Deck Of Cards Sale

Heritage Makers is having a Thanksgiving sale on our deck of cards. If you and your family is like mine and likes to sit around the table for family games ranging from go fish, phase 10, clue, and many more then HM decks are for you. You can personalize the front and the back of cards. Design whatever you want or use one of our many templates to create a one of a kind game for your family. I am in love with these decks and have several plans for these little cards. You can even make gift tags!!!! Check out our template gallery to see what you can create.

Send me an email with your phone number to place your order before Sunday the 30th.

Then and Now

I wanted to share a special story about my maelee. Most of you know I am a Heritage Maker. I make books about my family and help others make books and products about their family's. Two years ago I made a wonderful book about my mom's relatives from Italy (my Grandpa Minerva's family). View it here. Sadly, it does not have any story. The stories are missing. I would like to redo it and write more story if Icould get some. And last year for Christmas my sister Christen made a wonderful book for her family members. It was so great that I ordered a copy for myself. View it Here.  I have made several books about the happenings in our family, but not a little special one yet like my sister has. That book is on my long list. After this experience I had with Maelee it is being moved up to the top of my list. So, Now back to Maelee and her story:

Last week Maelee came up from the basement with these two books in her hand. She walked over to her backpack and put them in her bag. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was taking them to school to show her teacher because they were learning about then and now. She held up the ancestors book and said it was our cousins then and then she held up the other one and said it was our cousins now. She got it!!! My six year old gets what her heritage is. She understands that our family existed then and it exist now. I was so touched. 

My friend Lena, a fellow storybooker, shared with me story about the co-founder and president of Heritage Makers and a dear friend of mine, Doug Cloward. Doug is fighting a battle with cancer right now. Heritage Makers is just getting off of the ground and this business is a dream of his. This summer Lena was doing a booth at a local fair. Doug came by the fair. He stopped at Lena's booth and chatted with her and I am sure he looked at her books. Then she said he started looking ill, so she asked if she could walk him to his car. I really hope I get this next part right...As they were walking he started to ask her, "do you think they get it?" Lena asked "get what?" Doug said something about wondering if people really get that Heritage Makers is more than just books. It is about families. It is about Heritage. She said he got a little teary. He is a tender hearted man, but especially these days. But of coarse you would have already guessed that he is tender hearted by such a wonderful company that he has created. I recently wrote Doug to tell him that people are "getting it." People are starting to understand that these books are about family heritage. I know my 6 year old gets it. I get it. Have you gotten it yet? Everyone has a story......who is telling yours? and do your kids know your story? 

Speed Scrap Today, Tuesday 11/25 at Noon EST

Today's Speed Scrap Just ended. We had a blast!!! Thank you for all of those that participated. Here were the rules for those that missed it and want to try it.

1.Pick out three pictures with a “thankful” theme to the page.

2.Chose one piece of paper as your background paper. Make it a solid/monochrome piece of paper.

3.Chose a pattern paper to put behind all three of your pictures

4.Frame one of your pictures by using four pieces of ribbon.

5.Put at least one thing on your page from nature: tree, flower, stick, leaf, etc.

6.Chose one final embellishment to add to your page. Use that embellishment three times on your page. THREE times, no more, no less

7.Put a title on your page and list three things you are thankful for on your page for your journaling

1. My page:

2. Carrie Rodriguez ( I am not even going to try to guess or write about who is in this page...I always get it wrong...I call her son her husband, her grandson her son and vice versa!!! )




3. Bonnie and her lightening page:




4. Melissa made a card for her sister




5. Leslie like most of us is thankful for her family

6. Lori had a great day. she got two pages done and got a package from the UPS man...8 HM books delivered!!!

7. Joyce made a great card for her grandchildren




8. Carrie Svozi has a new grandson

9. Sidney was one of our first timers...welcome to all of our new comers...great job!



10. Jan Judd is grateful for the happiest place on Earth

check out her CUTE page Here

11. Amber was very busy and made three pages. She has a lot to be thankful for

12. Debbie Adams, I did not get this via email, I stole it from her from her blog. 

WE Have a winner. This winner was picked randomly at random.org

Carrie Svozi

Help Wanted! Now Hiring!

I am looking for women who are interested in learning more about Heritage Makers. I love sharing this gift of Heritage. I want to give it away to one lucky winner. Heritage Makers has blessed my life in so many ways and I want to pass the blessings on to someone else. How to apply to be hired for my team:

1. Learn More About The Business Opportunity Here.

2. Go to www.Storybookingbyyou.com to begin your business by opening a new consultant account

Now it is time for my gift to you. I am going to do a drawing by the end of the day on Saturday out of all of the new consultants. I will send a $200 check to one lucky person to reimburse you the cost of your consultant kit. What will come in your kit when you sign up?

