Saturday, December 18, 2010

Popcorn Bucket

Here is the finished popcorn bucket. Inside I put 2 lb bag of popcorn and 4 popcorn sleeves. On the tag I wrote instructions on how to pop the popcorn.


I made them the same way I made the Junkfood bucket!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

I wanted to wish all my friends a very happy Thanksgiving!! I love Thanksgiving, I love being with family and friends. I love to cook for them. This year we will be going to my MIL's for dinner. I'm hoping for no drama but we shall see. LOL!!
I wanted to also tell you why I do what I do...Why I love creating and sharing with others the concept of storybooking and preserving your memories.
FAMILY is the most important thing to me. I have suffered loss of family members at an early age which really touched me deeply. I was 10 years old when I lost my grandfather. I was devastated and still to this day, nearly 28 years after he died I still weep. I still miss him, and I wish I could remember all of the special moments I had with him. But as the years have gone by, my memories of him have faded. I so wish I could go back in time and remember. The only vivid memory I have of him is what I said to him the last time I saw him! We hugged and I told him I loved him and he said I 'll see you at Christmas. I never saw him again! He had a heart attack in early Dec of 81 and passed away on Jan.2, 1982. We were too young to see him in the hospital and I was too afraid to see him the night of the viewing.
My journey into scrapbooking began 20 years later when my grandmother died. We were going through her things and my Aunt came to bags that had pictures and memorabilia of her European travels. My Aunt was going to throw them away!! I took them and started a scrapbook of her travels. My passion for preserving memories began from there. I believe that there is a Story keeper in every family! I believe that every one's memories and life should be preserved in a scrapbook or storybook for future generations to enjoy! I want my kids to know who their parents, grandparents and great grandparents! I am privileged to be that Story Keeper for my family and I want to help you be yours!!

Contact me today and find out how you can become your family's  Story Keeper!!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

A Sweet Treat Holiday Bucket ALTERED!!

Hello friends,

I jsut wanted to share with you this fun project that would be a great time with the kids!  Now I found this gem in our templete gallery. The templete was made by  Roxanne Buchholz. I love her templetes!! This is a 12 x 12 scrap page. Each page makes 2 buckets.


The cardstock used is a nice heavy weight smooth card stock.
To start gather your materials..here is a picture of what I used:

For this project I used my Cricut Expression to cut the scalloped circle for the lid. The Cricut cartridge I used is called Lovely Floral. It's one of the Lite cartridges sold at Walmart.
You will also need:
Scissors
Adhesive
Paper Trimmer
Large Paint can ~ sold at Michaels..
2 colors of ribbon
2 colors of cardstock. I used Bazzill Basics in Rain Forest and Red Carpet. Both sold at Michaels.
Edge Punch ~ I used Fiskars threading water
Ink ~ I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Pine Needle
Optional :
Imaginisce I Rock tool and Glam Rocks in Pearl

1. First step is to cut out all your die cuts. Take your time, but you dont have to be perfect! The ink will cover up any uneven cutting!




2. Ink edges with ink and set aside to dry. Becasue the cardstock is super smooth with almost glossy sheen to it the Distress Ink will take a few minutes to dry.



3. Cut circles out for lid using the red cardstock. I use scrap blue paper first to be sure that it would be the correct size. I first measured the circle ( one with picture on it) to see how wide it was ~ 4 1/2". I decided to cut my scallop circle at 5 1/2". It fit perfectly!!  Adhere your picture circle to the red circle.

4. Adhere circles to lid. Be sure to use a generous amount of adhesive so that is stays put!



This step is optional ~ I used my I Rock tool to adhere Glam Rocks to the snowflakes in the picture!


Here it is glammed up!!





It's hard to see in the picture but they give it a little more depth and visual interest!

5. Next step is to cut 2 ~ 4 1/2 x 12" strips of the green cardstock. 


6. Punch both sides of green paper.


7. From remaining red cardstock mat picture shown above on green cardstock. I cut a 3/16" mat using Perfect Layers tool. Adhere to 1 of the green cardstock. Optional ~ Apply Glam Rocks to snowflakes.



8. Adhere green strips to bucket.Match pattern as best as you can!


9. Tie string around bucket twice and secure. I also tied metal ring and tag . I chose to tie sting and ribbon on the handles. It's up to you!!

Here it is!!



