WPPI March 8-10

It's time for WPPI. We are so excited about the show. We will be introducing two new albums: The Whistler Book and The Magnolia Book. Our new CypressPackaging line will also be introduced. It includes our Cypress Folders, Cypress Ribbon and more. Lastly we will have our new Cypress Color Portfolio Boxes, Folios and Artisan Books available for purchase at the show. And, as always, we do take orders at the show!

Check our blog next week as we will be blogging from the show this year and will soon have images on our blog of all the new products. Hope you can join us at the show! Please note that most of our office staff will be at the show. For this reason, our office will be closed March 8-10 and will reopen on Thursday, March 11. Rest assured all your orders are being processed and our artisan staff is super busy creating your orders while we are at WPPI.

Cypress Folders...

Many of you have been asking for our Cypress Folders for a long time, so we would like to introduce to you the Cypress Folder! We are really excited about offering these wonderful folders. These folders are great for presenting your materials to your clients.

It's currently available in our signature natural color in sets of 25 folders. Two new colors will be introduced at WPPI in March. Imprinting of your studio logo is also available.

Contact us for more information. And cheers to more great presentations!

A Glimpse At Our New Fabric Sample Kit...

Here are a few images of our new Fabric Sample Kit. This new kit includes our fabric swatches, 2 mats, and our Cypress booklet, all perfectly fitted into a Cypress Presentation Box. We are so excited about this great presentation! The box is so portable, it will fit into any bag. We are now accepting orders for this great kit. Contact us for more information and we will have some more images soon!

It's a New Year!

Happy 2010 to Everyone!

First, I would like to give a big thank you to all of you for choosing Cypress. We really love to create our books and you make that possible for us!

We are also excited about what is to come at Cypress this year. Here's just a few of the great things happening at Cypress:

New Imprinting Selection

New Cypress Sample Kit

New Boutique Matted Album

Cypress Folders in Three Colors

The Folio Suite

The Cypress Learning Series

(classes at Cypress)

Lastly, we have a special offer for all of our current photographers......

Create Your Own Wedding Album

Many, many photographers do not have an album for their own wedding. I hear this all the time from photographers. So, now is the time!We want you to have a great album! Cypress is making a special offer, so that you can finally make your own album.

**Beginning February 1-28, 2010, Cypress will offer a special, one-time only, 30% off your own wedding album, CypressPrinting, and complimentary shipping! Choose from The Cypress Album, The Iris Book, or The Artisan Book

This is a great opportunity to finally have your own album, so lets create it together!!

We are really excited and can't wait for you to get your own album!

**This special Cypress offer is only good for the month of February, 2010. We must receive completed orders by Feb. 28, 2010, sorry no exceptions.

This offer is only for your own wedding(current photographers only) and cannot be used for any client or sample orders. Verification of your wedding must be sent with the order. All orders will be verified before processing and must be prepaid. The Artisan Book orders must include mounting services.

The 5x5 Iris Book

We recently created this great 5x5 Iris Book for Keiko Niwa. She sent us these wonderful images that I had to share with you! The book was created with our Ice Blue fabric which compliments the images. This is such a great little book! You can also see this album in Vegas at our WPPI booth. Thank you Keiko!

www.keikoniwaphotography.com

The Holidays at Cypress...

We are very excited about the holidays at Cypress. We are super busy working on your holiday orders and they will all be arriving soon! Tiffany (above, left), or "T", as she is known here at Cypress, has been organizing and managing all of your orders. Rob (above, right), is making sure all of your orders are meticulously created and delivered. It's always a special time of the year and we want to wish all of you and your families a wonderful holiday and a very Happy New Year! From our family to yours, Cheers!!!! And thank you for another good year!

The Iris Book & The DVD Folio

I love this combination of colors and images. This is one of my favorite wedding books photographed by Jose Villa. The Iris Book and The Folio were created with the light plum fabric. The Presentation Box was created with the ivory brocade fabric and dark gray ribbon. The plum, ivory and gray colors all compliment this beautiful wedding. Adding the folios make this a complete heirloom set all in one box!

If you need help choosing colors, don't hesitate to call us! We love to make suggestions. You can also send us or email a few images and we can make suggestions from the images too. As a boutique album company, we love that we get to have this personal contact and help you put your samples and orders together!

Images by Jose Villa

The C Collection 7x7 Presentation Box

This little box is perfect for 3.5x5, 4x5, & 4x6 prints. It's available in four colors or choose a custom color. You can also choose 10 museum board mats or 12 mounting boards. I love the portability of this box. It's small and lightweight so you can take it anywhere! This presentation box is great for children, families, bride getting ready, bride's favorites, best of wedding and vendors too!

