Angie Pedersen's Scrapbooking Industry News

Simple Scrapbooks Plans NSD Celebrations

May 3 is National Scrapbooking Day! To celebrate, Simple Scrapbooks has partnered with scrapbook retailers across North America to host classes taught by some Simple personalities. Each class will include fun projects, exclusive giveaways, and meet-and-greet time with the teacher.

Simple recognizes the importance of uniting the entire scrapbooking community – from the hobbyists, to the retail store owners, to the media. With this in mind, the team has planned this National Scrapbooking Day promotion as a way of bringing the community together and connecting with others who share a love for scrapbooking.

In the same spirit of connection, Simple has united with 10 different companies (American Crafts, Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, EK Success, Fancy Pants Designs, QuicKutz, Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L, Scrapworks, Tinkering Ink, and Big Picture Scrapbooking) for an innovative and exciting scavenger hunt. This grand National Scrapbooking Day giveaway involves more than just putting a name in a drawing. Online users will take a journey from one manufacturer’s site to the next, collecting playful clues along the way that will ultimately make them eligible for a spectacular giveaway! (Prize package made up of products from participating scavenger hunt manufacturers. Contest details will be posted on www.SimpleScrapbooksMag.com the week of April 28.)

Participating National Scrapbooking Day stores across North America:

•    Allentown, PA: Kinnon Keepsakes with Beth Proudfoot
•    Austin, Texas: Ladybug & Co. with Lain Ehmann (an all-day crop)
•    Chantilly, VA: Scrapbooks Plus with Elizabeth Dillow
•    Quakertown, PA: Memory Lane with Linda Barber
•    Roswell, NM: Imagine That Scrapbooks with Wendy Smedley
•    Sandy, UT: Heartfelt Creations with Karen Glenn, Angie Lucas, and Megan Hoeppner
•    West Hartford, CT: Wiggles & Giggles with Celeste Smith
•    Calgary, AB, CAN: The Scrap Yard with Cindy Schow
•    Kelowna, BC, CAN: Memories & More with Cheryl Overton
•    Montreal, QC, CAN: Scrapbook Centrale with Melanie Louette

In addition to the attached information, Cathy Zielske is hosting festivities on the Simple Studio Blog in honor of NSD. Every day this week she’ll be introducing new scrapbooking challenges. Winners will be selected for each challenge, and all of those winners will be announced on the Simple blog on NSD. In addition to this, Cathy will have NSD activity on her blog.

Lastly, Stacy Julian is scheduled to “appear” on the Simple website on NSD to say hi to the scrapbooking community and wish them a very happy day!

Creating Keepsakes Announces 2008 Hall of Fame Winners

Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Magazine has announced the 2008 Hall of Fame winners on their website.

As we celebrate ten great years of honoring more than 200 talented scrapbookers, Creating Keepsakes is proud to announce this year's winners.

1. Amy Martin
2. Andrea Chamberlain
3. Cindy Tobey
4. Denine Zielinski
5. Irma Peredne
6. Kelly Noel
7. Linda Rodriguez
8. Lisa Habisreutinger
9. Melissa Deakin
10. Suzy Plantamura
    

Two Scrapbooking Magazines Launched

Two new publications have hit the presses:

Scrapbook News & Review was conceived with the following in mind:

• All styles, all genres and mixed media -- from beginner to advanced
• Current trends and techniques to challenge creativity
• Real product reviews by real scrapbookers
• Useful articles and layouts
• A staff from across the globe with different styles and tastes
• A place where all scrapbookers have a real chance of getting published

SNR's goal is "to become a leader in driving change throughout the industry, to never let the ball drop on customer service and to never let a reader walk away from their experience with us thinking ill of SNR or anyone associated with us."

Another new scrapbooking magazine, called "Michigan Scrapbooker", will launch May 5.  It will be a free local resource available in southeastern Michigan.  More details will be posted as they become available.

Creating Keepsakes Staff Change

Seen in the most recent e-newsletter from Wooden Horse Magazines Database:

CREATING KEEPSAKES SCRAPBOOK has lost a special projects senior
Editor, Vanessa Hoy... She will pursue a freelance career.  A replacement has not yet been named...

Changes at Simple Scrapbooks

News recently received from Simple Scrapbooks/Digital Scrapbooking Editor-in-Chief Jennafer Martin:

Simple Scrapbooks magazine is celebrating their Founding Editor, Stacy Julian. As an author, editor, teacher, speaker, and business owner, Stacy has motivated scrapbookers everywhere to enjoy the process of scrapbooking for over a decade. Her latest efforts in this area have led to national media opportunities - likely the first of many opportunities for Stacy to become not just a pioneer in, but an ambassador for the passionate hobby of scrapbooking.