Simple and easy!! Great for teacher gifts ! Whatever you decide to put in your bucket, I would place in celephane bags. The inside of the buckets are not real clean!

Happy Creating!!

And as always if you have any questions or would like to start your own project I am here to help! Contact me today!!

Don't be afraid to design your own pages!!

Have you ever gone through the Heritage Makers templete gallery looking for a particular theme or color palette only to find nothing that would go with the project you have in mind??
Well, don't fear!! I am hear to help you navigate your way through designing your own templete!! By learning simple design theories you can make your own projects with Heritage Makers beautiful artwork and backgrounds. I thought I would walk you through some basic design principles that can be used on your layouts, cards, and anything else you decide to create!!
I am a paper scrapper by heart and have been for 10 yrs now and love it! I am also a scrapbook teacher for EK Success and teach their SDU classes.This class is perfect for any beginner or more advanced scrapper who wants to learn the basics and refine their skills. Digital or paper, design is all the same!! SO let's begin!!

NOTE: When I talk about page, I mean whatever medium you are creating whether it be a digital page, a card, a page for a book.

COLOR
Color sets the mood of a page. There is no right or wrong, it's your preference!  Warm colors like RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, are stimulating! While cool colors like BLUE, PURPLE, GREEN are soothing colors. When you combine cool colors with warm on a page, you create movement and excitement!
Your color palette and theme of your page should match. If you were making a beach page, you wouldn't use purple, pink and yellow! You would use blues, and greens and browns as your primary color choices, then add say pink ( to match the bathing suit as an accent color).
Color Dominance is when one color sticks out, while the other colors recede. As a general rule, most cool colors recede while warm colors dominate. Cool colors make great background colors. They blend in the background and give your eye a place to rest. Warm colors pop off the page and therefore are great as photo mats and accent colors!
You don't have to pick warm and cool colors for your page! When using just a cool color palette, your lightest and brightest colors will pop off the page. The only exception to this rule is when you ae using a Monochromatic color scheme ( 1 color, color scheme) The color used in the smallest amounts will be the contrasting color and will dominate the page. So potentially a light or dark color could be the dominate color.
You can create a focal point on your page with color! The focal point of a page is usually a photo and using dominant colors your reader's eye will graviate towards that color and focal point. Continue the dominant color throughout the page as it will allow the reader's eye to go from one side to the other.
 Try and stick with a 3 color palette when designing your page. As a rule your darker color will be a great background color as it recedes. The lightest or warmest color would be your accent color as it tends to pop off the page. Your third color choice would be your supporting color which helps unify your design. But there are always exceptions!! Take for instance if you are using bight primary colors as your secondary and accent color choices, I would use a neutral color like black or white to give your eye a place to rest. Contrary to popular belief, brown and beige is Not a true neutral but can be used as a neutral..Take this page for example..

This is a paper scrapbook page but the theory is the same.. Notice my color scheme. Most of the colors are bright primary colors ( blue, red, yellow) with green as a secondary color. I used a beige as the backgorund color to give the eye a place to rest and tie the other colors together.
We have some awesome digital designers who create whole collections for the Studio! All of the elements in a particular collection all coordinate and go together beautifully! Now that you have learned about basic color concepts, I want you to think outside of your box and think patterns and colors!! The most AWESOME part of Studio is that you don't ahve to stick with one collection!! You can mix and match backgrounds and elements to create something that it totally YOU!!
Patterns and color

I want to talk  now about pattern and colors. In digital design, especially with all of the papers and artwork that is in The Studio your options go on forever especially if you are in the Premier Club! My general rule of thumb for patterns and colors goes like this. First choose your color palette. I choose a few patterns in each color and keep the pattern in the same proportion as the others. If you want more drama then choose 1 big pattern and the smaller patterns will be your secondary colors. I generally choose a solid or almost solid as a background so your eye has a place to rest. I usually choose my solid color first then my secondary and accent. When I design in Studio I open collections that look appealing and drag a bunch of papers up to my project. You can always make them smaller so you can see what you have. After I "shop" I then play with the selections and see placement and shapes of the papers.
Here is another great example of a paper LO I did :

As you can see I used a solid  orange cardstock for the background and a bold black and white pattern for my secondary. The reason this works is that the pattern under the photo has orange and black in it! The smaller print ties the whole look together.

