2010 was a fantastic year for Paperclipping!
What do we have to celebrate right now?
- Experienced huge growth in 2010
- Launched the Paperclipping Roundtable
- Launched the Paperclipping Digi Show
- Honored with Most Influential Scrapbooker award
- Paperclipping Life Books donation drive
- Built a new recording studio
OMG! Huge Growth!
Visits to Paperclipping more than doubled in 2010. Take a look:
2009: 131,287 visits to this website
2010: 280,851 visits to this website
Additionally, more and more people are becoming Paperclipping Members. In fact, 1,570 people have signed up to be Paperclipping Members. We’re so excited to see that our membership has grown to this size.
Our members are the most loyal and cherished audience members. If you’re not a member, and you enjoy the Roundtable or other things we produce, you should kiss a member and tell them thank you, because the members make everything we do possible. ;-)
7,056 scrapbookers are currently receiving email updates to stay in touch with the almost daily activities around here.
The Paperclipping Roundtable
One year ago this week we launched the Paperclipping Roundtable! It has been downloaded 90,670 times!
There was nothing like this in the industry. Some were skeptical as to whether an audio show made sense for something as visual as scrapbooking. It definitely made sense. According to Stacy Julian, founder of Simple Scrapbook Magazines and Big Picture Classes, Paperclipping has “changed the way we talk about scrapbooking.”
In fact, some of the industry’s most loved people like Ali Edwards, Cathy Zielske, and Stacy herself have jumped on board to be a part of the show!
The Paperclipping Digi Show
The Paperclipping Roundtable was such a huge hit, even among digital scrapbookers, that we launched a second audio show — the Paperclipping Digi Show!
Steph from the Daily Digi hosts this show. She’s amazing, and we love her. Her choices in guests and topics are awesome! Digi Show numbers? So far, this ‘new kid on the block’ has been downloaded 43,323 times!
Most Influential Scrapbooker Award
Ella Publishing announced who they believed to be the top 9 Most Influential Scrapbookers of 2010. I was thrilled that they chose me as one of those nine!
Paperclipping Life Books Donation Drive
For (Inter)National Scrapbook Day last May, I partnered with Roxane Apple of Shared Scraps to run a scrapbook supply donation drive. Local scrapbook stores got involved and the Paperclipping audience donated a total of 640 pounds of supplies for the making of Life Books for children under the care of the state!
New Recording Studio
Over the summer we were able to move our audio and video studios out of our living room and bedroom! We had our garage turned into a studio that never has to be taken down.
Of course, we had our other fun events — video and audio reporting from the Winter Craft and Hobby Association Trade show, Paperclipping Live! (our live-broadcasted show), the Paperclipping Festival for members to share something they’ve learned, and the Holiday Photography Tips Course for our Members.
Paperclipping in 2011
We have a number of special edition tutorials or classes we want to launch this year. The first one is in the works. I’m currently putting together a comprehensive in-depth course on design and the use of design principles for scrapbooking.
Once that is launched, I will choose from among these topics for the next project:
- Aperture training — how to use Apple’s photo editing and managing software, Aperture.
- Flexible Templates — an eBook of my Flexible Templates
- An album workshop — I don’t want to share the topic of this yet, but there is a themed album I am putting together and would like to teach as a workshop. It would probably have weekly assignments and it might last between two and three months.
- A mini-book workshop — again, I’m not ready to share the topic on this, but it would involve simple daily assignments and would last thirty days.
- A die cutting course using the Big Shot.
I have other ideas as well, but there is only so much we can do in one year! I don’t know which of these we will prioritize for this year. Please help me out! What events did you enjoy last year in 2010, and what projects would you be most interested in for 2011?
And most importantly, thank you to all you scrapbookers who have made Paperclipping a major part of your scrapbooking experience!
