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"B" by Amy Lemaniak
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I fell in love with Brandy's ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Crocheted Frames. The frame that I used on this layout came in a PSD format with a pearl layer and a base layer. To color the pearls, I used the Eyedropper to select an off-white color from my background paper. Once I had my color selected, I colored my pearls by adjusting the Hue/Saturation/Lightness of the pearl layer after clicking the "Colorize" box to apply the color I had previously selected. I then repeated this same process with the base crochet layer, but chose a pinkish-purplish color from my background paper instead.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
"The Hiker" by Joann Brown
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
Using chains to hang the "N" from Brandy's Mossy Collection Biggie alpha was the perfect touch on this layout. First, I brought the letter "N" into my layout. Then, I brought in a chain from Brandy Hackman's Abstract Expressionism Collection Biggie. I duplicated it and moved it around until it looked the way I wanted it to look. I then added a few screws from Melissa Renfro's Well Loved Hardware Embellishment Mini. I added drop shadows, and decided it needed just a little bit more. I added an squiggle from Dinny Miller's Sage Collection, then applied Melissa Renfro's ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Metals 5001 to the squiggle. I added a tag and erased a small portion of the metallic squiggle, so the tag would look like it is hanging from the metal.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
Other Ingredients:
"M" by Kelly Favor-Chronister
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
The original photo I chose was brightly colored and had a very dark background. I wanted all the attention to be on my daughter's face, so I came in really close and offset the photo in the frame a bit to focus on the way her head was tilted toward the camera. To get the effect on the photo, I created three duplicate layers of the photo. The base I left original. The next I used Mandy Steward's ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photos That Pop PSE 1801 and changed the Blending Mode to "Screen" and slightly lowered the Opacity. The top layer I applied one of the styles from Syndee Nuckles' ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Aged Photos 6301. Finally I lowered the Opacity of that layer to give the look of a tinted photo.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Apple iPhoto
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
Other Ingredients:
"A" by Kara Swanson
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To add interest and color to my layout, I scattered red and white little flowers randomly across my page.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
"Mmmm" by Armi Custodio
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to add more gumballs to Brandy Murry's gumball cluster from her Sugar Baby Collection. So with the gumball cluster layer active, I used the circular Marquee tool to make a selection around a gumball I wanted and hit Ctrl+J. This puts the selected gumball into its own layer, allowing me to position and resize it as desired.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
Other Ingredients:
"Amore" by Launa Valente
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To make the butterflies appear to be in the cage, I selected the cage by Ctrl+Click on the cage layer icon and then Select > Inverse. Next, with the butterfly layer highlighted, I clicked on the layer mask. This technique perfectly masks your image!
Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
Layout by Janine Buckles
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
To create the frame underneath my layers of stitching, I chose a green paper from Brandy Murry's Mossy Collection Biggie and, using my Marquee Tool I removed the outside edge and an inside square. Holding down the Shift key while using the Marquee Tool creates a perfect square. I then added a small shadow and set the Blending Mode to "Darken."
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
"Belle" by Amy Flanagan
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Directions for one technique I did on this layout:
I wanted to bring more texture into the layout without taking away from the frame and trio of photos. To do this, I selected the blue diamond paper from Brandy's Yesteryear Collection Biggie. Using the Magic Wand, I clicked on the portion of the design that I wanted to bring into my layout. With the marching ants active, I hit Ctrl+J to bring just that portion of the paper onto a new layer. Then I played with the Blending Modes and adjusted the color until I achieved the look I wanted. Finally I deleted the original paper layer.
Software used: Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
Name of challenge: Use one letter and a date, but no other words.
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!
If you are a registered user of the message board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
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A Designer's Life: Brandie Valenzuela
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Weight Loss Lessons
I've battled my weight for many years. In 2007, I found the motivation to learn a new healthier lifestyle and I lost about 30 pounds. Yeah, it's good and I'm not trying to downplay the value of losing 30 pounds but, for me, this was just barely the tip of the iceberg and I still had a lot of weight to lose. It wasn't until this year that I really started getting serious.
On January 2, 2009, I joined Weight Watchers for the first time in my life and made a commitment to become a healthier woman. I started journaling all my food. If I ate it, I tracked it. I also started getting active. I actually look forward to the brisk one mile walk my husband and I take several times a week. Is that me who just said that? It's crazy to think that I would look forward to it. But, I really do.
Since the past five months have been a huge learning experience for me, I thought I would share a few of the random things I have learned - the good and the bad, the obvious and the not so obvious.
