Doug's Heritage Album

These are some of the pages from the heritage album I made for my husband. This was truly a labor of love and took me a long time to finish. It is my first completed large project. I learned a few things as I was working on this. First off, you can edit the pre-designed pages to your heart's content. I would look through the designs of pictures and find a page that fit with the pictures I wanted to use on that page. Then I would change the background, elements, fonts, and quotes to make the page what I visualized. This cut down seriously on the amount of time I would spend working on each page... it seems for me that the hardest part of creating the page was getting the photos just right. Secondly, it is ok to leave off for a while and then go back. When I got impatient and just wanted it to be done, I often found myself re-doing those pages next time I sat down to work on it. I learned to take some time and if necessary stop for a while. And finally, this is truly a relaxing outlet. Letting myself enjoy the time looking through pictures and working with them has given me a great way to cope with stress from the outside world. I can sit down with a glass of Diet Pepsi and just immerse myself into my project.


I ordered this as an 8X8 album. I chose the customized cover with photo window in soft cover and I ended up with 31 pages.

This is the Front and Back of the Cover:

These are an assortment of pages from his book: