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Mischief Week Sale! 21.9% off almost everything in the Boutique until Midnight, April 30th (MDT).

It's finally here... MISCHIEF WEEK!!!

For the uninitiated, Mischief Week is a week-long event of mayhem and madness, located in our newsletter, message board, and chat room. We have lots of games, contests, crops, and free classes for you. We give away prizes like we are losing our minds. Make sure you read the details about Mischief Week below today's freebie, and keep an eye on the newsletter because new silliness is announced in almost every issue!

We want to spoil you a little bit during Mischief Week. And so - even though we just barely had a sale and Angie says "off with our heads!" if we run another one right now, we're going to live dangerously and do it.

So hop right on it, jump down the rabbit hole, and save money. Almost everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique is 21.9% off! But you know how it goes - the adventure will be over at Midnight (MT) on Friday, April 30th.

WHAT'S NEW IN THE SCRAP GIRLS BOUTIQUE?

 

Digital scrapbook layout by Sarah Batdorf

Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sweet and Lovely 6501 Biggie Sweet and Lovely Collection ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 8.5x11 Equinox
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Cardboard Glitter 6301 Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Leather 6502 Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501
Blossoms & Blooms - Fall Embellishment Biggie ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Aged Folds 5001 ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Mega Lift III-Linear Biggie

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Sweet and Lovely 6501 Biggie, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 8.5x11 Equinox, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Cardboard Glitter 6301 Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Leather 6502 Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Aged Folds 5001 and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Mega Lift III-Linear Biggie are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Doris Castle

Layout by Doris Castle
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* Zip Kit: Rainbow Bright *

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Digital scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Painted Canvas - Modern 6401 Super Biggie Uptown Collection Brush Set: Scribbled
Bespoke Collection Uptown Solids Paper Mini Take Wing Collection Biggie
  PS I Love You Collection Biggie  

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Painted Canvas - Modern 6401 Super Biggie and Brush Set: Scribbled are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Caroline Kaiser

Layout by Caroline Kaiser
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Track and Field Collection Mini Brush Set: Track and Field Biggie Stopwatch Alpha Mini
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Big Arrows A Tour Across Europe Collection Biggie ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Random Tears - Large 2
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching 6401 Mini AMC_Friendly Font ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Borders 6501

Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Track and Field Biggie, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Big Arrows, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Random Tears - Large 2, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Stitching 6401 Mini, AMC_Friendly Font and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Borders 6501 are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Brandy Murry

Layout by Brandy Murry
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Sun Kissed Collection Biggie Dynamic Brush Set: Unusual Stitching ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Mega Lift III-Linear Biggie
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Edgy, THIN ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Edge It 5001 ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stacked Photos 6502 PSE and PS Mini
  Peaceful Collection Biggie  

Commercial license versions of Dynamic Brush Set: Unusual Stitching, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Mega Lift III-Linear Biggie, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Edgy, THIN, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Edge It 5001 and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Stacked Photos 6502 PSE and PS Mini are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Ang Campbell

Layout by Ang Campbell
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Brush Set: Meaning of Mischief Biggie * Iridescence Collection Biggie

Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Meaning of Mischief Biggie are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Rozanne Paxman

Layout by Ro
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Fix 2201 Ribbon Frame Embellishment Mini Memoirs Paper Super Mini
ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glittered Epoxy 6041 Super Biggie Families Are Forever Collection My Funny Valentine Collection Mini
  Christmas Past Collection Biggie  

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Fix 2201 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glittered Epoxy 6041 Super Biggie are also available.

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Digital scrapbook layout by Armi Custodio

Layout by Armi Custodio
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Vintage Papers 6301 Collage Art Collection Biggie French Market Collection Biggie
Anna Grace Collection Mini ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Artful Photo Masks 2 Out of the Box Collection
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Folds 2 ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Hodgepodge Collage Biggie Lettering Delights Underwood Pica Font

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Vintage Papers 6301, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Artful Photo Masks 2, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Folds 2, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Hodgepodge Collage Biggie and Lettering Delights Underwood Pica Font 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.

Labels, Labels, Labels
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 21.9% off Mischief Week Sale!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muses by Ro
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Digital Scrapbooking Tutorial: Making a Branded Photo
- Getting Started
- Designer Freebie
- Scrap Girls Event: Mischief Week!
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU


AVAILABLE ONLINE CLASSES

New Classes Available!

