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Commercial license versions of Morning Mist Collection Biggie and Altered Art Essentials 2 Paper are also available. |
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Layout by Elisha Barnett
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Patriette Flair Embellishment Super Mini
Six flair buttons featuring images and word art to coordinate with the Patriette collection of products.
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Layout by Jan Ransley
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Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages: 12x12 Parterre
Assemble Your Own Zoom Pages: 12x12 Parterre coordinates beautifully with the entire Parterre collection, includes two beautiful background papers and two sheets of embellishments and word art.
Layout by Joyce Schardt
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Doily Days
Create unique papers and more with these paper doily digital scrapbooking paper templates. A free ScrapSimple Tools - Style: Paper Doily is included to give your templates a realistic paper doily look!
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Doily Days, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Burned Corrugated Cardboard 6301 and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Curled Frames are also available. |
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Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paint Lid 6501
Six digital scrapbooking styles with farm house fresh color. These styles were made to go with 3 – 5 inch circle shapes to give you a wet paint lid embellishment that has a metal ridged rim.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Paint Lid 6501, Style Board Collection Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 are also available. |
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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 Forum? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the Forum, 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 Scrap Girls team layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section and the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team section of the Layout Gallery.
The REAL Me
Monday, July 2, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique
- Product Design Team Call
- A Designer's Life: Shalae Tippetts
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebie
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact Scrap Girls
Your email address is safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with anyone! If you ever need any assistance, please email hello@scrapgirls.com or call
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While one girl's picture appears here on the Newsletter, Scrap Girls is really a community of talented designers, techy gals, thoughtful contributors and fantastic customers. We are ALL so happy to have you as part of the Scrap Girls community and we are very grateful for your support. Debbie OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUSuggest 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 receive because birthday presents should alway be a surprise! Make sure your Forum email address is current and that you have the correct birthdate entered into your profile to participate. |
Scrap Girls sends a birthday gift to each of our Forum members!|
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Ever wish that you could be a Product Designer for Scrap Girls?
Well, now's your chance to apply!
If you are interested, please forward the following items to hello@scrapgirls.com.
The subject line must read: Product Designer Application.
- 3 color palettes that you might use as a basis for designing collections.
- A sample collection mini, consisting of 6 background papers, 1 "sheet" of embellishments, and 1 "sheet" of word art.
A "sheet" consists of a grouping of items that will fit on an 8.5x11 document. Take care to make sure that the collection mini's color set is well balanced and that it has an idea that ties it together. It should contain enough embellishments and word art to be useful to someone who wishes to make several layouts from it. Also, take care that the embellishments are not a grouping of a small number of items that have just been re-colored. This is your opportunity to show your versatility and skill level.
- At least one sample layout using the collection mini.
- A sample brush set with 3 brushes.
- A sample paper template set (like our ScrapSimple Paper Templates) with 2 papers.
- A sample embellishment template set (like our ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates) with 3 embellishments.
Examples of all of these products can be found in our Boutique.
Also, please answer the following questions in the body of your application email:
- Approximately how much would you like to earn each month?
- Approximately how many hours do you have to dedicate to design work each week?
- What are your goals as it pertains to design work?
- Why are you interested in working with Scrap Girls?
- What software do you use?
- Include any other information that you think would be helpful as we make our decision.
Other instructions: Save your files as 600px wide, 72 dpi. Place them in one zipped folder and forward with your application email.
DEADLINE: Friday, July 13, 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Notifications of results will be sent to all applicants by Friday, July 20.
What is Scrap Girls looking for in a new designer?
- Talent
- Desire to work with Scrap Girls and be a committed, active member of our team
- Work ethic
- Software and designing skills
If a talented person comes along whose skills are not quite what they might be, but we feel they would be a super-committed, dynamic member of our team if given a little help, we may choose to put them through an apprentice program.
We look forward to seeing your application!
The REAL Me
Recently, I have been reading a book that has started me to thinking about the lies that I believe that take away joy from my daily living. It's made me start to see how as women we just aren't REAL. We don't show our real selves; we are always trying to show our perfect selves. We try to paint our picture as perfectly as we can; we try to show all the good things we do - our strengths and never our weaknesses - yet we are hurting ourselves and others in the process.
While this book was written to homeschooling moms, I have loved the book so much that I think every woman should read it! In Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe (Familyman Publishing, Milford, Indiana), author Todd Wilson writes about things that homeschooling moms do, but I have come to believe that all women share these same struggles.
