Family Tree

I started with this brand new collection (that I love by the way)

Did you know that the premier art membership is $30 for 3 months for the fall?  What an amazing price for over 40,000 pieces of art.  YEAH for Heritage Makers!!!

Here's the poster I just made.  It is a 12×18 poster and took about 15 minutes…

Of course I just did the easy part, I need to make sure I have all the picture.  I am pretty sure I do they are all in different places though, so I need to do a little searching.  This family tree takes us back to my kids great-great grandparents.  What I'll do is insert names and faces for each place holder, then I'll make 12×12 page of just faces and decoupage those to tile.  I will put a magnet on the back of each 1×1 tile.  Also, this poster I just made I'll put in a frame with sheet metal, so that everything will stick together.  It will look something like this:

Then my kids can move the magnetized tiles around and learn about their heritage.  I may just use these for Christmas gifts as well…shhhh

 

New posters for my girls room

These are both 18×24 posters for above beds in my girls' rooms.  They should be here any day now…we are all so excited!

 

Favorite Tips and Tricks…

• I love the Ctrl and drag to replace backgrounds/pictures etc and
  still keep the same size and formatting. You can drag from either the
  bottom area or from the trash can. I don’t know what I’d do without this!
• If you want to take off the constrain proportions for a
  background, hold down the shift key while you drag the corner arrow in,
  and you can shape it other than rectangle. (Don’t do this on pictures, PLEASE!)
• Have you
  rounded corners at all? select a background, or picture and type in
  360 in the round corners box. It will be a circle. For a gentle
  rounding, try 10.
• Drop shadow. My favorite numbers are 4 for the distance and 83 for the intensity.
• Last
  but not least…copy formatting from one object to another. Select
  what you want to copy and press Ctrl + C. Then select what you want to
  paste to, right click and select paste format. This makes it quick to
  copy drop shadow, rounding, etc from one item to another.

 

I teach ONLINE digital storybooking/scrapbooking classes

My classes are free, and I only take up to six people at a time so that everyone can have close personal attention.  Collect some of your favorite friends and family and contact me to schedule.  I will teach you how to do what I do.  You will LOVE it! 

My classes cover: 

• Your PHOTOS and your STORIES and the magic that comes when the two are combined. 

• EIGHT steps to a published project on your doorstep.
• The FASTEST ways to use our publishing system.
• How to use TEMPLATES
• and any other questions you have.
• My goal is to inspire you to tell the stories behind your photos, and give you the very best tools to make that happen. 
• I also offer customized classes in digital scrapbooking, writing your love story, quick and easy gifts, and much more.  Just ask! 

I look forward to hearing from you!

Julie