A Photographer's Photographer

Last weekend was new for me. I got to photograph another photographer!

Ashley is a wedding and senior portrait photographer who I am working with designing her new brand and I also did an incredible glam shoot with her.

Isn't  she lovely? Her new website ashleyfreehan.com is in the works and I am excited and honored that I get to see my images and design work on a peer's site.

App Happy II: More Instagram Apps & a Free Font!

In my last App Happy post, I went over my favorite apps for editing my Instagram photos. Here's an updated list to add to the Insta Fun!

Afterglow ($0.99)
Really pretty filters and fun guest filters. I use in conjunction with my PicFX app on almost every insta

Shapely (FREE)
Just found this one and I LOVE it! It's free and it comes with a lot of combinations, but if you want to get really creative, you can buy add ons, which I think is genius.

VSCO Cam ($0.99)
Another good filter app, these are more gritty and edgy. Good for landscape images & guys.

Vine (FREE)
This isn't really an Instagram app, but it IS a ton of fun. You make short little 6 second videos by touching your screen. I don't love that it captures the sound (really distracting), but still fun. To see our silly little videos my vine is @Rosemary Watson.

AND, since Phonto is proving to be my most used App, here is a fun little font I created to use in Phonto!

Just go here to download the font, or you can email it to yourself if you have an iphone and you can load it directly in Phonto!

Of course, along with my Birdsong font, you MUST grab some of Rhonna's Instafonts to use in Phonto. If you grab the bundles you get a crazy amount of designs to have fun with!

Rhonna has a ton of fab tutorials on her blog how to use her Instafonts, and she snuck in a hint to her upcoming online Insta Class! Can't wait to get the details on that.

Now go forth and create some amazing mobile photo art!

It's a Valentine's Giveaway with Style Me A Lady

I'm THRILLED beyond belief to announce the launch of my sister in law, Lindsey Taylor 's, launch of her new Personal Styling website- Style Me A Lady!



 I had the honor of designing her website, and I must say it's one of my favorites to date! So fun and bright and happy.

And guess what? We're having an awesome giveaway for this lovely little Valentine's launch!

The winner will receive one Style Party for themselves and their closest friends with Lindsey, a double makeover & modern glam portrait session for themselves and their bestie with Rosemary Watson (yours truly), AND this darling little Kate Spade Bow Pendant Necklace

What a fab giveaway right? I can't wait to see who the lucky lady will be to score these amazing prizes! 

There is SIX fabulous ways to win this amazing collection of prizes:

1) Leave a comment here with your name and email address

2) Become a fan of Style Me A Lady on Facebook and let us know in the comment section

3) Pin the giveaway image on Pinterest and let us know in the comment section

4) Share a link to this post on Facebook letting people know how they can enter too and let us know in the comment section

5) Tweet a link to this post on Twitter with the hashtag #stylemealady

6) Share the giveaway image on Instagram with the hashtag @stylemelady

This giveaway is open until Monday, February 18th at midnight, and the winner will be announced Wednesday, February 20th!

**This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered, or associated with Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter. You will NOT be announced publicly on Facebook if you are a winner. You must be 18 to participate. By entering this giveaway, you are providing information to Rosemary Watson & Lindsey Taylor and NOT to Facebook or Pinterest. Prizes do not have cash value. There will be no returns or exchanges on any items.

LINKS:

Lindsey Taylor on Facebook 

Lindsey Taylor on Twitter

**GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

What I'm Working On: Style Me A Lady Brand Identity

There has been a lot of designing going on here lately. In addition to some new Branding Clients, I have been working on my own Branding & Design Website to show my design portfolio to potential clients. I've more design requests this week than ever before and it's going to be really important to stay organized and focused to ensure I am giving my both my photography & design clients the best service & communication I can give, plus stay on top of marketing and managing my businesses.

I'm really excited to be sharing Lindsey's Brand Board, it's so fun and happy just like she is! I know she's going to do amazing things and I love that we can cross market both our businesses together and help each other provide amazing experiences for our clients. I've referred many of my Senior Portrait Clients to Lindsey, and I'm planning on incorporating her styling services in more of my photography in the future.

