iPhoto
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layouts
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A Designer�s Life: Erica Hite |
Adjusting to This New Life
No one ever said it was going to be easy. But still, I was not prepared at all for how my life would change.
Remember in May, in my last Designer's Life, where I had this idea that I would be sitting at my computer, working on new designs, with my newborn baby snoozing in a sling on my chest? Well, OK, I barely remember I wrote that. But, anyway, what nonsense. At least in my case. Would you believe that instead of that peaceful scenario, the reality was putting my son in a sling while sitting and bouncing on a really big exercise ball, attempting to get my reluctant napper to sleep, while trying to control my pen on my Wacom tablet? Or, soon after, hearing the sound of explosive poop (Shoot, I promised myself I would not go there in my story!) and having to get up to change a diaper? And then, to start the process over again, but having to get up yet again because of the loud whining and the need to get my son to nap some other way.
Nothing anyone could have said would have gotten me ready for motherhood. The broken, sleepless nights, the feeling that nothing is getting accomplished, the desire to do something creative festering under my skin without the time to relieve it. I have to keep telling myself that I'm still the same person, even though my responsibilities have changed. I am now a mother, forever, as long as I'm still breathing. A new love has blossomed in my heart where I didn't realize there was room for something like this.
In the beginning, after my son's birth, I had so many doubts. At first, I'm embarrassed to admit, I regretted having a child. I know it was the exhaustion talking, the sleep deprivation, but, for a minute, I wanted to be able to hit undo, rewind. I didn't feel ready or prepared for this. It was such a shock to my system.
I'm a fairly independent person. You could even call me a loner. Not that I'm alone much, but that I am very introspective and like time to myself every day. Now, I've needed to rearrange my life and my thinking to revolve around someone who needs me and is practically attached to me almost 24/7... a high-needs baby who cannot handle being put down or out of my arms for very long. I am a stay-at-home mom now. Is this who I am - what defines me now? I tell myself that this is my situation, my responsibility and my role, but that I am still the same person. My life might have been tossed into upheaval, like the yanking of a tablecloth underneath a nicely set table setting, but this is just the beginning of something new. A new life. A new perspective.
For the time being, my life will revolve around one thing (or one person)... my son.
Maybe, I have a baby like mine so that I slow down and enjoy life. I used to be so caught up with working that I'd work 15 hours a day or more. I love to work. But, life often requires compromises and now I need to juggle my son's needs with my own.
My mom admitted to me, after I had my son, why she never pressured me to have children. She knows how hard it is and didn't wish on me all of the challenges unless it was something I really wanted to go forward with. But, she always used to say and still does, that I was the best thing she ever did. Now I feel the same way about my son. He's the best thing I've ever done, hands down. No matter how difficult things may seem or are, there's no greater love than how a mother feels about her children. Watching them grow and develop is sometimes surreal.
I still always feel though, the ever-present desire to design non-stop. It is a challenge to fight that feeling off (with a giant mental baseball bat) as I care for my son during the day. Somehow, I get things done and there's room for everything that I need in my life: my son, my husband, and my creative pursuits. Oh, and myself, as well.
Right now, my son is sitting on my lap with a string of colorful links while I'm finishing up this story. Even though this isn't how I pictured sitting at my computer and working, nothing beats his warm, snuggly body on a cold morning, the sweet smell of his clean noggin, or when he looks up at my face and smiles at me.
- Erica
Favorite product I've designed:
Bouncing Baby Boy Collection
I designed this kit just before I had my son, Lucian. I created the art thinking of him and knew I wanted something hand drawn and brightly colored. Knowing his personality more now, it suits him well.
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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!
October’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Amanda McGee and Cherise Oleson. 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:
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Sleeping children photos
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Layouts about a dream coming true, such as getting married, buying your first house, a favorite car, etc.
