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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Painted and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini are also available. |
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Layout by Joyce Schardt
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Spring In Bloom Collection Mini
Capture your joyful Springtime and Easter memories with this Spring In Bloom Collection Mini. This shabby inspired kit filled with soft pastel colors is ideal for creating beautiful layouts with all your favorite photos. Includes six background papers, embellishments and word art.
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Commercial license versions of Action Pack: Ultimate Artist and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Curled Frames are also available. |
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Layout by Brandy Murry
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Ornate Petite Frames - White Embellishments
Sophistication comes in small packages. Enjoy this set of six digital scrapbooking orante white frames.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Blue Super Biggie 8501, ScrapSimple Type Paths: Shabby Text and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Torn Paper Masks 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 Forum? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the Forum, 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.
Question from Ro: Do You Have a Hard Time Letting Go?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muse by Ro
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
GENERAL INFORMATION
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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 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 YOUSuggest a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for a Gallery layout challenge? Submit it to challenges@scrapgirls.com. 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 receive because birthday presents should alway be a surprise! Make sure your Forum email address is current and that you have the correct birthdate entered into your profile to participate. |
Scrap Girls sends a birthday gift to each of our Forum members!
TIP OF THE DAYDon't miss today's East Coast High Noon Crop at 10am MT in the Scrap Girls' Chat Room! Today's crop challenge is to use three photos on a layout... no more, no less! |
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Question from Ro: Do You Have a Hard Time Letting Go?
Is it hard for you to let go of old things? Or is it just me?
My husband wanted a new mattress because he was tired of falling out of the bed. He wanted a new mattress for a very long time - years, actually.
But I kept telling him that the mattress was fine. I wasn't having trouble with it (I slept in the middle to avoid the pot holes), and I didn't want to buy a new mattress, particularly when I could think up far more interesting ways to spend that money - like going on a cruise.
I had worn out the mattress completely by setting up office in my bed during long periods of recovery from a long string of illnesses and surgeries. As I worked, I sat in "my side" of the bed with my laptop balanced on top of a wooden tray my uncle made my grandmother in junior high shop class. Over time, the stress of my bottom sitting in one spot, day after day, took its toll, and before we realized it was happening, my little bottom wore a permanent dip along the edge of the mattress.
So we flipped the mattress... and then rotated it... and flipped and rotated it around and around and when it was all over, we had a mattress that had permanent dips all the way around it, top and bottom.
And that's the point when the whining began.
Gary kept falling out of the bed because the mattress edges were completely worn out. He asked me nicely to buy a new mattress. He took me to look at new mattresses. He told me stories of people who bought new mattresses and had all of their dreams come true because they began sleeping so well.
But me? Every time it would come up, I would bluster about, saying, "I'm not going to waste my money buying a new mattress."
After a while, Gary pretty much gave up trying to sleep with me. (Oh, maybe I shouldn't say that out loud. But it's true.) He would start each night in his spot, but it didn't take long before he would fall out on the floor. And then, not wanting to go through that again, he'd surrender and stumble off into the guest room.
You'd think that this would be enough to convince me to crack open the wallet and help the poor guy out, but nooooo... I couldn't do that. I didn't want to waste money by replacing my "perfectly good bed."
And then it happened: I fell out of the bed three times in a row in a single night. The final time I picked myself up off the floor, I knew that I had to drop my false pride and submit myself to the process of finding a comfortable mattress that will last a long time.
A few Fridays ago, we did it. We went to the store. We shopped. We laid on many varieties of mattresses. We agreed on one. We spent some hard-earned money - and we conquered!
The mattress was delivered the following day. The first night sleeping in it was so miserable that I thought we'd made a horrible mistake. But after a couple more nights (and after I put my feather mattress topper back on it), I got used to how it felt, and it got used to how I sleep. My mattress and I are simpatico. And everyone stays in bed.
Perfect.
My advice to you: If you need a new mattress, get one. Sleeping on this new mattress has already dramatically improved my health and increased my energy level. I guess I wasn't getting as much sleep as I thought on my old one.
- Ro
Want to read more of Ro's muses? Check out her blog at http://ropaxman.com! She invites you to swing by and say, "Howdy!" She looks forward to talking to you!
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.
Learn to make digital scrapbooking layouts and more! – Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed Ready to learn advanced techniques? – MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed |
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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:
April's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin |
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 Layout by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin using April's Scrap Girls Club |
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April's ScrapSimple Club has been created for you by |
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). A commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple Club is also available here. With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:
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 Layout by Armi Custodio using April's ScrapSimple Club |
Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Designer Freebie by Syndee Nuckles coordinates with her Value Pack: Spring
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Vintage Postcard 6301 Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Syndee Nuckles
* 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, April 18th - 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 April 18th, we'll do a 3 Photo Challenge. Create a layout using three photos - no more, no less.
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!
Hybrid Craft Chat
Wednesday, April 18th - 6:00PM MDT
Join Carla (CRS) in the chat room at 6pm MT for this month's Hybrid Craft Chat. She will show you how to create a unique craft project with your digital supplies and goodies from your craft room! This month she'll show you how to make Cherise Oleson's ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Cootie Catcher. They aren't just for telling fortunes!
Heritage Crop & Chat
Thursday, April 19th - 6:00PM MDT
Do you have boxes of heritage photos just waiting to be restored and scrapped? Are there family stories just waiting for you to write down and preserve? Then this is the crop for you! Join Carla (CRS) at 6pm MT for the Heritage Crop and Chat! She will help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy. This month, she will show how to use Lori Cook's Brush Set: Clippings to give any paper a heritage feel!
April's Forum Game: BINGO!
Join us for an exciting game of Springtime BINGO on the Message Board Forum in April! Pick 25 words from the list provided in the forum game thread and send them in an email to games@scrapgirls.com with a subject line that says "BINGO CARD - your Scrap Girls Message Board username" by Tuesday, April 3rd at Midnight MDT in order to play in the first round. The first round will begin on Wednesday, April 4th. If you miss the first round deadline, you can still play! Just send in your BINGO card at any time during the month, and you'll be eligible to begin playing when the next new round starts.
Each day, a member of the Welcoming Committee will call five random words from the BINGO list. Match just 15 of those words to win a BINGO. You must be first to call "BINGO!" in the game thread to win that round. After a winner is called, the boards will be cleared and a new round will begin the following day.
Each winner will receive a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! We like to see lots of winners, so please remember that each person can only win one round during the month. Have fun!
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
April Monthly Layout Contest: Life is full of surprises! Here in the United States, we have April Fools' Day on April 1st. Have you ever been surprised by someone playing an April Fools' joke on you? Or, you can scrap about another surprise that has happened in your life. You don't have to have photos. It could be a journaling page. Post your layouts in the April Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MDT on April 30th. 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 Forum 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.)