Tutorial: Unique Valentine Gifts

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Tutorial created using Photoshop CS3 using Mac OSX I’m trying to get a jump start on Valentine’s gifts this year so it doesn’t catch me by surprise later on. I love these ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Valentine Day Pop Top templates and think they will make the perfect gift for teachers and friends. Using the digital [...]

Tutorial: How to Make a Printable Photo Card for Valentine’s Day

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Tutorial created using Photoshop CS5 with Windows 7 In this tutorial, you will be learning a quick and easy way to create a digital scrapbooking Printable Photo Card for Valentine’s Day. The Scrap Girls’ Boutique contains a category of products named Digital and Printable Cards and Crafts. It is packed full of digital templates and ready-to-assemble products [...]

Tutorial: How to Make Printable Treat Bag Toppers

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Supplies Needed: Digital papers and embellishments Lightweight cardstock or medium-weight printer paper 3×4-inch plastic zip-top bags (for SMALL templates) – These are available at craft stores and WalMart in the craft section. Sandwich-size, plastic zip-top bags (for LARGE templates) Stapler or double-sided tape (or adhesive of your choice) Goodies to fill your bags! These fun and [...]

January 2012 Newsletter Archive

Sometimes the ScrapGirls digital scrapbooking newsletter is just so good that you want to be able to reference it again and again! With beautiful digital layouts, digital scrapbooking tutorials, Muses by Ro, and articles from the girls at ScrapGirls, you’ll love having everything here at your fingertips! Here is the archive for all of the newsletters in [...]

Girl-Up Your Cap-Keeper

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I love attending our town’s camera club meetings, but my camera was starting to blend into the crowd. How so, you ask? As we attend lectures or review images for competition, we all sit with our cameras grasped in our sweaty little hands. As I scanned the room checking out everyone’s cool cameras, I realized that there [...]

How to Make Photo Bookmarks

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Tutorial created using Abobe Photoshop CS4 with Mac OSX 10. In this tutorial, I am going to walk you through how to make a printable photo bookmark. In this case, I turned it into a printable birth announcement bookmark, but you could use any occasion or photos! First, make a rectangle on its own layer [...]

Note from Ro: Legacy Planning, Part 3

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“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” – Alan Lakein  “If you don’t have a plan for yourself, you’ll be part of someone else’s.” – Proverb Yesterday, we talked about how to take your Legacy Plan and Life Plan and drill it down into a [...]

Note from Ro: Legacy Planning, Part 2

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Sometimes, it is referred to as Divine Discontent – the desire to seek out something new… a change. When it happens to me, I sometimes call it Please-Get-Me-Out-of-This-Situation-Before-I-Do-Something-Stupid. In 2002, I was considering doing something stupid. I didn’t know exactly what that stupid thing might be, but I knew that I needed to do something [...]

Note from Ro: Legacy Planning, Part 1

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Imagine, if you will, that you have just walked into a room full of people who look sort of familiar to you. They are standing around in little groups and quietly speaking to each other. You quickly realize that the topic of the day seems important to them because they are intently listening to each [...]

Note from Ro: In Five Years, Redux

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In five years, I will be five years older… In 2006, I first shared one of my favorite thoughts with you. I can’t recall where I got it. It may be something I dreamed up as I dealt with so many of our challenges because the Paxman family has had plenty of them over the [...]

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