Check out Kit Here

Hear More About The Business Opportunity

Heritage Makers has put Christmas presents under my families tree for two years in a row now. I love what I do. I never had intentions of getting into the sales arena, but this is something I have never had to sell. I simply share it. I simply do my favorite hobby and pass time and show off my products to my friends and anyone that is willing to look at pictures of my kids and everyone always says, "how did you do that?" and I get to tell them how I did it. I cash paychecks of the heart twice a month. You can too. This is your opportunity. I invite you to join my team. One of you will get to join it for free. It could be you. Just think, only one person may end up signing up and they will automatically become the owners of their own business for free. To Boost I will give an 8x8 book credit to everyone that signs up by Saturday night. So everyone wins. Post a comment here if you want me to personally contact you to answer any questions you may have. Remember to go to www.storybookingbyyou.com when ready to sign up.

Be Thankful!

Click Here To Read My Be Thankful Post

Instructions for Speed Scrap 11/18

We had another speed scrap tonight. We had a great time. We almost doubled in our

numbers.

The prize is the same as last week. 5 12x12 prints. Below are the entries.

1.Pick out one picture. Make the picture as big or small on your

page as you would like (remember to always leave

room for plenty of journaling)

2.Pick Two pieces of paper. Send one to the back and use as your

background paper. Make the other one slightly smaller than

your background paper and layer.

3.Pick a third piece of paper to pu

t behind your picture, using it as a mat.

4.Chose a Photo Frame to put around your picture.

5.Now time to Embellish. Find a place to put stitching on your

page.

6.Use at least three of the

following shapes: Hearts, Flowers, Diamonds, Stars. You can use

four of one, or mix it up.

7.Most importantly we must journal. Give your page a jazzy

title. And you must have at least three sentences of journaling

for your page.

8.Email me your page or pages by

the end of 2nd hour at storybookingbyyou@gmail.com

1. Amber: Fun pages by Amber. she is starting to dabble in photography and just took these fabulous pictures.
2. Dixie's great colorful pages.


3. Karen was inspired by the speed scrap to complete her Christmas Cards.


4. Another great layout by Bonnie. That looks like a fun party!

5. Joyce looks like she had a wonderful Christmas Cruise with the author of The Christmas Box. I love these ornaments.


6. Jennifer is a wonderful friend and Neighbor to the woman featured in this 12x12. Jennifer made this page for her neighbor. She is going to love it.


7. Melissa looked like she had a great trip to Disney. She shared that she had originally lost the digital copy of all of her Disney pictures when her computer crashed. Lucky for her she had printed out all of her pictures before her computer crashed (printing them cost her $300. Shortly after this experience she discovered Heritage Makers and was amazed that there was a cheaper way of printing pictures into books). She scanned all of her pictures back into digital form and is working on a Disney book.

8. Brenda made this fun page. She said she was forced to do some new things but says she is happy with her final product. I like it too

9. This page is by Hilary. I love the bright colors and cute subject.


10. Carrie made a great page about her a very cute little boy, that I am assuming is her grandson. I could be wrong. Last time I thought her son was her husband, sorry Carrie!

Check out her page by clicking here

11. Debbie was lucky enough to have taken a trip to Hawaii recently. We are lucky enough to see this page

Click here to go to Hawaii

12. Barbara made this project. I believe this is a poster. It is so beautiful. I love the bling!

Click here to see project

13. Kelly made this page while she was doing a workshop. Way to multitask! What a treat for her workshop attendees to be able to see this page being made.

Click here to see her page

I hope I did not miss anyone's page. If I missed it please let me know and I will post it. I will be announcing a winner in a little bit. Thank you everyone for participating. I had so much fun! Thank you so much for my friend and director, Lena, for being on the call to help and support me. Everyone check back to this post for registration to next weeks speed scrap.


WE HAVE A WINNER: CARRIE! CONGRATS!

Parent Teacher Conference

I just went to Maelee's parent teacher conference last week. It was the best conference ever!!! She really struggled through kindergarten so it was nice to have a good parent teacher conference. Her teacher said she sees little light bulbs coming on everyday for her. It is so exciting. I got a long list of sight words for her to work on. So I created a very special project for her. Check it out!

Heritage Makers has the coolest product, decks of playing cards. These are not the standard deck of cards, these are cards that can be customizable on both sides, front and back. You can create one back that will be printed on all 54 cards, then you can design 54 seperate fronts of the cards. We are the only company with these capabilities. It is so cool! The possibilities are endless. If you go directly to my website ignore the price. Never pay retail. Contact me directly for special pricing. You can get these decks for as little as $15 a deck.