Diapers To Diplomas & Books For Brides

This time of year two types of moms begin to stress out — moms of grads and moms of brides! The pressure to provide photos and memories from years past can easily overwhelm the most-organized mom.

Mothers of graduating high school seniors begin to panic about hosting an open house. Often the goal is to create a “diapers to diplomas” display of photos and memorabilia from birth through high school activities and achievements. It can be an elaborate and time-consuming task to say the least and usually strikes fear in the hearts of anyone who had once tried traditional scrapbooking.


Fortunately, Heritage Makers can help moms of grads & brides! From the invitations to thank-yous, party décor and display items, as well as gorgeous gifts, publishing projects created in Studio will make any grad or bride proud, and can take away the guilt and stress from busy moms!


Hosting an in-home party showcasing solutions from Heritage Makers with your fellow moms of grads, or even as a bridal party or shower, will be a fun way for you to earn an average of $100-$150 in FREE publishing for your own project plans. Everyone will enjoy seeing the creative choices and fully customizable options offered in Studio for their own photos and stories worth capturing and preserving.


Brides and grooms agree that Heritage Makers’ wedding projects are truly stunning — from invites and thank-yous to guest sign-in books, gallery-wrapped canvas prints, storybooks and so much more. You can host a bridal shower workshop featuring Heritage Makers publishing projects. Guests can give publishing points as gifts and their personal purchases help you earn host reward credit too!

You simply invite 10-12 friends and provide light refreshments. As your Personal Publishing Consultant, I’ll do the rest. Schedule a date with me soon so we can plan to publish your projects before your child’s graduation or wedding day!

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.

April New Studio Art

Looking for collections with a decidedly feminine touch for that wedding, pregnancy or Mother’s Day project? April’s art offering provides a variety of female-friendly collections that fit the bill perfectly.

Two of our April releases are from French art provider Digital Crea. “Away from You” and “Say Yes” are both filled with frames, foliage and flowers designed for wedding, romantic or other feminine layouts and books.



Looking for home, family or gardening themed art? Our “Time 4 Family” and “Silver Bells and Cockleshells” are wonderful additions for just such storybooking. Check out the cute family pets and the wonderful tree in “Time 4 Family” and the rusted buckets and gardening tools in “Silver Bells and Cockleshells.”



Clean, contemporary and loads of fun, “A Pea in the Pod” is a tastefully designed pregnancy collection. You’ll love it for baby showers, pregnancy journals and recording the arrival of the little one. In this month’s single departure from the more feminine, you and your train-toting toddler will be completely on board with railroad themed “Engine No. 9” from Gina Miller of The Lily Pad.



For wonderful Mother’s Day gifts and greetings for grandma, oma or nana in your family’s life; be sure to check out “Child of My Child: Grandma Add-on.” Its papers, elements and word art are designed for your special grandmother, no matter what the grandkids call her.
And to finish out this month’s art offering, we’re releasing three versions of the 2013 calendars. Jump-start your holiday gifts by taking advantage of these early release calendars today.

Art Purchased Just for You

With almost more art than you could store on your home computer (if you could afford to purchase it in the first place), Heritage Maker art grows every month and you help it get there! Customers just like you send suggestions for seasonal, themed and evergreen art and we listen! Need new Father’s Day art? Interested in a sport we haven’t covered? Want to commemorate a road trip and could use a little extra art? Let us know. We’re building this gigantic and varied art collection to suit 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.

collection to suit you!

Canvas—A Clever and Classy Gift

A Deeply Appreciated Gift

Looking for meaningful gifts for your many upcoming family events? April’s the perfect time to plan for those wedding, graduation or Mother’s Day gifts, and canvases are the perfect gifts for such special occasions. While fast and easy, a canvas is a thoughtful, substantial and always appreciated gift that shows just how much you care. Check out these ideas for your spring and summer gift giving.

(Shown above are “Mothers Day Tribute” by Michelle Wolfley, a 20 x 16 canvas, template 56489 and “Dahlia Wedding Canvas” by Sandra Dovre, an 8 x 20 canvas, template 65893 that’s part of a complete wedding collection.)

