Angie Pedersen's Scrapbooking Industry News

Disney Family.com and Sony Launch Virtual Classroom for Moms

New Disney Family.com Learning Center's Online Courses Help Moms Make the Most of Technology in Everyday Life

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--School is in session on Disney Family.com for busy moms wanting to make the most of technology in their everyday lives. Presented by Sony Electronics, the Disney Family Learning Center is a virtual classroom featuring self-paced courses created specifically for parents on topics ranging from digital photography and digital scrapbooking, to non-tech topics important to moms such as achieving work-life balance and entrepreneurship. The courses, designed by Sony Electronics and developed with guidance from online education provider Powered Inc., can be accessed by going to Disney Family.com's "Education" section or by visiting http://learningcenter.family.go.com/

The Disney Family Learning Center and its related courses were designed, developed and hosted in collaboration with Sony Electronics and online consumer education firm Powered Inc. Lessons are posted at the beginning of each month and remain accessible 24/7 until the course end date. Recommendations for relevant products are made for participants throughout the duration of the course.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Finance.

Craft In America Series to Air on PBS in May

Heads up on a new three-part series coming up on PBS at the end of May: Craft In America.

The mission of Craft in America is to document and advance original handcrafted work through programs in all media made accessible to all Americans.  We are dedicated to the exploration, preservation and celebration of craft, the work of the hand, and their impact on our nation’s cultural heritage.

CRAFT IN AMERICA is a multi-faceted journey into the origin and continuation of craft traditions. The project illustrates the craftsmanship passed from artist to artist over the last two centuries—and highlights the cultural significance of this craftsmanship. Ceramics, glass, wood, furniture, metalwork, jewelry, fiber and baskets are included in this ground-breaking project.

DOCUMENTARY: AIRING WEDNESDAY MAY 30th 2007 at 8, 9 and 10pm (check local listings)

Editor's Note: Tragically, I found no mention of scrapbooking as one of the featured crafts, but thought some of my readers might be interested in the series anyway.

Yahoo! Photos Closing

Via Photographypress.co.uk:

Thousands of photo sharing users will have to move their photos from Yahoo's Photo service because the company has said that it is closing its doors.

From the Yahoo! Photos/Closing FAQ section:

For some time now we’ve supported two great photo sharing services, Yahoo! Photos and Flickr. But even good things come to an end, and we’ve decided to focus all our efforts on Flickr...

Yahoo! Photos will begin the process of closing later this summer and will officially close this fall, after you have had time to move your photos.

Later this summer we will be asking you to make a decision about what to do with your photos and then you will have three months to choose from among the options available.

That should be more than enough time, but we encourage you to decide sooner rather than later. All users who choose to move to another service will be added to the queue for that service. So the sooner you make the decision, the sooner you’ll be have access to your photos at their new home.

After we close, we will delete all photos that have not already made the move somewhere else, so it will be important you’ve chosen from the options available – moving to another service, downloading your photos, or buying an archive CD (for users of the New Yahoo! Photos only).

Check the Closing FAQ for more information.

 

 

Yellow Fence Shirt to Raise Money for Breast Cancer

Yellow Fence has announced that they will offer a limited edition shirt & bag to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness. The items will be available at yellowfence.com from May 5th –October 31st 2007. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each limited edition item will be donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

The Yellow Fence products will include a pink t-shirt, ladies shirt, and bag. All items will be printed with the limited edition “care. crop. cure.” design in dark pink.

“Breast Cancer touches so many lives, this is our chance to give something back to the community”, said Jonathan Beckham, Vice President of Yellow Fence, Inc. Sale of the shirts and bags will begin on National Scrapbook Day and conclude at the end of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Shirts will be available through retail sales as well as to store owners who wish to carry them in their shops or use them for an event.

An estimated 178,480 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in American women in 2007 alone. As screening programs have become more common, more cases of breast cancer are being detected in the earlier stages of disease, when they are more easily and successfully treated. Since the early 1980s, diagnoses of early stage cancer and precancerous conditions have increased appreciably, while diagnoses of cases at the advanced stages have remained stable or dropped slightly.

