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“Coping With Life” by Jennifer Labre
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Sometimes all you need is a subtle embellishment to really make your layout unique. Brushes are great for this. In my layout, I used the Brush Set: Decorative Swirls for a subtle but elegant touch. I “stamped” each brush in white and then selected the Blend Mode of “Screen” and reduced the opacity. The brushes subtly frame the baby brush image and quote, drawing your eye to them.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Name of challenge: Young At Any Age
“Forever Young” by Debbie Layden
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Lori Cook has some amazing brushes and I love to scrapbook with brushes! For this layout, I knew I wanted to use Lori’s Brush Set: Decorative Swirls Grunged and I loved the way that it could be paired with her Brush Set: Decorative Accents, but that wasn’t grunged. So to make it look like the Grunged Swirl, I first stamped the Decorative Accent I wanted to use on my layout on its own layer. Then, I switched brushes and used Lori’s Brush Set: Grunge, but instead of adding to the layout, I wanted to subtract. So, I used my Eraser Tool to take away some of the color and give my Decorative Accent the same look as my swirl!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Name of challenge: Young At Any Age
“Joy” by Launa Valente
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I love to sew... and I love metallic thread, so to make my stitching look like it uses metallic thread, I applied a glitter style to it! Perfect! And a lot easier than sewing with metallic thread in my sewing machine!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Young At Any Age
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“What Keeps Me Young” by Armi Custodio
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Filmstrips are a great way to repeat a single photo. To create more visual interest, I converted my colored photo into black and white, resized it to fit the filmstrip, and used a “Normal” Blend Mode for the bottom strip, and “Hard Light” for the strip on top.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Young At Any Age
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Impact
- Font - Segoe Script
“Never Having to Apologize” by Stefanie Harris
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Since Lori’s products are so unique, I wanted to create a fun photo treatment that would really showcase how versatile and artsy digital scrapbooking can be. By using her ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Weaved and Woven over a base of the photo that I had blended into my background paper (I used a layer mask with her Grunge brushes to clear away any distracting areas), I really achieved a fun look with very feminine papers. I purposely left a large area of white (from a window) in my photograph so that the template (which I flipped and rotated) would have a blank area where I could do my journaling. I can see myself incorporating these templates into a LOT of fun projects in the future!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Name of challenge: Young At Any Age
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Nimbus SansT Condensed
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A Designer�s Life: Mandy Steward |
A Moment
I touched my two-month-old baby’s skin yesterday. I don’t mean that I brushed against it while changing his diaper. I don’t mean that natural skin touching that occurs while I am nursing him, burping him, rocking him, or picking him up to put him in his car seat as I’m rushing out the door to run errands.
I mean I stopped what I was doing, stopped my duties as a mom, and I felt, with every emotion in my body, his cheek rubbing up against mine. I heard his small, soft, little breaths and smelled their innocent sweetness. I gazed into his eyes and marveled at who he was, his very life, and wondered at what that life will look like as it plays out.
But, his skin - his skin is what I remember from that moment. Its softness, its warmth, its life. I realized how often I come in contact with it and truly think nothing of it. Think nothing of the miracle it took to create that skin. Think nothing of the fragility of his little body covered by that perfect skin. Think nothing of how quickly that skin will change and become rougher, older, more worn.
Life is funny that way, isn’t it? We don’t taste life deeply in any sort of consistent manner. We only taste it in bits and pieces - in moments. There is so much going on around us - so much activity. That activity isn’t necessarily bad. Activity can keep us healthy. It can develop friendships. It can allow us opportunities to create, to serve, to learn. But, I need both. I need activity and rest. There are times for each.
Yesterday, I got a much needed moment of rest. As I felt baby Luther’s skin on mine, it was as if my soul took a deep breath. I felt refocused. I felt things in my life slip into perspective. I felt my heart overflowing with love and joy and thankfulness. All from a single touch.
I think our senses are so important to these moments of rest in our life - the moments where we get to let our soul take a deep breath. My senses are so often ignored, but I’m trying to be more aware of them and how vital they are to my life. There is a reason that quote “Stop and smell the roses” resounds so beautifully with us. Smells, touches, sounds (like music or laughter), sights, and tastes can add so much richness to our life. Focusing on our senses, even if but for a few seconds, can allow our soul to rest. I am valuing these “moments” in my life and I am trying to stop and catch more and more of them to savor.
