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We’re always looking for fresh, never-before-published scrapbook pages and tips. If you’ve always wanted to be published, e-mail your pages and ideas to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com or see our website for the themes we’re looking for right now. They could be chosen for publication in a future issue! 

For tips on getting a layout published in Creating Keepsakes, check out this article. 

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Scary but True Stories

“AAAHHHH!” you shriek. And suddenly your husbands and children are at the craft room door asking if they should call an ambulance. “NO,” you sigh, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, “I just spilled ink everywhere.” Thrills, frills, and spills are all part of everyday scrapbooking. And sometimes something happens that really gives you the chills just thinking about it. Send your scary but true scrapbooking or crafting mishaps, including happy accidents, to letters@creatingkeepsakes.com and your story may be published in the October 2010 issue. Write “scary but true” in the subject line. And remember, sometimes the only difference between a good scream and a good laugh is time.     

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Fit Scrapbooking into Your Life

What do you do to fit scrapbooking into your everyday life? Send us your tips and ideas to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com and they may be published in the October 2010 issue. Write “everyday tips” in the subject line.

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Calling All Sketch Artists

Creating Keepsakes wants to see your fresh, never-before-published pages about fall, family, Halloween, or everyday life following this CK Sketch. Send us a JPG of your layout, along with a supply list and short description of any cool techniques you used to create it by April 14 to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com with “CK Sketches” in the subject line. Your page could be published in an upcoming issue!

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Fall-Themed Layouts for Fast Pages with 4″ x 6″ Photos

For an upcoming issue of Creating Keepsakes, we’re looking for fall-themed pages that meet these requirements:

* All photos are 4″ x 6″. Color photos are preferred.

* Photos are related to fall. Photos taken with unique ideas or photo angles are preferred but not required.

* Layout is a two-page spread.

* Layout does not contain any techniques that require more than 10 minutes to reproduce.

 Submit your layout by e-mailing a scan or photo to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com. Be sure to include “Fast Pages for Fall” in the subject line. Include your name, e-mail address, mailing address, time-saving trick(s), and supply list in the e-mail.

The deadline for this call is April 13, 2010.

 We can’t wait to see your work!

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Call for Fall Photos

 Last fall, did you take a photo of leaves, pumpkins, or other fall-related activities from a unique angle or with a cool twist? If so, we’d love to see your pictures. Landscape, still, and portrait photos are all welcome. To submit, e-mail your low-res photo to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com. Be sure to include “Fall Photos” in the subject line. Include your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and photo trick in the e-mail.

 The deadline for this call is April 13, 2010.

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Reader Gallery/Fresh Face

Are you a reader but not a contributor? We’d love to see what and how you’re scrapbooking! To submit your pages, please email them editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com. Be sure to put “Fresh Face” or “Reader Gallery” in your subject line.

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We Need Your Elegant Halloween Pages

Do you have a Halloween-themed layout that is elegantly creepy? We want to see it! Think gothic fonts, elegant brocade prints, silhouettes, black glitter or sequins, or even vintage-themed Halloween accents. We’d especially like to see pages about grownups celebrating this fun holiday.

 Send scans of your layout to us at editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com with “Creepy” in the subject line. This call ends April 20, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. (Mountain Standard Time).

 Along with a scan of your layout, please include:

• Your supply list
• A description of how you created the elegantly creepy look on your page
• If you used a technique on your layout, please tell us about it in 3 steps

 Tips for Success.

You’ve let us know that you like to see pages with the following attributes. Try including these elements on your pages:

• Color photos
• 4″ x 6″ photos (either uncropped or cropped)
• Several photos on each page
• 2-page layouts

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Techniques 

Do you have a special technique you want share with us? Send us a scan of your technique used on a layout to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com with “Techniques” in the subject line. This is an ongoing call with no deadline. 

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Unfinished Pages! 

Do you have a layout you need help completing? Send us a scan of your unfinished layout to editorial@creatingkeepsakes.com, and your page could be featured in our “Page Makeover” section in an upcoming issue of Creating Keepsakes. This is an ongoing call with no deadline. 

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CK & Me! 

Have you created a page that was inspired by a layout in CK? We’d love to see it! Send an e-mail to letters@creatingkeepsakes.com and tell us what page inspired you and why, along with which issue it appeared in. Attach a scan or photo of your layout sized at 500K or less. Your page could be featured in the “Letters” section of a future issue! Please put “CK & Me” in the subject line. This is an ongoing call with no deadline.