It has made me want to become more real, to stop trying to hide my imperfections, my weaknesses, and start showing who I really am, and hopefully give others the permission to do the same - to see each other as we really are.
So in this article, I thought I would start by sharing more of the REAL me, that me who is not so pretty all the time, not so put together, not so creative, and not so "super mom."
Here are 10 of my REAL happenings lately. Hopefully this might help you feel better about the REAL you.
I am writing this Designer's Life article two weeks after its due date because I completely forgot about it and have been procrastinating it ever since.
We just got back from a four-day trip to Idaho. We've been home four days, and my car is still unpacked with garbage all over the floor. Not just garbage either. Leftover dinners of corndogs, fries, water containers, food wrappers, and other unknown food items I haven't been able to climb in the back to see yet.
I have had to wash the same load of laundry three times now.
My office is officially the junk room. It's the room I just send stuff to. The kids go in and pull things off, and the room gets further destroyed and is a mess. It rarely gets cleaned, and when it does, it doesn't seem to stay that way for long. The sad part is that I really have a hard time being creative and wanting to design in such a room.
My husband and I love to watch Biggest Loser on TV. The sad part: We love to sit and watch it with a big bowl of ice cream or a bowl of guacamole and chips.
I rarely fix my girls' hair, especially the littlest one. She hates to have it combed and screams hysterically, and it's not worth the fight to me. She is slowly getting better... someday I might get to practice all those hairdos that I learned as a teenager when I was dreaming of using those ideas on my own children.
I need to lose 80 pounds.
I get mad at my kids... which usually ends up in a humbling and apologizing session on my part.
I have a hard time finishing projects and often have numerous left unfinished.
I'm not perfect. But despite my weaknesses, I really try to be happy with where I personally am in life and give myself room to grow, make mistakes, and hopefully get better.
- Shalae
Favorite Product I've Designed:
This was a really fun collection for me to create last summer. My kids love digging in the dirt, sand, swimming at the lake, and just getting plain dirty. In fact, that is one of my REAL mom moments - letting my kids get dirty and even eat dirt. This kit has been great for those many summer moments I have with my children.
Layout by Shalae Tippetts
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Commercial license versions of Brush Set: Labeled Dates Super Biggie are also available. |
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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:
July's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Durin Eberhart |
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 Layout by Durin Eberhart using July's Scrap Girls Club |
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June's ScrapSimple Club has been created for you by |
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). A commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple Club is also available here. With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:
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 Layout by Amy Flanagan using June's ScrapSimple Club |
Card by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
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Designer Freebie by
Amanda Fraijo-Tobin coordinates
with her For Him Collection Mini
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Today's freebie designed by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
* 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.
Creative Cards Chat
Tuesday, July 3rd - 8:00PM EDT
Do you use your digital supplies to make cards? Do you want to? Instead of going to the store every time you need a card, you can save money and have fun making cards with your digi stash! Make a note of any cards you might need for the upcoming month and Join April (April Showers) for the once-a-month Card Chat on the first Tuesday of each month at 8pm ET. Can't wait to see you there!
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, July 4th - 12 Noon EDT
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 12 Noon EDT for the 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 July 4th, we'll do a Stars and Stripes Challenge. Use some stripes and at least one star on your page.
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!
July's Forum Game: Spotlight on the Boutique
Each day of June (with the exception of Sundays), a member of the Welcoming Committee will post an image spotlighting a small circle of the layout you are to search for in the Scrap Girls Boutique. If the layout is not identified by the following morning, a second spotlight circle will be added to the layout; this will be repeated until the product is identified.
All you have to do to participate is search the boutique for the layout and post a link to the product page in the official game thread. Only one guess per member per day is allowed. You can find more specific details in the forum game thread.
Three $10 gift certificates to the Scrap Girls Boutique will be awarded. The winners will be randomly chosen from all the members that correctly identify a product throughout the month.
For complete details, visit the Monthly Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
July Monthly Layout Contest: Hot! Hot! Hot! In the northern hemisphere, July is generally a month of very warm temperatures. For July's layout contest, we want you to scrap about what you do to stay cool – whether it'is in July or December. Post your layouts in the July Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight EDT on July 31st and you could one of the two people who will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Please be sure to list your layout's product credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties.
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 Forum calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in the Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)