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In this Issue
Letter
from Team Digital – Tara
 I have a
hard drive full
of photos to scrap and a mind full of stories
to tell. There are scrapbook challenges to complete and contests to
enter, as well as magazine calls to answer and half-finished pages to
revisit. I want to finish trip albums and gift albums, Year in Review
albums and Book of Me pages. There are also multiple other craft
projects vying for my creative attention. I feel a very real
self-imposed pressure to make progress in these endeavors.
Thus, when I sit down to
scrap, I tell myself that I can’t afford to spend five hours
working on one page. There is no time to try out a new technique or
search the web for inspiration. Delighting in the treasures found
within forgotten kits or experimenting with new combinations of
elements and type must be avoided at the risk of falling further and
further behind. After all, someone with so many stories and photos to
scrap cannot justify wasting time in such unproductive pursuits!
In the words of John
Eldredge (one of my favorite authors), I have let my attempts at
efficiency replace my creativity.
If, like for me,
scrapping has become another item on your to do list –
another source of pressure and stress in your life – it is
time to make a change. It is time to silence the voice that says,
“Hurry up” and “You are wasting your
time” and “At this rate, you will never finish
anything”.
Instead, let’s
give ourselves permission to play without an agenda, without a time
clock, and without pressure. Let’s relax and have fun
creating. Take a new DSU class, get inspired by the DET gallery, buy a
kit outside your comfort zone and let yourself experiment, or join in
the exploration of art journaling. Whatever you choose to do, remember
to value the process as much as you value the product. Rein in your
desire to be an efficient scrapper and find joy in the creative process.
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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 coming
up. 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
For the next stop
as we
Scrap the Map, DSP is heading to Las Vegas for a slumber party
September 9, 2011 and YOU are
invited!
We'll have the luxurious
2000 sq. ft. Media Suite at Mandalay Bay for the night. Come
meet CEO Margie Lundy!
Check out and maybe even WIN, great products from DSP and our
sponsors Adobe Systems and Fulltime Families! Space is
limited, so register early!
Register
now!
For locations, dates and
other news,
check out www.scrapthemap.com
and in our DSP Forums!
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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2011 Digital Scrappy
Awards
The Scrappies are open
to everyone and are always a time filled with anticipation,
inspiration, and celebration!!! We are seeking stand-out layouts, the
ones that make yoiu go WOW! With 16 categories, there is room
for everyone to show off their best.
For more information,
visit the 2011 Scrappy Awards forum HERE.
Feel free to ask
questions, and be sure to join in on the fun!
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Member
Spotlight – Addie, a.k.a, addielee
Read
more about her on the DSP Spotlight Page.
This
month the Spotlight falls on talented DSP Member, Addie.
Addie
finds her
inspiration in nature, and of course her boys provide
inspiration for a wealth of gorgeous layouts. A true digi-scrapper, she
is constantly looking for those photographic opportunities that abound
in everyday life: “I see great photos whereever I go and I
love scrapping everything, from Sebastian wearing his sunglasses
upside-down, to the long lineup to go through customs at the start of a
holiday,” she says.
When asked if a photo or kit provides her starting point for a layout,
Addie says that although she usually starts with the kit and then finds
the photo to go with it, finding the perfect photo is not a problem as
she confesses: “I have over 20, 000 photos to choose from so
I can almost always find something!”
Addie says that although her preferred style is to imitate paper pages,
she also really admires the graphic layout masters and aspires to be
one, so you will find some graphic style layouts in her gallery too.
Which is good news for anyone wanting to try their hand at scraplifting
this DSP talent.
Congratulations Addie. Thank you for being our member spotlight. Be
inspired by Addie’s Gallery,
read more about her HERE
then share the inspiration by taking part in the Scraplift The Spotlight Challenge
for June.
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Featured
Designers
Robyn
Gough
Cutting
Shapes from Digital Scrapbook Papers in Photoshop
In this tutorial I am
going to demonstrate a quick and easy way to cut shapes from Digital
Scrapbook Papers/Backgrounds in Photoshop. This method will work in all
versions of Photoshop.
First I have opened the
paper I am choosing to work with in Photoshop. I started with a paper
is from my
Floral Fancy Value Collection.
©Robyn
Gough
2011, All Rights Reserved
Team
Digital Bio
Personal Gallery
Forum
DSP Products
Blog
Christine
Gundersen
Picture in Picture
This is a fun technique
to use when shooting portraits. Take along a plain, white piece of
paper or cardstock, cut to either 4x6, 5x7 or 8x10. Have your subject
hold the paper, being careful to keep the fingers on just the edges.
Shoot pictures with the paper being held both vertically and
horizontally.
After the photo shoot
is over, choose the picture that you want to use as the 2nd picture.
