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Digital Scrapbooking News

Staycation Sale! 17.7% off almost everything in the Boutique until Midnight, July 31st (MDT).

Relax! Stay home, save money and have a Staycation with us! We've got a whole line-up of fun activities planned for you. Be sure to keep reading the newsletter to get the scoop on what's going on.

And to help you save even more, we've got a Staycation Sale happening from now until Midnight, July 31st (MT). THAT'S TODAY! Almost everything in our boutique is 17.7% off, so there's no excuse! Don't stress out, relax! Stay home and scrap with us... it's a Staycation!

Cute Stuff

Computer scrapbook layout by Syndee Nuckles

Layout by Syndee Nuckles
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Dynamic Brush Set: Beads and Pearls 6301 Biggie Daydream Collection Biggie Memoirs Paper Super Mini
Commercial license versions of Dynamic Brush Set: Beads and Pearls 6301 Biggie are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Marnie Adams

Layout by Marnie Adams
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Hugs & Kisses Collection * Curled Edges Embellishments Mini

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Computer scrapbook layout by Sarah Batdorf

Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Page Protectors ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x6 Bracket Me Birthday Wishes Solids Paper Mini
AMC_Friendly Font Digital Stickers: Bar Beverages Sandy Shores Collection Mini
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Birthday Wishes ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Ring Card ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Silver 5701
Ribbons To Go Embellishment Biggie Lettering Delights Patty Whack Serif Font Organica Collection
  Birthday Wishes Collection  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Page Protectors, ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x6 Bracket Me, AMC_Friendly Font, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Birthday Wishes, ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brushes: Ring Card, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Silver 5701 and Lettering Delights Patty Whack Serif Font are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda Sok

Layout by Amanda Sok
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ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x4 Brag Book * Braden Collection
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates - Layered: 4x4 Brag Book are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Amanda McGee

Layout by Amanda McGee
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These products 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.

Sunny Day Word Art Mini Fruit Smoothie Collection Biggie Fruit Smoothie Embellishment Mini
  Fruit Smoothie Paper Mini  

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Computer scrapbook card by Erica Hite

Card by Erica Hite
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ScrapSimple Card Templates: 3.365x6.5 All Occasion Brush Set: Make a Wish 2 Brocadelicious Collection
Daydream Collection Biggie   ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Calligraphy
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Card Templates: 3.365x6.5 All Occasion, Brush Set: Make a Wish 2 and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Calligraphy are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Kerry Veale

Layout by Kerry Veale
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Assemble Your Own: Sherbert French Boards Brocante Frames Transparency Overlays - White Sherbert Silk Papers
Brocadelicious Collection A Fairy Garden Collection Mini ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bits of Mesh
  AKA Bookish Collection  
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Bits of Mesh are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Heidi Dillon

Layout by Heidi Dillon
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A Beautiful Year Collection Biggie Brush Set: Remember Seals ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photos That Pop 1801 Mini
ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Photo Frames 6302 ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glitter Brights Super Biggie 4101 Assemble Your Own: Beads
  Lettering Delights Hen Hand Font  
Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Remember Seals, ScrapSimple Tools - Actions: Photos That Pop 1801 Mini, ScrapSimple Tools - Shapes: Photo Frames 6302, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glitter Brights Super Biggie 4101 and Lettering Delights Hen Hand Font are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Shalae Tippetts

Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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* Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages: Zoo *

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If you have praise, comments, or questions for any of our Product or Layout Designers, did you know you can send them a PM (private message) using the message board? It's easy!

If you are a registered user of the message board, 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 designer's layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.

Scrap Girls STAYcation Events!

Scrap Girls is announcing its vacation plans... STAYCATION! The whole team is going to have a STAYcation this year, and we want you to STAYcation with us. Our Product Designers are having a STAYcation, too, and as a change from slaving away making beautiful digital scrapbooking supplies for you to scrap with, they're hosting chats all week! Trust us, you do NOT want to miss these chats. Our designers get out so rarely, this is a real treat!

We've got a schedule full of chats that our Product Designers and Welcoming Committee are hosting, plus our STAYcation Sale, games, blinkies, freebies, contests, prizes and fun! Come join our family on our STAYcation!

