Sandy, UT, July 07, 2010 -- Every year, Time Magazine releases its list of Most Influential People. This year, for the first time ever, Ella Publishing Co. will release its list of the Most Influential Scrapbookers.

The women on Ella’s list may not be saving the world or brokering world peace, but they are helping scrapbookers everywhere save memories and move a few steps closer to inner peace. And that’s still something worth celebrating.

Starting July 12, 2010 the Ella Publishing Co. blog (ellapublishing.com/blog) will start dropping hints about the identities of the nine Most Influential Scrapbooker Award nominees.

On July 15, 2010 at ellapublishing.com/blog, the full list of Influential Scrapbookers will be revealed, including bios and links to their websites and/or blogs.

On July 16, 2010, Time to Scrapbook: 9 busy women share 27 tricks for fitting it in, will be available for sale at ellapublishing.com. This exciting new eBook contains the Most Influential Scrapbookers’ best tips for making memory keeping an integral part of their lifestyles, plus gorgeous scrapbook layouts from all of the nominees.

On July 19, 2010, the Most Influential Scrapbooker Blog Tour begins. All week long, scrapbookers will hop from blog to blog, enjoying prizes and inspiration along the way. There will be 100 winners and 100 prizes.

Who are the nominees?
They’re not the world’s best scrapbookers, they’re not the world’s smartest scrapbookers, and they’re not the scrapbookers with the cutest kids. They are simply, in Ella's book, the most influential. They’re the scrapbookers who give of their time and their talents to inspire the world’s memory keepers. They’re innovating, teaching, sharing, partnering, and spreading the good news of scrapbooking far and wide. They’re attracting new audiences to the hobby, making scrapbooking look cool to the uninitiated, and keeping longtime scrapbookers motivated and inspired.

About Ella Publishing Co.
Founded in 2009, Ella Publishing Co. produces high-quality, educational eBooks for scrapbookers and crafters, covering such topics as photography, journaling, design, and creativity. The site offers a free monthly eZine and 13 eBook titles available for sale so far, ranging in price from $4.99 to $6.99. Angie Lucas, former managing editor of Simple Scrapbooks magazine, owns and operates Ella Publishing Co., with a team that includes her former Simple Scrapbooks colleagues Wendy Smedley, Cathy Zielske, and Rachel Gainer.

The Fourth of July is a special holiday, which is emblazoned in the memories of many people.  One great way to commemorate this holiday is to make a scrapbook page dedicated to it.  You will have many choices in how to decorate this and you are only limited by your own creativity.  The following are some great Fourth of July scrapbook page ideas.

Fireworks page

One great way to make this theme come to life is to have a fireworks theme.  You can use glitter paint or glue to make easy fireworks of all different colors.  You could then place photographs in the middle of these fireworks or decorate with the pictures in other places.  You can also put in other pictures of fireworks from magazines or other sources......

Read more at  -   http://www.helium.com/items/1846031-scrapbook-page-ideas-4th-of-july

Design by Jennifer Perks

Frost your cake piecing with glitter and swoops of dimensional fabric paint.

• Get the list of sources used in this layout.
• Download the patterns here.

From the Better Homes Magazine

Whether you want to create a scrapbook about a holiday, family event or person, eScrap App makes it easy to combine photos, text and backgrounds in stunning creations. Multi-page scrapbooks can be built up using one of a number of templates, each with a unique look and feel.

Having chosen a page layout, you can then set about the task of dropping images into place, adding other pages elements and inserting text. Photo filters are available to change the look of your images. Despite the screen limitation of the iPhone, the app works surprisingly well in a restricted space.

The scrapbooks you create can be stored on your phone so they can be played back at any time, but you also have the option of emailing them from within the app or posting them to Facebook and Twitter.

Verdict
Transform your photos into gorgeous scrapbooks to help commemorate important events.

