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Amazing Book

The two words that stood out the most to me.  Amazing Book.  Each one most definitely is... 

This blog art was so much fun to make at wordle

October Pick of the Month

Our most popular book is on sale this month.  The PERFECT book for so many stories.  Wouldn't you love for each of your family members to have one of their very own to open this Christmas? 

Look through our amazing template gallery to see some of the possibilities... Make sure to sort by 8x8 books, so you can easily see just this size. 

Here is one I'm using to make my daughter a book for Christmas:

Sunday Sayings

Featuring...The SWATCH book!

Remember seeing this swatch book? 

The swatch book was released just a few weeks ago, and this weekend while I was laying on the couch with the sickies I made this book for my daughter.  (click the picture to see the entire book)

Overall I was very impressed with how quickly I could make this book.  It took about 2 hours from a template, and remember I was sick and moving VERY slowly. 

This is the perfect book to showcase someone or something.  Grandparents will love these for Christmas gifts.  I have heard of them being used for address books, recipe cards, calendars.  Just like any of our other projects, you are only limited by your imagination. 

I personally loved the template that I used, and made very few changes to it.  I found it in the template gallery

Go to my website today and create an account.  Heritage Makers has be best studio editor available for digital scrapbooking.  You will LOVE it!

Holiday Decorations #2

My last post I showed what I made for decorations.  I ordered them, but then our whole household come down with the _____ flu.  That put us out of commission for a week, but I'm BACK!   

Here is my finished project:

and on the back of the sign is...

Isn't that sneaky...

Same thing for my Christmas and New Year door hangers.

Now for some more fun things...

aren't they cute?!?  I'm all ready to make more fun blocks for the rest of the holidays.

Countdown to Thanksgiving: 

and Christmas:

not to mention the rest of the year!  

 

I'd be in so much trouble if I didn't mention that there IS a little block on the bottom that says countdown, the month, and a few other fun things, but I haven't cut the wood for that yet.  : ) 

Come to my website there is SO much that you can do! 

Fall Decorations

Even my pest control guy wasn't impressed by my cobweb door decorations that appeared out of nowhere, so it's a good thing I saw this idea this evening. :)  I was inspired by fall decorations by Amazing Mae She is incredibly creative. She used stencils to make her decoration, and they are beautiful.  I created mine in Heritage Makers because it is much quicker and easier for me.  

I started with a 12x12 page and decorated the two halves horizontally.  When I get these back I will spray adhesive/decoupage to some wood scraps that are in the garage.  My husband has all the tools, so I will be able to make two holes in the corners and dress up my fall wreath for Oct and November. 

What do you think?

Could life go on without Facebook quizzes?

As I was ready to sign on the computer tonight, my sister posted her 'REAL AGE' according to a facebook quiz. The numbers popped out at me, so I quickly made her a card! ;)

Now I'm really going to turn off the computer, but its a great thing I caught this when I did, because she will never be 8100 days old again! ;)

Family Tree

I started with this brand new collection (that I love by the way)

Did you know that the premier art membership is $30 for 3 months for the fall?  What an amazing price for over 40,000 pieces of art.  YEAH for Heritage Makers!!!

Here's the poster I just made.  It is a 12x18 poster and took about 15 minutes...

Of course I just did the easy part, I need to make sure I have all the picture.  I am pretty sure I do they are all in different places though, so I need to do a little searching.  This family tree takes us back to my kids great-great grandparents.  What I'll do is insert names and faces for each place holder, then I'll make 12x12 page of just faces and decoupage those to tile.  I will put a magnet on the back of each 1x1 tile.  Also, this poster I just made I'll put in a frame with sheet metal, so that everything will stick together.  It will look something like this:

Then my kids can move the magnetized tiles around and learn about their heritage.  I may just use these for Christmas gifts as well...shhhh

Note to self...

Yesterday I was wearing my t-shirt given me at our Heritage Makers national convention a few weeks ago.  This was our theme...

Right across the front of the shirt it says, "Lets get loud!"  After I picked up the kids from school we went to the grocery store, and my usually well behaved kids were exceptionally loud and rambunctious in the store.  Then to the next store...same thing!  When I got home, it finally dawned on me that I probably shouldn't wear anything that says, LETS GET LOUD, any place where I want my kids to be QUIET!    :-)

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Look at this!

Doesn't this just make you want to dive into your computer and see all the fun things that are going on at Heritage Makers?