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5 Tips to Speed Up Your Scrapping

Whether you’re new to digital scrapbooking or you’re an old pro, we all share one common challenge: TIME! We never have enough time to do all the scrapping we’d like to do, want to do, or need to do. I can’t give you more hours in the day, but I can offer some tips to […]

Introduction to the Daily Life Templates

Don’t miss this series of great videos by designer Susie Roberts on the Scrap Girls YouTube Channel walking you through using her “Daily Life” Template sets. Intro to the Daily Life Templates: How to use the Daily Life Templates: Daily Life Pockets and Stitching: Daily Life Partitions: Daily Life Stitched Grids: SaveSave SaveSave

Scrap Girls Project Life: Set Yourself Up for Success

There are many different ways to create Project Life-styled albums to document your year. You can take daily photos, scrap weekly layouts, monthly layouts, or do whatever works best for you! Whichever way you choose, it works for our year-long Project Life Challenge. You can find the details for our 2016 challenge and associated prizes […]

Customizing Layout Templates

Templates. Some people love them and some people hate them. The reason for the latter, I believe, is that some scrapbookers find templates rigid – rigid in that they don’t meet the scrapbooker’s needs and rigid in that they stifle creativity. People who love templates have discovered what I’m going to share with you today. […]

5 Tips for Making Layout Templates Your Own

I have a confession: I am a rather haphazard scrapbooker. I never start with a plan beyond a few photos I know I want to use and a feeling I want to create. I generally just start sticking things on a page and moving them around until I’m happy. Layout templates (where the layout comes […]

Using Clipping Masks with ScrapSimple Templates

in the SG Design Shop there are two different types of Layout Templates you can use to help with the composition of your layout. The newer templates have layers all set up for you to clip each one of your photos and papers onto. Some of the older templates have just one of two layers. I want […]

The 20-Minute Page with Pocket Life

We all want to be able to make more layouts but finding the time to scrap can be challenging. When I need to knock out a quick scrapbooking page I turn to Pocket Life journaling cards. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I made a great layout using Pocket Life cards in under 20 […]

Mix and Match Digital Layout and Album Templates

Do you find yourself short on time or lacking inspiration when you sit down to do a layout? Do you have several sets of ScrapSimple Digital Layout and Album Templates, but you want to be a bit more creative? Then I have the solution for you! Combining digital layout templates together will give you an endless supply of creative […]

Creative Team Product Picks for Documenting Life

The new year is a time when a lot of us start thinking or planning on how we want to document our memories for the upcoming year. Do we use the journal card system or maybe we are involved in a Project 365 or Project Life. Maybe we just try to document the highlights with just […]

Personalizing Digital Scrapbooking Templates

Article written using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 with Windows 7 When I first started scrapping and seeing digital scrapbooking templates in the Scrap Girls Boutique, I thought they looked really complicated and like something that just “wasn’t for me.” But then I tried them! I started out by clipping papers to the pieces and adding […]