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Digital Stickers: Moss on Staycation

First up, Moss, our official Scrap Girls “Moss-cot,” has demanded that he be involved in this STAYcation thing. He wants to go on a STAYcation with you! Create a computer scrapbooking layout of Moss on vacation with your family, site-seeing in your hometown, or just hanging out around the house. Post your layout in the appropriate gallery, and the best layout wins a prize. Winner selected at the end of Scrap Girls' STAYcation week 2008 and will be announced in our newsletter.

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Picnic Basket of Doom
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You know it, you dread it, it's back... with a STAYcation twist! The Picnic Basket of Doom is here!

For those of you new to this game, the object is simple. You must correctly identify the items shown in the picnic basket image. There are 38 items. Some objects may have multiple items, such as a brush on a paper, or a style.

Now don't panic! You don't have to find them all to play the game. (Whew!) But anyone who DOES get them all correct will automatically win a $10 Gift Certificate! No problem. You've got it. This means more than one person can win a $10 gift certificate. (Anyone this motivated deserves a prize!) The winners of these gift certificates can get in on the rest of the game, too!

For all players:

  • If you get 15 or more correct answers, you will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Gift Certificate!
  • If you get 10-15 correct answers, you will be entered into a drawing for a $10 Gift Certificate!
  • If you get 5-9 correct answers, you will be entered into a drawing for a $5 Gift Certificate!

To enter the game, send your guesses to [email protected]. For each item guessed, you must include BOTH the product name and a link to where you can find it in the Scrap Girls boutique. Your email must be received by Midnight (MT), on Thursday, July 31st. We can not be responsible for lost or unreceived emails. One email per member; Dee will respond to your email to let you know it was received. If you do not receive a reply in 24 hours, please resend.

Good luck, and happy hunting!

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Schedule:

Thursday - July 31: Picnic

  • 12:00 Noon ET - Picnic - LEAD EVENT (Amanda M., Thao & Erica)
  • 4:00PM ET - Thursday Message Board Challenge Chat (Carla)

*Schedule is subject to change... keep an eye on the newsletter and message board for the latest STAYcation happenings!

Life Muses by Ro: Life in Miniature

Note from Ro: I found this neat post in the Scrap Girls Blog by Angela Blanchard. She has used digital scrapbooking supplies to help her make the cutest doll house! I simply had to show it to you. Have fun oooohhhing and ahhhhhing!

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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved dollhouses. Over the years, I have collected many miniatures and hoped to one day build a dollhouse to showcase them, but the idea of building something like that seemed so daunting! Then, I saw pictures of antique dollhouses and found that many early versions weren’t “houses” but cabinets or “room boxes.” Now, this sounded doable! After some thrifty shopping, I found a used pine cabinet that I could alter for my purpose.

After removing the existing cabinet doors, making supports to hold shelves for the upper story and a lick of paint, I was ready to really get moving. It’s been so great to raid my existing stash of craft supplies to decorate the interior rooms - I didn’t have to buy a thing! I used strips of wood left over from my husband’s projects for the floors and moldings. Wire and beads that had been boxed up for awhile were perfect for a chandelier. I used my digital scrapbooking materials for the wallpaper, wainscoting and borders. I scaled and printed them right from my computer. (I know some of you Scrap Girls will recognize the patterns.) Plus, I was able to pull out my metal embossing kit to emboss a “tin” ceiling for the living room.

It’s still a work-in-progress, so you’ll have to excuse the unfinished bits. I’m just so glad that I finally let go of my original notion of an actual dollhouse and took this new direction. There are no rules. No “right” way to do things. Sometimes, I just have to make a little shift in my expectations and that’s when the fun begins!

- Angela

Computer scrapbook project by Angela Blanchard

Computer scrapbook project by Angela Blanchard

Computer scrapbook project by Angela Blanchard

Project by Angela Blanchard

Legacy Paper Biggie Floral Abundance Paper Shabby Fabulous Collection Biggie
Cinnamon Suede Collection   Naturescape Collection Biggie

Angela Blanchard

 

Muse: To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation. Not intended to solve the world's problems, another person's problems, or to cover topics completely. One does not have to agree with musings to enjoy them, just as one does not have to be the same as someone else to appreciate who they are.

