Calls for Submissions

Checking it Twice (Digital Scrapbooking)
Lists may help your world stay organized throughout the year, but come the holidays lists are actually fun! Think of it - the Thanksgiving Day menu, letters to Santa, the shopping list for family gifts, the list of lists goes on and on. And instead of checking it twice and tossing it, put your lists to good use this year by finding fun ways to incorporate them on your digital layouts! How do you add lists to your layouts - do you scan in handwritten notes from your kids, or do you re-create your own handwriting using various fonts? Does a photographed list make its way onto your page or do you find ways to work the lists into your journaling? Maybe you use a list as an actual pattern/background element on your page. Whatever method you use, we want to see the clever ways you use lists to create your digital holiday layouts.

Note: This call applies to digital scrapbook layouts and not traditional or hybrid layouts.

Priority will be given to never before seen, 2-page, multi-photo layouts.

Submissions Due
May 20, 2013, at midnight MDT. Submissions received after this time won't be considered.

What to Provide
Please provide a digital image of your layout. If you're submitting a two-page spread, please submit each page of the spread as a separate image. In addition to your image(s), please include a detailed supply list and any information on techniques or items to note about your layout.

If you have any problems with the submission section of our website, email Stacy Croninger at scroninger@creativecraftsgroup.com for troubleshooting.
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Digital Scrapbooking - Easier than Ever! (Digital Scrapbooking)
Are you ready to show the world how fun (and approachable) digital scrapbooking is? We want to see your approach to making digital scrapbooking easy using tips and tricks that you've discovered through your own digital scrapbooking. Whether that means using certain brushes to achieve a special subway art effect, a shortcut to creating gifts made from digital designs, an organization trick that you use to keep all your digital elements in order, simple ways to add realistic drop shadows, fun ways to use digital stamping, or adding curves to premade shapes. Showcase these and other fabulous techniques as focal points on your layout and provide steps to achieving the look (feel free to provide screenshots to help show your process). Send us your layouts and projects and make sure to include your tips and teaching points in the instructions.

Note: This call applies to digital scrapbook layouts and not traditional or hybrid layouts.

Priority will be given to never before seen, 2-page, multi-photo layouts.

Submissions Due
May 20, 2013, at midnight MDT. Submissions received after this time won't be considered.

What to Provide
Please provide a digital image of your layout. If you're submitting a two-page spread, please submit each page of the spread as a separate image. In addition to your image(s), please include a detailed supply list and any information on techniques or items to note about your layout.

If you have any problems with the submission section of our web site, email Stacy Croninger at scroninger@creativecraftsgroup.com for troubleshooting.
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Getting Started: Tantalizing Titles (Digital Scrapbooking)
A layout's title is an eye-catching focal point that helps tell your story, and with all the digital capabilities, titles have never been more fun. We're looking for your creative take on digital titles, including layering, stacking fonts, clipping photos inside letters, creating words from digital embellishments, using different brushes, manipulating your title's color, and more. We want to know all the tricks and techniques that went into creating your layout title, so please provide steps (and even screenshots) to help showcase your amazing title. Since it's a holiday issue, we'd love to see titles that tell the story of the season, whether it's related to snow, Christmas, Hanukkah, or winter family traditions.

Note: This call applies to digital scrapbook layouts and not traditional or hybrid layouts.

Priority will be given to never before seen, 2-page, multi-photo layouts.

Submissions Due
May 20, 2013, at midnight MDT. Submissions received after this time won't be considered.

What to Provide
Please provide a digital image of your layout. If you're submitting a two-page spread, please submit each page of the spread as a separate image. In addition to your image(s), please include a detailed supply list and any information on techniques or items to note about your layout.

If you have any problems with the submission section of our web site, email Stacy Croninger at scroninger@creativecraftsgroup.com for troubleshooting.
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Send Us Your Best Work!
Do you have fresh, never-before-published scrapbook pages, mini-albums, or tips? If so, use the submission tool (link included below) to send us a digital photo, the supplies you used, and a description of techniques used. Items submitted here must be free of any copyrights.
Note: You will be asked to answer Yes or No to this statement when you submit: I understand that as of June 1, 2013, all submissions cannot have been published in print or posted online in any galleries, blogs, or other image sharing capacities (such as Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, etc.)

Be sure photos do not exceed 500 pixels wide AND 300KB in file size. For 2-page layouts, submit two images - one for each side. For detailed projects with multiple views, we suggest using photo editing software to create a collaged or stitched image using multiple shots. All submissions must be free of any identifying watermarks.

For tips on getting a layout published in Creating Keepsakes magazine, check out this article: www.creatingkeepsakes.com/articles/Get_Published.

Note: Priority will be given to 2-page, multi-photo layouts.
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Reader Gallery Submissions
Are you a reader but not a contributor? We'd love to see what and how you're scrapbooking! Use the submission tool (link included below) to send us a digital photo, the supplies you used, and a description of techniques used. Items submitted here must be free of any copyrights.
Note: You will be asked to answer Yes or No to the following question when submitting: I understand that as of June 1, 2013, all submissions cannot have been published in print or posted online in any galleries, blogs, or other image sharing capacities (such as Facebook, Pinterest, Flickr, etc.).

Be sure photos do not exceed 500 pixels wide AND 300KB in file size. For 2-page layouts, submit two images - one for each side. For detailed projects with multiple views, we suggest using photo editing software to create a collaged or stitched image using multiple shots. All submissions must be free of any identifying watermarks.
> click here to submit an entry