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Couture Albums: Flushmount Style

I’ll bet my DHL delivery man had never seen a customer so excited to see him as I was.  Some days, it’s like Christmas every day here between albums, prints, equipment, and periphery that gets delivered.  I probably scared the beans out of my DHL courier when I opened the door and squealed like a little girl on Christmas morning.  This delivery was a new sample from one of my fantastic 2007 weddings.  I loved the details from Casey and Suzi’s celebration, and couldn’t help making a huge sample book because their church had cornflower blue walls.  Seriously, I’m a sucker for good wall paint (if you’ve been to visit me, you’ll remember that my walls are a dusty blue!  I should post pictures of that for my cross country readers and my cross the world readers, you know who you are!!!)  So anyway, here it is!  These albums come all the way from New Zealand from Queensberry & Co., and are of course custom designed and handmade.  For this 12×15″ album, I chose a green leather and the new photo front to pick up on the shades in the bouquet.  The pages are flushmount, meaning that the entire page and all of it’s image is one continuous print, but my Couture Albums are also available with custom cut mats for a more heirloom and timeless look (like HERE).  I included one great fold out page, and did lots of full page spreads, and even had a couple of panoramic image spreads, too.dsc_0214.jpgdsc_0217.jpgdsc_0224.jpgdsc_0227.jpgdsc_0234.jpg 

Fine Art Albums

This season is a great time to get caught up on all of those rainy day projects- not because you normally wouldn’t do them unless it is raining, but because you aren’t shooting because it is raining, giving you actual, non-interrupted time to do production work. Here are some great albums that we’ve designed in the last two months. These are the handmade Fine Art Albums- each real photographic print is mounted on heavy card stock pages, a throw back to the vintage wedding albums of our grandparents (minus the photo corners).

First, a large album for Matt and Mary’s parents. Since Matt’s parents were local (everyone else is out of state!), they came to me and we had a little design meeting, picking their favorite images, navy blue for the cover, and a text tile. It’s 12×12″ and each page has a different layout depending on how the day was unfolding at that moment.

Next was Molly’s 8×8″ belly album. This is volume one, the second one will be a larger one of baby Miles (post to come on that one!). The cover fabric is my favorite one offered (greeeeeen!), with an image trio. Each page holds one 5×7 print.

The last Fine Art Album was for Danny and Bria’s wedding album. It’s a 12×12″ album in a shiny black animal-friendly leather, with an image title trio. This one also shows the vellum title page that starts the story.