Note from Ro: Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate? Send your own muse to [email protected]. If it is selected for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have fun shopping!

Ro is now spotlighting various Scrap Girls members, showing layouts, and running contests in her blog. If you end up being spotlighted in it, you'll get a little gift from her. Subscribe to her blog so you don't miss what is going on!

Ro has recently spotlighted Pireps, CharleneJ and Soozlou.

Way Cool Stuff Product Review: ScrapSimple Card Templates

Note: Screenshots were created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 on a PC.

I think one of the reasons you get addicted to Scrap Girls is that we have the most awesome templates that give you the ability to expand your creativity beyond a 12x12 layout. One of my favorite kinds of template is the card template, because with little ones running to birthday parties all the time, this template sits on my desktop! Today, I am going to show you how to create a card using Mandy Steward’s ScrapSimple Card Templates: 5.5x4.25 Curvy Biggie, along with Syndee Nuckles’ Cocoa Couture Collection for this project.

Just a reminder as you are working: do not to save over the original files, because if you do, it will become stuck permanently.

Screenshot: Open all pieces

First, I open all the files associated with the card that I am going to make, including the sample card.

Screenshot: Resize base paper

Now, I am going to resize my first sheet of paper to fit the base of my card.  To do this, I open the window for my card base and then drag and drop the sheet of paper I want for the base of my card on top of it. Then I resize the paper to fit the template and use a clipping mask to attach it (Ctrl+G in PSE and Alt+Ctrl+G in PS).

Screenshot: Clip all papers to pieces

I repeat this step for all the pieces of the card.

There are two ways to finish the card at this point: we can print all the pieces of the card and assemble it by hand, or drag and drop all the pieces into the base, add embellishments and then print. I am going to show you the second method of finishing your card.

Screenshot: Drag all pieces to base

I drag and drop all the pieces of my card onto my base and close the windows, remembering NOT to save any of the pieces I created. Also, I like to leave my sample card open as a guide.

Screenshot: Move pieces to position

I move all the pieces into place and close my sample card.

Screenshot: Choose View> New Guide

Next, I am going to add a guideline so that when I print the card I will know where to fold it. To do this, you go into View> New Guide.

Screenshot: Position new guide at 4.25"

Then position the guideline at 4.25”.

Screenshot: Turn grid on to check placement

Now I have a thin aqua line running through the middle of my layout. I turn on the grid and check to make sure that all my pieces are lined up correctly.

Screenshot: Final card

I am going to add some text and embellishments. Here is a look at the final card I created.

And Printed!

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Computer scrapbook layout by Deb Layden

Layout by Deb Layden
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ScrapSimple Card Templates: 5.5x4.25 Curvy Biggie Cocoa Couture Collection Mini Textured Cardstock Paper Biggie: Brights
AMC_Thoughtful Font Oriental Collection Mini Lifted Photos: Weathered and Worn Embellishment Biggie
ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Victorian Scalloperoo ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Sage ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glittered Gelly 6401 Super Biggie
  Lettering Delights Elf Note Font  
Commercial license versions of AMC_Thoughtful Font, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Victorian Scalloperoo, ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Sage, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glittered Gelly 6401 Super Biggie and Lettering Delights Elf Note Font are also available.

Deb Layden

Debbie is married to Dan, a patent attorney, and is a SAHM to Ian and Li Li. She home schools Ian who is in the 6th grade and will start Li Li this fall, who will be starting Pre-K. She is also a professional photographer and is currently working on her first book. Debbie enjoys photography, travel, hiking, cooking, and just being at home with her family. Family is the focus of her life. In 2006, the family traveled to Guangxi, PRC to bring Li Li home. The family plans to return to China in 2009 on a heritage tour, and she and Dan are currently waiting to give Ian and Li Li a new sister, hopefully by 2010!

What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
Crops and Chats

New Classes Available!

Thursday Message Board Challenge Chat
Thursday, July 31st - 4:00PM ET

We're taking the Thursday Message Board Challenge into the Chat Room this week!

Join me, Carla (crs), in the chat room at 4 pm et on Thursday, July 31st, and I'll reveal the challenge for the day. Hope to see you there!

