Showing posts with label design your own socks. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Think Pink - Personalized Breast Cancer Awareness Socks!





Think Pink - Personalized Breast Cancer Awareness Socks!



It’s that time of the year when we keep encouraging all the strong women battling breast cancer, remember those who lost the battle, and increase awareness of the disease.





This month’s spotlight is on sockprints’ friend, Lourdes who was diagnosed in August 2013 with breast cancer.  With a strong mind and an encouraging family, Lourdes never had any doubt in beating the disease.  During the process she lost her hair, battled with fatigue and weakness but always had a smile and a positive outlook.  Just a couple months after having a mastectomy and a couple rounds of chemotherapy, she was able to have strength to go back to work a couple times a week.  She is currently in her last round of chemotherapy!  Stay strong Lourdes!



Being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we are happy to share our latest collection of Breast Cancer socks!  We have added some new designs to our collection!  Check out our socks on our Etsy shop.  These awesome socks would be great gifts to anyone who is dealing or dealt with breast cancer! 

Enter our custom Breast Cancer Awareness Sock Giveaway!  You could win 3 pairs of personalized socks!   


Giveaway ends on October 31, 2014.


Monday, April 15, 2013

College Bound Students and Socks!



It’s that time of year when college bound high school seniors receive their acceptance letters from college admissions offices.  It’s exciting to hear where all of the students will be heading in the fall and sockprints has a fun little gift you can create to say “Congrats!”

My daughter is graduating from high school this spring and will be heading to the University of Washington!  We’re all so excited and proud of her accomplishments.  I made these socks for her using a photo that was taken when she signed her letter of intent to play soccer for the women’s team.  It was an awesome day and this photo shows her enthusiasm for what lies ahead.  Now that the photo is on a pair of socks, she’ll remember that day every time she wears them! 

Create your own personalized pair for your college bound student.  Remember that all images must be your property as we are not licensed to print official collegiate logos.


Saturday, February 2, 2013

5 Tips for Creating Phenomenal Photo Socks!


1.  Use clear and crisp photos. A blurry photo on paper or on your computer screen will also print that way on socks.  Remember that we’re printing on a soft surface so some variation will apply.

2.  Avoid dark photos and photos with dark shadows.  Some of the best photos we’ve printed on socks are those with contrasting colors.  Here’s a pet photo we printed on some crew socks.  Notice how the dog stands out from the blue ocean background.   
 

3.  Crop your photos to accentuate the image.  Cropping your photos allows you to eliminate things in the background that can distract your eye from the main feature of the image.  Also remember that the print area on our no-show and crew socks is 3.25” x 4”, and 3.25” x 5.5” on our sporty knee highs. 
 
4.  Use Photoshop or other programs to enhance your image.  If you don’t have a program on your computer, try a website like www.picmonkey.com.  You can crop, brighten, and make other edits too.


5.  Be creative!  Once you’ve uploaded your photo using the sockprints design too, you can add a caption, title, border or filter to your photos.  Try different fonts and experiment with assorted features that allow you to make your custom socks one-of-a kind! 


Need inspiration for your custom photo socks?  Check us out and follow us on Pinterest and take a peek at some of our related blog posts. 

 


Thursday, January 3, 2013

You have custom sock questions - Sockprints has answers!


Happy New Year Happy Soles!  We recognize that while we’ve been printing on socks for quite some time now, not everyone has had an opportunity to experience first hand what we do.  So, as we embark on a new year we took some time to look back at some of the most frequently asked questions we received from our customers in 2012 to share with you with the hope to inspire your 2013 custom sock creations!


Can I personalize or add a name to each pair of socks?

Yes, absolutely!  That’s one of the unique features of sockprints.  Our online design tool allows you to create one-of-a-kind socks by the pair.  You can add a name to one pair, a photo on another, or whatever you wish. 

We received a request from a customer last month to help create a set of three custom socks for a Christmas gift.  She had found some socks a few years ago with her sister’s name, Sandra, on them and was looking for some new socks for her.  She was happy to hear that we could create new socks for her sister and was even more thrilled when we could personalize and use the name, Sandee, instead of Sandra.  When creating custom socks by the pair, you choose how names are spelled!

Do you only print on white socks?

No, but we have found that white socks provide the best blank canvas to showcase designs.  The white background makes the millions of colors available to use stand out on socks.

Our current product line includes some fun, neon no show socks, but for best results we only recommend using black designs and text for your custom neon socks.  We want you to be happy with your sock creations so we discourage the use of color photos or colored images on our neon socks.

Are your socks only sold in small sets or can you do large orders too?

We love large orders!  We have printed tons of socks for bat mitzvahs, sororities, schools, sports teams and leagues, and large companies.  Retail and wholesale accounts are available.  We also offer special pricing to organizations interested in selling socks for fundraisers.

If you need assistance with your order let us know.  We’re happy to help you with your custom designs like these socks we printed for a high school dance team.  Our customer requested the dance team logo on one sock and each dancer’s name on the other.  Very cute!
 

For more frequently asked questions, please visit the sockprints FAQ page!


Wishing you a very Happy New Year and some happy soles too!

 

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Assisted Living Socks - Irene's fun and useful gift


We’ve always thought that personalizing socks is a perfect way to help keep track of them and our idea was validated when we received the following email from one of our customers.

