Apr 22, 2009

Welcome to Precious Memories Made Easy

I am so glad you're interested in preserving your precious memories with Heritage Makers! I promise you will not regret building your own living storybook collection! Please feel free to browse the things I have posted, and check back often for updates. You can also jump over to the official Heritage Makers website and browse around, make sure to check out the template gallery! Please, please remember--I can give you a discount on any price listed on the HM website! I would love to work with you on any project you can dream up, lets get started!! Contact me as soon as you can, April monthly specials are almost over!

More about the Heritage Makers Company

The easiest way to get a good overview of the company is by watching this 3 minute video, it sums it all up rather nicely.
You can get a quick glance at all the products here.

You create all of your Heritage Makers projects in your own online, password-protected, personal publishing and creative center, Heritage Studio. Studio is easy to use and provides tremendous flexibility. There's no special software to purchase . . . you can access Studio from any computer, anywhere with internet access.

You can start with a blank page or choose one of our many free pre-designed community and professional templates to use in your projects. You'll enjoy the benefits of having complete control over how your project turns out. Contact me to set up your own free account!

One of my favorite features is the templates. There are 1000's of books, ready for you to drag and drop your pictures into, super cute and ready to print in under an hour!

Oh and this is awesome: Oprah herself has us listed as one of her All time Favorite Gifts in December 2008. If thats not cool, its definately a huge PR help to Heritage Makers!! Quite the claim to fame! Ask me to tell you the whole story behind Oprah's pick, its quite touching.

Product Pictures

These are some of the products I have on hand, for you to look at. I wish you could just hold a book, look through it from cover to cover, you would be in love with them as I am. They are really SO neat! The spiral-bound cook books are sweet, the playing cards are a fun favorite, too. Have a look, then CALL ME and I'll find a way to show you these!Wedding Albums--I wish I had this option when I spent 210 hours (and about 210 dollars on paper, stickers, ribbon, page protectors, etc etc!) on my own Wedding scrap book!Family books, I love the "Before I was Your Dad" one, I'm currently working on a "Before I was Your Mom" book, I'll share it with you as soon as I have it done!Adorable childrens books! What a great self-esteem booster, I have about 6 books I am going to make for my kids, they are so excited!
This is some of the printed product--scrapbook sheets, birth announcements, family folds, Christmas cards, the Recipe book, think of all the things you could do with your pictures!

Apr 21, 2009

Getting Started!!

Well I am officially a Personal Publishing Consultant for Heritage Makers! I am SO very excited to be working with such an amazing company!
Like my title says, I am a consultant for YOU to get your stories compiled, printed, and bound in a super classy, hardcover professional book.
These books are so easy to create, way cute, and basically just amazing!

If you've ever wanted to find a creative way to:

honor a loved one;


preserve memories of generations passed (or passing);

capture the little day to day moments that make life great;


acknowledge goals and accomplishments;

celebrate milestones or new beginnings;


share the joy of a new baby or adoption


or maybe you're just wondering what to do with your pictures

then I promise, you will love these great products. You couldn't go wrong with any of them.

If you're not familiar with Heritage Makers, go ahead, look directly at the company website. You can probably tell I am EXCITED to help you get started with your stories, so please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Lets make some memories!

Top Ten Reasons to go Digital

There are so many great things to love about Heritage Makers, I really fell in love with the books, and then the more thought I put into it, and the more projects I completed, the more I thought HEY I should really DO this, I love it. I want everyone to love it! And the switch to digital has been nice... Here's my top 10 reasons for Digital:

10. NO MESS!!! I would spend 20 mins laying my stuff out. Work for oh...30 mins. Then clean back up for 2o mins. 40 mins cleaning and organizing for 30 mins of working...I can create a book in one hour with no clean up and no mess!!! LOVE THAT!!! And...the whole book is done...not just one page!

9. No handwriting the story behind each and every picture. None of my sloppy hand writing. You tell the story through the whole book and don't have to leave anything out. And you can tell the story while it is still fresh in your mind. Not 2 years-10 years later!

8. NO cutting and resizing of pictures. You drag and drop the picture on the page and crop it how ever you want! Also no ruining your photos with cutting them up!

7. SOOOOO many embellishments to choose from: buttons, ribbon, clips, roses, sea shells, leafs etc...anything you want without going to store after store to find that stupid Palm Tree for your page!

6. I can order as many copies of my book as I want. With traditional scrapbooks you get 1!!! If your kids rip the pages out, you are out of luck. With Heritage Makers you log on and order a new one! If your mom, grandma or sibling wants a copy, log on and order one!

5. You don't get bored. There are so many templates and projects to choose from. And you can go back and forth between them till you finish one. Books, calendars, playing cards, single pages to put in a frame as a picture, and many many more!

4. It was on Oprah's top 100 list of best things at NUMBER 1~ IT is really cool to see a product I love so much shown national recognition! Click here to see it!

3. The books are so meaningful!!! You can write a story that will touch hearts and lives. I can't wait till I write my dad's life in a short book for my children to read and know about their grandpa before he was their grandpa. All the wonderful things he has done in his life. It is preserving our heritage for my children! You can write a love story for your husband as a gift, a What it Means to Be A Lopez (or whatever your last name is). What better way to instill confidence then to read your children stories were THEY are the HEROES!! So many choices...

2. Actually do something with my photos. They have been in boxes or just stored on the computer for so long! When I got them out to start my books I was a little sad. I have all of these amazing photos yet I do NOTHING with them. My photos are my most PRECIOUS treasure (aside from my family anyways). I always saying if I lost my pictures I would DIE! Yet I don't do anything with them...SAD! Now I can, and have books to read to my kids and show them that I love them and love their story!

1. TELL THE STORY! I want to tell the story behind the pictures. I don't want another "PHOTO ALBUM!" I want a STORYBOOK! I want to tell the story behind the pictures. All the wonderful memories behind each photo! Because what is a photo without the story...just some faces right?

What would your first book be about? What story do you want to tell?

...wait, there's more!

Heritage Makers does more than JUST books: we do post cards, greating cards, wedding invitations, playing cards, calendars, cookbooks, posters, canvas prints, single pages, and more! The possiblities are endless, seriously!


Look at a few of the things my friend Heidi has done with some of her Heritage Maker products:

using HM posters and HM 12x12 single pages, some frames, ceramic tiles and wood blocks






Cool ideas huh? She has lots more, too. I am so excited to be working with her! Check out Heidi's blog to see more of what she does!
There are really so many things we can do with this, let me know what you want to get started on!!