Images by Gene Higa

The Cypress Album & DVD Folio

I love these images of The Cypress Album. This matted album is a timeless, sophisticated, hierloom album. There are many layout options and we can create specific layouts just for you! The pages have beautiful, naturally deckled edges and The Cypress Album comes with a Presentation Box to store and protect the album for many generations.

At Cypress we have built a reputation for customizing your products so they look exactly like you want them. So let us know if would like more (or less) options on your book that you don't see on our order form. We are always happy to create and give your album that special look that fits your images! We can also create and custom design different album styles.

Images by 6 of Four.

A Song for Dena and Cypress...........

This morning I was greated with a song from A Bryan Photo that I just have to share. First, I will give you a little information before you listen. I have had the pleasure of working with the A Bryan Photo team for several years now. They are great photographers, very creative and I feel honored that we create all of their books for them. Bryan Johnson from A Bryan Photo was having one of his great workshops this week in Birmingham, AL. ( If you haven't been to his workshops, I highly recommend them.) I was set to speak at the workshop, but due to some unfortunate circumstances, I wasn't able to attend and our great Customer Care Specialist, Brian Arguijo, went in my place. Brian A. had a great time, but I was bummed that I couldn't be there as I had attended their workshop in the Spring 2009 and I knew it would be amazing. The A Bryan Photo team are not only great photographers, but well just listen................

http://iamtpain.smule.com/mysongs/uid/1/247090/?did=2515706

Thank you Bryan and Caleb!!!
You guys are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

We Love to Hear From You...

Here's a wonderful note that we recently received from Studio A Photography:

We got our first Cypress albums in the mail yesterday and they are absolutely fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to make sure that every detail was perfect. We couldn't be more impressed with the quality of your work and the friendliness of your staff. It's refreshing to work with people who care about what they do.
Sincerely,
Douglas & Amy
Studio A Photography

A Great Gift...

Images by Yvette Roman Photography

Folios are such great gifts, especially for the holidays. They make a beautiful frame to place on a mantel and they fold into a nice little book. Last year I gave this 6x6 Tri-Folio to many of my family members as a gift for the holidays. Everyone loved it, including my kids Cy & Samara! The 6x6 is a great size that accommodates 4x6 prints vertically and horizontally. Folios are great for weddings too!

Another Great Testimonial...

We received this great testimonial and images of our presentation box and folio from Brigette at Belise Photography and thought we would share it with you...


Her note:
I just wanted to share some images I took of the beautiful Cypress Presentation Box. LOVE this product!
Sincerely,
Brigitte

Love This Testimonial...

We love to hear from you! Here's a delightful testimonial from a photographer and her wedding client!

Just got this from my client's dad. He wanted to make a scrapbook for his daughter and her new husband for an "afterglow" of the wedding present...we talked about the artisan, but he had a bit of sticker shock, so we went for the "C", custom made in hazelnut...here is his email to me...
Thanks ever so much for making me look so good...
Yvette Roman Photography


Thank you so much!
All I can say is WOW...WOW...and WOW!!!
Their work is absolutely amazing...and I can't believe the artistic quality...and this is only their "C Album".
Thanks for the suggestion for going with the lesser expensive album selection...It will do just fine ...to say the least. The kids will just love it!
Warmest Regards

Cypress in New York October 22-24

Come see us at PhotoPlus October 22-24. The trade show is located at the Javits Center the hours are 10-5pm on Thursday and Friday, 10-4pm on Saturday. We will be showing our new Folio Suite, our new booklet, great new samples, and more!

Also, join us for Cypress tapas night on Thursday (see current email)! Meet other photographers, bring & show your favorite Cypress product, see some great new Cypress products and eat some yummy tapas!! We hope you can join us for this fun night!
RSVP to brian@cypressalbums.com

2009 Holiday Deadlines

The holiday season is quickly approaching and we are gearing up for a great season! In preparation, we have set the following deadlines to ensure delivery by Christmas:

Nov. 23- The Cypress Album, The Iris Book, The Juniper Book, The Presentation Box Please note this deadline does not include printing. For printing services with any of these albums, we must receive by Nov. 9.

Dec. 4- The Artisan Book, C Albums, The Folio
Please note this deadline does not include printing. For printing services with any of these albums, we must receive by Nov. 18.

All orders will be shipped via FedEx Ground or Express Services. As the holiday approaches, we will use express services at our discretion to ensure holiday delivery. Due to the high volume of orders, we recommend ordering as soon as possible in order to avoid the high cost of express shipping. Please note that our deadlines are the last possible date that we can receive the order to guarantee delivery before Christmas.

