just my type

Today we have a vendor / guest post by Design Aglow. They’re announcing the release of the adorable new “You’re My Type” cards.

You’re My Type: Multipurpose Cards
Perfect match

Although pictures are worth a thousand words, it doesn’t hurt to use a few once in awhile! This set of multipurpose cards uses cutting edge typography in a variety of styles to let your loved ones keep track of your life’s milestones. To satisfy all your design needs, this set comes with six different and fully customizable designs that announce everything from your new bundle of joy to your high school graduation, to your engagement!

PERFECT FOR:
• Birth announcements
• Event invitations
• Marketing materials
• Thank you notes
• 5×7 note cards
• Holiday Cards
• Save the Date

PRODUCT DETAILS:
• 6 distinctive two sided designs
• Fully layered PSD files for unlimited customization, including color changes
• Designed using WHCC’s flat 5×7 card templates for easy printing
• Cards can be customized to be flat or folded
• Compatible with CS2 and newer, Photoshop Elements 6 and newer, Windows and Mac

Click here to check it out in the shop with special introductory pricing through May 5th!

P.S. If you are interested in advertising with Paperie Boutique, please contact todd @ this domain. If you are a photographer and are interested in having your packaging featured – or are a vendor and are interested in having your business packaging, marketing ideas, or photography-related products featured – please contact robyn @ this domain to be added to the posting schedule.

the entire package

A popular packaging vendor mentioned often by the posters at Paperie Boutique is Nashville Wraps. Today they join us for a guest post.

We at Nashville Wraps love the fact that so many great photographers use our packaging. For those who may not be familiar with us, we are the leader in eco-friendly gift and gourmet packaging. Most of our new designs are made from recycled materials and are branded under our Green Way® “Packaging with Purpose” brand for eco-friendly packaging.

Located just outside of Nashville in Hendersonville, TN, we’ve been in business since 1976 and supply packaging products to retail stores along with gourmet food, gift basket industry and to professionals like yourselves.

Our goal is to make your business and products look good to your customers and for your pictures. Nashville Wraps’ exclusive designer collections will keep you on trend and on budget. We can custom print your packaging like the cute Pink & Black Duets Bags for France Photography.

Photography customers love our merchandise bags, jewelry boxes and resealable cello bags for proofs, along with our acid free tissue paper.

We also offer a large selection of shopping bags, gift and gourmet boxes, gift wrap, ribbon and bows. From simple brown kraft paper to elegant gift shopping bags, we have it all. Most of our products are available in bulk carton quantity, small packs and assortments.

Nashville Wraps’ Green Way® line of eco-friendly packaging products are made from recycled, natural or sustainable. The Distant Village Collection features artisan crafted, sustainable packaging handmade from natural eco-friendly plant based materials.

We are honored to be featured on Paperie Boutique with so many followers and helpful resources for photography professionals. There are lots of great uses of NashvilleWraps product on the Paperie blog.

If you have images using Nashville Wraps product you would like featured on our Facebook or Flickr pages, please email them to me.

We love seeing your images and promoting your business!

Buffie Baril
Internet Advertising Manager
buffie@nashvillewraps.com
www.NashvilleWraps.com

Request your free Nashville Wraps catalog

“M” is for the many things…

Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching – so here’s a FREE gift you can have printed for your clients as a special ‘thank you‘. The template is 10×8″ and has an opening for a 7×5″ photo inside of the quote border. I recommend mounting the print to white styrene, using a fine-linen texture, and adding a UV lustre coating.

The inside image needs to be 7×5″ (2100×1500 pixels), 300 dpi.

You will see layers for the text border and quote (that cannot be changed), a texture layer, and another layer that you will hide after adding your image on top of it.

The pink background color can be changed with one click as shown in the Photoshop background color fill layer in the Layers Palette. (The light color of the texture layer cannot be changed but it can be hidden.)

→ download link ← (please note this file was designed in CS2 and you must have Photoshop or Elements and know how to edit a .psd layered file — I do not provide technical support for this download)




Last year I made two other FREE Mother’s Day gifts available. You can find the FREE downloads for those by clicking on the images below.

Happy printing!
-Robyn

All templates are ©Robyn Pollman, 2010-2011. All rights reserved. They may not be copied, resold, made available for download or given away elsewhere, or redistributed without my written permission.

we’re back, baby!

