Great Photos Make Great Socks

With cameras in our back pockets, we now have more photos than we know what to do with. We take photos of everything, our pets, friends, loved ones, vacations, graduations, weddings, and of course the selfie! We take so many photos that most of them are lost in old computer files, Facebook albums, and the cloud, never to be seen again.

So why not bring those great photos to life by printing them on something you can wear everyday? Send us your photos and sockprints can turn your pictures into a high-quality full-color print on any of our sock styles.

Design your own at sockprints, or email your pictures to us at contactus@sockprints.com and our design team will help create a pair of custom printed photo socks just for you.

BONUS! Enter coupon PHOTOSOCKS10 to receive 10% off your purchase!

Photo Friday - Graduation Edition - Wearable Scrapbook

It’s graduation season! It can be a nerve wracking and exciting time as it represents a maturation, an end to some of the greatest chapters of life, and the beginning of new chapters. 

One of our customers came up with a great way to commemorate special memories and celebrate the accomplishments of her graduating friends. She reached out to us through our SockprintsOnEtsy shop. She created these personalized full-print photo socks. These socks are a wearable scrapbook, with photos of her friend’s childhood, major accomplishments, family, and hobbies all from this chapter of their life. They make the perfect graduation gift and I’m sure will bring a smile to her friend’s faces for years to come.

Want a pair of these photo-collage socks personalized for your graduate? Upload your photos and design your own at sockprints or send us an email and our design team can help you create your very own pair! 

In honor of Endangered Species Day we interrupt our regularly scheduled Pet-Photo-Friday post to highlight this beautiful big cat, the Amur Leopard, on our awesome custom photo socks. 

 

A native to the Primorye and Jilin regions of southeast Russian and northeast China, the Amur Leopard was classified as critically endangered in 1996 due to poaching and habitat loss from agricultural and urban development. With help from the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance, the Phoenix Fund, and the Wildlife Conservation Society, the number of Amur Leopards has grown and today it is estimated that there are around 60 individuals living in the wild.

If you want to learn more about this beautiful animal or want to donate to help in the preservation of their species please visit http://www.altaconservation.org

Interested in your own pair of custom printed socks? Design your own at www.sockprints.com or send us an email (contactus@sockprints.com) and someone on our design team will help personalize a pair of socks just for you!

Pet Photo Friday - Consuela

It’s Friday and that means it’s time to introduce you to this week’s sockprints Pet of the Week! Say hello to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock, or just Consuela for short. This 5-year-old tortoise shell kitty was found hiding in a bush in the alley behind her owner’s house in college. Her owner told us that Consuela is “very talkative, very sweet and very odd.” Consuela’s owner made these custom printed pet photo socks as a Father's Day “Cat Dad Day” gift for her fiancé. 

If you want to see more of this cute kitty, Consuela and her brother Googles, you are in luck because they have their own Instagram page! Check them out @googsandsuela.

Want to wear your pets on your feet? It’s easy! Design your own custom socks at sockprints.com  or send us an email and we can help you create your very own pair of personalized socks!

For Mom - Mother's Day Gift Socks 2015

Take a peek at a few new Mother's Day gift sock ideas! If you haven't ordered from us before, give us a try at sockprints.com or SockprintsOnEtsy.com.  Sockprints offers a customized option on a common product used by many that is original and fresh as well as practical and fun!

Beautiful and classic in design, these floral monogram socks make a lovely gift for Mom or Grandma this Mother's Day!

You take the photo and we print it on socks! We can print one photo on one sock and a second photo on the other sock in the pair. 

Pinterest craft people - You know who you are... GET CREATIVE! Our socks are a great, blank canvas to have some fun taking photos of your kids with personalized messages on small chalk boards. Too cute and a perfect gift for Grandma!

We can also split one photo so half of the image prints on one sock and half prints on the other sock.  Add a special message and sign it! A super substitute for a Mother's Day card.

Send us your custom sock ideas! We LOVE seeing and sharing our customer's creative sock designs feature on our socks.  Send us your photos of your sockprints in action! Tag us on social media, follow us, and use hashtage #sockprints too!

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Twitter - @sockprints

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Pinterest.com/sockprints

Sockprints Staff Picks - Jessica Ly - Photos, Monograms, and Fraternity Socks

We're happy to introduce you to Jessica Ly and some of her favorite custom printed and personalized socks by sockprints.  Perhaps some of her favorites will be yours too! 

"I recently graduated from the University of Redlands and played on the Women’s Tennis Team all four years. I created custom socks with a picture of me at NCAA’s! I think it’s great that sockprints allows for customization!