Online Class - Who I Am
Who I Am - Right Now
Chats: Wednesdays, May 5 & 19
7:00PM MT

When you flip through your scrapbooks or browse through your gallery, do you find yourself missing from the pages? Of all of the subjects to scrap, recording yourself is one of the most important! But, it can also be one of the most daunting.

Join Anna Mansfield for this month-long digital scrapbooking class full of motivation and inspiration to get you going. You will receive daily emails with challenges, quotes, samples, and ideas to inspire you. This class also has two chat sessions in which you'll learn tricks to make layouts come together quickly and easily. And at the end of the month, you'll have an album that is all about you!

IMPORTANT: This is an Intermediate-level class open to All Programs. Students are required to understand the basic skills taught in the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed program prior to starting the course. This information will not be reviewed as part of the course!


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IMPORTANT TO KNOW

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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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 second quarterly drawing winner will be announced in the Saturday, July 3rd Scrap Girls newsletter.

divScrap 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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LIFE MUSES BY RO

Rozanne Paxman
Rozanne Paxman

Labels, Labels, Labels

As a child, I wanted to grow up to be a music teacher. It was a happy day when I graduated from college and accepted my first position teaching strings and band. I was, at last, a real music teacher.

Then unexpected circumstances prevented me from continuing to work in my chosen field and suddenly, I wasn't a music teacher anymore. I could see that I would never be a music teacher again and the loss felt much like a death.

I was then forced to figure out what I would become next. As I searched, I gradually came to see that most of the labels I attach to myself are temporary. The only labels that matter are the ones I will carry into the eternities. They are the only ones that are true definitions of who I am. They are my eternal labels.

  • I am a daughter of Heavenly Father.

  • I am the daughter of Fred and Julia.

  • I am a granddaughter.

  • I am a wife.

  • I am a mother.

  • I am a grandmother.

  • I am a niece, a cousin, and an aunt.

  • I am a daughter-in-law and a sister-in-law.

But what about the other labels that I give myself? Are they important?

  • I am a CEO.

  • I am a product designer.

  • I am a partner.

  • I am an artist.

  • I am a boss.

  • I am a writer.

  • I am a digital scrapbooker.

  • I am an amateur photographer.

  • I am a musician.

  • I am a blogger.

  • I am an organist.

  • I am a chorister.

My life-label list describes things that I do. If, for any reason, I stop doing the associated activities, I can remove that particular label from the list.

Occasionally, I observe women expressing great angst as they try to figure out who they are. Sometimes, they suffer immensely as they try to discover and express their feelings about their chosen labels. At times, they feel that they must explain to others why they feel a certain label suits them; they must prove that they do the correct things.

I believe they are examining their worth backwards - as I once did. I believe that labels that are associated with relationships are the only ones that matter and the one that has the most significance in this life - and beyond this life - is that of being a child of God. I think that once you become solid in your heart with eternal labels, it is easier to be secure as you give yourself doing-labels.

I am a child of God. I am a daughter, a granddaughter, a mother, a grandmother, a wife, a mother, an aunt, and a cousin. And I am your friend.

- 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 April Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking club, designed for you by Amanda McGee.

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 Amanda McGee using April's Scrap Girls Club
Layout by Amanda McGee using April's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Amanda McGee

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 April ScrapSimple digital scrapbooking club selection by Jan Hicks and Shalae Tippetts.

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 Brush Set
  • 2 Designer's Choice Item

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

Computer scrapbook layout by Shalae Tippetts using April's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Shalae Tippetts using April's ScrapSimple Club
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Created for you by Jan Hicks 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!

DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING TUTORIAL

Making a Branded Photo

Note: Tutorial created using Photoshop CS4 with Mac OS X.

The look of a cattle brand burned into a piece of wood is certainly unique, but it's not just for your rodeo layouts anymore. Anything can provide the inspiration for a brand, and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Branded 10601 - PS can be used with text layers, custom shapes, brushes, and elements. This action can be used on a photograph to create an awesome, custom-branded effect. It only takes a few simple steps to turn your photo into a brand.

