School memories can be expensive! Don't let them!

One of my facebook friends just expressed her frustration on her wall about how expensive is to order school photo packages, even the most basic one can cost more than $30.
My thought on this is " ARE YOU CRAZY?"
I think that anyone can take beautiful pictures of their kids with their digital camera, and still create wonderful school keepsakes without having to deplete their bank account!
Use that money to pay for college!;)
You can make a cute scrapbook page for less than $5, and it is much more meaningful than a picture taken from someone that doesn't even know your kid!
If you look on my website, and search in the template gallery for the keyword "school", or  "elementary", or "yearbook" you will find lots of easy to use templates to create your very own school keepsake.
These are some of my favorites:
1st day:

 Template ID: 56459

Template ID: 513

Template ID: 40566
Aren't these just perfect to record their very 1st day?
Party pages:

Template ID: 56460
Perfect to help your kid remember the fun he/she had at school!

School picture:

Template ID: 25743

  ABC page:

Template ID: 358

Last day of school:

Template ID: 62656

 All these scrappages can be preserved in a beautiful post bound album. 

 Template ID: 64407

Template ID: 56458

Template ID: 39864

Template ID: 38561

Template ID: 37978
You can make one for each kid, or one for all, you choose!

You can also have fun creating a whole yearbook, especially if you have many photos.
You can ask for more pictures to the teachers, room moms, other parents that might have been there for parties and field trips etc.
Here are a few examples:
(Click on the cover picture to see the whole yearbook)


Pre-K:

 A few pages inside:

Template ID: 20984

Elementary school:

Template ID: 20893

1st grade: 

 

2nd grade:

Grad year:

 Middle school:

 A couple of pages inside:

Template ID: 21175

 Thanks to the new import page feature, these books can be printed in 5x5, 8x8 or 12x12 sizes, no matter what size the template was originally created for! You can also mix and match your favorite pages from any template and transform them in another yearbook or single scrap pages.

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Family pedigree heart

I have been thinking of different ways to display a family pedigree, and while I have created quite a few different family trees, I really wanted something different.
This Family pedigree heart came to me from the constant thought that Family and Genealogy is about Love.
It is composed of leaves and has pictures and names of a person's ancestors with such person at the bottom:

Here is a 5 generations version with a darker background:

 This is also how it will look if used as a Magnetic Family Tree background once the picture magnets are on it.
I think it would look cute even as the cover for a 5x5 greeting card.

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Genealogy subway Art

Subway art seems to be something more and more people are looking for nowadays,  so I thought I, "How about a Genealogy one?". I looked everywhere online, and I couldn't find one so I thought of a few words that describe Genealogy, and put them together in my very own Genealogy subway art:

I started playing with it and changed text colors and background. Here is a few more:

I think that green and brown work great here because they recall the colors of a tree.
It would look really good framed too:

Here is a couple more version of my genealogy subway art:

This can be printed on 8x8 or 12x12 pages and framed as you pleased or modged podged on tile or wood.
It would be the perfect gift for the genealogist and family historian in your life.
How about printing it on a 8x8 canvas? Even better a 12x12 or a 20x20 Canvas : it will be just perfect in your home!
As you can tell, the possibilities are endless!

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My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

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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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My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

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Christmas (Family) Tree card

With greeting cards going on sale in November, now is time to work on Christmas cards.
I love the ones that have a Christmas Tree, even better when the Christmas Tree is a Family tree!
To save myself some time, I found a Christmas tree card Template in the Template Gallery and made it suit to my needs:

I wanted to make it more mine, so I changed something here and there:

Now, this is cute, and it can be done in BASIC, but I really like Premiere embellishments, so here is another version of it:

Now, this was so cute that I had to make a folded greeting card with it, so I imported this project in a 5x5 greeting card.
Here is the result:

Now, this is sweeet! I think that the idea of putting the names on the Christmas tree on the back really adds to the genealogy aspect of it.
I went ahead and published this one and I decided to choose the pearl paper option on this: I must say, it is really shiny!^_^

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My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

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3 generations baby announcement

Babies are new leaves on your family tree, so why not announce their arrival with a genealogy related card?
Here is an example:

These cards can be created with any kind of background, and if desired, even a little family pedigree could be added on any of the other sides of the card.
If something looks familiar, you are right, I imported the front of the card from the 3 generations baby keepsake I created a few months ago, and then added coordinated embellishments and background in the inside and back of the card.
It is just that easy!

This announcement can be kept as is or even framed, or you could modge podge it on a 5x5 tile to display in your baby's room.

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You can get a free Publishing account by signing up at http://www.preservemyheritage.com and start creating unlimited projects at once!
Love my Creative Genealogy templates and ideas? 

My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

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Advent Calendar Family tree Christmas Card

After creating the advent The advent Calendar Family tree, I thought it would be cute to have a portable version of it, so I couldn't help, but create a Greeting card using the import feature.
It was really fast and fun, plus I decided to also create the back of the house in the back of the card. It took a couple of copy and paste, and a few little touches, and it was done!

Isn't it cute? The kid (or grown up!) that will receive this can choose to keep it as is, or have fun cutting the little windows and play with them the whole Christmas season!
How  cute is that?^_^

So cute that I have already published it and ordered it!

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You can get a free Publishing account by signing up at http://www.preservemyheritage.com and start creating unlimited projects at once!
Love my Creative Genealogy templates and ideas? 

My HM club members can have their favorite template transferred to their account for personal use, or  can have it completely personalized by me for them  for a reasonable fee.

Want more for less? Check out our incredible host rewards and My Club HM!

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Planning an unforgettable Family Reunion

Are you going to have a Family Reunion this year? Next Summer?
You really need to plan it right.
I shared some of my ideas for your family reunion here, but it never hurts to have more!

Here is just a few more ideas from HM:

 

 

 

I really appreciate how HM has put this class together, you can watch it here:

At the Family Reunion

This is one of many online classes to help you use the Studio software in its full potential. 

If you log into your Studio account, you will find a link to all the free classes available.

Stay tuned for  more ideas that will help you make sure that your Family Reunion is just a blast!