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A Toast to Scrap Girls

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I’d like to dedicate this post to an excellent Scrapbooking site called Scrap Girls.

In a World Wide Web populated by many great scrapbooking sites what makes this one so special?

Well apart from the obvious: excellent quality products; energetic and vibrant message board; members’ gallery to publish your own work; warm and friendly community; classes, chat rooms and challenges, Scrap Girls offers much more. Read on.

First and foremost there’s the Free Newsletter; to my mind this is the jewel in the crown. Now I’m signed up to quite a few newsletters. By and large they tend to be a token ‘hello’ message and then a sales pitch for product. The Scrap Girls newsletter is so much more. Each one includes an uplifting or thought provoking (non-scrapping related) article by Ro, the CEO. I find the stuff she writes tunes right in to my life and thoughts. And it gives a great insight into Ro the person, too. Each Newsletter also includes two Freebies to be downloaded. And most will also include a tutorial on how to make something or how to do a technique. As well as all that there are the layout examples to provide inspiration. It’s absolutely the best newsletter I’ve seen. I don’t know how she does it because she pumps one of these babies out every weekday!!

The site has plethora of tutorials available free. Some of these are short ‘how to’ videos which makes learning so much easier. Just download and run on your computer at home. As well as this Scrap Girls runs specific classes and also sells a package of video tutorials for those who are just starting out in the world of digi-scrapping (and an advanced one for the more experienced). These are formatted for several software programs so you can usually find one that suits yours.

The site caters to paper scrappers and digi-scrappers. I find many sites are firmly in one camp or the other but here all scrappers are equal. The products all come in a .PNG format for digital manipulation and a .JPG format for easy printing to make your own papers and elements. Also two seperate monthly clubs you can join.

Although the page kits and elements offered in the Boutique are great, there is also a smorgasbord of templates for you to create your own papers and elements if you wish. With tutorials to show you how.

If you haven’t gathered, this site really impresses me. I think the thing that is most appealing is that, although it is conducted on a commercial basis, the approach of the people here is really friendly, understanding and caring. Communications are excellent and I highly recommend all scrappers to check it out and to definitely sign up for the free newsletter.

The layout on the right is of my niece Rebecca on her inauguration as College Captain for her Secondary College. I used a gorgeous Scrap Girls kit called Bookworm by Erica Hite and the layout is based on a sketch from Page Maps (another highly recommended site).

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