Posted by Steve powell on Wed, Jan 27, 2010
If you own a Bed and breakfast or an Inn, you know how important the character of your establishment can be. We can help you to fashion the perfect compliment for your front desk, a personalized leather guest book! Your book can be crafted to capture the character and spirit of your establishment to enhance your visitors experience. We begin by choosing a leather finish that most appropriately conveys the personality that you would like to have associated with your business. We can inlay your logo or name on the front cover, and create custom guest book pages with headers to retrieve the information that you want from your guests. Your art may be lightly watermarked behind the lines to give an extra personal touch. Photo pages may also be integated into the book. Please feel free to contact us to discuss how we may craft a personalized leather guest book for you.
Posted by Steve powell on Tue, Jan 26, 2010
If you've ever searched for leather photo albums, or leather photo portfolios for a specific project, you're probably aware of how difficult it can be to find just the right style. Theme photo albums are usually very generic, and the quality is generally low. If you need something special for a family photo album, professional photo album, hunting or safari album, vacation album, or a very clean professional photography portfolio, we can build you exactly what you are seeking. Custom and personalized leather photo albums are our specialty. Please feel free to contact us to discuss your particular needs, and we will build you an album to accommodate them.
Posted by Steve powell on Mon, Dec 14, 2009
Are you having trouble choosing the right gifts for the people on your holiday gift list? You may want to consider a personalized leather photo album, leather guest book, leather photo envelope, leather journal, or leather wine tote. For whoever it is that you're shopping for, we can create a special leather gift that will offer a lifetime of satisfaction. Please browse our website, and feel free to give us a call anytime to discuss how we may personalize a gift to suit anyone on your holiday gift list.
Posted by Steve powell on Tue, Nov 10, 2009
There are a lot of great ways to tote your favorite images around with you. Some people carry digital images in their phones, pda's, or ipods, but you really can't replace the traditional photograph. We love to carry photos of our children, grandchildren, pets, toys, family, and those things dear to us wherever we go. A leather photo envelope is a great way to do it. They make great baby brag books, and may be constructed from a variety of leather finishes in any combination that you may choose. A powerful magnetic closure, and a soft sueded interior lining makes them an ideal protective pouch for your favorite memories. They're a handsome, and compact, alternative to lugging a cumbersome leather photo album around with you wherever you go. Many of our customers like to use them as purse organizers. They make excellent containers for receipts, cosmetics, credit cards, or whatever you may want to keep together in your purse. We will be happy to personalizeyour photo envelope any way that you wish.
Posted by Steve powell on Sun, Nov 08, 2009
More and more people are using their digital cameras these days, and this has created a great demand for 8.5 x 11 leather photo albums. The 8.5 x 11 photo portfolio is the perfect album to accommodate your digital photos printed at home. Documents and photos printed on standard printer or photo paper may be easily mounted within its sleeves. It is an excellent album for 8 x 10 photos as well. The album may be crafted from your choice of leathers, and personalized to suit your taste. The top loading pages are composed of ultra clear polypropylene photo sleeve film with heavy black archival card stock inserts within them for mounting your images. These albums are also popular candidates for use as sales and presentation portfolios. Optional document sleeves may be stitched inside either of the covers if desired. We will be more than happy to customize your leather photo portfolio any way that you like. Call us to discuss a Powell Leather personalized photo portfolio crafted specifically for you.
Posted by Steve powell on Fri, Nov 06, 2009
There are a few things to consider when you're ordering a custom guest book. First consider your budget. A lot of people like to go all of the way, and personalize their covers with art, names, or logos. This can make for a truly spectacular guest book, but it can also get expensive. The thing about a guest book is that in many cases they spend most of their time open.... no one will ever see the cover. There's nothing wrong with a simple classic cover, as a matter of fact it has a certain elegance. If you're going to create custom guest book pages you can put all of the art that you want there. We charge a flat fee for page art anyway. It's definitely the most economical, and often the most tasteful, way to go in your design. Second, think about what the purpose of your book will be. If you just want to collect certain information for business purposes, it's fine to just create short fields for your customers to record their information. If you're designing a page for your cabin, ranch, beach house, or ski cabin, it's usually a good idea to use full complete lines with column headers like name, date, remarks, or memories. In these circumstances it's often nice to allow your guests as much space as possible to record their good experiences had at your place. After all, what's the book for anyway? Art, logos, images, or whatever you like may be watermarked behind the lines of your pages.
