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In this issue
Letter
from Team Digital – Margie Lundy
It’s
always
hard to believe when another year ends at DSP, and 2010 was no
exception as it
flew past. This year, DSP Headquarters (and my family) went mobile to Scrap
the Map,
and we’re
still loving it! We announced
our great tour sponsors, Adobe
and Fulltime
Families. We had fun
laptop crops in Minnesota,
Oregon,
California,
and Utah.
And we had lots of family
fun
in
between. Here on DSP, we celebrated our Sensational Sixth
Birthday, held
the Scrappy
Awards, Trendsetters,
and New
Kids on the Block, visited the
Designers Around the World for Christmas in
July, announced the new Digital
Elite Team (DET), had challenges
by the DET and Alumni, Designer
challenges, and even more
challenges, got to Trick or
Treat down DSP Lane, matched new scrappers with Mentors,
saw beautiful layouts added to the Hall
of Fame, highlighted great Layouts
of the Day
on the blog, spotlighted
awesome
members on the site, welcomed
new designer CarolAnn
Gary and newsletter editor Chris
O’Connor, were continually inspired with Inspiration
Station, were entertained (or
choose your own word- encouraged,
embarrassed, fascinated, shocked, loved…) by the
grannies, Santa gave us 12
days of
Christmas goodies, and so much
more. As always, there were enticing new
products, fun sales, great freebies, and lots of laughs.
I’m so grateful
for DSP’s amazing, supportive, and creative community
and
all the fun we had in 2010. And the best thing is that 2011
will be even
better! Thank you DSP!
Margie
Lundy
Nomadic CEO and biggest fan of Digital Scrapbook Place, Inc.
Margie's
Links:
Click here for her
Team
Digital Bio
Click Here for her
Personal Gallery
Click
here for her Blog
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Site
News and Features
New
to DSP?
Posting
Your First Layout:
Are
you thinking
about posting your first layout? There's a special first layout
challenge each month 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.
What’s
Going On
If you need to
know what is going on, you need the What's happening at DSP
thread or the Calendar. You
can also find out what contests and challenges are due in the What's Due
thread.
What's
DUE
If
you are
looking to find out what challenges are due when then the What’s Due
thread is the thread you need to check out. In this thread,
you can find out what contests and challenges are upcoming. So
- get going on a few challenges, Ladies, there are tons of great ones :)
The
Buzz for Newbees and Oldbees
Chat for new members (and old members too!)
Every Wednesday at
10 pm EST
Everyone Welcome!
If you are new to digital scrapbooking or new to DSP, or if you've been
around DSP for a while but love to meet and help new members, join us
in
chat!
DSP is a big busy site! Are you beewildered? Do you have questions? How
to get around the site? How to enter challenges? Where to start? Join
us in chat to find out more about the site and digi-scrapping! We'll
orient you to some of the features of DSP and answer questions to help
you feel more comfortable getting around and finding what you need.
Welcome
to DSP! We know you will love it!
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Crops
and
Events
New Scrap the Map sponsor
and locations announced!
The
digital
scrapbooking tour continues in 2011 as Scrap
the Map
announces an
additional sponsor and the next stops. Along with Adobe
Systems, Fulltime
Families, the magazine for
families living and dreaming of fulltime RV adventures,
is now
sponsoring Scrap the Map. Fulltime
Families is a valuable resource
for RVers and families, and a great
partner for the tour with our nomadic CEO Margie Lundy's RV travels.
The
next crops will open for
registration soon, so make plans to come Scrap the Map in Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi,
Texas, California,
Alaska, and Colorado!
Read
more at www.scrapthemap.com.
Scrap
the Map Laptop Crop in Tavares, FL
February 19, 2011
Attention
Floridians (or anyone
who would like to visit sunny Florida in February!),
mark your calendars for Feb. 19! Watch www.ScrapTheMap.com
for more info about
the laptop crop at Fisherman’s
Cove on Lake Harris in Tavares
(located between Orlando and Ocala). We have a
great crop room with a lake view, fire place, couches, kitchen, and
tables
inside and out. We hope to see you there for a little
scrapbooking and a
lot of fun!
Christchurch,
New Zealand Retreat
February 25 - 27
Join
Lauren Bavin, Erica Belton and other DSP members for a scrapping
retreat. Check this
thread to sign up and for all
the
details.
Don't
forget, if you are planning a get together to put it in the Gathering and Support
forum. There’s nothing like meeting DSPers in real
life to learn new things, take great pictures and have a good
laugh!
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Member
Spotlight - HeatherH
DSP
Member
Spotlight for January is Heather aka HeatherH.
Check out her gallery here.
