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Digital scrapbook layout by Gisele Queiroz

Layout by Gisele Queiroz
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Brazil Collection Mini Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages: Mosaic Retreat Mosaic Retreat Collection Biggie
Pin It Up Collection Biggie Trish Yochum's Fab 5 ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Squares and Strips

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates: Squares and Strips are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Shelf Words Super Biggie ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Room Decor ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Shelving 6401 Biggie
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Ledges and Frames White Linen Collection Mini Finery Collection Mini

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Shelf Words Super Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Room Decor, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Shelving 6401 Biggie and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Ledges and Frames are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Durin Eberhart

Layout by Durin Eberhart
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Design Pack: Baroque Borders 2 Biggie Shabby Fabulous Collection Biggie Ethereal Love Collection Mini
Rustique Collection Biggie   Endearing You Collection Biggie

Commercial license versions of Design Pack: Baroque Borders 2 Biggie are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Christy VanderWall

Layout by Christy VanderWall
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Design Pack: Raquel's Baby Gather Together Collection Love Birds Collection
Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revitalize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2 eBook ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Photo Borders 11101 Mini ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: Copy and Close 11101
Splash Of Color Collection ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching 6401 Mini ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Freehand Coloring 8201 Super Biggie
Colors of Spring Collection Assemble Your Own: Childhood Memories Talk Bubbles Biggie Assemble Your Own: Slipped Stitch Segments - Basic Biggie
  Ice Cream Shoppe Collection Mini  

Commercial license versions of Design Pack: Raquel's Baby, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Photo Borders 11101 Mini, ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: Copy and Close 11101, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching 6401 Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Freehand Coloring 8201 Super Biggie are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Caroline Kaiser

Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Scrap Pack: Colors of Spring AMC_Chatty Font ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: File Save 1 11101

Commercial license versions of AMC_Chatty Font and ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: File Save 1 11101 are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Erica Hite

Layout by Erica Hite
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Scrap Pack Biggie: Creative Spirit Brush Set: Journal Bits Oh Blah Dee Collection Biggie
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Colored Vellum 5401 Brush Set: Doodled Edge Frames Precious Boy Collection Biggie
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Creative Spirit 5401 Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Emboss 5401 ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: File Save 1 11101

Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Journal Bits, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Colored Vellum 5401, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Creative Spirit 5401 Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Emboss 5401 and ScrapSimple Tools - Scripts: File Save 1 11101 are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Armi Custodio

Layout by Armi Custodio
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Happy Spring Paris Pink Collection ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Floral Fantasy Biggie
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Clusters 3 His and Hers Collection Biggie Just Be You Collection Biggie
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Threaded ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Well Loved 5001 Well Loved Paper Super Mini
Ribbons To Go Embellishment Biggie ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Appliqued Flowers ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Vellum 5401

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Happy Spring, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Floral Fantasy Biggie, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Clusters 3, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Threaded, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Well Loved 5001, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Appliqued Flowers and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Vellum 5401 are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Durin Eberhart

Layout by Durin Eberhart
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Design Pack: Old Lace Flowers 4 Biggie Daybreak Collection Artistry Collection Mini
  Old Friends Collection Biggie  

Commercial license versions of Design Pack: Old Lace Flowers 4 Biggie are also available.

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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.

Turning Down The Volume
Friday, March 5, 2010

IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial: Creating a Reflection
- Getting Started
- Designer Freebies
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU


AVAILABLE ONLINE CLASSES

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OPPORTUNITES FOR YOU

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.

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!

Project SG Challenge: Stay motivated to scrap your current photos! Post your 2010 layouts in the Project SG Challenge Gallery to earn one point per layout each month. You can earn up to four points per month this way! Earn a bonus point each month by attending the monthly Project SG Chat! Each point gives you an entry into a quarterly drawing for a special prize! And at the end of the year, each month that you participated in will earn you an entry into the Grand Prize drawing for a 12 X 12, 52 page Keepsakes photobook from Color, Inc! Our first quarterly drawing winner will be announced in the Saturday, April 3rd Scrap Girls newsletter.

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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.

LIFE MUSES BY RO

Rozanne Paxman
Rozanne Paxman

Doodle by Ro
Doodle by Ro

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Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems, another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does not have to agree with musings to enjoy them, just as one does not have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.

Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate? Send your own muse to [email protected]. If it is selected for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have fun shopping!

SCRAP GIRLS CLUBS

SCRAP GIRLS CLUB

The March Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking club, designed for you by Brandy Murry.

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

Computer scrapbook layout by Brandy Murry using March's Scrap Girls Club
Layout by Brandy Murry using March's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Brandy Murry

If you prefer not to join a club, the Scrap Girls 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 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!

SCRAPSIMPLE CLUB

The February ScrapSimple digital scrapbooking club selection by Cherise Oleson and Syndee Nuckles.

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
  • 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment or Word Art Template Set
  • 2 Designer's Choice Items

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

Computer scrapbook layout by Cherise Oleson using February's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Cherise Oleson using February's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Cherise Oleson and Syndee Nuckles

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!

DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING TUTORIAL

Creating a Reflection

Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 on Windows XP.

This tutorial is about creating a custom reflection for a digital scrapbooking embellishment. When doing a layout with a water scene, you can use these techniques to make your embellishments look more realistic.

Decide what embellishment you want to use. Here I'm going to use my Digital Stickers: Waters Edge Mini and alter the heron so that it looks like he is standing in water.

First, pull your heron into a new file with enough room on the canvas to create your reflection.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Open embellishment.

In this case, only his knees will be above the water, so erase his legs and feet below the knees. Then, with this layer highlighted in your Layers Palette, right-click on the layer and choose "Duplicate Layer" from the drop-down menu.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Duplicate layer.

Now you will have two heron layers. Highlight the layer you just created and with your mouse, click on the top border of your image and drag your image straight down so that you have a mirror image.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Mirror image.

It's really starting to come together but a few more touches will make it look even more realistic. With your reflection layer highlighted, change Opacity on the slider bar to 50%. This will make it look like a reflection of the actual heron.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Adjust opacity.

Now with the reflection layer still highlighted, go to the top tool bar and select Filter> Distort> Liquify.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Liquify.

This will take your reflection layer to a new screen where you can distort the image to make it look like it is rippling on the water. In Tool Options, choose a brush size of 42 and a brush pressure of 50. Drag your brush several times horizontally across your reflection image until you get the amount of ripple distortion you want.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Distort embellishment.

Click OK and you will be taken back to your main canvas.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Reflection of bird.

At this point, you can highlight both layers, right-click, and select Merge Layers. Now you are ready to drag and drop your new custom embellishment onto your layout!

Unlock the mysteries of digital scrapbooking with the tutorials you'll find in Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

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Digital scrapbook layout by Angela Blanchard

Layout by Angela Blanchard
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Waters Edge Collection Digital Stickers: Waters Edge Prairieland Collection
Naturalist's Journal Collection Biggie   Jake and Emma Collection Biggie

Angela Blanchard
Tutorial written by Angela Blanchard

GETTING STARTED AS A DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKER

FREE STARTER KIT

15 Things You NEED to Know to become a GREAT digital scrapbooker

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!

Scrap Girls Refresh Collection Biggie

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!

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Ready to Take Off? In-depth Tutorials Help You Become a Great Digital Scrapbooker

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed: Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2, CS

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0 and 7.0

Find out what tens of thousands of people have already learned: Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed is the fastest way to learn how to create digital scrapbooking layouts. And because this series covers so many topics with one purchase, it is a bargain!

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!

Download and CD versions available.

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements users receive:

  • 30-31 movie tutorials
  • Companion eBook(s)
  • Collections
  • Other supplies

Paint Shop Pro users receive 31 movie tutorials.

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop

Now that you've learned the basics of digital scrapbooking with Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, you are ready to learn advanced skills for having even more fun while you create digital scrapbooking layouts!

Get a big boost learning how to use ScrapSimple products to make your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas with the MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements movie tutorial series. You'll learn so much that your digital scrapbooking layouts will never be the same!

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:

Scrap Girls 2009 Digital Scrap Link Class: Creating a Painting With Styles
Scrap Girls 2009 Digital Scrap Link Class:
Creating a Painting With Styles

Learn how to create the look of a painting with your digital photographs using simply styles and some filters. You can create the depth of an oil, acrylic, or watercolor painting with various style textures and techniques. You will also learn some other fun techniques to use styles to create real looking embellishments such as a rusted frame.

Ten Basic Design Principles eBook
Ten Basic Design Principles eBook

Learn to design digital scrapbook pages like a pro! Learn to use a grid and understand 10 basic design principles shown through examples with grids and detailed explanations. Includes a 12x12 Grid in png format to get you started.

Scrap Girls Tutorials & Way Cool Stuff eBook Set - 2009 3rd Quarter
Scrap Girls Tutorials & Way Cool Stuff eBook Set
2009 - 3rd Quarter

Subscribers to the Scrap Girls Newsletter have one thing in common: they love to learn new techniques! Each issue shares ideas, tutorials, and new ways to use Scrap Girls quality digital scrapbooking products. Now you can have all those past tutorials and Way Cool Stuff articles of the 3rd Quarter of 2009 in one convenient PDF format.

Start to Finish eBooklets

Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: Making a Just Because Card Using ScrapSimple Card Templates
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!

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TODAY'S FREEBIE

Digital scrapbook layout by Cheré Edwards

Layout by Cheré Edwards
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Dave and Raya Paper SPECIAL
Designer Freebie by Cheré Edwards coordinates with her Dave and Raya Collection Biggie

* Dave and Raya Collection Biggie *

* 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.

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SCRAP GIRLS?

CROPS AND CHATS

What's New Chat
Friday, March 5th - 9:00AM MT

Join Michelle (Shelbi) and Sherry (Sherry_Lynn) at 9am MT on Friday mornings 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!

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Back-Up Party & Chat
Friday, March 5th - 2:00PM MT

Need a little extra motivation to back-up your layouts and stash? Join April Showers in the chat room on Friday, March 5th for a Back-up Party and Chat. We'll also go over several different ways to safeguard your files. You won't want to miss this one!