After a brief hiatus (our 15th wedding anniversary vacation to the Keys, a visit with my mom in from Oklahoma, Easter weekend with my boys, and shooting…shooting…and more shooting), I’m happy to say Paperie is online and running once again!

Today I’m joined by New York-based wedding photographer Jenny Ebert who has discovered the perfect answer to that very popular question from your clients: “Where can I purchase photo products online?”

Beautifully Simple Photo Products: Pinhole Press
by Jenny Ebert

As a wedding photographer, no detail is too small to be photographed because I know gorgeous detail shots and stunning portraits alike help to tell the story of the big day. It’s this same attention to the little things that are always on my mind: before the shoot, during the shoot, during post-production and even when my customers ask me where they should go to make photo products with their digital prints.

I’ve been oh-so reluctant to recommend any online vendor because the quality associated with these vendors has been questionable, but now I am so excited to have a brand I can confidently recommend to my clients: Pinhole Press!

The quality of the paper, the chic designs and the array of unique products are in line with my photography brand and I know I won’t have to worry about the integrity of my photographs in any of these products.

The best part about this new brand is that they recently launched a new online platform for photographers called Pinhole Pro. Pinhole Pro allows professional photographers the ability to make money off of the products our clients make. Now how does that sound? All you have to do is visit PinholePro.com to create a photographer’s code and you can start making money off of the products your clients make with YOUR photos.

The Panoramic Photo Book is quite lovely, and with the lay flat pages no member of the bridal party gets stuck in the crack!

What friend or family member wouldn’t want one of these? Your clients will find many uses for this Photo Pad – I promise!

This small Brag Book has the beautiful ability to tell the story of your client’s big day with just eight photos.

Your clients are going to be on the hunt for Thank You Cards and these cards say “Thank You” in a chic and memorable way.


One lucky Paperie reader will have the chance to win $100 worth of beautifully simple Pinhole Press products. All you have to do is sign up for Pinhole Pro (for free!) and then post a comment on Pinhole Pro’s Facebook page.



Thanks so much to Pinhole Pro for such a fantastic giveaway, and Jenny Ebert for her article! Good luck to our readers!

If you’re waiting for an e-mail from me, please be patient! Between Paperie, Buttons and Bows, and my freelance work, I’m trying to return to ‘business as normal‘ as quickly as possible. If you don’t get a reply in the next couple of days, please check in again and make sure I received your original communication. Thanks for your understanding and patience! -Robyn

Dear Intarwebs,

By the way, that note above is actually written in my own handwriting – if you’d like a copy of “the Robyn Pollman font“, you can find download information here.

P.S. If you are interested in advertising with Paperie Boutique, please contact todd @ this domain. If you are a photographer and are interested in having your packaging featured – or are a vendor and are interested in having your business packaging, marketing ideas, or photography-related products featured – please contact robyn @ this domain to be added to the posting schedule.

did someone say ‘big giveaway’?

Wow time really does fly, and here we are looking at our 1 Year Anniversary of being in business.

I am so excited to hit my 1 Year Milestone, that I decided to contact my favorite vendors so that I can reward someone else!

With the help of each vendor, This is ONE of the BIGGEST giveaways JYipp Photography has had. All the items donated total over $750! Who wouldn’t want to enter!

Paperie Boutique / Fit to Print are part of the fun so be sure to stop by and enter!

Other vendors include Holly McCaig Creative Brand, Baby P Designs, Rock the Shot, MadiLu Designs, Francypants Designs, Jamie Schultz Designs, and more! So head on over now…

Happy anniversary, Jamilla!

you can go back again

The digital edition of the April 2011 Professional Photographer Magazine is now online for digital subscribers.

For this month’s article, I reviewed all things retro by reVamp Vintage Clothing, Photojojo, The Impossible Film Project, Plustek, Kodak, Flourish by Nichole Van, and Lomography.com.

Click the magazine pages above for a larger .pdf version. You can find the article on page 70, page 72, and page 74 of the print-version when it hits mailboxes. And you can also download the digital edition now if you’re a PPA member or digital subscriber.




And I can’t forget to announce the winner of the cute little lion set from Fiber Arts by Boondock Studios…it’s…Blythe Crawford Photography!

Congrats to Blythe and thanks so much to Fiber Arts for the adorable prize!