Spink Studio · The Blog

I am so excited to say that our brand new website is finally up! With my old photography site being a year old and my design site being almost three years old, it was time for an update!

This new site looks more like our blog and marketing material and everything is in ONE site! You can look at my photos, my designs and you can even purchase products online! Love it!

Also, click on Behind the Scenes to watch a video of me in action. This video was done for me by the talented Nathan Dillow and my logo animation at the end was done by Lane Oliver. They are AWESOME!

Click around and let me know what you think!

And don’t forget, we are having our biggest promotion ever! We still have dates available for 2010 and we are already booking weddings into 2011! For any brides, if you book Spink Studio for your wedding before January 31, you will receive $500 off ANY of our wedding packages! Contact us with your wedding details so we can create the perfect package for you!

Congratulations to Katrina, the 25th commenter who has won custom designed Christmas cards printed on gorgeous pearl finish 5×7 cards!

Thanks to everyone who entered! It’s not too late to get your Christmas cards ordered!

Last chance for you to enter to win 50 FREE custom designed Christmas cards! They will be custom designed by me to match whatever photos you want on them and they will be printed 5×7 on both sides and shipped directly to you, ready to mail! This is a $150 VALUE!

Want to win? Here is how to enter the contest: You must do one or more of the following. For each thing you do, leave a separate comment below stating what you did and you will be entered that many times into the drawing. So you will have between 1-5 comments below depending on how many items you complete.

1. Post the link about this contest on your blog.
2. Post the link about this contest on your Facebook and/or Twitter.
3. Become a fan of Spink Studio on Facebook AND send an invite to ALL your friends inviting them to be a fan of Spink Studio.
4. Subscribe to the Spink Studio blog in your Google Reader or other blog reader.
5. Tell an engaged friend that doesn’t have a wedding photographer about Spink Studio.

Comments must be submitted before 11:59PM CST on Saturday, December 5. Drawing will take place on Sunday, December 6!

Want to go ahead and get your cards ordered? Contact me for pricing details. Clients who use their Spink Studio photographs will get 10% off their holiday cards. If you win the contest, you can order more cards or use the $150 towards your custom order.

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It’s November, which means it’s time to get your family photos done for the holidays! We are offering Holiday Mini Sessions in Midland on exclusive dates up until December 15 and this year they include Christmas cards! This session includes:

30 Minute On-Location Photo Session
Online Ordering Gallery of Images
50 Custom Designed 5×7 Flat Pearl Finish Christmas Cards (can be upgraded to bigger or used as a print credit)

PRICE: $350

Contact us to book your holiday session. Your session will be on-location and all your images will be put into an online ordering gallery. We will then design a custom Christmas card to match your session and style. These cards are printed on GORGEOUS pearl shimmer cardstock and include envelopes. Everyone is sure to love and keep them this season! Click on Contact above to reserve your session.

Did we already take your photos?
SAVE 10% OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD ORDER WHEN YOU USE YOUR SPINK STUDIO SESSION OR WEDDING PHOTOS!

1. {FEATURE ON SOUTHERN WEDDINGS} The highlight of my week was getting my first feature on the Southern Weddings Blog! Franki + Max’s awesome Las Vegas wedding was featured because of all their awesome details! It was a super fun wedding to photograph and I am so happy it was featured! Go check out the post!

2. {STEPHANIE’S WEDDING INVITATIONS} Congratulations to my client, Stephanie who was just recently married! I had the pleasure of designing her wedding collateral starting with her save the dates to wedding monogram to invitations to programs! They worked perfectly with her totally classy wedding. She was so easy to work with and was super detailed which made my life easy. Stephanie is starting her own wedding planning business, so if you need a planner in the Dallas area, just let me know and I’ll hook you up! If you or you know of a bride that is needing some fabulous wedding invitations, please send them my way! I love designing custom wedding invitations!

3. {DESIGN STORE} I have been pondering the idea of revamping my design website and making it into a design store where you could buy logo packages, custom wedding invitations or pick from a selection of pre-designed wedding invitations, graduation announcements, calling cards, baby announcements, etc. Is this something that would interest you? Help me out with the poll below:

4. {FUZZ LOGO} I finished up a logo for Fuzz Studios this week. This was a really fun one and it is for my good friend, Nathan. If you need a video or other creative media, let me know and I’ll send you his way.

5. {WEDDING} I am heading up to Lubbock tomorrow to shoot David and Liz’s wedding! I am anxiously waiting for the UPS guy to show up with my new telephoto lens which I am excited to use! Be watching the blog for their sneak peek.

So, it has been awhile since my last Ask Kayla Q&A. I have been super busy lately, and haven’t had much to post, so I thought it would be fun to do another round! Leave me a comment on this post and ask me any question you want related to anything about me, design, photography or anything that I do and I will answer all the questions within a couple days. I’ll try to include pictures too so this will be a visual question and answer section! Or, if you don’t have a question, feel free to just leave a comment! I look forward to reading your questions! Thanks for stopping by!

Okay, two days late, but here it is. An update from the last week:

1. {FAMILY PHOTO SHOOT} Last Saturday, I photographed these totally adorable kids! Their mom drove them in from out of town and we had so much fun exploring some new places and taking their photos. The two boys are twins and SO very cute with the funniest personalities as you can probably tell! Sign their guest book by clicking below to see the rest of the photos when they go online. I’ll have more posted soon.

***Friends and Family: CLICK HERE to sign the Keele’s guest book to view the photos when they go online and receive a print credit.***

2. {GIFT FOR JESSIE} A month ago, Clint and I were in Las Vegas photographing Franki and Max’s amazing wedding at the Paris hotel! While we were there, we stayed with my good friend, Jessie, who is also a photographer. Jessie and I have been online friends since 2005 when we both received honorable mentions in Creating Keepsake’s Scrapbooking Hall of Fame. She was an amazing hostess showing us all kinds of awesome things about Las Vegas, took us to In-n-Out Burger (which is as good as I’ve always heard) and she also assisted me at the wedding on Saturday. We had so much fun with her and her family and they were so gracious to let us stay with them.

So, as a special gift to Jessie, I had these custom magnets made with her logo and colors of her photography studio, Speckled Bird Art. After seeing her office and her whiteboard, I knew she definitely need them. You can order your own, from another of my friends, Danielle at Something Blue Studios.

I was also considering offering these as a product with photos from your session. Would anyone be interested?

3. {PAINTING} I went and bought some canvases this week at Micheal’s. They were 40% off and I have been feeling the itch to paint. If any of them turn out cute, I’ll definitely post some photos.

4. {COMMUNITY KIDS LOGO} Here is a logo I finalized this week for Community Life Church for their children’s department. It was really fun to work on this for them. It’s just one of the many projects I have been working on.

To all 2009 seniors, now is the time to get your graduation announcements ordered. If you don’t like the traditional graduation announcement, go for something much more eye catching that your friends will love and keep! Contact me today to get your order placed in time!

Also, book Spink Studio for your senior photos and save 10% OFF your announcement order! For pricing information, click here and download the Lifestyle booklet. Don’t wait, get your custom order in before it’s too late! Other styles and designs are available!

McCall and Shay’s photographs taken by the fabulous Kristin Bednarz.