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Digital Presentation Layout by Durin Eberhart
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Value Pack: Presentation Digital Scrapbook 1-2-3: Mixed Media
Three beautiful digital scrapbooking presentations in earthy colors all packaged together for an incredible bargain. Includes Presentation Digital Scrapbook 1-2-3: 8.5x11 Mixed Media, Presentation Digital Scrapbook 1-2-3: 8.5x11 Bohemian Elegance and Presentation Digital Scrapbook 1-2-3: 8.5x11 Fantaisie.
Layout by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
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Dream big and create layouts fast with this mini digital scrapbooking kit. Features a cream notebook border, skinny cream large frame, a spray of glittery butterflies, word art, textured yellow background and a painted embellishment cluster.
Layout by Charlene Crowder
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Precious VBS Collection Biggie
Do you have children or grandchildren that participated in Vacation Bible School, Sunday School or other church activities? Make them a fun, cheerful digital scrapbook of those precious memories! Let them reflect on the lessons they learned, the friendships they made, and the fun they had. Show them that their growing faith is important. Precious VBS Collection Biggie will help you get those layouts done!
Layout by Durin Eberhart
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Value Pack: ScrapSimple Paper Templates: 8.5x11 Antiquities
Three practical and useful digital scrapbooking paper template sets all packaged together for an incredible bargain. Includes ScrapSimple Paper Templates: 8.5x11 Antiquities 1, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: 8.5x11 Antiquities 2, and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: 8.5x11 Antiquities 3.
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Commercial license versions of Value Pack: ScrapSimple Paper Templates: 8.5x11 Antiquities, Just Before Dawn Collection Biggie, Memories of Pink Collection Biggie and Realms of Glory Collection 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 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.
Pressing On To Find Creativity
Monday, June 11, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- A Designer's Life: Melissa Renfro
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact Scrap Girls
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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 DAYDid you know that Scrap Girls has a huge online University that's full of great tutorials and inspiration? It covers all types of digital scrapbooking software and has a wide range of tips on how to use the different lines of products available in the Boutique! |
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Pressing on to Find Creativity
I was trying to be a prepared mom, you know, having activities for my kids to do in the in-between times. I have five boys. We were travelling a lot and moving to a new city, so we would be three days here, four days there, and then do it all over again.
We were living out of suitcases and eating out more than I care to admit, but we were doing it and having fun with it as well. We were out of our normal routine, so I would carry cards, an iPhone, crayons, and pens in my bag. We carried another bag with our homeschool books to do a little work here and an assignment there.
Then one day, I left my bag in the wrong place. I was here and it was there. My boys were here with me, and my activities were at home there. We had hours to fill and nothing to fill it with. What was I supposed to do?
I decided that we would spend the afternoon at a park. The kids always beg me over and over to go spend time at parks to play and run, so today would be the day. We drove to a nearby park with huge green trees and a nice open area and a small play section. I was sure this would work! Twenty minutes later, one by one, they came and sat on the grass.
"When are we going home?" they asked. "Can we go yet?" "Is there something else we can do?" I was shocked. I was befuddled. I was frustrated. They finally had hours just to play and do whatever they wanted. and they used up all their ideas in 20 minutes! What's wrong with this picture? I imagined my boys happily playing imaginary games in and out of the trees, and climbing and playing and laughing with each other. Then I realized that we get so used to short bursts of attention to one thing that we never really press on to creativity. We are entertained and occupied in our minds so that the creativity of imagining and inventing and creating never has a chance to take hold.
I decided right there that my boys needed a little lesson in creativity. We had no toys, no games, no electronics, no art supplies or anything, just a park and a lot of time to fill. I picked up a few little sticks from under a tree and started shoving them into the soft cool earth under the tree. Maybe this could be a fort....? I grabbed a few more sticks and stuck them in the dirt in a circle. I needed a flag, so I found a longer stick and a nice big green leaf and threaded the leaf onto the top of the stick. I jammed it proudly into the ground in front of my fort.
