Fun 12×12 Digital Scrapbook Page

I did this page for my little granddaughter and tried a couple of new techniques – of course the whole page was made is Heritage Makers Studio 3.0. Contact me if you are interested in a FREE no obligation online demo. I will walk you step-by-step and show you how EASY it is to make a page just like this one!

Good Morning America Features Heritage Makers Tomorrow!

See what Good Morning America thinks about Heritage Makers TOMORROW morning!

Heritage Makers will be featured during the 8am hour on ABC. I believe the segment spotlighting home based businesses will be done by Tory Johnson one of GMA’s producers under “Great New Home Businesses!”

My upline executive and sponsor Wendy will be hosting a Business Opportunity Call tomorrow evening at 5:30 pm MDT – we would love to have you listen to the call – contact me and I will send you the link for the live Webinar and you can listen to it and watch it on your home computer.

Being a Heritage Makes Personal Publishing Consultant is one of the most fun things I have ever done – I spend my days teaching my clients and new consultants how to do fun EASY Digital Scrapbooking and Storybooking on our State of the Art Studio 3.0 Publishing System –

No expensive software to buy or learn. Our System is all web based and easy for anyone to use.

 

Join my Team and make a wonderful income doing a new and exciting business that is going to take the world by storm just the same way traditional scrapbooking became a 2.5 Billion Dollar industry so will Digital Scrapbooking and Heritage Makers will be own a huge part of the market!

 

Join me in becoming a part of this exciting and new industry, you will LOVE it!

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Ainsleigh

 

 

 

Levi Our Little Dude

Happy Fathers Day

I had so much fun creating these three pages for my family – I will teach you how to do the same! This coming from someone who has never done any kind of Scrapbooking before…if I can do it so can you! Give it a try…ask me about my no obligation Online Workshops – You can see for yourself how easy Digital Scrapbooking is when it is done the Heritage Makers way!

 

Having Fun!

Being a consistent blogger is more difficult than I ever imagined. I do love blogging and need to put more effort into regular posts and stop making excuses for myself. So what have I been up to over the past while? I have been spending much of my ‘free’ time allowing my creative juices (didn’t know I even had any) to flow…I have been designing some 12×12 Digital Scrapbooking pages and having so much fun! Here are a few sample pages that I have completed. I am going to frame them for little gifts for my grandchildren. Oooh, I nearly forgot to mention I heard about this really great online store to buy quality frames at an affordable price give them a try, you will find them on ebay they are the frame guys - Email me if you are interested in REALLY Easy Digital Scrapbooking, I would love to help you!

Clark our Hero

Sweet Olivia

Cute Little Carly

I will add more pages tomorrow, these are some of the first pages I have done, and I think I have completed about 25 altogether.

If you are looking for a fun Home Based Business join my team – I will personally train you even if you have never done Digital Scrapbooking before, I will make a pro out of you in a couple of hours, it’s that easy!

Beware the Doghouse!

Looking Forward to 2009

The past couple of weeks have been pretty crazy for me, with helping clients get books completed and Christmas Cards sent to their friends and families, not to mention I have been fighting a really bad cold since Thanksgiving and it looks like it has come back with a vengeance – I have been feeling pretty miserable through Christmas and today…tomorrow has got to be better. I am missing out on playing with the grandbabies and it’s driving me crazy. With all that I have had going on, I didn’t do my own Christmas cards, so I am going to repent and do New Years Cards for friends and family, but I did send out 100 cards to our troops, so that should count for something…right!

Now let me get to the doghouse part of my post. I sent this to my sons a week or two before Christmas, in my endeavor to give them some motherly advice  and should have taken the time to post it here sooner to save some of you the agony of finding yourselves in the doghouse this Christmas season. I apologize if that is the case, but this will come in handy for next Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries etc. This little Video Clip is a MUST see, it is an excellent production and hilarious too! Enjoy!

Next year you may also want to give Heritage Makers a serious thought, our products are guaranteed to keep you out of the doghouse too!

How Exciting Letters From Santa For My Grandkids

Letters from Santa…

Today I found myself confined to home with a case of laryngitis – not being able to talk is real torture for me! I decided to spend the day creating letters to my grandchildren from Santa. I will submit them for publication tomorrow and they will be shipped in a beautiful linen envelope to their individual homes where their mommy’s will promptly discard the envelopes and tell them they just received a letter from Santa who as we ALL know lives in the North Pole. Now how do I make sure their parents have the cameras ready when the kids get their letters…oh well we can only hope!

