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“Blessings” by Pat Bowman
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to use the word “blessing” that was stamped on the blue paper from the Many Thanks Collection Mini, so I did a Image> Rotate Canvas> 90 deg CCW before I clipped it to the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Torn Edges. To bring more of the blue into the layout, I stamped with the Brush Set: Framed Grunge Mini behind the photos and applied one of the ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stamped - Blues 4902 - Biggie.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layout
“Enjoy Life” by Amy Lemaniak
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create the frame around my photo, I used Dinny’s Brush Set: Bitsy Frame Mini and stamped it onto a new layer. I then brought my photo onto my layout and arranged it as the layer below my stamped frame. I used my Lasso Tool to draw around the border of the frame. Then, with the photo layer active, I selected the inverse and then deleted the extra parts of my photo outside the frame.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Get Creative with Brushes
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“My Pregnancy” by Jennifer Labre
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
A subtle, yet effective, way to add a pop of color to any layout is with the Scrap Girls brushes. On this layout, I just wanted an extra pop of color behind the pregnancy calculator. It needed something... simply laying it across the black background wasn’t enough for me. So I chose one of the brushes from the Brush Set: Rotations Biggie. (Actually, I just opened up the PNG file I wanted to use and added that to my page directly.) I then went to my Layers Palette and down at the bottom selected the “f” icon to add a Layer Style. I chose Gradient Overlay. Once the popup opened for the gradient overlay, I changed the gradient to match colors in my layout and I now have an extra pop of color that adds to the overall feel of my layout.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layout
“Daddy’s Girl” by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To add emphasis to the title, I used a single stroke from Amanda Sok’s Brush Set: Ultimate Grunge. Because the brush was much taller (top to bottom) than I wanted, I went to the brush options menu and changed the “roundness” until I was pleased with the look. After stamping a solid blue color taken from the blue paper in Shalae Tippetts’ Newborn Collection, I thought it looked a little static, so I clipped the rough blue paper from the collection to the brush stroke and moved the paper until I found a bit that I liked.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Iridescent Glass 6401, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Curled Edges Shadows 3201, Brush Set: Ultimate Grunge, Brush Set: Branching Out, Brush Set: Timeless, AMC_Thoughtful Font, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Shapely Curled Edges, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Ratty Tags, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos - Doubles Biggie, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Stitched, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching And Holes 4102, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Neutral Shadows 2801 Super Biggie and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics PSE 5001 are also available. |
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, iPhoto
Name of challenge: Fathers
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“Puddles of Fun” by Amy Lemaniak
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To blend my large photo into the background of my paper, I dragged my photo onto my layout and positioned it. I then changed the Blend Mode to “Overlay.” I took one of the brushes from Brush Set: Grungelle and grunged up my photo quite a bit to make it look a bit more blended and to soften the edges.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Two-Page Layout
Other Ingredients:
- Font - High Tower Text
- Font - Farewell
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!
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A Designer�s Life: Sheri Johnson |
Back to School
I have always thought children are scary. They seem to always be running around like two-pint tornadoes; touching things with sticky hands, moving much too fast, breaking and messing up whatever is in order. They have limitless energy and disturb the peace and quiet. My whole life I have resisted being around them and involving them too much in my life. Until recently I have never had much of a chance to break myself into them as I am the youngest in my family.
At the end of last school year, an opportunity came up and I reluctantly agreed to help out at a craft summer camp. The kids, true to form, were wild and out of control. They would sing at the top of their lungs, leave little strings and fabric scraps behind wherever they went, run out of the building, and hide or quarrel with each other. But before the day was lost to pent up energy and boredom, they would surround me and look at me with their curious, smiling eyes, and before long I was putty in their hands. They would beg to fix my hair and always seemed to want to be near me. They would work hard on their projects until their mercurial minds drifted away like feathers on a breeze and they would be off to cause mischief somewhere. But they had won me over completely.
When next September rolled around, I gingerly changed up my routine. I began going to several different schools as a drumming teacher’s assistant. I wasn’t sure exactly what I would be able to offer or if it was going to be something I would enjoy. At first the kids were insanely curious as to who I was, constantly peering at me and asking my name, chattering amongst themselves. The kids from last year’s summer camp were my new best friends. When they saw me they would scream my name and run to envelop me in hugs. It sort of made me feel like a celebrity.
