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In this Issue
 Letter
from Team Digital – Kathleen
I would not consider
myself a prolific scrapper. But, lately I have come to a stand-still,
and that just isn't the right answer! Yes, life is busy, but
documenting our life is important, not to mention fun and rewarding! I
am at the point where I have so many ideas and projects that I want to
do, I don't know where to start. So my challenge to myself for the
month of October is to do something! It doesn't have to be a perfectly
designed 100-page album, or a large canvas for my wall, or finishing a
baby book. These are all things on my to-do list. But, I just want to
create. Document. Share. Something little. Something fun. Something
that will make me smile. Something that will make my daughters smile.
The layout to the right is a few years old, but it is a very good
reminder of what drew me to this creative outlet in the first place.
There are so many stories in our daily life that are worth telling. I
enjoy them today, and I know my daughters will enjoy them in the
future. I am the family storyteller, and it is a job that I am honored
to have.
So, I will be looking to all my friends at DSP for inspiration. Finding
something I love - a photo, a kit, a poem. I will be creative. I will
finish what I start! It doesn't need to be perfect, or a big project,
it just needs to be. I can't wait to see what I create, and what you
create!
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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 :)
Challenge
Winners
In September, debby730
won
a free month of a past issue of Club Digital; mcbowersox was the winner
of the random draw in the Featured Designer challenge; and as always,
there
were multiple winners for the IOTW challenge including CherylB,
Scrapping4Him and Cassandy. A new challenge begun in
September was the Quintessential Quick Click Challenge (QQCC) and while
everyone who participated and made four layouts received a free gift,
kaybutler was the winner of the random draw prize.
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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Digital Elite Team
September saw the most
recent contest to select the 14th Digital Elite Team. After
much wracking of nerves, biting of nails, and scrapping of beautiful
layouts, the 15 newest Digital Elite Team were announced.
Congratulations to:
| addielee |
carolat |
Corgi Lover |
| handkl |
Heidi Nicole |
Jennifer Kalafu |
| just-pjz |
luv2stamp82 |
mariafer |
| Mars |
mcbowersox |
mum2riley |
| StacieMac |
TalyQ |
teetopper |
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Member
Spotlight – Teri aka domino44
This
month’s DSP Member Spotlight Teri, better known as
domino44. Teri
is someone who has been a member of DSP
since 2004, and she says DSP is where she “lives”.
You get a sense of this
lady’s
character and sense of humor when you ask her to describe herself, and
she replies that she would say she is “fun”, but
that “everyone else would probably say strange!”
She describes her scrapping style as “eclectic”.
Teri says “there is so much out there to draw inspiration
from. Kind of like Lay's potato chips...you can't do just
one!”
She mostly begins her
layouts by drawing
inspiration from a kit she has chosen saying that the kit will
“just speak to you” and say: "Oh this would be
great for those pictures you took the other day!”
Teri’s favorite is her layout
“Letter to my
Daughter”.
“It was
the hardest Layout I have ever done, but it started the healing
process,” she says.
Teri, thank you for sharing your talent with us as the DSP Member
Spotlight for October, and thank you for calling DSP home for all these
years.
Be inspired by
Teri’s
Gallery, read more about her
HERE
then share the inspiration by taking part in the
Scraplift
the Spotlight challenge for your
chance to win a DSP store
coupon.
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Featured
Designers
CarolAnn
Gary
The
Consistent Scrapper Challenge
I
love
the changing of the seasons. I live in
the
northwestern part of the United States, so our seasons are marked by
definite
changes every year. It seems like as soon as I get tired of one season,
a new
one comes along to inspire me. I love the fresh, newness of spring, the
warmth
and fun of summer, the colors and crisp temperatures of fall and the
holidays
of winter.
Winter in my part of
the world tends to be rainy and dark, so the holidays are the part we
enjoy!
I
also enjoy change in
other parts of my
life,
such as my scrapping and photography world. I like to try new styles
and
techniques and I love to photograph new things. I recently finished a
scrapbook
about my husband's grandma. I loved the heritage photos and the
restoration and
research that went into putting together the treasured family pictures
and
diary entries. I have many more boxes of photos of other family
ancestors to
process and put into a form that my children and grandchildren will
enjoy, but
I needed to go a different direction for awhile first.
Since
I had recently
repainted my living
room,
and refused to rehang the boring photos that have hung on those walls
for 10
years, I decided to find some of my thousands of more recent pictures
that might
just work for my walls. This led to a season of learning more about
blending
modes and adding texture to photos, to create a look that expressed
what I
wanted for each picture. I have three of my favorites on my wall now
and room
for a couple more, when I find the right ones.
 
My
next project will be
to finish up the
2010
yearly scrapbooks for my granddaughters. Again, a shift in emphasis and
style.
For
me, variety and
change in my photography and in my scrapping and
design, is important to keeping it fresh and enjoyable. Are you ready
for some inspiration and change? Try something new for awhile!
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19 – Looking Back on Your Life Day
22 – Mother-in-Law Day
31 – Halloween
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Club
Digital
Are
you a member of the club?
It's
harvest season in this
month's Club
Digital collection.
Included this month as usual are two page kits in tones of
blue and beige with hints of pumpkin orange. Coordinate these
with the stylish backpack to make a great collection. Add the
elegant alphabet and the harvest theme stamps and word art and you will
have product enough to scrap all your Autumn photos. The bold
gold Plopper will allw you to create an elegant page in seconds, and
the funky quick click template will allow you to create
a trendy and funky layout fast.
Club
Digital
now comes in a choice of resolutions - Choose 200ppi
or 300ppi version when you download.
This
month's content includes
- Sweet Joy Page
Kit
- October Days Page
Kit
- Bold Gold Flower Plopper
- Grey Glass Alphabet
- Harvest Days Stamps
- Autumn Arrivals Word
Art
- Fancy Flourish Backpack
- Lovin' the Layers Quick
Click
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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 – Halloween Mega Kit
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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.
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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
Wannabe, 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)
November
Classes
 DSU110
–
Adobe Photoshop:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU130
–
Corel PaintShop Pro: Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU151
–
Taking Better Snapshots
DSU160
–
Adobe Photoshop Elements:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
DSU195
–
Wacom & Creative Fun
DSU220
–
Adobe Photoshop: Intro to Brushes
DSU270
–
Adobe Photoshop Elements: Brushes
December
Classes
DSU195
–
Wacom & Creative Fun
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
October 2011
Specially
designed
ploppers
for your
computer
desktop. These calendars were made by Senior Designer CarolAnn Gary.
Download the
ploppers
by clicking on the image above (Sizes: 800x600,
1280x768, 1440x900,
and 1650x1080 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
For
our newsletter readers, the DSP Designers have created
this charming set of ploppers. Choose
200ppi
or
300ppi!
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Many
thanks to the newsletter Team:
CarolAnn, Kathleen, Kim, Lauren, Lynnette, Mandy, Margie,
Mars, and
Chris.
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