Find a picture with a blank card in it, that is held in the desired
orientation. Open both pictures in Photoshop or your chosen image
editing program. Use the rectangular selection tool or the straight
line lasso to create a box inside the white card. Fill this area with
color on a new layer. Use a clipping mask or trim your second picture
so it fits inside the box.
Now flatten and save as
a jpg for a fun Picture in Picture. :)
Christine Gundersen
Senior Designer
Christine's
Links:
Team
Digital Bio
Personal Gallery
Forum
DSP Products
Blog
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Store
News
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us on Twitter!
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Enjoy
20% - 40% off Select Products
Missed
'Em First time around?
Here's your
chance
to grab some old, but still great,
DSP products from past years at
great discount prices.
Discount varies according to the release date of
the product.
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Almost Summer Sale
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– Father's Day
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– Robyn Gough and Christine Gundersen are Featured Designers.
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– Here Comes the Bride
**************** June
Jollies *****************
8 – Best Friends Day
14 – Flag Day
18 – Go Fishing Day
20 – Father's Day
20 – Finally Summer
21 – Summer Solstice
23 – Pink Day
29 – Camera Day
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Club
Digital
Are
you a member of the club?
Bright, fun colours that
reflect that early summer heat dominate June's issue of Club Digital.
Included this month as usual are two fun coordinating page kits, which
can be
accessorised with the coordinating backpack and a funky paper
alphabet and coordinating word art.
Added to that you will find a useful floral overlay in both 12x12 and
10x8, and some useful crown stamps. Don't
forget
the great quick click that will make your summer scrapping a
breeze.
Club
Digital
now comes in a choice of resolutions - Choose 200ppi
or 300ppi version when you download.
This
month's content includes
- Lazy
Days Page Kit
- Jubilant Page
Kit
- Cool
Summer
Breeze Overlays
- Inkified
Paper Alphabet
- For
Every Occasion Stamps
- Fun
Summer Word
Art
- June
Backpack
- Wide
Open 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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It's
Shop Time!
Featured
Product – Wedding Day Mega Kit
The perfect collection
of elegant backgrounds and elements to create a wonderful wedding
album. This collection comprises 30 backgrounds, over 90
elements, 2 alphabets and an exclusive font.
Available in 200ppi and 300ppi.
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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.
A Perfect Gift for Grads
and Teachers!
In my town, we have six high schools and two universities, with a
handful of private vocational schools scattered about. Needless to say,
there are a few graduation ceremonies happening around here this month!
Digital Scrapbook Place can help you take care of all the grads in your
life with a gift that's quick and easy! Start with a Make It Mine Photo
Purse and personalize it with
photos of the graduate's friends and
school years. Fill it to the brim with goodies to get them through
during long graduation ceremonies (candy, bottled water, fun beads
& jewelry in school colors) and all-night parties (blanket or
pashmina, more candy, pens for signing yearbooks, and a coffee card or
two in the inside pocket)!
Creative and personal, a present that will be immediately enjoyed and
appreciated!
This can easily be put together for those many end-of-the-year thank
you presents for teachers and aides. Simply trade the graduation art
work for cute pictures of the kids, and fill it with all the goodies
teachers need and love: pens and paper, candy, coffee cards, water
bottle.... hmmmm, really, the same things you gave to the
grads!
Gifting made easy!
Digital Scrapbook Place Items
used:
Make it Mine Photo Purse - 10x8
Six Plus One Quick Click template - by Carole Harden
Congrats Graduate Page Kit - by DSP Designers
(Contents of purse not included)
Happy
shopping!
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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.
- 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.
- 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 & 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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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)
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!
June
Classes
 DSU110
–
Adobe Photoshop:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU160
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Adobe Photoshop Elements:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU195
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Wacom & Creative Fun
DSU211/311
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Adobe Photoshop:
Creating Digital Elements for Beginners and Advanced Users (self-paced)
DSU221/321
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Adobe Photoshop:
Montage (self-paced)
DSU261
– Adobe Photoshop Elements: Creating Digital
Elements
July
Classes
DSU130
–
Corel Paint Shop Pro:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU195
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Wacom & Creative Fun
DSU220
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Adobe Photoshop:
Brushes (Pre-requisite - DSU110 or similar experience)
DSU361
–
Adobe Photoshop Elements: Creating Digital Elements - Advanced
(Pre-requisite - DSU261 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.
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Desktop
Calendar Plopper
June 2011
Specially
designed
ploppers
for your
computer
desktop. These calendars were made by Senior Designer Christine
Gundersen.
Download the
ploppers
by clicking on the image above (Sizes:1024x768,
1280x1024, 1440x900, and 1680x1050
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, Robyn Gough has created
this charming Word Art. Choose
200ppi
or
300ppi!
Thanks
so
much, Robyn!
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Many
thanks to the newsletter Team:
Christine, Kim, Lauren, Lynnette, Mandy, Margie,
Mars, Meg, Robyn and
Chris.
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