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In this issue
Letter from Team Digital - Sharon Topliss
What is a photowalk? It is nothing complicated – simply the act of going for a walk with your camera and taking photos of the things you see that interest you. It is often done in a group, although you can just as easily do a photowalk by yourself. Photowalking has become very popular in photography circles and has also become a regular feature at DSP organised crops. Getting together with friends, comparing shots, learning new techniques and generally having fun are what it is all about. A fancy camera is NOT required.
I recently attended the Auckland photowalk held the day after the Auckland crop. We spent a relaxed morning shooting flowers, trees and each other. You can see some of our shots on the DSP Flickr group. Spending a little extra time with my DSP friends was a real bonus.
Photowalking can also be good excuse to play tourist in your own town. We take many photos when we go on holiday but do we ever really explore our local environment? Photowalking can be a great excuse to do just that. You may find local camera enthusiasts to join up with (Flickr can be a good way to find like minded people) or just go it alone. If you think that photowalking might be something that interests you, why not join in Scott Kelby's world wide photo walk on 18 July . Several DSP people did this last year (Meryl even led a walk in South Africa!) and it would be great if even more could join in this year. Lauren and I have already signed up in Auckland. Hope you can join us (where ever you live).
Sharon Topliss
DSP Photography Moderator
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New to DSP?
New Member Information:
Are you new to digital scrapbooking or new to DSP? Join Digital Elite Team (DET) members Sands and Mars for a New Member Chat. The chat is every Tuesday at 10 pm EST - You'll find all the information here.
Here is a wonderful opportunity to ask questions about DSP and digital scrapbooking. Whether it’s a question about navigating the site or how to get started, someone will be on hand to give you the answers.
Posting Your First Layout:
Are you thinking about posting your first layout? There's a special first layout challenge each months for you. Post your first layout to DSP this month and you may be a random winner for a free page kit!! You'll find all the information here
Welcome to DSP! We know you will love it!
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NKOTB (New Kids On The Block):
Congratulations to everyone for all your hard work learning and creating fantastic layouts.
Winners were chosen from the NKOTB Judging Gallery.
NKOTB 15 TOP TEN Winners!
click on winner's name to see their layout
First - Third Place
1st: IglooWigwam
2nd: windstorm
3rd: Rebecca_S
4th-10th in Alphabetical order:
Air4Brains
BernieTuffs
claire.viney@bt
Deborah Wagner
Elizabeth_R
Jack
Jennifer Kalafu
This was an amazing contest with some really fabulous layouts. Thanks to all the members who participated with the CC and support and thanks to all the “Not so New Kids Anymore” who participated. Congrats to all the winners (and those who participated and learned!).
And especially thanks to Mars for a very well-run competition! Kudos!
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Scrappy Awards:
Yes, it is time for the 2009 Scrappy Awards. DSP's most glamorous award ceremony is just around the corner!
We are seeking the stand out layouts, the ones that make you go WOW! Like the Oscars, there are nomination categories.
The categories are broken down into 18 award sections. There will be one winner for each category. If you have what it takes just upload your layout into the appropriate category. If you see a layout and think WOW, that person deserves a scrappy, drop them a note.
You will have just a few weeks to move your layouts(or make new ones) to the gallery. Deadline is June 10th midnight- ET. Remember, only one layout per member in each category.
ALL Layouts must contain ONLY DSP product. ALL layouts must have been created in the last 12 months.
For the purposes of this contest DSP product may be defined as product created by any current DSP designer either purchased from the store or received as a bonus or prize or by subscription in the case of Club Digital.
Are you ready for the categories?
Best Photo (no layouts please)
Best Photography on a layout
Best Journaling Layout (please copy the journaling into the comment section)
Best Comedy Layout
Best Graphic style Layout
Best Paper style Layout
Best 1-2 photo layout
Best Multiple photo layout (4 or more photos)
Best Double page spread
Best Use of Blending Layout
Best Extraction Layout
Best Fantasy Layout (NEW CATEGORY!)