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Quote Challenge Chat
Sunday, March 7th - 6:00PM MT

Come join Pat (PBarnes) for the Quote Challenge Crop at 6pm MT. Including a quote on your layout can be a touching and meaningful addition, especially if you use the quote to create your own word art. Here's how it will work. On Sunday, Pat will post a thread on the Chat section of the board, giving you the quote that you can use to make your own word art. It's not hard, and she will have a layout with a Word Art example in the gallery. Then we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout! Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there!

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Aussie Chat & Challenge
Monday, March 8th - 9:00PM Australian Eastern DST

Come join Karen (kazbar73) & Jo (scrappingjo) for an Aussie Quote Challenge Crop! Here's how it will work... On Sunday, we will post a thread on the challenge board giving you the quote which you will use to make your own word art. It's not hard, and we'll even have a layout with a Word Art example. Then we'll meet in the chat room to have fun, chat, and create our Word Art layout! The chat will start at 9pm Australian Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time. Everyone can participate and create a layout, even if you can't make the chat. Hope to see you there! For our International ladies, the chat will start at 5am New York time or 3am MT on Monday 8 March.

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Photography Focus Club Chat
Monday, March 8th - 7:00PM MT

Do you want to challenge yourself and improve your photography? Check out the Scrap Girls Photo Focus Club. No membership required - everyone is welcome. If you are looking for tips, techniques or inspiration to help you take better images, this is the chat for you. Join Mary Elizabeth O’Toole (NS_Scrapper) and special guests for a monthly conversation about photography. Each month, we’ll have a theme and post a photography challenge. The challenge will be posted on the message board a week before the club meets to give you a chance to plan or practice your 'assignment' - and consider some of its challenges. Note that this is not a class but an opportunity to share ideas, ask questions, and try something new.

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Baby Album Chat
Tuesday, March 9th - 2:00PM MT

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 on Tuesday, March 9th at 2pm MT 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. For this month's challenge, let's scrap Baby's Favorite Things!

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New Member Chat
Tuesday, March 9th - 7:00PM MT

Join Pat (PBarnes) and Carol Ann (Zaz) for the New Member Chat at 7pm MT 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.

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East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, March 10th - 10:00AM MT

Join your host April Showers for the East Coast High Noon Crop every Wednesday at 10am MT. 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 March 10th, we'll do a geometric challenge! Create a layout using at least one triangle somewhere on your page! 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!

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Journaling Challenge Chat
Wednesday, March 10th - 12:00Noon MT

Join Becca and angelaNussbaum for a Journaling Chat at 12Noon MT on Wednesday, March 10th. Struggle to find the right words for your layouts? Are your layouts more decorative than descriptive of the moments you're trying to capture? Then you won't want to miss this chat - we'll have a special challenge to encourage you to journal on your pages more! See you there!

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Leaving Love Chat
Wednesday, March 10th - 4:00PM MT

Please join Sherry (Sherry_Lynn) for a Leaving Love Chat at 4pm MT! One of the greatest things about Scrap Girls is the generosity of our members... don't you agree? This goes for the Layout Gallery, too! Everyone likes to see a little "love" in the form of comments on a newly uploaded layout, so let's give it our all today and bombard the gallery with some purple fuzzies!

MARCH EVENTS

March Message Board Game: Posting Contest!

It's that time again - Posting Contest time! This is where you are rewarded for your flying fingers and chattiness. The contest will run from March 1 when we post the thread to March 31 at 12:00 midnight (MST). We are doing things a little differently this time, so here are the rules:

1) To enter the Posting Challenge, reply in the game thread with your CURRENT post count. This is the number under your Avatar that shows when you post. Do not post the number found on your profile; it is a different number that is calculated differently.

2) During the month, chat your fingers off!

3) On March 31, BEFORE midnight (MST), go back to your original post in the game thread (the one with your starting post count) and take a screenshot of it. Send the screen shot to [email protected]. The screenshot is your contest entry! We will calculate your post count based on the numbers on the screenshot. (Directions for taking screenshots will be posted in the game thread.)

Prizes: The top poster gets a $20 Scrap Girls gift certificate. Everyone over 250 new posts will be entered in a random drawing for a $10 Scrap Girls gift certificate. Everyone over 100 new posts will be entered into a random drawing for a $5 Scrap Girls gift certificate.

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Layout Contests:

March Monthly Layout Contest: Smile! The month of March includes Smile Day. Does seeing someone else's smile make you smile? For this month's contest, we want to see your layouts featuring a smile. Create your layout and post it in the March Layout Contest Gallery by Midnight MST on March 31st. Be sure to list your credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties. If your layout is one of the two chosen, you will win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Club Concepts Layout Contest: 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 the ScrapSimple Club Members' Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used. If your layout is chosen, it will be showcased as a Club Concepts layout winner, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

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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 Mountain Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-Utah-Salt Lake City' as the location for the Mountain time zone.)

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Haven't received your prize as a contest winner? Please send an email to [email protected] and we'll get it out to you right away!

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