Design Elements

Line is one of the simplest design elements and I think one of the easiest to use. Line can be used in different ways to stengthen your layout, organize it and create movement.
what do I mean by Organize with Line? By using a simple grid like the one shown here

Use the grid as a guide for placing photos, journaling and accents on your page. I tell my students when they first start out to make one of their own. You can use any size box you want!  It needs to be broken up in thirds..the one above is a 6x6 square and intersecting lines at 2" and 4". The grid allows you to make a cohesive deisgn that guides your readers eye to the focal point of your page and around to the other elements so that the reader knows the whole story! Isn't that what we are trying to tell?? A story!!
Line can strengthen yor layout . What you choose ie. a thin line, wavy, dotted and what you use to make your line is totally up to you! Examples of using line to strengthen is aseasy as a line of photos across the page. A wavy line you intertwine with flowers, a dotted line using small circles..the choice is up to you. The advantage of Heritage Makers Studio is that your options are endless!
By creating movement with line you move the reader's eye across the page section by section. Line can connect realted things together giving it a cohesive look. It can also divide unrelated ones. An example would be if you placed 3 circles randomly on a page with a title and journaling. Now all these elements are not touching. To the eye, they look like they are just splattered on the page. But if you placed lines 2 lines horizontal and 2 vertical, it would allow the eye to flow across the page. Now it doesn't necessarily have to be "lines" you could use digital brushes of swirls, lines of beads, vines..

Other Important Notes about Design..

Keep your photos in proportion to one another! When cropping, if you decide to crop, dont decide to keep 2 photos 5x7 and crop 3 2x2. Also remember your spacing in between photos. Don't place 2 photos close together and have the other 3 with a 2" gap! It will look out of proportion!
Cropping photos in Studio is a breeze. If you are using a templete, just drop the photo in! You can adjust the placement of the photo after you drop it in simply by clicking on tools in your toolbox and click adjust. Make your adjustment and click done!! It's that simple!!
If you are creating from scratch it's still easy!! In the tool box click on crop and adjust the blue lines to where you want them. Click done. Click on the picture again and you will see green lines. Move them in and out to make image smaller or larger! Be careful!! The lines will turn yellow which means warning going too far, orange and red mean nope, go back!! LOL Once you go past yellow the pictures will come out fuzzy becasue they have been over pixalated. Be careful about pictures from a secondary source ie..facebook. You will not be able ot make them as large as normal photos because you are getting them from a secondary source and they were uploaded to a smaller  dimension.

Do you want to know more???

In my next segment I will be teaching you about Design Structure, Object Placement and Journaling your story!!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Calender Templete

Hello friends,

Question for you... Do you make calenders for gifts ?? You know the ones of all your precious photos from the year before?? Well I have a treat for you!!
I created a templete for a 2011 11x8 1/2 calender. All you need is to drop photos in and journal!!
I have done all the work and you can take all the credit ! LOL


Check out this link here for the pictures of it! Let me know what you think and if you would like one!

Host a workshop and with as little as $200 in sales you could get one for FREE!!

Contact me today!!

Monday, November 1, 2010

November 1st!!

It's time for new specials and great deals for the Month of November!!

Contact me today!!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

October 26th Already!! Great Deals are about to Expire!!

The Holiday season is almost upon us! Don't get behind, order your holiday cards now and save!! Heritage Makers has a great sale going on for cards and invitations. Buy now ( by Oct. 31) and you don't have to publish until November!!
Also check out the Gotta Try It! promotion. Not only will you get publishing points for any project you want to work on but you get FREE Premier!!

Do you want to hold a workshop? Don't want to clean or tidy for the event..No worries..Hold your event in my home! All the prep work and clean up will be done by me! All you need to do is invite friends and come and enjoy what Heritage Makers has to offer you!!
Call or email me for more info and dates that are available!
I look forward to hearing from you!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Countdown has begun!!

4 days till Free Premier Weekend!!

Join us on October 14 to October 18th.

You can check out all the info here

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Exciting News from Heritage Makers!!

Heritage Makers will be hosting a FREE Premier Weekend from Oct. 14 to Oct. 17 !! This is a perfect opportunity to dabble with Premier and see why it is so awesome!!

