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5.10.08
Coffee keeps California craft shop awake in sleepy economic times Craf'it
and A.B.O. Coffee and Dessert are owned by Ada Yue, a software designer, baker, scrapbooker and savvy entrepreneur. Not only has
she found a way to combine her passions, Yue may have found a business model for small scrapbook retailers trying to survive a
souring economy...
Women scrap together memories A Creative Memories consultant discusses scrapbooking and some of her favorite scrapbooks...
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5.5.08
Kentucky store preserving memories in style Profile of a Kentucky scrapbook store...
5.4.08
Memory Makers free digital kit Happy National Scrapbooking Day from Memory Makers Magazine...
5.2.08
North Texas retreat center for sale Three Mustangs Retreat Center in
Farmersville is for sale. Beds for 12 retreaters, and tables and chairs for crafting. For more information, contact realtor Rita
Barnhart at 972-978-4538.
4.29.08
Scrapbooking infiltrated
the author's life, too 'A Page Out of Life' novel getting big national media buzz...
Hobby evolves into career A Virginia scrapbooker opens a scrapbook store...
Connecting With Consumers Requires Long-Term Perspective Includes profile of Fiskars Fiskateers...
4.27.08
A how-to guide to scrapping 'odds and ends' photos How to scrapbook those odd photos that just don’t have a place in the “Trip
to Italy” scrapbook...
4.25.08
Scrapping 4 Inclusion and 'I Remember When' Join Forces to Help Children Across
the U.S. I Remember When has officially joined the Scrapping 4 Inclusion program as a National Partner to benefit The Bubel/Aiken
Foundation...
Arizona scrapbooking store a dreamy endeavor Two friends open a new store in Tucson...
4.20.08
San Angelo scrapbook store for sale Scrapbook
University can be purchased alone or along with the attached bed & breakfast...
Moms turn to hobbies for mental health Ask a mother about her hobbies, and odds are she'll either give you a blank stare or launch into a wistful eulogy of days gone by: "Well, BEFORE I had kids, I used to … "
Flowers add colorful explosion to layouts Tips when using flowers on layouts...
4.13.08
New home equals new memories
with ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ A Delaware mom received $10,000 worth of Creative Memories
products in a recent airing of the show...
4.11.08
Scrapbooking gets digital makeover Digital scrapbooks are the newest rage for busy moms in the $300 (now plus) million-dollar-a-year
hobby industry. They simply beat-the-clock over the traditional scrapbooking method...
4.9.08
Creative Memories announces plans
to close Nevada call center Creative Memories continues its reorganization...
Novel Approach to Reaching Scrapbookers with the Gospel Author Rebeca Seitz has applied her love of fiction and her passion for creating scrapping collections to a new faith themed book series...
4.8.08
Scrapper helps preserve family memories Profile of a Nevada scrapbooker-for-hire...
4.7.08
San Antonio scrapbook store for sale Scrapbook Heaven in San Antonio is operating
as usual, while looking for a buyer. Carrie will be retiring to stay home full time with her family. Serious buyers only, please
contact Darryl & Carrie
Perry at buyscrapbookheaven@yahoo.com.
4.6.08
Scrapbooking goes hybrid
by adding digital elements Hybrid scrapping takes digital elements and incorporates them into traditional paper scrapbooking
pages. This can be as simple as adding computer-generated journaling to layouts...
Scrapbook stores close as country eases toward leisure economy If, as economist Linda Nazareth predicts, the shift to a leisure economy results in a new category of haves and have nots, scrapbooking as we know it won't survive. Middle-class scrappers will have no choice but to start doing it on the cheap or give up the hobby altogether, and small retailers will become a rare breed indeed...
4.3.08
Digital
Scrapbooking Community Enthusiastic About New Very Affordable 12"x12" Photobook Viovio, an online community
and creative publishing service, has responded to customer requests for an affordable 12x12 photobook. Joining the company's existing
Photo Book line-up this month are four new square format books: the much anticipated 12x12 Memory Book and two mini book brag
books in 5x5 and 3.5x3.5 sizes...
Swept Away with scrapbooking Profile of a Wisconsin scrapper...
4.1.08
'Le scrapbooking' takes France by storm Welcome to the glamorous world of the scrapbook — or to give the trend its full French
title, le scrapbooking. Reinvented as an adult hobby in the US, le scrap, as it is known in chic Parisian circles, has become
a Gallic passion involving artistic endeavour, money and a hint of one-upmanship...
Thanks for the Memories: Scrapping with children Scrapbooking projects offer good opportunities for children and adults to use their imaginations, create memories and spend quality time together...
Storage solutions for crafters Sandi Genovese describes lots of everyday products that can be transformed into storage containers for many of your craft supplies...
