Rich Kizer & Georganne Bender (aka Kizer & Bender) have posted an interesting summary of notable trends and buzz on their blog: More on CHA WINTER 2008.
The source for their buzz round-up in Mike Hartnett's Creative Leisure News 2/17 Newsbrief.
Corel MediaOneTM Integration with Smilebox™ Provides Today’s Tech Savvy Scrapbookers with the Ability to Create and Share Their Projects Digitally
OTTAWA - January 31, 2008 Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced that the company has expanded its relationship with Smilebox™, the leaders in digital scrapbooking and photo greetings. In addition to including Smilebox design templates to create personalized photo and video projects, Corel MediaOne™ is now fully integrated with the Smilebox service, giving scrapbookers the ability to easily share their creations digitally.
Under the expanded partnership, Corel MediaOne users can now download and install the integrated Smilebox service directly from within MediaOne. Consumers can take their photos and videos from MediaOne directly to the Smilebox service, select from hundreds of digital templates and create stunning multimedia projects including scrapbooks, slideshows and photo greetings in minutes. These projects can then be emailed, posted to all mainstream blogs or social networks and printed.
"We are thrilled to offer our Corel MediaOne customers even more options to spark their creativity," said Denise MacDonell, Director of Product Management, Digital Media at Corel. "By combining Smilebox and its broad selection of professionally-designed templates with Corel MediaOne, we are able to offer our users an even more enjoyable, fun and creative experience while providing more ways to share their masterpieces with family and friends."
Corel MediaOne with Smilebox included is now available in the United States and Canada. Current MediaOne users can install the free Update 2.1 from the Corel Message Center or visit www.corel.com/mediaone or www.smilebox.com for more information.
About Corel MediaOne
The best choice for point-and-shoot digital camera users who want to express their creativity as well as organize, edit and share their photos and video clips, Corel MediaOne Plus is the fast, fun and easy photo and video software. With easy-to-use tools for photo retouching, effortless photo management, simple video editing, and free automatic online backup and sharing from Sharpcast™, Corel MediaOne offers all the tools consumers need to create fun photo and video projects including scrapbooking pages and slideshows with designs by Sandra Magsamen and Smilebox.
About Smilebox Service
The Smilebox service offers a creative way for consumers to share their stories with friends and family using their photos, videos and music. Users can drag-and-drop photos and videos from their digital camera into hundreds of professionally designed slide shows, scrapbooks, photo greetings, postcards and photo albums and personalize with their own words, music and style. They can email their creations, print or post them to a web site or blog. The Smilebox catalog features more than 600 designs from leading
digital designers such as Hallmark, Making Memories, Madison Park
Greetings, K&Company, as well as the Smilebox Studio design team.
The service can be downloaded and used free of charge at
http://www.smilebox.com.
About Corel Corporation
Corel is a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software with more than 100 million users worldwide. The Company's product portfolio includes some of the world's most popular and widely recognized software brands including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Corel Painter™, Corel DESIGNER, Corel WordPerfect Office, WinZip, WinDVD and iGrafx.
SOURCE: Corel Corporation.
Company to demonstrate Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, Corel PainterTM Essentials 4 and Corel MediaOneTM Plus, Providing Memory Makers and Scrapbookers with New Creative Possibilities and Retailers with New Revenue Opportunities
OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced that the company will showcase three of its award-winning digital media products – Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, Corel MediaOne Plus, and Corel Painter™ Essentials 4 at the 2008 Memorytrends Conference & Expo, co-located with the PMA International Convention and Trade Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Now in its ninth year, the Memorytrends Conference & Expo is a must-attend event for the scrapbooking community and remains the only trade show in the creative marketplace devoted solely to scrapbook retailers and manufacturers.
Make Every Photo Look Its Best
Photo quality is an important consideration for every scrapbooker whether they are removing red eye from a family portrait, converting images to black and white or adding a decorative border to a favorite photo. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal digital photography software for people who want to transform their digital pictures into professional-looking photos fast. With the easy-to-use Learning Center and plenty of one-click photo fixes, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 makes it easy for users to make every photo look its best and, when users want to do more with their images, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 provides a growth path to more advanced tools and controls. To help organize favorite scrapbook images, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 includes Corel MediaOne Plus, a complete photo organizer, that also features hundreds of creative backdrops, picture tubes, photo frames, designs and layouts, including professionally-designed templates from Sandra Magsamen and Smilebox™. These additions give users even more opportunities to put their own personal touch on scrapbook pages. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 allows users to foster their creativity and experience all of the fun of creating homemade photo projects without any of the clean up.
Turn Favorite Photos into Painted Masterpieces
Clean up is never an issue with Corel Painter Essentials 4, the digital home art studio that makes it easy to take favorite photos and transform them into painted masterpieces, all in as little as three mouse clicks. Packed with a variety of paints, chalks, pastels, artistic papers and brushes, Painter Essentials 4 provides scrapbooker with all of the tools they need to extend their creativity in new directions, without the extra clean up associated with traditional painting. For scrapbookers who want to add a unique dimension to their creative projects, Painter Essentials 4 is the easy-to-use home art studio for creating paintings from scratch or transforming pictures into unique painted images that can be added to a scrapbook page, card or other special project.
