christmas cards

Design Your Own Cox Christmas Cards + Print at Wholesale Cost Too

It’s Christmas and we all love sending out Christmas cards to our friends and family using updated portraits. Now you can design your own cards online using your Bry Cox retouched portraits, and get them at wholesale cost too.

Choose from lots of options, sizes, foil embossing, even creative envelopes. You can even order in quantities of 5 after the first 25 cards.

Everything is beautifully printed, and you can control the overall design and color scheme to match your style.

How to Get Your Cards Going?

First, let me know you’d like to order cards, and I’ll set you up with your own online store using the retouched images from your last photo shoot. I’ll then send you your own web link.

Click that link and your store will open up and look like this. You’ll see images from your shoot along the top, and below that, lots of designs to choose from. You can even sort the designs down by Card Type, Foil, Photo Count, and Shape.

Customize Front, Back, and Envelope

When you find a design you like, click it and customize it. In the customization mode, you’ll see 3 sections at the top of the screen: Front, Back, and Envelope. Make sure you go through all three sections and choose all the options you’d like for each, shown down the right side.

Drag your portrait into the card’s design, choose card colors, layouts, shapes, etc.

On the back of the card, you have more options too. In this example, we did the same photograph on the front and back, but with different layouts and text. We also choose a shape that makes this into a Christmas tree ornament.

Then on the envelope section you can choose blank or custom envelopes. There are lots of colors and designs here to make the envelope more fun to get.

Review and Check Out

When you like everything, review your choices, and check out. That’s it!

So if you’d like some beautiful new Christmas cards this year from your latest shoot, give me a call and I’ll get a store set up for you.

And until next time, America.

Bry Cox Christmas Portrait & Christmas Cards

Now that my new Christmas cards are printed and ready to go in people’s orders, I can share the new photo and design. It was all created digitally starting first with a self portrait shot here in my studio (fired by remote using my hidden hand). The original background I created was all shades of white snowflakes, but I decided I needed a bit more color and punch, and changed it to this current blue background.

And because the background was made from scratch and took some time to make, I also used it for a recent commercial shoot for Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand shown in the previous post. Anyway, here is the final portrait and design.

brycox_christmascard_001

For the printed cards, the text, ‘Merry Christmas’ is stamped into the card in reflective gold foil. I really love how they turned out, and they’re on a very nice watercolor paper too so they have a great feel. I’m excited for clients and friends to start getting these cards.

brycox_christmascard_002

And you’ll notice too if you go to my main website front page, that the opening image is also this new portrait wishing visitors a Merry Christmas.

brycox_christmascard_003

And here is how I adapted the image and design for my various Facebook page banners showing that with one commercial photo, there are many uses.

brycox_christmascard_004

If you need a great commercial image or portrait for your company, give me a call at 801-728-3317. Being winter in Utah, it’s a great time for studio work which is perfect for high-end commercial shoots.

And of course I hope everyone has a wonderful and Merry Christmas.

Until next time, America.

Free Christmas Cards & Fun Ornaments and Gifts

It’s time to order Christmas cards, and for the next while any wall portrait includes free Christmas cards. Get any wall size (like a 16×20 or larger) and get 25 free custom cards designed using a photo from your shoot.

Photography I believe is one of the absolute best gift ideas. A photo of a loved one is cherished for years, and I have some fun ornaments and gift ideas that you’ll love. You may want to get some of these for yourself as well as for loved ones, like these fun Christmas ornaments.

brycox_photochristmasornaments_01

These first type of ornaments are printed on metal and are great for children or family portraits. They are $45, or free with qualifying portrait orders.

My second type of ornaments are small boutique framed images, ready to hang with a brown twine loop. These are great for your tree but also are good all year round, hanging on a wall. These are $69, or free with qualifying portrait orders.

BryCox_ornaments

Call me at 801-728-3317 and I’ll get your order going. We can use images from past shoots or current shoots, and I can also ship orders directly to you too.

 

Governor’s Family Portraits

Christmas is almost here and it’s a great chance to spend time with families. It’s also a great time of year for family portraits while everyone is together, and this year I was honored to create the Governor’s family portraits and Christmas cards. It was a huge project as it also included designing and printing thousands of cards, as well as mailing them all out. Every day for a couple weeks I was working on this job to make it all come together, look great, and hit mailboxes on time.

I really love how it all turned out. I’ve had many clients that were on the Governor’s mailing list already comment to me about how great everything looked and how fun it was to get it. Here is the opening portrait on the card.

Cox_Herbert-2014-177-Card

I really work hard to make photo shoots quick, fun, and painless. It was nice to hear afterwards that they felt it was the fastest and easiest shoot they had done. Once I get everyone positioned and the lighting just right, I have a very goofy routine that mesmerizes the kids. I shoot what I need, but I don’t wear people out by shooting a ton. When I know we’ve got it, I move on so that expressions don’t get stale and people can get back to their lives.

I really love this big group portrait below. The Herbert family is a very nice and wonderfully big family with a lot of cute, little grandkids. The lighting in this area had to be just right so that the background wouldn’t be dark and black, but instead would be a nice medium warm tone that accentuated but didn’t distract – while at the same time making sure the faces on everyone was dimensional, even, and created great skin tones.

© BryCox.com, Bry Cox

For the card, I cropped it down to a long panorama that you see when you fold open the card.

Cox_Herbert-2014-109-Card1

And usually on the back of cards I just do my logo, but we added this cute group portrait of all the grandkids. There are a lot of great expressions in these cute faces.

Cox_Herbert-2014-115-Card

Of course we also photographed individual families too while I was there.

Cox_Herbert-2014-families

I really think it turned out great. It’s also been fun to hear from various clients of mine that have received the card. For instance, here is a sweet mention on Instagram from one of my good clients and friends Shauna Lake of KUTV news. She posted this when she got her card.

Cox_Herbert-2014-007

Well I hope everyone has a great Christmas and can spend time with family. If you need some great family portraits while people are in town, let me know. 801-728-3317.

And make sure you check out ideas on my main website too, at BryCox.com. Merry Christmas and until next time, America.

November Family Portrait Special

November is here, and it’s time for family portraits! Most people mean to do them and then forget until December hits, then they are trying to get in, rush their Christmas cards and orders to have everything back in time.

Well beat the rush, schedule right now, and get a free session at the studio, outside or inside ($200 value) and 25 free folding Christmas cards and envelopes ($95 value), when you purchase any size wall portrait or framed wall collage (which range in price from $290 and up).

Be rewarded with discounts and free cards by coming in now, and relax when December hits knowing that your cards are ready go and your gifts for family are done.

BryCox-November-Family-Special-700p

Portraits make great gifts for your family and loved ones, and we can even do some location images too if you’d like. Sessions at the studio inside or out are free with this promotion, but location shoots are also possible for $200 off. Give me a call to schedule your time at 801-728-3317.

Here’s an example of some outdoor portraits I did of my sister’s family. See more from her shoot by viewing yesterday’s post here.

Cox_J-F-1505b

Until next time, America.