Happy Thanksgiving from My StoryBook Lady!

Tips for Creating Business Cards in Studio

From the July issue of the Club HM Connections newsletter:

Christmas In July

Only 5 MONTHS until December! Christmas In July is the PERFECT time to join Club HM! "Bank" publishing points on your Heritage Makers account until December and publish all of your Holiday cards, calendars & gifts at a discount! Pay a little each month and your Christmas will be paid off before Santa comes! Join Club HM today @ www.MyStoryBookLady.com.

Time to Nominate for Best of Heritage Awards 2012!

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Give the Best for Father's Day!

It’s time to let Dad know how much you care! There is still time to create some Heritage Makers cards and keepsake gifts for all the special fathers in your life. Personalized photo memory projects will be cherished for years to come, and are a deeply meaningful way to express your love and appreciation!

Check out the projects below for some great inspiration. All of them have ready-to-use templates in the Studio Template Gallery, so you can customize them in a matter of minutes. There are plenty more templates and design options to choose from there as well (search under “dad”). If you don’t already have a Studio account, sign up for a FREE one here!

This cute square flip-book is titled “My Dad’s the Greatest.” It has 19 pages ready to customize.  Add your own special photos and sentiments.  To see all the pages and both covers of the book, click here.

My Dad's the Greatest Flip-Book

Next is a 7X5 Father’s Day greeting card.  Simply switch your photo for the one in the template, personalize the greeting, and publish this gorgeous card! See more detail here.

This 12X12 scrapbook page, Superman, highlights just how amazing a father really is. Add your photos and publish it for a unique and heartfelt gift.  Take a closer look here.

Get creating today so your keepsakes can be ready for Father’s Day gift giving!

from blog.heritagemakers.com 

How to Resize Photos for HM Projects

Did you get a new high-resolution big-megapixel digital camera for the holidays? If so, your photos may be larger than the maximum size limits on our site for uploading photos. Heritage Makers allows photos 10mb and under with a maximum size of 4800×4800 pixels. If your images are larger than those limits, you’ll need to do a quick re-size for your images stored in HM photo albums. Simply follow the instructions below to batch re-size them, upload them to HM, then delete the smaller copies off your computer, leaving the full-size originals where you downloaded them from your camera or memory card.
How to resize photos for HM projects

from blog.heritagemakers.com

Heritage Makers Celebrates National Digital Scrapbooking Day

	While we began our company by pioneering the concept of “storybooking,” we realize that because our Studio is online and our products are digitally designed, we are also part of the growing “digital scrapbooking” movement. As more people move away from the traditional “scissors and stickers” scrapbook albums, the digital side is enjoying significant growth. And it makes good sense. First of all, the photos we take today are already digital. No need to pay a developer to print out a pile of pictures anymore. Secondly, almost everyone has access to a computer that can get on the internet for instant availability to digital artwork and design inspiration. Third, we live in an increasingly time-strapped society where the ability to get something finished faster is definitely a draw. Digital scrapbooking seems to offer a speed advantage over traditional. Digital scrapbooking and storybooking with Heritage Makers offers those advantages — simplicity, speed, security, easy and economical. That’s why we want to honor National Digital Scrapbook Day on Saturday, November 5, 2011. Whether you are already addicted to digital scrapbooking, considering the switch from traditional paper to digital or thinking of trying the easiest digital option on the market, your Heritage Makers Personal Publishing Consultant can help you decide if Studio is right for you. We thought it might be helpful to compare Heritage Makers online Studio publishing system with traditional paper scrapbooking and with general digital scrapbooking. We hope you’ll discover the significant advantages of Studio and begin to preserve your memories with ease. Traditional Scrapbooking vs Heritage Makers Studio Must buy & store supplies albums, page protectors, papers, stickers tools, adhesives, pens, scissors, etc Everything is built on the site & stored on our servers Takes up a lot of space to keep/ organize supplies All you need is a computer connected to the web All artwork/tools are built into Studio All artwork & templates are easy to find (searchable) Requires a dedicated space or time to set-up/take-down for a work session Be designing in seconds online with a small laptop. Walk away or get interrupted, your work is saved. Making multiple copies of a special project involves a major investment in supplies, time & effort Simply click to order multiple copies easily. Or slightly customize each one without redoing the whole project every time. Working with anyone else on a layout or album is difficult unless both live nearby Conveniently collaborate across the miles with others to work on a project in one account Can’t be portable without lugging a lot of supplies, photos, tools, etc. & then you need a lot of table space to set up & spread out for working. Very portable! If you have a laptop, you can log in to Studio & work from anywhere, even without a table.