First, choose a photo that has good contrasts. For example, I took this photo of some bikers, and it is a great choice for this action because the helmets and sunglasses will provide a great contrast and accentuate their faces. The chrome and black also provide some high contrast areas on the motorcycles.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Photo.

Next, duplicate the photo; never work on your original photo image. Go to the bottom of your Layers Palette and click on the circle that is half black/half white. Choose "Threshold" from the pop-up menu. When the Threshold window opens, you will see your photo instantly change to a black-and-white image. Be sure the Preview box is checked. Use the slider to find the best Threshold Level for your photo.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Threshold.

I've chosen a setting of 84. Moving the slider to the left will add white (decrease the threshold) while moving the slider to the right will increase the black (increase the threshold). Click OK. Merge the original photo layer and threshold layers. Here is what my edited photo now looks like. Pretty cool, huh?!

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Edited photo.

Hide the bottom two layers (the original photo and the threshold adjustment layer) by clicking on the Eye icon on each of the layers in your Layers Palette. Your merged photo layer should be on the top. Now, using the Magic Wand Tool, select any of the white areas on the edited photo. Be sure "Contiguous" is not checked. You will see "marching ants" around all of the white areas. Click Delete. The black portions of the photo are all that remain. The remainder of the pixels should be transparent.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Delete white areas.

You are now ready to create a custom brand using ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Branded 10601 - PS. Open a new 12x12-inch document and place a wood grain digital background paper on the bottom layer. I used a template from ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Rustic.

Drag your edited photo onto the layer above the wood grain paper. (You can close the photo document because you no longer need it.) Choose the photo layer and run the action. There will be stops while the action is running that will allow you to customize the brand color, singe color, and singe size of the brand. When you have completed your customized brand, you can move it around your layout or resize it. After running the action on my biker photo, I erased some of the sharp edges around the brand using the Eraser Tool. Here is my finished brand.

Digital Scrapbook Tutorial Screenshot: Branded photo.

Now that you know how to use this action with a photograph, remember that this action can be applied to any text layer, custom shape, brush, or element. Use your imagination to create unique, custom-branded effects on your digital scrapbooking layouts.

Explore the secrets used by our professional designers and layout artists to make amazing digital scrapbooking layouts. Check out the incredible tutorials on Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed and MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

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Digital scrapbook layout by Kim Meeder

Layout by Kim Meeder
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ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Branded 10601 - PS ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Postage Due Cluster Frames School Yard Collection Biggie
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Rustic Biker Collection Fleur Moderne Collection Biggie
ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Altered Photos PS 8201 ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Warped PS 8201 Mini Lettering Delights Underwood Pica Font

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Branded 10601 - PS, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Postage Due Cluster Frames, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Rustic, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Altered Photos PS 8201, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Warped PS 8201 Mini and Lettering Delights Underwood Pica Font are also available.

Kim Meeder
Tutorial written by Kim Meeder

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: Let There Be Light
Scrap Girls 2009 Digital Scrap Link Class:
Let There Be Light

Follow Laurel, Scrap Girls' Layout Artist Coordinator, along as she teaches you the basics of light in your photography. You'll learn about the different types of lighting, about reflectors (including frugal ideas), and secrets on how to photograph small items or embellishments.

ReMix: (Digital Scrapbooking) From Ordinary to Extraordinary! eBook
ReMix: (Digital Scrapbooking) From Ordinary to Extraordinary! eBook

Have you ever wanted to get a makeover - A layout makeover? Do you ever wonder how someone might decide to make certain changes and why? In ReMix: (Digital Scrapbooking) From Ordinary to Extraordinary! eBook, you have the opportunity to virtually "look over the shoulder" during the remake process.

Scrap Girls Tutorials & Way Cool Stuff eBook Set - 2009 4th Quarter
Scrap Girls Tutorials & Way Cool Stuff eBook Set
2009 - 4th 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 4th Quarter of 2009 in one convenient PDF format.

Start to Finish eBooklets

Start to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper & Photo Templates
Start to Finish eBooklet - PS: How to Combine ScrapSimple Paper & Photo 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 Janine Buckles

Layout by Janine Buckles
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Artist Brown Paper Special
Designer Freebie by Shalae Tippetts coordinates with her
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artist Papers 2, part of this month's ScrapSimple Club offering!

ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artist Papers 2 ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artist Papers 1 Brush Set: It's Me
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Curled Edges Plus ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Scruffy Flowers Brush Set: Collage Art 2
Brush Set: Grungelle Brush Set: Spot It Journaling French Market Collection Biggie
Hearth Collection Biggie Hearth Flowers Embellishment Mini ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos2 Biggie
  Years Gone By Collection  

Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artist Papers 2, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Artist Papers 1, Brush Set: It's Me, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Curled Edges Plus, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Scruffy Flowers, Brush Set: Grungelle and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Photos 2 Biggie are also available.

* 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.

SCRAP GIRLS MISCHIEF WEEK EVENTS

Mischief Week is Here!

For those of you who haven't been with us for the past several years, Mischief Week is a week that's full of general madness and mayhem. We have lots of crazy chats, classes, games, prizes, and other random events just in time to usher us into the wonderful world of spring.

We've got a schedule full of events that the Scrap Girls Team are hosting, plus our Mischief Week Sale, games, freebies, contests, prizes and fun! Clear your calendars - you won't want to miss this!

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Whack-A-Wonderland

It's here! It's finally here... the layout contest that everyone looks forward to all year! This year, you'll get to "whack" your friends, family, or people you love to tease by creating a silly layout with the aid of Digital Stickers: Alice and Queen of Heart Specials, located in the Freebie section of the Boutique.

Digital Stickers: Alice and Queen of Heart Specials
Designer Freebie by Valerie Randall

All you have to do is add heads, backgrounds, titles, and your imagination!

Post your entry layout in the Mischief Week 2010 Gallery (located in the Special Events, Challenges, and Contests gallery category). Entries must be uploaded into the gallery before Midnight, April 30th (MDT) to be included in the contest.

At the end of Mischief Week, we'll pick out some of the best layouts to show off in the Saturday, May 8th edition of the Scrap Girls Newsletter. Each of these winners will each receive a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Digital scrapbook layout by Valerie Randall

Sample Layout by Valerie Randall
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Wonderland Scavenger Hunt Game

How to Enter

Below is a list of 50 underlined items to find in the Scrap Girls Boutique. It is possible to find multiple products that contain any given item, but you only need to provide one product name and link for each answer.

To enter the contest, send a Word or text document to [email protected] by Midnight (MT) on Friday, April 30th. For each scavenger hunt list item, provide the product name and link to the product next to it.

Prizes

  1. Everyone that gets all of the answers correct will be entered into a drawing for a $20 Gift Certificate.
  2. Everyone that gets 30-49 answers correct will be entered into a drawing for a $10 Gift Certificate.
  3. Everyone that gets 1-29 answers correct will be entered into a drawing for a $5 Gift Certificate.

Award Notification and Additional Information

The winners will be announced in the Scrap Girls Newsletter on Saturday, May 8th.

Please do not post answers on the message board. We cannot be responsible for lost or un-received emails. One email per member; you will receive a response indicating your email has been received. If you do not receive a reply in 24 hours, please resend.

Good luck!

  1. Alice's White Apron
  2. Talking Blue Birds
  3. Reading a Book
  4. A Bottle on a table
  5. Blue Bow in Alice's Hair
  6. Bread and Butterflies
  7. Cabbages and Kings
  8. Cheshire Cat
  9. Blue Caterpillar
  10. Eat Me Cookie
  11. Queen of Heart's Crown
  12. Yellow Daffodils
  13. Daisy Ring Crown
  14. Locked Door
  15. Lady's Fan
  16. Walking Fish
  17. White Gloves
  18. Carpenter's Hammer
  19. Top Hat
  20. Queen of Hearts
  21. Majestic Iris
  22. Gold Key
  23. Lovely Lilac
  24. Tiger Lily
  25. Little Girl
  26. Handy Man Lizard
  27. Mome Rath Clothes Pins found in the Tulgey Wood
  28. March Hare
  29. DorMouse
  30. One side of the Mushroom will make your grow, one side will make you shrink
  31. Half-Shell Oysters
  32. Paint Brush for painting the roses red
  33. Shy Little Pansies
  34. Grunting Little Pig Baby
  35. Playing Card Soldiers
  36. Unbirthday Present
  37. Grand Red Rose
  38. Rocking Chair
  39. Rocking Horse Fly
  40. Sea Shell at the Sea Shore
  41. Afternoon Tea Cup
  42. Tea Kettle
  43. White Rabbit's Trumpet
  44. Singing Tulips
  45. Slow-Moving Turtle
  46. Vulture Umbrellas
  47. Unbirthday Cake
  48. Unbirthday Candle
  49. Walrus and the Carpenter
  50. White Rabbit

