Digital Scrapbooking Club

Lake Miona Chapter

January 18, 2011

The meeting was called to order at 9AM by President Margie Whiddon. Introductions were made, visitors and new members were welcomed.

Today's Program was presented by Cathy Van Benthysen, “What to do with your Collections: A pictorial Directory of her Doll Collection using Scrapbook Factory”

Cathy has a personal collection of 580 dolls, dating back to 1901. She has taken a photo of each doll and written a history/description for each one. She has researched and included as much information as she can for each piece. Each doll is coded using numbers, letters and abbreviations to show who purchased the doll, where it came from, the original owner, etc. In addition to the photo record, she also keeps a written catalog, assigning the codes as she catalogs. When photographing, Cathy used rulers to establish size and added the descriptions in a text book under the photo. Her master catalog/index is done using Excel. Her categories/columns are: pictorial page #,description, Doll #, country of origin, price, who from.

Sharing:

Suzie: Using the base of a Febreze Air Freshener (battery operated), she made a rectangular screen, using vellum paper. When mounted on the base, the flickering light makes a beautiful “candle”. She created her designs in Scrapbook Factory and printed on Vellum using the vellum setting, or fast draft setting. She recommends using the thick vellum sold at JoAnn's. A hint for feeding the vellum into the printer, put a piece of printer paper behind in order to give more “body” to the paper. She used vellum tape for

attaching the edges of the rectangle together. The top and bottom edges were trimmed with stick-on rhinestone tape.

Linda Manson: Linda shared notebooks with examples for fonts from a variety ofwebsites. She will be doing presentations in February, explaining how to find, downloadand use on-line fonts.

Bev: Bev made a 2011 calendar and took it to Lisa to have it printed and bound: $27.00for 3 copies. She found that you cannot print pdf files from SBF for the Calendar

Application. Lisa worked from jpeg files, using the highest resolution in SBF (300).

From Our President:

If you want a copy of the Club Sample book, $17 + $.69/pg + mailing. Total of 61 pages. Get the CD from Margie

Please remember, it is very important to back up your files.

The Lady Lake Transfer Station, Rolling Acres Road, takes electronics, paint, batteries, etc., Tues-Sat from 7AM to 4PM.

Drop Box.com - on-line storage.

Copy and paste your files into dropbox.com, then you can share them with others. Free of charge up to 2gb.

5. Reshaping shapes in SBF:

Choose the shape

Size it from the corners

Select the shape and choose reshape

Adjust the side bar up and down to either round the corners or indent them to " create a unique text box.

6. Double mat look on photos.

Insert a box shape behind the picture and size down

Add a line around the picture to make it “pop”.

ie: Black box, white line, picture

Meeting adjourned at 11AM

Respectfully Submitted:

Rochelle Blair

Lake Miona Secretary

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Digital Scrapbooking Club

Lake Miona Chapter

February 15, 2011

The meeting was called to order at 9AM by President, Margie Whiddon.

Members present: 46                         Guests: 2        Total present: 48

Total membership: 116

Remember our Exposition is March 22nd at Colony Recreation Center.

Participants:

*Must be a member of the club

*Will have a 6 foot table, with blue cloth and name tent provided

*Wear club shirts and name tags

*There are lots of free tickets to hand out to friends, neighbors, etc.

March 15th Meeting will be a mixed media craft workshop presented by Maureen Clark. This will be a hands on workshop, see Maureen to sign up and pay $3.00 for the class; you will need the supplies list before class.

Claudia sent around a sign-up sheet for volunteers to be responsible for our morning coffee treats each month. Your title will be: “Coffee Hostess of the Month”. This is becoming a very big job as our membership grows and Claudia needs help. The hostess will arrive 30-45 minutes before the meeting, set-up the table, provide and setout whatever treats desired for that month. Clean up after the meeting. The Recreation staff sets up and brews the coffee for us. You will be reimbursed by the club treasurer for expenses for goodies. Jim Bojar is taking over responsibility for the Calendar project for the retirement/care facilities. Members have found that Card Factory is good for making calendars. For even more options for backgrounds, scan in: scrapbook papers, wrapping paper, recipe cards, magazine pages, newspaper clippings, etc. The choices are endless.

This year's competition data:

*46 participants

*16 different winners

*10 categories with 3 places in each category, + Best of show = 31 ribbons

For the remainder of the meeting, competition winners shared their pages with the group.

Meeting adjourned at 11AM.

Respectfully submitted,

Rochelle Blair

Club Secretary

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Digital Scrapbooking Club

Lake Miona Chapter

June 21, 2011

The meeting was called to order at 9:02 AM by President, Margie Widdon. There were 11 visitors present. Claudia Woods has the Directory of Members. Those who have ordered one, they are available for $2.00. More can be ordered if anyone wants one. Carolyn Rebholz will bring the free Graphics CD to the July meeting.

Today’s Program presented by Tom Salerno, USING PICASA

1. It is easy to download and set-up from Google

2. Complete photo organization

3. You will need to set-up a gmail account

4. Your original photos always remain in Picasa, but can be hard to find

5. Constantly updating

6. Has facial recognition capabilities

7. Can “lock” photos into the lower dock then upload to “cloud”, email, print, etc.

8. Share albums from “cloud”: go on-line to “cloud”, pick album, click share, send

9. Can make collages using collage application

10. Can turn photos into a slide show, add music, etc. (movie application)

11. Can create gifts CDs from shows

There is a U-Tube video with an excellent Picasa Demo.

Information from the Floor:

Free Photo Editing Program: PhotoFiltre From Download.com; be careful, it will try to change your search engine, just add the program. Windows “snipping” - in desktop accessories - “snip” pieces of photos, icons, writing, etc. and save to use in other projects.

From Margie:

These is enough interest in further workshop on Picasa so Margie will check with Carolyn to set up a meeting time and Tom will lead the workshop. 2010 DSC Scrapbook is under construction. Anyone who did a demo in 2010 should have received an email requesting them to do a scrapbook page about their demo. Members are requested to submit a scrapbook page they did in 2010 to go in the scrapbook. Please do an 81/2 x 11 portrait format, print and give to Bev Katoulis or Cathy Johnson.

Show & Tell:

Vern - Plastic Cold Cups with Photo Insert

Found the cups at the Dollar Store. Scanned the template in the cup into Scrapbook Factory, printed page, inserted into the cup. Really cute and fun idea. MaryAnn - 50th Anniversary Page

Made a special commemorative page for good friends. Photoshopped and old, “busy” photo and cloned a new background.

Nancy Keene - Has a $10.00 small copy of the 2011 Competition Winners Book. Let her know if you are interested in ordering one.

Meeting adjourned at 11:00 AM

Respectfully submitted,

Rocki Blair

Lake Miona Secretary

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