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The stars from ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Doodle Pad can be used for:
- Independence Day/Fireworks layouts
- Star watching, using title “A Night Under The Stars”
- Your “star student”
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Graduation
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Love/Romantic Themes (heart doodles from ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Doodle Pad)
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Spring or flower filled layouts (flowers from ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Doodle Pad)
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Windy days (flourish bordered paper template from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Creative Expression)
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Layouts with your child's scanned artwork or photos of them holding their art
Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Use the paisley shape (ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles) to make wings on a child; perfect on layout about a child's imagination.
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Combine multiple products to make your own unique digital scrapbooking paper (such as using ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Creative Expression and ScrapSimple Layout Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles).
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Use Blend Modes to make a photo look like it was printed directly onto the pad paper (using ScrapSimple Embellishment Template: Doodle Pad).
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Add a funny “invoice” for a layout or card with what someone owes you or what you owe them (ScrapSimple Embellishment Template: Doodle Pad).
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Give the look of embroidery by “sewing” on embellishments (from ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Pen and Ink Doodles) using a stitching action such as ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stitch 'n Holes 8301 Machine Stitch.
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Frame photos using ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Pen and Ink by clipping your photos to the base. Create a mat for this photo by using the same shape with a background paper clipped to it.
Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Card ideas:
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Create a card with a “to do” list on the front, such as, “To Do: clean house, cook dinner, fold laundry, WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!” (use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Doodle Pad for list).
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Make and print a round greeting card (using ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Pen and Ink).
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Make perfectly square 4” greeting card by reducing paper templates down 33%, especially great to use bordered paper and place greeting in the middle of the border (use ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Creative Expression).
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This club is perfect for creating holiday or seasonal cards, including Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Winter.
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Perfect for creating cards that can help inspire or motivate someone.
Card by Valerie Randall
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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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Due to popular demand, we have decided that we are going to have a Digital Scrap Link Convention in 2009! (Location: Salt Lake City, Utah) So mark the dates October 8-10th, 2009 on your calendars!
We'll announce the actual sign-ups for the event later this year. But be prepared... it will sell out fast because everyone knows now that Scrap Girls knows how to put on an amazing party! (And the classes are awesome, too!) See you there! |
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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 |
NSBR Chat
Monday, November 3rd - 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!
Life Moments Chat
Tuesday, November 4th - 8:00PM ET
Join Amy (TysMommy) 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 focus on Pregnancies! Are you in the midst of a pregnancy now, done having babies, did you struggle to conceive? Dig out your photos and let’s tell the stories of our pregnancy journeys together! Join me on Tuesday, November 4th for a chat and crop!
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!
Recipe Challenge Chat
Saturday, November 8th - 8:00PM ET
Join April Showers and Sherry Lynn in the Chat Room Saturday, November 8th at 8 PM ET for our monthly Recipe Challenge Chat where we'll share and scrap our favorite recipes. Check the message board on Thursday morning for this month's theme and Recipe Swap details. Hope to see you there!
Aussie Chat
Monday, 10 November - 9:00PM *Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time*
Join Jo (ScrappingJo) and Karen (kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat on Monday, 10 November. This week's challenge is to scraplift a layout from the gallery. Join us in the chat room from 9pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time for lots of laughter and fun.
PS - For our International Ladies, the chat will start at 5am, Monday, 10 November.
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!
Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, November 13th - 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz, for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, November 13th, at 9pm ET in the Scrap Girls Chat Room!
Like getting a little jump start on your layouts? Then this challenge is for you! A few hours before the challenge begins, I'll post a sketch for you to use as the starting point for your page. You can be inspired by the basic arrangement, the amount of photos, or copy it literally. All interpretations are welcome and encouraged! Looking forward to seeing you there!
We'll be meeting in the "00_Room_1" room of the chat. To join, click on the “chat room” link (above). Once you are in the lobby, click on the “Show Rooms” button (on the upper left), then select “00_Room_1” from the list on the left side.
