Sports Trading Cards

Whatever the sport, create custom team trading cards that make your athlete look and feel like a pro! Trading cards are wonderful coach gifts and fun souvenirs for teammates to share. Each deck contains 54 cards and comes in a durable plastic storage case.

If you start with one of our fabulous templates, trading cards are a project you can make in just moments!

Customize the front of the cards with your team photo, name and season. Customize the back of each card with an individual player’s photo and other stats. It’s that easy. Use these fabulous templates designed by Roxanne Buchholz, and you’ll be on your way to scoring big with a project that’s something to cheer about!


HM Softball Trading Cards, template 37853 HM Football Trading Cards, template 19928
HM Soccer Trading Cards, template 20889 HM Basketball Trading Cards, template 37840


HM Hockey Trading Cards, template 37873

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Product of the Month

This month we’re featuring one of our flagship products, the 12 x 12 storybook. It’s a definite project favorite—and for good reason! The large format offers plenty of room to highlight photographs, plenty of room to write, and has real luxury gift appeal. And this month, you can save 10% of your 12 x 12 storybook purchases, in addition to the great savings you already receive as a Club HM member!

Here, we’d like to share seven beautiful 12 x 12 storyboook templates designed to showcase family traditions and celebrations through the years. You and your family celebrate in ways that are unique to you. This may not be apparent in photos of one birthday, Christmas or Thanksgiving, but over time, your traditions emerge. Creating a book about those patterns across the years preserves a record of how your loved ones live. Here at Heritage Makers, books about the way the “Butlers Celebrate Thanksgiving” or the “Prezants Keep Hanukkah” have come to be known as Foundation storybooks.



“Family Love Stories,” template 49503 designed by Lynda Angelastro, begins with these simple words, “In every family, there are many love stories. These are a few of our family’s favorites.” Think of all the wonderful family love stories you can share using this gorgeous template as your guide.

“How the Butlers Celebrate Birthdays,” template 18010 , is a fun and meaningful way to highlight birthday celebrations and traditions throughout the years. Cakes, gifts, and birthday milestones are just some of the delightful spreads in this template. This book shows all the family members that their birthdays are cause for celebration!

“How the Butlers Keep Christmas,” template 18310, is a similar book built around Christmas traditions. Wonderful holiday photos help tell the story and make it plain to see that warm family relationships are what make Christmas merry and bright!

Christine Prezant designed “A Prezant’s Hanukkah,” template 24413. This delightful book shows how her family spent the joyful season each year for the past nine years. The photos and text give a wonderful look at the growth of the family, the enduring traditions, and the obvious love they share one with another.

“A Butler Thanksgiving,” template 18305 designed by Elisa Black, is another excellent holiday traditions book. From Thanksgivings past to Thanksgivings present we see how the family enjoys their time together. Wonderful photos and stories of preparation, feasting, and relaxation are shared on each page.


“Family Weddings,” template 37810 designed by Elisa Black, is an elegant collection of family wedding stories and photographs. The turn of each page reveals a different couple’s love story along with beautiful images. The design of this book is absolutely stunning, and the stories are true family keepsakes.

“Our Family Vacations,” template 91377 designed by Elisa Black, features favorite family vacation photos and stories throughout the years. What a wonderful way to relive the fun!

How does your family celebrate? Whom do you love? Where do you travel? Keep your favorite memories alive with Foundation books for you and your loved ones to enjoy again and again. We recommend you finish one or two of these easy-to-make storybooks each year to build a meaningful library and share beautifully captured moments as you turn the pages of your life.

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

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

August New Studio Art

We have a wonderful variety of art to share with you this month—colorful school-themed kits, rough and tough Western pieces, and two fun, feminine collections. Take a look and get inspired!



Did you attend a rodeo or go horseback riding this summer? Maybe you have a cowboy or cowgirl in your life? Our new Little Buckaroo collection, by Peppermint Creative, lets you “giddy up” and get going on rodeo, riding, or Western themed projects. “Hometown Rodeo,” a 12 x 12 scrap page, features some of the great pieces from this kit and is available as template 91562.


