Sports Highlights

Sports are a valuable part of the growing-up process for many children and create a wide variety of positive experiences and memories. From team sports like baseball to individual sports like horseback riding—sports build strong children.

Sports also build strong families as they practice together, cheer each other on and support one another through victory and defeat.

To keep all the fun sports memories vibrant, here are some ideas to help you showcase your favorite family sports heroes and their teams.

PostersMake your children the stars of their very own sports posters! These 11 x 14 posters by Roxanne Buchholz are just some of the great templates available to make this esteem-building project quick and easy. Basketball, template 51780. Baseball, template 45513. Horseback Riding, template 50010

Award Certificates
Recognize sportsmanship and achievement with custom certificates like these by Roxanne Buchholz. Certificate templates are also available for Tennis, Karate, Soccer, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, and Cheerleading! Volleyball Award Certificate, template 63498. Swim Award Certificate, template 63497. Softball Award Certificate, template 63495.

BooksA wonderful way to commemorate sports participation is with photo-filled books like these square flipbooks designed by Roxanne Buchholz. Football Square Flipbook 41361, Cheerleading Square Flipbook 53933, Softball Flipbook 63465, Tennis Square Flipbook 44072, Karate Square Flipbook 50004, Swimming Flipbook 55638, Soccer Square Flipbook 41321, Horseback Riding Square Flipbook 50009, Bowling Square Flipbook 50031

These same sports templates (and more) are also available as 8 x 8 storybooks.

Team Trading Cards
A quick, easy and fun piece of sports memorabilia to create and share are team trading cards. Check out this month’s Make it in Moments article to learn how!

Coordinated Collections
If you’re looking for gifts for team members or want to make a collection of memorabilia, most of the templates shown earlier have matching pieces. Enter your preferred sport in the Template Gallery search engine and find out what’s available. Coordinating books, posters, scrap pages, calendars, lanyards and more await your personal touch.

Make the Memories Live
"Replay" all the winning moments and highlights of your sports heroes, big and small, with Heritage Makers products—make the fun memories live on!

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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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Vacations and Sports

Do you think of vacations or team sports as “extras” that you work hard to provide for your family or “essentials” that are simply a way of life? Either way it makes sense to preserve memories of such times so you have reminders that live on forever. Here area few vacation and sport-related suggestions.

Vacation Riches
Most of you see vacations as a valuable investment in family. Yes, they take time away from work. Yes, they’re something you save for months to do. But the experiences shared are priceless parts of growing together as a family. So why let the memories disappear? Document your vacation. With our template selection and your Club HM membership, it’s easy. Studio gives you a wealth of memory-keeping options: here are some of our favorites.



Popular Destinations
If you just got back from Disneyland or Yellowstone Park, you’re in luck. Many storybook designs are available in the Template Gallery for these two popular vacation destinations. We recommend “Magical Memories Vacation Book” by Kari Pieratt, an 11.5 x 8.5 storybook, template 64095 for your Disney vacation or the “Yellowstone Travel Book” by Michelle Bedard, a 12 x 12 storybook, template 64611.



All Purpose Vacation Books
Whether the vacation you want to record involves sand, surf or cityscapes, these two 8 x 8 storybook templates work for just about any topic and are easy to customize. “Vacation Album” by Pam MacPhee, template 55353, is a cleanly styled book with light touches of embellishment that would work for any vacation. “Ella's Birthday Trip“ by Michelle Bedard, template ID: 64606, features a Seattle family vacation but again is so versatile it could be used for any kind of family trip or holiday.





Vacation Activity Book
This unusual “Travel Journal” made by Brenda Kruse from an 8.5 x 11 booklet is a project you make BEFORE the vacation. Template 64396, it helps the kids find and record noteworthy things during the trip. A wonderful way to focus them on their experiences, the journal ends up being a handwritten souvenir of what impressed them along the way. Make one for each youngster in the family before your next trip.

 



Vacation Pages
Put the term “vacation” in the Template Gallery search engine and you’ll find hundreds of templates. While many are storybooks, there is a rich offering of 12 x 12 pages to document smaller slices of trips and travel. Shown here are “Beach Pages” by Wendy Bailey, template 40326; “First Trip to Washington DC” by JesiOstrowsky, template 52033; “Ski Trip 4-Pages” by Ann Perry, template 57459 and “Our Travels - Page 1” by Darcie Toom, template 41998. If your vacation deserves a home of its own, many travel post-bound albums are also available. Enter “travel or “vacation” in the search engine with 12 x 12 post-bound albums selected and you’ll find an entire page of family travel albums to select from.

