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Commercial license versions of Military: Go Army Solids Paper Super Mini and Military: Go Army Collection Mini are also available. |
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Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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Commercial license versions of JIF 6: Pirate Treasure are also available. |
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Layout by Pebbles Jones
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Life in Action Vol.2 are also available. |
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Layout by Laura Louie
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Commercial license versions of Pumpkin Eater Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Layout by Brandy Murry
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The second product listed below is included in this month's ScrapSimple Club offering. Members receive a substantial discount on these club supplies. They are also available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals who would rather not join a club.
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Commercial license versions of Dynamic Brush Set: Bokeh 8501, Dynamic Brush Set: Background Blenders, Inspired Collection Biggie and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Edgers Biggie are also available. |
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Layout by Shari Payne
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Commercial license versions of Value Pack: Rough It Up, Playground Fun Word Art Mini, Spots and Stripes Collection Biggie, Lettering Delights Artsy Font and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 are also available. |
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Layout by Doris Castle
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Decorative Labels are also available. |
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Layout by Joyce Schardt
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Commercial license versions of Military: In the Navy Collection Mini, Military: In the Navy Solids Paper Super Mini and The Patriot Biggie Collection are also available. |
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Layout by Jan Ransley
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: EmbossyBoots – Nature's Bounty and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Edgers – Nature's Bounty are also available. |
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Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo FX 6301 Mini, Cutting Garden Collection, Dearest Mum Collection Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini 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.
What Will You Choose?
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 17.1% off Fall Savings Stock-Up Sale, plus an extra 7.3% off Coupon!
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muse by Ro
- Scrap Girls Club
- Tips from the Pros: Using a Photo Mask for Journaling
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
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The entire Scrap Girls team wants to say how grateful we are that you have chosen to participate with us. You'll never know just how much your support means to us and our families. Ro 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 IMPORTANT TO KNOWDon't forget to check out the 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! OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUCustomer 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]:
Project SG Challenge: Stay motivated to scrap your current photos! Post your 2011 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 third quarterly drawing winner will be announced in the Saturday, October 8th Newsletter. 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!
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. *ADVERTISEMENTS*
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What Will You Choose?
"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." Anonymous
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." Frederick Koenig
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." Dale Carnegie
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!
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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 $40.87 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:
September's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Paula Wright
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Using a Photo Mask for Journaling
Note: Tutorial created using Photoshop CS3 and PSE6 with Windows 7
Have you ever found it difficult to find a place for journaling when you use highly patterned papers? In this tutorial, you will be using a photo mask to create the perfect spot on your digital scrapbooking layout for your own personal journaling.
I love the texture and decoration of photo masks, and they can be found in a variety of styles. One thing they all have in common, though, is a large blank space where you are supposed to put a picture. But really, you don't have to use them just for pictures! Let me show you what I mean.
First, decide where on your layout you want to add some journaling. In my layout, I am using the patterned star paper from The Patriot Collection Biggie. It is a fun graphic paper, but between the pattern and the dark color, I really need a better spot to add my journaling. This is where using a photo mask comes in.
I decided to use ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Masks – Downtown for this layout. I love the texture of the background, and I really like the embellishment on the photo mask. It adds a little something more than a plain paper would.
The only thing you need to do to transform a simple photo mask into a spot for journaling is to pick a neutral color and fill it in.
In Photoshop
In Photoshop, you can do this by double-clicking the layer to bring up your Layer Styles Palette. Choose "Color Overlay" and it will turn your photo mask bright red, but that's okay because you can change the color by double-clicking the color box and then choosing an appropriate color. You can even use the Eyedropper Tool and pick a color straight out of your background paper or photo.
In Photoshop Elements
In PSE, you can select your photo mask layer, go to your menu at the top and select Enhance> Adjust Color> Adjust Hue/Saturation. Since most photo masks start out black, you will have to adjust the Lightness slider about halfway up first so that you can see the colors you are picking. Then adjust the other sliders until you reach the color you want.
Now that my photo mask is filled in, it will be easy to add my title and journaling to my layout.
I hope you enjoyed seeing how to use a photo mask for journaling. Who knows where else you might end up using photo masks!
Layout by Melissa Renfro
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Masks - Downtown and The Patriot Biggie Collection are also available. |
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Article written by Melissa Renfro
Learn to make digital scrapbooking layouts and more! – Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed Ready to learn advanced techniques? – MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed |
Layout by Sara Beth Peterson
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Designer Freebie by Sara Beth Peterson coordinates with her
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Portrait Package 2
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Portrait Package 2, Brush Set: Portrait Package Watermark-I Biggie, This and That Collection Mini and Here Comes the Sun Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Sara Beth Peterson
* 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.
East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, September 28th - 10:00AM MDT
Join April (April Showers) each 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 September 28th, we'll be doing a Brush Challenge. Try to use at least two brushes in your layout. Create your layout and upload it 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! Hope to see you in the chat room!
Speed Scrap Crop
Wednesday, September 28th - 6:00PM MDT
It's time for some Speed! Join Carla (CRS) and Shannon (tinkerbell11) at 6pm MT for the Speed Scrap Crop! We'll give you some tasks spread out over an hour, and you create the layout! You can check out some of the past Crops in the Speed Scrap Gallery!
Ad Inspiration Chat
Thursday, September 29th - 7:00PM MDT
Join Pat (PBarnes) at 7pm MT for an Ad Inspiration Challenge and Chat. A few hours before the chat, a magazine, newspaper or online ad will be posted on the Forum to use as inspiration for a layout. You can use whatever you want to from the ad - the colors, the shapes, the composition. There are no wrong answers!
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique Chat
Friday, September 30th - 9:00AM MDT
Join April (April Showers) and Theresa (teecee) at 9am MT on Friday mornings to chat about all the wonderful new products in the Scrap Girls Boutique! What are your favorite new items? Is your shopping basket full? What did you kaboodle? Have you already done layouts or other projects with your new goodies? Come tell the designers how much you love their work! You never know who will show up. There's a thread every Thursday, and now there's a chat too!
Journaling Chat
Monday, October 3rd - 6:00PM MDT
Join Carla (CRS) and Lei (Bride) for a Journaling Chat at 6pm MT this Monday night. 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!
NSBR Chat
Monday, October 3rd - 7:00PM MDT
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 us, Carla (CRS) and Lei (Bride) at 7pm MT!
September 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 September 1st when we post the thread to September 30th at 12:00 Midnight (MST).
To enter the Message Board Posting Challenge, you MUST reply in the game thread with your CURRENT post count. This is the number under your Avatar that shows when you post. (NOTE: Do not post the number found on your profile; it is a different number that is calculated differently.) During the month, chat your fingers off! At Midnight on September 30th, we will calculate your post count based on the numbers posted in the original thread.
Members with Message Board posts over 50 will be put in a drawing for a $5 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate. Members with Message Board posts over 200 will be put in a drawing for both the $5 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate and a $10 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate. Members with Message Board posts over 400 will be put in a drawing for a $15 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate, as well as the $5 and $10 Gift Certificates.
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
September Monthly Layout Contest: The children are headed back to school, and there is a sense of learning in the air! For the September Layout Contest, share your layouts about learning a new skill! We'd love to see the stories about someone in your life learning and growing. Remember when your little one learned to ride a bicycle or your teenager learned to drive a car? Or how about when you learned to use your digital scrapbooking software? Share those layouts in the September Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MT on September 30th. Be sure to list your credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties. Two layouts will be selected to win a $10 Gift Card 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!
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.)
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!