Angie Pedersen's Scrapbooking Industry News

Call for Scrapbooking Submissions: Digital Scrapbooking Oct/Nov '08

Posted on the Digital Scrapbooking magazine website:

Show Off Your Blog!
Have you used digital papers, brushes or other scrapbooking elements to jazz up your blog or website? Show us how you've applied scrapbooking products or techniques to enhance your online presence. We'd like to see a screen shot of your work (100K or less) and a URL where we can check out your creation for ourselves. Please also include the name and store information of any purchased items you've used. Submissions are due no later than April 30.

Share Your Community Story
Digital scrapbookers participate in a huge variety of online communities, from Facebook groups to store-associated forums. We're looking for stories of how digital communities have made a difference in the lives of their participants. Have you been inspired to scrapbook by a special contest or challenge? Made friends with a like-minded group of scrappers? Stepped up to the plate to support a charitable cause? Share your stories and your layouts (saved at 100K or smaller). Submissions are due no later than April 30.

Are You Cover Material?
We're looking for simply amazing reader layouts to feature on our cover. For consideration, layout should have the following: a single large, well-composed photo of one (or, at the most, two) subjects, preferably making eye contact with the camera "only with digital" techniques combined with a clean overall design legible title and minimal journaling seasonal focus--for this issue, submit fall holiday and family get-together themes. Please submit no more than three layouts to this call. Submissions are due on April 30, 2008.

Photojojo Seeks Photography Book Ideas

Photojojo.com, photo-related online store and fun newsletter, is hosting a Book Idea Contest. They're looking for great photo projects along these lines...

1. Projects for doing more with your photos: Make stuff! Build stuff! Get crafty and show off those snapshots!
2. Anything that makes it more fun to use your camera: new ways to take pictures, projects to do with your friends, anything that gives you a new perspective.
3. Surprise us! We bet you've got tricks we've never even dreamed of.

Submissions due by 2/29/08.

Call for Submissions: Digital Scrapbooking, June/July

Posted recently on Digital Scrapbooking magazine's associate editor Molly Newman's Blog:

T3: Tips, Techniques and Tutorials

Our info-packed new column, "T3," features cutting-edge techniques, tips and tutorials from our talented readers and regular contributors.

Tips. Have you found a great way to use layer blending modes? A quick fix for less-than-perfect photos? Send your tips of 50 words or fewer on any digital scrapbooking subject, along with a layout or project that illustrates the tip in action.

Techniques. Send your time- and stress-saving techniques to make scrapbooking quicker and easier, along with a layout or project that shows how you've used them to create.

Tutorials. Send your projects featuring intermediate- to advanced-level techniques, along with complete instructions for achieving the look.

Submit your work with complete contact information and materials list via e-mail. Your submission should be a JPEG file, 100K or less. Deadline is January 7.

Reality Scrapbooking: Scrapbook Your Real Life
Tell your true story by sharing the details of the less-than-perfect moments you've experienced. Whether they led you to make a positive change, taught you a valuable lesson or simply helped you develop a sense of humor about yourself, difficult times deserve to be scrapbooked too.

Send your layouts sharing the details of your real life. DSM is looking for strong and meaningful journaling and photos that capture emotion. They'd also like to hear your stories about how scrapbooking challenging times has helped you to cope with them in a positive way.

Deadline is January 7.

Visit DigitalScrapbooking.com for more info.

Call for Submissions: Scrapbooking Kids & Teens

Via the recent Scrapbooking.com e-newsletter:

Scrapbooking.com Magazine is looking for submissions from kids and teens. We would like to start a new section in the magazine but need your help. We want layouts and the stories that accompany them, created and written by clever youths. If the pages are published, they will be credited to the youth and will remain in the archives indefinitely. The kids can use this acknowledgment on resumes and college applications - they would be, after all, published artists and writers. Pretty impressive stuff for potential employers and admissions committees! I'm sure a lot of you have creative children, teach in schools or know talented teens in your community. Please pass on this information to anyone who might be interested. All aspiring young artists can contact us for more details at publisher/@/a-z.com.

Epson Announces Holiday Craft Contest

Craft and Scrapbooking Divas to Evaluate Entries; Winners to Receive Epson Products and be Featured on Epson CreativeZone Web Site

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 26, 2007 – Epson America Inc. today announced the start of  the Epson CreativeZone Holiday Craft Contest, inviting the paper craft and scrapbook community to submit their winter holiday greeting cards, scrapbook pages or holiday paper craft creations inspired by the free downloadable content on the Epson CreativeZone. Finalists will have their projects evaluated by Epson and several well-known celebrities from the craft and scrapbook community, including Rhonna Farrer, Renee Pearson and Jessica Sprague. Winning projects in each category will be featured on the Epson CreativeZone Web site during the holiday season. In addition, first prize winners in each category will receive an Epson Stylus® Photo R1800 printer, and second prize winners will receive a PictureMate Dash™.

Epson CreativeZone Holiday Craft Contest submissions will be reviewed individually by category, and contestants are welcome to submit projects in multiple categories. Submissions will be evaluated using the following criteria:

• Epson CreativeZone Patterned Page – All projects must include creative use of at least one patterned page from the Epson CreativeZone Web site, which are available to download for free. The patterned page does not need to be from a CreativeZone winter holiday project specifically.
• Winter Holiday Theme – Project submissions must display a winter holiday theme, including color scheme, design and embellishments.
• Creativity – Consideration will be given to projects that are original, innovative and inspiring.
• Functionality – Project submissions should be appealing, practical and easily re-created; projects should be designed for the beginner to intermediate levels and not require complex instructions or techniques.
• Quality – Project submissions should be completed, neat, and display good color, balance, design, and high quality photos; computer fonts will be preferred over handwriting.

