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1. Contest is open to individual people who are legal residents of the United States, Canada (excluding Quebec), England and Wales, including contributors to Creating Keepsakes magazine and winners of previous contests sponsored by Creating Keepsakes magazine including winners of Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook Hall of Fame contests. Employees of Creating Keepsakes magazine (Sponsor), Primedia, Inc., their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household are not eligible to enter. Employees of scrapbook-industry manufacturers, competitor publications, and any others who are contractually bound to exclusively produce work for companies within the scrapbooking industry are also not eligible to enter. The contest begins 5/1/06 and ends 7/01/06.
2. To enter, please submit the following:
(1) A 20-layout portfolio of scrapbook layouts. 12 of these layouts must be non-published pages and must not have been previously submitted for publication or posted in any online forum. (Please submit copies of scrapbook layouts only.) Actual size or reduced size is acceptable. Please do not submit original layouts. Original layouts will not be returned. A layout is defined as either a one- or two- page scrapbooking layout.
(2) Essay that answers the following question:
Scrapbooking is a personal hobby that has expanded to create a community and to spur an industry. In 500 words or less, please share your answer to the following question: How does your personal scrapbooking hobby affect your life and where do you think that hobby will take you and the industry in the future?
(3) A separate sheet of paper that includes your name, contact information (including phone number, address, e-mail address and alternate contact information), and a list of supplies you used to create your 20 layouts.
(4) Mail, postage prepaid, to Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Scrapbooker of the Year Contest, 14850 Pony Express Road, Bluffdale, UT 84065. One entry per person. Entries must be received in the Creating Keepsakes offices no later than 7/1/06. Any entries not received in the Creating Keepsakes offices by 7/1/06 will not be eligible for the Scrapbooker of the Year contest. Sponsor shall not be responsible for lost, late, mutilated or misdirected entries.
3. Ten (10) finalists will be selected based on the entries submitted in Rule 2. Finalists will be notified on or about 7/31/06. Finalists will each receive $100 and a prize basket of scrapbooking products. Finalists will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to the Memory Trends trade show which will be held in Las Vegas, NV October 10-12, where the winner will be announced an exclusive celebration.
To be eligible for consideration for the grand prize, the 10 finalists will be required to participate in a personal telephone interview and to submit a scrapbooking resume. This resume should include any experiences the finalist has had in the scrapbooking industry, including, but not limited to published works, design teams, length of time scrapbooking, teaching experience, and other skills and strengths the designer may have. Round 2 interviews will be scheduled before 8/20/06. Entrants will be required to answer a set of questions, 70% of which will be provided to the entrant prior to the interview.
4. Entries must be the sole work of a single entrant.
5. Creating Keepsakes will select winners based on the following criteria:
(Round 1)
Did the designer accurately complete each of the assignments?
Does the designer create a unified look within each individual page?
Does the designer have a clear, distinct style?
Does the designer present innovative principles, approaches or techniques?
Does the designer express herself well on the essay portion of the entry?
Does the designer provide interesting and memorable information in the essay portion of the entry?
(Round 2)
All of the criteria listed under Round 1, plus the following:
Does the designer express herself well in the personal interview?
Are the ideas the designer expresses in the interview viable in the scrapbooking industry?
Does the designer exhibit and instill in others an enthusiasm for scrapbooking?
Does the designer understand and know how to solve the challenges of typical scrapbookers?
If the judging results in a tie, the entries that are tied will be re-judged based on the factors listed above, but the first factor will be counted as most important, the second factor as second most important and so on. If the re-judging still does not break the tie, all of the tied entries will be treated the same by Creating Keepsakes and will either all be published or all be rejected.
The contest will take place under the supervision of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Participants agree to be bound by these rules and the decision of the judges, whose decisions are final. The winner will be publically announced on or about 10/15/06. To obtain notification of the winner, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope after 10/20/06 to Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Scrapbooker of the Year Winner Request, 14850 Pony Express Road, Bluffdale, UT 84065 or visit www.creatingkeepsakes.com
The grand-prize winner will win (1) $10,000 in cash; (2) a prize package including scrapbooking products. Ten finalists will receive $100 each as well as a prize package. Sponsor makes no warranties with regard to the prizes. Prizes are not transferable.
6. All entries and requests become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsor will have the right to photograph the winner. Entry constitutes permission to use the winners’ name, picture, likeness and city and state of residence for purposes of trade, publicity or promotion for no additional compensation except where prohibited by law. All entries must be original, may not have won previous awards and must not infringe on any third-party rights. Submission of entry constitutes entrant’s consent (or that of their parent/legal guardian) to irrevocably assign to Sponsor any and all rights to entry including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights. Submission of any entry grants Sponsor and its agents the right to publish, produce, use, adapt, edit and/or modify the entry in any way and in any and all media, without limitation and without compensation to the entrant.
7. The winner (or the parent/guardian if winner is a minor) will be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility, compliance with contest rules and release of liability. The winner will also be required to sign a confidentiality agreement until his or her name is released to the public by Creating Keepsakes. The winner will also be required to sign an exclusive contract to represent Creating Keepsakes for two years. All taxes on prizes are solely the responsibility of the winners.
8. All entrants release Sponsors, its affiliates, parents, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, and agents, and all others associated with the development and execution of this from any and all liability from injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from participation in this promotion or acceptance or use of any prize.
9. Prizes must be claimed by 10/31/06. Failure to execute and return any requested document within 10 days of postmark, or return of notification or prize as undeliverable may result in forfeiture of prize. An alternate potential winner may be selected at the sole discretion of Sponsors. All reasonable effort will be made to contact the winner.
10. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
11. US and Canadian entrants:
(i) If you are legally resident in the United States or Canada and are under the applicable age of majority, then your parent or legal guardian must also print their name and sign the back of each submission below your signature. They will also be required to provide parental permission and releases on your behalf. Selected Canadian entrants must correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing question to be declared a winner. US and Canadian winners (or the parent/guardian if a minor) will be required to execute an affidavit attesting to entry eligibility, compliance with these Official Rules, and release of liability as may be applicable.
(ii) All winners will be asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, agreeing not to disclose their success until their names are published by the Promoter.
(iii) Any taxes on prizes are solely the responsibility of the winner.
(iv) Failure to execute and return any requested document within fourteen (14) days of receipt may result in forfeiture of prize in which case an alternate potential winner may be selected at the sole discretion of Promoter.
12. The Official Rules shall be governed by the laws of the country or state in which the entrant resides.