“The socks are for my 88 year old mother-in-law who has Alzheimer's and a great sense of humor. Her name is Irene and she lives in a facility where her socks seem to keep going missing. I think she'll love these and the folks there will know whose they are - a nicer way to identify her clothing.” – Yvonne

We love this idea and the timing couldn’t be any better for holiday gift giving!




 

 
 




 

Monday, September 10, 2012

Off to College!


Off to College!

For those of you who are not familiar with our story, sockprints was founded by two soccer moms in 2009 on the sidelines of a soccer field while watching our daughters play.  Week in and week out as the girls were competing on the field, we were brainstorming and building our business venture.  Just as our sockprints business has grown, so have our daughters and their aspirations of playing collegiate soccer.  While my daughter still has another year in high school, I’m thrilled my business partner’s daughter is off to play college soccer at Pepperdine University! 

Sending her to college without some custom socks wouldn’t be very cool, so we came up with these gems.  Good luck in the classroom and on the soccer field!  Go Pepperdine Waves!




It’s been a fun summer hearing about our friends’ kids and their post high school plans.  While some are off to play collegiate sports, others are getting ready to go through Sorority Recruitment (Rush - as us old timers still call it).  As I gladly wrote letters of recommendation for some young ladies, I recalled many fond collegiate sorority memories.  Best wishes to these women as they embark on Greek life!  I’m hoping they keep in touch and let me know which sorority they joined so I can send them some personalized sorority socks to say congrats!  We’re an official Greek licensed vendor for 10 national sororities and we even have our own sorority sockprints website. 





For those die-hard college football fans out there, custom socks are the perfect way to cheer for your team!  Create your own fan wear socks to wear in front of your big screen TV or ship a set to your college student.  Everyone loves getting a care package and to make your gift giving hassle free, we will ship your sock creations directly to your favorite college football fan.

  

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Pet Inspired Socks - Photos and Giveaway

With less than a week to go for our custom sock giveaway (see entry form below) and the end of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals month, we thought we’d share some fun socks inspired by our friends’ pets!  Take a peek…

     


    
                                
  

 



You can have some fun creating your own pet socks at sockprints.  Select a sock style, upload a photo or choose an image of your favorite animal from our design gallery, add some text if you want, and place your order in the shopping cart.  Give us your payment and shipping info and we’ll do the rest!

Thank you friends for sharing your pet photos with us!


GIVEAWAY - ENTER NOW!



Monday, January 30, 2012

MORE!


So the whole less is more theme from the last Happy Sole post is still my motto this year, but I have to say that sometimes people just NEED MORE!  Regardless of what it may be (chocolate instantly comes to mind), there are times when a few just won’t do.  Here are some examples of this when it comes to custom socks:


Party favors

Your guests will always remember the great time they had at your party when you send them home with a pair of custom socks.  Check out these fun and bright socks we printed for a Sweet 16 party.  They were such a hit our customer came back and ordered MORE!


Team sports

Straight out of production, these no show socks are for two high school girls soccer teams.  Why not have some fun off the field too with some no show socks?  As you can see we’re still digging the idea of different designs on each sock! 
 

Go Sea Hawks!  Beat your rivals!

One sock is sporting the team name and the other is personalized with each player’s number.  

Create and order these online in multiples of 3 until you reach the number of players on your team.  Need help with these?  Not a problem.  Just send us an email at contactus@sockprints.com.


Branding

Our golf distributors, The Winston Collection, went to the 2012 PGA Merchandise Show  in Orlando, Florida last week to show custom printed socks to PGA professionals from around the world.  Golf club logos turn ordinary blank socks into a great tee gift for tournaments.  Do you coordinate a golf tournament in your local community?  Give us a shout out and put our design team to work for your next event. 


So when a few just won’t do, go for MORE!  Ask us about quantity discounts too!


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Monday, December 5, 2011

5 Great Custom Sock Gift Ideas!

Everyone's looking for perfect gifts this holiday season and sockprints has a few ideas to help complete your shopping list! 



1.   Custom Coach Socks - Say thank you to your coaches for a great season or simply wish them Season's Greetings.  Using the sockprints online design gallery, it’s easy to select an image representing your sport and customize it with your coach’s name and your team name. 




2.  Naughty or Nice Socks – “He knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake!” How about wearing a pair of “naughty” socks on a bad day and on a good day, put on a pair of “nice” socks?  And for those days when you want some leeway, create your own custom “naughty and nice” variation socks!  We think these are really fun for the holiday season. 


3.  Group gifts – Are you looking for that special gift for friends in your book club, bunco group, bowling team, or other organization?  Personalize each pair of socks with your friend’s names.  They’re sure to be a hit!  We have some ready-to-customize bunco, book club and bowling artwork in our design gallery.

 

 
4.   Business socks – We’ve printed lots and lots of socks with company logos on them.  They’re a perfect way to say thank you to your customers and to keep your brand on their minds.






5.   Party favors – Everyone loves a great take-home gift and custom socks are a fun way for guests to remember your hospitality!  Take a peek at these “mistletoe” socks I created for our family Christmas party last year.



Share a custom sock gift giving idea with us by leaving a comment below and your idea may inspire a sock sample to share online with our followers and facebook fans!