Scrapbook magazine layout submissions

Submitting Scrapbook Layouts to Magazines

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Some of you may recall a post I wrote a few weeks ago about how excited I was to be Published…for the very first time in a mainstream scrapbooking magazine. I was so thrilled and excited that I made a layout to celebrate the event.

Well I thought I would let Scrapbooking Memories know how pleased I was and show them the layout of the magazine page that I had made. Imagine my surprise and joy when Krys emailed me to say she really liked my ‘layout of the layout’ and Scrapbooking Memories wanted to publish that one too!

Needless to say I am totally stoked. Both of the layouts are digital ones and there seems to be a lot less of them in published magazines than traditionally scrapped layouts. So that’s another buzz. Although I must say, Scrapbooking Memories does seem to be paying more attention to digital layouts in recent months, which can only be a good thing.

And on the subject of magazine submissions, I’d like to take a moment to praise Scrapbooking Memories for their great approach to customer relations. I have submitted a few layouts to various magazines over the last couple of months and Scrapbooking Memories is the only one that has responded (within a week) to let me know of my success or failure. I really appreciate that. It removes the ‘wondering’, and frankly it’s just common (or maybe not-so-common) courtesy. All the other magazines have sucked my email submissions into some black hole, never to be heard of again. It’s nice to be treated like a person. So thank you for that Scrapbooking Memories.

Anyway, here’s the original layout that started this saga. I’ve only just realised that I’ve never actually posted it on my blog. Created with the gorgeous Art Journal Collection by Thao Cosgrove from Scrap Girls.

I’d be interested to hear your experiences with submitting to magazines. Do they give you acknowledgment for your submission? Do they respond in a timely manner? Do they make you feel like you actually matter to them?