Please note the following :

All projects created using Premier art during Free Premier Weekend must be published by Monday, October 18th at 12:00 noon MDT. After that time users will not be able to edit projects without a Premier account. Once the completed project has been published, it can be ordered at any time.

Contact me today to set up your Free Basic Account which you will need to access the Free Premier.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Hello October!!

I can't believe that the holiday season is almost upon us! So much to do before then, especially when you are a scrapbooker like me! I don't stress over Holiday gifts anymore...Do you want to know why?? I create custom, one of a kind treasures using Heritage Makers Studio! You can create your christmas cards, gift albums, calenders, and even beautiful canvases with a few clicks of your mouse! I would love to show you how..
Here is October's Pick of the Month. This is a great value!!

We also have a Publishing Special for the Holidays You should check out too!!


Why should you become a Personal Publishing Consultant ?? Check this out..


Contact me to help you set up your free account, schedule a workshop, or with any questions you may have!!

Friday, September 10, 2010

Are you looking for inexpensive Halloween and Thanksgiving decor ideas?

 I have just what you are looking for! Heritage Makers has some wonderful fall decorating ideas in the templete gallery that I want to show you!!

This is a blessing bucket and a blessing book. Each is a seperate project with all the directions included to make these wonderful keepsakes! 
These are 8x8 scrapbook pages that can be backed to almost anything to hang on the wall, used as a center piece, you are only limited to your creativity!

Looking for a cheap way to give a treat to your kid's class at school or your favorite trick or treaters?? These are playing cards!! You just punch 2 holes on one side of the card and slide the lolipop through! How easy is that??



This is an easy banner made from a deck of playing cards!! All you do is punch holes on both sides of the cards and tie ribbon to secure!


Here is another variation of the banner. This deck of cards comes with the banner, place cards and treat toppers.


Here are the place cards.

Here is our Boo Bucket! It's made from a 6x6 tile and adhered to a gallon paint can that you can find at any craft store..There are also halloween 12x12 scrapbook page templetes and invitations..

Another banner designed by one our very talented design team members!



These adorable blocks are made by a 12x12 templete cut out and adhered to wooden blocks. All the instructions needed for this project are included.

All the above projects are in the templete gallery and ready for you to put your personal touches to!
Contact me today to set up a free account and get started!

Kim
The Redhead Storykeeper
304-680-9763

Monday, September 6, 2010

Look what came in the mail!!

I am so in LOVE at the moment... The 12x12 post bound album that I created on Heritage Makers came today in the mail!! Look at this beauty..

It has a beautiful, glossy finish that can easily be wiped off..The colors are rich and vibrant, I just love it!!
Contact me today about making your own.

http://heritagemakers.com/462296
redheadstoryteller@gmail.com
304-680-9763

Friday, September 3, 2010

September's Heritage Makers Specials

Thinking of Christmas already?? Would you love to give something that is practical, made by you, and shows how much you care??
You are looking for this Month's special at Heritage Makers!! For the month of September you can purchase the 8.5 x 11 calender and 11 x 16 calenders for special prices..

8.5 x 11        Retail  Price $29.95        Sale Price $24.95     Club Premier  $22.95
11 x 16         Retail Price  $34.95        Sale Price $28.95     Club Premier $26.95


Not sure you want a calendar? When you purchase this offer you get the retail price in publishing points that can be used for any of our great products. Example: Purchase an 11 x 16 calendar for $28.95 and you get 34.95 in publishing points to use towards that calendar or any other project. 

Add Premier to your order!


Get a 12-month Club Premier membership and a pack of 5 greeting cards for just $99.95 Item code: 7562

Get a 12-month Club Premier membership and a 12 x 12 storybook for only $144.95 Item code: 7561

Save with Club Premier pricing all year long!


If you have any questions or would like to get started on your calender I can help you! Please email or call me

http://heritagemakers.com/462296
redheadedstorykeeper@gmail.com

304-680-9763

Have a great day!!

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Welcome!

I am so excited to be sharing my passion for preserving memories. I have been a traditional paper scrapper for 10 years now and am totally addicted to the craft. I will never give up paper!! But preserving your memories is not just paper or digital elements. Preserving memories are about putting your precious photos with a story to create a lasting memory. A memory that we can share for lifetimes to come. I am not just a scrapbooker, I am my family's story keeper.
I hope you decide to take this journey with me and become your family's story keeper. I will share with you just how easy it can be..