I am a child of God

I am a child of God, and he has sent me here, has given me an earthly home with parents kind and dear...
I just love this hymn, and so do my children.
It can be appreciated at any age, as it is my belief that we are all indeed children of our Father in Heaven.
I love it so much that I have been captured for a few hours playing with my kids pictures and some of my friend's little girl pictures, around those beautiful words.
Here is the fruit of my work:

Before I show you more, I need to shout a huge THANK YOU to my good friend Becki that has allowed me to use the beautiful pictures she has taken of her gorgeous little girl for these projects, as my boys really wouldn't look so good in "pink";).
Now we can continue...

These can be printed on a 5x7 or 4x6 as birth announcement, or framed and hung in the nursery.

(isn't she just adorable? You can understand why I couldn't stop making more and more of these!)
I also decided to make them in Italian:

 but then I was like "Why not in Spanish?"

 and then French seemed just perfect for this one:

These are so cute they would look stunning on a canvas too!
Ok, I will stop (for now)^_^
Thinking of someone you would love to give these to as a gift? I can help!

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6 generations typographic family tree

I have been having request about family trees with just names, so I have been getting ideas by looking around, and among a few ones, I really liked the simplicity and classy fee of the typography family chart by Jill Means design.
I decided to make my own version, and let me tell you, it does take quite some time to make it, but I am pretty satisfied of the result.
I used Photoshop elements, then made a JPEG page that I am going to upload on my website to have then printed. I could print it at home, but I really like the archival quality of the prints I get when ordering from Heritage Makers.This Family tree chart can be used as a baby gift, or birthday gift or for any other occasion, and allows you to list up to 6 generations:

This would look great on a 18x24 poster or canvas, but also a 16x20 canvas or 11x14 poster, or 5x7 announcement. 
This is how it would look for a girl:

Here is a possible wedding one:

It can be really made in any color.
If you don't have 6 generations yet, this chart can be brought down to a 5 or 4 generations on a 12x12 page or canvas or also a 20x20 or 18x18 canvas.

So, no need for pictures, you can have a beautiful 6, 5 or 4  generations family tree just like this ones! Just give me a shout if you want to know how!

Please note that due to the nature of names, this is a special project and needs to be adjusted according to the names length, thus I cannot really provide a easy to use template, so I will have to create it for you.

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Calendar idea: Baby's first year

Calendars are very useful as they are, but they are even better when they have extra purpose. One cute idea is to use them to display your baby's 1st year. This way you can then frame the pictures after the year is gone, and/or preserve them in a scrapbook album.

 This could be used also to write down all of the baby's milestones, or for any other purpose you might think.
I have noticed that somebody has already had this idea , in fact they already submitted a template to the Template Gallery:

The colors really don't match my baby's personality, so I am making a total new one, which is also an 11x16 calendar.

As you can see the one I am creating for my baby is has the 3 generation page as cover, just so that even that can be framed!

Most of the pages I am creating completely from scratch, or like the cover, I am importing one of my previous projects and modifying it to fit the calendar pages.
For the month of March I have imported a project that seemed just perfect for the month and my baby, and this was the final result:

 I am loving going through my baby's first year pictures, he has grown so much!

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Matching address labels

Just in case you thought that the genealogy related greeting cards I created were not enough, you can add something more.
Drum-roll :) matching address labels!
Let's see if you can guess which card these labels match:

With a simple import you can get the whole front of any of the  cards you are thinking to create,  on the address label, resize it to fit, and then add the address, et voila'!
You can also just have one or two embellishment from the card, if you don't want too much detail, and it will be just as cute!

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3 generations baby keepsake

I am so in love with my baby that when I realized that I hadn't created something that was just for him yet, I had to make the time to do it.
I wanted to have some sort of family tree that was especially for newborn, and at the same time I wanted to have a picture big enough that I could frame it and hang it on the wall and know that it was him without having to look close.
This is what I created for him:

I am probably going to make similar pages for all my other children, I think they will really cherish it, and so will their children, and grandchildren...
I also think that this would be a really cute gift for a new mom, instead of the usual diapers and clothes, how about something that they will keep forever?
Being a 3 generations one, it is going to be pretty easy to collect the pictures and create this page.
It can be framed, or even modge podged on a 12x12 tile, or a wooden square...
This would be cute also on canvas!
Oh boy... New ideas are coming as I write!
I guess you will see them soon!

A little patience...

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I'm back!

Did you miss me?
Well, I missed posting on the blog too, but my family needed my complete attention, so I had to take a long break.
I am returning with a good news: our family welcomed our 4th boy on December 2nd. His name is Mattia and he is just an angel!

This was my most difficult pregnancy yet, but it was worth it!
I am now much better, so I got back to work, and I will have a new idea for you in the next post.

I won't be posting regularly since life with 4 kids is more hectic than I could imagine, and if you add doing genealogy research, being a personal publisher and storybook designer, you can figure out that my spare time is almost non existing!

I do have many ideas though, and will find the time to put them together, hopefully before the  NE family history conference in March, where I will be teaching on Italian genealogy and creative genealogy/family history.

Ok, I need to keep this short, or I won't be able to share my new project!

Thank you for visiting!

Use Canvas to decorate your child's room

You want your child room to be as special as he/she is...
You can choose to go to a store and buy some generic room decor, or you can spend hours and create your own personalized room decor, or you can save yourself time and money and go for the wonderful 8x8 and 20x8 canvases you can easily create with the HM Studio editor.
This is what I just found in the template gallery:

Aren't they adorable? You can swap any of the animals with the one you like, change the background colors to match your child's bedroom colors, you get the idea!

I also like using a 20x8 canvas to display the child name, like in this template:

and if you like you can personalize these canvases with tour child's picture:

Your child's room will be like no other and you will be sure you will have made him/her feel oh so special!
So, have I tickled your imagination?
You can create canvases like this for your child and also save money by contacting me and taking advantage of this month offer on 8x8 and 20x8 canvases, so don't wait! You can get the canvas(es) credit now, and then create it whenever you feel like it, since credits last at least 1 year!