If you would like to make a card for a child from Santa, please contact me. I guarantee you can do it in as little as 5 minutes and then Heritage Makers will publish it for you and even mail it direct with our direct mail service – your only job is to warn mom it’s coming:)

Oh, I amost forgot to tell you we are running a special on our cards this month (December) – if you buy 50 of our 5×7 Postcard/invitations they will cost you $1 each! Plus S&H. You can’t beat that…okay, I know you don’t have 50 grandchildren or probably not, but you can use the rest to send Christmas Cards to friends and family or anything else you use cards for during the year. How about a couple of Christmas cards for our wonderful troops?

 

CLICK ON THE CARDS TO PREVIEW

These little letters are going to add to the excitement of Christmas for my little grandchildren and years down the road they will bring back wonderful childhood memories. Your children will cherish these beautiful quality cards too!

Lead Me, Guide Me, Walk Beside Me

August 31st each year is a tough date for me. It was this day many years ago when as a young couple we knelt in the darkness of an empty hospital waiting room and poured out our hearts to our Father in Heaven and pleaded for the life of our 23 month old son to be spared. This little boy, our oldest son who just a few hours before had been a normal little boy scampering around our feet, lay in a hospital bed on deaths door due to a fatal type of meningitis. The sun rose that Sunday morning bringing an end to a long night of agony and opening a day of pain as we said our final goodbye to our son and went home to gather around family and friends to prepare for a life without our precious little son.

Fortunately we had a little 11 month old baby boy at home so life was merciful to us and we didn’t have to confront a home of silence and the emptiness of not having a baby to hold and rock to sleep.

As the days and weeks moved forward and the ache in hearts felt unbearable we found our hearts were comforted in so many ways. Our prayers were heard and answered not by a reprieve from the loss of our son but rather our hearts were comforted in so many ways by so many people. Our son had been called back to heaven but we had not been left alone to overcome our pain, we were blessed in countless ways.

Now so many years later the memories have not dimmed, the tears still fill our eyes but our pain is healed by the peace that we will be together again when this life is over.

I Am a Child of God

And He has sent my here,

Has given me an earthly home with parents kind and dear,

Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way.

Teach me all that I must do to live with Him someday.

We miss you but we know where you are. Love Mom and Dad

Growing Up with Heroes

 Where do the children of today find someone that will help shape their lives? Parents play a big role but sometimes the parental relationship has daily highs and lows as parents play their role of rule enforcer. From comic book heroes to sports heroes the media is having a greater impact on children than ever before.

Grandparents and aunts and uncles are often far away and the relationships are distant. Schools are becoming a questionable value in the life of children; struggling to even teach general knowledge let alone values and principles.

Storybooking was created when one mother wanted her children to know the hero in her life, her grandfather. Since then children across the country are discovering heroes and worthy role models within their own families.

Where will your children or grandchildren find heroes in their lives?

www.GoStorybooking.com

BarbieYGC@msn.com

You and Me and GoToMeeting

Training anytime: Pajamas OK 

My sister Averil who lives in England wanted to do a Storybook for her father in-law for his 80th birthday. She had seen my books when she visited the USA for a sister’s reunion we had last summer.

Averil was concerned about beginning this project because she had never done Storybooking before and she really wanted to do something personal as a tribute to the life of this wonderful man and she knew how much. She wanted to do this while he was still living and how much pleasure it would bring him to read. She had each member of his family contribute to the story and express their love and admiration for Denzil her father in-law.

Averil’s fears soon evaporated when we did an online meeting while she sat in her home in Winchester England and I sat at my computer in Phoenix Arizona. To her surprise she was able to see my computer screen from her computer and I was able to walk her through the Storybooking process – she was so excited and it made doing this book so easy, a beautiful tribute book for her father in-law a man she loves and respects.

I must add Denzil was in awe as he sat surrounded by his family on his birthday when he was presented with a beautiful book about his life.

I also have a 73 year old client in another State and she was trying to explain a problem she was having while we were talking over the phone. I couldn’t quite understand her difficulty and what she meant, within a minute I was able to see her computer screen from my computer and help her complete her project – she was so thrilled with the help and totally amazed that I could help her out so easily and she didn’t even have to leasve home to learn how to make her book!

All it takes is a high speed internet connection and a telephone and as easy as 123 I can hold an online meeting with one person or as many as one thousand people.