Best Heritage Layout
Best Use of DSP Background paper in a layout
Best use of a DSP Quick Click
Best use of a SINGLE DSP kit
Best Use of DSP elements
Best use of DSP Word Art
Best Overall Layout
Don’t wait - rush to the Scrappies and don’t forget to get your avatar all dressed up for the occasion!
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Club Digital
Are you a member of the club?
June 2009 Club Digital
There is a great variety of fun new products all ready to get your summer scrapping started in this months Club Digital issue. You will be delighted with the 2 funky 2 page kits, an overlay that will work perfectly for those fantasy layouts, and a set of stamps to create your own clock face in a layout . There is also a set of really useful and versatile Summer word art, a funky alphabet and As usual there is a great quick click to help you with your layout designs and don’t forget the exclusive font
Club Digital now comes in a choice of resolutions - Choose 200ppi or the new 300ppi version when you download.
This months content includes:
* Oh So Funny Page Kit
* Summer Day Page Kit
* Under the Oak Tree Overlay
* Doodle Dandy Daisy Alpha
* Good Timing Stamps
* Summer Dreams Word Art
* DSP Font - DSP Robyn
* Dot and Strip Quick Click
Club Digital is the hottest club in town! Get your monthly fix of the best digital scrapbook products for an incredible price! Something to suit every style and level of digital scrapper!
Club Digital includes two page kits, one plopper or overlay, a quick click template, an alphabet, some wordart, a font, and png stamps! And there's more! We now include an exclusive store saving coupon just for Club Digital customers. Not only are you saving by being a member, but you receive a coupon that increases your value savings! On top of that, you can can enter an Club Digital exclusive challenge just for members (with great prizes)!
Over $27 in value for the incredible price of only $5.99/month or even less with a longer subscription! Club Digital is just $17.97 for three months ($5.99/month), $33.00 for six months ($5.50/month), or $59.88 for a full year ($4.99/month)!
Club Digital now comes in 2 resolutions. Choose either 200ppi or 300ppi from the drop down box to select your choice of resolution.
When you purchase, you are automatically entered in to the following drawings:
Buy a 3 month subscription and go into the draw to be upgraded to a 6 month subscription
Buy a 6 month subscription and you might win an upgrade to a 12 month subscription
Buy a 12 month subscription and your name will go into the draw for a $30 coupon for the DSP store.
Welcome to the club!
Here is a selection of layouts created by the DSP designers using this months Club Digital Selection.
Click here to subscribe to Club digital today
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Featured Designer - Lauren Bavin
While DSP is foremost a site for digital scrap booking and all that encompasses; galleries, education and classes, a great store and awesome freebies, to me the thing that sets us apart from the rest of the many digital scrap booking web sites on the internet is our members, and the incredible community that has developed here.
I have recently returned from the first Australian laptop crop at Surfers Paradise, which was followed by the 3rd annual Auckland, NZ crop .
These crops were extra special because Margie managed to fly all the way down from Ohio to attend them, but every laptop crop is extra special to me, because being able to witness women who are such close friends meeting for the first time is an incredible experience and one I’m always most honoured to be a part of.
Threads such as the Grannies thread in which strangers have often become closer than their physical neighbours, who share laughs, and tears, share in births and in deaths, in happy times and grieving times have made DSP more than just a scrapbooking site - its a site of support and sharing from members who give way more of themselves than just a layout.
The opportunity to meet fellow members and such good friends is so rewarding and the camaraderie at a laptop crop and the accompanying events will be surely the most fun you have had in a long time.
I’ve been lucky enough to attend 12 DSP crops now and each has been as special as the last but perhaps one of the most exciting and certainly the largest was the crop at at Adobe Headquarters in San Jose California in 2008 , and I’m very happy to announce that DSP will be holding our second crop at Adobe on August 8th 2009 !!!!!!!!.
Details of this crop will be posted here soon.
If you are in a position to attend this crop I would urge you to pull all strings to do so, you surely won’t be disappointed!!
I’ve already booked my ticket – just try and hold me back!!!!!!
I hope to see you there!!!!!!!!!
