What is Club HM?

CLUB HM is an amazing monthly publishing club (you don't HAVE to publish every month -- you can save up your publishing points for bigger projects) that is offered by Heritage Makers.

There are several bonuses to being a CLUB HM Member:

• get points monthly at wholesale (25-34% off)
• FREE Premier account ($20 monthly value)
• 4000+ pre-designed templates (full customizable)
• 50,000+ pieces of digital art
• unlimited photo storage space
• FREE project upgrades (things like black end papers, matte finish or UV coating on scrapbook pages = great for dry-erase boards)
• signup special of 100 additional points for only $50
• monthly additional publishing discounts
• online idea claees adn club community on Facebook
• fun contests, great prizes and more!

What does it cost to be a Club HM Member*?

There are 3 "plans" available for Club:

• Bronze - 40 points + FREE Premier for $30
• Silver - 70 points + FREE Premier for $50
• Gold - 150 points + FREE Premier for $100

*There is a minimum 3-month commitment. Point plans renew on the 5th or 20th of the following month. You can cancel anytime online.

What if I need more points?

• Additional points can be purchased through your consultant at a discount -- even with a Basic Account

What does the Basic Account offer?

• access to HM's online Studio system
• purchase points as you go at up to 15% off
• 500+ pre-designed templates (totally customizable)
• 2000+ pieces of digital art
• 2 GB of storage space
• Add Premier benifits for 1, 3 or 12 months for a fee
• Package Options = 55 points for $50 or 120 points for $100

What else does Heritage Makers offer?

• Free online Tutorials and Webinars - these are absolutely great for learning how you can get the most out of your Studio
• The Master Classes (the name is going to change) - learn from some of the best in the business how to create stunning projects
• The ability to pull your pictures back off your account in high resolution for free
• Photo sharing abilities (email your pictures to a friend)
• Photo Scanning - We have LOCAL consultants who can scan pictures for as low as 19¢-30¢ (on bulk orders), quickly with basic touchups
• New Studio Art added on a regular basis -- as if 50,000+ pieces isn't enough already!!
• The Facebook group has some stunning projects posted -- most will share to your account if you ask nicely -- this is in addition to the HM Template Gallery

My First Post

Digital Publishing is taking the country by storm!! Everyone has a story to tell (or they could/should)!

If you are like me, you probably have thousands of pictures (hubby, kids, dogs, sheep, llamas, pony, relatives -- hey I live on a farm & we have lots of animals!!) that are on the hard-drive of my computer. I have also saved my pics to discs that I have away from my house (just in case of fire you know) and will often send "extra" copies of the files out to relatives. Do I ever take the time to actually open these files? Not hardly ever!! So they just sit there.

I recently found a great company called Heritage Makers. One of my friends was going to a Workshop and invited me along. I am in the midst of writing a couple of Family History Books and went online to check them out. What I saw made be stop and take another look. They had templates for full-color books of various sizes that dealt just with preserving your family history!! and at a fraction of the cost that I could home-publish for if I wanted full-colour pages. Just one of the things that I liked was that I could customize every little element on the page if I wanted to! I had never found this with any of the other publishing options that I had explored. What really floored me though was the HUGE amount of artwork that was available -- over 50,000+ pieces with a Premier membership and over 2,000+ with the Basic membership. I was hooked! The UNLIMITED PHOTO STORAGE that I gained with my Premier account didn't hurt either! That saved me some money from what I was paying for online photo storage.

I actually liked it so much that I signed up to be a Consultant. I wanted to share this great way to showcase photos with others. I found that through the projects that I have made for my own kids that I can make a difference in their lives -- sounds kind of trite but they delight in seeing themselves in actual books that are hardcover, archival quality (acid- and lignin-free) with stitch-reinforced binding. These are professional looking books.

And it's not just books that we are creating:

• Wrapped Canvases - I've done an Ancestor series, Family trees, and one of my brother's two dogs
• Greeting Cards - for Christmas, Valentines's Day, St Patrick's Day, New Baby Greetin Card
• 18x24 Posters - a couple for the kids for Christmas showcasing THEM
• Scrapbook Pages - 12x12, 8x8 and 11x8.5 -- to put in the various albums that I've already gifted people with -- goes a lot quicker than the cut-and-paste ones!! also I have been creating pages to use for making ceramic tiles that I am selling at local Farmers Markets
• Playing cards -- we used them as class Valentines and the kids gave them out as wallet pics and trader cards
• Calendars -- we are currently putting together a puppy calendar for a friend with a pet store

I really can't say enough good things aabout this amazing company and their wonderful products. One of the things that they tell us is the "feeling" that you get when a new parcel arrives. I thought that this was kind of hokey but I am still feeling this "feeling" after 5 months of them arriving!!