To view a product demonstration or to receive a free trial of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, Corel MediaOne Plus, or Corel Painter Essentials 4, users are invited to visit Corel’s Booth # H271 at the Memorytrends Hall from January 31 to February 2, 2008.
For more information on Corel, please visit www.corel.com. To learn more about Memorytrends, please visit www.memorytrends.com.
About Corel Corporation
Corel is a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software with more than 100 million users worldwide. The Company's product portfolio includes some of the world's most popular and widely recognized software brands including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Corel Painter™, Corel DESIGNER, Corel WordPerfect Office, WinZip, WinDVD and iGrafx. Designed to help people become more productive and express their creative potential, Corel's software strives to set a higher standard for value with full-featured products that are easier to learn and use. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards recognizing Corel's leadership in software innovation, design and value.
SOURCE: BusinessWire
Fiancial expert Suze Orman will be the keynote speaker at the Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) Winter Show in February 2008. Orman, a two-time Emmy Award winning television host, New York Times bestselling author, magazine and online columnist, and motivational speaker, will share practical tips and financial insights. Her presentation is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 10, 2008. Tickets are $30 for CHA members and $60 for non-members when purchased before the show. On site, the cost is $50 for members and $100 for non-members.
Orman has written six consecutive New York Times bestselling books, and her newspaper column, Women & Money, began syndication by Universal Press Syndicate in January. In addition, she has created a variety of other financial advice tools. She also contributes to O, The Oprah Magazine and to O at Home. She is also the author of Money Matters, a bi-weekly column on Yahoo! Finance, and a bi-monthly column for the Costco Connection and for Lowes Moneyworks. In addition, she hosts The Suze Orman Show, which airs Saturday nights on CNBC, as well as the Financial Freedom Hour on QVC television.
For more information about the CHA show, visit www.chashow.org.
SOURCE: Craftrends News Headlines.
Making Memories has posted pictures of the new lines they are launching this week at the MemoryTrends trade show in Las Vegas: new Making Memories products
From the Making Memories blog:
This week we'll be at the Memory Trends trade show in Las Vegas, where we'll unveil our newest programs including "Love Story" and "Garden Party."
"Love Story" [pictured at right] is a modern and sparkly take on Valentine's Day. Epoxy topped embellishments, glitter brads, and a host of romantic accents are truly, madly, and deeply irresistible.
"Garden Party" explodes with all the promise of a new season: bright greens, yellows and blues are brought to life with scalloped edges, polka dots, and shimmery accents budding in a coordinated program of papers, stickers, flowers, brads, and tags.
Be Blessed debuts its newest additions to their Signature Watercolor Collection and their True Gifts of Christmas Collection. Six new papers for each collection are being introduced at the MemoryTrends 2007 trade show in Las Vegas.
Be Blessed offers a popular line of six faith-based scrapbooking collections of 12x12 papers, coordinating tags, rub-on's and collection packs. Be Blessed's newest papers introduce new color patinas, graphics, and faith themes, designed to coordinate with their exisiting collections.
The founding partners of Be Blessed, one Christian and one Jewish, felt it was important to recognize both of their faiths and its role in their lives.
Reporting live from the MemoryTrends Expo trade show floor in Las Vegas... some new exhibitors I had not heard about previously:
Craftrends and Memorytrends magazines have announced two promotions for those of you planning to attend (or considering attending) the MemoryTrends Conference & Expo, September 18-20, 2007 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas.
Click here to register for MemoryTrends.
Click here to read "Memorytrends Myths Busted!", regarding myths/rumors about the co-location of the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show and the MemoryTrends show.
Various websites and blogs have started posting "sneak peeks" of new scrapbooking products set to debut/launch at the upcoming trade show for the Craft & Hobby Association (aka CHA-Summer). As I find links, I will add them to this post (you are also welcome to email me with links).
Heidi Swapp previews on Monique's blog
If you are attending CHA-S, consider checking out the events at Windy City Scrapbooking, a Chicago-local scrapbooking store.
Seen in the Scrapbooking.com Magazine's Business Newsletter:
Recently Making Memories asked their retail partners their opinion about the value of attending multiple trade shows each year, including MemoryTrends. After thoughtful debate and evaluating numerous responses, Making Memories is throwing their hat into the Memory Trends ring, and are very excited about attending the show in Las Vegas, September 18 – 20.
Now that they have locked into the event, they are rolling out a new series of fabulous products and programs designed to dazzle, and to leap off of the store shelves. Whether you are attending CHA Summer or the MemoryTrends Trade Show, Making Memories is offering extraordinary discounts and prizes. They are not limiting the fantastic deals to show attendees alone: this year, they also are offering sneak peeks and pre-order specials online, so everyone can take advantage of the seasonal specials.
