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DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING CLUB Of The Villages
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January 2010—Mulberry Chapter Minutes
Digital Scrapbooking Club
The Digital Scrapbooking Club met at noon on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at Mulberry Grove Recreation Center. The meeting was called to order by President Margie Whiddon, welcoming 38 members and 10 guests. Total club membership is now 106. Jean Bateman has pre-ordered club shirts ($13.) available for pick-up at meetings. Members’ prior winning pages were displayed as examples for members to view. OLD BUSINESS 2010 COMPETITION & AWARDS LUNCHEON (Note change of day of week AND location!)
DATE - WEDNESDAY, February 3 - 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM PLACE - Truman Recreation Center, Studebaker Room COST - Lunch again will be $11.00. Members with at least one entry in the Competition and with a current membership will pay $6.00. The Club covers $5.00 of the cost of participating members. Non-participating members and guests will pay $11.00. REGISTRATION 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Register Entries 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Judging - All ties will be recognized. 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - Viewing of Entries 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM - Introduction of Judges 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM - Luncheon 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM - Presentation of Awards COMPETITION INFO Certificates and Ribbons - Maureen Clark Registration - Lou Leonard and committee Photographer - Jim Leonard Judges and Score Person - Margie Whiddon COMPETITION ENTRY INFORMATION 1. Each participant must be a member. 2. Participant must have at least one entry. 3. Members may submit one entry for each of the 10 categories. 4. Prior winning entries cannot be submitted. 5. Do not put name on entry; submissions are anonymous. 6. Decide category before arriving at registration desk. 7. Put entry in protective sheet or sleeve. 8. Entry must be a regulation size, such as 5 X 6, 8 ˝ X 11 in., 8 X 8, 12 by 12 in. COMPETITION CATEGORIES 1. Calendar - one page 6. Holidays 2. Card 7. Mixed Media 3. Events & Occasions 8. Nature & Wildlife 4. Family 9. Seasons 5. Hobbies 10. Travel COMPETITION CRITERIA (NOTE; All ties will be recognized!) 1. Cropping Techniques 2. Most Attractive 3. Tells A Story (Make sure Title is clear and easy to understand). 4. Photo Quality 2010 EXPO DATE - Tuesday, March 2 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM PLACE - Colony Cottage Recreation Center Display Setup - Study & Tea Rooms - 11:00 AM to Noon Demonstrations - Parlor Room Breakdown - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM PARTICIPATION INFORMATION 1. Each participant must be a member of the Club. 2. 6’ tables will be provided or two people may share a table. 3. Wear Club shirts. 4. Club will provide table covers and name tents. 5. Brenda Whitehurst is providing members free tickets in packets of 10 to promote attendance. Pick up a packet or two at the meeting, to distribute to one and all! 6. Photographer for event is Jim Leonard. 7. Door Prize Drawings - Volunteers needed! Lou Leonard is heading up this group. 8. Demonstrations: Scrapbook Page - Nancy Keen Greeting Card - Lou Leonard Scrapbook Page - Volunteer needed NEW BUSINESS
TWO DSC WORKSHOPS SCHEDULED - Villages High School Computer Lab Saturday, February 20 - 9 AM to Noon - Scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements Software Saturday, March 20 - 9 AM to Noon - Scrapbooking with Scrapbook Factory Software Cost for each workshop is $10.00. Please make check payable to Digital Scrapbooking Club. Each class will accommodate 20 people.
CLUB LIBRARY - Sharon Otto will manage a new club library consisting of member-created CD’s. CD’s planned for distribution include backgrounds, fonts, papers, etc. Members will pay a deposit of $5.00 to “rent” each CD. “Rent” to be refunded on return of CD. TODAY’S PROGRAM Sue Allie - Mixed Media Cards Sue’s passion is butterfly’s. Check out her butterfly website at www/suesbutterflyhaven.com. Sue creates beautiful greeting cards and she gave an excellent “how-to” demonstration using Scrapbook Factory. It was very detailed and very interesting. You had to be there! Thanks Sue, for a very fine job!