Lauren’s Links
Click here for Lauren's Team Digital Bio
Click Here for Lauren's Personal Gallery
Click Here for the Gimme More Crops with Lauren Forum
Click here for the Gimme More Crops with Lauren Gallery
Click here for All Lauren's kits.
Earn prizes and have fun with the Featured Designer Challenge!
(Be sure to check the bottom of the newsletter for a special freebie from Lauren to our newsletter readers!)
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Upcoming 2009 DSP Crops and Events
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Member Spotlight: Ineke
 DSP Member Spotlight for June is Ineke.
Striking use of light and graphic effects make this months Spotlight’s layouts shine in the DSP galleries.
Ineke attributes her distinctive style to the fact that she “never paper scrapped” and says she is “not a conventional scrapper” but “loves anything that is out of the ordinary, and to experiment with different filters and settings.”
She draws inspiration from her surroundings: “whether it be a beautiful landscape, an old ramshackle building or the bright vibrant colours of a flower in bloom. My family is special to me and scrapping as many happy memories as I can is of great importance.”
Dedicated to her family, and especially her youngest son Ryan (who is affected by Muscular Dystrophy and confined to a wheelchair), Ineke says she really enjoys the times she can spend behind the computer indulging herself in her favourite obsession - scrapping!
Congratulations Ineke. Thank you for being our member spotlight. Be inspired by Ineke’s Gallery and read more about her HERE then share the inspiration and take part in the Scraplift the Spotlight challenge for June.
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It's Shop Time!
My Memories Suite:
My Memories Suite is a premium digital scrapbook application that allows users to make beautiful scrapbooks that can be enhanced by music, narration, video, and the Internet. Create digital albums in minutes using one of many designer templates, or design your own pages using page kits (click here for a tutorial). Share your albums as beautiful hardbound books, print individual pages, watch them on a DVD, or view them on the computer as an interactive CD. You can even share them on an iPod or turn your pages into printed greeting cards that can be mailed directly to family and friends. The robust features of the software provide the graphic tools to make beautiful digital photobooks, while at the same time keeping all your memories—your pictures, videos, and music—preserved in one place.
It is the ideal tool for the beginning scrapbooker who wants to get started and create some awesome albums AND the sophisticated scrapper who wants to create something a little different and very special.
Shop Time Inspiration
It’s time to SHOP… let’s get those baskets at the ready.
Summer, June weddings and Father’s Day! What a time for digital scrappers. There is no end of wonderful layout inspiration during the summer months. Hunt down the word wedding and see what a delightful variety of products can be found, or summer or dad.
Did you know you can do a search for any colour you want, it's so easy to find just the right products when you do a colour search
Have you checked out the theme gallery lately, you’ll find lots more kits plus some awesome word art, ploppers, alphas and wow – loads more ideas. Here’s the theme for weddings, and one for Father’s Day.
Gift Certificates Send anyone the perfect gift!! Gift Certificates are a wonderful way to say - Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, I Love You, or even Just Because!
Did You Know...
...you can get to the store by typing shop.dsp.me in your browser URL bar? Get to the store even faster!
Do you love the product you just purchased and want to tell others? Please consider doing a review ... pass the good word along! We love to hear from you.
Happy shopping
Featured Product - Scraps of Life - I Thee Wed CD
This CD contains everything you could possibly need for the ultimate wedding layout. You can showcase wedding photos of any variety from a formal church wedding to a beach or garden wedding. Originally released in June 2006, the timeless elegance of this product will never change.
Scraps of Life - I Thee Wed CD - Shippable - Scraps of Life - I Thee Wed CD - Downloadable
June Scrappin' Bug?!
Summer's on! Do you have the Bug to get Scrappin'?
Enjoy 20% off your next order when you use coupon code P0020DLMIJuBg on your next order.
Coupon valid on select downloadables and CDs only.
Coupon expires 06-15-09
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Inspiration for New and Advanced Digital Scrappers!
Digi-Scrapper Inspiration by Mandy
The Nuts And Bolts Of Steampunk.
