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Today we got our first Christmas order! Riggs and Jester, a couple of crazy cats whose dad is way ahead of the pack, will be our first Holiday portrait for ’07! And they look like they are going to make very merry models for our custom Pop Art style!

While it’s hard to think about Christmas shopping when it’s hotter than you-know-where outside, take our word for it, the next six months are going to fly by. Every year we encourage people to order early (and by early, we mean no later than September), and every year we have clients offering to pay for rush fees and overnight shipping as late as December 20th.

But this year Riggs & Jester have set a great example for all of us, this year we should all avoid the stress and shop early! Then when every body else is rushing around and freaking out, we can relax and enjoy the season.

Our cat portraits and dog portraits make amazing, original gifts for pet-lovers! We often hear from our clients after the holidays that the portrait was the best gift they have ever given, and from the recipients that their Pop Art Pet portrait was the best gift they’ve ever received.

But if that little pep talk isn’t enough to get you motivated, here’s just a little more incentive. If you order a portrait in the next three days as a holiday gift, you will receive a free porcelain ornament featuring your pet’s artwork! Our ornaments are adorable, and it will make a great stocking stuffer to go along with the original dog portrait or cat portrait.

This little, early-bird bonus is only being advertised here, on our blog, so once you place your order please send us an email to let us know that your portrait is a holiday gift and you want your special reward for shopping early. Also you must order before 11:59 pm, mountain time on June 30th to qualify, so please contact us right away if you have any questions.

Happy Holidays!

As it is for most retailers, January & February are typically our slowest months as those post holiday credit card bills roll in. With the exception of a moderate number of custom pet portraits as Valentine’s Day gifts for the true pet lovers, and a few people redeeming the gift certificates for our unique art that they received for Christmas, it’s usually pretty quiet. This year however, has been quite a different story and it’s been like Christmas all over again!!

Over this past holiday weekend alone (is President’s Day still considered a holiday?), we processed more than a dozen portraits! They were stacked up all over the studio, it made February look like December – all the snow on the ground helped with that too.

Actually the stacks were even bigger than at Christmas because suddenly everybody wants the more dramatic effect of premium stretching for their portraits. The larger stretcher bars just give our portraits a more substantial look and feel, and that true gallery look.

We’ve done lots of Pop Art Style pets as well as some custom art of people, and there’s still more to go. We’re working on two little terriers from Washington, three labs from New Jersey, six Boxers from Arkansas, and the list goes on!

In addition to the custom portraits of pets, and the pop art portraits of people, we are very busy providing printing services for photographers, both amateur and professional. We’ll tell you more about that later, but for now we just wanted to thank all our new and repeat customers for the first quarter boost in business! And if you want to get in on the action and have a custom Pop Art Portrait of your favorite pet or person, we’re running a Pop Promo right now that can’t be beat. Check it out on our specials page and order quickly because it will only be available for a few more days!

Hopefully you are already prepared with a romantic gift in hand for Valentine’s Day (if not, I suggest you head to Hallmark), but we have a sweetheart of a deal for you to help you with Mother’s Day, Graduation Day, Father’s Day and all those June weddings.

For a very limited time you can order a custom rolled canvas portrait in any of our popular styles, 12×12 or larger, and get our biggest discount ever – 25% off!

Okay here’s the catch.. we will create your portrait to your specifications but you will not receive proofs online. We will however send a preview via email for your approval before we print, so you’ll know exactly what you’re getting. We also cannot offer stretching services for this promotion, it is for rolled portraits only, that’s why we are making this special offer now. You should have plenty of time to have your portrait stretched or framed locally before the next gift-giving holiday (Mother’s Day is May 13th, by the way).

Also, this may be the best time ever to indulge yourself. If you’ve been wanting a work of art of your picture-perfect pet, or of your favorite person, now is the time! You’ll save on the artwork, save on the shipping and then you can look for a special on custom framing at an art store near you.

In order to take advantage of this fantastic offer, please place your order today and enter the code “Sweetheart” in the field for Voucher in the shopping cart and click on recalculate to see your 25% savings. For more information visit our specials page, but don’t wait – we don’t know how long this discount will be available.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Valentine’s Day Pet Photography by: Nicole Howard Photography

Order a Pop Art Pet Gift Certificate thru Wednesday, December 20th and get free express delivery!

By giving a gift certificate for our custom pet portraits, you are allowing the recipient the creative freedom to choose the style they like best and to submit their favorite photo for us to work with to design their pet’s personal masterpiece. Our Gift Certificates are adorable and are printed on our artist-grade canvas so the recipient knows exactly what to expect, and they come in a gift pack that includes a personalized gift card, colorful stickers, and an adorable magnet!

Just be sure and order by December 20th and enter the voucher code “Free_Ship” when you check out!

Or, if you’re interested in having us create proofs for you time for Christmas, please check our Holiday Ordering Information page.

Well it’s “Black Friday,” the biggest shopping day of the year, and we don’t want to feel left out so we have a door-buster special of our own.. Order a Pop Art Pet Gift Certificate with a minimum value of $100 and you’ll get a bonus – A $20 certificate for merchandise in a custom Gift Shop! Plus free shipping of your Gift Certificate gift pack which includes a gift card, stickers, and a magnet!

