Premade Scrapbook Layouts - A Variety to Add Personalization

It cannot be denied that mothers and young people from all over the world are getting more and more engrossed with the hobby of scrapbooking. When you go to bookstores and craft stores these days, you would notice that there would always be scrapbooking kits for both the beginners and the experts. Most of these kits already include premade scrapbook layouts.

But have you ever heard of the new and more modern concept of scrapbooking? Digital scrapbooking is the term used when you plan to make scrapbook albums without having to leave your seat in front of your computer. It offers a wide range of available premade scrapbook layouts that you can use to incorporate your photos with.

To get started with this modern way of scrapbooking, all you have to do is to choose first from the many premade scrapbook layouts that you will be presented to online. Then you can start creating your very own embellishments by using graphic and photo programs along with your selected photos. Nowadays, there are many interactive websites which can give you more ideas on this new innovation in scrapbooking.

The hobby of scrapbooking has been known all over the world for encouraging majority of the female market into getting involved with it. For mothers, it has contributed to improve their lives by adding variety to their everyday routine and for some, has even become a form of additional income. This can be said true for the young female market.

Teenagers have also fallen in love with this idea of scrapbooking that they have even formed clubs and organizations that encourage everyone to be an enthusiasts as well as a member. In nursing homes for the elderly people, scrapbooking has also taken a place of its own as a form of hobby for those who have been starting to lose their capacity to remember memories in their lives.

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Shooting Star Falls From the Vegas Sky

By Heidi Genoist

LAS VEGAS—How does a show go from being a TSW Fastest 50 winner to nearly nonexistent in just two years? The answer isn't entirely clear, but has something to do with a date change and a disagreement between the show's management and one of its vendors.

The 8-year-old MemoryTrends Trade Show for the scrapbook business won Tradeshow Week's annual award for being one of the 50 fastest-growing shows in 2005 and 2006. In 2005, it filled 106,659 net square feet at the Sands Expo & Convention Center and attracted 388 exhibiting firms. That was the year Primedia sold the show to Enthusiast Media. Nobody has released statistics for it since then.

According to a list on MemoryTrends' Web site – and backed up by a quick head-count on the showfloor – only nine exhibitors turned up for the most recent show, held Jan. 31-Feb. 2 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They were stashed in a back corner of the much larger Photo Marketing Assn. Intl. Convention & Trade Show.

“This year, we had to do a soft launch with MemoryTrends,” said Ted Fox, CEO and executive director of PMA, the Worldwide Community of Imaging Assns. Last summer PMA struck a deal with MemoryTrends' current producer, CK Media, to collocate the two shows.

They must have known it would be challenging for MemoryTrends, which took place in September (for the last time at the Sands), then again in late January, less than two weeks before its biggest competitor, the Craft & Hobby Assn. Annual Convention & Trade Show, Feb. 10-13 in Anaheim.

What they weren't counting on was a little extra resistance to make it even more difficult.

Fox explained: “An issue came up with a third-party vendor that MemoryTrends was using for the show they had in September. There was a disagreement over the terms and obligations between the third-party vendor and MemoryTrends, and we weren't able to resolve that issue to our satisfaction until late November. As a consequence, we fell behind on our deadlines.”

He added that PMA had hoped to market the collocation aggressively to participants at September's MemoryTrends, but “we weren't able to do that because of some legal issues.”

Nobody from CK Media could be reached for comment.

PMA attendees, particularly retailers, liked the idea of collocating the scrapbooking and imaging events.

Don Hite, co-owner of Hite Photo, said, “I do like that they're converging, because we're expanding our store to include (scrapbook items). This makes it easier for us to find everything in one place.”

Melvin Hiller, manning the We R Memory Keepers booth in the tiny MemoryTrends area, said his company's decision to exhibit was based mainly on price. Although it was too early to tell whether he'd get a good return on the investment, he added that We R Memory Keepers would probably continue to participate in both PMA-MemoryTrends and the CHA show, because the company does a lot of albums, which are popular among PMA attendees.

Still, he added, “MemoryTrends is dead, isn't it?”

Jenny Pitchford of the Stamping Station said, “I think more people should have supported MemoryTrends.” She went to the collocated show in hopes of meeting more photo retailers and said that was going fairly well.

All the MemoryTrends exhibitors who spoke with TSW said they would continue to participate in CHA's show.

Fox is hopeful for the future. Asked whether he'd forge ahead with the PMA-MemoryTrends collocation, he said, “Absolutely.”

If they do take place together again next year, the pair will have more distance from CHA's show, scheduled Feb. 8-11 in Anaheim. PMA is slated for March 3-5, again at the LVCC.

Taken From TradeShowWeek.com

How to Scrapbook Your Own Day Planner!

Try finding a day planner that affords you the space to stamp and scrapbook month to month! You can create your own monthly masterpiece by applying your favorite photo on an index tab divider, or even on a sturdy calendar page itself.

Apply you favorite stickers and stamps to significant dates to remember or celebrate. Consider tacking pictures of those who will celebrate memorable moments such as birthdays, anniversaries or graduations on the index tab dividers for each month.

Some planners even have a covers that have picture pockets that you could easily modify with the passing seasons! Changing the look of your day planner cover will keep it fresh and exciting all year long.

Try inserting a few mini scrapbook pages within the planner itself. Sharing your favorite photo masterpieces can be as easy as reaching for your purse.

Your creative scrapbooking is meant to be shared and enjoyed. Scrapbooking the pages of your planner could also serve to promote a business, whether its stamping, scrapbooking or day care! Share your talents each and every time you open your planner to make an appointment or just to jot down a note or two.

Adding your own personal scrapbooking touch to your day planner or calendar will encourage you to be more organized and will inspire at the same time!

It can make a great personal gift for you or someone you love. Enjoying the space we live in makes everyday a little easier. Have fun and get scrap happy in January right on through to December!

Author, Tammy Matthews, is a mom of three and creator of the Bizzi2Go Planner. For more information please visit: http://www.bizzimom.com