- It's easier to lose weight if a friend joins you. My husband started Weight Watchers two weeks into my joining. Going through the ups and downs of this journey with him makes it so much better, not to mention, it's easier that we're both on the same page when it comes to the food we're buying and eating.
- I had heard that eating healthier was more expensive, but I'm finding that it isn't necessarily because now we are actually buying less food. So, yes, we are paying more for our whole grain bread, but it's lasting twice as long since our portions aren't double (or triple) what an average person would eat.
- When underwear is too big, they are really a pain and are likely to shift in odd ways at inconvenient moments.
- Making my usual cheese sauce recipe with lowfat cheese doesn't work too well and it will result in a large mass of yellow goo stuck to my whisk. I still need to investigate other options there.
- On a sunny day, the local park is full of people doing outdoor activities. Some are playing ball, some play on a playground, others are walking. There are also Frisbee throwers, roller-bladers and bike riders. I know it sounds silly, but after visiting our park more often now, I actually feel like I've joined a new club. Seriously.
- Losing weight can be time consuming. It's been a challenge to balance all the watching calories (calculating "points") and tracking of my food. Not to mention, if I cook a meal from scratch, which I do most nights, I have to figure out the calories/points on the portion I eat. It takes some getting use to. But, I can say that it is easier today than it was that first month or so.
- While some of this losing weight business is time consuming, shaving my legs is starting to take less time.
- Don't use the word "only" when you talk about your accomplishments such as, "I only lost one pound" or "I only walked one time this week." The people that are trying to support and encourage you don't like it.
- I love asparagus. (I had it for the first time ever.)
- Eating with chopsticks does slow down how fast you eat your food - until you get really good at using them.
It's now the end of May and I have lost just over 50 pounds. (Not including the 30 I lost in 2007.) It's exciting to see my hard work pay off each Friday morning at my weekly weigh-in. I still have a long way to go (I have over 100 pounds more to lose until I reach my goal weight) but I'm up to the challenge and excited to see what other things I learn on this journey.
Favorite product I've designed:
Brush Set: Grungelle
Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Grungelle are also available.
I love quick and easy ways to add texture or make something look distressed. I like how versatile this set is, plus how it blends in easily. I love the name of this product! The joke behind the name is that one day my daughter, Noelle, was being rather grumpy and I told her that if she didn't knock it off I was going to name my new brush set after her. She dared me and I did it.
Layout by Brandie Valenzuela
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Important to Know: Retirement Sale |
We've just opened a Retirement Sale section of the Boutique. Items in this section are always on sale for 30% off. The items you will find during any particular month will be discontinued permanently on the 5th of the following month. So if you see something you like, grab it while you can! |
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Congratulations Sara (Three Tadpoles Mom)! The Scrap Girls team has chosen Sara as the Member of the Month for June.
Sara has been a wonderful addition to the Scrap Girls community since joining in August 2007. Sara is active all over the message boards, welcoming new members, sharing kind words of encouragement and joining in on swaps and challenges. Thank you, Sara, for making Scrap Girls a fun and friendly place!
Sara receives a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls boutique and has the honor of wearing the Member of the Month blinkie!
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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!
May's Scrap Girls ScrapSimple Club's featured designers are Ariadna Wiczling and Brandie Valenzuela. Their club is full of beautiful 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!
- Do you keep a record of your child's height? Did your parents keep record of yours? Recreate that growth chart fun with petal lined template from the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Crafty Plaster. Use a record of photos as a timeline along the petals to create a record of growth.
- Summer photos will look great when you create a circular photo mask that blends into the background by single clicking with the Dynamic Brush Set: Textured 8201 on your page in the same place several times. Apply a clipping mask to the photo and add a Blending Mode.
- Add a unique fabric texture to any embellishment, title, word art or brush by lightly brushing a cream color with the fabric brush from the Dynamic Brush Set: Textured 8201 and then create the effect by changing the Blending Mode to "Hard Light" and lower the Opacity to about 40%.
- Design a complimentary word art to go with a template from ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Lifted Stencils by selecting the invisible parts of the word and fill the selection in with a new color.
Layout by Three Tadpoles Mom
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Congratulations, Three Tadpoles Mom! We loved your idea so much we had to share it with everybody! Please contact [email protected] to claim your gift.
- La dolce vita, take a trip to Italy or just simply enjoy your photos of architecture with layouts using both the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Crafty Plaster and the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling.
