Online Class Schedule for July

Our online classes are FREE and available to anyone interested in digital scrapbooking and photobook publishing.  You don’t have to have a Heritage Makers account to participate, but when you’re ready to create your account, here’s a 2-minute tutorial on how to set up your FREE account.  http://tinyurl.com/HM-create

Online Class Schedule

Introduction to Studio Webinars
Learn the basics of Heritage Makers Studio program.

Monday, July 13, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT
Wednesday, July 15, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT
Monday, July 20, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT
Wednesday, July 22, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT

Monday, July 27, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT
Wednesday, July 29, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–5:45 p.m. MDT

Intermediate Studio Webinars
Learn about extra features such as “My Projects” and “My Favorites.”

Tuesday, July 14, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT
Thursday July 16, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT
Tuesday, July 21, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT
Thursday July 23, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT
Tuesday, July 28, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT
Thursday July 30, 2009: 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. MDT

Studio 3.0 Master Classes
Learn from studio experts about new and great techniques for making beautiful pages.

Thursday, July 23, 2009: 7:00 p.m. MDT

Topic: Easy Page Design Using Grids and Guides

Studio Product Manager: Lynda Angelastro

Guest Presenter: Jill Means

Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/771208472

Young Author’s Contest

Want to know more about your family’s budding author? If so, encourage them to participate in Heritage Makers Young Authors’ Contest this summer and see what life looks like from their perspective!

More details click here.

Entries welcome: until August 31, 2009
Winners announced: September 15, 2009

Heritage Makers on Good Morning America

Heritage Makers, the leader in direct sales of personalized publishing products, was featured today by career expert Tory Johnson on ABC’s nationally-acclaimed morning show Good Morning America as a hot business opportunity in today’s troubled economy.

Read more…

From the ABC News website – Direct Sales: A Proven Money Maker

Join my team and make a wonderful income doing a new and exciting business that is going to take the world by storm – just the same way traditional scrapbooking became a 2.5 billion dollar industry,  so will digital scrapbooking and Heritage Makers will be own a huge part of the market!

Join me in becoming a part of this exciting and new industry, you will LOVE it!

Heritage Makers Client Testimonial

I got my book a few weeks back.  This book is a series of 3 bedtimes stories my husband used to tell our kids when they were little.  Stories that he used to come up with on the spot.  Through the years they were never forgotten.  The kids encouraged him to write them down.  So I decided to publish them with Heritage Makers.

What a joy it was to share it with our daughter who is due in a few months with our first grand child.  The book was dedicated to our children and grandchildren…it has stories, and information about Poppa and some fun things to do inside.  I translated some of the work in Italian so the grandkids can learn the language of their grandmomma.  My daughter cried when she read them over… remembering fondly how her daddy used to tuck her and her big brother into their beds and tell them these sweet stories.

Thank you so much for making this site available…it has been a thrill for me to use it not once but twice.  My sister and I put together a heritage book of our ancestors.  Full of stories and recipes that we were proud to pass on last Christmas to our children and family members.  Both our Dad and Mom, cried when they saw all the photos and the stories retold.  It was a wonderful memorable Christmas to say the least!

I love the simple program and the amazing artwork.  It has been a pleasure and I’m sure with the grandbabies coming…we’ll be putting together many more wonderful books with Heritage Makers!

I wanted to say thank you for your help.  Everytime I needed you, you were right there with all the assistance I needed – and what a pleasure it was to speak with you and work with you.

This is a great place to make memories stay alive!

Sincerely,
S. Hoggard

Lower Shipping Prices

I am pleased to announce lower shipping prices for your Heritage Makers products!  Heritage Makers now offers a First Class Mail option and shipping on books starts as low as $3.50!

5×5 Book $3.50

7×5 Book $4.05

8×8 Book $5.25

7.5×10 Book $6.35

11.5×8.5 Book $6.35

12×12 Book $9.20

13×11 Book $8.60

Folded Cards / Invitations – direct shipping – $1.00

Family Fold $1.20

Single Scrapbook Pages – all sizes - $1.20

Poster $1.50

Deck of Playing Cards $3.25

Calendar $4.65

Yahoo!  Let’s start publishing even more projects for our family and friends to enjoy!!

Lisa

Christmas in July Sale

Amazing specials now through the end of July on all of your favorite products!

• Storybooks
• Calendars and Cookbooks / Planners
• Posters and Prints
• Greeting Cards

Don’t miss the most anticipated sale of the year! See all the prices on the CHRISTMAS IN JULY flyer today!

Hosting Summer BBQs?

Are you looking for a fun way to invite your guests to a summer BBQ?  Try out our fun invitations!  Design both sides in 5×7 size with full colour and they come with an envelope.  Pack of 10 costs $14.95.  Mail them to yourself first or save a step and send them directly to the recipients.

Here’s what I made for my husband’s work BBQ…

Story Writing Tips

Finding your story:
Starting your story is not always easy. And sometimes realizing your story can be even harder. First remember that everyone has a story. Your story can be about a vacation to Europe, camping in the mountains, your high school friends and activities, when you met your husband, when you found out you were pregnant, and on and on. Really, the stories are endless.

Sit down and write:
To get ideas flowing for your next story, just sit down and write. Those five minute exercises you used to do in grade school help a lot. Either at your computer or in a comfortable chair with a notepad and pen, write without lifting the pen for five minutes. You will be surprised by what comes to your mind. Then just take the ideas you get from your five minute exercise and begin expanding on your stories.

Look at pictures:
Another great way to find your stories is to go through your photos. As you look at pictures of you learning to ride a bike or playing kick ball with your friends, you will remember all sorts of moments that would be great in a story.

Remember and write it down:
The best way to start a story is to just remember and we are remembering all the time. The key is to have those memories with us when we’re ready to write the story. So, when you’re cooking dinner and suddenly remember how your mom used to dance around the kitchen while making family meals, jot the memory down on a notepad. When you’re tucking your child in at night and remember the stories your dad used to tell you, before you slip off to sleep, write it down.

For more story ideas, look at Story Maps here or in your Studio.

Happy Storybooking!

Lisa

Scheduled Website Outage

Heritage Makers is upgrading your Studio storybooking design center – all free, all behind the scenes (no downloading or installing required!) – and its almost time for Studio 3.0!  We’re sure you’re going to enjoy what you’re about to experience.

In order to prepare for the amazing Studio 3.0, they need to take the website offline for 24 hours. The Heritage Makers website will be unavailable from Sunday, June 21 at 9:00 a.m. to Monday, June 22 at 9:00 a.m.

Be sure to log in and experience Studio 3.0 as soon as possible on June 22!

A Week of Wonderful Sales

Yes, its true…Heritage Makers is having a special sale this week only on books, posters and playing cards…call ahead to place your order!

Here are the deals…

June 15 Two 8 x 8 storybook credits $79.95
June 16 Two playing card decks $29.95
June 17 Two 11.5 x 8.5 storybook credits $111.95
June 18 Two 7.5 x10 storybook credits $95.95
June 19 Two 7 x 5 storybook credits $63.95
June 20 Two 16 x 20 canvas poster credits $159.95