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Printable Art by Sarah Batdorf
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Layout by Andrea Trump
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Printable Art by Lori Cook
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Printable Art by Syndee Nuckles
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Layout by Jo Corne
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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 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.
Did You Know You Could Do This?
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- Life Muse by Ro
- Scrap Girls Club
- Tips from the Pros: Coloring Grayscale Journaling Papers
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
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The entire Scrap Girls team wants to say how grateful we are that you have chosen to participate with us. You'll never know just how much your support means to us and our families. Ro 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 hello@scrapgirls.com or call IMPORTANT TO KNOWDon't forget to check out the Retirement Sale section of the Boutique. Items in this section are always on sale for 30% off. The items you will find during any particular month will be discontinued permanently on the 5th of the following month. So if you see something you like, grab it while you can! OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUCustomer 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 hello@scrapgirls.com. 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! If you would like to be spotlighted and win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique, send the following items to hello@scrapgirls.com:
Project SG Challenge: Stay motivated to scrap your current photos! Post your 2011 layouts in the Project SG Challenge Gallery to earn one point per layout each month. You can earn up to four points per month this way! Earn a bonus point each month by attending the monthly Project SG Chat! Each point gives you an entry into a quarterly drawing for a special prize! And at the end of the year, each month that you participated in will earn you an entry into the Grand Prize drawing for a 12 X 12, 52 page Keepsakes photobook from Color, Inc! Our fourth quarterly drawing winner will be announced in the Saturday, January 7th Newsletter. Suggest a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for a Gallery layout challenge? Submit it to challenges@scrapgirls.com. 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 get because birthday presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure because most people like money.... Anyway, make sure your Message Board email address is current and that you have the correct date entered into your profile to participate. *ADVERTISEMENTS*
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Did You Know You Could Do This?
If you've been around for awhile, you know that I have a little homemaking blog named How Mom Did It. The purpose of this blog is to share what my mother and grandmother taught me about homemaking, cooking, sewing, gardening, being thrifty and such. I took a little hiatus from this blog during 2011, but have recently started working on it again because it's fun to have a change of topic sometimes.
In October, I met this cool couple named Dick and Mary Melvin. I quickly realized that Dick and Mary are living a very interesting lifestyle - much like the lifestyle that my grandmother lived - and so I've given them a regular, weekly column in the How Mom Did It blog. They have sent me a list of article ideas that knocked my socks off, and I can't wait for people to read these articles (me, too!).
This is what Dick and Mary said about themselves:
We are living a tightwad existence on our 160-acre place in northeastern Missouri. Our meat includes chickens that we raise. We plan on including pond-raised catfish in our diet in the near future. We plant a large garden each year. Plus, we battle squirrels and birds for wild nuts and berries. The wildlife often beats us to this free fruit, but they need to live, too. We do unique things like make our own laundry soap on the cheap, create dog toys out of worn out denim from jeans, generate our own garden fertilizer with lawn clippings and water our trees and the herb garden with waste water from the washing machine. We also have raised two children, with whom Mary stayed at home. One is in the U.S. Navy, and the other is an undergraduate college student. We understand running a home on a tight budget while trying to live the good life.
Today, I thought that I'd point you over to the amazing article they wrote about how to make your own laundry soap to save money. Did you know you could do this? It was news to me!
Have you seen the price of name-brand laundry soap lately? You can easily spend over $20 on a large box of powdered detergent. It's enough to make you scream. That might make you popular in a Halloween haunted house, but it doesn't solve your laundry issues. Have you ever asked yourself, "How can I make soap?"
Here's a low-cost alternative on homemade laundry soap, how to make it using old-fashioned ingredients, a half-hour of your time, a little elbow grease, and a lot less money. Read more here.
Follow Ro's homemaking blog – How Mom Did It
Food recipes, homemaking tips, gardening, quilting, and other neat stuff her mom and grandma taught her
Find out how you can receive this free report. It contains all sorts of information I learned from my mom and grandma that I wanted to share. It was fun to write, and it brings back lots of great memories!
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.
Would you like to earn a $20 Gift Certificate? Send your own muse to hello@scrapgirls.com. If it is selected for publication in the Scrap Girls newsletter, you'll get to have fun shopping!
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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:
November's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Syndee Nuckles
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 Layout by Syndee Nuckles using November's Scrap Girls Club larger view |
 Layout by Cheré Kaye Edwards using November's Scrap Girls Club larger view |
 Layout by Syndee Nuckles using November's Scrap Girls Club larger view |
Coloring Grayscale Journaling Papers
Note: Tutorial created using Photoshop Elements 6 and Windows 7
Journaling in your digital scrapbook layouts is easy because you can type in exactly what you want and then edit it later. Having a large selection of journaling papers at your fingertips can give you the perfect opportunity to preserve a few words, or they can act as a design element all by themselves. This tutorial will show you a quick trick to recolor ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Journal Paper Super Biggie and a new idea for how to use them on a layout.
