If you are in the scrapbooking business and able to get to the Pacific Northwest early next year, you will be interested in the information just made live about the MemoryTrends Expo. it is almost in my neck of the woods, so maybe I will see you there!
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National Scrapbooking Day is this weekend. There are loads of things going on online and off. Like these!
Don’t forget to ask your local store if they have events planned. My LSS is having a special 12-hour crop, double-punches, and a sale!
Just in time for National Scrapbooking Day, Martha Stewart is finally launching her own line of scrapbooking and papercrafting products.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) announced the Martha Stewart Crafts (TM) line will debut on May 1, 2007. The line features more than 650 SKUs, including a wide array of materials for paper crafting and scrapbooking, with exclusive paper designs, beautiful embellishments, smartly designed tools every crafter needs, as well as convenient binders and storage systems that help keep everything organized.
Debuting exclusively at more than 900 Michaels stores in the U.S. and Canada and at marthastewartcrafts.com, the Martha Stewart Crafts line will be a complete crafts destination, including products, inspiration, and educational materials, all arranged to create a “store-within-a-store” feel.
EK Success will manufacture the Martha Stewart-designed products, which include
May 5 is National Scrapbooking Day. Do you have anything special planned?
If you want to catch some scrapbooking celebrities online and elsewhere, here’s some information I was able to find:
* Ali Edwards will host an online crop on the Creating Keepsakes message board from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. There will be challenges and other fun stuff (like chatting with Ali herself!) during the crop.
* Recollections is offering three days of fun activities to mark NSD. Heidi Swapp, Tim Holtz and Ali Edwards have designed layouts for crop participants on May 4-6, 2007.
* The Fiskateers will hold a huge online crop for the entire month of May. Lead Fiskateer May Flaum is organizing the big event, which has lots of princes, give-aways, and a big contest.
Me? I’ll be scrapping and preparing for a crop the following week. I’ll tell you more about that later. 
Tags: scrapbooking, National Scrapbooking Day, Ali Edwards, Recollections, Tim Holtz, Heidi Swapp
Have you heard who the new Making Memories Idol is?
It’s Joey Whittaker!
Joey bested thousands of initial submissions and several rounds of challenges to come out on top. The final challenge was to make a baby gift using scrapbooking supplies and black-and-white photos. Below is Joey’s winning entry:
Here’s how Joey felt about winning:
“Relieved and excited. I slept off and on last night. I woke up every couple of hours thinking about the competition. At least I don’t feel like I’m going to be sick anymore!�
She will be joining the MM design team as the contest winner. Congratulations, Joey!
via MM Idol blog
Tags: Making Memories, MM Idol, scrapbooking
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