About Club HM

Join the Club!

Club HM gives you a simple and economical way to get the most of what Heritage Makers has to offer!

You’ll love working on Studio projects all year long. With Club HM, our frequent publisher’s club, you’ll save 25-34% using discounted publishing points on your projects! You’ll also enjoy the benefits of the Club HM community, including online training, project ideas and challenges.

There are three Club HM membership levels—just choose the one that best fits your needs. The savings increase, the higher the level.

When you become a member of Club HM, you also become a member of our vibrant online community. We have our own Club HM Facebook page that features creative and inspiring ideas from other members, regular challenges and contests, helpful hints and suggestions and new friends who share your interests. 

Joining Club HM is fast and easy. Call me and let’s talk about which level of membership best suits you. You can sign up today and be publishing by tonight! Join in on the fun and become a member of Club HM today!

Go to my web site at http://www.HeritageMakers.com/Rebecca or contact me via email at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to learn more about Club HM.

Gifts that Keep on Giving!

It’s really not too early to plan your holiday gift giving, especially if you plan on giving gifts that will truly be treasured!

Imagine the heartfelt, meaningful projects you can create with Heritage Makers—family yearbooks, personalized calendars and beautiful canvases. Now imagine the joy of presenting these one-of-a-kind, priceless projects to your loved ones.




There are a couple of great ways to budget and save on the publishing points you’ll need for your holiday Heritage Makers projects.

1. Save big with Club HM!
Save up to 34% off all your projects as a Club HM member, plus receive FREE access to our ever-growing, amazing collection of Premier art and templates.

If you are currently a member, UPGRADE your account and start accumulating more points for your projects.

And remember, Club HM members enjoy the deepest discounts available on the purchase of additional points:
50 points……………… $40 (20% savings)
100 points…………… $75 (25% savings)
200 points…………… $140 (30% savings)


2. Host a workshop and earn points and exclusive rewards!
It’s said that it’s better to give than to receive, but as a workshop host, you can do both! As you give your guests the opportunity to create beautiful, meaningful keepsakes, you’ll be earning publishing points, discounts and rewards for yourself!

Here’s what you earn as a host (starting at $200 in party sales):

FREE product—earn plenty of free publishing points to use on any project.
Host specials—get deep savings of up to 60% off on special offers and exclusive items.

Ongoing savings—enjoy an additional 10% discount on all your publishing for 90 days after your workshop.

For a limited time, we’re offering an exclusive reward that people are absolutely crazy about! It’s our customizable 12 x 10 Bucket Bag that you can purchase for just $60 when you host a qualifying workshop. This would make an amazing holiday gift for yourself or someone you love.



Call me today to book a workshop, and I can give you all the details about our generous host rewards program!

3. Keep your eye out for product specials!
Each month Heritage Makers features a product with a 10% discount. As the holidays approach, watch for even more promotions and discounts on your favorite products.


With Heritage Makers, you can have your holiday gift list checked off before December even begins! Get started today on heartfelt projects that your loved ones will cherish for years to come!

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Club Kudos

The Club HM Facebook page was designed just for you. Visit today and you can be part of a supportive community that focuses on learning, growing and sharing. We offer tips to teach, answers to questions, and creative challenges to help us appreciate new art, try new products and learn different ways to document our life stories.



Learning a New Approach
In a recent “No Faces, Photo Challenge” Club HM Facebook members were challenged to document a relationship without showing any faces. The inspiration piece for the challenge was Renee Lamb’s “Unbreakable Bond” a 12 x 12 scrap page, template 78444. Renee’s page showed her three step-daughters sitting on a fence holding hands. The “unbreakable” bond illustrated in the photo was a powerful lesson to many of us on the Club HM page that faces are not always the best focal point for a relationship photo.



Club HM member entries poured in for this one-winner-only challenge, and many were the most striking projects ever posted on Club HM. Some of those in the running to win were Tina Snider’s project “made from a photo she had taken the previous year and loved and Karen Cattles’ project “Love is Color Blind” honoring her new grandson.



Lisa Iwata adapted a page from a page she’s made previously featuring her daughter and her three best college friends. Michelle Bedard’s 12 x 12 scrap page, “A Happy Day” had recently become template 32514 in the Template Gallery and was also a big hit.



And the Winner Was . . .
Our "No Faces" Challenge was one of the most moving challenges we've ever had. From tiny baby hands to children led along by Dad and babies yet to be born, we LOVED how many ways our Facebook Club HM members found to demonstrate deep relationships without showing faces. Our final winner was Jan Stamm for her touching portrait of mom and grandma lovingly preparing the bride for her wedding. It’s a 12 x 12 scrap page, now template 82049 and called "Three Generations of Love."

The Real Winners
The real winners on the Club HM pages are the thousands of participants that learn and grow each day. Join us. We’d love to have you.

Click here to start a project now. http://studio.heritagemakers.com/getStarted/

Go to my web site at http://www.OurPhotoStories.com or contact me via email at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to learn more about Heritage Makers products.