In my previous blog I talk about my online Workshops and so I thought it would be a good idea to explain a little about g2m – I will be putting a link up on Monday to register for Webinar to demonstrate Heritage Makers state of the art new Digital Scrapbooking and Storybooking System – Heritage Studio 2.0

I love how g2m have revolutionized my Storybooking Business and made it possible to teach anyone anywhere in the world to enjoy making their own Storybooks and Digital Scrapbooks.

www.GoStorybooking.com 

BarbieYGC@msn.com 

 

Welcome to Our Brand New Grandbaby

Today started out as most other days until we had a phone call from our oldest daughter to tell us she was at the hospital ready to give birth to our sixth grandchild a little girl who will be named Elsie. We received the phone call this evening to say that mother and baby were both well. Little Elsie came into the world weighing 7lbs 9oz at about 7:07 ET. We are so grateful for a healthy new addition to our family and look forward to getting to know this sweet little baby. We look forward to some photos that will be coming via email tomorrow, I cant wait to add them to a storybook.

I look forward to the many stories that this sweet child will bring to our lives.

www.GoStorybooking.com

Your Digital Photos + Your Stories = Storybooks

I remember how excited I was when I received my first digital Camera from my husband for my birthday in February 2001. A digital camera, this was something I just had to have! The camera was a little silver Cannon PowerShot S100 that I could drop into my purse and have on hand whenever I saw something or someone I wanted to take a photo of. Needless to say I filled the memory card in no time at all and then needed to figure out how to save these photos to my new computer. I knew so little about technology, but felt like I was embarking on something that would be fun and enlightening.

Finally I figured out how to download my memory card, but only after I had purchased two new ones and filled them (they were so expensive…) so I really had no choice but to learn to do this as I was not about to buy another memory card and besides I wanted to see the photo’s I had taken on something more than the little screen on my camera.

Now I could look at the jpegs to my hearts content and even view a full screen shot and see every detail on each photo. I learned to fix red eye and a couple of other neat things and I enjoyed emailing out my photos to anyone who showed an interest in them.

Even though I had progressed quite a bit with my quest to move from what my children referred to as “technologically moronic” to “technologically challenged”, I still felt like something was missing – owning a digital camera was nice, but a little anti-climatic for me. I admitted to myself there was no way I was going back to using my old camera and 36mm film and stopping by my local Costco every week to drop off a roll and picking up my prints a few days later as I dropped off another couple of rolls of film – this was no longer an option, though the nostalgia was getting the better of me. 

After seeing a commercial on TV for this great HP printer that you could print off all of your photos in your own home, I rushed to the store and bought one and reems of photo paper in all sizes – I was sure that I was suffering from hardcopy withdrawals. On the way home I felt guilty for buying the printer and came home and hid it in my dressing room for a couple of months – Christmas 2002, yes 2002 (I had been going through this emotional ordeal for almost 2 years) was only two months away and so I wrapped up my printer and and tagged it from Santa for me to open on Christmas day. With a pretend surprised look on my face I opened my gift and thanked Santa, while my family looked around at each other to see who bought mom the new HP printer.

Well I continued taking my pictures and upgraded my little camera to a 3 megapixel Cannon. My excuse was grandchildren, I needed to record every minute of my posterity and believe me I did just that. Soon I had about 3000 jpeg files on my computer and I was so excited to see my little grandbabies growing and I enjoyed printing off their photos and placing them into frames, wallets and fridges and showing them to everyone. But this feeling inside of me continued to persist, there had to be more to this god everyone worshiped called modern technology! More than emailing photos and bragging about my little grandchildren and having tons of framed photos around my house. I had feelings of guilt, instead of keeping memories alive my grandchildren were turning into little jpeg file on my computer. Thousands of little jpeg files!

Then one beautiful Arizona morning in early February of 2005 while surfing the web I discovered Heritage Makers and Storybooking! I was so excited, to think I would be able to take my pictures and place them into hard bound books and preserve the story behind the photo, this was so exciting I could hardly contain myself.

I had to find out everything I could about this company and I had to become an independent Consultant for them. That was the beginning of  www.GoStorybooking.com and a life filled with preserving beautiful memories about my family, my parents and grandparents and bringing my grandchildren to life in storybooks. Little did I know that it was an opportunity of a lifetime and would become a lucrative business, meeting new friends and experiencing personal growth beyond my wildest dreams?

One of the best things about Storybooking is seeing the look on a grandchild’s face when I read them a story about themselves as the hero of the story, seeing their burst of self esteem as they recognize the significance of their little lives in our family. As we work on the stories of their great grandparents I know these little children will come to love and know these men and women and see them as heroes who played a vital role in their very existence.

My passion for Storybooking gives me so much pleasure and it is wonderful to see how everyday things can become important memories when preserved in a Storybook.

I wonder what my grandchildren are going to feel in thirty years from now when they look at books that tell the stories about a trip to the train park in Scottsdale or a visit to the Phoenix Zoo where they are the leading characters in these stories? What emotions will they experience, what memories will be relived as they read their childhood stories to their own children?

I have finally found the magic of Digital Photography - it is Storybooking!