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February 2004 Newsletter

Welcome!

Cover Design by Gina Cabrera

Have you ordered your February 2004 Tid-Bytes issue? It is JAM PACKED full of goodies! You can view details here. This issue has already been delivered to hundreds and we have been receiving wonderful feedback! Many of our very own Design Team rave, "It's the best yet!"

Included are various kits included Valentine's themed, elements, and amazing tutorials are included! You will find yourself anxiously opening your graphics program to start working on a new LO immediately after reading this issue!

ADVERTISING!
Scrapbook-Bytes will begin offering advertising space in various packages, including advertising in: Ezine, Newsletter, and exposure in the gallery and forums depending on the package you choose.

CONTEST!!!!
Scrapbook-bytes.com has celebrated our 1-year anniversary on January 25th, 2004. Wow! Thank you to all of your for your support, dedication and patience with us as we grow!

Our Contest Winners for the “What Scrapbook-bytes Means to Me.” contest have been chosen! Results will be posted in the afternoon on the home page on February 4, 2004!

Magazine Calls!
Ever wonder how in the world you can keep up with what sites are requesting what themes and layout calls? Fret no more! You can find all of this information in the Scrapbook-Bytes Forums on this page only! Updated on a regular basis! Don't miss your chance to be published! Don't miss that irresistible calling again!

February's sketch
by Gina Cabrera

Each month, the Design Team puts out a sketch and the members at Scrapbook-Bytes create an original, creative layout following the design of that sketch. At the end of the month, the Design Team votes for three winners to be featured here! This month's sketch belongs to Design Team Member Gina Cabrera.

The competition was steep and votes were extremely close! All the participants did a fantastic job and we'd like to give all of you a huge pat on the back!!! Thank you to all who submitted a layout!

The winners will receive a voucher to use at our new online store worth the price of an EZine! Congratulations!

Title of Layout: Looking for Fish
Your Name: Alisa Jackson
SBB Screen Name: AlisaTJ
Program Used: PhotoShop 7
Fonts Used: Lainie Day and Century Gothic
Techniques and Credits: These are photos I took of my mother and daughter looking into a pond for fish. I
used the main picture as the background. I lowered
the opacity of it to 75% and applied a slight gaussian
blur.

The journaling reads:
While we were in Scottsdale, Grandma took Rachel and Annie on a long walk every day. They walked through the beautiful grounds of the Princess Resort. They stopped to look at fountains, flowers, statues, ponds, and fish. When they threw bread crumbs into the pond, the fish would hungrily come to the surface to get a bite to eat. But on this day, since they didnt have any crumbs,
there were no fish to be seen.

But that's okay. It was still worth the walk

Title of Layout: We Moved!
Your Name: Emma Powell
SBB Screen Name: thepals
Program Used: PS CS
Fonts Used: Marita, Dave's Krappy Handwriting, Arial

Techniques and Credits: all elements made by me
Inspiration for layout from ScrapDiva The sketch reminded me of this layout, with the wavy lines looking like postage cancellation or writing on a postcard. I
wanted to bump up the realism and create my own version.

Elements details:
-torn envelope using myjanee.com torn paper tutorial, with a lot
of added custom shading and gradients to get creases and two layers of
torn paper, pattern overlay
-paper clip used EyeCandy chrome filter and plastic is black
shapes with gradients for shine and curves
-address forwarding label has layer masks over text and smudges
to make them appear stamped on, same technique for address on envelope,
Happy Holidays postmark cancellation stamp, and SOLD stamp
-barcode uses vertical dash with two different font sizes to get
tall and short bars
-post it note has perspective transformation and shear filter to
bend with custom shading added
-notebook paper has skew transformation to get tearing, pattern
overlay
-stamp image from USPS.com (current even stamp to show what was
happening at the time of our move)
-postmark (cancellation circle) made in Illustrator CS with mask
added in PS to get stamped look
-wood for desk from imageafter.com

I used and actual torn envelope with yellow forwarding sticker and
holiday cancellation to make my own digital one (my husband told me to
scan it, but that's no fun!) I also used actual torn spiral notepaper,
lined post it note, and black plastic paper clip to look at to make
things as real as I could.

Our new house looks a lot like our old house from the front! But it's
twice the size, our old house on steroids :) This layout was a lot of
fun to make, took about 2 days, many hours. I overlaid Gina's sketch on
low opacity to get the best match I could in size and angle, etc.

Title of Layout: Little Boy Blue
Your Name: Tina Chambers
SBB Screen Name: TinaMom2Tate
Program Used: DIP
Fonts Used: 2ps think small and 2ps Rickety
Techniques and Credits: I just took the idea from how unhappy my nephew was the day I tried to do a photo shoot for his 1st birthday. I colored the layout blue to follow that theme further. I faded the large pic into the blue. I framed my title in blue and framed the small pictures in white.

February 2004 Newsletter

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