Another Life
Saturday, January 17, 2009

- 18.7% Off Client Appreciation Sale!
- Cute Stuff
- Customer Muse
- Scrap Girls Member of the Month: Julie
- Layout and Contest Winners
- 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.

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!

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9

Do you wish you could learn how to scrapbook digitally, but feel kind of intimated? Well, here's the solution for you. These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!

After you watch the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...

• Create your own digital scrapbook layouts using the latest, most popular techniques
• Manage all of the important basics that digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
• Understand how to save your files for printing or sharing them with your friends and family over the Internet
• Make your own textured brush
• Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
• Make your own simple backgrounds
• See how easy it is to manage transparent embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to look like they are “real”
• Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing techniques
• Learn about transparency and lighting effects
• Make your own digital torn paper edges
• Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
• Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
• Know the secret of putting text on a curve or in a circle
• Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded edges on your photos
• Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make digital scrapbooking a breeze
• Be able to place digital embellishments on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
• Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
• Learn how to install and use purchased textures
• Understand some advanced techniques such as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
• Learn how to adjust black and white photos to sepia
• And lots more!

Start to Finish eBooklets

Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page

Nothing could be simpler than learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create a finished project!

More Titles Available

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

*NEW!* MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop

- MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements

It's time for you to stop playing catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more advanced tricks that you see other people and professional digital scrapbookers doing.

• Take the world's easiest shortcuts to creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
• Make sure that you don't make the biggest mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
• Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap Girls ScrapSimple products.
• Dip your digital scrapbooking self into some of those “other” cool tools that are sitting there waiting in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing pen, and more.
• See how easy it is to install and manage new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make things that are creative and unique.
• Learn advanced tricks for using tools that you already know and love.
• Watch me make some beautiful papers and get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
• See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do that with, too...)
• Get “IN” on creating your own brush sets. (You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all along.)
• Find out why Custom Shapes are so important to you. (Bet you didn't know...)
• Learn how to cut out a title from a background or a photo.
• And even more...

Note: These are NOT beginning tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers, where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed series before you try to use it.

eBooks!

Scrap Girls offers a large catalog of eBooks covering topics that will expand your digital scrapbooking abilities to new heights. Here are just a few samples:

Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements (Photoshop version also available!)

Digital Photography Simplified

Ten Basic Design Principles

Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revialize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2

See more titles

Photo Restoration in Photoshop
Mondays, January 19 and 26 - 7:00PM ET

This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on basic photo restoration is the perfect opportunity to learn about some of the Photoshop tools most often utilized for restorative techniques. Using various methods, this class will teach you how to restore torn, discolored, faded, and odd-shaped photos for printing, digital scrapbooking, and web uploading.

Yes, You Can Do Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements
Tuesdays, January 20 and 27 - 9:30PM ET

This in-depth class on Layer Masks is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the power of masks in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This class will teach you how to use masks to make selective adjustments to both photos and layouts.

A Style All Your Own
Wednesdays, January 21 and 28 - 9:00PM ET

This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on personal style is the perfect opportunity to learn about the four most common design styles seen in today’s digital scrapbooking, and how they relate to your own likes and dislikes.

10 Basic Design Principles
Saturdays, January 31 and February 7 - 11:00AM ET

Do you ever find yourself struggling with a layout, feeling like something is off, but not sure what? There are some simple rules that can help. This digital scrapbooking class is the place to learn the basics of layout design. Discover how to make a visually balanced layout, using a grid. Learn simple rules and guidelines to make layout design a snap. Study real examples, and see how applying the rules can improve your layouts.

Fun With Kaleidoscopes - PS
Mondays, February 2 and 9 - 1:00PM ET

This in-depth online digital scrapbooking class is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to make 8 and 16 sided Kaleidoscope patterns. The step by step instruction will show you how to cut triangles at the appropriate angle and use techniques such as Layer via Copy, Rotate and Flip to achieve the final Kaleidoscope effect. Study real examples and see how this methodical and simple approach adds that little something extra to your layouts.

Fun With Kaleidoscopes - PSE
Tuesdays, February 3 and 10 - 1:00PM ET

This in-depth online digital scrapbooking class is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to make 8 and 16 sided Kaleidoscope patterns. The step by step instruction will show you how to cut triangles at the appropriate angle and use techniques such as Layer via Copy, Rotate and Flip to achieve the final Kaleidoscope effect. Study real examples and see how this methodical and simple approach adds that little something extra to your layouts.

Advanced Photo Restoration in Photoshop
Wednesdays, February 4 and 11 - 4:00PM ET

This in-depth class on advanced photo restoration is the perfect opportunity to learn about some of the Photoshop tools & techniques most often utilized for restorative work. Using various methods, this class will teach you how to restore torn and faded antique photos, and how to reduce paper texture before printing, web uploading, and digital scrapbooking.

Photo Fixes You Need to Know: PSE
Thursdays, February 5 and 12 - 3:00PM ET

We all want our photos to take center stage on our scrapbook layouts, but sometimes our pictures aren’t up for the challenge. Learn some photo fixes in this digital scrapbooking class to really make your pictures stand out. Banish blemishes, correct colors and lighting like a pro using the tools and techniques taught in this class. Your pictures will become the perfect focus for all of your layouts.

Focus on Photography: People
Thursdays, February 5-26 - 9:30PM ET

This in-depth digital scrapbooking class is a wonderful opportunity to dive into the world of photographing people. This class will look at fundamental issues that lead to taking good photographs of people. You will discuss the issues that arise from lighting, composition, and style. You will learn and produce pictures based on class discussions.

A Month of Memories
Fridays, February 13 and 27 - 4:00PM ET

This digital scrapbooking class offers you a personal challenge to take a picture a day for one month. Catch the everyday moments that define the patterns of your life. For our class project, we will create a 4x6 layout for each day and combine them to create a mini album to keep or give as a gift.

Join the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99 or less!)

The new ScrapSimple Club contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest business day to the 15th).

With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:

• 1 ScrapSimple Paper Template Set
• 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template Set
• 1 Brush Set
• 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
• 1 Designer's Choice Item

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

Layout by Shalae Tippetts using January's ScrapSimple Club
larger view

Created for you by Angie Briggs and Shalae Tippetts

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!

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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