Baby on Board

Join Studio Product Manager Lynda Angelastro and Creative Team Member Michelle Wolfley as they show off new addition, shower gift and baby's first year projects.

Watch online by clicking here:
http://youtu.be/9ZCeKpYQRt0

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.

Father's Day Gifts & Greetings

FORGET THE COFFEE CUP AND TIE!
Show Dad how much you care with priceless gifts and greetings from Heritage Makers.

Theme: Father's Day Gifts & Greetings

Watch online by clicking here:
http://youtu.be/u4BJvXntulk 

May is Magnificent with Heritage Makers

Welcome to my May 2012 Newsletter.  This issue is full of tips, tricks and ideas to help you get the most from your Club HM membership. We’ll show you ways to make designing in Studio even easier, priceless projects for grads and dads and an entire article featuring our popular 7 x 5 storybooks. Use this size book to make the perfect gift for your graduate or to let Dad know how much he’s loved this Father’s Day. Your 7 x 5 projects will be even more economical during the month of May as they are an additional 10% off your already low Club HM prices.

And from May 3 – 7, celebrate National Scrapbooking day with us by sharing FREE Premier with your family and friends. We’re unlocking the doors of Studio for this FREE Premier weekend. As long as a Premier project is started during our celebration, it can be finished even after our FREE Premier weekend is over.

If you’d like to save even more money on those priceless gifts you’re planning to give, talk to me about joining my team as a Heritage Makers consultant. Where else could you find a financially rewarding business opportunity that saves you money on the projects you love while lifting the lives of others. Contact me today and I can share more information with you about bringing meaningful HM moments to your family and friends.

And as this season of spring celebrations and gift giving begins, I encourage you to consider becoming a consultant on my Heritage Makers team. You’ll save even more money on those meaningful gifts you’re planning to give, while pursuing a financially rewarding business opportunity that can help lift the lives of you and your family. Contact me today and I can share more information with you about how our entire team would help you learn to bring meaningful HM moments to your family and friends.

Click on the images below to read more articles.

 

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Large or small, this tip will help your projects look best at any size. Learn more here.

Spread a little happiness this summer and enjoy FREE publishing from Heritage Makers. Find out how here.

Looking for some additional deductions for next year's taxes? Heritage Makers consultants enjoy a rewarding business as well as some fantastic tax advantages. Learn more here

Inspirations Online Classes Father's Day Gifts & Greetings Thu, May 10, 2012 7:00 PM MDT Register here Baby on Board Thu, May 24, 2012 7:00 PM MDT Register here

Upcoming Themes & Specials May: 7x5 Storybooks (save 10%) June: 8.5x11 Booklets (save 10%) July: Playing Card Decks (save 10%)

Notice: Website maintenance
May 19 10:00 pm MST to May 20 2:00 am MST

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.

Please let me know how I can help you get your projects complete. I am here for you!

Rebecca Brooks
Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com
940-453-9192
http://www.OurPhotoStories.com

The Importance of Scale

Digital story and scrapbooking is fast and easy, enables multiple copies, carves far less “creative space” from your home and is typically much less expensive than traditional memory keeping. But there is one small downside, with “small” being the important word. While you’re working digitally, you don’t usually see your project at 100%. Constrained to your laptop’s screen size, it’s not always easy to judge the actual scale of your finished project. To assist you in making the most of every page inch, let’s look at some tips, tricks and screenshots that will help get size and scale into perspective.



How Big is Big?
To illustrate our discussion, let’s look at the screenshot above. It’s a page from a 12 x 12 storybook that looks fairly well laid out, right? Well check out the page below. It’s the same 12 x 12 storybook, but now you can see that the enlarged design is really an “import a page” from a 5 x 5 storybook (Michelle Wolfley’s “Daddy's Little Girl,” template 133363) that actually could fit on a 12 x 12 page four times with room to spare in the middle.



Tools for Judging
Here are several suggestions for using the space on your page well, while keeping it size appropriate.



1. Go to the size slider bar at the top of your project, just under the Heritage Maker’s logo and examine your project at close to 100% several times during your design session.



2. In the “toolbox,” go to the “layout” tab and check the size of unlocked photos against other photos you’ve published or have around the house. In this picture, the photo highlighted is about 2 ½ by 1 ½ inches. That’s about half the size of a playing card. Such comparisons can help you judge the designs you are creating.

3. Download Lynda Angelastro’s “Title & Text Cheat Sheets” to your “my templates” folder and choose “start my own.” This 5 x 5 storybook, template 17444, contains page after page of Studio fonts at the appropriate size for body text and headings on small to average pages. No need to print it, just use it to check and see which fonts work best at which sizes.

Scaling it Just Right
Ever got a book back and thought, “Wow, why did I try to pack so much on the page?” If the size and scale is off at either end, big or small, the overall design is not pleasing. Think of it like a home. If you’ve got a very small living room, you don’t try to crowd it with many pieces of large furniture. You choose fewer pieces in smaller sizes. Your page designs will benefit from the same attention to size. Use these suggestions and see if they don’t help you get the page scale just right.

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.

Uncle Sam Wants you to start an HM Business

One of the simplest advantages to the Heritage Makers consultant opportunity is the sheer fact of what we sell. Or, more importantly, what we don’t sell. We don’t sell anything that causes clutter or needs to be “spring cleaned” from your home. We sell publishing points that clients turn into cherished family keepsakes in the form of storybooks and other custom publishing products.



It’s highly unlikely that any Heritage Makers product will end up on someone’s garage or yard sale. What we sell does not go out of style, season or fashion, which means we won’t discontinue products each season for those very reasons. No “clearance” merchandise! No inventory — simply share your OWN projects as samples!

