Anniversary Albums - print these great memories!

Great ideas come from great people!

You know what they say about friends: “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” We are very lucky at QtAlbums - we have many, many chocolate chips. And one of the sweetest is Eirik Halvorsen, with whom I had the pleasure to discuss how we can promote our albums in 2020 when it’s hard to predict the coming months. It’s great to know we can all support each other in these new, challenging times.

Eirik posted this super cute story about his couple getting an anniversary album. You can read it below

This is possibly the best prank I’ve ever pulled off (yes, I pranked my client) 😂

Heidi got in touch with me a few months before their one year wedding anniversary. She wanted to surprise Sturle with a wedding album. We secretly corresponded via her work email so that he wouldn’t find out.

What an awesome idea! The one year anniversary is after all the paper anniversary (hint, hint to you album- and printless couples out there) 😉

But after a few weeks something even more awesome happened. Sturle secretly got in touch with me to surprise Heidi with a wedding album on their one year anniversary!

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I really love what Eirik wrote at the end of his post

The lesson in this story is, don’t be late! I’m here to help you design and make your dream album. I don’t want your wedding photos to be trapped on a hard drive on a computer somewhere. Let them breathe. Let them be seen and cherished ❤️

If you’re wondering how you can fill the gap this summer while waiting for restrictions to lift, maybe you can use THE ANNIVERSARIES ALBUMS IDEA?

• Talk to your couples from last year or many years past. Think of all the couples who didn’t invest into wedding album. Maybe now they feel the time is right. Maybe they have more time to go through the details with you. Or maybe they feel like something is missing now that nostalgia for the past has set in.

• Their wedding anniversary is approaching - May, June, July, August 2019 - a wedding album could be a great gift idea!

• Don’t forget about your ideal clients who DID purchase a wedding album from you - you can collect their personal photos taken since then and create an album featuring their first (2nd, 3rd, 50th) year together. Hopefully this will start a yearly tradition!

All images by Eirik Halvorsen

We don’t know what the summer season will look like, but we can probably agree it won’t be the same this year, as a majority of weddings have been postponed into autumn and winter or even next year.

But people will still get married and they will still need photographers. We can still make the most out of 2020 - it’s only May!

PrimaBook

boost your sales while you’re at home!

Almost a year ago we were getting ready to present you with a new album. That time, we have focused on eco-friendliness and we wanted to keep the wastage and the price as low as possible. This is how we came up with the BloomBook - which today is one of our top selling products.

And last year we wouldn’t have guessed that this time around we will all be facing difficult times caused by the outbreak of coronavirus. This is the new reality, whether we like it or not. But instead of just waiting, watching the news and hoping this will soon pass, we want to be pro-active. We are giving you a new product - specifically designed to boost your sales. The new album is called PrimaBook.

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PrimaBook is an album designed for family photography, couples & engagement sessions, portrait & boudoir photography. It comes in 3 sizes and 10 different colours to give you a choice, yet still keeping the price very low. This opens a whole new area for you and your clients.

While we still recommend AriaBook and ArtBook as the main album for your brides & grooms, we hope that with the extra time on your hands you can encourage your clients to print their everyday photos. In fact, our colleagues from IPSM have prepared some great TIPS for photographers during these uncertain times.

We have stripped the PrimaBook from endless options to keep it sweet & simple. We offer it on Digital Satin paper with a good collection of standard stamps to suit different occasions.

Follow PrimaBook website and #primabook to see the colours and stamps that you can mix & match!

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Emma & James love their QT Album

This week we would love to share a blog post by Hannah Hall, one of the photographers who attended Snap Festival. She loved our albums so much that she decided to switch her old supplier to QtAlbums. We couldn’t be more happy and grateful for choosing us! We are even more delighted to hear that Emma & James, who were Hannah’s clients, loved their album too!

“I loved their finish, the attention to detail and access to round the clock support and advice which I hadn’t had with my previous company. Also, being half Polish, I absolutely loved supporting a business based in Poland”

— Hannah Hall

Hannah also shared what Emma & James, her wedding couple, thought about their album. This lovely comment puts a smile on our faces, but the final product is a combination of great photos, the right design, and a quality lab. That’s why we love to work with professionals like Hannah. This is what Emma and James said about their album.

“The album has been beautifully designed and shows the timeline of our day, all the happy, funny, exciting, beautiful moments we had with friends and family! The detail you can see in the photos is superb and we keep on spotting new little bits in each picture that really brings back the memories of the day!”

— Emma & James

Thank you so much Hannah, Emma and James!

Check out Hannah’s Instagram!

Presenting New Matted Deckled Edge Prints!

QtAlbums is proud to present - Matted Deckled Edge Prints! They are now available to order in our new shop. Keep reading to find out how you can get a FREE set of prints & a clamshell box!

If you have seen these matted deckled edge prints at one of many events and workshops we’ve attended this year, than you know what I’m talking about! Try words like: stunning, gorgeous, impressive!

Available at QtAlbums - these prints have a gorgeously feathered edge with a slightly textured surface that is a joy to touch. They are printed on archival, matt Cotton Rag paper which will last for decades. We have added a bevelled passepartout frame on top, for beautiful presentation and protection. All prints are handmade by members of our team - a real craftsmanship.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.
A fine art print so much more! ”

— Steve Denby

Find out how to get 20% off on prints or win a FREE set of prints & box!

Tag 3 professional photographers here and we will send you coupon code for 20% off on prints and clamshell box via Direct Message on Instagram. Coupon code is valid until the end of May 2019. You need to be a professional photographer and a registered client. Please tag until 13th of May.

You can also be one of the 20 lucky winners who will receive FREE Matted Deckled Edge Prints (up to 10 prints) and FREE clamshell box. We will announce the names in the same Instagram post on 13th of May. The free prints & box winners will be contacted by us via e-mail or direct messages.

Wedding Portraits by Heather Jowett

Product Photos by Ula Koska

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NEW PRODUCTS & COVERS!

Qtalbums is bringing you more quality products! FOLIO & VELVET COVERS

This year has been very productive so far. We have travelled the world to meet you in Atlanta, Texas, Las Vegas, Birmingham and Cannes. Everywhere we went people LOVED our products. In Atlanta, we have shown FOLIO for the very first time. It made a huge impression on the audience so we had no choice but to start making it! It’s an excellent way to present pictures.

Folio comes in two sizes: 4x6”and 6x6”. You can pick a duo or a trio version and choose one of our beautiful linens or silks as a cover. Printed on Fuji Lustre or Matte Cotton Rag paper. The prints are permanently mounted to a beautifully textured mat board. There is a discrete magnet which helps with keeping the folio closed.

Cover personalizations are also possible - so say no more - they are perfect. Besides that, they can be stood on end for presentation, so it’s an ideal gift! Folio is available to purchase in the new storefront. Take a look at the stunning pictures of the Folio in the gallery above.

As our travels continued, we wanted to show you more options for albums covers (like if there weren’t enough) so we’ve picked VELVET. And again - it has proved to be a big hit at The Photography Show in Birmingham last March. Velvet is a distinctive soft feel fabric with a short dense piled surface.

We offer it in ten noble colours to emphasize the luxury of this material. Fantastic textile for album covers as well as clamshell or lid boxes. Due to the type of fabric, personalisations are limited at present. But wait till our new UV machine arrives and you won’t have to worry about limitations anymore.

We have recently added this fabric to our shop, so now you can immerse yourself in endless options!