 



Wedding Memories

If you’re involved with the wedding and have access to the photos, preserve those feelings of joy and promise by creating a canvas that’s matched to their wedding invitations and books. Shown here are Darcie Toom’s “Blessed Wedding Canvas” a 24 x 18 canvas with the deep wrap, template 83895; Kristen Melnyk’s 12 x 12 canvas template 78762, “You and Me” and Roxanne Buchholz’ 12 x 12 canvas template 66411, “HM Wedding White Canvas.” Search the Template Gallery for “wedding” with “canvas” selected as the product. Many of the wedding collections have a canvas as part of the set.




For the New Couple

Want the young couple to know how much you are pulling for them and their future together? Canvases as décor for the new couple’s home are the perfect wedding gift. Take your favorite photo of the two of them and make Wendy Bailey’s “The Hands of Time” 20 x 16 canvas, template 52700. They’ll treasure it forever. Don’t have photos of the bride and groom but want a really meaningful gift? Here’s a solution, try “The ABC's of Us Canvas” by Kelly Wolfer. It’s an 18 x 24 deep canvas, template 59317 that can either have the new last name under the initial or the first names of the couple. The ABC’s that follow are attributes that anyone would find inspiring. (This template or the matching 11 x 14 poster version makes a great graduate gift too.)




Graduation Gifts
Give the new graduate a gift that helps him or her set lofty goals for the new life ahead. Add your inspirational quote to any of our 8 x 8 canvases. The message that came on your card or the words you’d love them to live by all can have a longer life and resonate more deeply while hanging on your young adult’s walls. Many of the canvases made to display a photo of a child work for graduates. We chose “Do Great Things” by Lynda Angelastro, template 58393, for a male graduate and “Wish” by Tanja Rigby, template 29172, for a female graduate.





Making Mother’s Day Meaningful

Nothing pleases most moms more than having photos of loved ones decorating their homes. Add the upscale look of a canvas to a photo they’ve been dying to display and you’ve got a gift for mom or grandma this Mother’s Day that’s sure to be a winner. Canvases in our popular 12 x 12 gift-giving size that fit the bill perfectly include “HM Cute as a Button” by Roxanne Buchholz, template 66406 and “Grandparents are Gifts” by Leanne Reist-Barr, template 69186. “Call It a Family” by HM Signature Templates, a 20 x 16 canvas, template 29531 is also a wonderful, larger canvas to show off your family.

Impact and Value

In addition to being the perfect present for all your important occasions, April’s an especially good time to make your canvases because each and every one is an additional 10% off this month. Show just how much you care with a canvas. It’s fast, it’s easy and it’s a fantastic gift!

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.

March New Studio Art

Check out this month’s eclectic bundle of art. It includes faith-focused symbols, Easter bunnies and spring offerings along with weddings, space motifs and winter sports!

Our first two collections “Journal Graph Cards” and “A Spring Day: Papers,” are in coordinating colors and come from Sahlin Studio of the Lily Pad. These pastel collections work together beautifully for any project on any topic at any time of year.

As spring approaches, fluffy bunnies and faith-focused symbols are often what you search for in our art offerings. This month we’ve added a little of both. “Spring Bunnies” from Digital Crea is a light-hearted spring collection with five adorable bunnies, spring elements and papers all in a riot of fun colors. Perfect for Easter basket or bucket decorations, documenting the egg hunt or the day’s new clothes, you’ll return to this cute collection again and again. And if you want to make spring pages with a more faith-focused perspective, we’ve added “Collection of Crosses” by Shanna Vineyard to give you more choice in meaningful Christian accents. This wide variety of crosses goes from ornate to dainty styling and will be the perfect accent for all your special occasion pages.

March and April are notorious for wet weather in many areas, so one of our March art offerings is the whimsical “When Skies Are Gray” collection from the Sweet Shoppe. With its umbrellas, clouds and rain boots; it’s the perfect collection for rain puddle or weather-related projects or pages.

Joining collections designed for younger family members this month, and also from the Sweet Shoppe, is our “Space Cadet” kit. The perfect collection for out-of-this-world birthday cards, invitations, pages or projects; this cleanly styled offering is sure to please any aspiring astronaut or space-crazy kid.