Think of the many other product-focused direct sales opportunities available. Surely you’ve been invited to parties where a consultant is selling home décor, kitchen gadgets, food products, lotions, potions, jewelry, clothes, makeup, supplements, weight-loss shakes, bags, candles, cleaning supplies, and the like. There's nothing wrong with buying and enjoying those products—they're "nice" to have. What we're talking about here is something altogether different. If heaven forbid, your house were to erupt in flames, you might be tempted to spend an extra minute grabbing your Heritage Makers storybooks. Thank goodness there's Heirloom Assurance so you don't have to! The point is, no one would consider risking their life for gourmet kitchen gadgets, not to mention the scented candles, which are probably already gone anyway. Hey, wait a minute...is that what started this fire???



Unlike all these other products, Heritage Makers publishing projects are made to last and are treasured for generations to come. Storybooks are lovingly displayed on bookshelves and coffee-tables to be read and enjoyed time and time again. You can’t say that about a garlic press, earrings, lipstick, lunchbag, vitamins, mop or candle warmer, for example.

What’s more, our publishing products appeal to almost anyone — men and women, tweens to seniors, computer-challenged to tech-savvy, Mac and PC people, and everyone who has photos, both print photographs from the past and digital pictures of today. Very few people find our products undesirable because they see the value of saving their own photos and stories in a custom keepsake.

If you’re annoyed by the “stuff” you’ve accumulated and enjoy spring-cleaning those now-unwanted possessions, you may be an ideal candidate to consider starting a Heritage Makers business. Contact me at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories to learn more about selling something everyone enjoys and that’s never resold!

You can also visit my web site to learn more:  http://www.heritagemakers.com/business/.

"If You're Happy and You Know It...”

There’s a catchy childhood song that starts like this: “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands!” It’s sure to bring a smile to young children’s faces as well as adults. It’s also a known adage in business that “a happy customer tells a friend; an unhappy customer tells the world.”

If you’re happy about Heritage Makers publishing products, you could clap your hands and tell a friend by simply hosting a Heritage Workshop in-home party! That’s the best way to share your enthusiasm for Heritage Makers publishing products.



If you’ve never hosted before, you have a unique opportunity to learn along with friends as I introduce the concept of storybooking and show you solutions for saving and sharing your photos and stories. You’ll be the one your friends will thank for showing them this creative way to capture and preserve family memories.

If you’ve hosted in the past, you already know how much fun we have! You know what’s expected of you as a host. And hopefully, you truly enjoy everything you published with your host rewards! Why not host another workshop? We don’t limit how often you can host so why not take advantage of our generous host rewards program?



Previous hosts can schedule a new workshop with a different group of friends. Chances are, there were some who couldn’t come to your workshop last time. Invite them this time so they don’t miss out again! If you’ve met new people, ask them to come check out your creative resource for custom publishing keepsakes. Plus, we’re always adding new publishing products, new Studio features, new art and templates so even guests who were there before will enjoy seeing the latest and greatest from Heritage Makers!

It’s a known fact that our personal publishing products and creative Studio site have universal appeal with everyone who discovers us. Whether you’re a new fan or have been a diehard believer for years, you can share the love by hosting an in-home party with your friends. They value your opinion and want to find solutions for their photos and stories too. And you benefit from a fun social event by earning free publishing for your own projects!

If you’re happy and you know it…clap your hands, tell your friends and host a Heritage Workshop!

Contact me via email at Rebecca@OurPhotoStories.com to book your Heritage Workshop!

May New Studio Art

If you’ve noticed Dad’s special day creeping closer on the calendar, you’ll appreciate the May art that we’ve lined up for you. To celebrate Dad in style this Father’s Day, we’re bringing you new art from barbeques to basketballs, along with just-right word art to let Dad know how much you care.

From string-wrapped cardboard tags to grungy metal gears, “The Dads in My Life,” from Pickleberrypop, contains enough manly elements to make Dad something really special this Father’s Day, while providing lots of new masculine elements for year-round use. Add Faye Terlouw’s “My Man Word Art,” also from Pickleberrypop, and you’ve got a perfect pair of collections to recognize Dad.



Looking for a little whimsy or a less serious take on gifts or greetings for Father’s Day? Try the “My Dad Rocks” papers from Emily Merritt of the Lily Pad. And if Dad or the kids are into basketball, here’s a brand new collection for the hoop fans. It’s called “Slam Dunk” and is from Pickleberrypop designer Lindsay Jane.



For the active dad or to document your family’s travels, “Recreational Icons,” from Sahlin Studios at the Lily Pad, is a bright and useful collection you’ll turn to again and again. With its map-like symbols depicting boating, camping, hiking, fishing, photography, swimming, horseback riding and much more; you’ll find lots to make vacation storybooking faster and easier.

Taking a slightly different direction, this month we also offer a huge collection from Sweet Shoppe’s Shawna Clingerman called “I Can.” With elements and word art that work for heroic efforts like sports victories, weight loss or many endeavors that require determination and will power; use this collection to celebrate a wide range of special accomplishments.



For a feminine counterpoint to the Dad collections, check out “Sweet Caroline” by Eva Kipler of the Sweet Shoppe. This pink, orange and gold collection is full of the whimsical art you need to make a card that says “I love you,” or a page that celebrates your sister, mother or daughter. This month we’re also offering “Joy Without Measure” from Sekada Designs from our French art provider Digital Crea. Designed to be a matching companion to last month’s “Away From You,” “Joy Without Measure” is from the same designer, in the same palette; doubling the usefulness of both collections.

What You Need, When You Need It

As the seasons change and important gift-giving occasions inch closer, Studio’s art offerings constantly grow to meet your needs. Depend on your Club HM membership to provide the new art you want, in time for the projects you plan to make.

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.