We took some fun promo shots for her website and blog- here's a peek at one of my favorites.

I'll announce her site launch next week, and do a really fun giveaway you definitely don't want to miss!

What I'm Working On: Wood Creations Brand Identity

You know how I love supporting small business, and you also know how much I love design. AND it's becoming more and more apparent how much I love photography, so the obvious thing to do, I guess, is to start helping new small business with their Brand Identities, designing needs, and photography needs. WIN!

First up, Wood Creations Furniture. They've been open for 6 years and are ready to start fresh and go in a new direction with their brand. They just recently started selling CHALK PAINT© decorative paint by Annie Sloan, and their exposure has skyrocketed because of it!

I came up with this Brand Board for them and then from that did a whole website facelift. Visit their site at woodcreationsfurniture.com to check it out!

Team Tuesday: Creative Calendars

Sooo.....obviously I never got around to sending out Holiday Cards. I suck.

Instead, I came up with this great idea to design some quick and easy calendars to send out now that it's January. If you missed the boat, and want to make up for December, here's a great, creative way to kick off 2013.



Mini Printable Calendar Tutorial from Rosemary Watson on Vimeo.

I used Rhonna Designs InstaGoals kit, mixed with Paislee Press 2013 Calendar kit and designed these fun little calendars people can stick on their fridge or desk. Perfect little gift for teachers, neighbors, anyone really.

Valentines with Rhonna Designs & Free Heart InstaFrames

So many exciting things going on over at Rhonna Designs for Valentines Day, and if you are in Utah, you are the luckiest person ever because Rhonna herself is teaching a FABULOUS Chalk Art Workshop on Thursday at Dear Lizzy. Maybe I can fly in just for the class?

Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to fly in BUT Rhonna has put TEN amazing Chalkboard Cheer art designs up on the Rhonna Designs site, and now I have to figure out how I want to display them in my house <3

On the Rhonna Designs blog today there are some adorable Valentines Decor Ideas from Nancy & Melissa - visit their blogs to get all the details on these Love Day Projects. 

My favorite Valentines designs right now are in the InstaKiss kit; I've been using them in all my Instas

The InstaKiss designs go perfectly with my Heart InstaFrames I designed just for Love Day. You can download the Heart InstFrames here, and use them in endless combinations with Rhonna's Insta Kits!

Uh, what happened to November?

Basically I fell off the face of the earth. My sister got married. Thanksgiving happened. My photography business has exploded and I've been utterly consumed with family portraits and holiday card designing and marketing for 2013. Plus, my kids and home and husband have been taking up a little of my time too. Oh, and my mom had her 50th birthday. So that's basically what's been going on with me. There's a whole lot of other stuff too, but right now it's 1:24 am and I can't sleep because I had 3 cups of coffee yesterday plus a cup of tea plus a Dr. Pepper. Not a good combination. But, I'm glad to be back blogging again, it feels like coming home.

Since it's officially Tuesday, let's see what Rhonna has been up to, eh?

As you can see, I've finally changed up my blog header from Halloween using all her gorgeous holiday kits for this year. I switched it up a little for my Facebook header.

And, I'm super excited because I'm officially starting a December Daily album this year! What what! My Snap Album from Two Peas came in yesterday and I am in. love.

I designed some cute "Project Life" style inserts for the page protectors and ordered them from Persnickety earlier tonight. I can't wait until they get in so I can start putting the album together. Between my Rhonna Designs kits and my Instagram photos I'm using, this album is going to be spectacular. Here are some of the kits I used in designing the album:

Merry Printable Papers

Merry Christmas Stickers

Clementine's Newborn Album

I recently found some fabulous mini accordian albums for my photography clients and I decided I definitely needed one for my sweet little Clementine's newborn photos I took. So, I whipped up this darling little album using Paislee Press's Meant to Be Kit. 

I love these little close ups of her face and hands. I can't wait to see this all printed up on a little accordian album; I may go accordian album happy for christmas gifts!

Our Darling Clementine Has Arrived

In case you missed the big announcement on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram- Clementine arrived last week! She is the most lovely thing around town, and we are head over heels smitten with her.