Wedding season is not far away and so this month we’ve added the absolutely exquisite collection “Champagne Romance” by Becca. With a full shimmery silver alphabet, wonderful word art and gorgeous white and off-white accents, this will be a collection you’ll want to use to celebrate the new couple or to feature historic wedding photos.

A surprising collection also joins our March offering this year, but one that's long overdue. Many of you live in colder climates where winter sports are a big part of everyday life right up through April. We recently discovered we were lacking in art for skis, snowboards and other winter sports gear, but "Fronstbite" will come to the rescue! With snow gear from hats to skis, you’ll now be able to do justice to those fabulous photos of your family outings on the mountains!

Growing the Perfect Art Collection for You

Let us know what YOU need and we’ll start searching for it. We’re committed to providing all our Club HM members with the art they need for the projects they want to create. With access to hundreds upon hundreds of beautifully designed collections coming to Club HM members FREE each month, Club HM is a storybooker’s or digital scrapbooker’s dream come true. We buy it, tag it, store it and keep it organized at no cost to you. You can access it from anywhere. You have incredible choices in art topics and styles and those choices grow every month. With Heritage Makers art at your fingertips, your family can be celebrated every day of the year.

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.

February New Studio Art

This month we’re adding twelve new collections, six in Premier, and another six that you can show off to friends and family getting to know Heritage Makers with Basic accounts.



Our first two collections “A Romantic Moment” from our French art provider Digital Crea and “Spa Bubbles, the Papers,” from the Lily Pad, are two totally unrelated collections that have the same feel and color palette. In soft springtime colors with an emphasis on aqua and pink, both collections work beautifully for weddings, Easter or Mother’s Day projects. They are now part of our Premier art.



To add even more to our already abundant Valentine art, here are two smaller love-themed collections. “Love Always” is from Penny Springmann and “You & Me” is from Krystal Hartley both of the Sweet Shoppe. We’ll be calling the second of these two collections “You & Me SS” to distinguish it from a collection of the same name that was released last month. These mix and match Premier collections will add a perfect touch to Valentine, anniversary or family-themed projects.



Some time ago we added “12 Months Mega Kit Papers” to our art. In classic patterns and neutral shades, the papers made great storybook backgrounds. This month we’re releasing “12 Months Mega Kit Elements,” the matching element collection. A huge collection, this Premier offering is full of flowers, frames, journaling blocks, ribbons and word art that together with the matching papers provide everything you need for a larger coordinated project.

We’re also adding a wonderful collection from French digital scrapbooking site Digital Crea called “Douce Elegance” (gentle elegance). In classic shades of black and gray accented with green and red and full of swirls and flourishes, this will be the perfect Premier collection for projects celebrating love, family, personal growth and more.



We’re bringing a little spring flavor to our Basic art this month by adding these two coordinated collections from the Sweet Shoppe. “Garden Blooms” and “Splice" will add to the flowers and frames offered to HM members using just Basic. Designed to work together, these two mini collections are made from the same color palette and can be mixed and matched. Perfect for Easter or other spring or summer scrapbooking, they’ll be a great addition to our Basic offering.



A set of light colored alphas makes its debut in our Basic art this month. In very light colored paper with soft blue and peachy outlines, these are the perfect letters for everything from baby to heritage projects. In addition, the three full alphabets are accompanied by a set of upper case letters embellished with three small buttons. Use for the initial cap on a wide range of projects from baby to Father’s Day topics. Our “Vintage Worn & Torn Papers” will also be a great addition to our Basic offering. With a distinctive paper tear on one side of each of its seven traditional style papers, Basic users will now be able to give their projects that antique or grunge look.



To finish out our six new Basic offerings, we are releasing two Lily Pad paper collections called “Barely There Vol 12” and “Barely There Vol 13.” Each six-paper set is a layer-upon-layer mini work of art that brings some newly added deep dimensions to the papers for Basic users.

Chosen Especially for You
Remember, Club HM/Premier users enjoy unlimited access to ALL our artwork -- both Premier and Basic collections, with more added every month. Our ever-growing treasury of 900-plus beautifully designed collections are chosen to provide a wide range of style and content so that our Club HM members have what they need for any kind of project. In styles from classical to modern and shabby chic to whimsical, we’re betting you’ll find just what YOU need in our huge art collection. And if what you need is NOT there, let us know and we’ll start hunting for it!

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