This
month’s talented DSP Member Spotlight is a DET Alumni / Hall
of Famer and 2010 Trendsetter describes herself as: “hard
working, energetic and like to have fun. Most days I feel like
I’m half crazy, flying by the seat of my pants!”
It can only be HeatherH!
“Definitely
Graphic and Grungy” says Heather, when asked to describe her
scrapping style, and her favorite scrapping subject is: her family.
Heather thinks they appear in about 90% of her layouts. So it stands to
reason that her favorite layout is You
Make Me Happy because it
includes her favorite subjects and true scrapping style.
“I
almost always start with a photo and then go in search of products to
match. Occasionally I will see a kit and it will immediately make me
think of a photo or a layout idea,” she said.
Congratulations on being our January 2011 Spotlight and getting us off
to a flying start to the New Year.
Be
sure to check
out Heather’s
Gallery and read more about her
on the Spotlight
Page. Then take part in the
Scraplift the Spotlight Challenge
before the end of January and you could be a random winner of a DSP
store coupon.
Congratulations
Heather and thank you for sharing your talent with us as the current
DSP
Member Spotlight.
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Digi-Scrapper
Inspiration by Meg
Best-Selling
Beyond the Layout Product of 2010
With
more of us printing and gifting our digital creations, it's always fun
to
make them even more personal. DSP's best
selling Beyond
the Layout product of 2010 does
just that. The Scrapbook
Voice Recorder gives you 30
seconds of recording time to capture the
perfect message. Read a story to your children or
grandchildren, capture
a favorite song, or record the kids' young voices to enhance the memory
on your
page. The Voice Recorder is only 1/4" thick and very light,
with
replaceable batteries. It's also covered with acid free paper
allowing
you to paint, stamp, ink, or otherwise decorate to complement your
project's
theme. A perfect addition to any scrapbooking project!
Click
on the
photo to see and hear the Scrapbook
Voice Recorder in action!
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Featured
Designer - Marcee Duggar
Another
year has
come and gone. Seems when you get older the years seem to slip by
faster, but you also learn to cherish each year more. Scrapbooking
seems to me the way to hold on to some of the most precious memories,
so that you can share them with the generations to come.
Each
year brings
more birthdays, births and marriages, so many things to be celebrated
with the passing of time.
That is why I love to scrapbook. I can not only remember in
my mind, but in full color in the scrapbooks or video
scrapbooks that i have created. When looking through these, I get such
a smile across my face with all the
fun times I have shared with my family. I hope that you get that same
feeling with the works of art you have created.
On
to the New
Years Resolutions. We all have them. They usually
involve losing weight or a bad habit we can't seem to break. This year,
add another to your list - Create More Memories and more Pages. There
are several
ways to do this. Some people create a page a day or take a
picture each day of the year to journal one
full year of their life. I think that these are awesome ideas
and hope to do at least one of these myself this year. Other
ideas include taking pictures of your childrens favorite toys or their
bedrooms. I have one picture
of my room from when I was a teenager and just love to look at what
interested me back then. I had a Garfield poster and
some Black Panther poster that glowed with a black light.
Yes, it was the 80s.
So
this year,
take pictures of what you love and share them with the ones you love.
Happy
New Year's
to all.
Marcee
Duggar
Marcee's
Links:
Click here for her
Team
Digital Bio
Click Here for her
Personal Gallery
Click Here for her
Forum
Click here for all her Products
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- New Years Day
5 - National Bird Day
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23 - Handwriting Day
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29 - Puzzle Day
31 - Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
Club
Digital
Are
you a member of the club?
With
all the
subtle shades of Winter's glory, the
January's issue of Club Digital's
color scheme is rich and serene. Included are two full kits to inspire
creativity in your layouts, whatever your weather. You can use the
complementary backpack, Blues, to expand the kits' versatility.
This month's Club also contains the fun and fresh "Blue Stars Plopper"
and charming metal stencil alphabet. The whimsical Leafy stamp frames
and elegant Every New Year Wordart will provide a charming touch to any
scrapping project. As always we include a great quick click for you to
use to create your own unique layout where the design work has already
been done for you.
Club
Digital
now comes in a choice of resolutions - Choose 200ppi
or 300ppi version when you download.
This
months content includes
- Explore
the Crown Page Kit
- My
Bliss Page Kit
- Blue
Stars Plopper
- Metallic
Stencil Alphabet
- Leafy
Frame Stamps
- Every
New Year Word Art
- Blues
Backpack
- Snapshot
Strip of Photos 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!
Every
issue of Club
Digital includes two page kits, one plopper or overlay, a quick click
template, an alphabet, some wordart, a font, and png stamps! As a Club
member, you also receive an exclusive
coupon for the DSP Shop and
can
enter an exclusive contest
just for members (with great prizes)!
