Angie Pedersen's Scrapbooking Industry News

CK Media Launches CliqueTV

Seen in a email blast from CK Media today:

As part of CK Media's commitment to reporting new ideas, products and services designed to enhance and expand your crafting experience, CK Media would like to introduce you to CliqueTV.

Each day a new Cliqueisode will be delivered to your mailbox, along with downloadable video tips and inspirational cards, celebrity recipes and more.... but you have to do one little thing. Sign up now to connect to your life: http://mycliquetv.com/join.php.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to be entertained, amused and inspired. And above all, remember this is your Clique... you order the dynamic content you want to see and we'll deliver it!

In the coming weeks look to CliqueTV for:

• Clique News: Clique News is light on fluff and heavy on exclusive sales, discounts, promotions, and special offers that are the crème de la crème of the scrapbooking industry. Each deal has a very short half-life and is available only to Clique News subscribers.
• Clique-o-Grams: Connect to friends & family online... Hundreds of original templates; personalized with your photos, music, journaling and style. Staying connected has never been easier.
• Contests: Look for the "Connect to Life" One Minute Clip Contest set to launch in week two. Moms, Dads and Kids are invited to upload their edited one-minute Family Event, Vacation, Sport, Pet, Tips & Tricks and Short Movie clips to CliqueTV. Each month a category winner will be announced, and the winner will receive a Canon Camcorder and video enabled iPod! Details in next week's Clique News.
• Clique-SN: Launching in January. [No further information available at this time]

Digital Photography Book Named Book Award Finalist

Resource Written for Time-Starved Shutterbugs Named Award Winning Finalist of the Best Books 2006 Awards   

SAN MARCOS, TX (OCTOBER 25, 2006) – USABookNews.com, a premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of its “BEST BOOKS 2006” BOOK AWARDS (BBA).  Among the titles chosen was “Digital Photography for Busy Women: How to Manage, Protect and Preserve Your Favorite Photos (Compass Trade Press, ISBN 0-9774727-2-8), which was named a Finalist in the Photography category.

“So many women find themselves with more technology than time these days,” stated author Laura Oles, "if I’m able to help them enjoy digital photography a bit more, I’ll consider it a great success.”

Jeff Bowen, president of USABookNews.com, said of the title, “Digital Photography for Busy Women is full of useful information that you will reference again and again. Well-written and organized, you’ll want this book in your library if you want to get the full benefits of your computer and digital camera.”

Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, New American Library a division of the Penguin Group, Red Wheel Weiser and Conari, New World Library, and hundreds of independent press titles contributed to this year’s outstanding BBA competition.

About USABookNews.com
USABookNews.com is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. USABN Magazine Online is the monthly electronic magazine e-mailed free to a large cross-section of the book buying public. Los Angeles based, JPX Media is the parent company of USABookNews.com.

About Author Laura Oles
Laura Oles is a photo industry journalist and the author of Digital Photography for Busy Women:  How to Manage, Protect and Preserve Your Favorite Photos (Compass Trade Press, ISBN 0-9774727-2-8).   A founding team member of Pixel Magic Imaging, she left the company in July 2005 to dedicate her time to helping busy women make the most of today’s technologies.  As the mother of three small kids, she spends so much time running that she’s considered asking Nike® for an endorsement. She is grateful her husband has a sense of humor.

For free resources, downloads and tips, please visit www.gotdigitalpictures.com.

Enthusiast Media Announces New Name: CKmedia

Via Craftrends News Headlines:

CKmedia is the new dba name of Enthusiast Media LLC, which remains the legal name of the company that includes Craftrends, MemoryTrends, Creating Keepsakes, Simple Scrapbooks, Paper Crafts Magazine, McCall’s Quilting, McCall’s Quick Quilts, Quiltmaker, Quilter’s Newsletter, Sew News, and Creative Machine Embroidery.

“We wanted to create a name that leverages the strength and heritage of our company,” said Dave O’Neil, ceo, “yet works across the breadth of the organization. We’re more than publishing, we’re more than scrapbooking, sewing, and quilting. We’re more than events and we’re more than products. We have a story to tell and our name helps tell that story.

“At our core, it’s not what we make, but what we make possible. CK is a powerful acronym that goes beyond Creating Keepsakes just as IBM goes beyond International Business Machines. For those in the crafting industry, CK can apply equally to sewing and quilting as it does scrapbooking and paper crafting.”

Martha Stewart to Speak at CHA

Via Craftrends News Headlines:

Martha Stewart will appear as the keynote speaker at the Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) winter show in Anaheim, California. She will speak Sunday, January 28, 2007, at 6 p.m., and will share her stories of her lifelong love of crafting.

Tickets are $25 for CHA members and $50 for non-members when purchased before the show; $50 for members and $100 for non-members when purchased on site. Ordering information should be available online at www.craftandhobby.org in early November.

Scrap Everything: New Novel Highlights Scrapbooking

Scrap Everything: A novel that brings the love of scrapbooking together with the love of scrapbooking

Colorado Springs, CO -- From author Leslie Gould, Scrap Everything (Waterbrook Press, October 2006) -- In the community of a scrapbook shop, two women develop an unlikely friendship during one of the most difficult and rewarding years of their lives.  Scrap Everything is a story about living courageously, letting go of guilt and control, and embracing the bond that comes when women gather.

A month after Elise Shelton and her family arrive in Forest Falls, Oregon, she wanders into Rebekah Graham's scrapbooking store.  Elise deems Rebekah too chatty, and judges scrapbooking to be another guilt-inducing chore, but she's also drawn to the community of women who gather to crop their photos, lay out pages, and share their lives.

