Monthly Archives: August 2010

Trim your Christmas tree with hipster glee this holiday season with these five retrolicious card designs. Unlimited options for greetings greatness means client will rock around the clock; and because we offer a bonus matching set of flat, square 5X5 cards for more traditional options, you’ll appeal to those decorated holiday hearths as well. Get groovy with our Mod Collection for photographers and wrap up special session moments for your clients this year.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

• 5 distinctive Christmas card template designs (front and back)

• Fully layered PSD templates for unlimited customization, including color changes

• Designed as 5×5 round card templates for easy printing/drilling by our preferred lab

• Bonus set of matching 5×5 flat square cards for a traditional square holiday card option

PRINTER DETAILS:

Design Aglow has an exclusive printing relationship with our printer for this product with our own custom, round die on 16 pt matte stock with hole drilling available at amazing prices for 2010.

Click here to get your own mod ornaments!

* Thanks to Fotographix Studios and Tonhya Kae Photography for the lovely images.

For a year of delicious dates at a glance, the Charming Calendar Collection delivers five fabulous designs for your clients. Perfect for everything from incentives to planning, because the months and days are fully layered and customizable, options are limitless for creating truly one of a kind keepsakes that will keep the days moving in style. Whether tailored to the event or to your studio, you’ll find this template an indispensable tool for keeping track of those special moments.

PERFECT FOR:
• holiday gifts for top clients
• a gift to vendors and those who refer you
• incentive for orders over $X
• custom order add-on
• baby’s first year
• wedding client planning

PRODUCT DETAILS:
• 5 distinctive designs (engagement, wedding, family, baby and kids)
• Fully layered PSDs for unlimited design customization, including color changes
• Months and days are fully layered and customizable (great for those outside the U.S., with different holidays and languages!)
• Delivered as adjustable 12.25 x 18.25 @ 300 dpi in size

Click here to check out the Charming Calendar Collection in the shop!

*Thanks to Wildflowers Photography for the lovely images.

The Design Aglow Complete Baby Plan

Combining professional wording with your artistic talent, the Design Aglow Baby Plan is a comprehensive studio package designed to make your baby business a huge success. Combining easily customizable text (including emails, website and brochure information), and all the beautiful templates you need to get your plan up and running immediately, you’re sure to increase your studio’s bottom line (and clientele) easily and effectively.

No detail is overlooked. Our package includes: a 16 page comprehensive Baby Plan Guide; simple steps for sales and marketing; 20 sure sell poses for beautiful maternity, newborn, and baby sessions; an 8 page marketing brochure template for print, email, or web; 3 beautifully designed art collage canvases to present to clients; coordinating, customizable items to offer at every stage; baby announcements; 11×14 image box template; baby’s first year 8×8 – 20 page press printed book template; baby plan client contract; pre-written emails to send at each stage; and a folded business/appointment reminder card.

You already photograph babies and families; why not offer an exclusive package to clients that documents important milestones and delivers for your business at the same time? Put this extensive, exclusive Design Aglow offering to work for you!

*sample images by Carrie Sandoval, mini posing guide by Marla Carter, business info by Laura Novak

The Complete Baby Plan is here. Get yours today right here!

Hot off the presses, these multipurpose cards will have clients and vendors singing the news. Regardless the reason or the season, bare the bling and add even more productivity to your business with these six newsworthy two-sided designs. And because you have unlimited customization, you can change everything, including the color, for all kinds of press pretty. Get the scoop on the latest fashion for your passion and see sales soar!

Perfect for birth announcements, event invitations, marketing materials, thank you notes, holiday cards, save the date cards and more!

PRODUCT DETAILS:
• 6 distinctive 5×7 flat card designs (front and back)
• Fully layered PSDs for unlimited customization, including color changes

Click here to check out the Trend Alert: Multipurpose Cards in the shop and get yours today.

*Thanks to Wildflowers Photography, Photobolic, Lisa Lucky Photography and Sarah D Harper for the lovely images.

Design Aglow is thrilled to bring you more fabulous and fun projects from Ashley Campbell.  Bring out your crafting supplies and prepare to be inspired!