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Mischief Week Chat Schedule

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

  • 10:00AM MT - East Coast High Noon Crop
    Join April (April Showers) on Wednesday at 10am MT for the East Coast High Noon Crop. All coasts and time zones are welcome! 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 April 28th, we'll do an Embellishment Challenge. Create a layout using at least three different types of embellishments - flowers, buttons, brads, staples, tags, ribbons, whatever works with your page! Upload your layouts to the special High Noon Crop Gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you!

  • 1:00PM MT - Ad-Inspired Chat
    Join Sherry Lynn and Becca on Wednesday for an Ad-Inspired Chat! We will pick a magazine ad to use as inspiration for a scrapbooking layout. Keep your eyes on the message board on Tuesday evening for a link to the ad and then meet us in the chat room at 1pm MT to show off your layouts!

  • 5:00PM MT - Queen of Hearts Color Challenge Chat
    Carla (CRS) and Sherry (Sherry Lynn) are at it again! Join us at 5pm MT for a Queen of Hearts Color Challenge. We'll reveal the colors to use for your layout during the chat. See you there, or it's "off with your heads!"

  • 7:00PM MT - "Curiouser and Curiouser!" Chat and Challenge
    Join Marnie (sprinklz) and Janine (J9Buckles) for a fun-filled hour of intrigue and mirth during the "Curiouser and Curiouser!" Chat and Challenge on Wednesday at 7pm MT. Mysteries abide in Wonderland; what's with all the shrinking, and smiling, and outright glee? Try your hand at trivia questions bound to make even the Mad Hatter scratch his head. Or join in the "Curiouser and Curiouser!" layout challenge... if you so dare!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

  • 12:00Noon MT - Interactive Embellishments Chat
    Becca and Angela (angelaNussbaum) will be hosting a fun and interactive embellishment chat! Anyone is able to participate in the fun. Come see what these mischievous hostesses are up to!

  • 2:00PM MT - Desktop Challenge Crop
    Tired of the boring desktop wallpaper backgrounds that your PC or MAC came with? Join Becca and Angela (angelaNussbaum) on Thursday at 2pm MT for this month's Desktop Challenge Crop. We'll show you how to use your digital scrapbooking supplies to create a personalized desktop wallpaper of your own. For this challenge, we'll give you a theme and a technique challenge to choose from! Keep your eyes on the message board for more details!

  • 7:00PM MT - Easy Page Class with Ro
    Ready to begin digital scrapbooking? Join Ro for this entry-level digital scrapbooking class and make your first layout in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. You'll find out for yourself how fun and easy it is to make layouts. Prior to the start of the class, download and unzip the Easy Page freebie found here. Please have your Photoshop or Photoshop Elements software open and ready when you come to the chat. Note: An Easy Page is a scrapbook page with the papers and embellishments already in place.

Friday, April 30, 2010

  • 9:00AM MT - What's New Chat
    Join Michelle (Shelbi) and Sherry Lynn at 9am MT on Friday morning 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!

  • 12:00Noon MT - Scrap Girls Club Chat
    We know everyone is excited to get their hands on the new Scrap Girls Club to be released tomorrow! Come join Becca and Sherry Lynn on April 30th at Noon MT for a Scrap Girls Monthly Club Chat and Challenge! As a challenge, let's create one more layout using April's Scrap Girls Club, designed by Amanda McGee, before the next one arrives. It's sure to be a blast! Hope to see you there!

  • 5:00PM MT - Coast-to-Coast Challenge and Chat
    Join Amy (mimes1) and Sherry (Sherry Lynn) on Friday at 5pm MT for the final leg of our week long journey. Watch the boards starting Friday, April 23rd as Alice begins her trek from California to Maine!

