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“Memories of a Chinese Childhood” by Debbie Layden
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
The images in this layout were very low quailty and had been very mistreated, yet they were priceless to me and I desperately wanted to create a layout using them. Ro has a wonderful product that allowed me to keep them small and crop out the damage: ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Chain Gang.
To create the look of a Chinese memory chain, I first opened all the images and laid them underneath the chain. I used Ctrl+T to resize the images to get the desired look. Then, I used my Eraser Tool to remove the excess portions of the image. Finally, I opened Melissa Renfro’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Metals 5001 and applied the style to the chain! Done! Just another example of why I love ScrapSimple Templates and Styles!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Name of challenge: Childhood Memories
Journaling: One child has thousands and the other child has 24 - but those 24 images are more valuable than anything else I have ever taken a picture of. Those 24 images are her childhood memories - a life in a land I barely know. They tell the story of a little girl who, in the first 18 to 20 months of her life, faced abandonment on a middle school step, a little girl who made a journey across the Chinese countryside, a little girl who faced an uncertain future. These images exist not because someone wanted to capture a memory, but because the state required that she be photographed once a month. There are no happy smiles or giggly grins. Sometimes I look into those deep, big brown eyes and wonder, what does she remember, what will be her childhood memories of China?
“Happy Days” by Caroline Kaiser
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To apply two different styles on the chain from Ro’s ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Chain Gang, I selected the part on which I wanted another style with the Magic Wand, Contiguous unchecked, right-clicked on it with my mouse and chose “Layer via Copy.” Then I applied Erica’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Gold 5401 on the bottom layer with the chain and Durin’s ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Pearl 5101 on the new layer on top.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Childhood Memories
“Simple Childhood” by Armi Custodio
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To blend the hopscotch lines into my background paper, I first resized my photo to fit the entire canvas. Then using Brandie Valenzuela’s Brush Set: Worn Threads, I erased portions of the photo where I wanted my background to show through.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Childhood Memories
Other Ingredients:
- Font - Century Gothic Schoolbook
- Font - Edwardian Script
Journaling: I grew up in a place and time where life was simple. I didn’t have much in way of toys, but I don’t recall ever being bored. I remember always being outdoors, playing games like hopscotch, tag, hide-and-seek, or riding around in my red bicycle. It was a simple childhood, but one that is filled with wonderful memories.
“Bunkbeds” by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Because I wanted to justify my text, I first had to create a text box. I selected the Text Tool and used my mouse to click and drag a text box roughly covering the area I wanted my journaling to occupy. I had already typed my text in Microsoft Word, so I copied and pasted it into the text box. Then, to justify my text, I highlighted it and held down Cmd+Shift+J (Ctrl+Shift+J on a PC). You can only justify text in PSE when you have drawn a text box. It will not work if you only click and type.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, Apple iPhoto, Microsoft Word
Name of challenge: Childhood Memories
Other Ingredients:
Journaling: I used to love playing with my brother, Cody. We could spend hours imagining that we were characters from the Star Wars movies fighting the Dark Side of the Force. Our bunk beds became the Millennium Falcon....
Our beds could be anything and they could transport us anywhere. When we carefully stuffed a blanket into the rail of the top bunk to hang down like a wall for the bottom bunk, our beds became a submarine.
Hanging action figures from strings made our beds into a puppet theatre.
Our beds were a safe haven in a time of turbulence. During our parents’ divorce, Cody and I shared a room - even though we each had one of our own. We loved each other’s company. We love each other’s company still.
I am so glad my brother and I had the experiences we had together growing up. We are not strangers, we are more than kinfolk, we are friends. While our beds were a source of playtime and imagination, they were a source of refuge and comfort. They represented togetherness in a time of separation.