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Life Moments Crop and Chat
Tuesday, August 5th - 4:00PM ET

Join April (April Showers) for our next Life Moments Crop and Chat. These Crops are about building a scrapbook all about you, one layout at a time. This week we will focus on Anniversaries. Any type will do. Can't wait to see you there!

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High Noon Crop
Wednesday, August 6th - 12:00Noon ET

Join your host April Showers for the High Noon Crop every Wednesday at Noon eastern time. 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 August 6, we'll do a 10 photo challenge! Create a layout using any colors, any theme, but 10 photos! Sound daunting? Try a template!

You'll have one hour to create a layout and upload to the special High Noon Crop gallery. You'd be amazed what you can get done in just one hour! Meet new friends and have fun in the chat room! We hope you'll join us!

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NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, August 7th - 1:00PM ET

What is NSBR? It's a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking and usually chocolate. It's a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we'll lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to share? We'd love to celebrate with you.

So, join me, Shari (PV Mom of 2), on August 7th, at 1 PM ET, in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!

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New Classes Available!

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Scraplift Crop
Sunday, August 10th - 5:00PM ET

Join TysMommy and angelaNussbaum for a Scraplifting Crop.

A few hours before the crop, we will tell you the name of a Scrap Girls Team Member, and you will be able to choose one of their layouts to be your inspiration. During the crop, we will also help explain about scraplifting, how to use a layout as inspiration, and the importance of giving credit.

Scraplifting is a lot of fun! So come join us, you're sure to enjoy it!

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Aussie Chat & Crop
Monday, 11 August - 8:30PM
*Australian Eastern Standard Time*

Please join Jo (ScrappingJo) and Karen (Kazbar73) for our next Aussie Chat. This week we will have an art inspired challenge. On Sunday, 10 August, we will post a picture for you to take some inspiration from. Create your layout then come and meet Jo & Karen in the Chat Room at 8.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (Please take note of the time change).

For all our other International Ladies, the chat will start at 6.30am New York time on Monday, 11 July. We look forward to seeing you all at the chat.

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NSBR Chat
Monday, August 11th - 9:00PM ET

What is NSBR? It’s a non-scrapbooking related chat! We talk about everything, including some scrapbooking and usually chocolate. It’s a great chance to meet new friends, catch up on what everyone is up to, and just relax! If you have a problem, we’ll lend an ear or a shoulder to cry on. Have some great news to share? We’d love to celebrate with you.

So, join me, Carla (CRS) on August 11th at 9 pm et! Hope to see you there!

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Get Published Chat
Tuesday, August 12th - 9:00PM ET

Join Angela (angelaNussbaum), Amy (tysMommy) and Christy (christyVW) for the Get Published Chat on August 12th at 9 PM ET.

Do you want to see your layouts in magazines, but you are not quite sure how? Do you need a little more confidence with your layouts? During the Get Published Chat, we will talk about current calls, give constructive criticism on requested layouts, and we will answer your questions about submitting to magazines.

As with most of our chats, there will also be a challenge. To help you further your chances of being published, we will select a call, and challenge you to do a layout with that theme! Be sure you come to this informative Monthly chat, you will be glad you did!

New Classes Available!

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July Events

July Board Game: Layout Reveal

Whether you travel on vacation or entertain right in your own backyard, summertime means fun! This month, we'll be having some fun as we play Layout Reveal!

Every day, a member of the Welcoming Committee will post a layout that is partially covered in a message board thread. A new section of the layout will be revealed each day until someone correctly guesses which layout it is. Once a layout is correctly identified, a new layout will be featured starting the following day.

Layouts will be found in the boutique on product details pages.

If you are the first to guess one of the layouts correctly, you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the boutique!

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Layout Contests:

July Layout Contest: Is the high cost of traveling keeping you close to home this summer? For this layout contest, we want you to be a tourist in your own town. Do a layout of your favorite place to visit in or near your town, a place you like to take out-of-towners when they visit, or an historical landmark. Upload your layouts to the July Layout Gallery by July 31st at midnight and if your layout is chosen, you will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Mid-July Layout Contest: Do you have a dream destination to which you would like to travel in the future, or maybe a dream place where you’ve already been? We want to see your layout of this dream destination. Upload your layouts to the July Mid-month Layout Gallery by August 15th at midnight and you could win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique if your layout is chosen!

