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Picklemama Report The team at Pickleberrypop are so incredibly excited! In February, Australian Scrapbooking Memories magazine launched it's latest issue which included a FREE CD containing seven awesome digital scrapbooking kits, created by our very own Aussie designers!
The feedback so far has been fantastic, and everyone really seems to be enjoying the kits. And who wouldn't, they are just fabulous! Below are a couple of layouts created by PBP Creative Team members Kaye and Amanda, using the kits on the CD. To get a closer look at the kits and quickpages that are included, scroll down to the last section of this newsletter!
Pop Deals! For two days only, as a special newsletter promotion, the following items are on sale at 25% off!
Inspirational Places! Lacking inspiration?
Quick Tip - Altering a 12x12 paper to fit A4 This tutorial is written for Gimp users, but the idea will work with other software too. Have you ever wanted to use a 12x12 inch paper on an A4 sized or rectangular layout but not lose edge details or rescale and alter the aspect ratio? Well, here's how!
3. Position the duplicated layer so that the right edge lines up with the right edge of the document:
5. Work on the top layer and erase the left edge to reveal the paper underneath
6. Continue blending and erasing until you are happy with the way the papers are aligned. 7. Merge both layers and you're done!
Amanda's Fabulous Font Find!
I don’t know about you, but I do love a nice, hand-written font. I just adore fonts that make it look like you have just written on a piece of paper, it is so realistic. This month after seeing a number of challenge prompts revolving around fonts, I went looking for a fun font that would give me a nice hand-written look. Checking out dafont.com was a great idea, they really do have a huge number of fonts that suited what I was after, but this one, Sunshine in My Soul, really caught my eye. I hope you enjoy it too!
Collage Fun! Check out this awesome and FREE application for creating collages in custom shapes (and even words), using your photos!
You can either use the online version which is quite limited in it's functionality, though great to try it out quickly, or the downloadable application which is available for Windows, MAC, and Linux operating systems.
The collages can be saved in JPG, PNG, or PSD formats, and they will contain a Shape Collage watermark, which can easily be removed with Photoshop or similar if you're just using the images for personal use, or you can buy the full version of the software for $25USD. The software is quite powerful, fast, and robust, as I tested the limits with a collage using 2,500 photos! Check out this blog post from PhotoRadar - 225 Photography tips to inspire you!
Gallery Standouts! Keep on scrapping and uploading to the gallery, you never know when your layout might be featured here!
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This Issue : Challenges!
This month's word art challenge is about friendship! To participate we would like you to choose one of these great word arts from agnieszag's blog and use it as inspiration for your page. Please be courteous and leave her some thanks for sharing this pretty Word Art.
In this month's scraplift challenge we are lifting a very diverse scrapper, Sweeet. Her gallery is full of gorgeous layouts of many different styles, so there should be something there for everyone to try. Post your layout in the forum BEFORE the challenge closing date, to be eligible for the gift certificate prize.
The Photography Challenge this month has Amanda singing to us... "I wanna know what love is.... I want you to show me ... I wanna feel what love is ... I know you can show me ... Aaaah woah-oh-ooh.." Photograph something that represents love! (Above photos 1. True love stories never have endings, 2. Still in love? I think so ; ), 3. Lots of Love. via flickr)
This month's Pickle Jar challenge is about food, food, glorious food!! There are our favourites, there are the ones that revolt us, there are the family traditions, the ones that were craved during pregnancy, the very first solids, we are surrounded by food, so let's scrap about it!
Get a head-start on your next page and join in this great template challenge with the lovely Lorie! My funny Valentine – Jenny79 This month’s layout of the month jumped out from the gallery with it's wonderful vertical design and use of white space. The rich colour of the elements is complimented beautifully by the blush of colour on the edges of the paper and the use of the delightful black and white photo. Texture and depth is added by realistic shadowing and provides the perfect finishing touch. Congratulations Jenny79! Please PM fazzbech via the forums to receive a special gift certificate for your next order in the pop shop!
You loved the debut of our universal desktop wallpaper last month, so we are going to keep offering them! Not only can you resize to suit your screen size, but you can place the photo cluster wherever you like, so as not to interfere with important items on your desktop!
Photography Corner
Don't forget the elderly! So many of us scrap our little ones, or other people's little ones, but the elderly shouldn't be forgotten! Why not capture a photo of an elderly person you know doing something they love, and scrap about it! It might make a nice change from your usual, and you might be pleasantly surprised with the outcome!! Quotes! When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare,Othello I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Scrapbooking Memories Magazine ~ Vol. 12, No. 2 Included FREE in Vol. 12, No. 2 of Scrapbooking Memories Magazine are these amazing digital scrapbooking kits, created by Pickleberrypop designers! Contributing designers, in order as they appear below: Cara Mia Designz, Carolyn Rose Kite, LorieM Designs, katef, Joanne Bain Designs, deb fisher designs, and Lindsay Jane! The Kits
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