By this time the boys are asking me what I'm making, "What is it, Mom?" they asked. I explained that this is my fort, and right away they asked if they could make forts. Sure, make them out of whatever you want. All at once they went rushing off to all parts of the park gathering falling bark, sticks, leaves, pinecones, small rocks, and even feathers. They were building forts! The little boys decided they could work together to make one big fort. My oldest son soon went into business for himself, taking the time to gather the prized flat pieces of bark that were harder to find and gathering up the flattest of the leaves and the prettiest pinecones. He then sold them to his brothers for a multitude of sticks for building his own fort.
An hour and a half later, I had to drag them away. Their elaborate forts had roofs of leaves and walls of sticks and bark. There were walkways and paths and lookout towers. I was very pleased. I could not have asked for a more productive afternoon.
How often do you get the opportunity to press through to the heart of creativity? It is so often crowded out by the everyday distractions that lead us away. Instead of taking time to draw, to paint, to tell a story or make something beautiful, we check emails again or do anything else but stare at the blankness and create something that never was before.
- Melissa
Favorite Product I've Designed:
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bubble Wrap
I love these bubble wrap papers because it has the look of painting with bubble wrap and it gives any layout such an artistic look. The separate papers line up perfectly to create layers of different colors. What could be more fun than that?
Layout by Melissa Renfro
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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:
June's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Brandy Murry |
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 Layout by Brandy Murry using June's Scrap Girls Club |
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May'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 Laura Louie using May's ScrapSimple Club |
Layout by Angie Briggs
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Designer Freebie by
Brandy Murry
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with her Countryside Collection Biggie,
part of this month's Scrap Girls Club offering!
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Today's freebie designed by Brandy Murry
* 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.
New Member Chat
Tuesday, June 12th - 8:00PM EDT
Join Theresa (tiza126) for the New Member Chat on June 12th at 8pm ET in the Live Chat room lobby. This is a great place to ask questions about getting around the Scrap Girls site or about digital scrapbooking in general - and a great place to make some new friends. All are welcome, new and long time members included. You do need to have Java installed on your computer to access the Live Chat.
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, June 13th - 12 Noon EDT
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 12 Noon EDT for the 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 June 13th, we'll do a Photo Manipulation Challenge. Create a layout using a photo you have manipulated in some way - change it to black and white or sepia, remove a distraction, cut out the subject - anything goes!
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
Thursday, June 14th - 8:00PM EDT
It's time for some Speed! Join Carla (CRS) at 8pm EDT for the Speed Scrap Crop! She will give you six tasks, spread out over an hour. You'll then have one hour to get a layout finished and posted in the Gallery!
June's Forum Game: Re-JUNE-venate!
We helped you jumpstart your January and now it's time to re-JUNE-venate your focus on scrapbooking! Join us on the Scrap Girls Forum for "Re-JUNE-venate!" This is a game and challenge that focuses 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 treated to some fun along the way.
A Welcoming Committee Member will post a task each Monday through Saturday from June 1-30. The tasks will be formatted in a LARGE PURPLE FONT for ease of locating them in the game thread as it grows. Some tasks will require Forum participation, email responses or gallery posting. Read each daily task carefully to see what is required of you.
Those who complete all the required tasks and submit or post required participation by 11:59pm EDT on June 30th will be entered in a drawing to win one of three $10 Gift Certificates to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Those who complete all the layouts will be entered in a drawing to win one of two $5 Gift Certificates. Each person who completes a layout will be entered – once for each completed challenge page- into a drawing for one of three $3 Gift Certificates.
For complete details, visit the Monthly Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
June Monthly Layout Contest: June is full of weddings and graduations – a time of pomp and circumstance. For June's contest, we want to see your wedding, graduation or other special occasion layouts. Post your layouts in the June Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight EDT on June 30th and you could one of the two people who will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Please be sure to list your layout's product credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties.
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 the Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)