Archive for August, 2006
Photo Challenge for Scrapbookers: Faces of You Scrapbook Page Layout
Capturing your child’s personality on a scrapbook page creates an extra special memory but can also be a bit of a challenge. How do you get just the right photograph with just the right facial expression? Try this Photo Challenge and learn how to set up your own photo shoot to capture your child’s unique expressions. Then, use your photos to create this adorable scrapbook page titled “Faces of You.” If you try this challenge, feel free to submit your page and I will create a Faces of You gallery for all the layouts sent in to About Scrapbooking.
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Creating Scrapbooking Brag Books
What better gift than a brag book for grandma and grandpa? Over the years, I know that my parents have always appreciated photos that have been shared with them of all of their grandchildren.
As parents, we love attending plays, dance recitals, choral performances and graduations, whether from preschool, elementary school or high school. Grandparents are not always in town or available to attend these events. They too enjoy sharing in the pride of these days.
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Resident published in scrapbook compilation
By Brad Witty
If a memory is truly important, it should be recorded for others to see.
That’s the message of “Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker’s Soul,” which includes a story titled “I Promise” by Frisco woman Jlyne Hanback.
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Simple Scrapbooks’ Digital Magazine Editorial & Creative Boards Announced
Simple Scrapbooks recently released the list of the members of Editorial Board and Creative Board for their newly acquired Digital Scrapbooking magazine: According to Editorial Board member Clara Wallace, the Digital Scrapbooking magazine will be a quarterly starting early 2007. There will be the print mag as well as the digitalscrapbooking.com website which will have content contributed by the board. DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING EDITORIAL BOARD 2007 Anna Aspnes Ann Hetzel Gunkel Angi Stevens Angie Svoboda Chris Ford Clara Wallace Danielle Catalano-Titus Jennifer Adams Donnelly Kristie David Laura Vanderbeek DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING CREATIVE BOARD 2007 Amy Tanabe Cory Richardson-Lauve Gina Cabrera Gina Miller Holly McCaig Jackie Eckles Katie Kaapcke Kate Teague Kim Mauch Martha Treadway Mary-Ann Buchanan Michelle Shefveland Pattie Knox Ronalyn Barut Shannon Freeman Shelly Chua Tia Bennett Tracy Robinson Vidya Ganapati Wanda Santiago-Cintron http://angiepedersen.typepad.com/sb_industry_news/
How to create a digital scrapbook
By HELEN MALANI
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It seems that everyone I know is scrapbooking � the documenting of life’s special events and memories. Someone is always chronicling something � a child’s recital, a bridal shower, a trip to Paris, a pet’s birthday.
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Choosing a Scrapbook Theme
I think one of the most common questions I am asked is “how do I find a theme amongst thousands of photos?”
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Private Equity Firm Buys Two Utah Scrapbooking Companies
Miami, Florida-based H.I.G. Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm, said today that it has acquired the majority interest in two Utah-based firms that provide scrapbooking products. H.I.G. Capital has purchased Die Cuts With A View, which is based in Provo, Utah; and Pressed Petals, which is based in Richfield, Utah. The firm is combining the two into DCWV, Inc. Both firms produce themed papers, stickers, embellishments, and other decorations for the scrapbooking market. Die Cuts With A View was listed as the fastest growing Utah company in the 2005 “Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies” list.
Creative Memories to Expand into Digital Scrapbooking
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (Aug. 18, 2006) – To maximize resources and expand its presence in the digital scrapbooking market, The Antioch Company, the parent company of Creative Memories, will close its Sparks, Nev., facility on Oct. 20, 2006, and will transfer manufacturing and distribution operations to its St. Cloud, Minn., and Richmond, Va., facilities. Eighty-five employee-owners were affected by the Sparks facility closure.
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Private Equity Firm Buys Two Utah Scrapbooking Companies
Miami, Florida-based H.I.G. Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm, said today that it has acquired the majority interest in two Utah-based firms that provide scrapbooking products. H.I.G. Capital has purchased Die Cuts With A View, which is based in Provo, Utah; and Pressed Petals, which is based in Richfield, Utah. The firm is combining the two into DCWV, Inc. Both firms produce themed papers, stickers, embellishments, and other decorations for the scrapbooking market. Die Cuts With A View was listed as the fastest growing Utah company in the 2005 “Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies” list. http://www.techrockies.com/story/0005063.html
H.I.G. Capital Acquires Majority Interest in Two Leading Scrapbooking Companies
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 24, 2006–H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity firm, acquired a majority interest in Die Cuts With a View, a Provo, Utah company and Pressed Petals, a Richfield, Utah company to form DCWV, Inc. Both companies design, manufacture, and distribute branded scrapbooking products. Die Cuts With a View is an industry leader in foundational scrapbooking products, including distinctively designed, themed and colored stacks of paper, stickers, quotes, and rub-ons. Pressed Petals creates unique, high-quality embellishments utilizing real pressed flowers, chipboard, and metals. The two companies have complementary product lines which will provide a broader product offering to their customers. In 2005, Die Cuts With a View was recognized as one of the fastest growing company on the “Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies” list and was the #1 Utah-based company recognized.
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