Let’s move from rough and tough to soft and sweet with this darling kit, Blooming, by Jady Day Studio of Sweet Shoppe. A beautiful color pallet and lovely accents adorn this cute collection—perfect for fun feminine projects. The 24 x 18 poster, “Bloom Each Day,” template 91601, uses this collection's art to celebrate the happy arrival of a baby girl.



August is the month for back-to-school preparation, new grades, new teachers and new friends! For all your school-themed projects, we’ve got four great kits by Peppermint Creative. The Colored Pencils and Crayons collections give you fun embellishments that add just the right touch to your school-themed creations. The 8 x 8 scrap page “S is for School,” template 91561, cleverly puts all those crayons to work to make a fun teacher gift and classroom décor piece mounted in a cute coordinating frame.


Use our School Zone Paper collection and School Zone Elements for back-to-school scrap pages, classroom year books, teacher cards, gifts and more! The 12 x 12 scrap page, “School Friends,” template 91558, combines pieces from both collections.




Finally, our fresh August offerings include the charming new collection, “Summer Cottage,” by Sweet Shoppe’s Melissa Bennett. Use this art to create beautiful cards and home décor projects like the 7 x 5 greeting card, “Merci Beaucoup,” template 91579, and the 12 x 12 canvas, "HOME," template 91557.

The sizzling summer days keep coming, and so do the hot new collections for use in your Heritage Makers projects! Remember, whatever your story, whatever your style, Studio has the art for you!

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

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

Photo Management—Upgrades and Tips

Heritage Makers is excited to announce new and improved tools—designed to help you more easily navigate within your photo manager, organize your photos, and be aware of your file usage.

The photo manager update was introduced on July 24, 2012. If you want to get the nitty-gritty about ALL the photo manager updates and changes, follow this link which will direct you to a more detailed article and tutorial within the new HM Support website.

My favorite new photo management feature is the “photo details” box that opens when you double click on a photo. Here, you can easily scroll through photos in an album and see a detailed view of each one. You can add and change photo filenames and captions, see photo dimensions, file sizes, when a photo was uploaded, and best of all, photo usage!



If you click on the “show projects” button, you will see a list of any Studio projects the photo is used in. The “view” link even opens a Studio preview of the project!






Three Keys to Managing Your Photos

 

Your photo manager is a place where you upload, store and manage the photos you use to make wonderful custom keepsakes in Studio! To streamline, simplify and optimize your creative Studio experience, we suggest you:

1. Be selective. 2. Be prepared. 3.Stay organized.

Be selective with the photos you upload. Wonderfully, digital cameras allow us to take dozens and dozens of pictures of a single event or subject. However, you’ll want to use only your very best photos in the projects you create and publish—so select and upload the best—leave the rest. Then, when you’re working on your Studio projects, you’ll know the images in your photo manager albums are your most excellent. You won’t have to wade and search through images that you wouldn’t want to publish anyway.

Prepare photos before you upload. Your photo manager has amazing tools that allow you to categorize and organize photos and albums. However, it is not a photo editing program. So before uploading your images, we suggest using an outside photo editing software to prepare them—rotate into the proper orientation, fix red-eye, adjust lighting, exposure and color. This will ensure that your photos look their best and print beautifully in your treasured keepsake projects.

Organize the photos you upload. We all have our own ways of labeling pictures and categorizing our photo folders and albums—and often, we find we want to adapt and improve our methods. Fortunately, your photo manager tools make it easy to browse images, and arrange, rearrange and rename your folders and albums! The manager also helps you clean up and slim down your albums by showing which images are used in projects, and which are not. At a glance you can see (and resize) thumbnail images of all the photos in specific albums. With the click of a button you can view the Studio projects your photos are in. You can organize to your heart’s content—and know that the better organized your photos, the better your creative Studio experience will be!

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

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

You'll Love it!

If you love Heritage Makers personal publishing products, you’ll love them even more when you can publish FREE using our generous host rewards! Our average hosts earn up to $75-$150 worth of publishing from a Heritage Makers workshop.

