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Making Word Art Pop!

I think my favorite part of this month’s Scrap Girls Club: Mojave is all of the beautiful word art. Designer Jennifer Ziegler has given us a mixture of black type and script that is elegant and timeless. If you want to make this terrific word art pop, you can add a little color to it. […]

Shadows Make All the Difference!

Cherise Oleson’s March ScrapSimple Club: Painted Collage filled me with nostalgia for my paper scrapping days. Her textures and organic shapes are just beautiful! Much of digital scrapping involves blending and masking, which are obviously digital techniques. But sometimes I miss those straightforward scrapping techniques that made paper scrapping fun, like layering paper on paper and […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Painted Collage

We asked Cherise Oleson what kinds of layouts she pictured for her new ScrapSimple Club, and we think you’re going to love her answer! “I think the obvious choice would be children’s layouts and layouts about spring and nature, such as trees, sun, ladybugs, butterflies, etc. But I found that this club worked really well for a variety of layouts, […]

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 […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Effortless

While designer Angie Briggs named her Scrap Girls Club “Effortless,” she might have also named it “Versatile” because that’s one of its integral features. “I wanted to make this collection super-easy to work within a lot of different scrapbooking genres. I can see these pieces working on everything from heritage to events to documenting your daily […]

Make Your Scrapping Truly Effortless!

I don’t think there has ever been a Scrap Girls Club more perfectly named than this month’s Scrap Girls Club: Effortless by Angie Briggs! The pieces practically scrap themselves because they work together so nicely. She has included some terrific embellishments that led themselves to effortless scrapping and also look great on a layout. In […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: Just a Little Love

Our ScrapSimple Club designers wanted to give you more than just a “lovey-dovey” kit of hearts and flowers, so they used Valentine’s Day as a “jumping-off point.” We think you’ll go head-over-heels for the goodies Ginny Whitcomb and Jennifer Ziegler created in their club, Just a Little Love. “We took icons like hearts and flowers and made […]

Three Easy Steps to Lighten Digital Papers

Do Patterned papers sometimes overwhelm your layouts? We share three tips to lighten and create a more subtle background.

3 Ways to Make Word Art Stand Out

This month’s Scrap Girls Club by DRB Designs has a fun mix of pretty embellishments, patterned papers, and word art. Sometimes I shy away from working with word art in a collection because it can be hard to read on a busy background or the colors don’t quite go with my page. In this tutorial, […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Bohemian Gardens

Take a peek at the fresh, new Scrap Girls Club! Darryl of DRB Designs explains that she created her Bohemian Gardens Collection to help you put together family albums easier than ever before. “From flowers to dots to stripes to American Indian-inspired designs, my goal was that this collection would help us create layouts honoring […]