With a gift certificate, the recipient can choose their favorite photo and preferred style for their own portrait, and now you can give two gifts in one! After the artwork for their portrait has been created, we’ll open a gift shop for them featuring their original design. Then they can choose artistic accessories like a t-shirt or coasters or a clock!

(Or if like us, you feel that it is almost as good to receive as it is to give, you could keep the Gift Shop bonus for yourself and use it in any of our breed-specific online shops! we won’t tell)

This offer is available until December 8th, but be sure and check out more details and specifics on our Specials page before you order.

To continue to encourage you to shop early for the holidays we are offering a new pop promo that many of you will appreciate…

You can get 20% off of any rolled portrait, 11×14 or larger until November 14th! (That is any portrait without stretching services.)

20% is the most significant discount we ever offer! This means you can get the biggest savings possible, give an amazingly, thoughtful, and unique gift, and get your shopping done early! You’ll also save on shipping since rolled portraits are less expensive to ship, and you should receive your portrait in time to have it framed or stretched locally if you would like. Or, you can let the pet loving recipient of the portrait decide how they would like to display their custom design.

To take advantage of this special, short-term offer place your order now and enter the Voucher Code “ROLLED” in your shopping cart. You can click on Recalculate to see your discount applied. Or visit our Specials page for more details.

Looking for incentive to do your holiday shopping early? [Yes, that’s right, we said holiday – better look at your calendar!] Order a Pop Art Pet portrait in any style and any size, before the end of October and you’ll get $25 to spend in a custom gift shop featuring your custom artwork!

You didn’t know about our gift shops?? Well, it’s very cool! Once we have designed your portrait, you can have the artwork printed on t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and much more. Just browse through the selection of items in our Gift Shops or the collections we have created for other clients to see what we could personalize for you.

With $25 to spend, in addition to the one-of-a-kind portrait that the recipient will treasure forever, you can give them a a gorgeous throw pillow, or an ornament and some greeting cards!
This will allow you to not only appear exceptionally thoughtful this Christmas when you give the pet-lover on your list, the very personal, very original gift of a custom portrait from Pop Art Pet; but to also appear extremely generous when you also stuff their stocking with adorable extras featuring their pet!

So avoid the stress, order early, AND get free stuff! By the way, if it happens to be your pet in the portrait we won’t tell anybody if you keep the free stuff for yourself!

For more information and all the fine print be sure and visit our specials page!

 

Since we started our new Pop Promo for Exotic Pets Only, we’ve got some exciting new clients! Above is our inspiration for this special, Kalani the Macaw our lucky Furry Scurry contest winner. 

Also, we said “Got Iguana?” to invite people to visit our specials page, and we got Gojira, a little guy with big aspirations! How cool is he, and we just love that name! His dad was not sure if he wanted a custom Pop Art style portrait or a Comic style, so we gave him both options, but this comic version is definitely our favorite.  

 

We are also working on a hedgehog named Henry, a horse, and some others as well. And we are having so much fun we are going to continue offering this special 20% discount on Exotic Pet Portraits awhile longer. But don’t hesitate, visit our specials page for more details and order today – just use the voucher code “EXOTIC” when you checkout.

 

We held our drawing today for the Furry Scurry attendees who went online to register to win a free 18×18 custom pet portrait in their choice of styles!

The winner is… Robin Massey! We have already emailed Robin and she has decided to use her prize to have us do a Pop Style portrait of her dad’s Macaw, Kalani, as a father’s day gift. We certainly didn’t expect to be doing a portrait of a bird for someone we met at the FURRY Scurry!! But we like feathered friends too, and are always excited about a change of pace. We’ll be sure and show everybody how Kalani’s portrait turns out.

We have actually been wishing we could do more portraits of exotic pets. In fact it gave us an idea for our next Pop Promo… 20% off any style of portrait, 11×14 or larger please, of any exotic pet.

Just so there are no misunderstandings, we consider an exotic pet anything that is not a dog or cat (or human). So a ferret or a parrot would count; so would a horse or a goldfish, which aren’t technically considered exotic but we don’t want to discriminate. But please don’t dye your cat purple or give your dog a mohawk and call it exotic! We’re not sure how long we will run this special offer, so you should place your order and send us a picture of your hamster or your hedgehog today! Just enter the voucher code “EXOTIC” and click on recalculate when you check out.

…Pop Art that is! And our new “Pop Promo” is a special offer just for Mom! We are offering special sizes and special prices for Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day??? You may be asking. Yes, Mother’s Day! Mother’s Day is May 14th, which sounds far away, but (a) time flies, and (b) it takes time to create a really thoughtful gift. So don’t resort to the typical flowers and a card, get your mom something she’ll really love – a custom portrait of her favorite kid (aka, her pet)! She will be truly surprised!

We are offering special sizes just for Mom of our famous custom Pop Art portraits and special pricing on select sizes of our increasingly popular Traditional Style pet portraits. Or you can get 10% off any size portrait in the style of your choice, whatever suits your mom’s taste – just enter the voucher code “Mom_promo” when you check out.

So make yourself a note.. this special Mother’s Day offer ends April 14th, and your mother always says don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today (And she was referring to things just like this when she said it)!