Over
$27 in value for the incredible price of only $5.99/month! (Or
as low as $4.99 with longer subscriptions!)
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)!
Plus,
Club members can WIN!
Purchase a
three month subscription and you're entered to win a free
upgrade to a six month subscription!
Purchase a six month
subscription and you're entered to win a free
upgrade to a twelve month subscription!
Purchase a twelve month
subscription and you're entered to win a $30
coupon for the DSP store!
Here
is a selection of layouts created by the DSP Team Digital using this
month's Club Digital Selection.
Click here to
find out more about Club Digital
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Shop
Time Inspiration
It’s
time to SHOP… let’s get those baskets at the
ready.
You
know you
can
do a search for anything using the advanced search feature
located at the top right of your store page, right above the search
box. For example ‘green Lauren’ will just
return Lauren’s kits that have green in them,
‘hearts tina’ will return Tina’s kits
with hearts in them. Try it, you’ll like
it!! You can also check out the Site Map
for some fabulous links.
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.
Here’s
some store inspiration for this month.
Artful
Activities: Creating Memories from Moments
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 sessions. 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.
Contests,
Challenges and Chats
Stay
current on challenges with the What’s Due thread,
which will keep you up to date on all the challenges on the site and
when they are due.
- 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
- Project 365
- a project for how YOU scrap. Check out our Project 365 chats
and the Project 365 store category.
- 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.
- 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 priced to sell, so create a LO using the IOTW
and be in a draw to win a free kit.
- SNL - Saturday Night Live
- CherylB and Renee S
This is where anyone can create their own digital scrapbook kits to
share with other SNLers, from elements and papers to word
art.
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.
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Featured
Challenge – Heritage Chat with JaeDee
Like
the New
Year, Our Heritage is here again! So right click the mouse and tap
those keys, click, click, click, tap, tap, tap: Lets Scrap (some of
those old photos)!!! Join JaeDee in the chat room Jan. 5th at 8 pm for
the first chat.
Check
out the
details in the
Heritage forum.
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DSU
Information
Start
here! This free class is an online article that walks you through
digital scrapbooking step-by-step and explains all the basics from
software and graphics to printing and sharing. It is always available
from this page and www.digitalscrapbooking101.com!
CURRENT
CLASS SCHEDULE (Click here
to see all DSU class descriptions)
Introducing
three new DSU instructors for our beginner
classes! CarolAnn
Gary will be teaching DSU110, Gail
Simpson DSU130, and Julia
(Webfrau) DSU160.
It’s
not too late for these classes! Late
registration is open until the 5th. To register for these or future
classes,
please visit
the DSP Shop!
January Classes
(late
registration Jan 1-5)
 DSU130 –
Corel
Paint Shop Pro:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU160 –
Adobe
Photoshop Elements:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU195 –
Wacom & Creative Fun
DSU198
– Storytelling
DSU220
– Adobe
Photoshop: Brushes(Pre-requisite- DSU 110 or similar
experience)
DSU221/321
– Adobe Photoshop: Montage and Advanced Montage (self-paced)
DSU361–
Adobe Photoshop Elements: Creating Digital Elements for Advanced Users
(Pre-requisite- DSU 261)
February Classes
DSU110 –
Adobe Photoshop:
Introduction
to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU160 –
Adobe
Photoshop Elements:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU195 –
Wacom & Creative
Fun
DSU211/311 –
Adobe Photoshop:
Creating
Digital
Elements for Beginners and Advanced Users (self-paced)
DSU221/321
– Adobe
Photoshop: Montage and Advanced Montage (self-paced)
DSU270
– Adobe
Photoshop Elements: Brushes Pre-requisite- DSU 160 or
similar
experience)
Be
sure
to visit
DSU
for information regarding these and our other great classes!
We
would
love to hear your suggestions on future classes
too. Send your ideas to dsu@digitalscrapbookplace.com.
We’re
also looking for qualified DSU instructors! If
you’re interested in teaching, please contact us for more
information.
DSU
Dean
www.digitalscrapbooku.com
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Desktop
Calendar Plopper
JANUARY
2011
A
newsletter exclusive!
Specially designed ploppers for your computer
desktop. These calendars were made by Marcee. Download the ploppers
by clicking on the image above (Sizes: 800x600, 1024x768, and
1280x1024 are included.)
Add
your
pictures, 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! Voilà! 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, Senior Designer, Marcee Duggar has created
this
charming wordart. Grab the 200ppi HERE
and the 300ppi HERE!
Thanks
so
much, Marcee!
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Many
thanks to the newsletter Team:
Kim, Lauren, Lynnette, Mandy, Marcee, Margie, Mars, Meg, and
Chris.
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