Make the Most of your Profile

March 8, 2010

Filed under: Tips and Tricks — Katy @ 5:33 pm

Hey everybody! I hope you”re all getting through your Monday ok! (If you’re not, check out the video at the bottom of this post and hopefully you’ll smile…)

Anyways, I wanted to point out a few things to help you make the most of your profile/account on ScrapHD. First and foremost, have you all figured out how to add a photo to your profile yet?? I’m seeing tons of new accounts, but I’m missing your smiling faces!! So here is what you need to do…
-Log into your ScrapHD account
-Click on Profile
-Click Browse
-Find a picture on your hard drive to use as your profile pic or avatar – then click ‘Open’
That’s it! Now we’ll see you in the Community..

NEXT, did you know that you can add friends, send private messages, comment on scrapbooks, and “like” scrapbooks? We’ve made all of this reallllly easy for you. First I’ll tell you about adding friends..

TO ADD A FRIEND:
Click on any user who you’d like to add to your friends list (find me!!! shd-katy) then just click on Add to Friends. You’ll automatically become friends with each other. If somebody adds you as a friend and you really don’t like them (hehe) you can “un-friend” them. You can also send messages to your friends – just click on “Message” which is found above any one of their scrapbooks.

TO “Like” a Scrapbook
This feature is cool for two reasons. One, because it makes somebody else feel good when you like their scrapbook. Two, because it keeps all of the scrapbooks you like in an easy to find place. You can refer back to all of your “liked” scrapbooks for inspiration! So all you have to do is find a scrapbook that you like and (this is hard to remember ;) ) click on “I Like” – you must be logged in to “like” a scrapbook.
Now when you go to the My Account screen, you can click on the My Scrapbooks tab and you will find all of your published scrapbooks, all of your friends, and all of your “liked” scrapbooks.

I hope you go and play around with your account some more. Adding friends will make your experience on the site better! Let them know what you think of their creations and I’m sure they will do the same for you! So, in the spirit of becoming friends and making the most of your ScrapHD profile – I leave you a video…

xoxo,

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ScrapHD – SEI Themes – Add your own photos!

March 5, 2010

Filed under: SEI, Topic of the Day — Katy @ 11:52 am

ScrapHD – SEI Themes – Add your own photos!

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Free Webinars!

March 4, 2010

Filed under: Tips and Tricks — Katy @ 12:20 pm

Are you still kind of wondering why you’d want to join the ScrapHD Club? Are you interested in learning some tips and tricks? We’ll show you just how easy it is to create scrapbooks your friends will be jealous of :-) Join us for a free Webinar- we’ll answer your questions and make it fun!

Adios Winter – Welcome Spring! (contest)

March 3, 2010

Filed under: Contests — Katy @ 4:44 pm

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Ok, WHO is ready for SPRING!!!??? (My hand is waving frantically in the air :) ) I always consider St. Patrick’s Day the beginning of Spring in Chicago. You can (sometimes) get away without wearing a jacket on St. Patty’s day, Easter and Mother’s Day are right around the corner, and everything is just a little brighter! So I thought a contest to welcome Spring would be appropriate. Um, goodbye Winter. It’s been grand, but some of us have had enough..

So here’s the deal: Log into your ScrapHD account right now and start creating a Spring Scrapbook. It can be anything that reminds you of the season! You can use the pre-designed theme templates or start from scratch. It doesn’t matter just as long as you get votes.

This contest ends on March 31st so be sure to get yours done before then!!! Oh, and what would a contest be without a PRIZE!? One lucky scrapper will win SIX packs of Jenni Bowlin’s Embellished Butterflies! You’ll get a 5 pack of EVERY COLOR! These are so adorable that I just want to rip them out of the package right now!

butterflies72dpiHop to it! I can’t wait to see what you all come up with…I’ll definitely be voting every day! Make sure you get your friends and family to vote once you’ve submitted your scrapbook! If you have any questions just give me a shout.

xoxo,

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Scrap Your Pet Winner!