- Mandy
Favorite product I've designed:
Overlayed Collection
For a long time, I have enjoyed the look of using transparencies or overlays in art projects. For instance, I recently cut up baseball card protectors and made some pages in a mini-book out of them. I like the different creative ways you can use a see-through element. One day, it just clicked in my head. What would a see-through digital collection look like?
So, I set to work designing the Overlayed Collection. I wanted it to be versatile, so I kept the colors to basic blacks and whites. I like how flexible it ended up being. There are some ornate, pretty designs like the circular papers and there are some fun, light designs like the stripes. Once I finished the papers, I thought it would be challenging to carry the same transparent look into the alphas, the word art, and the embellishments. The end result is a collection that I like to use bits and pieces from as an add-on accent in many of my layouts.
Layout by Mandy Steward
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Scrap Girls Club Concepts |
The Scrap Girls Monthly Club allows you to get all of the newest looks
while saving money! It is perfect for anyone who wants beautiful, coordinated
digital scrapbooking supplies that are easy to use. You get all the
products shown above, a $29.33 value, for $9.99 or less! Plus, each
month we will help you find new ways to use your club contents to the
fullest with this article full of ideas, tips, and projects to get
your creativity going!
January’s Scrap
Girls Club’s featured designer is Trish Yochum.
The January Scrap Girls Club is full of rich energetic colors sure to accent an array of photos and concepts. Full of pins, clips, magnets, quick notes, tags, and other fun goodies to display all your favorite photos in a variety of layouts. Let’s look
a little closer and see what additional ideas we can come up with for this club.
Layout ideas:
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Have kids that love Lego or other similar building blocks? The colors in this Club are perfect for Lego layouts or trips to Legoland.
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Create a progression layout showing a your child's favorite toys at certain ages in their life. Also perfect for doing your own layout about your favorite toys when you were a child.
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Take a photo of the front of your refrigerator or your bulletin board right now and document how it looks on a typical day. It might not seem interesting right now, but in the future, you will enjoy seeing what magnets, artwork, notes, or other items you had on it.
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Photograph your child's colorful play clothes each day of the week and create a layout documenting all the clothes that they have worn. Use the Day of the Week embellishments in the Pin It Up Collection Biggie to show which outfit was for which day.
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Use the Pin It Up Collection Biggie and coordinating products for scrapbooking photographs of brightly colored flowers.
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Create realism in your layout by using the Pin It Up Collection Biggie and coordinating products to decorate “walls” for the ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 12x12 Gallery.
Layout by A-dab-adu
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Congratulations, A-dab-adu! We loved your idea so much we had to share it with everybody! Please contact [email protected] to claim your gift.
Printable Crafts and Projects:
- Use these products for making magnetic list pads for grocery lists, babysitter lists, chore charts, incentive charts, etc.
- Create birthday cards, party invitations, and matching party favors for a child's birthday party.
- Use the alpha in the Pin It Up Collection Biggie to make ABC flashcards.
- Make an end-of-the-year gift album to a school teacher with photos of all the children in her class.
- Use the Pin It Up Word Art Mini to create real bubble magnets for your fridge.
- Create a fun sign for your child's door to his/her room, then print and laminate.
- Print out any of the magnets and push pins available in this Club on magnetic paper, cut out, and use for holding drawings, report cards, or schedules on your refrigerator.
- You can design real postcards to send a quick note to family and friends to brighten their day using the postcard embellishment in the Pin It Up Embellishment Mini.
- Create practice worksheets for math, spelling, sight words, etc. Laminate and use dry erase markers to re-use over and over again.
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Project and Layout by Christy VanderWall
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We hope this article gives you some ideas to get you scrapping! We’d love to see what you come up with. You can share ideas and tips on the message board, plus there’s a special gallery available for you to show off your Club creations and inspire each other, so start creating!
And remember, this club will be expiring in just a few days! So if you like these ideas, don't hesitate to sign up today, or you will miss your chance to get in on these tremendous savings! It's like buying the Collection Biggie and getting the coordinating Paper Super Mini, Word Art, Embellishment Set, Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set, and Designer's Choice Item for free! Now, that's a bargain. Don't miss out!
Have fun!