When Elise's recently retired husband is called back into the army, the women try to rally around Elise.  As her oldest son's bad behavior becomes more pronounced, Elise blames herself -- and then blames others.  Not until she lets go of her past does she find freedom.

Meanwhile, Rebekah's daughter, Pepper, needs a kidney transplant, challenging Rebekah to let go of control and trust God to provide the right kidney.  When Elise finds out that she and Pepper have the same blood type, she must decide how much she's willing to risk for others.

As both Elise and Rebekah battle to overcome their fears and to grow in faith, they experience unexpected gifts that change their lives.

Leslie Gould works as a writer in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband Peter, and four children.  Her previous novels include Garden of Dreams and Beyond the Blue.

Editor's Note: Read my review of this book: Scrap Everything review

technorati tags: scrapbooking, new+fiction, Leslie+Gould

PURSuE Your Art! Releases Two-Pocket Purse

PURSuE Your Art! has added a new two-pocket purse to their line of changeable art purses.  These purses hold two 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards.  Artists can display handmade cards, swap cards, pen pal cards, or beautiful greeting cards.

Use paper, fabric or paint to decorate both sides of the blank panels and pocket cards provided. Embellish the cards with clip art, photos, buttons and more, or add your own photos, greeting cards or Artist Trading Cards to the pockets.

This two-pocket purse is made of high quality, durable vinyl. It measures approximately 8" high, 3" deep and 11" wide. The 29" ball chain handle is covered by a clear tube that makes it sturdy and attractive. Each purse includes 5 blank panels that make up the front, back, sides and bottom of the purse, and 2 blank 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" pocket cards that you can decorate with your own art then slip into the pockets of the purse. The pockets (1 on the front and 1 on the back of purse) even have room for 3D embellishments.

technorati tags: changeable+art+purse, Pursue+Your+art, scrapbooking, altered+art, artist+trading+cards

Call for Submissions: Brainiac Scrapbooking

SUBMISSIONS FOR BRAINIAC SCRAPBOOKING

DUE DATE: Dec 1st 2006

Brainiac Scrapbooking is seeking layouts to use as a fitness card in their monthly scrapbooking kit club, the Scrapbook Workout.  Layouts selected for publication will be strong in one or more of the 10 Brainiac Scrapbooking Cures (see Scrapbooking Cures here). Submit projects to submissionsATbrainiacscrapbooking.com. In your email subject heading, indicate what CURE your layout features.

HINTS:

• 2 page layouts are strongly recommended
• Send supply lists and journaling
• Remember to note which Cure/category in the subject line
• Winners will receive the Scrapbook Workout for the month in which their work is featured

Visit BrainiacScrapbooking.com for more info

technorati tags: scrapbooking, Brainiac, Jenna+LaRose

MemoryTrends Statistics

Drawing from previous MemoryTrends Statistics, and those recently released...

MemoryTrends 2004 Trade Show

• 385 exhibitors in 882 booths
• Attendance: 5,203 buyers, exhibitors, and other industry personnel

MemoryTrends 2005 Trade Show

• 388 exhibitors in 1,027 booths
• Attendance: 5,395 buyers, exhibitors, and other industry personnel

MemoryTrends 2006 Trade Show

• 300 exhibitors in 1033 booths
• Attendance: 4,773 buyers, exhibitors, and other industry personnel (of that, 2266 were non-exhibiting attendees.)

Next year’s show is September 18-20 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas (about a month earlier than this year's Expo).

MemoryTrends 2006: EK SUCCESS

New from EK Success:  Curvy Cutter Kits.  These kits are available in Oval, Rounded Square, and Circle, and come with an tool that has an ergonomic handle that swivels for one step cutting and a two-sided blade that cuts in both directions. The Curvy Cutter Cutting Tool Kits include both the cutting tool and shape template set, as well as positioning and alignment guides.  Each template creates 22-24 sizes ranging from 2-1/4" to 7-½", and creates 1/8" mats. Cutting outside the track creates additional sizes.

Craftrends to Launch MemoryTrends Magazine

Trade magazine Craftrends announced at a reception last night that they will be launching a new sister publication starting next year: Memorytrends magazine. 

From the informational flyer:

What started as a section in Craftrends Magazine is now a comprehensive scrapbooking magazine in itself!  MemoryTrends Magazine provides valuable information that helps retailers run their business.  And it's devoted entirely to the scrapbooking and papercraft industry!  With more features and more in-depth coverage of topics specific to Scrapbooking and PaperCrafts, you can expect the same quality editorial conttent you've come to know and love from Craftrends mgazine.  Our circulation remians the best qualified in the industry -- more than 18,000 readers involved in scrapbooking!

It will feature much of the same topics as the original Craftrends publication, but focusing on the scrapbooking and papercrafting industry -- topics such as marketing & merchandizing, promotional event planning, advice from Kizer & Bender, legal issues, publicity, product previews, industry news & trends, and trade show recaps.  Memorytrends.com will be 'home base' for the magazine, as well as acting as the registration and information site for the trade show of the same name.

The magazine will be headed by the current editorial team of Craftrends, with Bill Gardner as Editorial Director, and Beth Hess moving up into the Editor position.

The premiere issue will be February 2007, and will be available at the Craftrends booth at the Winter Craft & Hobby Association Show (CHA-Winter).  10 issues are scheduled for publication in 2007: February, March, April, May, June/July, August, September, October November, and December.