Club Kudos - "No Faces" Challenge

The Club HM Facebook page was designed just for you. Visit today and you can be part of a supportive community that focuses on learning, growing and sharing. We offer tips to teach, answers to questions, and creative challenges to help us appreciate new art, try new products and learn different ways to document our life stories.

Learning a New Approach

In a recent “No Faces, Photo Challenge” Club HM Facebook members were challenged to document a relationship without showing any faces. The inspiration piece for the challenge was Renee Lamb’s “Unbreakable Bond” a 12 x 12 scrap page, template 78444. Renee’s page showed her three step-daughters sitting on a fence holding hands. The “unbreakable” bond illustrated in the photo was a powerful lesson to many of us on the Club HM page that faces are not always the best focal point for a relationship photo.

Club HM member entries poured in for this one-winner-only challenge, and many were the most striking projects ever posted on Club HM. Some of those in the running to win were Tina Snider’s project “made from a photo she had taken the previous year and loved and Karen Cattles’ project “Love is Color Blind” honoring her new grandson.

Lisa Iwata adapted a page from a page she’s made previously featuring her daughter and her three best college friends. Michelle Bedard’s 12 x 12 scrap page, “A Happy Day” had recently become template 32514 in the Template Gallery and was also a big hit.

And the Winner Was . . .

Our "No Faces" Challenge was one of the most moving challenges we've ever had. From tiny baby hands to children led along by Dad and babies yet to be born, we LOVED how many ways our Facebook Club HM members found to demonstrate deep relationships without showing faces. Our final winner was Jan Stamm for her touching portrait of mom and grandma lovingly preparing the bride for her wedding. It’s a 12 x 12 scrap page, now template 82049 and called "Three Generations of Love."

The Real Winners

The real winners on the Club HM pages are the thousands of participants that learn and grow each day. Join us. We’d love to have you.

Click here to start a project now. http://studio.heritagemakers.com/getStarted/

Go to my web site at http://www.OurPhotoStories.com or contact me via email at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to learn more about Heritage Makers products.

Club Kudos - February

Visit our Club HM Facebook page and you’ll see why so many Club members visit every day and love every minute. You’ll find challenges to inspire, instruct and stretch you. You can ask for help or feedback and get tips and encouragement from other fans. You’ll see an occasional “Tip of the Day” or personal message from HM Home Office with additional tricks to make designing fast and easy. If you’ve never visited, do it today. Here’s what to watch for.



Studio Challenges

If you like a little competition and love designing in Studio, our challenges will keep you hopping. We have one nearly every day and the winners receive points as prizes. Shown above are the “Owl Always” challenge winners, where Club HM page members were asked to design any page or project from a brand new art collection called “Owl Always.” Cassie Balser’s entry is on the right. It’s a square flip book that tells a child about his or her parent’s love for them. It’s now a very welcome addition to the Template Gallery as template 79374. Rebecca Klompstra’s winning entry for the challenge was a 12 x 12 scrap page.




A later challenge encouraged page members to add a little grunge to their pages using stains, distressed frames, torn edges, paint splatters, ripped cardboard and faded text.

Jeanne Coto was the winner of this challenge and her entry is now available as template 79619, "Grunge Bathtime."




In a “Name Tile” challenge page members designed name tiles made on 12 x 12 scrap pages. As with every challenge, many of the entries, winning or not are submitted to the Template Gallery, giving us lots more templates to choose from. Shown above are two entries from that challenge entries that went on to become templates. Kim Reynolds “Wings,” template 79173 and Rebecca Klompstra’s “Life's too short to drink cheap wine,” template 79249 are both wonderful additions to the Template Gallery that came about because of a challenge.




Tip of the Day

The Club HM Facebook page keeps ticking along every weekday. Over weekends and holidays, there are still challenges, but there are also design tips and tricks posted that we call “Tip of the Day.” A recent “Tip of the Day” is outlined here and illustrated above.

Tip of the Day: When designing with circles, insert 1000 into the "ROUND CORNERS" input box instead of using the slider bar. Why? A 1,000 input will keep your circle perfectly shaped no matter how many times you change your mind about its size. If you use your slider bar, you'll need to adjust every time you change your circle's size.

Inspiration, Instruction and Community

Club HM Facebook fans love the support and inspiration that they find on the Club HM Facebook page. Questions are answered, projects are “oohed” and “aahed” over and inspiration is everywhere. If you haven’t joined our online community, do it today. We’d love to see you there.




A recent post on Club HM probably sums it up best:

“Today is National Compliment Day - so I created this to share with people like all of you. Your sharing on this page is so kind. And the support of each other is so heart-warming. What a nice place to visit each day!”
- Kimberly Keber

Thanks Kimberly, we agree.

Check out the Club HM Facebook page here.

Go to my web site at http://www.OurPhotoStories.com or contact me via e-mail at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to learn more about Club HM and other Heritage Makers products.

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About Club HM

So, you’ve seen all the excitement and thought about joining Club HM, right? WHAT? You haven’t? Well, let’s take a look at what you are missing out on!

Club HM was introduced to provide our clients with a simple and economical way to get the best of what Heritage Makers has to offer. 