“Photo Shoot” by Kara Swanson
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Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Childhood Memories
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A Designer�s Life: Melissa Renfro |
If Digital Scrapbooking Smelled As Good As It Looks
If digital scrapbooking smelled as good as it looks, I would be much more addicted to it than I already am. (Is that really possible?) I am a sucker for anything that smells good and I am not really that particular about whether it is the fruity scent of my tea, the rich toasty smell of my candles, or the warm lavender scent of my herbal heat pack that I wrap around my shoulders. Something about a wonderfully luxurious scent can just take me away.
Perhaps, it could be that my nose is accosted by my normal everyday smells. You know, the kind of smells created by five small boys and one not-so-small husband. Too often, it is my chore to find the answer to the question, “Why does the kitchen/bathroom/car smell like that, Mom?” It is my job to clean out the mystery containers in the refrigerator. No wonder I stop for just a second longer than I need to when I pass by my cupboard full of tea or take a few minutes longer in the shower to wash my face again with my almond-scented facial bar.
There are a few scents that bring back vivid memories of things I remember fondly. The smell of rising yeast dough in a warm kitchen takes me back to late summer days at my great-grandmother’s house. The smell of a wood-burning stove on a crisp fall morning reminds me of growing up in Colorado. Then there is the smell of the sweet blossoms of a Palo Verde tree that is so unique to Tucson, Arizona, where I lived for 14 years. It was always a signal of springtime.
One of the wonderful traditions that my friends and I have here in Albuquerque is the St. James Tea Room. This tea room serves a three course tea that takes two hours to complete. Everyone is served tea in semi-private rooms, some that are so small and intimate that they seat only two people. It is one of those girly things that I just love. They serve three kinds of tea and the most scrumptious and unique food. This is one of those wonderful little hide-a-ways where time stands still and you can enjoy life, friendships, and little pleasures. At the end of your tea, they bring you a warm, lavender-scented washcloth to wash your hands. The scent lingers for hours afterward, reminding you of the pleasant and relaxing time you had.
Something about these wonderful scents makes me pause for a moment and breathe deeply - resting my mind from busyness and forgetting for a moment that all of the problems in the world need to be solved today. Sometimes, I think I go full speed ahead into things. I find I am so occupied with tasks, chores, and things I want to get caught up on that I need these few seconds to really soak in how wonderful God’s world really is. We need just a few minutes here and there to remember that life is not all work and to thank God for lovely and beautiful things, for the gifts he has given us. I believe we are meant to actually enjoy things along the way.
So, even though the beautiful digital scrapbook supplies from Scrap Girls have no scent, I make up for it by sitting here with my fragrant sparkling sugar plum tea, my harvest spice and apple candle, and my lavender and mint warm herbal heat wrap around my shoulders. I enjoy the few moments I have playing with pictures, creating beautiful memory-filled pages and loving the life that God has given me.
- Melissa
Favorite product I've designed:
Lifted Photos Weathered and Worn Embellishment Biggie
I keep going back to these tried and true favorites. I think they add so much depth and variety to my layouts.
Layout by Melissa Renfro
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Scrap Girls 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!
January’s Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club’s featured designers are Angie Briggs and Shalae Tippetts. 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!
Creative ideas:
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Brush Set: Time Stamped pairs up nicely with any clock embellishment or with ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Date Clock – just place the clock in the opening to display the time or date.
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To make a background paper with lots of texture: Select two pre-made papers from a collection that you like. Clip one of the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Off The Wall templates to your bottom paper and play with the blending mode, opacity, and color balance to give the paper below an aged and textured look. Then clip one of the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Off the Wall - Torn to the second pre-made paper (make sure they are above the other layers in your Layers Palette). Again, play with the blending mode, opacity, and color balance to give your top newly torn paper an entirely new look!
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Off The Wall are wonderful for creating treasure map papers or a great background for an old letter or recipe.
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Use the “all about U” word art located in the ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Here and Now for college themed layouts (word play on the U for “U”niversity). Go one step further and use the other word art pieces in this set to create an entire album for a current or former collage student.
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Create a patchwork background, photo matte, or frame by “piecing” together several different pattern papers with Dynamic Brush Set: Embroidered Stitches 4901.
