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MemoryMixer Lite Announced MemoryMixer, a popular digital scrapbooking software, is now available in a "lite" version called MemoryMixer Lite.The new product has the same popular features as the original MemoryMixer, the only difference being the quantity of content. MemoryMixer Lite offers less QuickMixes, backgrounds, and embellishments, but allows a Lite user to buy additional content as desired. Thus customers can upgrade to the full version at their own pace. MemoryMixer Lite allows users to combine digital video, sound, photos, computer graphics and typewritten text into a multimedia experience that brings memories to life. It also incorporates narration capabilities, such as a family member's voice, adding a more personal and meaningful touch. In addition, users can digitally scan memorabilia such as report cards, ticket stubs, or a child's drawing. MemoryMixer has multiple output options that include DVD, CD, beautiful hardbound photobooks and traditional print (professional printing or at-home printing) and uniquely retains its print quality throughout the creative process. MemoryMixer Lite is the result of Lasting Impressions' partnership with StoryRock, the world's largest provider of digital yearbook technology for schools. StoryRock's digital approach to creating and enjoying yearbooks adds an entirely new dimension to capturing school memories. MemoryMixer Lite will be available in July 2006 and will be priced at $29.95 for a broad consumer audience. The new product is compatible with either PC or Mac systems. Photo Album For Your Wrist The SMOY Photocuff is a bracelet with windows to hold photos of your friends. Billed as a "friendship bracelet for the MySpace crowd", it comes in four styles named after neighborhoods in New York City: Brooklyn, Chelsea, and Soho. Each style is available in multiple colors. Looks like it could also be used to hold notes and answers for tests. MyPublisher Introduces Restyled Cover Options for Photobooks - Plus New Cover Colors for Summer MyPublisher, Inc., a provider of software and value-added printing services for digital photo users, announced today the availability of two new re-designed cover style options -- the Picture Window Cover and the Classic Label Cover. The company also launched its new seasonal cover color program with the introduction of lime, mango and tangerine linen covers for summer. The new Picture Window cover design gives MyPublisher's Photobooks a sophisticated look while the removal of the window frame makes for easier stacking and shelving. MyPublisher's Picture Window Cover is a sleek style with a self-contained window displaying the cover photo and title customers choose for their PhotoBook. The window is enclosed on the interior cover with a grey, archival-quality paper. The Classic Label cover displays the cover photo and book title on a high-quality, picture stock label that is adhered to the center of the cover. The chic summer cover colors -- lime, mango and tangerine -- are a perfect way to encapsulate those sunny, summer memories. Customers can create their PhotoBooks using digital photos taken during summer vacations or a day at the beach then select one of the complementary summer cover colors to add a little flair. Lisa Lee's Little Love Book The newest product available for busy parents and grandparents who want to capture and cherish their baby's first year is the "Little Love Book" series of personal photo journals from The Lisa Lee Company."Little Love Book" offers the look of a handmade scrapbook with a simple and unique method to slide photos right into the page designs. The first two photo journals in the series are available now and feature a boy or girl's first year. Each "Little Love Book" contains 20 hand-designed, original themed pages with die cut windows where pictures simply slip in. Every page is made from a heavy cover stock paper that is safe for both digital and traditional photo prints. The stitched and softly padded leatherette cover also features a window to add a photo. "Little Love Books" also include acid and lignin-free double-sided adhesive to secure photos and an archival quality pen for journaling alongside the images. It's billed as the perfect shower, Mother's Day, new parent or grandparent gift. They're currently available in both a boy's and girl's version. More books will be added to the collection in 2006 focusing on love, celebrations, traveling and more. Twig Offers "eLearning Scrapbook Classes" Today, a company called Twig Your Scrapbook eLearning Center, LLC, officially announced its new scrapbook class called "Twig".Twig actually first went live on January 1, 2006 by launching its website where scrapbookers can take live interactive classes online. The classes offered fulfill all levels of scrapbooking, from beginner classes to intermediate project based classes. Angie Long, Twig's Owner and President says it's a challenge just to explain the concept of online interactive classes to scrapbookers. "This concept is so new that when I explain live, interactive classes to scrappers, they can't seem to grasp it. Fortunately, I can see the future, and I always try to be two steps ahead."View Twig's class schedule. The Story Behind StoryTeller's Club The Spectrum, a newspaper serving Southern Utah, has an article explaining how StoryTellers Club got started.If you're not familiar with StoryTellers Club, it's a subscription-based scrapbooking supply service, sending its members scrapbooking supply packs each month with enough materials to complete 8 to 10 pages. Leslie Johnson, who owns StoryTellers Club didn't expect so much success so fast... "It grew a lot faster than we thought it would," she said.Read the full article here. Marriage Of Family History And Scrapbooking Family history and scrapbooking have always been kissing cousins but GenealogyToday.com aims to bring the two together in marriage. If you are into researching or recording your family history and you are a scrapper, you ought to take a look at ScrapbookingToday's offerings. These include a various paper selections for recording family trees, family history themed albums, stickers and other embellishments, as well as a few how-to books. ScrapbookingToday is a specialized department of the Marketplace at Genealogy Today which highlights products for sharing and preserving your family history, traditions and memories. The site is the work of Illya D'Addezio, a long time genealogy buff and web master. He's also a long-term friend of this site. You can trust Illya to take good care of you, process your order promptly, and generally make sure you are happy with your purchase. Kim Luty Calls for Diversity in Scrapbooking (Via Press Release) - Kim Luty uses scrapbooking to illustrate that it's our differences that make us the same."The scrapbooking market has traditionally presented an extremely limited number of products targeting people who are outside what most of us call 'the norm,'" says craft industry professional Kim Luty. A scrapbooking enthusiast as well as a professional, Luty says it was difficult, if not impossible, to "find images of blended families, unmarried adults, single parents, active seniors, people with curbs and the disabled." Even more troubling, she felt, was the lack of diversity within the product lines. She found scrapbook kits with images that were appropriate for people of color, or for people of one religious background or another, but "They seemed very 'one note' to me," she says. To Luty, existing scrapbooking products "didn't represent the diversity of people and lifestyles that I see all around me every day." She decided to address the situation and today, with her company Same-Differences, Luty wants to change the world of scrapbooking to look more like her world, "a magnificent tapestry made up of beautiful, but different threads." Luty's products distinguish themselves from other mainstream offerings for croppers with an unusual attitude towards the dissimilarities that define people. "Same-Differences presents images of a broad spectrum of ages, abilities, colors, enthnicities, and physical attributes," observes Luty. "And we show them working together, playing together, and living together just the way they do in real life," she says proudly. "Do I have strong opinions that scrapbooking products should reflect the diversity of our lives? You bet I do," says Luty. "But they're just my opinions, my perspective, and my individual 'world view.'" With the Same-Differences products, "I simply invite people to join me in sharing that view," she says. Luty notes that some companies prefer to target a separate niche with their products, offering images of a single ethnicity, religion, or physical state. She says she has no problem with companies and customers who prefer what she simply calls a different scrapbooking "frame." |
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