· Save 25-34% off publishing points

· Enjoy FREE Premier access ($20/month value)

· Unlimited photo storage

· Access to more than 40,000 pieces of digital art

· Access to more than 5,000 predesigned templates

· Convenient monthly points plan

· Participation in the Club HM community, including classes, contests, idea sharing and more!

There are three levels of Club HM membership that allow you to choose the one that is right for your budget and your lifestyle.

When you become a member of Club HM, you also become a member of our vibrant online community. We have our own Club HM Facebook page that features creative and inspiring ideas from other members, regular challenges and contests, helpful hints and suggestions, the “Fresh Pick of the Day” template, and new friends who share your interests. Joining Club HM is fast and easy. Call me and let’s talk about which level of membership best fits your needs. You can sign up today and be publishing by tonight! Join in on the fun and become a member of Club HM today!

Rebecca Brooks
Heritage Makers
Personal Publishing Consultant

Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com
http://www.OurPhotoStories.com

Club HM Kudos

Thousands of people hang out on the Club HM page every week. Why? Well, it’s THE place to show off your latest Heritage Maker project, to ask for help or feedback, to pick up a tip or two or to join one of our challenges. Challenges usually last just a day or two, offer points prizes for one or more winners and inspire lots of comments and camaraderie from other Club members.

Since our last newsletter, challenges have included a “Recipe Card Challenge,” “One Color + Black Challenge,” “Funny Face Challenge,” “Food Glorious Food Challenge,” “Holiday Letter Challenge,” “Elements of Winter/Merry & Bright Challenge,” “Child's Photo Challenge,” “Busy As A Bee Challenge,” “Love You To Bits Challenge,” “Better Be Basic Challenge,” “Written Word Challenge,” “Card Conversion Challenge,” a “Patriotic Pride Picture Challenge” and more. To see past and present challenges, find them on the page under the DISCUSSIONS link. Here are a few of our favorites.


The“Love You To Bits” ChallengeOur “Love You to Bits Challenge” asked Club HM Facebook members to take a new Studio art addition and use only that collection to make a page or project. Winning entries were (in order shown) Tara Jones, “Love You To Bits” 8 x 8 Scrap Page, template 64482; Lisa Delange and Karrie Watson-Fowler. The contest also inspired submissions to the Template Gallery from others who loved the new art collection.


Shown here are “My Silly Little Girl” by Michelle Bedard, 12 x 12 Scrap Page, template 64524;“Love You to Bits” by FloyceMord, 12 x 12 Scrap Page, template 64414; and “8 x 8 Love You to Bits” by Jane Piercy, 8 x 8 Scrap Page, template 64770.



The “Sports Spectacular” ChallengeThis challenge was in conjunction with the July 28, 2011 Inspirations class. The winning entry was an 11.5 x 8.5 book by Jenny Smith. To see the Sports Spectacular Inspirations class click here.



The “Recipe Card” Challenge
Club HM Facebook members loved, loved, loved our “Recipe Card” challenge where recipe cards had to be designed using a 6 x 4 Invitation. Winners picked by the page were, in the order shown, Keri Lainhart; Ann Perry, now template 64857; and Tara Jones; with a special shout out to one of our youngest challenge participants, 7-year-old Emma Perry.

How to Join Us
“Liking” the Club HM Facebook page allows you to be a part of our page, vote in the challenges, post to the wall and join in the FUN! If you’d like friends to vote on your entry to a challenge, they’ll need to “like” the Club HM Facebook page too for us to see their “like” votes.
Club HM Facebook page
Showing off projects and pages helps us get to know each other. We’d like to get to know you too. Come over to the Club HM Facebook page and join us. Here’s how:

Log into Studio, scroll down to the bottom of the page on the right-hand side. You’ll find a “like” Club HM Facebook page button. Press it and you’ll be a Club HM Facebook member. Or go to www.facebook.com/clubhm, on the left-hand side of the page, straight down from the Club HM logo, find and click the text link “like.”

While Club HM is ALWAYS by far the best value in Heritage Makers Premier and product purchases, you do not have to have a Heritage Makers Club HM Studio membership to like the Club HM Facebook page. If you’re one of our Basic or Premier members, you’ll find loads of Heritage Making inspiration on the page too. You’re all using the same Studio, just paying for products and services in different ways.

Join us. Perhaps you’ll be winning Club Kudos for your own challenge entries!

Join Club HM

Start your 3 month trial period of CLUB HM by June 30th and receive 10 extra publishing points from me!! Take advantage of the sign up special and be entered in a drawing for an additional extra 20 points. Need to know more? Watch this video!

http://www.youtube.com/user/HeritageMakers#p/u/1/JtHjO9cDFvA
Sign up to be a consultant by June 30th a total of 50 extra publishing points(ask me how) and you will receive a regular discount of 10-15% off all publishing and commissions!

Contact me for support on how to do this or simply log in at www.heritagemakers.com/rebecca and click on "my account" or "join my team"

I look forward to helping you publish your socks off! Thank you!

Rebecca Brooks
Independent Consultant
Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com
www.heritagemakers.com/rebecca