 Digital scrapbooking opens a whole world of creativity for fantasy layouts, with the ability to extract people and things from an original photograph and move them into another reality. Aside from ethereal fantasy layouts, there is another bold artistic style that falls within the fantasy genre – it is called Steampunk.
Steam-what? I hear some of you ask. Someone once described it saying: “Think Jules Verne, HG Wells, Mary Shelly and the mad Victorian scientist”. Think of an era of wonder, as the possibilities of steam and mechanics were being explored - capturing the imagination of the Victorian inventors and populace. An era of craftsman, hand crafted products, and opulent design and embellishment. (Think of the movies: “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman” and “Brazil”).
However, Steampunk is not your great-granny’s Victoriana! What it boils down to is the marriage of fantasy and technology; a celebration of an era of luxurious, over the top, fantastic, marvelous metal and mechanical contraptions. (Hollywood’ s Steampunk inspired “Wild Wild West”, and “Edward Scissorhands” spring to mind.)
What it means for digital scrapbooking is a closer look at all those gorgeous metal embellishments from your favorite kits. Look for hinges, watch parts, watch faces, metal keys, hearts, locks, brads, and chains. Look for different shades and textures in brass, copper, rust, iron, gold, silver and pearl. Add some wood, leather, and glass and team them up with your favorite antiqued and vintage look papers as these will work well for a Steampunk layout.
 Brighten “dark” layouts with jewels and jewel tones, add touches of crystals, ornate elements and rich velvet-look papers.
Having said that vintage, antique and metal tones form the basis of a Steampunk style, I did break away from this in my example layout – Steampunk Dream. I had planned on a darker, more sepia toned layout, but my subject’s youth and personality lent itself to a brighter layout, but, never-the-less, it is in its own right a Steampunk-styled layout.
Steampunk is a celebration of the past, teamed with the future, and a healthy dose of fantasy that should appeal to digital scrapbookers looking to try something a little different in a layout.
Digi-Scrapper Inspiration by Meg
Scrapping the Sad Moments
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”
- Washington Irving
The scrapbook albums we create for our families are our visual diaries, the transcripts our descendants will refer to as they learn the family stories. Looking through my albums, I would say I've got a pretty incredible, happy, no-cares-in-the-world life! The problem being, I don't know too many people who go through life without any difficult moments, and I know my journey isn't always easy. So how to deal with reality? The reality is that life isn't always happy, but those harder moments shape us as much (if not more than) the easy ones. I think it is incredibly valuable to include all the memories that are important to your family and your family's history.
 I find my scrapbook albums are thin during times of stress and sadness, but the layouts that I do create are more meaningful, and are often my favorites from a creative viewpoint. Art journaling is a time honored form of therapy; using our creative skills to visually document our more painful memories is a very effective way to process and deal with them. In addition, DSP as a community is such an incredible source of support and kindness. If you choose to post your more somber layouts, you may find comfort in the compassionate comments your receive.
Please take some time to visit the layouts below and leave a kind word. The members that created them will appreciate it and you may find inspiration in how these artists chose to deal with their difficult memories.
Christopher - Stars in Heaven by Lynnie
Spring of Innocence by Jeanet
Rainbows for the Soul by Scrapping4Him
JJ’s Big Ouchie by boobearsmama1
Sadness by MarsOlson
Dad’s Old Shirts by GailS
“Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.”
- Robert Pollok, Course of Time
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Create a great day!
Meg
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Artful Activities: Creating Moments into Memories
When you first join DSP you want to devour every little bit of information there is and it seems a bit overwhelming at first but the absolutely best place to visit first off is the 'What's Happening' page, it's packed with useful information to help you choose to participate in a designer run challenge or contest or make a date to be at one of our awesome chat session. To find out the daily and weekly fun at DSP check out the calendar of activities, there's never a dull moment at DSP and you're sure to find something to your taste to challenge you artistically
Coming Events:
Keep watching for other upcoming events in June...
June 10th, Midnight DSP time- Final Date for Scrappy Layouts - More Info Here
Contests, Challenges and Chats
- Designer Exclusives: Our Designers are the best there are and they are really generous, if you enter one of their challenges you’re more than likely to receive a chat and/or posting bonus just by using their nominated kit for the challenge. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain – like more stash for less bucks with these great challenges.