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Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)

Today's Freebie

STAYcation: Picnic Bonus Freebie!

Computer scrapbook layout by Trish Yochum

Layout by Trish Yochum
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Ice Cream Social Embellishment Special
Designer Freebie by Trish Yochum coordinates with the Scrap Girls Relax Collection Biggie

Bouncing Baby Boy Collection Sweet Summer Embellishment Biggie Potty Training Collection Mini
ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Storyteller   ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bursting Offset
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Templates - Layered: Storyteller and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Bursting Offset are also available.

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Computer scrapbook layout by Keri Schueller

Layout by Keri Schueller
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Expressive Pages Large Frame Special
Designer Freebie by Keri Schueller coordinates with her ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Expressive Pages, part of this month's ScrapSimple Club offering!

ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Expressive Pages Brush Set: Expressive Brush Set: Organica
ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Pressed Petals 1   Naturescape Paper Biggie
Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Expressive Pages, Brush Set: Expressive, Brush Set: Organica and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Pressed Petals 1 are also available.

* 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.

Life in Miniature
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Scrap Girls Guarantee


In This Issue:

- 17.7% Off Staycation Sale!
- Cute Stuff
- Scrap Girls STAYcation Events!
- Life Muses by Ro
- Way Cool Stuff Product Review: ScrapSimple Card Templates
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Designer Freebie
- Scrap Girls Convention - Digital Scrap Link Information!
- Getting Started
- Expand Your Skills
- Online Classes Currently Available
- Scrap Girls Clubs
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU


Note from Ro
Ro Paxman

The Scrap Girls newsletter is created for you by a virtual army of Scrap Girls team members. Without them, we couldn't possibly share these resources with you, and I'm very grateful for their ongoing help and support.

I hope you enjoy today's issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

Ro
CEO - Scrap Girls, LLC

P.S. Your email address is safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with anyone!

P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance, please email [email protected] or call
866-598-3444 and we'll help you as quickly as possible!

Better Business Bureau Reliability Program

Scrap Girls is Having a Convention!
Scrap Girls Digital Scrap Link Convention

Here are the facts:

When: October 9-11th, 2008

Note: Convention begins at 1:00 pm - Thursday, October 9th and ends at 6 pm - Saturday, October 11th.

How many people may attend?

Only 9 openings are still available!

We're starting our final countdown now; don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! Space is selling out quickly so don't delay.

Where: Salt Lake City, Utah

Officer's Club
Sign up now!


Getting Started

15 Things You NEED to Know to become a GREAT digital scrapbooker

If you read nothing else, read this!

15 Things You NEED to Know to Become a GREAT Digital Scrapbooker. It's so addictive; it ought to come with a warning label!

Free eBook “starter kit” turns your dreams of digital scrapbooking into reality today!

This dynamite eBook is 65 pages - packed full of the information, ideas and help people need when they are about to dive into this great hobby. It answers questions about digital scrapbooking that Ro is asked all day long, every day of the week, and each day of the year. You don't have to wonder about important questions like how to back up your files, whether you need a 12x12 printer to scrapbook digitally (and which one to buy), or what type of computer software is required to create digital scrapbooking layouts. The answers are all here for you - in one easy to use eBook!

Bonus! Download the fun “Warning” Label, too. It was created for you by Valerie Randall as a little bit of extra fun!

Scrap Girls Refresh Collection Biggie

Would you like a chance to try digital scrapbooking yourself?

Scrap Girls' Refresh Collection Biggie offers you free samples of some of our most popular product types. Try making a layout, your own paper with a ScrapSimple Paper Template, a fast layout with a ScrapSimple Digital Layout Template, or experiment with a brush.

We know you'll love digital scrapbooking as much as we do, and we have thousands of products to feed your new addiction!

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 6.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 5.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 4.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop Elements 3.0

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed (Photoshop 7, CS, CS2 and CS3)

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) X

Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Paint Shop Pro (PSP) 9

Do you wish you could learn how to scrapbook digitally, but feel kind of intimated? Well, here's the solution for you. These tutorials allow you to actually watch Ro scrapbook. You'll see her working on her computer and hear her talking about why she is doing what she is doing. It's easy to watch the short, one-topic movies over and over again until you have it down. It's like having Ro come to your home and give you private scrapbooking lessons. You could be digitally scrapbooking today!