The monogram socks are my favorite!! I recently convinced my mom to get some of these socks for her friends from high school. They all loved them and they make awesome gifts!

I love all the sorority and fraternity socks available on our Etsy shop, SockprintsOnEtsy! The men’s crew socks make great gifts for fraternity brothers! This is one of my favorite designs!"

Throwback Thursday Socks! #TBT

Throwback Thursday Socks!

What?  Throwback Thursday socks?  Yep!  Some of our favorite custom printed socks feature photos from memories of yesteryear.   Black and white photos as well as full color pictures look great on socks. 

Sockprints’ online design tool has a fantastic interface with Instagram and Facebook making it easy to access your photos to  print on our socks!  Simply create an account at sockprints and allow our site to access your Facebook and Instagram photos.  Click on your selected image and it will appear on a pair of our socks.  You can customize by adding text too.

related posts:

Facebook and Instagram Photo Socks

5 Tips for Creating Photo Socks

Pet Photo Socks

With Moms in Mind

It's that time of year when we give our moms a BIG hug and tell them how much we LOVE and APPRECIATE all that they have done for us!  Giving them a little gift (like a pair of custom sockprints - hint, hint) is a nice touch too.

So with Moms in mind and gift giving right around the corner, we're happy to share our latest collection of Mother's Day socks.  We have added some new and exciting additions to our line up this spring. Take a peek!

RHINESTONE BLING!

These new rhinestone socks are available on our SockprintsOnEtsy shop and can be purchased by the pair!

Personalize a pair with a name.

Mom is the #1 fan for her team!
Add her kids' names to a pair.

Enough said.  Call her now!

Style mom on the golf course.

Mom is the best!

    

ALL OVER PRINT - NO SHOW SOCKS

 

Say it on Socks

 
Founded by two moms, sockprints wishes all moms a very Happy Mother's Day!!

Shop now and receive 15% off your order through May 11, 2014.  Use code MOM15 at checkout.

Offer is available at sockprints and SockprintsOnEtsy!

Custom Printed Socks Featuring Etsy Artists

Sockprints has teamed up with some very talented Etsy artists to bring our customers a fun new option when purchasing custom printed socks!  Sold in sets of three at SockprintsOnEtsy, each pair of socks displays a beautiful design or photograph from these select artists.    

We’re pleased to introduce you to them...

Paint, Fabric and Whimsy

Meet Kelly Walston of Paint, Fabric and Whimsy.  As a native Californian her work is influenced by Mexican Folk Art.  She incorporates highly detailed and colorful Oaxacan style to her artwork.  Kelly is also inspired by her experience working with children’s museums and with her own daughters.  For more information about Kelly’s art, take a peek at her Etsy shop, PaintFabricWhimsy.

We love the bright vibrant colors of her artwork and how beautiful and detailed they print on our white socks!

Lark Road Rhymes

Stephanie Girard’s Etsy shop, Lark Road Rhymes features made to order poems and messages.  When we saw how she personalizes each poem and how great her designs look on photo paper, we knew they’d be a hit for our custom socks too.  Stephanie’s unique, personalized designs make great engagement and wedding gifts.  She also has a full selection of children’s poems for nurseries, baptism, and youth sports. 

We’re happy to announce that we’re adding youth size socks to our product line up later this summer and we look forward to working with Stephanie to bring some children’s designs to our socks too!

Tapadh Leibh Cards

Meet Kimberley from Tapadh Leibh Cards!  She’s a teacher with a passion for working with youth as well as the performing and fine arts.  Her art is inspired by her family, friends, humor and her travels.  Tapadh Leibh means, thank you, in Gaelic and pays homage to her Scottish heritage.

The photograph shown on this pair of socks was taken in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia Canada and is titled, “Natural Color.”  Simply beautiful!

If you’re not familiar with Etsy.com, it’s a fantastic, online marketplace filled with art, handmade crafts and vintage items.  You’ll find all sorts of talented artists and inspiring shops selling their items on Etsy.  For more information about these artists, their work and to check out our socks, explore - SockprintsOnEtsy, PaintFabricWhimsy, LarkRoadRhymes, TapadhLeibhCards

New - Facebook and Instagram Photo Tool at Sockprints!

We are excited to announce that we just added a really cool feature to sockprints.com!  Our customers can now use photos from their Facebook and Instagram accounts to design and personalize their own custom socks!