First, select a journaling paper file and open it in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Make sure the layer you wish to color is selected.
In Photoshop Elements, you can get a perfect aged-paper shade by going to Enhance> Adjust Color> Color Variations.
When you receive your ScrapSimple items, they will be in grayscale and have no color to them, while natural paper or aged paper has a brown, warm look. To get the color to look right, we need to add a bit of red and a bit of yellow. You can do this with the options for color variations. It is as easy as clicking two boxes.
Click once on the "Increase Red" button and once on the "Decrease Blue" box. I know you are thinking, What? She just said we need to add red and yellow! So why are we messing with the blue box? It helps when you are re-coloring items in PSE to know how Photoshop sees colors. It is easier to see this in Photoshop, so I will share a little window with you to demonstrate.
(In Photoshop, you reach this menu by going to Image> Adjustments> Color Balance.)
Here you can see that yellow is the opposite of blue, cyan is the opposite of red, and magenta is the opposite of green. So in PSE, you have the quick-click buttons to do this, so by decreasing the blue, you are increasing the yellow.
This will work for aged frames or any paper that needs a warm, aged look.
Now that you know how to recolor ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Lifted Journal Paper Super Biggie at the speed of light, don't think that journaling papers are just for journaling! Now that you can quickly recolor your ScrapSimple Templates, you can fill up a whole page with journaling embellishments for a cool layered look.
Layout by Melissa Renfro
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Article written by Melissa Renfro
Learn to make digital scrapbooking layouts and more! – Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed Ready to learn advanced techniques? – MORE Scrapbook Software Secrets Revealed |
Layout by Julie White
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Designer Freebie by Julie White coordinates with her Army Collection
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Today's freebie designed by Julie White
* 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.
East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, November 9th - 10:00AM MST
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 10am MT for the East Coast 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 November 9th, we'll do a font challenge! Create a layout on any theme, any topic, and any colors - using multiple fonts - at least 3 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!
NSBR Chat - Early Edition
Thursday, November 10th - 2:00PM MST
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 Pat (PBarnes) at 2pm MT in the chat room Lobby! Hope to see you there!
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique Chat
Friday, November 11th - 9:00AM MST
Join April (April Showers) and Theresa (teecee) at 9am MT on Friday mornings to chat about all the wonderful new products in the Scrap Girls Boutique! What are your favorite new items? Is your shopping basket full? What did you kaboodle? Have you already done layouts or other projects with your new goodies? Come tell the designers how much you love their work! You never know who will show up. There's a thread every Thursday, and now there's a chat too!
Recipe Swap Chat
Saturday, November 12th - 7:00PM MST
Join April (April Showers) and Lei (Bride) at 7pm MT in the chat room for our Monthly Recipe Swap Chat. Please check the message board the Thursday before the chat for this month's theme and the swap details!
Journaling Chat
Monday, November 14th - 6:00PM MST
Join Carla (CRS) and Lei (Bride) for a Journaling Chat at 6pm MT on the second Monday of each month. Struggle to find the right words for your layouts? Are your layouts more decorative than descriptive of the moments you're trying to capture? Then you won't want to miss this chat - we'll have a special challenge to encourage you to journal on your pages more! See you there!
Hybrid Card Swap Chat
Monday, November 14th - 7:00PM MST
Join Carla (CRS) and Shannon (tinkerbell11) in the chat room for the Hybrid Card Swap Chat. Come talk about the cards you received and learn more about using your digital supplies to create your own beautiful Hybrid Cards!
November Message Board Game: Thankfulness Game!
It's time to give thanks for all the large and small blessings in our life! Each day during November, with the exception of Sundays, a member of the Welcoming Committee will post the name of an item for which we are thankful in the official game thread. To participate in the game, you will search the Scrap Girls Boutique and Gallery for layouts including that item, and then post a link to either the product or gallery page in the game thread.
Each member who links to a Boutique product layout will be entered into a drawing for one of three $3 Gift Certificates. Each member who links to a gallery layout (and leaves love on the layout) will be entered in a drawing for one of five $5 Gift Certificates!
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
November Monthly Layout Contest: This November, let's be a tourist in your own town! Show us around and tell us what makes the area you live in so special! Why do you live there? You can scrap about your town, city, county, or state. Share those layouts in the November Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MST on November 30th. Be sure to list your credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties. Two layouts will be selected to win a $10 Gift Card to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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 message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Mountain Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-Utah-Salt Lake City' as the location for the Mountain time zone.)
Haven't received your prize as a contest winner? Please send an email to prizes@scrapgirls.com and we'll get it out to you right away!