After you watch the Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed movies, you will...

  • Create your own digital scrapbook layouts using the latest, most popular techniques
  • Manage all of the important basics that digital scrapbook enthusiasts need to know to get started
  • Understand how to save your files for printing or sharing them with your friends and family over the Internet
  • Make your own textured brush
  • Learn how to install and use purchased brushes
  • Make your own simple backgrounds
  • See how easy it is to manage transparent embellishment files that allow digital scrapbooking layouts to look like they are “real”
  • Become a pro at managing the drop-shadowing techniques
  • Learn about transparency and lighting effects
  • Make your own digital torn paper edges
  • Be able to isolate a single item in an embellishment or alpha and be able to change the color to suit your fancy
  • Become a pro at repairing damaged photos
  • Know the secret of putting text on a curve or in a circle
  • Laugh at how simple it is to make rounded edges on your photos
  • Use keyboard and tool shortcuts that make digital scrapbooking a breeze
  • Be able to place digital embellishments on your digital scrapbook layout with ease
  • Unlock the mystery of how to clip a digital paper clip onto your layout so that it looks real
  • Learn how to install and use purchased textures
  • Understand some advanced techniques such as how to keep blue eyes blue on a black and white photo
  • Learn how to adjust black and white photos to sepia
  • And lots more!

Start to Finish eBooklets

How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page
Start to Finish eBooklet - PSE: How to Make a Birthday Scrapbook Page

Nothing could be simpler than learning to scrapbook digitally with Scrap Girls Start to Finish eBooklets. Step by step written guidelines and detailed screenshots will help you learn new digital scrapbooking skills. Included with the eBooklet are the actual digital files you need to create a finished project!

More Titles Available


Expand Your Skills

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed!

MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed for Photoshop

*NEW!* MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop (Versions 6, 7, CS, CS2, CS3)

- MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed! for Adobe Photoshop Elements versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0

It's time for you to stop playing catch-up in Photoshop and start having a blast doing the more advanced tricks that you see other people and professional digital scrapbookers doing.

  • Take the world's easiest shortcuts to creating your own backgrounds, embellishments, and alphas.
  • Make sure that you don't make the biggest mistakes that digital scrapbookers make when they create layouts.
  • Learn fantastic tricks for using Scrap Girls ScrapSimple products.
  • Dip your digital scrapbooking self into some of those “other” cool tools that are sitting there waiting in your software for you to use such as paths, masks, the drawing pen, and more.
  • See how easy it is to install and manage new Custom Shapes and Styles in Photoshop so that you can make things that are creative and unique.
  • Learn advanced tricks for using tools that you already know and love.
  • Watch me make some beautiful papers and get a chance to peek inside of my layers. (Oh dear... That is the last frontier and I might be out of my mind to let you do it... NOBODY likes people to see inside of their layers. It is like having visitors peek inside of your dresser drawers. Very private stuff.)
  • See a new way for coloring doodles. (I'm betting that it will surprise you what tool I've used to do that with, too...)
  • Get “IN” on creating your own brush sets. (You do NOT have to have those impossibly long brush sets frustrating you anymore. In fact, when you learn this trick, you will wonder why you haven't been using it all along.)
  • Find out why Custom Shapes are so importantto you. (Bet you didn't know...)
  • Learn how to cut out a title from a background or a photo.
  • And even more...

Note: These are NOT beginning tutorials. If you get this training and you have never used Photoshop before or if you aren't pretty sure of yourself in the software, you are going to be lost. You simply have to understand layers, where things are located, and all of the basic, important skills that Ro teaches in her Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed series before you try to use it.

eBooks!

Scrap Girls offers a large catalog of eBooks covering topics that will expand your digital scrapbooking abilities to new heights. Here are just a few samples:

Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements
Mastering Brushes for Photoshop Elements
(Photoshop version also available!)