In order to make time for all of these new adventures, Stacy’s participation in the day-to-day running of Simple Scrapbooks will lighten a bit beginning spring 2008. She’ll still contribute articles and pages, but after the September-October 08 issue, she’ll no longer contribute regular columns or editor’s notes. Simple Scrapbooks will remain dedicated to Stacy’s vision in each issue, providing simple solutions for scrapbooking to its readers.

To kick off Stacy’s new adventures, Simple Scrapbooks has declared the week of March 24-28, 2008, “Stacy Julian Appreciation Week.” If you’ve worked with Stacy or been inspired by her, you are invited to celebrate this week by letting her know. Leave a message at 888/HUG-STACY (within the next 30 days) or by leaving a comment on the Simple blog.

CKMedia Seeks Associate Creative Editor & Web Specialist

CK Media is seeking an Associate Creative Editor for Paper Crafts Magazine based in their Bluffdale Utah office.  This position will assist the creative editor in the development, conception, and coordination of creative materials for the magazine and special issues.

They are also seeking a "self-motivated, high-energy person" to join their dynamic online team as a Web Production Specialist. This position will be based in either our Golden Colorado office or our Bluffdale Utah office.  The ideal candidate will love the online world and will be passionate about capturing the interest of our audience and keeping them coming back for more.  The ideal candidate should have at least one year of experience with HTML coding, meta tags, and preparing images for web publishing. Experience with a vibrant community, social networking and Photoshop is strongly preferred.

SOURCE: Monster.com

Digital Scrapbooking Announces Creative Team Additions

Digital Scrapbooking magazine recently announced the addition of five members to the magazine's Creative Team.  The announcement was made on Associate Editor Molly Newman's Blog:

With Digital Scrapbooking's April/May 2008 issue, we'll be celebrating our first anniversary--and we'll also welcome aboard five new members of our Creative Team.

• Melinda Alexander
• Kayla Lamoreaux
• Becky Pogatchnik
• Deena Wuest
• Cassie Jones

Family Tree & Memory Makers Magazines offer 2006 issues on CD

Via an email from FamilyTree Magazine, now available: Family Tree Magazine 2006 archive on CD.

Get all the 2006 issues of Family Tree Magazine on one CD...This fully searchable CD gives you instant access to six complete issues of Family Tree Magazine, featuring 564 pages of how-to genealogy articles such as these:

• Tip-a-day planner of 365 ways to trace your roots
• 89 family history freebies
• Five ways to save time online
• Genetic genealogy explained in plain English

All the content is in an enhanced PDF format that lets you click directly to thousands of Web sites, quickly find the content you want, and take your favorite family history advice with you when you research.

Also available, Memory Makers 2006 Annual CD.

• Complete uncut contents of all 9 subscription issues from 2006, including the popular Top 50 and Scrapbook Idea Gallery 7
• The Family Ties
  article series, with scrapbook galleries covering 7 different family
  relationships, such as siblings, daughters, sons, parents, grandparents
• 1000+ magazine pages on one disc you can take with you anywhere—just grab the CD and go!
• Easy access to articles and ads through simple keyword searches
• Printable pages you can share with your scrapbooking friends
• Interactive tables-of-contents that make finding fun facts fast

Memorytrends Magazine Absorbed Back into Craftrends

Announced in the October 2007 issue of Craftrends:

Effective immediately, we are rolling Memorytrends magazine back into the pages of Craftrends and will be increasing the frequency of Craftrends from quarterly to six issues per year.  The next issue will be December, which features our annual Consumer Participation Survey.

Editorial Director Bill Gardner also announced he has assumed editorial director responsibilities for Creative Machine Embroidery magazine, Sew News, and Sew Simple, in addition to Craftrends, and educational responsibilities for the Memorytrends Conference & Expo.

Also effective in October was Beth Hess' resignation as editor of Memorytrends magazine and managing editor of Craftrends.  She left to join her husband in their family business full time.

Beth Hess Announces Resignation from Memorytrends Magazine

Seen in the 9/21/07 edition of Memorytrends Magazine's e-newsletter News Bites:

...This newsletter marks my last official day with ckMedia, Craftrends & Memorytrends. Starting very soon, I'll jump fully into a new career of real estate and home construction, joining my husband in our family's growing business in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I will never be able to fully express the joy it has been to work with Craftrends, and then Memorytrends, for the last 8 years. More than business associates, so many of you truly are my friends. I will forever be a cheerleader for the creative industries, and you'll be proud to know I'm making a scrapbook of each home we build to present to the new owners at closing.

Memorytrends & Craftrends magazines are working on an editorial reorganization plan following Beth's departure.