- Use two or more photos and the clock brush from the Brush Set: Reversed Paint to do a layout themed on the passing of time.
- Use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling as edgings on layouts and on photos to create a frame.
- A unique frame can be created by placing the ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Lifted Stencils over your photo, allowing certain parts to show through the letters. For added fun, try putting a different photo behind each letter.
Layout by Holly1156
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Congratulations, Holly1156! We loved your idea so much we had to share it with everybody! Please contact [email protected] to claim your gift.
- The wavy pieces of spackling from ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling are perfect to use on water or beach themed layouts. Recolor the elements to mimic water, or use as an element to flow along with the water.
- Create your own canvas pictures by applying the either the grunge scratches or canvas brushes from the Dynamic Brush Set: Textured 8201 gently on top of your pictures.
- Brush Set: Reversed Paint can be used to erase edges of photos or papers and give a collaged type feel to your photos.
- Change the color of the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling to browns and use as mud on a boy's layout. The spackling can also be used as frosting for birthday layouts.
Layout by Janine Buckles
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- Trips to the hospital or to visit the doctor are not always pleasant experiences. ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Crafty Plaster have a gauze texture that you can use as a background, as an embellishment such as a piece of gauze, or as texture on photos from experiences that you do want to remember.
- Create fun nature layouts by interpreting the ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling pieces as flower petals, leaves, foliage, pinwheels or clouds.
- Use ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Lifted Stencils for themed layouts about the end of the school year, parties, reunions and even for the Scrap Girls 52 ongoing challenge.
- ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Spackling can be used to create brush strokes on your layouts. Simply place your spackling and change the Blending Mode to create a paint-like look!
Layout by Joann Brown
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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 or ScrapSimple 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 |
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NSBR Chat
Monday, June 1st - 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 Carla (CRS) on June 1st, at 9pm ET in the chat room!
Life Moments Chat
Tuesday, June 2nd - 4:00PM ET
Join April (April Showers) for our next Life Moments Crop and Chat. These Crops are about building a scrapbook all about you, one layout at a time. This week we will focus on Outdoor Fun! Did your family love to camp, go to the beach or lake, or have big family barbecues? Anything that happens outdoors is perfect for this challenge. Dig out your photos, write down your memories, and join us for a super fun chat!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 3rd - 12:00Noon ET
Join April Showers at Noon ET for a fun chat and crop.
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 June 3rd, we'll do a single photo challenge! Create a layout using a single photo, either paper-style or graphic-style! Make a statement with one single, large, wonderful photo! You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour! We hope you'll join us!
What's New Chat
Friday, June 5th - 11:00AM ET
Join Michelle (Shelbi) and Becca at 11am ET to chat about all the cool new things in the boutique. You never know who else is going to show up!! 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, June 7th - 5:00PM ET
Join ManiakMama 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 and Challenge
Monday, June 8th - 9:00PM Australian Eastern Standard Time
Please come join Karen (kazbar73) and Jo (scrappingjo) at 9pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on Monday 8 June for a Colour Challenge Crop. Keep an eye on the boards on Sunday 7 June for the Colour Challenge. Create a layout and come along and chat with us about your creation and Monday night.
For our International ladies, the chat will be on at 7am New York time.
Card-Making Chat
Monday, June 8th - 8:00PM ET
Join Michelle (Shelbi) for the once a month Card Chat. Do you use your digital supplies to make cards? Do you want to? Instead of going to the store every time you need a card, we thought it would be better (and more fun) to use our digi stash to make any cards we might need for the upcoming month.
Baby Album Crop
Tuesday, June 9th - 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 Carla (CRS) and Shari (Shari PV Mom) in the chat room at 1pm ET to work on those albums! You can start from fresh on a brand new album, or jump in where ever you are in your project. We'll provide an optional challenge each crop for motivation if you want one. This month, let's scrap those nursery photos!
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June Events |
June Message Board Game: Re-JUNE-venate!
We helped you jumpstart your January and now it's time to re-JUNE-venate your focus on scrapbooking! Join us on the message board this month for "Re-JUNE-venate"! This is a message board game and challenge that focuses 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... with prize opportunities thrown in as well!
A member of the Welcoming Committee will post a mini-challenge/task every day from June 1-30. Some tasks will require message board participation, email responses or gallery posting. Read each daily task carefully to see what is required of you. 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!)
Join us in June for some serious scrapbooking re-JUNE-venation!
