Sunday, January 31, 2010

7 Reasons to be a Storybooker!

(Adapted from an article written by Candace May)

1. No mess! Requires no papers, embellishments, glue, pens, pictures, or trips to the store for those missing items. Sit on your couch with your laptop, while the kids watch a movie, and create all you want.

2. No need to go back through the years of scrapbook pages to fill in the story gaps you left because you didn't want to hand write the story and the computer wasn't handy. Journaling is just as fun as the rest of it now!

3. No more trips to the photo store to resize, recolor, or reprint pictures. You can do it all with the mouse. What took 3-5 pages of scrapbooking can now fit into 1 or 2 page layouts!

4. All-inclusive pricing. The cost of Premier account includes all the embellishments, alphabets, paper, etc. that you will ever need. No need to stock up on flowers, ribbons and the like. A lot less waste. And it's cheaper in the long run!

5. You don't get bored. You could get bored quite quickly with a computer program that doesn't change, or that is one dimensional that you can't learn anything new from. You will love the tutorials in Heritage Makers and the opportunities to learn new techniques and features. It keeps you hooked!

6. You can fill gaps in your traditional scrapbook with digital pictures from Heritage Makers. You can drag and drop into a template those events that perhaps didn't warrant a little extra time to scrap. You can do a page in 8 minutes with this and it looks fab!

7. It will warm your heart to make a book for your mother of her grandchildren. It will warm your heart to know that your children will have a sense of history in a storybook that will last a lifetime!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Lovely Art Canvas


I couldn't resist sharing this 20" square artist canvas.  It is just lovely and I found it in the template gallery!  Just an example of affordable home decor that doesn't even require a personal photo, and the quote can be customized to whatever you want.  This is one of my personal favorites.