September Page Goal Challenge Winner Each month, Shaker Designer Kristi likes to challenge the Shaker Box members to set a page goal and then go for it. We are happy to announce that one of our hard working Shaker Box Interns has won the Page Goal drawing for the month of September. Sharon set her monthly goal for 10 layouts and exceeded her goal by creating 11 layouts. Way to go Sharon! If you need some motivation to get some pages done this month, come and join the October Page Goal Challenge. We will keep one another accountable to get those layouts done. ----------------- Use Your Stash Challenge Time to use up some of that stash, stick to a budget, and create some valuable scrapping space, and best of all get some layouts completed!! The Use Your Stash Challenge will help you do all of these things, if you are brave enough to try it! We had two winners in the September Stash Challenge, Mackey/Mac & Sandra/gmathis. Mackey won a prize for being the first one to reach 1000 points. Sandy won for having the overall highest points total with 1055 points. Way to go, ladies! That is the way to scrap and use up LOTS of your stash! If you would like to join the October Stash Challenge, we would love to have you! The prize guidelines have changed this month, so please visit the thread in our Challenge forum for full Stash Challenge details. ----------------- Theme & Technique Challenge Every month, The Shaker Box focuses on one theme and one technique. Our October theme is Friendship. With such a special topic, what better way to document it than creating a touching layout that will capture those treasured moments forever. The Shaker Box Designers have created some wonderful Friendship layouts for you to discover in the Shaker Box Gallery. Please visit our gallery today and add your own wonderful creations for our community to admire! Our October technique is Monochromatic. This technique is popular for highlighting and focusing on your photos. A monochromatic color scheme also greatly enhances the ambiance of a layout. Visit our Technique Gallery to see the layouts that the Designers and members have uploaded. What will your next monochromatic creation be? ----------------- Shake It Up Challenges Shaker Designer Mickey will inspire you each week with a new layout challenge. Challenges can help motivate you in getting a layout done and can also create some interesting diversity. So try something today you normally wouldn't and have fun! You can see all of Mickey's Challenges in our Shaker Challenge forum. We had many fun challenges issued during our Grand Opening weekend. Since not everyone was able to complete all of those challenges, this week Mickey has challenged us all to complete one of the Grand Openings challenges. Which one will you choose? ----------------- Card Challenges If you enjoy creating cards with your scrapbooking supplies, then you will love the challenges that Shaker Designer Jen is posting to our Challenge forum. You can join the monthly card challenge by setting a card goal and posting to the thread when you complete one! Lets see how many cards you can make in one month. Jen also announces a new specific card challenge each week. This week's challenge is to do a card inspired from an ad that you've recently seen. Advertising is a wonderful inspirational tool! Magazine ads, billboard ads and even commercials can inspire you to use different color combinations or organize elements on the card differently. You may even find a clever catch phrase or saying that would be perfect for your creations. Either way, use those ads to create a unique and different card! We would love to see them! .
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Halloween 101!
Night-time Photography Tips Halloween photographs consists of spooks, ghouls and night time. So, how do you do it? FLASH. It is the best way to lighten things up, but Get in close. You will want to be close to your trick-or-treater as they run to the door for their goodies, so plan ahead. Make sure you get in there, and fill in the frame. Try and get in at an angle that will allow you to get their faces and not their backsides. If you want to take pictures of lit pumpkins or Halloween lights, you have a couple of options: Option One - Turn off your flash and put your Option Two - Use the night setting on your camera The best shots of your little ghouls may be the ones you take in the light, the ones of their costumes, and those you take right before sunset, just enough light to capture the spirit. Remember to take extra film and a jacket, take extra shots and most of all, remember to have a safe and FUN Halloween!
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D e s i g n T e a m Search Contest! TheShakerBox.com is looking for a new Design Team Member! If you would like a place to call your home away from your scraproom, we want you for our design team contest! Our wonderful community is dedicated to education your creativity. We hope to inspire imaginations, awaken memories & assist you in creating scrapbooking masterpieces that will last for generations to come. A place where you can learn exciting new techniques, share layouts, discuss products, participate in challenges and network with fellow scrappers. We have put together a very talented Design Team with diverse styles and expertise to help others in their creative journey. However, we are looking for one more incredible designer to round out our team! Have what it takes? Then feel free to apply for the position. Applicants must possess the following:
Our Design Team Members minimum requirements are:
The benefits of joining TheShakerBox.com Design Team are:
For consideration, please email Michele at michele@theshakerbox.com with the answers the following questions in addition to submitting 2-5 of your best layouts in the Shaker DT Search Gallery showcasing your talents. Questions:
Our Design Team contest deadline is November 15th, midnight. All submissions will need to be emailed/uploaded before then to be considered. You may also submit via Scrapsubmit as well. ---------------------------- Submission Guidelines: 1. Submit up 2-5 layouts to our gallery via either scrapsubmi, via emailt or directly to our gallery forum. Layouts submitted via ScrapSubmit will be posted to the contest gallery under a 'scrapsubmit entry' username. Your name will be listed in the description area. Submitting a layout via email constitutes your permission to post it in our gallery at www.theshakerbox.com. 2. Layouts must be your own original work. If you were inspired by another artist or layout - please indicate it in the description area. 3. A 2-page layout will count as one layout. 4. Maximum width of each page should be about 600 pixels. Also, please make sure that each layout is less than 100k in file size. 5. Layouts must not have been picked up for publishing or previously published. 6. Layouts should not have won any contests in the past. Please note: If we do receive adequate entries for Design Team consideration, we reserve the right to extend the contest until such time as a Design Team member can be found.
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you will be fighting red eye. If your camera has it, use the red-eye reducer. You may also try this trick: Have your participants look into their flashlights just prior to snapping the picture. That will shrink the size of the pupil opening. If that doesn't work, you may want to bring it home and touch it up on the computer. If all else fails, there are red-eye pens out there. Of course, given the nature of the holiday, red-eye may add some character to your little spooks pictures. 
camera on a tripod or other sturdy surface (that's a MUST). Adding additional candles inside the pumpkins will really improve the glow. Placing candles behind and around your pumpkins will also add a nice effect. Pumpkin photos taken with the flash turned off are best taken at dusk and not when it is completely dark. 
(with flash). That function tries to balance a dark figure and a lit background. You will loose some but not all of the pumpkin's glow. Use this as a back-up option in case your photos without flash turn out blurry. 
