Spring Cleaning??

Spring cleaning with HM

March has almost come and gone and spring is (hopefully) on its way. Usually, when we think of spring, we think of flowers, fresh air, gardening, barbeque… maybe even spring cleaning.

Of course, we don’t like that last thought. Spring cleaning means work. However, there is one part of your spring cleaning that can be fun: cleaning out those stories. We know you’ve got them hidden somewhere. Maybe it’s that long forgotten childhood story. Maybe it’s your love story. Or perhaps your vacation story. Whatever your story is, one thing is for certain; Heritage Makers can help you with this kind of spring cleaning. Here’s how to start:

Write it: You can start writing in Studio editor or from a word document. At this point, don’t worry about how it looks on the page. Just get the story out there.
Add pictures: Choose your pictures and decide how they will fit with your story. Then easily upload the images to Studio.

Layout: If you started your story inside Studio editor, you may want to decide if you are using a template or starting from a blank project before starting your story. At this point, you will want to make sure to spread your photos and words throughout your book. Basically, decide where everything will fit.

Design: Add embellishments and backgrounds to your story. Give your photos frames or borders. Maybe add a little drop shadow to make your images pop. Just have fun designing your book for you.

Review: After you have all your words, photos, and embellishments where you want them, go through each page to make sure spelling is correct, everything fits on the page (keep a 1/8 inch margin on the outside of each page), and each page includes all the special little touches you want.

Publish: All it takes is a click of your mouse.

Really, in just a few steps your story spring cleaning will be finished. Then, all you have
to do is sit back, relax, and wait for your story
to come.

Spring Decorating

The warm weather has got me itching to do something around the house.  I think I'm going to ignore the spring cleaning because let's face it, it's not very much fun.  I like the end result, but I'm not a big fan of how it gets that way.  I'm still hoping for my fairy godmother to come an bibbity bobbity boo my house clean!

Instead of cleaning, I've decided to decorate!  I've got a few things in mind...and I'll post them as I finish them, but I thought I would post my current project:  A Heritage Makers Canvas!

Heritage Makers has the best canvas'.  They come in a variety of sizes, and you can customize however you like.  So, I made two...and now I need to decide which one to get (right now).  Leave me a comment and let me know which one you think I should get!  (Eventually I'm sure I'll end up with both of them...but for the time being I can only get one!)

So...if you're tired of spring cleaning already, but still need to change something to welcome in spring, try making a canvas.  Your walls will thank you!

March Art & Club Premier

Have you seen the new March art yet??

Take a look at these darling art collections that were added to the Heritage Makers Premier Art Collection this month....

Cute huh??  Would you believe that you could get all these PLUS 45,000 other pieces of darling art for only $10 a month.  If you aren't a Club Premier member yet, you'll definitely want to take advantage of the great benefits of joining the Club:


Unlimited Photo Storage
Discounted Publishing Prices
2000 + Templates to Choose From
45,000 Pieces of Art (and GROWING each month)
Free Product Upgrades



Joining the Club is definitely the way to go!  It allows you to put that extra little bit of YOU into each project that you do.  Contact me to get the BEST deal!

Giveaway Day

It's giveaway day today!!!

I love, love, love giveaways.  I always enter...almost never win, but it's still fun.  It's just the thought of winning!  (Although, I imagine if I ever did actually win, I would go crazy!!)

Anyhoo...I found a great giveaway site a while ago, and decided that I wanted in on the fun sooooooo....

Go to MyGiveAwayToday.com and enter today!!  You can enter to win 1 of 2 Heritage Makers Swatchbooks (either the rectangular one or the new SQUARE swatchbook ...check out the template gallery for some cute ideas!)

Here are a couple of my favorite...

(Square Swatch template)

(Rectangular Swatch template)

The giveaway is only for today...so hurry over, and tell all of your friends!  What a great way to get started with Heritage Makers!!!

FHE Chart

I've had my original FHE chart for many....many...probably too many years.  It was a cute little Noah's Ark chart and each of our family members were animals in the windows of the ark.  Notice I'm using past tense...I say "WAS" because I finally decided that after years of making new animals because the old ones fell apart or saying that the one eyed tiger was giving the lesson and the trunkless elephant was giving the opening prayer, I finally decided that it was time to make a new one.  I looked at all those fancy schmancy ones out there, and decided that it was more work than I wanted to put into my FHE chart...and then I had an epiphany:  use Heritage Makers to make a chart!

Please note...I'm not a creative genius, so my designs tend to be very simple.  I fondly refer to it as my "No Frills" style.  LOL!  Basically, I started with a 12x12 scrap book page.  I added art work, photos, and text boxes according to the categories that we normally use for FHE.  Then I ordered it and waited for it to arrive...pretty simple.

Once it arrived, I used photo adhesive to stick it to some sheet metal that was cut to the same size and shape.  If you don't want to use sheet metal, just use a metal baking sheet, and decorate the areas of the sheet that the scrap page doesn't cover.  Then I made some picture magnets of the family (you could use another 12x12 scrap page to do this...or save a little money and just use a HM postcard) by sticking our pictures on the clear glass craft rocks with clear glue, and hot gluing a magnet to the back of the rock.  Ta Da!  All done!...well almost anyhow.  I still want to put it in a frame so that we can hang it on the wall.  I found one at Walmart for $13, or maybe I'll have my hubby make one out of some spare moulding we had for another project...or it may just remain in the stand that it's in until I've finished all my other projects!

I love the 12x12 scrap pages.  You can make a ton of stuff with them!  Check out this post on Heidi's blog for another great way to use the 12x12 scrap pages....

Oh...and don't forget to check out GiveAwayToday.com on Friday March 5th where Featuring Family will be featured and I'll be giving away 2 swatchbooks!

Happy Heritage Making!