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It's the most wonderful time of the year to save big on everything in our Christmas category! Perfect for making last-minute gifts or for stocking up so you'll be ready to scrap all your 2012 Christmas memories!
Gifts Galore!
12 Days of Christmas Special
This gift tag will give you digital scrapbooking layouts and printable craft projects a special touch. Be sure to collect the entire set of gift tags over Scrap Girls' 12 Days of Christmas celebration!
12 Days of Christmas Games! Christmas Quiz Let's play a Christmas game - and the winner will get a $20 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! All you have to do is send the answers to the following questions to [email protected]. The answers to the questions are names of products in the Scrap Girls Boutique. You'll see... it's really pretty easy! Please include the product name and its web address link for each answer. Use the subject line: "Christmas Quiz" for your email entry; include your name and your Scrap Girls Forum user name, if available. You have until 11:59 p.m. (ET), Thursday, December 20, to enter. Everyone who gets the correct answers will be entered into a drawing for the prize.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Wesley's Christmas Super Biggie 8501, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 12x12 Grunge Block and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Cast Shadow Frames are also available. |
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Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Add whimsical titles, monograms and more with this kitschy digital alpha set! Coordinates with my Kitschy Christmas line of products. Embroidered alpha plus banners, doilies, accordion flowers, stitching and more are included!
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini are also available. |
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Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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8.5x11 Wonder and Joy Collection
A beautiful Christmas holiday digital scrapbooking collection in traditional red, green, and cream colors. Use birds, mistletoe, poinsettia, snowman, and glass ornaments to decorate your scrapbooking memories of the holiday season. Paper size is 8.5x11 inches.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Rounded Postage, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Corrugated Basics 8501 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 are also available. |
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Layout by Cheri Thieleke
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ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 8.5x11V Messy Stitched Collage
If you want to maximize the use of your time, digital scrapbooking layout templates are the perfect solution. Just add your own photos, digital papers, embellishments, and journaling and leave the composition to me! You will receive the .psd files and .png files for each template.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: 8.5x11V Messy Stitched Collage and Dynamic Brush Set: Snow Dust 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.
A Whole Forest of Trees
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 40% Christmas Category Sale!
- Gifts Galore!
- 12 Days of Christmas Special & Games
- What's New in the Boutique
- 12 Days of Christmas Story
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebies
- 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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Story Winner #7: A Whole Forest of Trees
My story will probably be different than most. My husband and I live thousands of miles away from our family and have no children - so we need to think up creative ways to celebrate Christmas and make new traditions of our own out here in California. (Our family lives in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.) We always schedule our annual visit back East in October so we can enjoy the fall colors. Flying during the holidays is something we'd rather avoid.
We usually take a short driving trip for Thanksgiving and find new and exciting restaurants for dinner. Then, on Christmas Day, my husband always works so that his co-workers with young children can spend the day with them. We have Christmas dinner when he gets home.
In the early fall of 2003, for no apparent reason, I decided that I wanted my Christmas tree to be decorated with nothing but angels. This was totally out of the blue, since I was never particularly attracted to angels. But the idea was strong and wouldn't leave me alone, so I dragged out my ornaments and collected up all the angels. I bought more as soon as the stores started carrying them, and I made a bunch of paper angels using my clip art, scrapbooking paper, and whatever else I could find to fill up the tree.
One day as I was in the craft store looking for materials to make more angels, I saw a little stick tree decorated with lights and Halloween theme ornaments. What a great idea! Initially, I thought I would buy a small stick tree and make one like the one I saw in the store. Then suddenly it hit me! Why not just put up the regular tree early and decorate it for Halloween? So I bought some webs, fake spiders, and purple and orange lights. I made a lot of ornaments from clip art I found online. It was creepy - and wonderful!
But then I thought, "Why stop here?" So I went out and bought leaf garlands and lots of fall decorations and made a fall harvest tree. After Thanksgiving, up went the angels on another tree. But I didn't stop there. Multicolor shiny ornaments, noisemakers, and party hats made a wonderful New Year's tree. I even found little plastic champagne glasses in the wedding section in the craft store and put them on the tree. And after that, red lights and heart ornaments made a festive Valentine's Day tree.
So ever since that inspired year, I've been decorating five trees each holiday season. To add to the fun, I invite friends over to help me. We have a delicious lunch and sing along with my Christmas mix CDs in the process. It's so wonderful to create new holiday traditions when living so far away from family.
Now that people know I have an angel tree, they give me angel ornaments on a regular basis. These days, the tree is so full, there's hardly enough room for all my beautiful angels. My BFF gave me some boy angels, because she noticed that there were few boys on the tree. Guess it's because boys are not usually that angelic!
I encourage anyone who routinely finds herself far from loved ones during the holidays to adopt the "five tree tradition." It's tons of fun and a great way to share the joy of the holidays with friends and neighbors.
- Jeanne Bertolina
About the Author:
Jeanne Bertolina: I live with my adorable husband of 32 years and my cat, Sophie, in a small town just southeast of San Francisco. I have worked in some way in the field of publications most of my career. I have so many hobbies I can hardly count them. But most of them involve either paper crafting or digital art and scrapping. Recently, I started digital art journaling. I'm sort of on hiatus from work right now and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the next great thing. I'm currently working on a website and plan to figure out this social networking thing before the end of the year. I can't wait to see who I'll meet!
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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:
December's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Melissa Renfro |
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December'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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Surprise! Surprise! Gifts Galore!
We have TWO designer freebies for you each day until Christmas Eve!
Layout by Angela Blanchard
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Designer Freebie by
Angela Blanchard coordinates
with her Christmastide Collection Mini
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Commercial license versions of Christmastide Collection Mini are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Angela Blanchard
Sample by Kimberly McKean
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Designer Freebie by
Kimberly McKean coordinates
with her ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Candy Cigar Wrapper
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Candy Cigar Wrapper are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Kimberly McKean
* 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.
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, December 19th - 12 Noon ET
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 December 19th we'll do a Font Challenge! Create a layout on any theme, any topic, and any colors using at least 2 different fonts! Mix it up!
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 and Chat
Thursday, December 20th - 9:00 p.m. ET
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 April (April Showers) at 9 PM ET for the Heritage Crop and Chat and learn ways to use Antique Edges Paper Biggie to dress up your heritage pages. We'll help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy.
December's Forum Game: BINGO!
Join us for an exciting game of December BINGO on the Scrap Girls Forum!! Pick 25 words from the list provided and send them in an email to [email protected] with a subject line that says "BINGO CARD - your Scrap Girls Forum username" by Sunday, December 2nd (Midnight EDT) in order to play in the first round. The first round will begin on Monday, December 3rd. 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 (Monday through Saturday), 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 Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
December Monthly Layout Contest: December is here and that means Family Time! During the holidays, we spend more time with each of our families... and we'd love for you to share your families with us! Post your layouts in the December Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight ET on December 31st 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.)