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20 Free Holiday Cards

10.16.11

It’s that time of year again! Yes, I mean the holiday season. Some people start their holiday shopping and some of us (like me) bring out the Christmas carols. I wish I was one of those people sometimes, the ones that get it all done early and have their home decorated by Thanksgiving and every gift wrapped under the tree for a month! In the event of me trying to start early I started looking for holiday cards. I want to share some of the great sites I came across where you can add your own picture to a predesigned card and a few sites that offer psd templates for all you photographers out there offering holiday cards to your clients. I’m also sharing a few sites I found that offer some great freebies for the consumer and/or photographer. Who doesn’t love FREE?! I hope you find a few you like and if you have some more suggestions please share them in the comments!

P.S. I dabbled in some card template making myself. Check them out below.

Free Cards for Consumers (and Photographers):

5 Designs at The Wedding Chicks - You upload your picture and they will send you a completed card ready to print.

Cards for Consumer Purchase:

Minted

In a Baby Carriage (not just for baby cards)

tinyprints (not just for baby cards)

Shutterfly

Free Card Templates for Photographers or Photoshop users:

5 Designs at Shutterfly

5 Designs at Becky Higgins - Look at the right hand column and scroll down then you will see the holiday cards download.

1 Design at Simplicity Designs

Card Templates for Purchase:

Simplicity Designs - Love her photography and her designs are amazing!

Uniquely You Designs

Swiss Miss Design Haus

Art Is Design - A local photographer who creates beautiful work!

Photographer Cafe

And finally, here are four card templates for free download made by yours truly! They are completely customizable psd files. The links for each card are below and contain a file with the names of all the fonts used.

Happy Halloween Card - http://bit.ly/mkphall1

Trick or Treat Halloween Card - http://bit.ly/mkphall2

Red, Green, and White Christmas Card - http://bit.ly/mkpchri1

Snowflakes Christmas Card - http://bit.ly/mkpchr2

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A New Look

03.08.11

If you’ve been to my blog before I’m sure you’ve noticed I have changed the look a bit. I’m no graphic designer but until I can afford to invest in one I’m trying to tweak things here and there until I get a little closer to what I’d like my brand to look like. This is the very reason why I chose ProPhotoBlogs because you can change your blog as many times as you want. Who knows, you might see a totally new look next week.

Leave me some comments because I would love to hear what you think/feel about it.

Thanks,
Molly

Here’s one of many beautiful snapshots from the Winter Shootout, thrown by After Yes and Catie Ronquillo, that I was so fortunate to be able to attend. So many more pictures and vendors I can’t wait to share with you! I posted a few more on my facebook page so feel free to look around there too.

Bride: Prianna Staley / Flowers: Bows & Arrows / Hair: Ashley Bristo / Makeup: Something You… Makeup Artistry / Planning & Production: After Yes and Catie Ronquillo

You can also find me on Facebook and Twitter!

Happy Halloween!

10.31.10

So clearly I don’t call myself a blogger…yet. I haven’t made one post this month and I feel awful about it. It’s not like there hasn’t been anything going on to talk to you about, it’s actually the exact opposite. I’ve been bouncing around week to week it seems like.

I turned one year older earlier in the month and my family made a big deal of it for me. They made me feel special even though there is nothing special about 26. In my mind, all it means is that if rounded I would be thirty (the panic has set in). Besides my birthday, I’ve been traveling a lot this month. Almost every weekend Todd and I have been gone. We went to South Texas for his mom’s old church reunion. It was so much fun getting to meet more of Todd’s extended family and the church his parents were married in. Another weekend I headed “home” to clean out my old room. I didn’t realize that I take on hoarding tendencies sometimes. Woops. Goodbye 5th grade art work and physical chemistry notes. A red inked 100 or A+ is hard to get rid of okay. Of course I didn’t save the not-so-good grades.

In between the weekends I’ve been trying to balance my day job with my new budding business. I’ve been brainstorming marketing ideas that are little or no money (if you have any ideas please leave them in the comment box). Also, I’ve been working on my first wedding album. To be totally honest I’m just a little overwhelmed. I am learning InDesign and decided to go with Forbeyon for my albums. I love that they are local (made right in the big D) and have so many options for cover design and sizes.

Well I might have left out a few tidbits here and there but who really wants to know that I cleaned 5 loads of laundry in one day and haven’t worked out in a month. I promise I’ll get better at blogging if you can hang in there with me.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Molly

Here are a few snap shots using my Canon point-and-shoot. They aren’t as quality but like Chase Jarvis says, “The best camera is the one that’s with you” or something like that.

We make an odd couple. Todd was suppose to be Batman, but he had some costume malfunctions and went as G.I. Joe at the last minute.

Todd’s grandfather helped build this church 60 years ago.

A gorgeous country sunset.

At the 2010 Texas State Fair with Big Tex.

Fort Worth Portraits & Social Shoot with Bella Pop

08.31.10

The weekend before last Brandy and Brandon, of Bella Pop Photography, kindly invited me on a social shoot in the museum district of Fort Worth with about seven other photographers. I had a blast getting to know everyone there including Brandy and Brandon, of course. They were so nice and helpful answering questions and giving us a little bit of their background in the industry. They even had a friend of theirs, Merry Jett, come along and model for us. It’s so great to be able to just shoot for fun and find new inspiration and locations for future sessions. The Modern Art and Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth are great places to shoot senior, engagement and bridal portraits.

I really hope Brandy and Brandon continue to do the social shoots monthly, biannually or something because I had an amazing time with everyone. If you are interested in joining them (and me) on their next social shoot, subscribe to their newsletter and I’ll try to announce it on here as well.

Molly

Here are a few pictures from the shoot

Brandy, far right, helping some of the photogs.

Merry was so sweet and so much fun to photograph.

I probably couldn’t pull these off but Merry sure does.

I love her feather headband.

So beautiful.

My favorite photos of the day, hands down, are the next two.

Just amazing!

Trying to make some fun out of a parking garage. You have to get a little creative.

All of the pictures were taken on the grounds of the Modern Art Museum and Kimball Art Museum.

“These boots were made for walkin’…” Not sure if these were but they looked awesome.

This is a favorite too.

Thanks again to Merry for braving the 100 degree heat for us and Brandy and Brandon for hosting this fun social shoot.

Dallas SmugMug Meetup at the Tower Club

07.20.10

I heard about SmugMug through Jasmine Star‘s blog. She used to host the SmugMug group in Orange County and for a year I have wished I lived in California so I could attend a fun and free photography group. I loved the idea of a free (yes, I said free) meetup for local photographers to get to know each other and learn about photography. I am happy to announce Dallas finally has it’s own SmugMug group a couple of weeks ago they had the second meeting. There were almost 40 photographers in attendance, some professional and some hobbyist (all are invited). There was a small talk on metatagging by a SmugMug employee and then came what we were all waiting for, the “Trash the Dress” photo shoot. It was such a blast!

I meet some really friendly, talented photographers and got some great experience shooting at night with an on and off camera flash. If you want to join us for the next meetup go to the Dallas SmugMug Group homepage for information. Hope to see you there!

Molly

I have to say thank you to all the models and real life couple for allowing us to photograph them. We shot at a small park near the Thanksgiving Tower and it was a great location with lots to offer.