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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Monster Mash, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Picture It, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini, Brush Set: Painted and Witty Font are also available. |
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Layout by Jan Ransley
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ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Stampies - MacRose
A set of six large and beautiful Art Deco rose design motifs to enhance any of your digital scrapbook layouts. Re-color them, add a style, change their opacity and blending modes, paint them, use them as masks or clip your favourite papers to them.
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Layout by Jo Corne
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This fun, quirky, off set font lets you get a little creative on all your digital scrapbook pages and projects.
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Commercial license versions of Lettering Delights Vanilla, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Corner Them and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 are also available. |
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Using Layer Masks
Friday, September 21, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 40% off Fall Category Coupon!
- What's New in the Boutique
- Tips From The Pros
- 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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While one girl's picture appears here on the Newsletter, Scrap Girls is really a community of talented designers, techy gals, thoughtful contributors and fantastic customers. We are ALL so happy to have you as part of the Scrap Girls community and we are very grateful for your support. Debbie OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUSuggest 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 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. |
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The Scrap Girls Club allows you to get all of the newest looks while saving money! It is perfect for anyone who wants beautiful, coordinated digital scrapbooking supplies that are easy to use. You get all the products shown above a $40.59 value, for $9.99 or less! Plus, each month we will help you find new ways to use your club contents to the fullest with this article full of ideas, tips, and projects to get your creativity going!
Members-Only club content! Now Scrap Girls Club members receive three exclusive, members-only Club products every month! These new products include a JIFFY Easy Page Album - five layered PSD files of your favorite Club layouts designed by the professionals at Scrap Girls just for this Club, one Designer's Gift item - a product chosen by the Club's designer, and a Color Palette which you can use to coordinate your photos and ScrapSimple products with this month's Club to make it an even bigger value!
September's Scrap Girls Club's featured designer is Angie Briggs. Her Count The Ways products will add a happy and carefree look to your digital scrapbooking layouts and altered projects!
Layer Masks - A Quick Way to Trim Papers
Article written using Adobe Photoshop CS6 with Windows 7
When I got my first look at the contents of this month's Scrap Girls Club, I was excited to write a tutorial using it. I love the colors, the variety of patterned papers, the beautiful flowers and the romantic word art. I chose to create a digital scrapbook page about my parents who were married for 50 years and adored each other.
While creating my page, I used pennant banners as a border between solid and patterned background papers. I trimmed the red solid paper with a layer mask so it would stop at the edge of border, allowing the patterned paper to show. In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly trim a piece of digital scrapbook paper using a layer mask.
Layer masks are simple to create. First, select the paper layer you would like to trim. It needs to be the active layer in the Layers Palette. The active layer is highlighted in blue. With your paper layer active, create a layer mask by clicking on the "New Layer Mask" icon that looks like a white circle in a gray rectangle. The layer mask will show as a white square next to your layer thumbnail.
Now that you have created your layer mask, set the background color to white and the foreground color to black. Using the keyboard shortcut "D" is a fast way to do this. If your foreground and background colors are the opposite of what is shown in the screen shot below, use the keyboard shortcut "X" to swap your foreground and background colors.
When you work with layer masks, remember that white adds and black subtracts. A solid white layer mask will show the whole layer. A solid black layer mask will hide the entire layer. With the mask layer (the white square) selected, use a large round brush with a hard edge to paint away the excess paper. If you find you're painting black on your paper, you probably have the paper rather than its mask selected. When you are done, you can see the black and white areas on the mask in the layers panel. While I could have used an eraser and simply erased the red paper to get the same effect, the layer mask leaves the original paper unchanged. With a layer mask, if I find I erased too much or decide to move things around later (which I did while creating this layout,) it is easy to alter the layer mask by painting with white to add areas of the paper back in.
Try using a layer mask to trim a paper or embellishment on one of your next digital scrapbooking layouts. When you create a layout or project using the Scrap Girls Monthly Club, post it in the Scrap Girls Club Members section of the Gallery and your layout could be chosen as a Club Concepts Winner!
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Layout by April Martell
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The 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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Article written by April Martell
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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 Angie Briggs |
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September'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 Jacqui Smith
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Designer Freebie by Jacqui Smith coordinates with her digiDoer School Collection Biggie
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Commercial license versions of digiDoer School Collection Biggie, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: digiDoer pageGrids 01, ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: digiDoer Date Stamp Biggie, digiDoer Stationery Silver Embellishment Mini and Out In The Yard Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Jacqui Smith
* 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, September 24th - 9:00PM EDT
Join Shannon(tinkerbell11) in the chat room to discuss this month's ScrapSimple Club. Bring some fresh ideas to share about how to use the club. Make sure to post a layout so you are eligilble to win a prize.
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, September 26th - 12 Noon EDT
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 12 Noon ET 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 September 26th, 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 26th - 8:00PM EDT
It's time for some Speed! Join Carla (CRS) at 8pm ET for the Speed Scrap Crop! We'll give you six tasks, spread out over an hour. You'll then have an hour to get it finished and posted in the Gallery!
September's Forum Game: Simplify September
This month's Scrap Girls Forum game, Simplify September, is designed to help you get more scrapbooking done with a series of simple steps that add up to a finished project at the end of each week.
Throughout September, Monday through Saturday, a team member will post a daily layout step in the Simplify September game thread; the first week has seven steps, and the remaining three weeks have six steps each. These steps will be posted in large purple font so they will be easy to spot.
Members who complete the steps required in the game thread and post all four layouts in the Simplify September Gallery will be entered in a drawing for one of two $15.00 Scrap Girls Boutique Gift Certificates.
Each completed layout posted in the Simplify September Gallery, up to four per member, will be entered in a drawing for one of four $5.00 Scrap Girls Boutique Gift Certificates.
You have until 11:59 p.m. ET on September 30, 2012, to complete the steps and post your layouts to the Simplify September Gallery.
For complete details, visit the Monthly Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
September Monthly Layout Contest: September is Classical Music Month! For the September Layout Contest, we'd love to see your layouts featuring music! You could scrap a favorite song, a concert, or even some musical instruments! Post your layouts in the September Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight ET on September 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.)