Julie Ann Shahin's Inspiration For Generation C

Hi Julie Ann,

(This is a really hard e-mail for me to write ....)

I want to sincerely thank you for submitting your work in response to our
design team call. We received more than 400 carefully crafted submissions!
It was a pleasure reviewing each and every one. We truly appreciate the time
and effort you put into your submission. Your name made it to our runners-up
list, but did not make it onto our list of finalists. (By the way, being a
runner-up means that at least three of our eight editorial staff really
liked your work. However, in the end, we had to limit the final list to
those who received at least four positive checkmarks from the panel of eight
judges.)

Thank you again *so much* for your interest in our design team, and for
being a Scrapbook Answers reader. We hope you continue to submit your pages
and other projects in response to our calls. We are keeping a file
containing the names and info of all the design team hopefuls who didn't
make it on the final list but who we felt represented the best work among
all of the submissions--and that includes you.

And, of course, we value your opinion about the magazine, so please feel
free to share feedback with us any time by e-mailing us at
letters@scrapbookanswers.com.

Best,
Leslie

P.S. What we have seen of your work has been quite lovely, and please don't
think that just because you're not on the "official" DT list that it closes
the door to us working together in the future. We just had to narrow it down
somehow; in the end it was a matter of mathematics!

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Leslie Ayers
Editor in Chief
Scrapbook Answers