  • 6:00PM MT - Swap Crop Chat
    It's time for the Swap Crop Chat! We've done the swapping and created the layouts, now it's time to take a stroll through the garden and enjoy the pastels and flowers! This is a good time to learn about the swap crop if you haven't participated before. We'll even decide on a theme for next month! Join Carla (CRS) and Angela (angelaNussbaum) for a fun chat at 6pm MT.

  • 7:00PM MT - Quote Challenge Chat
    "Off With Their Heads," "Curiouser and curiouser," or "Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction" - these are just a few of the many quotes from Alice In Wonderland. Watch the boards on Friday morning for our chosen quote, create a layout and come join the fun and games with Karen (kazbar73) and Carla (CRS) on Friday at 7pm MT.

  • 9:00PM MT - Un-Birthday Party!
    Happy Un-birthday to me! Happy Un-birthday to YOU!! It's time for a PJ party with a theme! Join Carla (CRS) and Angela (angelaNussbaum) for a fun and celebratory chat - let's end Mischief Week with a bang!

* Schedule is subject to change... stay tuned to the newsletter and message board for the latest Mischief Week happenings!

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SCRAP GIRLS?

CROPS AND CHATS

East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, April 28th - 10:00AM MT

Join April (April Showers) on Wednesday at 10am MT for the East Coast High Noon Crop. All coasts and time zones are welcome! 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 April 28th, we'll do an Embellishment Challenge. Create a layout using at least three different types of embellishments - flowers, buttons, brads, staples, tags, ribbons, whatever works with your page! Upload your layouts to the special High Noon Crop Gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you!

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Desktop Challenge Crop
Thursday, April 29th - 2:00PM MT

Tired of the boring desktop wallpaper backgrounds that your PC or MAC came with? Join Becca and Angela (angelaNussbaum) on Thursday, April 29th at 2pm MT for this month's Desktop Challenge Crop. We'll show you how to use your digital scrapbooking supplies to create a personalized desktop wallpaper of your own. For this challenge, we'll give you a theme and a technique challenge to choose from! Keep your eyes on the message board for more details!

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What's New Chat
Friday, April 30th - 9:00AM MT

Join Michelle (Shelbi) and 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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Scrap Girls Club Chat & Challenge
Friday, April 30th - 12:00Noon MT

We know everyone is excited to get their hands on the new Scrap Girls Club to be released tomorrow! Come join Becca and Sherry Lynn on April 30th at Noon MT for a Scrap Girls Monthly Club Chat and Challenge! As a challenge, let's create one more layout using April's Scrap Girls Club, designed by Amanda McGee, before the next one arrives. It's sure to be a blast! Hope to see you there!

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Swap Crop Chat
Friday, April 30th - 6:00PM MT

It's time for the Swap Crop Chat! We've done the swapping and created the layouts, now it's time to take a stroll through the garden and enjoy the pastels and flowers! This is a good time to learn about the swap crop if you haven't participated before. We'll even decide on a theme for next month! Join Carla (CRS) and Angela (angelaNussbaum) for a fun chat at 6pm MT.

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NSBR Chat
Monday, May 3rd - 7:00PM MT

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 May 3rd at 7pm MT!

APRIL EVENTS

April Message Board Game: Progressive Word Scramble!

The object of the game is to correctly guess the name of a product in the Scrap Girls Boutique by solving clues and unscrambling letters we give you. Each day, you will be given a letter found in the product name as well as a clue. You won't know how many letters are in the product name until it is complete. We will keep giving clues until a correct guess is made.

The designer's name or the word "Collection" are not included as part of the puzzle. Letters from any other words in product names (such as "Biggie," "Brush" or "Transparency") may be given as part of the puzzle.

Be the first to answer it correctly and win a $5.00 Gift Certificate to the Boutique! You are only allowed ONE guess per daily clue, and you are only allowed ONE win per month. When you make your guess, you MUST provide a link to the boutique item you are referencing. We will play the game daily during the entire month of April. When a correct answer is given, the new puzzle will start the following day.

For complete details and examples of game play, visit the "Games" folder on the Scrap Girls message board.

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Layout Contests:

April Monthly Layout Contest: It's time to get your silly on! For this month's layout contest, we want to see layouts featuring the silly or mischievous antics in your life. Let us see the silly faces, crazy clothes and hilarious moments. Create your layout and post it in the April Layout Contest Gallery by Midnight on April 30th. 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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