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Use the Brush Set: Time Stamped to indicate the day on your SG 52 layouts. (See our message board for more details!)
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Use Dynamic Brush Set: Embroidered Stitches 4901 with ScrapSimple Tools – Action: Edge It 5001 PS or PSE to frame photos or edge a paper.
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Off the Wall and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Off the Wall – Torn are excellent for making pre-made “pretty” products more masculine for layouts of the men in your life.
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ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Here and Now is a must-have for all things birthday. Several of the word arts are great for birthday layouts, but it's also perfect for creating birthday cards or invitations to the party. In honor of the birthday boy or girl, create a yearly layout documenting your child's favorites: favorite color, song, food, toy, book, TV show, etc.
Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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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 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 |
NSBR Chat
Monday, February 2nd - 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!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, February 4th - 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 February 4th, we'll do a photo manipulation challenge! Create a layout using a photo you have manipulated in some way - change it to black and white or sepia, remove a distraction, cut out the subject - anything goes!
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!
What's New? Chat
Friday, February 6th - 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!!!
Scraplift Chat
Sunday, February 8th - 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!
Leaving Love Chat
Monday, February 9th - 7:00PM ET
February's the perfect time to share the love in the SG Gallery! Join Becca on February 9th at 7pm ET for this month's Leaving Love Chat. Bring a layout of your own and others from the gallery, so we can all share the love together!
*NEW* Baby Album Crop
Tuesday, February 10th - 1:00PM ET
Do you need some motivation getting those baby albums done? Children grow so fast; let's get those baby memories scrapped! You can scrap your children, grandchildren or even your own baby album.
Join me, Carla (crs), in the chat room on Tuesday, February 10th at 1 pm et to work on those albums! You can start from fresh on a brand new album, or jump in wherever you are in your project. I'll provide an optional challenge each crop for motivation if you want it. This time, I challenge you to scrap the “big news...” finding out about the impending arrival! Come join me!
New Member Chat
Tuesday, February 10th - 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, February 11th - 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 February 11th, we'll do a 'Things I Love' challenge! Create a layout telling us about your favorite things - stores, treats, tech equipment, books, music, movies, TV shows - whatever!
You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!
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February Events |
February Board Game: BINGO!
It's that time again! Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Message Board Forum in February! 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 - your SG message board username” by Monday, February 2nd (midnight MST) in order to play in the first round, which will begin Tuesday February 3rd.
Each day, members of the Welcoming Committee will call five 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:
February Layout Contest: Amour, Amor, Amore! The word LOVE is one of the most popular in any language across the globe. For this month's contest, we want you to use the word “Love” on your layouts. Let's see how creative you can get with it by using it in a unique way on your pages. Post your Love layouts in the February Layout Contest Gallery by midnight ET on February 28th, and if yours is selected, you will 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 Armi Custodio
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Designer Freebie by Ariadna Wiczling coordinates with her Portrait of Love Collection
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If Digital Scrapbooking Smelled As Good As It Looks
Monday, February 2, 2009
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer’s Life: Melissa Renfro
- 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.
Ro
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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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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.
Word Play
Tuesdays, February 10, 17, 24, and March 3 - 9:30PM ET
Join Anna Mansfield for this four session class which teaches you step-by-step techniques for getting creative with words. Learn how to use filters, strokes, cut outs, strokes, actions, and ScrapSimple templates to make your text an exciting part of each layout. Examples and screenshots clearly illustrate each technique, making it easy for you to follow along with the class. The examples also show you how to incorporate the techniques into your own scrapbooking layouts.
Dynamic Fab 20: Stitching
Mondays, February 16 and 23, March 2 and 9 - 1:00PM ET
This in-depth digital scrapbooking class on Dynamic Stitching is the perfect opportunity to learn about techniques, tips, and tricks for using dynamic stitching brush sets, and how to apply them to your digital scrapbooking layouts. |
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 Erica Hite using February's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Erica Hite
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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