MARGIE’S SCRAPBOOK TIP OF THE DAY How to eliminate the “white box” in Scrapbook Factory library graphics using Scrapbook Factory software. You can’t! How to eliminate the “white box” in Scrapbook Factory library graphics using PowerPoint software. You can! Here are the steps: 1. Open up PowerPoint and insert the graphic. The graphic can be copied from the scrapbook page or inserted from the menu in PowerPoint 2. To reduce the size of the picture, right click on the picture and click on Size and Position. From the Size and Position dialog box set the height for the size to 4” This will make it easier to work with. 3. From the menu, click on Format 4. Click on ReColor 5. Click on Set Transparent Color 6. Move the mouse on the picture. You will see the transparent tool attached to the mouse pointer. Click on the color you wish to make transparent 7. Right click on the picture and click on Save as a Picture. 8. Type the name you want to give the picture 9. For the Save as Type box, click on the down arrow and choose .png 10. Click on the Save button. 11. Return to Scrapbook Factory and insert the picture file on the page. It works pretty well on 90% of the graphics Give it a try… Q&A - Again, no time! Next meeting is scheduled at LAKE MIONA - JANUARY 19, 2010. Program: There has been a change in the program. As soon as we have a new program confirmed, you will be notified by e-mail. Winners bring in Winning Entries to show Digital Scrapbook Tip- Margie Question & Answer Time PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO REGULARLY SCHEDULED DSC meetings in the months of February and March. The Villages requires we must give up our regularly scheduled meeting dates/rooms in exchange for our Competition and Expo events. Regular club meetings resume in April, at which time dues for the “new year“ will be collected, and new officers elected. The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM.
Respectfully submitted, Barbara Grill, Co-Secretary
April 2010—Mulberry Chapter Minutes Digital Scrapbooking Club
The Digital Scrapbooking Club met at noon on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at Mulberry Grove Recreation Center. The meeting was called to order by President Margie Whiddon who welcomed 35 members and 4 guests. Members’ prior winning pages were displayed as examples for members to view.
OLD BUSINESS Jean Bateman delivered pre-ordered Club shirts to members . Shirts are $13.00.
NEW BUSINESS Election of Officers for Both Chapters Miona - April 20 - Open positions: Vice President Mulberry - May 4 - Open positions: VP, Co-VP, Secretary, Co-Secretary, Treasurer, Co-Treasurer If you would like to add your name to the ballot for voting, please send Margie an email.
“Smart Computing” Magazine - Margie subscribes to this magazine which is an excellent source of technical computer support. help for your computer. The cost of $39.95/yr is worth the price.
TODAY’S PROGRAM Lou Leonard - Greeting Card Factory Deluxe #8 - Nova Development Due to technical difficulties, Lou’s presentation was delayed. Nonetheless, Lou explained the many types of cards possible with Greeting Card Factory. She distributed a handout listing the features of Scrapbook Factory vs. Greeting Card Factory. Greeting Card Factory has over 9000 different selections in categories from A to P: announcements, to holiday postcards. During this time Lou shared samples of her GCF creations, which were many and beautiful.
When the technical difficulties were resolved with the help of the recreation center “tech,“ Lou continued the presentation demonstrating the steps to creating a birthday card for one of the members. Lou had some tips for members: Buy papers at Staples when they have a “2 for 1” sale. Use double sided glossy “brochure” paper for cards How to change the size of a card within the software
With so many different kinds of cards, Margie noted we may have a Card’s Workshop in the future.
Future Meeting Programs - Margie invites all members to submit ideas to the Board for programs they would like to see presented at meetings.
MARGIE’S SCRAPBOOK TIP OF THE DAY Margie suggested members download FREE software from the internet. Members may go to www.DSE.com to “collect a kit” for free, downloading a FREE summary page, then one graphic a day, e.g. a Soccer Kit. There are a lot of “freebies” to take advantage of including special papers, embellishments, etc. Margie saves these downloads in a folder under Digital Scrapbook Club.