To enter the Epson CreativeZone Holiday Craft Contest, contestants should submit an e-mail to EpsonHolidayContest@walt.com and include the following:

• at least one photograph or scan of the completed winter holiday-themed greeting card, scrapbook page or paper craft
• a detailed list of supplies
• step-by-step instructions explaining how the project was created (including any specific techniques used)
• project dimensions

E-mail attachment files must be in JPEG or TIFF format and 300-500KB in size. Entries must also include the contestant’s full name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. All submissions must be received by October 31, 2007.

Contest submissions must not have been previously published or submitted for other contests or publications. Selected finalists will be required to mail Epson their original projects for final judging; submitted projects will become property of Epson and will not be returned to their owners. Contestants may want to consider creating two of each entry: one to keep, and one to send.

Additional information and the official rules for the Epson CreativeZone Holiday Craft Contest are available at www.EpsonCreativeZone.com under Articles.

Call for Submissions: Funniest Scrapbookers Ever

Via Wendy Smedley's blog, a link to a new Simple Scrapbooks contest: Funnest Scrapbooker Ever (for 2007) Contest.  To enter:

1. Tell [Simple] a joke.
2. Tell [Simple] in 100 words why you should be crowned Funnest Scrapbooker Ever (for 2007).
3. Send a picture of yourself in costume.
4. Send a picture of your funniest layout ever.
5. Complete three prompts from [Simple's] Scrapbook Play special issue, and send pictures of your layouts.

All entries must be received by November 30, 2007.  Official rules posted here.
See also Simple Scrapbooks' Let's Play Contest.

Somerset Studio Seeks Digital Submissions

Via the recent Simply Digital Newsletter, a heads up on a Call for Submissions:

Somerset Digital Studio
Digital artwork is HOT right now and we’re super excited about the premier of a new publication that will feature all digital designs. Somerset Digital Studio will focus on all things digital — scrapbook pages, ATCs, collages, cards, invitations, calendars, clothing, heritage pieces — anything that is unique, distinctive, artistic and created digitally. In order to be considered for publication in Somerset Digital Studio, please send via e-mail the following for each submission: a high-res image (300 dpi, at least 6 x 6 inches), a brief paragraph describing the artwork (who's who in any photos or why you were inspired to create it), instructions on how you created your digital artwork including the specifics as to what tools, programs, etc. you used. Deadline for artwork to be received: Annually every November 15th.  This full-color 144-page magazine devoted to digital art is scheduled to be released in March 2008.

For more information, check the Somerset Studio website.

 

Call for Scrapbooking Submissions: I Love Elvis Papercrafting Contest

EK Success celebrates Elvis' 30 year anniversary with the I Love Elvis Papercrafting Contest! Show your love for The King by creating a rockin' Elvis project and you could win an awesome trip for two to Graceland!

Enter by sending a papercrafting project of your choice (card, home decor, etc) or one scrapbook page (8x8" or larger).

Entries will be accepted from August 1 through September 14, 2007.

EK Success & Elvis Presley Enterprises will choose 10 Finalists from all projects received.

• Entries will be judged on the basis of the following criteria: projects reflection of the Elvis theme (40%), creativity and originality (40%) and execution (20%).
• All entries, regardless of type (papercrafting or scrapbook page project) will be judged together and finalists will be chosen.
• Winners will be notified by phone by October 5, 2007

One Grand Prize winner will receive a 3 day / 2 night trip for two to Memphis including Graceland and its attractions, dinner and Elvis licensed products and $250 (MSRP) of EK Success products.

Nine Finalists will receive Elvis licensed product and $100 (MSRP) of EK Success products.

Reminder: Call for Submissions: 2008 Memory Makers Contest

Reminder: Call for Submissions: 2008 Memory Makers Contest.

 

ENTRY DEADLINE: July 31, 2007
Winners will be chosen by August 15, 2007, and notified no later than August 22, 2007. Winners and 10 runners-up will be posted on the Memory Makers Web site on or before August 22, 2007.

CK's Scrapbooker of the Year Contest Closes July 6th

A reminder that submissions for Creating Keepsakes' 2007 Scrapbooker of the Year Contest are due July 6th, a little less than two weeks away.

Win $10,000 in cash and more than $10,000 in prizes. Plus, get a two-year contract with Creating Keepsakes magazine.

To enter:

1. Prepare a portfolio of your 20 best scrapbook layouts. 12 of these layouts must be non-published and cannot have been posted in any online forum. (Layouts will not be returned. Full-sized or reduced copies are acceptable.)

2. Prepare a 1-page essay on the following topic: Describe your ideal day. Real or fictional. Past, present or future. It’s up to you. It’s your day.

3. Prepare a separate sheet (or sheets) of paper that includes your name, contact information (including phone number, address, e-mail address and alternate contact information), and a list of supplies you used to create your 20 layouts.

4. Send everything from steps 1, 2, and 3 between May 5 and July 6, 2007.

Ten finalists will be selected based on their entries. Finalists will be notified on or about 7/31/07.  Finalists will each receive $100, a prize basket of scrapbooking products and an all-expenses paid trip to the Memory Trends trade show in Las Vegas, NV September 18-20, where the winner will be announced an exclusive celebration.  The winner will be publicly announced on or about 9/20/07. 

Click here to view official rules.