I can’t believe I was ever afraid to work with kids. True, they can be troublesome and even downright mean at times, but when you catch them looking at you with curious eyes and you smile reassuringly and then their whole face lights up in a huge grin, you feel like you would do anything for those little ones. Sometimes it is a little bit of a challenge when they feel like goofing off in class. I’m a little shy about chastising them. But when I do say a few words they snap right up in respect.
Sometimes what I offer seems like little, clutching a roll call folder and fetching a chair for the teacher, making sure he doesn’t leave his keys and sunglasses behind, and helping to load and unload the drums out of the van. It is really more of a treat for me to be a part of the class. And I am beginning to realize kids are nothing to fear. They are little sponges with malleable minds and I am a small part of shaping their future. It is actually pretty awesome to be a part of something so important and necessary. And the rewards of having hundreds of little friends is absolutely priceless!
- Sheri
Favorite product I've designed:
Awakening Collection Mini
This collection is an outpouring of the Spiritual Awakening I’ve been going through. The colors are bright and vibrant, full of life, music, and energy.
Layout by Sheri Johnson
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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!
November’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Brandy Murry and Mandy Steward. 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!
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Share stories of family heirloom sewing projects, such as handmade quilts.
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Create a funny faux shirt tag (ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Tag Along) on the back of someone in a photo, making it appear that a clothing tag is hanging out of their shirt.
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Using different layer Blend Modes, blend a photo onto the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Notions tags to give a look that the photo is printed on the fabric texture. Then finish off with stitched word art with Brush Set: Simple Stitch.
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Preschool or first day of school layouts (ABC template in ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Pierced).
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Pumpkin Carving at Halloween (ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Pierced)
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Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Crocheted Frames to frame several mini-layouts on one larger quilt-style layout.
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Scrapbook photos of children learning to sew, using lacing cards, or learning to tie their shoes using ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Pierced.
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Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Crocheted Frames to create digital ornaments for hanging on a Christmas tree on a layout.
Layout by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Mini Tutorial - Recoloring ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Notions:
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop CS3 with Windows XP.
I love Brandy Murry’s new Scrap Simple Embellishment Templates: Notions, and when they came out this month, there was a real buzz about them on the message boards. I noticed there were a couple of questions about how to recolour the tag, buttons, and needle, and so I am going to concentrate on that in this short tutorial.
First, open the template with the circular tag, create a duplicate of it in the photo bin by right-clicking on its image and choosing “Duplicate,” and then close the original. This way you won’t be applying any of my changes to the original file.
To begin changing colours to different elements within the template, choose the tag layer (A-Tag) by clicking on its thumbnail image in the Layers Palette. Next, click Enhance> Adjust Colour> Adjust Hue/Saturation (Ctrl+U) and move the sliders until you have the colour and shade you want.
I recorded the numbers in the boxes next to the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness sliders so that I could apply the exact same colour to the paper overlay that goes over the needle.
Repeat these steps with the needle, button, and thread layers.
When your thread is white, you can apply a style to it. I chose Cheryl Barber’s ScrapSimple Tools – Styles: Stitching And Holes. I chose the thread layers in the Layers Palette and clicked “Apply.”
My embellishment is complete and ready to add to my layout!
Another simple way to change the colour or look of the tag layer is by placing a patterned paper on the layer above the tag and then clipping it to the tag by clicking Layer> Group With Previous (Ctrl+G). Then you can play with the Blend Modes until the details in the bottom layer are visible and you have the look you like. Repeat the same steps with the paper overlay layer and you’ve got another great embellishment!
Tutorial and layout by Janine Buckles
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We hope this article gives you some ideas to get you scrapping! We’d love to see what you come up with. You can share ideas and tips on the message board, plus there’s a special gallery available for you to show off your Club creations and inspire each other, so start creating!
Have fun!
P.S. We hope you are enjoying one of our newest articles, Club Concepts. Each Monday, we give you ideas on how to use your current club selections in many different ways. We give you ideas for layout themes, embellishments, tips, cards, quotes, projects, and more! Well, we have realized that in creating these articles, we were leaving out one of the most important voices in our club... yours! So, we would like to announce that we will be looking for your help in creating these articles. And, of course, there are prizes involved!
