ÿþ<html> <head> <title>StoryTellers Monthly News Letter&mdash;August 07</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#E0E9E4" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-image: url(images/NLBG.jpg); background-repeat: repeat-y;"> <tr> <td> <table id="Table_01" width="700" height="356" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td rowspan="11"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_01.jpg" width="346px" height="356px" alt=""></td> <td colspan="4"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_02.jpg" width="354px" height="43px" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="10"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_03.jpg" width="9px" height="313px" alt=""></td> <td colspan="2"> <a href="http://www.storytellersclub.com"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_04.jpg" width="273px" height="68px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> <td rowspan="10"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_05.jpg" width="72px" height="313px" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_06.jpg" width="273px" height="47px" alt=""></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="8"> <img src="images/NewsLetter_07.jpg" width="15px" height="198px" alt=""></td> <td> <a href="#1"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_08.jpg" width="258px" height="20px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#2"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_09.jpg" width="258px" height="20px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#3"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_10.jpg" width="258px" height="19px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#4"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_11.jpg" width="258px" height="21px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#5"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_12.jpg" width="258px" height="33px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#6"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_13.jpg" width="258px" height="20px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <a href="#7"> <img src="images/Untitled-3_14.jpg" width="258px" height="21px" border="0" alt=""></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="images/NewsLetter_15.jpg" width="258px" height="44px" alt=""></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <table width="590px"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="1" /> <img src="images/n1.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b>Hello from Leslie</b><br /> Hello Everyone! Can you believe we&#180;re already in the final days of summer? It&#180;s so sad for me. I&#180;m such a summer girl! Clay and I were able to take a vacation for a week and spend some time at the beach. We did some SCUBA diving and a lot of relaxing. It was great to get re-charged. We&#180;ve never had a relaxing vacation before. It took us a few days to get in the swing of things, but by the time we left we were pros. Now it&#180;s back to work  though secretly we&#180;re dreaming of warm blue water and sandy beaches. How about you? What are your best memories of summer so far this year? Have you been able to get some of those photos scrapbooked? (I haven&#180;t& ..shhhh!) <br /> <br /> We&#180;ve had great feedback about doing a newsletter each month. We&#180;ve even heard from quite a few of you who have completed the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.storytellersclub.com/NewsLetter/Tutorials/"> Creative Expressions Workshop</a> projects and loved them. Yea!!! I love them too. Aren&#180;t they cute? I absolutely love both the wall canvas and the mini album with flip-flop covers. I find myself wondering what Alayna will come up with next. I really want to do a Flip Flop mini album with the Beach set from the July pack. And, I&#180;m going to make a wall canvas for my sister with some of her family pictures. She&#180;s living with us while her husband is in Iraq. Thanks to Alayna, I have a great gift I can make and give her that she&#180;ll absolutely adore! These projects make great gifts you can make for your friends and family. I can&#180;t wait to make this month&#180;s project. It&#180;s a decorative storage box that turned out so cute! Make sure you go take a look! <br /> <br /> We have two conventions coming up in September. We&#180;ll be at the CK Convention in Phoenix on the 14th and 15th. Then we&#180;ll be in Sandy, UT for the Original Scrapbook USA expo on the 28th and 29th. If you&#180;re in the area, make sure you stop by and say hi! We&#180;d love to see you. If you purchase anything at our booth, be sure to tell us you&#180;re a member so you get your discount. <br /> <br /> Ok, enough of this. Let&#180;s get on with the newsletter so you can see what&#180;s happening. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="2" /> <img src="images/n2.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b>Show Your Pride</b><br /> <a href="http://www.iboutique.com/cgi-bin/myers/start.cgi/iboutique/orderform/ReadersChoice/ballot.html" target="_blank"><img src="images/2_1.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="176" height="118" /></a> It&#180;s that time of year again for the Creating Keepsakes Readers&#180; Choice Awards. Last year was the first year StoryTellers participated and we received enough votes to be one of the finalists in the Scrapbook Club category. We would like to thank all our incredible members whose votes helped us beat out many other clubs. <br /> <br /> This year, we are shooting for the gold! Being a finalist was nice, but we want to show all the other clubs who has the best members. To help StoryTellers increase our ranking over last year and be voted as The Best Scrapbook Club, simply <a href="http://www.iboutique.com/cgi-bin/myers/start.cgi/iboutique/orderform/ReadersChoice/ballot.html" target="_blank">click here</a> to visit CK&#180;s website and place a vote for your favorite scrapbooking products on the market. You can vote for as few or as many categories as you like. Also, just for voting, you&#180;ll be entered to win one of ten copies of the Scrapbook Hall of Fame, Volume 9. <br /> <br /> The three categories StoryTellers has been nominated for are: Scrapbook Clubs, Scrapbook Kits, and Software. All three of these categories are on page 4 of the voting website, so don&#180;t forget to cast your vote before October 15, 2007 and show your StoryTellers Pride. <br /> <br /> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="590px"> <tr> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="3" /> <img src="images/n3.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b>Members Only Blowout Sale</b><br /> Ready for some shopping? We&#180;ve put together some great products at members only pricing. For only $10, you can receive our August&#180;s Spring Combo Kit (March AND April 2004 Seasonal Product Packs - minus the zippered project folders). That&#180;s a great price for both packs, right? It gets even better. These packs make great gifts, so to make it even more affordable to get additional packs, for every 3 Spring Combo Kits you purchase, you&#180;ll receive 1 Spring Combo Kit for free. (That works out to be $30 for 8 Seasonal Product Packs!) This offer is only valid while supplies last. If you&#180;d like to see what&#180;s included in each pack, <a target="_blank" href="https://secure.storytellersclub.com/login.asp?opt=ShowSpecials">Click Here</a> to log into your account, view the products, and make your purchases. </td> </tr> </table> <table width="590px"> <tr> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="4" /> <img src="images/n4.