Layout Contests:
June Monthly Layout Contest: Do you have cobwebs and dust bunnies that need cleaning? How about some mental spring cleaning? Scrap it! For the June Monthly Layout Contest, we want to see your layouts featuring Spring Cleaning, either physical or mental. You could win a $10 gift certificate to the boutique if your layout is chosen! Just post your layouts in the June Monthly Layout Gallery before June 30th at Midnight EDT and you will be eligible to win! Be sure to include the credits for items used in the description area or under the Details tab. We can't wait to see all your inspiring layouts!
May Mid-Month Layout Contest: Even though it isn't officially summer (or winter in the Southern Hemisphere), in many places it's getting very close. For this layout contest, we want to see layouts about what you look forward to at this time of the year. Is it summer barbeques, days at the beach, or long summer evenings? You could win a $10 gift certificate to the boutique if your layout is chosen! Just post your layouts in the May Mid-Month Layout Gallery before June 15th at midnight EDT and you will be eligible to win! Be sure to include the credits for items used in the description area or under the Details tab.
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Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)
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Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Designer Freebie by Syndee Nuckles coordinates with her Jardin De Fleur Collection Mini
* There is a "free download" button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available as gifts for about two newsletter cycles. |
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Weight Loss Lessons
Monday, June 1, 2009
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- Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Brandie Valenzuela
- Retirement Sale
- June's Member of the Month
- ScrapSimple Club Concepts
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Designer Freebie
- 2009 Digital Scrap Link Convention Information!
- 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
P.S. Your email address is safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with anyone!
P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance, please email [email protected] or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!
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Scrap Girls is Having a Convention! |
Here are the facts:
When: October 8-10th, 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
What's Included
- 4 (four) meals (two lunches and two dinners)
- A Collection Biggie, designed especially for the convention
- Other free digital scrapbooking supplies, designed for class materials
- PDFs of the class materials
- Action-packed classes on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Crops, games, and time to hang out and make friends with other Scrap Girls
- The chance to meet in person and get help from Scrap Girls designers, layout artists, and welcoming committee members
- Memories that will last forever!
How many people may attend? Only 126 and over half of the seats are sold after only two months of being on sale! Don't miss out on this opportunity - secure your place now!
Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October 8th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 10th.
Want to save on your expenses when you come to the convention?
- Lots of our attendees share rooms to save on their expenses. We have a special forum on our messageboard where people can find roommates here.
- It would also be important to know that if you choose to stay at the University House, your breakfasts are included and you won't have to worry about getting back and forth because it is right next to the Officer's Club. We've got you covered!
We hope you come because you're special to us and we are dying to meet you. Scrap Girls is all about making friends while we enjoy the hobby that allows us to save our memories in a fun way. Having you with us would be awesome!
Sign up now!
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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 all of the important questions new digital scrapbookers have. They are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!
Bonus! Download the free "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! This large set of video tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. And because Ro covers such a large number of topics in this item, it is one of the most cost-effective digital scrapbooking tutorial series available today. No wonder tens of thousands of people have chosen Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed as their method of learning to scrapbook digitally!
In the tutorials, you'll see Ro working on her computer and hear her talking about why she is doing what she is doing. It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons. You can create digital scrapbooking layouts today!
Start to Finish eBooklets
Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using ScrapSimple Card Templates
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 |
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Simple But Stunning 3D Text - Photoshop
Mondays, June 8 and 15 - 1:00PM ET
This in-depth online digital scrapbooking class is a wonderful opportunity to learn the technique of '3D Text'. This step by step instruction will show you the basic method of making the extrusion to form the 3D part of the text and which arrow keys to use to achieve the direction of extrusion required. Study real examples and see how this simple approach adds that little something extra to your layouts. We will further manipulate and enhance the basic 3D text and discuss the use of different fonts and typical layouts. The 3D Text technique adds another personal touch to your scrapbook layouts.
Mastering Brushes in Photoshop Elements
Thursdays, June 11 - July 16 - 3:00PM ET
This in-depth class is perfect for the digital scrapbooker who wants to take their brushwork above and beyond the basics taught in the Secrets tutorials. Beautiful brush skills taught in this digital scrapbooking class will turn ordinary layouts into the extraordinary!
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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:
- 1 Collection Biggie
- 1 Paper Super Mini
- 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
- 1 Embellishment Set
- 1 Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set
- 1 Designer's Choice Item
Layout by Keri Schueller using June's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Keri Schueller
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:
- 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 Ariadna Wiczling using May's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Ariadna Wiczling and Brandie Valenzuela
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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