Scraps Of Mind

Hi, and welcome to the first Scraps of Mind Weekly Word Art Newsletter.

First of all thank you for subscribing. And let me say, I’m thrilled with the response this newsletter has received. And I’m looking forward to keeping you up to date with news and tips and maybe sharing a few of the golden nuggets buried in the Scraps of Mind Archives with you.

Most of all I’m looking forward to sharing the Word Art Freebies I’ve created, especially for use in scrapbook layouts and on cards. The thumbnail illustrations are not the full size of the file. Click on the Download link to grab the full sized Word Art files. They are PNGs so they can be loaded on to most graphics programs and can be printed out or used on your digital layouts. Just right click on the full sized Word Art file and select ‘Save Image As’

I’m aiming to bring you three in each newsletter, and here’s the first.

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It’s been a very busy fortnight for me. Organising the set up and launch of this Newsletter of course. And also the other big event for me is the launching of my new Scrapbooking Edge Video Tutorials for Photoshop Elements at Digital Arts Cafe.

I’m really excited about this new product. I’ve been working with Melo (from DAC) to design what we believe is a really fantastic approach to helping you to improve your digital scrapbooking skills and get even more mileage from the digital kits that you buy.

Each tutorial will be focussed on showing you how you can modify or use your digital elements in different ways. I love playing with my digital scrapbook kits and creating new and different looks with the elements, and I hope you will too.

And the added bonus is that each 18-25 minute tutorial video comes packaged with all the digital scrapbooking elements used to make the demonstration layout ALL INCLUDED!

Because we want you to be able to jump in and get started straight away.

The launch has gone really really well and I’m thrilled to say that I’ve received some wonderful feedback from people who’ve used the Scrapbooking EdgeTutorials and and have said that these videos have really given them a ‘leg-up’ on their Photoshop Elements digital scrapbooking learning curve.

You can read all about these exciting new tutorials at Scraps of Mind.

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Well we’re into December and the Silly Season is well and truly under way. Here’s a Golden Nugget I unearthed from the Scraps of Mind Archives which I thought you might like.

It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Back in the 4th century the Roman Emperor Constantine consulted his market analysts about investing in religion. They told him religion stocks were enjoying a boom but the outlook was for a crash in the near future. However Christianity was showing rapid growth and, with some good management, was set to become ‘the next big thing’.

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So Constantine bought a controlling interest in Christianity, which at the time was a disorganised group of bickering departments, and he called the first Board Meeting.

One of the key resolutions of the Board was to select 25th December to celebrate Christ’s birthday. Since many of the other religions were already in party mode around this time it seemed like a smart choice. And we’ve stuck with that date ever since. Christmas has fallen on 25th December ever since.

For the last 1700 years.

So can somebody please tell me why we get taken by surprise by it every year?

“Oh my God it’s Christmas already and I haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet.”
“We need to bring the delivery date for this project forward because it’s almost Christmas and we want to get it finished before people start going on holidays.”
“Has anyone done anything about organising this year’s Christmas party.”

We do it every year and we never seem to work it out beforehand that Christmas falls at the same time every year so we should be able to plan for it. It’s been 1700 years and we still haven’t learned.

Anyway I have to close this post because I’ve just realised that it’s Christmas in three weeks and I have to make my Christmas cards to send overseas and start thinking about Christmas shopping. Time for a pre-Christmas panic attack!

Ain’t tradition wonderful.

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Well that’s all for this week.

See you next week