We were going to hold off until next week to announce a challenge for everyone, but I thought there may be some people playing on the site over the weekend who’d like to join. It’s simple to participate and THREE random beta testers will win A FREE YEAR CLUB MEMBERSHIP on ScrapHD! A Club Membership will give you unlimited access to all of the backgrounds, embellishments, and themes from our partners and lots of other benefits for an entire year!!!
*starting from our official launch date to be announced

To be entered into the drawing for a free Club Membership here is what you have to do:

• Create an account on the ScrapHD Beta site (www.scraphd.net) – if you already have an account you’re one step ahead of the game, just use that one!
  
• Publish at least 3 scrapbook pages by 12pm CST on Friday, Sept. 4th (can all be in the same scrapbook, not limited to three)
  
• Leave us a comment, question, suggestion, and yes, even criticism
  (we’ll take it constructively, of course ) via the Feedback buttons on the Beta site, an email to support@scraphd.com, or a comment on this blog post. Be sure to include your ScrapHD profile name so we know who to give the membership to if you win!

THAT’S IT! I will literally put all entries into a hat and pick 3 winners at lunch time next Friday! You will NOT be judged on your digital scrapbooking capabilities. We want a mixture of experience and newbies because your feedback and questions will probably vary. The drawing will be random to encourage anyone and everyone to join. It is also random so that you are honest with your feedback. We want the good, the bad, and the ugly! What we hear from you guys is what is going to make this site YOURS and FANTASTIC!

Enjoy your weekend and feel free to invite your friends to join the challenge!

♥ Katy

It’s already Friday!?!? Time is FLYING by! So far our beta testing has been very successful. A lot of people are using the feedback buttons and emailing us directly with questions and comments. I promise we are listening to all of it and responding to everybody as fast as we can.

Here are a few of the things you have asked for since Monday that have already been implemented!
BACKGROUNDS/LAYERING/SEARCHING BY KITS/CROPPING/TEXT BOX/FONT PREVIEW/FACEBOOK

• When creating from a blank page I would like to use a background and then use another coordinating background cut to size for a border and/or matt. We have now added more background papers that can be used just for that purpose! There are still a ton more to come, but we made sure to get some in there so you guys could get the idea. TO DO THIS: When in the ‘Embellishments’ section choose the ‘Papers/Overlays’ category, then choose coordinating papers to be resized and layered!
• Layering page elements/Selecting page elements- You will now see your embellishments highlighted in blue, making it easier to see which element you are actually dealing with and giving you more control with layering. *Please keep us posted with any issues with the ‘To Front’ and ‘To Back’ tools. I think some of the issues should be resolved though.
• Labeling – Would it be possible to even further organize the designers’ separate kits by somehow adding a sort feature by designer name so that if we wish to work from one complete kit, it is in one easy to find place?
  SOLUTION: Use the ‘Search’ tool. Example: I found a paper labeled Amy Teets – Grafica – Blue Paper, if I use “Grafica” as my search term for Backgrounds, Embellishments, and Frames, all of the coordinating pieces will pop up. You will notice that everything is labeled uniformly Designer – Kit Name – Description. Kit name is the easiest way to search for matching designs.
• When I crop a photo, then after seeing it on the page decide that I need to crop the photo a bit more, that when I click on crop again, the photo is reset to its original size. FIXED! If you experience this in any way please let us know.
• While attempting to add text I noticed that the box only resizes as a square, so you cannot make the box just the size of the text, this means that if you want your text close (like right above) to an embellishment but then want to click on the embellishment, you need to move the text over, even though it is above it, the bounding box is still large enough it is in the way of the embellishment. FIXED! Please let us know what you think of the change
• If in the future you can display font samples I think that will be a great hit! DONE! We added that this morning!
• I don’t know if the Facebook option is live yet or not but I cannot get it to work for me, a new window opens up and is blank and nothing ever happens. The Facebook Connect options from the Community should be working for you now. Please keep us posted with any issues you may experience.

We are so happy that everyone understands this is beta testing and wants to help! You guys rock!

♥ Katy

Wow, it has been less than 24 hours since we opened up the site and we already have tons of great feedback, suggestions, and support! Thanks to everyone who has already set up a Beta account~it’s been so much fun for me to see the layouts that have been saved! Just so you guys know, we will continue to add backgrounds, embellishments, frames, and themes for you to test out. We’ll also be introducing the content from all of our partners soon!

Here are a couple of pages that have already been created with what we’ve given you access to so far…

rdbeader: Marcella at the Beach

dyoung: Logan

Claire: Kelsey Test

..and here is one that I did from one of Laura Burger’s theme pages..

I hope everyone is having a great day!

♥ Katy