How can you get involved, you may ask? Simply post your new layout using the current club selection (either the Scrap Girls club or the ScrapSimple club) in our Scrap Girls Club Members Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used, as well as a short (1-2 sentence) description of the unique idea or theme your layout shows off. If your layout and its corresponding tip is chosen, they will be showcased in our Club Concepts article, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! |
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What's Happening at Scrap Girls? |
If you have never been to the Scrap Girls Chat Room before or have questions about it, this tutorial, Chat Basics, will provide lots of helpful information.
Crops and Chats |
NSBR Chat
Monday, December 1st - 9:00PM ET
What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! Take some time out from your busy holiday schedule and relax with us in the chat room. We can chat about anything, including scrapbooking, chocolate and the craziness of the season!
So join me, Carla (crs), at 9 pm et in the chat room!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, December 3rd - 12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun, new challenge each week!
On December 3rd, we'll do a snowflake challenge! Create a layout using at least one snowflake, in any way you can!
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!
Scraplift Chat & Crop
Sunday, December 7th - 5:00PM ET
Join TysMommy and angelaNussbaum for a Scraplifting Crop.
A few hours before the crop we will tell you the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be able to choose one of their layouts to be your inspiration. During the crop we will also help explain about scraplifting, how to use a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving credit.
Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join us, you're sure to enjoy it!
Aussie Chat
Monday, 8 December - 9:00PM *Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time*
Join Jo (ScrappingJo) and Karen (kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat on Monday, 8 December. This week's challenge is to create your favourite Christmas Recipe on a 4x6 layout. 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, 8 December.
New Member Chat
Monday, December 8th - 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, December 10th - 12:00Noon ET
Join your host Betsy for the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. These crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and themes, simply giving participants a one hour goal, and a fun, new challenge each week!
On December 10th and 17th, we'll do a TWO-PART, end of year challenge! Create a 2-page layout or a mini album using the very best photos of your 2008. Part one (December 10) may be an hour of sorting, planning and picking photos, papers, and embellishments, and part two (December 17) could be all about the layout/album. As Tim Gunn says in Project Runway, “Use your time wisely,” and, “Make it work!”
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, December 11th - 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 us, Shari (Shari PV Mom) and Michelle (Shelbi), on December 11th, at 1 PM EST, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!
Sketch Crop Challenge
Thursday, December 11th - 9:00PM ET
Join me, sprinklz, for the Sketch Challenge and Crop, Thursday, December 11th 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. |
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December Events |
December Board Game: Holiday Hoopla!
Welcome to Holiday Hoopla 2008! This time of year is packed with holidays and events and traditions galore! It's also time for our most challenging game of the year! This challenge promises to keep you busy all month long. We're going to celebrate the season together here on the Message Board through tasks and challenges focused on holiday and seasonal traditions and of course there will be prizes in store!
Here's the nitty gritty: Every other day (December 1st through December 29th), a Holiday Hoopla 2008 task will be posted in the Events folder on the Message Board. If you complete all 15 tasks, you'll win a $10 gift certificate to the ScrapGirls Boutique! Also, there will be layouts to complete within these tasks. If you choose to only do the layout tasks, then you are eligible for a $5 Gift Certificate should your layout be chosen as a winner of that particular task.
Read each task carefully and compile all your answers and links into ONE word document and e-mail it to [email protected] at the end of the month when you've completed all the tasks. Emails need to be received by December 31st at midnight ET (Happy New Year!). Please put “Holiday Hoopla 2008- Username” in the email subject line.
Good luck!
Layout Contests:
December Layout Contest: We want to see your trees! For the December Layout Contest, we want you to scrap layouts featuring trees! You can scrap a tree full of leaves or a bare tree, or a tree in any season (Christmas trees too!). Maybe you have a tree with a very interesting shape; let’s scrap it! To be eligible for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique, create a layout featuring a tree and post it in the December Layout Contest Gallery before December 31st at midnight. Good Luck!
November Mid-Month Layout Contest: We all have some principles that we look to for guidance in our lives. These principles help us make decisions and choices. For the Mid-November Layout Contest, we want you to create a layout documenting a list of five principles or rules that you live by. Post your layouts in the Mid-November Layout Contest Gallery by December 15th at midnight, and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Good Luck!
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Layout by Valerie Randall
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Designer Freebie by Valerie Randall coordinates with her Nutcracker Suite Collection
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Back to School
Monday, December 1, 2008
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Sheri Johnson
- 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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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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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 Brandy Murry using December's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Brandy Murry
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 Brandy Murry using November's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Brandy Murry and Mandy Steward
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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