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3 Steps to Eraser Stamping

Eraser stamping is a popular technique that is showing up in everything from scrapbooking to clothing to children’s crafts. Basically, you take some paint or ink and use the end of a pencil to stamp it onto paper. Using multiple colors of paint or ink, and several different pencils adds layers of interest. Eraser stamping […]

Scrap Girls SS Club Exclusive: My Favorite

Sometimes, it feels so good to just go back to the basics. For scrapbookers, “the basics” is usually reminiscent of what we experienced at a paper scrapping crop session. Hauling boxes and totes of supplies, we created masterpieces with inkpads and stamps, rich textures, swirly ribbons, and confetti sprinkles. We also came away with sticky fingers, mistakes that […]

Fast and Fun Calendar to start the new year

If the new year is near and you’re wondering how you can easily design and print next year’s calendar fast, wonder no more! Every year, I buy digital calendar templates and get quickly overwhelmed by the number of layouts needed to finish the project. Then it dawned on me – I can showcase already-completed layouts […]

ScrapSimple Templates – Put the Simple in Digital Scrapbooking!

Today we want to highlight something that Scrap Girls pioneered that really sets our site apart. Years ago, we started our own unique line of grayscale layout templates we called ScrapSimple. As the years passed, we expanded our ScrapSimple Templates line to include a lot more than just layout templates, so if you’re new to Scrap Girls or […]

Holiday Gift Idea: All-Occasion Card Sets

With the holidays rapidly approaching, I find myself in a bit of a rush to get my Christmas gifts ready. Over the years, we have limited our holiday spending and tried to share simple, personal gifts with our family and friends. The minute I saw the word art, bonus items, and papers in Creative Spirit […]

Color Inspiration for Digital Scrapbooking Layouts

There are many ways to color ScrapSimple products, but how do you decide which colors to use on your digital scrapbooking page? The usual color inspiration for any of our scrapbook pages is our photo. However, if you are scrapping a black-and-white photo, I have another suggestion.

Take Your Photos from Good to Great Using PSE

Photo editing is my first love and the part of digital scrapbooking that I enjoy the most. Although it’s a subject worthy of a large, heavy book, I’d like to show you how I changed these photos with a few of the photo editing techniques I use routinely. Cropping. Most photos need some cropping to help […]

Scrap Girls Club Exclusive: Creative Spirit

If you love to stretch your hobby/craft dollars, then you will absolutely “fall” for our November Scrap Girls Club: Creative Spirit from Syndee Rogers-Nuckles! “For any club I create, I want to make sure it can be used year-round for any theme. Even though there’s an obvious fall-season slant when look you look at the collection all […]

How to Use Photoshop Actions

What is a Photoshop Action? Photoshop Actions play a series of recorded commands. While the definition sounds kind of boring, what they can do is definitely exciting! When you use an action from the SG Design Shop, the designers have incorporated tricks and techniques that most of us might not know. You can add special […]

Flowers: Thinking Outside the Cluster

I love using flowers on digital layouts, and the floral elements in Syndee Nuckles’ Creative Spirit Collection are perfectly suited for clusters. For this tutorial, we’re going to think “outside the cluster” and explore a few other ways you can use flowers to enhance your scrapbooking pages. 1. Create a unique title using flowers. Start by choosing […]