- Inspiration Station (IS News)
This is a call to all dedicated DSP scrappers to ‘strut your stuff’ and inspire us with your creations. Just choose any or all of the calls for layouts the current month and you could be showcased in our Newsletter or Blog. We have a few rules so check them out and then join in the fun. Check out the current edition of Inspiration Station News or here for Previous Issues
- Calls for June will include:
- Color - Black, Silver or White
- Event - Weddings
- Relationship - BFF (Best Friend Forever)
- Style / Trend - Altered Art
- Club Digi - ... June 09
- Project 365 - a project for how YOU scrap. Check out our Project 365 chats and the Project 365 store category.
- Scrapolution – It’s a DSP evolution, a scrapping revolution, and our New Year’s resolution:
It's a SCRAPOLUTION!!
It’s all about YOU, our members, our friends, making scrapping goals and Team Digital supporting, guiding, encouraging, joining, and cheering you on every step of the way. Check out the current themes and prompts.
- Scrap with the DET – Digital Elite Team and DET Alumni
Our past and current Elite group of scrappers have some great challenges going at the moment and you’re sure to get well chosen CC should you need it – learn from the best
- Elite Challenges - be sure to check out the challenges run by our DET Alumni and DET.
- Freebie Challenge and Odds N Ends run by Mars is a great chance to use this week’s freebie!
- The Grannies If you’re a Granny or a Granny In Training (GIT) or just a Wannabee, you might like to see what other Grannies are up to, what challenges they have going. There is never a dull moment when you join this happy band of digi scrappers.
- IOTW - Item of the week – Abby
The Item Of The Week is a priced to sell and generally cost only a few cents so create a LO using only the IOTW and be in the draw to win a free kit.
- SNL - Saturday Night Live - MarsOlson & Debbers
This is where anyone can create their own digital scrapbook kits to share with other SNL’ers, from elements and papers to word art.
- Featured Designer Challenge - Scrap with products by the Featured Designer and get posting bonuses and random draws for gift certificates.
- This is just a small selection of popular challenges that DSP currently has running but be sure to check all of them out here. And we have a special blinkie to place in your signature to always remind you where to find the best scrapbooking challenges on the web. Check the end of the first post in the What's Happening thread for the blinkie code.
Happy Scrapping!
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DSU Information
It’s never too late to learn and DSU is the place to do it. There is still time to register for our June classes! Late registration will run from June 1st - June 5th and will incur a $10 late fee.
Checkout any classes we may be offering in the summer months on our classes page.
We would love to hear your suggestions on future classes! Send your suggestions and comments to me at dsu@digitalscrapbookplace.com.
Amber
Dean of DSU
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Desktop Calendar Plopper
A newsletter exclusive! Specially designed ploppers for your computer desktop. This month's offering is by Lauren Bavin Download the plopper here! (Sizes: 1280x800, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900 and 1680x1050 are included.)
And just like any of our ploppers, put your photos on a layer underneath the desktop plopper. Angle and size them as you please, add journaling, and save it as a jpg. Then update your desktop wallpaper background by browsing to your new image! Voilą! Favorite photos matched with this month's calendar to help keep you up-to-date all month! Look for a new one each month in our newsletter!
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Newsletter Challenge
We are always striving to make our newsletter more interesting and useful. If you have an idea, let us know about it! If it's an article idea, a feature, even something you'd like to write, shout it out to us. So, put your thinking caps on and come up with some new features, article ideas, or something fun you'd like to see in our monthly newsletter. Then email it to comments@dsplace.com. (Please type "Newsletter IDEA" in the subject line of your email.) We can't wait to see your ideas!
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Newsletter Freebie
Exclusively for our newsletter readers, DSP Designer, Lauren has created this fabulous alpha. Grab it here! Size: 200ppi or 300ppi
Thanks, Lauren, we appreciate it so much !
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Many thanks to the newsletter Team:
Kim, Meg, Mandy, Amber K, Lauren, Lynnette, Sharon
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