Do you love sharing and showing off your latest publishing projects? Do you love being the first of your friends to introduce something new and worthwhile? Do you love learning more about Studio, photo storage and creating custom keepsakes? Then why not host a workshop?

Simply invite your friends and family, and let me handle all the rest! Everyone will enjoy learning how to celebrate their stories from your very own Personal Publishing Consultant…me!

Do you have any projects you've got your heart set on? Then set your sights on free publishing with host rewards! Contact me today to book a workshop.



Go to my web site at http://HeritageMakers.com/Rebecca or contact me via email at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to learn more about hosting a Heritage Makers party!

Get Paid for Doing What You Love!

How much do you love Heritage Makers? If you find yourself spending your free time creating in Studio, browsing the Template Gallery or participating in challenges on the Club HM Facebook page, talk to me about the HM business opportunity. You could get paid to do what you already love!

As a Personal Publishing Consultant with Heritage Makers, you can earn free and discounted publishing for your own projects, plus an extra income to help contribute your family’s budget. You can earn special incentives like cash and prizes, as well as an all-expenses-paid luxury vacation just for working your business.

What’s more, you’ll expand your social network as you meet amazing Heritage Makers from across the U.S. and Canada. Take the opportunity to learn from top leaders and receive recognition for your efforts and achievements.

Ask any Heritage Makers Consultant and they’ll tell you they LOVE what they do! Helping others save and share their photos through keepsake products is very rewarding on many levels. It’s a business you’ll LOVE and so will your family when they see what you can create and earn!

With a start-up cost as low as $160, this is one investment that won’t break the budget. Instead, it gives you the chance to add to the budget! What’s not to love about that?

And now it’s easier and more fun than ever to get started. Heritage Makers has just introduced a new Consultant Kit that’s brimming with samples, tools, and supplies for growing your business. It’s a $500 value for just $160!




So call me today and we can talk about how you can start earning paychecks for your bank account AND paychecks for your heart!

Contact me for more information about starting your own independent business with Heritage Makers.

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

Club Kudos

A Summer of Inspiration and Connection

Connect with our creative community by joining us on the Club HM Facebook page. Daily challenges, shout-outs and suggestions for improving our creations help all of us get the most from our Club HM membership. Here’s a little sample of our summer-themed challenges.




Beach Challenge
Colleen Ballantine was a winner in our Beach Challenge with her double, 12 x 12 scrap page entry on a look back at childhood in Atlantic City. It’s in the Template Gallery as template 90702, "Beach Challenge." Cassie Balser took the same theme in a more philosophical direction with her winning entry on an 8 x 8 canvas. Each a unique take on the subject, they are typical of the varied inspiration and execution found daily on Club HM.





Sports Themed Challenges
Challenges on the Club HM page often show off sports and their participants. In a recent “Sporting Event Challenge,” inspiration was to be had from many entries, winners or not, that were a wonderful source of ideas and design approaches. Kim Matura was a winning entry with her canvas showing off her triplets. But Andrea Van Steenkist‘s entry simply caught our eye as did Jesi Ostrowsky’s “Baseball Poster.”



Summer Inspiration
A recent “Slice of Summer” challenge asked Club HM members to “Show us a meaningful moment from your summer vacation, picnic, sports event, garden growing or other summer daily activity. Tara Jones created a 12 x 12 scrap page called “Slice of Summer,” template 91256 and was one of our winners. The other was Colleen Ballantine, who created a card thanking family for their summer visit.



Studio Savvy
Challenges at the beginning of each month are often focused on how best to use new art collections. One of our recent challenges was to use the sunshine and color-packed “Sweet Caroline” collection. Sherita Jarrell made a heart-touching 7 x 5 greeting card, while Val Parrish and Floyce Mord (template 91722) designed 12 x 12 pages. While not all winners submit their projects to the Template Gallery, their entries are a constant source of creative inspiration to us all.
Supporting and Sharing
If you’re looking for a creative home where you can show off a little and learn a lot, become a member of the Club HM page. We promise to answer questions promptly, give you guidance and encouragement to keep you creating and provide lots of challenges to help you sharpen your skills. Check us out today!

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.