Please write, "Must Have For Christmas," in the Remarks section of your order form. This will let us know that you need your order shipped by Dec.22nd. Rush orders will be taken based on availability after the deadlines have passed. There is a 50% surcharge for all rush orders.

Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to a great holiday season!

Dena & The Cypress Team

Cypress Mini-Folios Are Here!

We Love Mini-Folios!

We are so excited to announce that beginning today, we will start shipping Mini-Folios for two weeks or until supplies last. Place your order now, as they will go quickly! If you're not familiar with our Mini-Folios, we create these special little Folios once and sometimes twice a year. Due to the large amount of time it takes to create these special Folios, we make one big batch of them. They come in three sizes, have Black or Natural mats, and each opening size is 2x2". Mini-Folios are only available in an assortment of colors and make great gifts for clients, vendors, or as wedding favors! These special Folios are especially great for the holidays. Everyone loves them! Order today, they will sell-out quickly.

Available in three sizes:
Double (set of 5)
Quad (set of 3)
Hex (set of 2)

Please contact us for pricing and to place your order at 818.551.0023.
Please note that Mini-Folios are only available in an assortment of colors and we cannot guarantee specific color requests.

A Perfect Set...

We created this great set of Iris Books for J Wilkinson Co in Texas. They chose an 8x8 Iris Book for their engagement photos and a 12x12 Iris Book for their wedding photos. We also added custom white pages, a cover image on each album and hand-set imprinting. The two albums were simply beautiful! The couple will cherish these two handcrafted heirlooms for many generations to come!

The Folio Suite

Here's some new images of our Folio Suite! This new feature houses a 5x5 Folio or a DVD Folio on the inside cover of The Presentation Box. The DVD Folio can accomodate up to three DVD's or one matted image and one DVD. Matted images can be 3.5x5, 4x5, and 5x5. The feature can be added to any Presentation Box 10x10 or larger, the Medium and Large Cypress Album, and The Iris Book, 10x10 or larger. We love how The Folio Suite integrates the Folio and creates a complete heirloom in one Presentation Box!

Wedding Images by Di Bezi Photography

Cypress Featured...

We are so excited to be have The Iris Book and Presentation Box in this publication. A special thank you to Lisa Lefkowitz of San Francisco for talking about Cypress Albums in her interview! See her interview in the current issue. You can also enlarge the image by clicking on it.
Thank you again Lisa!

My Favorite Album...

Yes, it's my family album! I love this set so much! We created an 8x8 Iris Book, Custom 4x6 Proof Box, & a 6x6 Tri-Folio with Chocolate Brown and Ice Blue Fabric. Yvette Roman photographed our family and it was so much fun. With my daughter, 5 1/2, and my son, 2 1/2, anything can happen, and it did.

As we all began playing, the kids decided to "dress-up" and they decided to dress-up mommy and daddy too! Within seconds mommy was dressed as a witch and daddy was a princess! The day ended with a family portrait of us piled on top of each other laughing on the sofa. Yvette really captured a normal day in our lives and my husband and I are so happy to have this set of great images! As my daughter gets ready to start school again and my son starts preschool, I can't stop looking at this album and seeing how much they have grown so quickly.

In May/June of this year we created duplicate books for both grandparents as gifts for Mother's and Father's Day and they were speechless. They are still talking about these albums today!

Thank you again Yvette!!

Another Great Color Combination...

This Presentation Box, Folio, and Artisan Book combination is elegant and sophisticated. The set is created with Platinum Fabric and Teal ribbon. The Artisan Book makes a great album or guest book. I love this complete set of products! It will certainly highlight your lifestyle images.

The images are by Yvette Roman. I love the matted image with the bride's hair flowing down. It creates these beautiful, soft lines in the image while her face gently peeks through her hair. Matting images is a great way to highlight your favorite images. We now stock the silver easels too!

The Artisan Book

Here's a great album that we recently created. The images are by Susie Q. Varin and are mounted in The Artisan Book. Although it's a self-mount album, we can also mount the images for you for a small mounting fee. The Artisan Book above shows the optional clean, crisp, vellum between the pages. I really like the look and feel of this album with the vellum pages. The vellum is a heavyweight vellum and it isn't easily creased. I also love the colors of this album. The light plum (BC10) fabric with cranberry ribbon (custom color) is simply delicious!

We do keep a few of these albums in-stock, so if you need one right away, call us!

Playfully Innocent...

These are two of my favorite images of the 5x5 Iris Book!

Images by Jose Villa

Product Images by Yvette Roman

The Cypress Album, Understated Elegance

The Cypress Album is the ultimate in elegance & style. This matted album is meticulously handcrafted with a fine attention to detail. Every bride and groom will want to relax and reminisce for many years with their Cypress Album!

