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This sale is revolutionary! During Scrap Girls' President's Day Sale, you can save an extra 5% off everything in the Boutique! This coupon will expire on Tuesday, February 21st at Midnight, MST! Coupon Code: President |
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Card by Syndee Nuckles
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Noteworthy 6301 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Aged Photo Edges 6301 are also available. |
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The first four products listed below are 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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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Effect Glitter 10601 and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Stackers Biggie are also available. |
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Layout by Brandy Murry
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Tattered Photo 3 Photoshop Elements and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Tattered Photo are also available. |
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Layout by Angie Briggs
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Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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Commercial license versions of Back Porch Collection Biggie, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 and ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Deep Shadows 6501 PSE and PS Biggie are also available. |
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Layout by Angela Blanchard
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Layout by Cheré Kaye Edwards
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Extra Masking Tape 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 Scrap Girls team layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section and the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team section of the Layout Gallery.
The Cyclical Way of Life
Monday, February 20, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 17.76% off President's Day Sale, plus an extra 5% off Coupon!
- Cute Stuff
- A Designer's Life: Cheré Kaye Edwards
- Scrap Girls Club
- Back To The Basics: What Are Clusters and How Do You Use Them?
- 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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The Cyclical Way of Life
My grandmother often said that life goes in circles. There are periods of great highs and great lows, with the gradual increase and decrease of things in between. I have witnessed this in a profound way in the last year and a half. It has truly been amazing the changes that have happened, and if you would have asked me two years ago if I would be where I am today, I would have emphatically said, "No way!"
Looking back, I can be truly grateful for where my life is right now. It's not perfect by a long stretch, and it's not easy. It is full, though. Full of living life through the eyes of my eight-and-a-half-year-old daughter and the mysteries and adventures that are third grade. Full of keeping a house and paying the bills on a home that is my own, for the first time in my life. Full of writing fun posts on my blog, reading books on my Nook, teaching my daughter how to knit and cook, and getting ready to help my cat give birth to kittens. My house isn't always clean, and my laundry isn't always done, but I am always thankful for what I have and where I am.
One thing that has been a constant in my life is music. It plays out in different ways in different parts of my life. At one point and time, I performed all the time. In other stages, I listened to and hunted for new music and new artists all the time. Now I'm singing again, a little bit at a time, and beginning to teach piano lessons again. When I look back, almost every memory I have – good, bad, or in between – can be linked to a song. That makes me smile just to write that. I love that music almost becomes another sense for me to use; remembering these moments and the soundtrack of my life brings me great joy.
I hope that your soundtrack to life is as varied as mine. Since I view life as cyclical, it is really fun to me to hear those songs come back again on my "playlist." I think I will add a new playlist to my iPod - songs that immediately evoke a strong memory for me. What a wonderful way to remind me to give thanks!
- Cheré
Favorite Product I've designed:
Life Goes On Collection Biggie
I love this collection because of the fun musical instruments and funky, whimsical papers and embellishments. I go back to it over and over again to record the important times in my life.
Layout by Cheré Kaye Edwards
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Priceless are also available. |
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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:
February's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Kim Meeder
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What Are Clusters and How Do You Use Them?
Tutorial created using Photoshop CS4 with Windows 7
You love the detail of intricately layered, perfectly shadowed embellishments on your layouts, but you just don't have the time to get the look you want, right? Well, add a few cluster sets to your digital scrapbooking stash and speed things up!
"What are clusters?" you ask. I'm going to help you find out! Let's go to the Scrap Girls Boutique and look around. When you search for "clusters" in the Boutique, your return will include many cluster embellishment sets that are preassembled and ready to place on your layouts. They are layered and shadowed, so all the detail work that takes so much time is already done. Many of the clusters are designed around frames, so that all you need to do is add a background and your photos to create a terrific layout. And even better, cluster sets are most often designed to coordinate with collections you may already own, making them a valuable add-on!
Let's look at how easy it is to use clusters. First, open a new 12x12-inch document and bring in one cluster. For this project, I chose the shadowed version of cluster 2 from Bookshelf Clusters Embellishment Mini. This cluster has a photo mask, so that when placed on the layer below the cluster, it is easy to fit and position a photo into the space. Choose a coordinating paper for the background and bring that in, too.
Now bring in your photo, making sure that it's on the layer above the mask. (The mask is the gray box). Resize and position the photo over the box, and hit Ctrl+G to clip your photo to the mask. Your layers should look like this:
Now you've got your basic layout done. In this case, I've only added a paper, the cluster and mask, and a photo, but it already looks like I've done a lot of work!
You can add as much or as little to the layout as you like to complete it. Here I've added a piece of vellum behind the cluster to help it stand out a bit. I wanted a bit of a border, so I reduced the size of the paper and added a coordinating paper behind. For my title, I've added one piece of word art and an alpha letter, and I've put a bit of journaling over the lines on the label. To finish things off, I brought in another cluster bit from Bookshelf Clusters Embellishment Mini. This is a little accent cluster that isn't attached to a frame. I've painstakingly threaded baker's twine through the flowers and done all the shadow work for you! All you need to do is bring it into your layout.
Scrap Girls designers have you in mind when we design cluster embellishment sets. We know that you want professional-looking results quickly and easily. Try using clusters to give you just the results you want!
Layout by Elisha Barnett
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Article written by Elisha Barnett
Learn to make digital scrapbooking layouts and more! – Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed Ready to learn advanced techniques? – MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed |
Layout by Amy Flanagan
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Designer Freebie by Kim Meeder coordinates with
her Butterfly Effect Collection Biggie,
part of this month's Scrap Girls Club offering!
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photo Basics 5001 are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Kim Meeder
* 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.
ScrapSimple Club Chat
Monday, February 20th - 6:00PM MST
Join Shannon (tinkerbell11) in the chat room to discuss this month's ScrapSimple Club offering. Make sure to post your layouts in the ScrapSimple Club Members Gallery and you may see your layout featured in the Scrap Girls Newsletter.
East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, February 22nd - 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 February 22nd, we'll do a White Space Challenge! Create a layout using white space. This "negative" or blank space guides the eye to the important areas of your page. Remember, it certainly doesn't have to be the color white! 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!
February's Message Board Game: Posting Contest!
February is Posting Contest time on the Scrap Girls Forums! You can win a Scrap Girls Gift Certificate by simply being chatty in the Scrap Girls Forums and Gallery. This contest will run from February 1st when we post the thread until 11:59pm MT on February 29th.
To enter the Scrap Girls Forum Posting Contest, you MUST reply in the Posting Contest Thread with your CURRENT post count. Your post count is the number under your avatar that shows when you post. (NOTE: The number found on your profile is a number which is calculated differently.) During the month, post your fingers off! At Midnight on February 29th, we will calculate your post count based on the numbers posted in the game thread.
PRIZES:
- Those with 50-99 posts will be entered in a drawing for a $5 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate.
- Those with 100-249 posts will be entered in a drawing for a $10 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate.
- Those with 250-399 posts will be entered in a drawing for a $15 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate.
- Those with 400 or more posts will automatically win a $5 gift certificate and will be entered in a drawing for a $20 Scrap Girls Gift Certificate!
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
February Monthly Layout Contest: This February we have a Leap Year Day. For this month's contest, we want you to scrap about what makes you "Leap for Joy." Let us know in your journaling why you leap for joy. Post your layouts in the February Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MST on February 29th. 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!