Let’s ALL Scrapbook program instruction manual available for download Scrapping 4 Inclusion in conjunction with The Bubel/Aiken Foundation announce Let’s ALL Scrapbook, an inclusive arts & crafts program where children with and without disabilities get together and create a small scrapbooking project or other paper craft project...
3.27.08
FloweringMemories.com Not Just for Gardeners FloweringMemories.com
is a new web site designed to preserve memories of your garden with journals, photographs and scrapbooking...
3.26.08
Scrap your plans, scrapbookers The average "cropper" spends
hundreds of hours working on scrapbooks instead of making dinner or cleaning house. And she spends nearly $2,000 a year in tools
and supplies...
How to Organize Your Own Group Cruise Putting together a scrapbooking cruise may be easier than you think -- with a little bit of organizational skill and lots of help from the right people...
Huntsville's Wynne Home Arts Center to offer scrapbook classes The scrapbooking classes — to be held five Saturdays from March 29 through April 26 — will be taught by Kathy Cook...
3.24.08
Let's talk about adhesives! Review of several scrapbooking adhesives, including cost considerations...
3.23.08
Scrappy trends — New ways to put your stamp on scrapbooking A
review of the recent Craft & Hobby Show held in Anaheim, California...
Scrapbooks moving into the digital age Let me introduce some new lingo into your scrapbooking vocabulary: Blog. Upload. Font. Post...
Sharing some holiday fortune Once a month, a Canadian scrapbook store waives its crop fee for those who donate canned goods for a food drive...
3.18.08
OrientalTrading.com Receives 2008 Creating Keepsakes
Readers' Choice Award Oriental Trading Company, the nation's leading direct marketer of value-priced novelties, toys, and
party supplies and quality supplier of fun and easy, value-priced scrapbooking products, is the winner of the 2008 Creating Keepsakes
award for the 2nd consecutive year in the category of Mail Order/Online Order...
Australian scrapbook club sponsors unique BRArt event An Australian scrapbooking group is organizing BRAvo, a fundraising event for the Cancer Council’s Pink Ribbon Day, featuring a Wall of BRArt, as well as an auction and scrapbooking event. Participants can decorate a bra, undies or boxers however they like - they can scrap it, embroider it, paint it, quilt it - anything...
Boy's cancer project takes off Scrapping With Cancer is growing as fast as Brody Chapman appears to be recovering. It's been four months since the Edmonton Sun shared the 11-year-old boy's dream to give every Alberta kid with cancer a scrapbooking kit. Since then, he's raised nearly $50,000, has begun setting up a legitimate charity and is fielding requests to start Scrapping With Cancer chapters across Canada and as far away as Africa...
3.16.08
Guys can scrapbook, too Mike Allen may be unusual, but the husband
and dad enjoys preserving the memories...
Grown women need to unwind with "girl time" It’s a familiar scenario women face, as careers, relationships and families start taking precedence over martini-laden nights of dishing with the girls. But many women try to maintain those connections with their girlfriends, even if it means scheduling get-togethers weeks in advance...
Scrapbooking hobby becomes business Profile of a new Missouri scrapbook store...
3.13.08
Woman's passion is preserving past Profile of a California Creative
Memories consultant...
One day at a time: Tucker records special moments for others, often surprising them A Texas scrapper makes scrapbooks for others...
Great Scrapbook Titles Using Digital Alphabets Lettering Delights shares a quick design tutorial on layering digital elements in Microsoft Word for eye-catching page titles..
Save, Share, and Discover New Memories of Your Children MyBabyOurBaby.com is a free, collaborative scrapbooking service that makes it possible to document memories of your children as experienced by the parents, friends or the family members.
3.9.08
Scrapbooking is
a stress-busting activity Crafting memories soothes the soul...
So far, her one scrapbook page stands alone on the bookshelf Finding time to scrapbook...
3.7.08
Crafting: Who's doing what? A breakdown of craft participation by category...
Get crafting Here's a look at what's new in the world of crafts from the CHA show...
Antioch Co. sells bookplate division The Antioch Company (parent company of Creative Memories) officially sold the Antioch Publishing Company to an Indiana-based business last week. The sale of Antioch Publishing is good for the Antioch Company, which can now focus on Creative Memories’ most rapidly growing business, custom framing and digital scrapbooking...
3.5.08
Create a
scrapbook with your birthday photos Sandi Genovese talks about scrapping birthday pictures...
3.4.08
Scrap addicts Scrapbooking in the College Station area...
Web, software help scrappers work digitally Digital scrapbooking tips...
3.3.08
Diva Craft Lounge Interviews: Stacy Julian & Desert Scrappers Weekend Stacy
Julian, founding editor of Simple Scrapbooks magazine, and Laura Miller the founder of Desert Scrappers Weekend Retreats...
3.2.08
Preserving memories and the planet Let's
be honest. A lot of trees are killed in the name of "preserving" memories...