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.storytellersclub.com/NewsLetter/Tutorials/">Creative Expressions Workshop</a></b><br /> Are you ready to get creative? I love this month&#180;s Workshop. Not only is it just too cute, it&#180;s also functional and something I can really use. I don&#180;t know about you, but I&#180;m always looking for cute storage ideas. <img src="images/4_1.jpg" align="left" width="230" height="176" />This decorative card storage box (not to mention the fun card ideas) is great for storing and organizing your cards. There are sections for all sorts of cards like: Birthday, Baby, Congratulations, Just Because, Love You, Sympathy and more. (I think I might make two and use one of them to store and organize my stickers. Hmmmm...... maybe another one for my receipts!) I love to make cards, and I&#180;ve finally gotten smart about it. When I make a card, I do quite a few while I&#180;m at it. This box will make a great place to keep them until I&#180;m ready to send one out. <br /> <br /> If you haven&#180;t done so yet, stop by our <a target="_blank" href="http://www.storytellersclub.com/NewsLetter/Tutorials/"> Creative Expressions Workshop</a> and give one of these great projects a try. They may look difficult to do, but don&#180;t worry about it! Alayna takes us through the entire process one simple step at a time, with plenty of photos to show you just how to do things. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="5" /> <img src="images/n5.gif" width="30" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalexpressclub.com/Signup.aspx?opt=Member">Digital eXpress</a> savings for StoryTellers Club Members!</b><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> As you are probably aware, StoryTellers has launched an incredible website for digital scrapbookers called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalexpressclub.com/Signup.aspx?opt=Member">Digital eXpress</a>. Digital eXpress is StoryTellers way of simplifying the costs and headache of getting into digital scrapbooking. Digital eXpress offers an online library of thousands of digital products, sets, ready-made pages and Scrapbook MAX templates all ready to be included in your digital OR traditional albums. That&#180;s right, digital products can very easily be used in your traditional paper and glue albums. </td> <td valign="bottom" align="right"> <img src="images/5_1.jpg" align="right" width="218" height="146" /> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <br /> <br /> The idea of using digital and traditional scrapbooking products together has been labeled Hybrid Scrapbooking and is becoming quite popular. Most people think to do digital scrapbooking you need a powerful computer, </td> <td valign="top" align="right"> <img src="images/5_2.jpg" align="right" width="103" height="70" /> </td> </tr> </table> expensive software and an even more expensive large-format printer. This is not the case at all. In order to take advantage of the unlimited products available on Digital eXpress for hybrid scrapbooking, all you need is a typical computer, internet access, and a standard inkjet printer. <br /> <br /> Hybrid scrapbooking uses digital embellishments, tags, borders, frames and any other items you would like to include in your scrapbook page simply printed out on your inkjet printer then cut and placed with other traditional scrapbooking products on your layout. By printing digital pieces from Digital eXpress, you now have an unlimited supply of scrapbooking products to choose from without ever leaving your home. This is the easiest way to add the final touches to your favorite layouts. <br /> <br /> To give all StoryTellers Club Members a chance to try hybrid scrapbooking with Digital eXpress we have created <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalexpressclub.com/Signup.aspx?opt=Member"> special member pricing</a> of up to 70% off, along with a 1 month free trial. <br /> <br /> Digital eXpress offers two membership levels, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalexpressclub.com/Signup.aspx?opt=Member"> eXpress Basic</a> which includes 400 eXpress Points for downloads each month at only $12.95, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalexpressclub.com/Signup.aspx?opt=Member"> eXpress Premium</a> which allows unlimited downloads each month for only $24.95. Our special member pricing allows all members signed up for the StoryTellers Ultimate Pack each month to add the eXpress Basic plan for only $5.95, and the unlimited eXpress Premium plan for only $7.95. Each member signed up for the StoryTellers Seasonal Pack can add the eXpress Basic plan for only $5.95 and the unlimited eXpress Premium plan for only $14.95. Of course, you pay nothing for the first month during your free trial period. <br /> <br /> This is a great way to try hybrid or digital scrapbooking for free and learn how your layouts can be even more fun to build and impressive to display. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="6" /> <img src="images/n6.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b>Featured Member</b><br /> Each month, we choose a member from our discussion board to be the StoryTellers featured members. This gives us a chance to spotlight and get to know that person and their talents a little better. It's a fun way to get to know each other and have a little fun. Congratulations to Augusts Featured Member, Jenn Zeller (her online name is ScrappinDiva). <a target="_blank" href="https://secure.storytellersclub.com/Community/FMhome.asp"> Click Here</a> to check out her bio and some of her layouts in the Community section of our website. (Love that  StoryTellers Girls layout Jenn!) You can also click on the "Archived Featured Members" link to view our past featured members. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <a name="7" /> <img src="images/n7.gif" width="29" height="27" /></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <b><a target="_blank" href="http://forum.storytellersclub.com/">Discussion Board</a> News</b><br /> Our <a target="_blank" href="http://forum.storytellersclub.com/">Discussion Boards</a> are more than chatting. We&#180;re always doing some fun project, contest or challenge. Come on over and check it out. There&#180;s lots of great information, fun people and entertaining activities. Our Design Team and lots of our members even put their layouts online. You can visit the Layout Galleries to see these fun pages and get great ideas for pages using StoryTellers Club products and pretty much everything else too! Congrats to the following Discussion Board Members who have won prizes recently: </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <img src="images/NLBtm.jpg" width="700" height="96" /></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>