I’m making an 8×8 ABC board book featuring photos of my kids. Here is the first page, which features Grace as an alligator on Halloween 2005.
My hope is that you’ll see a new page each Thursday, to go along with MamaBear‘s Alphabitty Moments series.
Storyfirst3: Furniture
May 17, 2010 at 9:03 am (storyfirst)
Each Monday, I will challenge you to come up with a page or project based on the prompt I provide. In the comments, describe what you would include on your page and why. Or better yet, create a page/project and post a link. (Here’s a post about how to share links from Studio.)
I’m not going to talk a lot about this one. I’m just going to give you one word and let you run with it. So create a scrapbook page about your:
FURNITURE
Here is the piece that my page will be about:
StoryFirst2: Food traditions
April 5, 2010 at 5:58 pm (storyfirst)
Tags: digiscrapping, journal, journaling, scrapbook, scrapbooking
Each Monday, I will challenge you to come up with a page or project based on the prompt I provide. In the comments, describe what you would include on your page and why. Or better yet, create a page/project and post a link. (Here’s a post about how to share links from Studio.)
Do you have food traditions in your family? A recipe handed down through generations? A food one person in your family is famous for? Do you have the same dinner every Easter? Get the whole family together for a big Sunday dinner every week?
Make sure those traditions are preserved, even if they cease to be observed. Create a scrapbook page, cookbook or recipes on a deck of cards. And don’t forget to share a link to what you have created.
I don’t have an inspiration piece ready for this one, so I’ll be playing along with you and will post my link in the comments.
How to share things from Studio
April 2, 2010 at 4:07 pm (how-to, Studio)
Tags: digiscrapping, scrapbook, scrapbooking
You can share photo albums or whole projects from Studio, even with people who do not have Heritage Makers accounts.
Photos
- Click “My photos” on the top right menu.
- Click the album you want to share.
- Hit the share button below the folders.
- Enter the e-mail addresses you want to send it to. (You can also set up an address book also so you don’t have to type all the addresses every time.)
If the person you are sharing with has an account, the photo albums appear along with theirs and they can use your pictures for projects. They can delete photos or the whole album without effecting your album. If the person does not have an account, they see all the photos on one launching page and can see titles but not caption information.
Projects
- Click “My projects & templates” on the top right menu.
- Click “view” on the project you want to share.
- Click “share” and type in the e-mail addresses or grab the link.
The projects will appear in a preview mode. The same thing you get when you click “view” from the project page.
StoryFirst 1: Reading’s place in our lives
March 29, 2010 at 7:16 pm (storyfirst)
Tags: journal, journaling, scrapbook, scrapbooking
Each Monday, I will challenge you to come up with a page or project based on the prompt I provide. In the comments, describe what you would include on your page and why. Or better yet, create a page/project and post a link. (Here’s a post about how to share links from Studio.)
Your first StoryFirst challenge is to create a page or project about reading. It can be for you, your spouse, your child, whoever you choose. Some ideas:
- a list of favorite books
- a description of a book that inspired you
- a blurb about your favorite newspaper section
- clips of things you liked from magazines
- a story about a child learning to read
As long as it pertains to reading and tells us something about the person the page is about, the sky is the limit.
Here is a page I made for my 3-year-old son. By the end of the week, I hope to have something done for my 5-year-old daughter.The text on this page reads:
Connor has finally fallen in love with books. These are a few of his favorites. Nothing beats “Go, Dog, Go!” We read it every night and he has most of it memorized.
Not all stories start with a photo
March 27, 2010 at 4:21 am (storyfirst)
Tags: journal, journaling, scrapbook, scrapbooking
Most people who scrapbook — me included — start with the photos. We might group the pictures from a trip to the zoo onto two pages and add some cute animal stickers. Hopefully we are all remembering to include information like the date, place and people pictures. Some go a step further to add a some journaling about something special or funny that happened during that trip.
But we also must record the moments and memories that are NOT prompted by photos.
Some ways to do that:
- If you have a blog, look back for important posts or touching stories like I did for this page.
- If you tweet, look back for funny things your kids said or did.
- Journal! Each night, write down your thoughts, goals, fears. Record what you did that day and what challenges or opportunities the day held.
- Make lists of your favorite things.
- Write down the schedule of a typical day.
- If you have a Studio account, check out our story maps.
Each Monday, I will post a story prompt or idea that is important to record for posterity and challenge you to come up with a response. You can post just the words in the comments or link to a low-res copy of something you created in Studio. (I’ll post a tutorial soon about how to download and then upload pages from Studio for sharing.)
Me, my blog and you
February 26, 2010 at 3:36 am (Why use Heritage Makers)
Welcome to my new blog!
I thought I’d start out by telling you a little bit about me. I’ve been scrapbooking for about 12 years, and doing digiscrapping for the last three. You can see my work on my flickr page.
Even though I am proficient in Photoshop and have purchased a lot of digi scrapping elements, I’m excited about all the art and templates available through Heritage Makers. Why:
- I don’t have to store them on my computer or hard drive.
- I don’t have to pay for a whole kit if I only want one item. I get access to 45,000 pieces of art for one low monthly fee.
- Everything is easily searchable. If you’ve done any digiscrapping, you know that organizing kits and making them searchable by item type, color, etc., is a huge undertaking.
Also, I’m excited that all the software and art and my pictures are online. So if I’m at my parents or in-laws house and have some downtime, I can work on projects without having to bring my laptop and external hard drive along.
On this blog, I plan to show you some of my work and maybe work of my clients, if they have something they want to show off. I’ll give you quotes or story prompts for inspiration (although you can also find both of those things built right into the Heritage Makers program). I’ll answer any questions you have about our software or our products or help you out if you’re stuck on a design. And if there is anything at all that you would like to see offered here, feel free to request it. I want this blog to be about and for all storybookers, not about me.