DOWNLOAD for iPhone (96.60 MB)

DOWNLOAD for iPad (96.60 MB)

SOURCE  _  http://download.techworld.com/3213865/escrap-app-for-iphone-103/?intcmp=ros-md-dl-tp

In the Dr. Seuss book, To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, young Marco sees a simple horse-drawn wagon on his way home from school. As he thinks of a story to tell his dad about his day, he quickly weaves that single image into an epic adventure that includes an elephant, the mayor, a brass band, and an airplane dumping confetti all over the landscape. Talk about embellishment!

When you first begin designing a digital scrapbooking page, it all begins with an image that has some special resonance for you. Perhaps it’s a great photo—a beautiful scene, great color, special lighting. Or maybe the photo captures something from a great day: winning first place at the chili cook off, watching your spouse cross the finish line in a triathlon, sharing a moment with friends or family as you watch a gorgeous sunset. You can use iPhoto '09 to browse through all the photos on your hard drive and choose the ones that have that special something or emotional spark. A great photo is the heart of your scrapbook page...

So where do you get these embellishments that can bring more life to your digital scrapbooking pages? Embellishments can come from anywhere—but they will begin in your own imagination. You might find things around the house you can scan and clean up in a simple image editor like Adobe Photoshop Elements or Pixelmator, or you can find reasonably priced embellishments online, at sites like iScrapbook.com or iRemember.com.

Read more at  -  http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/061510-embellish-your-scrapbook.html?hpg1=bn

Select one of the many collage templates, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around. After the collage is finished, it's available for download and print!

Want to try it out?

Click here to start!

SOURCE  _  http://www.photovisi.com/

June 01, 2010 - The long awaited Scrapbook Awards have been officially launched with the first international competition now in full swing. The Awards serve as creative hub for the international scrapbooking community where members can vote on the works of their peers and soak up some exciting new ideas for their own projects as well as win some fantastic prizes.

And the best part is it’s free to join!

Scrapbookers who hop on board for the current competition, which wraps up June 30, will receive two free entries to enter in any category of their choice. Award categories include: weird, unnecessary, super weird and I have nothing better to do, so no matter what style of art work members create there entries will be welcomed!

Throughout the year, the Scrapbook Awards run competitions every two months where two prestigious awards will be announced including the Judges Choice Award, which is selected by an expert panel of judges, and the People’s Choice Award, which is chosen by members the scrapbook community themselves.

All category winners are in the running to become the International Scrapbooker of the Year, a prestigious prize which could see members win more than $5000 worth of cash and prizes.

Erika Martinez, director of the Scrapbook Awards says, “The Awards were created to give the international scrapbooking community some recognition and provide a bit of fun for our fellow scrappers!”

She adds, “There are many scrapbookers out there who are creating some outstanding work and the aim of the Scrapbook Awards is to not only present the creations from experienced scrappers to as many of our peers as possible, but also to give those who are new to scrapbooking a go. We encourage entries at all levels.”

The Scrapbook Awards cater to both digital and traditional scrapping with a number of great entries by both methods already submitted for the current competition. If members still scrap the traditional way they can simply scan their layouts and upload the file.

Erika also says, “The Scrapbook Awards is a place where beginners can challenge themselves and gain positive feedback and where experienced designers can evolve their ideas and be recognised for their talents. So come along and join us, get voting and support to your fellow scrapperbookers and most importantly, keep scrapping!”

May 12, 2010 -- Inspired by a 12-year passion for scrapbooking – thanks to her daughter – and a desire to create an online business, Sandra Ferrel developed SatisfiedScrapbooking.com in February 2010.

Today, she is pleased to announce the debut of www.SatisfiedScrapbookingBlog.com, an interactive blog formulated as an informational counterpart to her original website. Here, online shoppers and scrapbook enthusiasts alike are invited to read-up on unique and festive page layout suggestions, film processing recommendations as well as holiday and specialty event ideas that inspire creative and crafty keepsakes.

