Hi gang, Heather (hedderlee) here for tHeory tHursday. As if Scrap Matters’ grand re-opening isn’t celebration enough, today is my birthday!
So I have a little gift for you:
{created with Scrap Matters designer Erica Zane’s Touch of Cherry }

{created with Scrap Matters designers kits - Matahati Design’s Shabby Cottage, Happy Scrap Girl’s Wild, and Suzie Belle Designs’ Stella}

{here’s my part - the Rolodex shapes!}

Edited: Download is no longer available. Thanks for playing along!
Your challenge is to create your own Rolodex cards. As you can see from the freebies, the possibilities are endless. My daughter is using the “sight words” idea for her reading/phonics study. Love them all, actually!
This is what the cards look like in action:
Aren’t these fun?
Now, you have a chance to win the Birthday Rolodex! Just leave a comment on this post about what hybrid projects you would like to see featured here at ScrapMatters. One comment will be randomly selected; I will personally mail the completed Rolodex to this lucky person’s home, wherever she may live in the world!
Have a great day, and I can’t wait to see what you do with the Rolodex shapes!







52 responses so far ↓
1 Erin-Joi // Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Oooooh! I love the rolodex idea! I just have to try this! I think my mom may get a birthday rolodex for Christmas. I would love to see more organizational hybrid ideas. Organizing information like the rolodex project or organizing stuff including scrap stuff. I am trying to get better organized and ideas like this help and inspire for more.
Thanks!
2 Krista // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:25 pm
WOW this is a super project! Love it:)
3 Casey // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:32 pm
It would be awesome to feature one of those accordion style books that ties. I think Bare Elements makes one. I have looked everywhere for a digital template or “quick pages” for these type of hybrid projects.
4 ldrag2004 // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Wow, Heather this is a really fantastic idea and I think everyone will go for it!!!!!!
5 Cristina // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Happy birthday!!
I’d love to start with cards, though.
I’ve never tried hybrid but I would love to! But I always feel I don’t have enough time for it.
Wow your Rodolex is awesome!!
6 Tina // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I love these!! I am trying to get make a recipe book for my dd’s for Christmas so anything along those lines would be great!!
7 Kate // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Happy Birthday Heather!! This project is fantastic, it looks so cool, you’re so clever!
8 neeceebee // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Happy Birthday!
and you so rock hybrid…that is an AWESOME project.
I vowed never to pick up scissors and paper again when I switched to digi…but this looks AMAZING!!
9 Jen // Aug 14, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Very cool!
What are sight words?
10 Jessica // Aug 14, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I would love to see more unusual hybrid projects like this one. I can’t see myself doing a whole hybrid album, but this seems very manageable!
11 Shari // Aug 14, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Hapy Happy Birthday Heather dear! This project is the best. I know I will use this one.
Thanks for the template and the great idea.
12 Andilynn // Aug 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Happy birthday Heather! Thanks for the great templates and the rolodex dividers. They are fabulous!
13 Judy // Aug 14, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I love this. I didn’t think hybrid is for me, but I am so going to give this a try.
I’d like other organization projects as well.
P.S. Sight words are the first words you learn by “sight” or memorization such as “a”, the, if, is, it, etc.
14 Carol // Aug 15, 2008 at 12:43 am
Heather your rolodex cards are gorgeous (I will have to find out what we call them over here).
I especially love the sight words as that has been something big in our house over the last few months.
It is great to see learning / child based projects and would love to see more.
And I hope you had a wonderful birthday.
15 Pattycakes // Aug 15, 2008 at 2:29 am
I just picked up the templates and rolodex cards……..great idea. Love them……Thank you!
16 Pattycakes // Aug 15, 2008 at 2:30 am
Oops….forgot to say Happy Birthday…hope your day was fun!
17 Esther // Aug 15, 2008 at 4:30 am
Thanks so much.
This is stretching it, but I would like to see one for geneolagy. For each generation going back.
18 Carla // Aug 15, 2008 at 4:53 am
I can’t come up with any hybrid ideas - but I just wanted to say “It’s MY birthday too!!” Yay for the Leo’s! Love the Rolodex freebies, thank you!
19 cinjon59 // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:12 am
Wow What a great idea! This is a way to keep all the Birthday at hand Thanks So Much for Sharing
20 chigirl // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:40 am
Happy B-day!!! thanks for the great hybrid project, just might give this one a try. I’d like to see more hybrid projects that can be given as gifts, I’d love to see some calendar ideas, they make great Christmas gifts.
21 Cindy // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:59 am
OH WOW! I love this idea! I have to say the sight words is my favorite. Although they would all be very useful. I can see it now, the shelf above my desk covered with Rolodexes. I think a recipe book or something similar would be a great project.
22 Shelly // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:08 am
I really love the idea! I would like to see more project using recycled materials. Materials we would normally throw away. Like using the tags that come with clothing to decorate cards or gift bags.
Thanks for a fun contest!
Shelly
23 Rachel // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:31 am
Wow these are fun! Can’t wait to get to work. I love gift Calendars so something along those lines would be great. Thanks!
24 Tater // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:41 am
Heather these look so AWESOME! What a great idea!
25 D Min // Aug 15, 2008 at 7:04 am
I would like to some different styles of brag books with a tut to help those of us who are new to this. It might bore the more experienced but it is hard for us that are new to the digital world.
PS - I really love the rolodex cards. Gives me some great ideas for my daughter-in-law who is a teacher. Thank you for sharing.
26 rxdawg97 // Aug 15, 2008 at 8:02 am
