Jenny

I blog for my own sanity and I love reviewing new to me products and services on my blog. It only gets better when I get to give one of my fabulous readers a prize too! This sounds like a great promotion which I have already passed along in a post.

I desparately need to get a break and learn more about what blogging has to offer so I can offer my readers more. This is my contact with the outside non-internet world.

I am absolutely thrilled to get the opportunity to review and share with my readers the digital scrapbooking session you are offering. I tend to be a cluttered mom (haha) and this will allow me to have something crafty in my life without having a mess! I am going to share no matter what the decision is on this ticket no worries there.

Seriously, I am going either way but this would help gap the financial burden this trip is going to cost me and my family. I really look forward to learning about Creative Memories from both the product and business point of view as it is pretty much a new to me company.

Thank you for the chance,
Heather

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Thanks for the opportunity! Can’t wait to read the winning entry – maybe it will be mine!

I LOVE scrapbooking. The name of my blog is Eat, Scrap, Love. The fact that I have SCRAP in the name of my blog means that I love it…however, being a workin’ mama, I don’t have much time to do traditional scrapbooking. I love to get together with the girls and scrap through the night, but just don’t have the time as often as I’d like!

I’d love to get into the realm of digi-scrapping, and have actually downloaded many digi-kits, but can’t find a program that I love enough to work with…..perfect opportunity for Creative Memories to showcase their wonderful product!!

I look forward to hearing all about I_Blog. Best of luck w/ the conference, Jody.

1) I’ve been a fan of Creative Memories for all of my married life, which is more than eleven years ago. My aunt, who was a consultant at the time, gave me an album for my wedding and helped me get started. Since then, I’ve completed increasingly-bigger albums for each of my babies, each before the next came along, which wasn’t easy when I had four babies in five years. Two years ago, I made the switch to digital scrapping with the Storybook Creator software and have completed several digital albums, including two special albums for my mom and her siblings outlining my grandmother’s early life from her photos and reminiscences. If Creative Memories chooses me, they won’t be choosing someone who’s excited to TRY their products. They’ll be choosing someone who KNOWSthem inside and out. And I’d bring my completed Storybook albums to share ideas with other conference-goers.

2) While an Iowa blogging conference is a lot closer to home than most, I’ll still be driving 250+ miles from Minnesota to get there. My husband will be harvesting in full swing (hopefully), so I’m putting a lot on the line to make the commitment to come. Some help with the costs would certainly help to get my husband’s blessing.

3) I blog about family travel, which is somewhat outside the scope of the regular “mommy-blogging” world. When Creative Memories gave away some software at another blogging conference, I remember reading about it on the mommy blogs. I don’t recall any travel bloggers writing about it. My blog posts would reach a whole new audience. It’s read by parents looking for fun things to do with their kids as well as world travelers. I’m thinking of the possibilities I could do to show off the software on my blog, and could start with a page from our Philadelphia trip last winter that’s already started.

4) When I review a product or a place, I review it honestly. If I love it, I say so, but if I have suggestions for improvement, I’ll mention them. When I’ve reviewed products like Muvee Reveal or travel sites like Dealbase.com, I’ve received messages from the companies thanking me for my honest and thorough reviews. Does that make me a risk? Maybe. But isn’t that better than a glossy review of “Oh, this product is the best that I’ve ever seen, even though I haven’t tried it yet?”

5) Twitter? Got it covered. I already promoted Creative Memories’ sponsorship of the I_Blog Conference, even before I knew about this little contest. I’ll be ready to tweet at the conference, you can count on that.

So there you have it, the Top 5 Reasons that Creative Memories should send minnemom to I_Blog.

Hope to see you there!