Third, you may want to consider adding photo pages to your guest book. Powell Leather photo pages are easily mounted among your guest pages, and this can be a really fun way to add faces to the names on the pages. Your portfolio can also be a custom photo guest book. We'd be happy to discuss your purpose, ideas, and offer guidance in choosing the design that will be most appropriate for your personalized leather guest book.
Posted by Steve powell on Wed, Nov 04, 2009
Sometimes it's hard to find a unique gift for a hunter. A custom leather photo album makes a great gift! You can create a totally personalized hunting album for your hunter very easily with Powell Leather. Just give us a call, and we will help you choose the perfect finish, art, and personalization to make your gift the best possible. Each photo album or portfolio is created on an individual basis so that we can create for you an album that is absolutely one of a kind. Animal forms, landscapes, mongrams, or logo art may be created by our leather craftsmen on the cover. There are no set options, we will work with you to develop unique art and a leather combination that suits your hunter's personality. Some customers have also commissioned us to build photo guest books for hunting cabins and lodges. Since our large photo albums accommodate the same dimension pages as our large guest books, the photo and guest book pages are interchangeable. You may create a great guest book with photos of past guests, events, or family friends within its covers. Give us a call, and we'll be happy to work with you to develop the perfect photo album or guest book for your situation.
Posted by Steve powell on Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Sometimes it's difficult to decide what leather photo album is the right choice for you. First it's important to consider what its purpose will be. Will you be using it as a family keepsake for all sizes of photos, or will it be professional accessory used to demonstrate your products and services. Will it be personalized? These are important questions to consider when you're making a decision. You will need to ask yourself what size images the photo album or portfolio will need to accommodate. The 8.5 x 11 leather photo albums are great for digital images and documents, they will slide right in with minimal mounting effort. Any 8 X 10 images will fit nicely in these albums as well. This album is also more portable. If you plan on taking it on sales calls it is a much more convenient portfolio for that application. The 12 x 12 photo album is also a great choice. It gives you the freedom to mount whatever you like upon its top loading pages, and it has a much more dominating presence. The 4 X 6 leather photo albums are great for the simple convenience that they offer. You just slip in your 4 x 6 photos and you're ready to go. The second question that you need to consider is what type of abuse is this album going to be exposed to? Glazed calf is very shiny and smooth. It makes a great choice for a coffee table album, but it's really not something that you want to be carrying around with you every day. It will scratch much more easily than other leathers that are available. For working albums the best choice by far are the shrunken shoulder leather photo albums. This material is absolutely beautiful, and full of character. It is almost impossible to damage the finish. This material is recommended for presentation portfolios, modeling portfolios, sales portfolios, and albums that will be vulnerable to wear and abuse. It's also a safe bet for the coffee table too, it's absolutely gorgeous. The next consideration will be whether or not you'd like to personalize the album. We will be happy to help you decide. If you have any questions concerning what might be best for you please feel free to call us here at Powell Leather, and we'll be glad to help you in any way that we are able.
Posted by Steve powell on Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Are you looking for a spectacular guest book specifically crafted to accommodate your purpose? Powell Leather will create a beautiful leather guest book for you personalized from cover to cover. We begin by designing your cover from your choice of leathers. We will use your art, or will be happy to help you to design something that is appropriate for you. The cover design will be sent back to you in mock up Photoshop images for your approval prior to cutting and assembly, then we get to the custom pages. We like to know what it is that you will be using the book for, what information you'd like to collect from your guests, if you'd like an image, photo, or art in the background, what header you'd like, what column titles, the number of columns or just solid lines, before we go to work on your page design. Once we complete your layout you will approve the art, or you may ask for revisions. We will be happy to work with you until you are satisfied with your page. Refills are always available with just a phone call. We keep a record of all customers page layouts for future orders. Your Powell guest book may also double as a beautiful leather photo album with photo pages easily integrated within the guest book pages. This is a great option for many applications. Please feel free to call us anytime to discuss your ideas for your book.
Posted by Steve powell on Wed, Sep 09, 2009
If you're in need of a handsome
personalized leather photo album 
to contain your printed photos or documents, our
8.5 x 11 portfolio album is the natural choice. We will craft your album to your specifications from any combination of our beautiful selection of leathers. Company logos, special images, family names, or whatever art you choose may be fixed upon the cover of your leather portfolio. Its pages perfectly accommodate 8.5 x 11 photos and documents, as well as 8 x 10 photos and photos of smaller sizes in any arrangement you prefer. Many of our customers insist on using only Powell Leather books for their photography portfolios, artists portfolios,
presentation and sales portfolios, actor's and modeling portfolios, as well as traditional
family photo albums. Please feel free to contact us to discuss an album or portfolio to be crafted for you.