Dena Speaks at a Workshop...

In July, I had the pleasure of speaking at Yvette Roman's workshop in Venice, CA. I really enjoyed talking about business, marketing, albums, and getting to know photographers and their specific businesses. It is always great to share business ideas and approaches and see how those ideas can work for each individual business.

Business is constantly evolving and every business has to continue to evolve in order to sustain itself. I think this is the exciting part. I really enjoy reinventing, trying new approaches, and designing new elements and presentations. This is often the most challenging aspect of business as well. Workshops can stimulate ideas and offer different perspectives that energize you and your business. I highly recommend going to at least 1-2 workshops every year!

Come join us at Cypress, August 17th, at 2:30pm for a one-hour Marketing Session and Ice Cream Social. More info coming soon! RSVP required.

Another Great Feature...

A special thank you to Stevi Savage, of Avery House Creative in Chicago, for sending us this wonderful feature of their studio and our albums! It's really great!
http://blog.averyhouse.net

Thank you again, we love it!

You can also view our new Cypress Video, coming to our website soon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX5k6OiPiqU

Sharing Ideas & Experiences...

As many of you know, I spoke at a great workshop by A Bryan Photo earlier this year. I met really great people and had such a wonderful time. I also love to talk about business. One of the photographers I met was Kallie Buckmaster from Florida. Kallie has posted this great blog:

http://dkbuckmaster.blogspot.com/2009/05/cypress-albums.html

The posting also shows our company video that will soon be on our website!
Thanks Kallie! We love it!

Introducing the Folio Suite...

The Folio Suite

Beautifully Designed and Hand-Crafted

The Folio Suite is elegantly hand-crafted and designed to hold a Folio inside the Presentation Box. The Folio is created as a DVD Folio or a 5x5 Folio that can accommodate 3.5x5, 4x5 & 5x5 images. The Folio Suite can be added to any 10x10 or larger size Presentation Box. This addition will give your clients a complete set designed within one product. The Folio Suite is designed for Album Presentation Boxes and Matted Print Presentation Boxes! Everyone will love this exclusive, patent pending, Cypress design.

Please contact us for more information and pricing at info@cypressalbums.com or 818.551.0023. The Folio Suite can also accommodate larger size Folios for some of our larger boxes.

Cypress Gathering in New York!

Images by A Bryan Photo

Cypress is Coming to New York June 24th!

Visit with Dena and other photographers at the Cypress Gathering in Chelsea.
See some of our latest products, new samples, and have some great conversation.
The Gathering will be held in a loft in Chelsea.

158 8th Avenue (between 17th & 18th)
1-4pm
Due to space limitations, please RSVP to
tiffany@cypressalbums.com
or call us at 818.551.0023

A Special Album

 

Image by Gene Higa

     We have put together a special offering for this great album.  The special offering of the C Album includes the choice of any of the three fabrics shown:  Hazy Blue, Light Taupe, and Black.  This self-mount album comes with 30 pages/60 sides without parchment between the pages.  The number of album pages can be customized.  The black pages are made from heavyweight fine art paper.  Images can be attached using a double-sided acid-free tape.  We recommend using the Scotch ATG tape gun for quick application of your images.  This C Album makes a great proof book, kids album, portrait album or parent album.   Contact us for more information and special pricing!  Available for a limited time only, ships in 2-3 days!

phone:  818.551.0023

email:  info@cypressalbums.com

Cypress Gets Razors.....

                

  

     After visiting the A Bryan Photo studio in Birmingham, Alabama last month, I was convinced  to get some Razor scooters at Cypress.   All of us love them at Cypress!  

     After a great lunch meeting, Yvette Roman and I decided to take spin!  I highly recommend the scooter, they are great for a break in the middle of the day or to go pick up some lunch.

Updated Order Forms

     We have updated all of our order forms to accommodate some additional sizes and details. Cypress order forms are easy to use and download.  Simply log-in on our website and select the desired product under "Collections."  Order Forms and detailed information can be selected at the bottom of the page.  Fill-in the form and fax or email to us.

     Our newly updated forms will expedite your order.  Please contact us with any questions.

Special Projects-Cypress at the White House

 


     We enjoy working on special projects at Cypress.  We consult, design, create a prototype, and send it to you for approval.  We just finished this custom presentation box project for an international gallery.  

     

     For this project, we created 25 Presentation Boxes to hold fine art prints donated by well-known artists and sold at a fundraiser for President Obama's campaign.  We used a narrow ribbon to lift the prints and integrated a piece inside the box lid to compress the prints in the box in order to prevent movement.  We created this special set of boxes to hold a set of the prints for President Obama himself and the artists who donated the prints.