SHOW & TELL
Pat ? Shared a wonderful project she created for her mother. It is a CD incorporating a “lifetime” or “lifeline” of pictures. Pat created the project using Picasa and added music to it. This is a really lovely idea that could be used for any occasion, birthday, anniversary, graduation, memorial service, wedding, etc.
Linda Manson suggested the use of an external drive to store all pictures and SFD creations, e.g. one external drive dedicated to SFD. This makes your work easily portable!
Q&A - Again, no time! Next meeting is scheduled at LAKE MIONA - April 20, 2010.
Program: I Took the Picture—What now? - Barbara Grill A Scrapbooking Tip Show and Tell with Question and Answer Session Digital Designs by Our Members
Note: 2010 Dues are payable as of April.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM.
Respectfully submitted, Barbara Grill, Secretary
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2010 - Mulberry Chapter
Minutes - May 2010
The Digital Scrapbooking Club met at noon on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at Mulberry Grove Recreation Center. The meeting was called to order by President Margie Whiddon who welcomed 30 members and 3 guests
During a short delay due to computer problems, Cathy Johnson showed a booklet she made from scanned pictures from the Villages Magazine. Cindy Dilks makes an annual scrapbook for herself with pictures she has taken during the year.
Margie treated us to a display of party materials she had made for her husband’s 80th birthday using the Scrapbook Factory program. She created a Valentine theme, with colors, hearts and picture of her husband that was used on all party materials.
1. Made invitation including directions to location. 2. Made name badges using adhesive backed sheets with 8 to a page. 3. Made table tents to reserve specific tables for family, etc. 4. Made table numbers by modifying the table tent into smaller sections. 5. For a Mixer developed question sheets for game, “Getting to Know You”. 6. Favor was small Hershey bar--she sized a wrapper to fit around bar cut with fancyscissors and printed with a nice saying and the continuing Valentine theme. *Linda Manson mentioned that you can Google candy paper wrappers and get some wrapper templates. 7. Made a program of party events, 2 to a regular sized page. 8. Margie had a photographer take pictures of the guests and party. Used pictures to make a scrapbook page for each guest, couple or family. 9. Made a guestbook for guests to sign. 10. Maureen Clark made an 80th Birthday Ribbon for her husband. 11. Margie is still in the process of making a book of the party. She is scanning pictures and did a heart collage of all the cards. The whole process showed how useful Scrapbook Factory is and how amazing Margie is to be able to use it to its full capabilities.
Announcements 1. T-shirts are available for $13.00. Make check payable to Digital Scrapbooking Club. 2. Magnet badge backs are available for $1.00 each.
Point of interest for Mac users - Program VM Fusion can be used to convert Scrapbook Factory for use on Mac computers.
Nominations for Mulberry Chapter
Vice President - Linda Manson Co- Vice President - Cathy Johnson Secretary - Open Co-Secretary - Open Treasurer - Al Williamson Co-Treasurer - Ruth Horner
It was moved, seconded and voted on by the group that these officers be elected. The two open offices will be filled at a later date.
The next Digital Scrapbook Meeting is at Lake Miona on May 18, 2010 at 9:00 AM to 11 AM. The next meeting for the Mulberry Chapter is June 8, 2010 at noon to 2 PM.
Today’s Program
Judy O’Neill - How To Make Business Cards
Judy asked,“Why Make Business Cards”? 1. Give to new people you meet. 2. Has all info on it for joining clubs, classes or special ordering in a store.
“Why Print Your Own Business Cards”? 1. You can print the amount needed. 2. You don’t have to pay for layout. 3. You have a choice of design with no charge. 4. It is easy to print more when you need them.
There are many different packages of business card stock to choose from, such as matte, glossy, linen, ivory, perforated, two sided, for inkjet or laser printers.
To start your design, go to Start from Scratch, Matching Sets & Labels, Labels, and then look for business card blank template. There are no already designed templates in the program, but you create your own card the same as creating a scrapbook page, just on a smaller scale. You insert text, add background, add graphics or pictures, if desired. Judy showed examples of her husband’s business card and one from Al Williamson. She, also, mentioned going on the web to get pictures or images you might want to use on your card. Judy did an excellent job and went into much more detail than can be presented here.