I would love to see some altered home decor projects like embellished furniture or framed art using ScrapMatters kits. I especially think the new Friday Flea Market would make wonderful altered items that would freshen up my house (just don’t have the great ideas myself!)
27 Enchantedcropper // Aug 15, 2008 at 8:57 am
I think a legacy rolodex project would be great. A family could do their history, or their currrent families birthdays, anniversaries, and other special days, and how they celebrate them. And it would be so beautiful with some of the heritage colors out there. Thanks.
28 inspirecj // Aug 15, 2008 at 9:07 am
Wow Heather Happy Birthday!! And what an awesome present your giving to us!! Fingers crossed here…I’m LOVING the Sight Words one…such a cute and clever idea. And my kids are at the age where this would be perfect! Thanks for the chance to win!
29 Marty // Aug 15, 2008 at 10:04 am
This is a great idea. It makes everything bright and happy. Now how about doing one for those recipe boxes that are kinda on the dull side.
Happy Birthday
30 Tiffany // Aug 15, 2008 at 11:29 am
I just love this idea.
I was just talking to my sister yesterday about doing something to keep the family’s birthday’s all in order we had 8 kids in our family so with husbands and kids it’s so confusing. So thank you so much for this. It’s just perfect. I might make them for the christmas gifts this year!
I would love to see a hybrid family or friend word album. I know they have the templates out there but I just don’t know where to start.
Thanks again.
31 Cassandra // Aug 15, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Thanks for the freebie! These look great. I would like to see an accordian album hybrid kit sometime.
32 Kat // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:07 pm
this is truly awesome thank you so very much bless you
33 Kat // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:08 pm
just awesome sorry i put an extra letter in email address this is the right one lol
34 Anke // Aug 15, 2008 at 1:41 pm
thanks so much for the cute idea and the freebie. I think a mini album hybrid project would be cute!
35 Jen F // Aug 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Very cute! I’d love to see some kind of hybrid planner dividers and pages.
36 Jen // Aug 15, 2008 at 3:57 pm
OOH, I love Enchanted Cropper’s idea of a legacy rolodex. Or you could do one card per day of the year, either with a picture from that day or a funny story or a quote a kid said or something like that. Then you would treat it like a page-a-day calendar, flipping it each day.
37 Amanda // Aug 15, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I would like to see clipboards. I’ve seen a lot of these being a teacher and would love to see your ideas. Happy belated birthday also!
38 shmoop // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:21 pm
miss you at the playground!!!
really cool idea, cept i need help cutting them all out!!! lol!
happy bday!
39 Leicantrell // Aug 15, 2008 at 5:27 pm
These are really a cute idea.
40 allison // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Thank you! I love what you did with yours!
41 Gaye // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:43 pm
sooooo cute! thanks for this!
42 rhonav // Aug 15, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for this great project. I would like to echo the others who said they would be interested in more projects that would help us organize.
43 Valerie // Aug 15, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Wow! What a great hybrid idea! I love doing hybrid projects and these rolodex cards are amazing. I’d be interested in seeing hybrid projects that you fold to create.Examples would be star books, box books. Thank you so much for these lovely rolodex cards.
44 Crissie // Aug 15, 2008 at 9:11 pm
WOW! I just started making some rolodex scrap pages and I have to say how excited I was to see your post! I just love this idea as a hybrid project. I am trying to make one for my sister’s B-Day this month. Thank you SO much for the rolodex shapes
this will make it MUCH easier on me now!!
How about some hybrid dayplanners? Not only good for the maker…good for gifting for this Christmas!
45 Myxi // Aug 15, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I’ve been trying to figure out how to show off my scrapping skils at work without saying LOOKEE HERE WHAT I DID. How subtle can ya get? When folks say, “Ohhhhhhh that’s too cute, where’d ya get it?” I can say, “I made it!” Now I gotta get busy. Thanks for the great idea and the templates tool
46 Susan Catmull // Aug 16, 2008 at 8:26 am
Love this idea for the rolodex shapes. It will be usefull for tons of things. I would like to see ideas for hybrid containers to give as gifts and also how to use hybrid scrapbooking to alter household objects into works of art or just something useful and oh so cute.
47 Ramie // Aug 16, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Thank you SO much! I have a rolodex with all my scrappy friends in it from a swap we did (each made our own cards and swapped them out so we’d have everyone’s info in one place), and this is a PERFECT way to add the rest of our friends and family to the rolodex!
Thanks again!
48 The Sunday Spotlight - Heather Lee! // Aug 17, 2008 at 8:29 pm
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49 Elnora // Aug 18, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Thanks for these wonderful Rolodex cards! And Happy Birthday! Sorry I missed the party (grin); I just got here!
50 Lisa // Aug 19, 2008 at 9:49 am
Happy belated birthday, Heather!
I love these! I would love to see some very beginner-friendly directions for hybrid projects…kind of a “Hybrid for Dummies” lol! Step by step by step directions for doing a chipboard album would be great! (everything from materials needed to detailed directions on how to assemble, etc.) Directions that don’t assume anything and spell it all out for those of us who are timid about dipping our toe into the hybrid pool.
51 Amber // Aug 19, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Wow! I really like this idea for the birthdays. I saw someone suggested one for heritage information, too. I’ll probably try the one for sight words. I have an extra holder, so I think I’ll put it to use. I think it would work well for any type of flash cards - math, spelling, grammar, definitions, etc.
I would like to see some box templates. I like the idea, just don’t want to take the time to figure out the shape & measurements, LOL!
Thanks & blessings~
52 Winners! // Aug 26, 2008 at 6:56 am
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