New Member Chat **Early Edition**
Tuesday, November 18th - 3:00PM ET
Join April (April Showers) at 3:00 PM ET for a fun chat to get to know our newest members. We will discuss the message board, gallery, chocolate and so much more! Everyone is welcome, new or not so new! Not sure how to get there? Just click the “chat room” button at the top of this newsletter; you will need JavaScript enabled to access the chat room.
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, November 19th - 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 19th, we'll do a white space challenge! Create a layout using white space. This “negative” or blank space guides the eye to the important areas of your page. Remember, it certainly doesn't have to be the color white!
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!
Heritage Crop
Thursday, November 20th - 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.
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November Events |
November Board Game: Bingo!
It's that time again! Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Message Board Forum in November! Pick 25 words from the list provided in the forum and send them in an e-mail to [email protected] with a subject line that says “BINGO CARD” and your message board user name by Monday, November 3rd (midnight MST) in order to play in the first round which will begin Tuesday, November 4th.
Each day, members of the Welcoming Committee will call 5 random words from the Bingo list. Match just 15 of those words to win a BINGO. You must be first to call bingo in the forum to win that round. After a winner is called, the boards can be cleared and a new round will begin the following day. All winners win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Boutique! We like to see lots of winners, so please remember that each person can only win one round during the month. Have fun!
If you miss the first round cutoff date, you can still play! Just send in your Bingo card at any time during the month and you'll be eligible to begin playing when the next new round starts. Everyone who sends in a Bingo card will receive a confirmation email that their card has been received. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours, please re-send your list of words.
Layout Contests:
November Layout Contest: Have you ever wanted to get a little crazy with your layouts and create something unusual? Here's your chance! For the November Layout Contest, we want to see some unusual layouts! Get a little crazy and type your text sideways or backwards; maybe turn the whole layout on its side! Or use mirror images to create some unusual effects! The sky's the limit! Post your layouts in the November Layout Contest Gallery before November 30th at midnight, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 gift card to the Scrap Girls Boutique. Have fun!
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 Keri Schueller
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Designer Freebie by Keri Schueller coordinates with her La Papetier Collection
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Adjusting to This New Life
Monday, November 3, 2008
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Erica Hite
- ScrapSimple 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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I hope you enjoy today's issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.
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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
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Mastering Brushes for Photoshop
Tuesdays, November 11 - December 16 - 7:00PM ET
This in-depth class is perfect for the digital scrapbooker who wants to take their brushwork above and beyond the basics taught in the Secrets tutorials. Beautiful brush skills taught in this class will turn ordinary layouts into the extraordinary!
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop users. 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!
In order to get the most out of this class, it is necessary that you have a basic understanding of using brushes already. A basic understanding includes knowing what a brush is, as well as how to load and use them in the basic way of stamping. The class does not address these basic topics. You will also need to own a variety of brushes to use in this class.
Mastering Brushes in PSE
Tuesdays, November 11 - December 16 - 9:30PM ET
This in-depth class is perfect for the digital scrapbooker who wants to take their brushwork above and beyond the basics taught in the Secrets tutorials. Beautiful brush skills taught in this digital scrapbooking class will turn ordinary layouts into the extraordinary!
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop Elements users. 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!
In order to get the most out of this class it is necessary that you have a basic understanding of using brushes already. A basic understanding includes knowing what a brush is, as well as how to load and use them in the basic way of stamping. The class does not address these basic topics. You will also need to own a variety of brushes to use in this class.
Slice It Up! Fun Ways With Mosaics
Mondays, November 17 and 24 - 1:00PM ET
This in-depth class on creating mosaics is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to add a little spice to your digital scrapbooking layouts, slicing specific areas, or the whole image. This step by step instruction will show you how to use techniques such as Layer via Copy, the Slice Tool and Layer Masks to achieve this effect. We will add Layer Styles including drop shadows and strokes to the slices to make our slices stand out.
Important: This Intermediate Level class is for Adobe Photoshop users, versions CS and up only. 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 Durin Eberhart using November's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Durin Eberhart
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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