Filed under: Contests — Katy @ 1:37 pm

Has anybody been wondering who won the February Scrap Your Pet contest!? Today I am excited to announce the winner!!! If you aren’t familiar with the contests we hold yet then listen up! Basically, we want to help encourage your creativity by constantly holding new contests. Anybody is eligible to enter – just create a scrapbook and submit it! (find a tutorial to learn how to submit here). Once you’ve submitted your work others can vote on your scrapbook. Submitted scrapbooks will have 5 butterflies underneath them. Anybody with a free or Club Membership on ScrapHD can vote once per scrapbook/per day. 5 butterflies is the best and the scrapbook with the most butterfly votes will win whatever the prize for that contest happens to be. Stay tuned because later today we’ll be announcing a new contest! When it is posted you’ll find it here www.scraphd.com/contests.

So now for our winner!!!! Thank you to everyone who submitted, but only one person can win! A special congrats to

PHARMERDEB!


Oscar is a cutie!! You won a free month long Club Membership to ScrapHD!! We hope you enjoy it :-) A tip for those who plan to enter contests in the future…To get the most votes post your scrapbooks on your facebook page, twitter, forums, or wherever else you can solicit votes!

Enjoy the rest of Wednesday!

xoxo,

Home Bliss Home Banner – How to!

March 2, 2010

Filed under: Make it Hybrid!, Tips and Tricks — Katy @ 6:06 pm

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Howdy everybody! I’ve got a fun project to share with you today! I’m sure you’ve noticed how hot banners are lately – they’re EVERYWHERE! Well, Betsy from Jenni Bowlin’s digi-design team shared how she created the above banner using ScrapHD. ANNNND the coolest part is, she has made it a theme in the builder so you can easily create it yourself! I decided to post it here as well so that you guys all know it is available to you..

Here’s what you do:
1. Log into ScrapHD and click Create a Scrapbook

2. Choose to Start with a Theme

3. Sort by Manufacturer and choose Jenni Bowlin

4. Choose the Home Bliss Home Banner (available only to Club Members)

The images you need will all be available in this theme and there is even a page of instructions when you open up the theme!

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I’ll also post the step by step instructions here:

Once you have the theme open in the builder all you have to do is click on the “Print from Home” option. *Note this will only be an option if you are a ScrapHD Club Member.

You will receive an email with a link to download these pages.

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Print 2 copies of page 1 (red butterfly and brown bingo card) on cardstock.

Print 1 copy of page 2 (brown butterfly and red bingo card) on cardstock.

Print 2 copies of page 3 (house) on cardstock.

Cut out the butterflies, bingo cards, and houses.

Ink the edges of the cuts.

Adhere the bingo cards to the butterflies and sew along the edges of the cards.

Print 2 photos approximately 4.5 x 3 inches and sew onto house cuts.

Decorate the 5 pieces with Jenni Bowlin chipboard milk caps and baker’s twine.

Insert eyelets into the top of each piece.

String baker’s twine through eyelets, tying as you go to keep the pieces from sliding.

String a large button on either end of the banner string.

Tye fabric pieces along the baker’s twine.

Notes:

The samples were printed on white textured cardstock to give the pieces a soft feel.
If you want to make a longer banner, simply print more pages :-)

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I hope you have fun with this!

xoxo,

Huge event at ACOT this weekend!

February 27, 2010

Filed under: Topic of the Day — Katy @ 8:37 am

Have you guys ever done an online crop?? It’s a huge event over at A Cherry on Top! I’m so excited because I get to be a part of it this month! It will be going on all weekend and ending Sunday at 10pm EST. I will be hosting 2 live chats TODAY, Saturday, to talk about ScrapHD. Everyone is invited to join – its fun and you might just learn a thing or two – or possibly even win….*hint hint ;) The first chat will be at Noon (EST) and the second one will be at 7pm (EST) Go HERE to join at those times!!