Last week was spent getting into the groove of life with 6 kids, but I think we've gotten acclimated and I even snuck in her first photo session- more of those photos to come! 

Team Tuesday: Clementine is Coming!

It's Team Tuesday today! I shared my new blog header on the Rhonna Designs blog today, along with a bunch of other fun projects from the rest of the Rhonna Designs Creative Team. Look how cute their projects are!

Source: rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com via Rosemary on Pinterest

Source: rhonnadesigns.blogspot.com via Rosemary on Pinterest

Aaaaand, I whipped up another fun Rhonna Designs creation to announce the big news I got from my doctor today- I'm being induced on Saturday! Yippee Kai Yay!

designed using Rhonna Designs Insta Celebrations Kit and Rhonna Designs Insta Seals Kit

Team Tuesday: Engagement Excitement

Last week, my sister told us all some big news- that she's engaged! I offered to take some photos of her and her fiance so she could announce it to the world in style, and I wanted to incorporate a little Rhonna Designs goodness into it! 

Rhonna Designs InstaSeal Kit // Calamity Jane & Pistili fonts

I made up this cute little banner for them to hold using the InstaIcons kit for the heart & arrow

Isn't it darling? I love whipping up quick little banners for photo props- so easy to make one for yourself!

I used the Insta Icons Kit and the Insta Banners Kit to create this fun little banner. I just love these kits because they have a MILLION uses! I have a feeling there are more Insta kits coming our way!

Insta Banners 

$10

Insta Icons 

$10

New Instagram Fancies and Some Pregnancy Confessions

The sickness in the Watson house has yet to subside- we've been hit with a 24 hour flu bug and Landen, Penelope, and I have all fallen victim. I didn't get half of what I wanted to get done finished and pretty much just tried not to hurl all day.

However, I did get one thing done- posting my new Insta Frames in my Digital Shop. For just $0.99, you can get these bold and bright square frames with a little flag and some tinting to jzoojsh up your iphone photos. Aren't they swell?

There's going to be more fun designs in the Digital Shop coming up after Clementine is born, I have a ton of great ideas for the holidays coming up! I also have a blog "mini facelift" in the works. Not a full makeover, mind you, but a little change up for the upcoming season. I'll be doing some reorganizing of my brands and projects and introducing some new ones, but not until after this baby gets out of my belly.

I have found myself struggling to stay positive and cheery about this last pregnancy, it's just so hot and miserable here and I have a ton of complaints and grumpiness that I can't shake. Then of course, I feel super guilty because I also know I have a ton to be thankful for. Oh well, it's the nature of the 8 months pregnant beast I guess. Hopefully I can get out of this sick and tired funk and not go into labor all crabby and cranky like I have been. Pray for me friends.

Team Tuesday: Baby Nook Art

It's a very happy Tuesday because I get to share some new designs using some brand spanking new kits from Rhonna Designs! More Insta Lovin designs to zjooshj up your Instagrams, photos, and digital scrapbooking- I seriously am dying over everything, I had to make up something IMMEDIATELY after downloading the kits. 

Yesterday I shared Clementine's Nursery Nook Inspiration Board, which had some custom wall art I designed for her using the new InstaQuote Kit. They were easy peasy, look clean and simple, and will look fantastic in a baby nursery space. There are dozens more quotes that can be used to make fun inspirational wall art, so grab your kit and start creating today!

kits used: Insta Quotes, Insta Banners, Insta Icons

Team Tuesday: Insta Art with Rhonna's Insta-Lovin Kits

Remember when I showed you the wonderful Insta kits that Rhonna released last week? Well I have been playing with those suckas all weekend and BEHOLD the insta-art that can be created from them

You MUST get the Insta Lovin Bundle because these kits are so fun to mix & match together. The best part is that the kits come with the designs in PNG format, in a True Type Font to use as dingbats in Phonto, AND in .abr brush kits to throw into Photoshop and use in all your digital designs, like my Insta Art montage above. Obsessed with these kits, I tell you. See what the rest of the Creative Team has come up with using the Insta Lovin Kits on the Rhonna Designs Blog!