Inspired to make your once-in-a-lifetime vacation or annual family retreat live on forever? We hope so. You’ll be so glad you did. Get started today.

Sports
Finally find her shin pads? Your turn for team treats? Being a soccer mom or parent of a team player for any sport is lots of work for everyone, not just the child. But the lessons learned, the discipline and the camaraderie are valuable experiences that build strong children. Be sure to document these hard-earned life lessons. Here are some ideas to help showcase your favorite sports hero and his or her teammates.



12 x 12 Pages for the Scrapbook
If you already keep a scrapbook for your child, be sure to include some sports pages. “Sports Day” by Michelle Bedard, template 64530, was designed for more casual sports participation at an annual school sports event. The “Girls Basketball Spread” by Kimberly Keber, template 56117, celebrates a team championship and is a must for the winner’s scrapbook.



12 x 12 Pages for Display
Some 12 x 12 pages were made to include memorabilia. “HM Swim Team Ribbons” by Roxanne Buchholz, template 63474, could easily be adapted for any sport. It has two pages designed for wall display or scrapbook. Sports ribbons attach to special spaces on the page. Also by Roxanne “HM Soccer - Scrap Page,” template 20875, is a natural for the scrapbook or for framing. Similar pages are available for football, swimming, basketball, softball, volleyball and hockey.



Sports Books
To really commemorate your child’s sports year, make him or her a storybook. Books are available for karate, hockey, soccer, baseball, basketball, softball, volleyball, bowling, horseback riding, swimming, cheerleading and football. Each sport has offerings similar to the “HM Karate,” template 50003 or the “HM Cheerleading – Coach,” template 54861, shown here. They’re both 8 x 8 storybooks designed by Roxanne Buchholz.



Coordinated Collections
If you’re looking for gifts for team members or want to make a big splash in your child’s room, most of the items shown earlier have matching pieces. Enter your preferred sport in the Template Gallery’s search engine and find out what’s available. Shown here is an 11 x 14 poster “HM Hockey 11 X 14,” template 51778, and an example of our lanyard template (not shown in proportion to the poster) “HM Tennis Lanyard,” template 44075. The lanyard is made from a 5 x 7 Invitation and fits into a 3.5 x 5.5 vertical badge holder available online at many sporting goods stores on online at www.namebadgeproductions.com. Both were designed by Roxanne Buchholz.

Whether it’s sports or vacations, if it’s worth your family’s time, it’s almost certainly worth revisiting later. Extend the impact and value of these activities by making the memories live on through Heritage Makers products.

Rebecca Brooks
Heritage Makers
Personal Publishing Consultant

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

Make it in moments: Sports Trading Cards

Sports Trading Cards are a fun way to show your team pride and you can make several sets in a few moments. Here’s how.

1. Select your sport. Trading cards are available for basketball, football, hockey, soccer, and softball. Choose softball if your sport is not available. It’s the easiest to change to another sport.

2. Swap out the photo on the back of the card. A team or group photo is recommended. Personalize with team name and colors.

3. Go to PAGE MANAGE and delete all or as many duplicate cards as you can, leaving only one of each.

4. Personalize a single card front by changing to your team colors, swapping out photo for one of your team members and changing the name and player’s position.

5. Go back to PAGE MANAGE and duplicate the newly personalized card so you have four or five, depending on how many play in your team sport.

6. While you are still in PAGE MANAGE, delete all but one each of any remaining not-yet-personalized cards.

7. Repeat STEP 4 until you have 4 or 5 of each of 10-12 different player cards.

8. Use remaining cards for coach cards or other volunteers.

9. Print 2 or 3 decks of cards as needed. Divide each deck up into 4 or 5 team sets and give sets as gifts.

10. Alternately, make several decks each featuring just three or four players, divide into single player sets and allow team members to “trade” cards with each other.

It's fun, it's fast and helps build team spirit!

Rebecca Brooks
Heritage Makers
Personal Publishing Consultant

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

Got kids or grandkids in sports? You will want to watch this great recording of how to make some of these wonderful projects on line at www.OurPhotoStories.com

Link to last night's "Sports Spectacular Inspirations Online Class"

http://support.heritagemakers.​com/comm/webinar/studio/archiv​e/2011-07-28_Inspirations_Onli​ne_Class_Sports_Spectacular.wm​v