From Ashley:

Well I am back with another tutorial on how to take your Design Aglow products to another level. This month I will focus on using the new Simple Gifts Collection and Tree Art Collection round holiday ornament cards with full sheet label paper. Hopefully these ideas will spark your creativity a bit and show you new ways to wow your clients.

The main component (other than the Design Aglow products) is Full Sheet Label paper. This type of paper can be purchased at most office supply stores.

The first project I’m going to share is super basic. The circle nature of the Simple Gift & Tree Art Collections just screamed “STICKERS” to me…did it you? I’ll call them “labels” because it sounds better, but we all now they are stickers. You can customize the templates however you’d like and save them the dimensions you want for the the final labels (I recommend 1 1/2 inch diameter).  Next create an 8.5×11 document full of your design and print. Finally, use a circle punch (can be found at craft stores, Target, Walmart) to cut each sticker. For an extra touch on envelopes you won’t be mailing, add a bit of baker’s twine.

For your business you could use the stickers on gifts for clients or even make some that match the Christmas cards they order and surprise your clients with unique labels to seal their holiday card envelopes.

The next option is to create the same size labels, but use them on customized notebooks. These could also be a gift for clients…maybe marketed as a special notebook to record who is getting Christmas cards this year.

Step 1: Supplies include Mod Podge, scrapbooking paper, your custom label, small composition notebook (and I included a paper doily)
Step 2: Cut scrapbooking paper to fit cover. Apply a thin coat of Mod Podge, then the scrapbooking paper.
Step 3: Decide the placement of your label and paper doily if you choose.

Step 4: Use spray adhesive to adhere the paper doily. Trim excess.
Step 5: Add your sticker then apply a light coat of Mod Podge over the entire cover for protection.
Step 6: Hot glue a ribbon to the inside cover as a little bookmark.

The next project is a customized tin. This type of tin can be purchased at craft stores for about $1.99. You could create a label that matches a client holiday ornament card and fill the tin with goodies as a gift given when they pick up their cards. You could also use this as a vendor gift to help build relationships inside and outside the industry.

Step 1: Measure the diameter of the tin’s lid. Create your label with a diameter just a bit smaller.
Step 2: Print your label (with the full sheet label paper you can do several projects on one sheet)
Step 3: Cut your label out. If you are doing a mass production of these you might want to find a circle punch for ease and accuracy.

Step 4: Adhere your label to the top of the tin.
Step 5: Embellish the sides of your tin. I opted for scrap fabric and baker’s twine (can you tell I love that stuff?)
Step 6: Fill the tin with treats!

And I’ll end with a something a little sweet…cupcake toppers!
Step 1: Using the same steps as the previous projects make your circle labels.
Step 2: Cut coordinating scrapbooking paper into matching circles. Place a toothpick in the middle and adhere your labels.
Step 3: Fast and easy…and you have a bunch of toppers.

If you are planning a studio open house or similar party these would be a cute addition to a display table highlighting your Holiday Ornament Collections. I used mine on National Cupcake Day to welcome back the teachers at my son’s school…you can never go wrong giving something sweet to a teacher!

So there you go…a few ideas to get your imagination sparked with new ways to take any of the versatile Design Aglow products to create something unique and personal!

As we all know, a beautiful blog is something no professional studio can be without. It is becoming more important every day to stand out from the crowd and really put on a show for potential clients. Your blog is one of the first things your client will see when choosing a photographer, so extra care should be put into every post to let your personality and unique style shine through.

Because most blog softwares don’t offer the level of layout creativity the average photographer needs, we have designed 15 stunning templates to make each blog post a little work of art.

The Simple Life collection is the perfect fusion of striking layout and a clean, simple look, suitable for any type of shoot. These boards will harmonize your blog design, keeping all your posts beautiful and consistent.

Create these simple beauties in Photoshop by using the included action to add images to the PSD template.  A bonus InDesign file is included.

Thanks to Tinywater Photography and Claire Alyse Photography for the lovely imagery.

Click here to check out the Blog Inspiration Boards: The Simple Life in the shop!