Margie’s Scrapbook Factory Tip of the Day
Make Any Font Bolder - Sometimes you have a font you want to use but it doesn’t stand out. 1. Type text, box it, Bold it. Copy the bold version and Paste it. 2. Go to Color Tab. Choose Line, either 0.5 or 1.0 is good, in same color as text. This actually puts a line around text. You can make it as thick as you want.
Changes in Version #5 of Scrapbook Factory
1. No Tab & Tool Bars - now Ribbon. 2. Can take Action Tool Bar off if you want more space. 3. No Insert - right click and it appears. 4. Use Control T for text box. 5. Hold Shift Key down to select more than one item. 6. Hold Control Key down for random selection. 7. Zoom Tool is now a slide bar at bottom right. 8. Search feature of Graphic now on top right side of page. 9. There is no Position Tab Box - must use Forward Tab & Backward Tab. 10. Fonts & Graphics - 2nd disk. Margie especially likes font called “Snow Caps”. Must save ones you want to a folder. There are too many to put on computer.
No time for questions. Meeting was adjorned.
Respectfully submitted, Marcie Fairbanks Co-Secretary
June 2010—Mulberry Chapter MinutesDigital Scrapbooking ClubIntroduction
The Digital Scrapbooking Club met at noon on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, at Mulberry Grove Rec Center. Linda Manson, Co-Vice President, opened the meeting and welcomed one new member (Jane Millar of Santo Domingo) and two guests; 30 members were present. To date, the Mulberry Chapter has 71 paid members.
Announcements
Cindy Dilks announced the Florida Carriage Museum will be presenting a free lecture on Photography. She suggested that members check the Daily Sun for announcement of the new date as it was previously scheduled for June 7, but the date has been changed. Lou Leonard will send out email notices to both club members of the change and new information.
Transition of New Members
Officers began serving their new 12-month term beginning June 2010. Co-Vice President and Co-Secretary positions are still open. The following officers comprise the Board of Directors:
Margie Whiddon, President Linda Manson, Vice President (vacancy for Co-VP) Cathy Johnson, Secretary (vacancy for Co-Sec) Al Williamson, Treasurer Ruth Horner, Co-Treasurer
July Activities
Mulberry Chapter -- Signs and Posters (Marcie Fairbanks) Lake Miona Chapter -- check website for latest activity (www.digitalscrapbookingclub.info).
Today’s Program
Al Williamson presented a demo on "Where Are My Pictures." There were many suggestions, questions, and help offered. Al had some problems using Nancy's laptop with VISTA and it created a lot of angst for him! But all in all, it went well. Nancy Borden also showed how she organizes her picture files. The demonstration prompted a lot of discussion of different ways to organize pictures.
BREAK & Q&A
Show & Tell
New Member Jane Millar passed around a photobook, that included some very old pictures.
Cathy Johnson showed a scrapbook page that was created from a CGI picture.
Lou Leonard showed many things she had created for a party.
Lou Ann (?) showed a photobook she had created.
Old Business 1. Visit Website -The club website is www.digitalscrapbookingclub.info. Members are invited to submit SF pages for display on the website. Choose one page, change to a jpg file and email as an attachment to Margie at mwhiddon@comcast.net.
2. Help Disk - Help with creating your pages is available from current members. Submit your question to Margie at mwhiddon@comcast.net. Include your name and the program you need help with. Someone will get back to you. Help is available for Scrapbook Factory, Photoshop Elements, Windows Moviemaker, PowerPoint, MS Word, Photo Story and Photo Show.
The next meeting will be June 15 at Lake Miona, 9 to 11 AM. Bring your projects for Show & Tell!
The meeting adjourned at 1:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Cathy Johnson, Secretary 352-217-9162 cybercat@thevillages.net
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February and March 2010—Mulberry Chapter Minutes Digital Scrapbooking Club Due to the annual competition in February and the expo in March, there are no minutes to post for these two months.
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