In 1982 Susan G. Komen for the Cure launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures.

Yellow Fence will donate 25% of the profits from the sale of all "care. crop. cure." items to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. This includes wholesale orders placed by store owners as well as retail orders placed online. Yellow Fence is hoping to raise thousands of dollars to fight the war on Breast Cancer.

Skinny Cow Seeks Queen of the Crop

OAKLAND, Calif., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Calling all croppers! The Skinny Cow brand is recognizing excellence in social cropping by unveiling a contest to find and crown the "Queen of the Crop."

According to the Craft and Hobby Association, scrapbooking, a method of preserving a legacy of written history through photographs, memorabilia and embellishments, has recently become more popular than golf. With one in three households containing a scrapbooker, the hobby has grown rapidly since its modern debut in the early 1980s.

The Skinny Cow brand is inviting "scrappers" across the country to share their snipped, stamped and stenciled memories as part of a nationwide challenge in creativity. The contest involves creating a layout with two photos, a title, at least one accent or embellishment, and a journalizing block to bring the page to life. Croppers have until midnight on July 31, 2007, to submit their entries in one of the following categories:

• Best "Girls Nite Out" Page: -- From TV show watching parties to book clubs and happy hours, memories are always made when good friends come together for an evening of fun!
• Best "Crop Party" Page: -- Scrapbooking and parties go together like glitter and glue!  If your scrapbooking get-togethers go down in history, be sure to preserve memories with an amazing visual display of all the good times.
• Best "Scrapbook Convention" Page: -- Croppers across the country convene to refine skills and creativity... and not to mention, scrapbook!

The top 150 contest entries will be judged by a panel of "celebrity scrapbookers" from Creating Keepsakes and Simple Scrapbooks magazines. The grand prize winner will be crowned "Queen of the Crop," and receive a trip for four to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Three 1st prize winners (one per category) will receive a digital camera and photo printer package, and 30 2nd prize winners (10 per category) will receive a year's supply of The Skinny Cow frozen treats.

For additional contest information, a complete list of the rules, and to fill out an entry form, visit www.skinnycow.com.

ABOUT THE SKINNY COW ICE CREAM SNACKS

The Skinny Cow brand offers a variety of decadent low fat and no sugar added frozen snacks from rich and creamy ice cream sandwiches and bars to delicious ice cream cones. Since 1994, The Skinny Cow brand has made mouth- watering ice cream snacks for health-conscious dessert lovers who know that looking good and staying healthy doesn't have to mean a life without indulgence. The goal of The Skinny Cow brand is to make healthy lives a whole lot happier with amazing better-for-you ice cream snacks that are "big eats" without the "big regrets" of excess fat and calories found in conventional ice creams. For more information on the company, please visit www.skinnycow.com. Walt Disney World is not a sponsor of the "Queen of the Crop" contest or otherwise involved.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Finance

Boxer Scrapbooks Design Team Member Wins Grand Prize Winner

Tualatin, OR--Tuesday, May 1, 2007--Boxer Scrapbook productions, LLC learned Monday that Shannon Blinn, a Design Team Member of the Boxer Design Team, was the Grand Prize Winner in the Paint, Paper and Crafts 2007 Viewer Arts & Crafts Contest.

Shannon created a wall collage, using empty children's shoe boxes and a variety of craft products in her winning entry.  Those products included new Boxer Scrapbooks papers, that were just released at the CHA-Winter show in Anaheim, California.  The winning project can be seen by clicking here.

"We are so excited for Shannon, and this wonderful achievement," said Boxer Co-Owner, Angie Warhurst.  "Her project was fantastic, and we think the viewers of Paint, Paper and Crafts will love it, too!"

The winning project by Shannon will be demonstrated on air by show host Sloan Payne-Rutter in an upcoming show.

For more information on Boxer Scrapbook Productions, LLC, please visit the website at www.boxerscrapbooks.com.

For more information on Paint, Paper and Crafts and Cutters Productions, visit their website at http://www.cutterstv.com/

SOURCE: Boxer Scrapbooks Weblog