Digital Photography Simplified
Digital Photography Simplified

Ten Basic Design Principles eBook
Ten Basic Design Principles

Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revitalize Your  Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2 eBook
Scrapbooking 911 - 20 Sketches to Revialize Your Digital Scrapbooking - Book 2

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Available Online Classes

New Classes Available!

Online Class - A Style All Your Own
A Style All Your Own

August 12 and 19 - 7:00PM ET

This in-depth class on personal style is the perfect opportunity to learn about the four most common design styles seen in today’s digital scrapbooking, and how they relate to your own likes and dislikes.

Important: This is an Intermediate Level class open to all software program users. Software applications are not needed for this class.


Scrap Girls Monthly Club

The July Scrap Girls digital scrapbooking club, designed for you by Amanda McGee.

Join the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking looks while saving! (A $27.94 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:

  • 1 Collection Biggie
  • 1 Paper Super Mini
  • 1 8.5x11 Sheet of Word Art
  • 1 Embellishment Set
  • 1 Assemble Your Own Zoom Page Set
  • 1 Designer's Choice Item

Digital scrapbooking layout by Amanda McGee using July's Scrap Girls Club
Layout by Amanda McGee using July's Scrap Girls Club
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Created for you by Amanda McGee

Alert! Alert! TODAY is the last day you can sign up for the Scrap Girls club and still get this great group of products at this amazing price. Don't delay... sign up now!

Remember, these items are available separately in the Boutique at regular prices for those who would rather not join a club.

(Note: The Scrap Girls Club contents are always available for sale elsewhere in the Boutique at their regular prices once the associated club month is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never seen before product releases for each month!)


ScrapSimple Monthly Club

The July ScrapSimple digital scrapbooking club selection by Brandy Hackman and Keri Schueller

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).

With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:

  • 1 ScrapSimple Paper Template Set
  • 1 ScrapSimple Embellishment Template Set
  • 1 Brush Set
  • 1 ScrapSimple Layer Your Own Brush Set
  • 1 Designer's Choice Item

A Commercial Licensed version of the ScrapSimple club is also available here.

Computer scrapbook layout by Brandy Hackman using July's ScrapSimple Club
Layout by Brandy Hackman using July's ScrapSimple Club
larger view

Created for you by Brandy Hackman and Keri Schueller

If you prefer not to join a club, the ScrapSimple club contents are available at regular prices in the Boutique. You can easily find them right now by checking the What's New? section of the Boutique.

(Note: The ScrapSimple Club contents are always available for sale in the Boutique at regular prices once the associated club month is released. But all club contents are totally brand new, never-seen-before product releases for each month!


Opportunities for You!

Customer Muses: Would you like to share your own Life Muse with our readers? To have your own essay considered for publication as a muse in the column for our special Saturday newsletter, send your essay to [email protected]. If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique.

Way Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to have all of you meet some of the amazing people that have become Scrap Girls! We'd love to introduce you to our readers, too! If you would like to be spotlighted and win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique, send the following items to [email protected]:

- 500-900 word essay about your experience with digital scrapbooking, Scrap Girls, and specific examples of how we have helped you.
- A 600-pixel wide, 72 dpi copy of a layout you've created that uses Scrap Girls products, plus a complete list of those products.
- A 100-pixels wide, 72 dpi picture of yourself. (How fun to see who you are!)
- Permission to use your statement.

Customer Freebies: We get a lot of requests from you asking if you could share a freebie with your Scrap Girls friends, and we have come up with a way to do it. On Saturdays we will be sharing freebies created by you, if they are available. If you are interested in participating, download this PDF with the specifications and you'll be on your way. Please note that if you choose to use any Scrap Girls tools or templates in your submission, commercial licenses for those products are required. (Even our own designers must purchase commercial licenses for any items they wish to use in a non-personal manner!) If your freebie is chosen, you will receive a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!

Suggest 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 (such as a brush set, paper set, embellishment set, etc.). The prize will be a surprise, but you'll be sure to like it because you will get to pick out the one you like best from your category! 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!

divScrap Girls is giving away birthday gifts to our message board members! Of course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure because most people like money... Oops! Did I say that? No. You did NOT hear me say that. Anyway, make sure your message board email address is current and that you have the correct date entered into your profile to participate.


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