We’ve got a couple of forums running too over there right now. I started this one : Your ScrapHD questions answered. There have been a lot of incredible questions! Oh, and guess what, you could win over there too so definitely check it out! And just so you know, if you become a Club Member this weekend through A Cherry On Top’s builder (that just means you create your ScrapHD account through them) you’ll be entered into a drawing. Here is the deal

Sign up to be a yearly Club Member – $99/yr (from A Cherry on Top’s site) and get a $5.00 coupon to A Cherry on Top AND be entered into a drawing to win your second year of ScrapHD free!

Sign up to be a monthly Club Member - $9.99/mo (from A Cherry On Top’s site) and be entered into a drawing to win the rest of your year free!!!

Hurry,  you have to sign up before the crop ends on Sunday! Have fun! www.acherryontop.com

xoxo,

FREE vs CLUB

February 25, 2010

Filed under: Topic of the Day — Katy @ 6:50 pm

***hint***read this whole post to see how you could win a free month!

A lot of you have had some really good questions about the ScrapHD Club Membership, so I decided to dedicate an entire blog post to clarify..Hopefully this will answer most of your questions, but AS ALWAYS please let me know if there is anything else on your mind. Soooo, here’s the skinny on the differences between a free membership and a Club Membership

i like FREE ;)

Here is a quick overview of what you can do for free on ScrapHD!

~Number one, you can create and save up to 100 scrapbook pages. You can also upload up to 100 personal photos at a time. If you exceed 100, don’t worry, just delete the ones you’ve already used in your scrapbooks and replace them with new photos. Your photos WILL REMAIN in the scrapbooks they are already saved in. You can also share  your scrapbooks across the web- email, facebook, twitter, blogs, etc! And COMING SOON you’ll be able to order professional prints.

i DO like free, but I LOOOOVE A BARGAIN even more!!!

Why should you upgrade to a Club Membership??? I’ve got a list of reasons, one of them being that you can save up to 1,000 scrapbook pages at a time! I can honestly tell you that $9.99/month or $99/year (that’s 2 months free if you do the math!) is a steal when you break down everything you get…

UNLIMITED USE of DIGI DESIGNS FROM 14 TOP PAPER MANUFACTURERS!?!?

ummmm, 7gypsies, American Crafts, Art Gone Wild, Imaginisce, Jenni Bowlin, Kaisercraft, Karen Foster, Mrs. Grossman’s, My Mind’s Eye, Piggy Tales, SEI, Teresa Collins, Three Bugs, and We R Memory Keepers, anyone??!?

It almost sounds too good to be true. Think about it…on some sites you have to calculate what each and every background and embellishment is costing you. This paper may be a dollar, while this butterfly is 30 cents…By the time you’ve created just one page it can really get pricey! (Especially if you like to do a lot of layering like I do! :) ) Then what if you want to print that layout or scrapbook? That will be an additional cost on other sites. With ScrapHD you’ve used AS MANY designs as you can possibly fit on the page AND you can print it for one low fee! Which leads me into just that -

Print from Home!

The print from home feature is incredible. For no extra fee we will provide the high resolution (300dpi) .jpg file of your scrapbook! If you have a 12″ printer, great! You’ll be able to print those 12×12’s no problem. If you don’t have a 12″ printer,  you can still print your 5×7’s or 8×8’s! (*note 8×8 and 12×12 layouts are interchangeable when it comes to printing because they are both square).

The high resolution file that you use for printing can also be used for so much more! You can use that to post to galleries that except .jpg formats, you can create twitter backgrounds, desktop backgrounds, and so much more!

Ok, so those are two of the most obvious reasons to upgrade, but there are even more. Have you dabbled in digital scrapbooking before? Do you have a digi “stash” somewhere on your computer or external hard drive? Do you like browsing for digital freebies? Do you design your own digital elements? Or maybe you’re excited that another paper manufacturer has gone digital, but they aren’t currently a partner with ScrapHD? If you said yes to ANY of those questions then you’ll like this next one….

Upload any JPEG or PNG file!