The process is as simple as adding an image from our design gallery, but instead of selecting artwork from our store, you click on the Facebook or Instagram link and icon.  You will need to login to your account and then your photos will appear!  Click on a photo for starters and then use one of the other design tools to create your socks.  You can add a filter, a boarder, and some text too.  The possibilities are endless!

This new feature is a great addition for customers to use when creating personalized socks.  Many customers use their personal photos and having quick access to them via Facebook and Instagram will enhance their sock designing experience.

We were so excited with the new improvement to our online design tool that we had to create some socks using our own Facebook and Instagram photos.   

My son and I are LA Kings fans and we posted
 this picture for our friends on Facebook

I'm guilty of taking pictures of my
spoiled cat and posting them on Instagram!

We hope you will take advantage of this new addition to sockprints and have fun making your own personalized sockprints!

 More posts about photo socks: 5 Tips for Creating Photo Socks, and Pet Inspired Socks - Photos

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. 

 www.pinterest.com/sockprints

 

Pet Inspired Socks - Photos

Get Crafty 
 

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!

Prevent Cruelty to Animals

April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals month and based on the number of pet photos we receive from our customers to print on our socks we know how much love is out there for animals

We love our pets too and some of the first custom socks we printed were of our kitten shortly after he was adopted from a Los Angeles shelter.  My son was the first to spot our cat, Cameron, on my son’s 9^th birthday on a visit to the shelter.  When we tried to take him home that day we were told that he wasn’t available for adoption for 3 more days.  We waited for what seemed like ages and went to the shelter first thing Saturday morning and found the same kitten right where we had left him, obviously waiting for us!  But, when we got there we didn’t know that we weren’t the first to arrive that morning.  When we pointed out the kitten we wanted to adopt, we were told by the staff that a woman had already gotten to the shelter a couple minutes before we did and she wanted our cat too. 

My heart sank as I watched my son getting choked up at the thought of not bringing home that kitten.  The other woman who went to check out some other cats before making her final decision came back and saw the dilemma unfolding.  We were told that since two people wanted the same kitten that they could hold an auction on the spot and we could bid against each other.  I could not and would not leave that shelter without that kitten!  I felt my own mama claws coming out and I was going to do whatever I had to do to get that cat!  Fortunately for us, this very understanding woman must have seen how my son’s heart was set on our cat and she said we could have him.

I’ll never forget the comments the woman made about how lucky two cats would be to have found loving homes that day.  She was right.  While we were both focused on rescuing that one special kitten, two were saved. 

Did you rescue your pet?  If so, share your story and enter our April sockprints giveaway.  Two lucky winners will receive one set of 3 custom printed no-show or crew socks.  Perfect for creating your own pet photo socks!  Enter below by telling us in a sentence or two how you rescued your pet.  Winners will be selected on April 30, 2012 at 10:00pm pst. 

While you’re at it, check out organizations like ASPCA and The Humane Society and support Prevention of Cruelty to Animals during the month of April (and always)!

see related post - Now that I'm a pet owner

PROM?

We have another clever sockprints customer to thank for taking us back down high school memory lane and bringing us this custom sock idea… Prom invitation socks!

Prom Invitations - We have a great time coming up with inventive things  to print on our socks and we’re always thrilled to see new custom sock ideas from our customers.  One customer came up with a fun way to ask his date to the prom.   He created a set of 3 no show socks.  The first pair popped the question and the second and third pairs could be worn to show her response.  Very clever!

Prom Party Favors - If you’re on the prom planning committee, how about offering attendees custom socks to commemorate the event?  Tired feet will love to slip off high heels and slide into the comfort of a pair of sockprints on the dance floor.  We have sock styles for girls and boys and your high school or prom logo will look great on them.

After Prom Remembrance –When the party is over and you’ve looked at your prom pictures, upload a few to sockprints and create some prom memory socks.  Order a set for your date to say, “Thank you” or make some for yourself to remember that occasion.

Retro Prom - The sample socks below are from the most recent prom I went to a few years ago.  That’s right, a few years ago.  Not 20-something years ago like a few of my friends might think I’m mentioning.  Some family members hosted a retro-prom party one New Year’s eve and we had a blast dressing up in our retro prom attire, taking pictures and voting for prom king and queen.  I’m pleased to say that although the voting is still disputed amongst family, my husband and I won the prom king and queen contest! 

If we had sockprints back at our retro prom party I would have printed a pair of socks for each couple with their prom picture on it for them.  We still get a good laugh every time we see these photos and having them on personalized socks would be a great way to reminisce about that night.

We’re running a special PROMotion this spring for 25% off your custom sock order.  Enter PROM12 at checkout to receive your discount.