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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: All Torn Up, Well Loved Collection Biggie and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini are also available. |
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Commercial license versions of White Christmas Collection Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Autumn Suede Super Biggie, Dynamic Brush Set: Twinkling and Well Loved Hardware Embellishment Mini are also available. |
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Layout by Jen Reed
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The product listed below is included in this month's Scrap Girls 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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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 Scrap Girls team layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section and the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team section of the Layout Gallery.
Your Enthusiasm is Catching
Monday, January 16, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Ang Campbell
- Scrap Girls Club
- Back To The Basics: Designer Do-Over by Angie Briggs
- 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]:
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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Your Enthusiasm is Catching
In November 2011, my husband and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. We used that as an excuse to consider visiting one of the neighboring Hawaiian islands. We had never been to Kauai, and we were giddy when we realized we had enough air miles to get our flights there for free and even giddier when local friends offered to let our four children stay the night with them so we could make this little anniversary getaway a reality.
The island took our breath away. It is so country compared to the island of Oahu where we live. Chickens roam freely and pretty much rule the island. The landscape was breathtaking, green, and floral. There's a reason Kauai is called "The Garden Island!" We carefully planned our limited time and managed to pack our two-day, one-night trip to the max! We saw Waimea Canyon known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. We saw the beautiful Wailua Falls. We collected sea glass at Glass Beach. We visited the quaint town of Hanalei and even spent a few hours hiking the Kalalau Trail.
My absolutely favorite experience of the trip came near the end of the first day of sightseeing and adventuring. We had been visiting Waimea Canyon and heading toward the Kalalau Lookout when the rains and fog settled over the island. The fog was so thick that we had to drive slowly and carefully. When we arrived at the parking lot for the Kalalau Lookout after driving through the solid fog for about 15 minutes, we laughed about how ridiculously thick the fog was and how we may as well not even get out of the car because surely we wouldn't be able to see anything. But spotting some pretty flowers by the side of the parking lot, my husband couldn't resist getting out of the car to take a few pictures. Meanwhile, I wandered over to where the lookout was, laughing and holding the video camera and narrating about how silly it was that we'd even stopped because we couldn't see more than a few feet in front of us due to the thickness of the fog.
I walked to the railing of the lookout and sighed in resignation, wondering what amazing views we were missing, when suddenly the winds started to pick up and clear little peek-a-boo spots in the fog. I caught my first glimpse of the cliffs of the Na Pali Coast in the distance. Anxious for more, I held my breath and crossed my fingers, hoping for a little miracle. Within just a minute or two, the wind had swept the fog up and over the mountain, revealing the most beautiful valley below and the majestic Na Pali Coast in the distance. It truly took my breath away, and I was mesmerized.
My husband and I quickly took what felt like a million pictures, assuming the fog would settle again shortly. Another couple arrived at the lookout and my excitement about the view bubbled over in what was surely a mess of adjectives and exclamation points and a big goofy grin as I described to them what had just happened and how lucky they were to have arrived when they did so they could actually see the view.
The woman said, with a smile on her face, "Your enthusiasm is catching. Thank you!" as she and her husband walked away enthusiastically taking a million pictures of their own.
- Ang
Favorite Product I've designed:
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Basically Bordered Stitching
One of my favorite products that I've designed is ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Basically Bordered Stitching. They're quick and easy to use and I just really love how they add the perfect finishing touch to a layout.
Layout by Ang Campbell
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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:
January's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Jen Reed
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Designer Do-Over by Angie Briggs
I love the Designer Do-Over articles. It's so much fun to see how everyone's style has evolved. When I signed up for this one, I wanted to do something a little differently. I wanted to show how I could do-over a layout, not by changing up the items used, but by just moving around the items I already used and by adding very few new items.
I chose this layout that I did for a friend's wedding several years ago.
Layout by Angie Briggs
It's not that I don't like the layout, because it is still a very classic, minimally embellished layout that really shows off the photo. But I do feel it's a little too dark and I can make it more interesting to look at.
The Do-Over
The first thing I did was lighten up the photo a little bit and made it smaller. The quality of photo was not the best, so while I still wanted it to be the focus of the layout, I didn't want it to be the only thing you saw. I also removed the drop shadow I had applied to the stroke around the photo. (Can you tell I did this layout while I was still learning all the tricks of the trade?)
Next, I brought back in the black paper and added a striped paper, layering these on top of one another at angles to add interest to the layout.
Finally, I rearranged my embellishments, clustering them a little bit more so they helped showcase the photo.
And what I ended up with was a layout that looked completely different from what I started with, but all I added was one other paper.
So when you look back at layouts and think you want to redo them, keep in mind it that doesn't always have to mean starting from scratch, but could simply mean working with what you started with.
Layout by Angie Briggs
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Commercial license versions of Beloved Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Article written by Angie Briggs
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Layout by Joyce Schardt
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Designer Freebie by Jen Reed coordinates with her Reflections of the Heart Collection Biggie,
part of this month's Scrap Girls Club offering!
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Today's freebie designed by Jen Reed
* 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, January 18th - 10:00AM MST
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 January 18th, we'll do a Font Challenge. Use a font that you haven't used before 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!
Heritage Crop & Chat
Thursday, January 19th - 6:00PM MST
Do you have boxes of old photos that you want to scrap? Is preserving a record of your family's heritage important to you? Come to the Heritage Crop at 6pm MT where we'll give you some basic scanning tips and teach you how you can use Scrapsimple Tools - Styles: Photo Fix 2201 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Fix 2202 to correct an old photo's color cast.
January Message Board Game: Jumpstart January!
It's time to kick off the new year with fun and focus on scrapbooking! And a few prizes thrown in never hurt, right? Join us on the message board this month for "Jumpstart January!" This is a message board game and challenge to start your year with fun and focus 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.
A member of the Welcoming Committee will post a mini-challenge/task every Monday through Saturday during January. Some tasks will require message board participation, email responses, or gallery posting. Those who complete all tasks and submit or post required participation by 11:59pm MT on January 31st will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $10 Gift Certificates to the Scrap Girls 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!)
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
January Monthly Layout Contest: With the beginning of a new year, many people set aside some time to set goals. It might be an exercise plan or establishing better eating habits. It might be getting your life more organized. Or maybe you set goals for your digital scrapbooking output for the year. Post your layouts in the January Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MST on January 31st. Be sure to list your layout's product credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties. Two layouts will be selected to 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!
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!