This is AWESOME! When you purchase digital files or find freebies on the web you will notice that all of the embellishments come as .png files and the backgrounds come as .jpg files. So, in addition to the thousands of backgrounds and embellies available to our Club Members you can upload even more!

Upload multiple photos at a time!

I would put money on it that 98% of you out that have TONS of photos you still need to scrapbook ;) We’ve included a little time saver for Club Members. Rather than waiting for each and every photo to upload individually, you can hold down that handy Ctrl button on your keyboard and highlight as many photos as you’d like to upload all at once! Love it!

We then figured, if you’re going to be uploading multiple photos (Club Members can save up to 1,000 at a time on the site!) then we should also probably give you a way to organize them…Hence the next Club Member benefit..

Organize your photos/uploaded files into folders!

For example, I have folders set up for all of my Winter Photos, Niece and Nephew, .png files, Family, etc. So when I’m creating a new scrapbook they are nicely saved right in my ScrapHD account and easily accessible! It definitely beats having to scroll through multiple pages of photos to find the ones I want to use.

…and last, but not least

Access to exclusive Club Member contests and prizes!

Right now we are running the Scrap Your Pet Contest. Club Members have the chance to win $50 to their favorite scrapbook store!

So there you have it. I think I broke it down so you all could understand it a little better! I’m giving away a free month long Club Membership on our Facebook page right now. All you have to do is comment on the post that asks which Club Member feature you’d like the most! Hurry because I said I was going to pick a winner today – unfortunately my blog post kept getting pushed later and later today, but you still have time! Go post your comment right now and I’ll pick the random winner tomorrow!

Have a great night! xoxo,

More Webinar Times Announced for THIS week!

February 23, 2010

Filed under: Topic of the Day — Katy @ 9:58 am

Hey guys! We’ve announced some more Webinar times for this week! If you are sure you can make it, please fill out the form below. I’ll email you before the Webinar with your log in information. The calls tend to last 40-50 minutes and we discuss the basics of ScrapHD, we show you how to create a scrapbook starting with a theme, and we have one of our design team members walk you through creating a layout starting with a blank page! There is also time for questions and answers – so feel free to ask away!

How To: Create a (print from home) Thank You Card

February 22, 2010

Filed under: Tips and Tricks — Katy @ 2:10 pm

It’s Monday again! On Friday I posted a link on the ScrapHD Facebook page to a thank you card I had created and planned to print from home and send out. I did do just that and thought I would share the process with all of you. It was so simple to do, and I’m sure my boyfriend’s mom will love it when she gets it :)

First, I signed into ScrapHD and chose to start with a theme. I LOVE the themes because they are fully customizable. You can make a layout by simply adding your pictures, or you can completely modify it to make it your own. That’s what I did here!

I took this theme…

…and turned it into this….

I created a quick video to show you how I modified the Puppy Love Theme to turn it into my own Thank You Card..

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STEP 1: Sign into ScrapHD
STEP 2: Create a Scrapbook/Start with a Theme
STEP 3: Choose Puppy Love
STEP 4: Make your changes to the theme
STEP 5: Print from home – available to Club Members!

PRINT FROM HOME:
I received my print from home file that was emailed to me from ScrapHD and I downloaded it to my computer. I then opened the file and chose to print. The printer we use here is the Epson R1900, which is AWESOME! You can even print 12×12’s on it! For this card I was printing 5×7. The photo paper I used was 8.5 x 11 so I loaded that into my printer.

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I then edited my printer settings: I chose 5×7/Borderless and printed my card

Since I printed my 5×7 on 8.5×11 paper I had to cut it down to the right size for my thank you card

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I cut the edge off first and then I took an inch off of the top

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I then used my Score-It board to make the crease for my card
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That’s it!!Let me know if you have ANY questions about printing from home or using themes – or really anything else for that matter! I know that I’ll be using this to do all of my thank you cards, and even invitations! If you do anything using the builder/print from home I’d love to see it!

xoxo,

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