“I want to establish an interactive platform where scrapbookers, new and experienced, can gather to shares ideas and inspiration for creative and crafty projects,” Ferrel said.

Visit Ferrel’s web store to discover a nearly all-inclusive selection of scrapbooking albums, decorative embellishments – stickers, paper cutouts, ribbon, buttons and more – as well as colorful page layouts and vibrant pens and markers.

Don’t overlook the website’s featured card-making section, which allows shoppers to choose from a vibrant and artistically designed collection of papers, embellishments and envelopes to craft original notes, thank-you cards and more for every occasion.

Be sure to frequent the web store as the she will continue to bring surprises to the site. The merchandise changes monthly and new products are added while holiday and seasonal products will appear too.

Ferrel boasts that SatisfiedScrapbooking.com provides an array of scrapbooking supplies for the beginner and avid scrapbooker. She recognizes that it can be difficult as a newbie to become inspired or to get in-touch with one’s creative side; accordingly she noted that she offers advice and tips for beginners.

SatisfiedScrapbooking.com, take a walk on the creative and crafty side!

About the Company:
SatisfiedScrapbooking.com is owned and operated by web entrepreneur, Sandra Ferrel.

Sandra Ferrel
www.SatisfiedScrapbooking.com
(308) 638-7460

Time Will Tell blends aqua, green, red and golden colors to produce a family memories oriented scrapbooking kit. These elements and papers can be used with any graphics software that supports JPEG and PNG files to produce a beautifully coordinated digital scrapbook page. Or just pop a photo in the quick page template for an easy presentation.
• "Time Will Tell" Digital Scrapbooking Kit by Darleen Araujo

SOURCE _ http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/2010/05/11/time-will-tell-digital-scrapbooking-kit.htm

Redmond, WA - April 30, 2010 -- Smilebox, Inc. (www.smilebox.com) will salute scrapbookers everywhere on National Scrapbooking Day 2010 and give away a free, premium digital scrapbooking design. The free design will be available from Friday, April 30th through Sunday, May 2nd and can be downloaded directly with Smilebox at the company’s blog at http://www.smilebox.com/smileboxblog.

The free, eight–page, square scrapbook is called “Blossom” and features rich, textured elements in fresh colors of poppy, tangerine and sea green, as well as flexible embellishment, color and title customization. It was designed by Sweet Shoppe Designs for Smilebox. Customers can easily add their photos, videos, words and music to the digital scrapbook and share it via email or post to a blog or Facebook. They also can enjoy premium Smilebox features such as ad-free viewing, expanded music and printing options, and full-screen playbacks.

About the Smilebox service
The Smilebox service lets customers quickly turn life’s moments into digital creations to share with others or to save. Smilebox users can choose any design, print to retail, email, or post to Facebook for free. For $2.99 to $3.99, customers can purchase and own premium designs to print at home, save to digital photo frames, get more music choices, and share full screen without ads. Customers can also subscribe to Club Smilebox for $5.99/month or $39.99/year for unlimited use of premium designs as well as the ability to burn their Smilebox creations to DVD or save video files to a photo frame. Smilebox is available for the PC and Mac platforms.

About Smilebox, Inc.
Founded in 2005 by Andrew Wright, Smilebox is the leading way friends and families celebrate, share and preserve special moments in their lives through photos, videos and music. Since the service’s launch in June 2006, more than 10 million people have installed Smilebox and more than 102 million Smileboxes have been played worldwide. Smilebox is the only service that supports all personal media (photos, videos, music), all content types (ecards, invitations, slideshows, scrapbooks, collages, photobooks and postcards) and all sharing methods (email, print, burn to DVD, save to photo frame, blog and post). Smilebox is a global, privately held company with headquarters in Redmond, Wash.

Smilebox is a trademark of Smilebox, Inc. All trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:

Tamese Robinson
Smilebox, Inc.
425-881-9475 ext. 216
tamese(at)smilebox(dot)com