- The Scrap Girls Team
P.S. We hope you are enjoying this article, 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 |
Life Moments Chat and Crop
Tuesday, January 27th - 3:00PM ET
Please join, Sherry_Lynn, Tuesday, January 27th, at 3 PM EST for the next installment of our Life Moments Chat and Crop! These crops are about building a scrapbook all about you, one layout at a time.
This week we will focus on “The best thing in my life right now is....” Can't wait to see what you come up with AND I'm looking forward to seeing you there!
New Member Chat
Tuesday, January 27th - 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, January 28th - 12:00Noon ET
Join your guest host April Showers 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 January 28th, we'll do an embellishment challenge! Create a layout using embellishments - flowers, tags, frames, whatever you'd like! Make use of those fancy, fun embellishments!
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!
Journaling Chat
Wednesday, January 28th - 8:00PM ET
Join Becca and angelaNussbaum on January 28, 2009 at 8pm ET for a Journaling Chat! Journaling can really make or break a layout, but it's harder for some of us. During this chat, you'll be given a challenge and ways to improve your journaling skills!
Hope to see you there!
Faith Journey Crop
Thursday, January 29th - 8:00PM ET
Come join us for a chance to scrap about your faith! You can crop or chat with us as we share our faith, prayer needs, and strengthen each other in our journeys.
Ad Inspiration Chat
Thursday, January 29th - 9:00PM ET
Join Pat & Launa for an Ad Inspiration Chat and Crop in the Scrap Girls Chat Room Thursday, January 29th, at 9:00 EST. We will use a magazine ad to inspire a layout, there is no wrong answer!! Come join the fun!
The Ad will be posted a couple of hours before the challenge. Come join us for some chattin', croppin', and FUN!
What's New? Chat
Friday, January 30th - 11:00AM ET
Join Michelle (Shelbi) and Sherry_Lynn 11 am EST Friday morning to chat about all the cool new things in the boutique. What are you getting? What did you Kaboodle? And most importantly, show us the layouts or other projects you made with your new goodies!
There's a thread every Thursday, and now there's a chat too!!!
Desktop Crop and Chat
Friday, January 30th - 8:00PM ET
Please come join Angela (angelaNussbaum) and Becca @ 8PM ET for the Desktop Challenge Crop.
Tired of your desktop being some graphic that you would've liked to make? Tired of a solid background? Did you know with your digital scrapbooking skills you can make a fabulous background for your enjoyment?
A few hours before the chat, we will provide you with a source of inspiration, so stay tuned.
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January Events |
January Board Game: Jumpstart January!
It's time to kick off the new year with fun and focus on scrapbooking! And a few prizes thrown in never hurt, right? Join us on the message board this month for “Jumpstart January!” This is a message board game and challenge to start your year with fun and focus on taking time to scrapbook regularly despite the little speedbumps of life. When the month is over, you'll have completed several layouts and been challenged and treated to some fun along the way.
A member of the Welcoming Committee will post a mini-challenge/task every day from January 1-30. Some tasks will require message board participation, email responses, or gallery posting. Those who complete all tasks and submit or post required participation will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $10 Gift Certificates to the ScrapGirls Boutique! Those who complete just the layouts will be entered in a drawing to win one of two $5 gift certificates. Those who complete just the speedbumps will be entered in a drawing for one of two $3 gift certificates. (Those who complete all tasks will have their name entered in all three drawings!)
Layout Contests:
January Layout Contest: With a new year before us, let’s take a moment to think about the year just past. For this contest, I would like you to choose your favorite moment of 2008 and scrap it. If you have already scrapped that special moment, do another layout using a style that you don’t normally use. Post your finished layouts in the January Layout Gallery before midnight ET on January 31st, and you could win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
January Mid-Month Layout Contest: It's the beginning of a new year, a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. January is a time for resolutions and setting goals. So, for the mid-January Layout Contest, we want to see your layouts showcasing New Beginnings! Post your layouts in the Mid-January Layout Gallery before midnight ET on February 15th and you could win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Good Luck!
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Layout by Brandy Hackman
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Designer Freebie by Brandy Hackman coordinates with her Brush Set: Snapshot Frames
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A Moment
Monday, January 26, 2009
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Mandy Steward
- Scrap Girls Club Concepts
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Designer Freebie
- Getting Started
- Expand Your Skills
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
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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
- 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.
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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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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.
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 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 Trish Yochum using January's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Trish Yochum
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 Angie Briggs using January's ScrapSimple Club
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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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