Fresh Outtakes

FREE Shipping!

2011-12-26T00:52:00.000-08:00

Enjoy FREE shipping on domestic orders placed between December 26th and January 1st, 2012 on our Etsy storefront.

Use coupon code BoxingDay2011 at http://www.etsy.com/shop/freshouttakes.
(This offer is only valid on our Etsy storefront)

Free holiday printables!

2011-11-21T13:57:00.000-08:00

Some of you may have already visited our other blog, www.designonce.wordpress.com.

Today, I have posted a free holiday printable! Everyone should have bright, cheerful stickers to close envelopes or decorate gift bags.

I hope you are able to stop over there and download the file!
Enjoy!

Free help with your Halloween page!

2011-11-07T13:31:00.000-08:00

Do you need help with your Halloween page?

I am happy to help you by formatting your photos for you.

All you need to do is email your Halloween photos to orders@freshouttakes.com and put "Halloween" in the subject line.

I will format them so that they are all proportionate to one another and easy to cut as you see in the picture below. Filling out your baby album should be fun, so let me do this work for you!

This offer is valid from now until December 1st, 2011.

I hope you had a safe and Happy Halloween!

Now let's get your photos in order!

-Kim

Happy Father's Day!

2011-06-19T18:06:00.000-07:00

To our fearless fathers, have a wonderful day!

Going in circles? I am here to help

2011-06-01T00:02:00.000-07:00

This page is by far one of our customer favorites and certainly is one of mine.

I had fun creating this page and I love how it turned out.

I want everyone to love their page so much, that I am going to offer my design services, complimentary, for a *limited time to any customer who would like help with this page.

Here is what you will need to do to redeem the complimentary design services:

Email: orders@freshouttakes.com using subject line "circles"
You will then get an email from us with instructions to upload your photos to our photobucket account.

Your child's photos will be sized correctly, formatted and emailed back so that you can simply print and cut! * (offer expires September 1, 2011)

Enjoy,

Kim

Returning customers, please enjoy....

2011-03-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

Returning customers is the greatest compliment I receive here at work.

It is my personal belief as a small business owner, that I need to recognize the importance of this as I smile knowing that someone has enjoyed our baby albums so much that they want to order another.

Enter, Etsy storefront coupon...RETURN2010.

If you would like to redeem this coupon for 15% off of your next order and enjoy the same low $7 shipping as is on our website, just go here http://www.etsy.com/shop/freshouttakes

Thank you again for coming back for more!

Offer expires December 31st, 2011.

2011-01-06T15:57:00.000-08:00

Thank you to all who have supported our small business, Fresh Outtakes.

We have enjoyed a successful 2010 year with far reaching orders from Seattle to New York, California to Florida, almost every state in the middle and back up to Saskatchewan, Canada.

We sincerely hope you have enjoyed your albums and continue to celebrate the milestones of your loved ones. As a small gesture of our gratitude and hopes for 2011 we would like to extend this gift package to all of you who have purchased a baby album in 2010 and would love a few extra Fresh Outtakes keepsake envelopes!

To accept this gift, please send an email to orders@freshouttakes.com and leave your name and mailing address and note which album you purchased so that we can send you the appropriate gift set.

This offer expires on June 1st, 2011.

Best wishes for the New Year!

-Kim

Owner

custom albums!

2010-12-18T11:02:00.000-08:00

a loyal (and fantastic!) customer called me the other day to ask if i have any albums for a same-sex couple who is expecting.

I DO.

and i am excited to print this custom album for these two moms-to-be!

if you would like to order an album, but you need it customized – just ask. anything is possible ;)

i l.o.v.e. paper!

2010-09-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

i admit - i L.O.V.E. paper.

there is nothing better to me than dropping the kids off at school and discovering a fantastic stationery store.

i could spend the whole day visiting stationery stores. i had a great day discovering Paper Delights. they can be found here...www.paperdelights.com.

what could make a great discovery even greater? Fresh Outtakes baby albums can now be found at Paper Delights.

plus, my favorite company - le papier studio's new book!

take a look, and if you're local i promise that this fine stationery store will not disappoint!

pictures really are worth a thousand words

2010-08-30T13:55:00.001-07:00

i love a great photo. i used to get so excited when i finally captured one of my kids looking well dressed and well mannered. however, what i've come to realize as i look back on my favorites - only one out of 10 photos is really a great photo if i'm looking at composition and lighting and all the things that i thought i should be concerned with.

my favorite photos as it turns out, are the ones that were taken while sneaking up on my kids or hastily chasing after them to capture the moment. sometimes they are the photos i take after tip-toe-ing into a dark room to document the "crash" i just heard from downstairs. these are definitely my FAVORITES. these are the ones that i have crammed into their baby albums and these are the ones that really tell the story of who they are.

i will share with you some of my favorites. our daughter has always been her own little person and has brought me from the brink of screaming to all out hysterical laughter with her antics. this is who she really IS and these are the photos i live for.

silhouettes and our logo

2010-08-18T22:00:00.000-07:00

i love our logo - i just do. and i love the company/artist that created it! it makes me smile every time i see it. if you're wondering why - i'll let you in on the secret.

take a look at the le papier studio blog, the wonderful company responsible for my logo - they are featuring it on their site today! www.lepapierstudioblog.com

Birthday wisdom

2010-08-02T13:52:00.000-07:00

There are many envelopes in my line of baby albums for various things – keepsakes, letters to your child, report cards, pictures and more.

On my daughter’s first birthday I wanted to write a letter to her, but I just couldn’t. She had been sick with acid reflux and a milk allergy for the first year and she was almost always uncomfortable. I felt like I didn’t yet know her true personality well enough to write that letter.

So rather than chronicle a less than peaceful year or try to fake it, I decided to do something different. At our daughter's birthday party I cut up pieces of paper and gave each of our family and friends a pen.

Our daughter was born just two months after my grandpa had passed away – a man who I loved so dearly and a man who I felt had so much wisdom from growing up in an era so different than my own. I decided that I wanted our child to have a little piece of wisdom from the friends and family who could offer that.

I loved reading through those pieces of paper at the end of the night. Each had a unique sentiment or a heartfelt piece of advice that was based on years of experience, love, heartache and well, wisdom. I remember smiling as I tucked those papers away carefully into the little envelope in her baby album.

It's never too late!

2010-08-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

Last year when I was helping my mom to clean out some closets, we came across the baby books that she kept for my sisters and brother and I. It was fun to flip through and compare how each of us grew compared to the other – we read the little stories that were jotted down and flipped through scraps of paper that documented the events in each of our lives.

I couldn’t help to notice that with each child, my mom had less and less time to fill in the blanks in these wonderful little time capsules. So I suggested that my mom and I secretly remake my little sister’s baby albums. We could take one of the fresh outtakes albums and I would do all of the scanning of photos (and harass my mom and grandma daily about their memories for inspiration).

The project was a bit of labor, but after plowing through all of the torn and tattered photo albums and the hundreds of phone calls…the result was priceless! Finally, my sister had a completed album with all of the fantastic photos documenting her every little special moment. It was a lot of fun for me to help put this together. It is never too late!
Below are some of my favorite pages (notice the awesome fashions).

month by month - so sweet

frederick and nelson - coordinating outfits of course

the only known photo of my mom preggers