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Sticviews Car Sticker and Wall Decal Ideas For Your College Dorm Room!

Wall Decals — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:05:45 +0000

Living in a college dorm room is an excellent way to combine friends, fun and education but turn that boring room into the envy of the floor with school mascot wall decal and car stickers! Since most dorms prohibit altering the walls in any way, wall stickers/decals and window stickers/decals are the perfect solution from turning drab into fab!

image courtesy of flickr user: Daniel Morris

The process is simple. Find the image you want to use – such as your school mascot – and turn it into school mascot stickers/decals to use on your walls, ceilings and windows for the world to see.

Using wall stickers/decals to decorate your dorm room does not need to be simply about your college mascot, consider other options as well – they are truly limitless. If prefer to show your support and enthusiasm for other activities – like a sorority or fraternity – use the Greek letters to signify your support and show it for everyone to envy. The unique, custom wall stickers/decals created by sticview.com are fully removable so if you move and want to take them with you next year, that’s not a problem. They do not damage the surface, so your parents will not receive a bill from the school demanding they pay for the damage you have done to the walls of your dorm.

Window stickers/decals also give you the option to count down to specific events – like Spring Break. Creating a window calendar of sorts gives you a large, visual reminder of a special upcoming event or vacation and can provide motivation as well as decoration. Use a fun font to create a series of numbers and make a window advent calendar of sorts to help you track your progress through the semester or through the cold winter months. Every time you see the countdown on the window you will be reminded that in just a few days or weeks you will be enjoying yourself on a beach in the sunny Caribbean.

Campaigning for the dorm’s supervisory board or other student-government positions? Use window stickers/decals and wall stickers/decals to promote yourself to your fellow students and potential voters. This is a fun, practical alternative to a poster board and marker sign that can be used for reelection next year as well.

If you choose to create a wall sticker/decal, window/sticker decal using trademarked images – such as your school mascot – make sure you have permission to do so. We just make the product, it’s your responsibility to make sure no laws are being broken in regards to image rights.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XG-P_KVnc

How to Create College Skins and Decals with Your School Logo

Wall Decals — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:17:42 +0000

If you are a college student ready to display your school pride for all to see, sticviews provides excellent products, for a variety of uses, that you can customize any way you like with custom skins, laptop skins, wall decals and custom decals.

We have discovered that college students may know what they want, but do not necessarily have access to a high-quality school logo to create college-themed laptop skins, car decals and room décor.

To help you out, we have compiled a short tutorial on where you can access a logo for your school (or university) and how you can get that image into the sticviews designer to create your own custom skins and decals. First try checking your school’s website to see if high-resolution logos are available.

(Disclaimer: This tutorial involves using school logos which are subject to copyright protection. Please check with your booster club or school officials to ensure that you have permission to use your school’s logo. Always respect all copyright laws, and be aware that by uploading images to sticviews, you are verifying that you have permission to use any images that are subject to copyright laws.)

Part I: Getting Started

To get started, visit Chris Creamer’s sportslogos.net website. Here you will find various logos for all types of professional sports teams, but our focus today is on the College and NCAA logos.

1) Click on the NCAA logo on the homepage or on the ‘College’ link under the ‘Sports Logos’ heading in the left-side menu.

2) Schools are divided up alphabetically into categories, so click on the letter range that includes the first letter of your school name (Ex: Florida State students click on ‘NCAA Division I (D-H)’)

3) Now you will see a page filled with school logos, in alphabetical order by school name.
Browse through to find your school and click on the logo image.

4) You are now taken to that school’s page with various past and present logos.
Click on the logo that you desire to use for your skin or decal (Although several schools have older logos available, newer logos seem to have higher resolution for better print results in most cases).

5) Now you should be viewing a larger version of the logo image, but notice how you cannot just right-click and select ‘Save Image as’ in your browser.
To get around this dilemma, you will have to use one of two methods (assuming your are running Windows), both of which are described below.

Part II: Saving the Logo

Method 1: Using the Windows Snipping Tool (Windows Vista, Windows 7)

If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you have access to a neat tool called the Snipping tool. You can access this program through the start menu or quick launch bar in Vista, or directly on your Start bar in Windows 7 (Look for the icon below).

This tool enables you to quickly take a screenshot of a portion of your screen, to be saved as an image on your PC.

1) Make sure your web browser (with the logo open) is visible and run the Snippin g tool.
Your entire screen should fade out and you will see a box appear in the upper-right corner of your screen (your arrow mouse cursor will also turn into a cross-hair cursor).

2) Position your cursor at the top-left corner of the logo, click and hold down the left button, and drag the cursor down to the bottom-right corner of the logo. Now let go of the left mouse button (this may take more than one try to make sure you capture the entire logo).

3) Your selection (the logo) will now open in a new window. Click ‘File > Save As…’ (or the purple floppy disk icon) to save the logo image somewhere on your PC. Be sure the save as a .JPG file or .GIF file, as these are the only file types allowed for upload on sticviews.

4) You are now ready to move on to Part III: Uploading to Sticviews

Method 2: Using the ‘Print Screen’ keyboard button

Although the Windows Snipping tool is the simplest way to save a logo image from sportslogos.net, the ‘Print Screen’ button on your keyboard (sometimes PrtScn) will work as well, with a few extra steps. This key is usually right next to the Scroll Lock button, on the top right half of your keyboard.

1) Make sure your browser window (with the logo) is visible and click the Print Screen button on your keyboard.

2) Open any image editor of your choice (Paint,Photoshop, etc.) and press CTRL + V to paste the image (or right-click and select ‘Paste’). You will notice that not only is the logo there, but also everything that was displayed on your screen.

3) Crop the image down to just the logo (process varies depending on image editor used).

4) Save the image somewhere on your PC (Be sure the save as a .JPG file or .GIF file, as these are the only file types allowed for upload on sticviews), and move on to Part III: Uploading to Sticviews

Part III: Uploading to Sticviews

Once you have the logo saved on your PC, the rest of the process is fairly straightforward to upload onto sticviews.

1) Go to the sticviews image upload page (http://app.sticviews.com/startuploadimage.aspx)

2) Click ‘Choose File’ and find the logo image that you just saved on your computer. Click ‘Open’ to load the image.

3) Agree to the conditions by checking the box, and click ‘Upload’.
Once the image details and screen shot appear, click ‘Continue’.

4) You will now be taken into the Sticviews designer with your image. Here, you can add any text you desire (or add other images), finalize your design, and complete the checkout process.

Congratulations! You have now created your very own custom College skin or decal. Be creative and design one for anything!

Last-Minute Father’s Day Gift Ideas Using Custom Decals and Wall Decals

Car Decals — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:27:07 +0000

With Father’s Day just around the corner, don’t forget to get dad something that he will be able to enjoy for a long time to come if you use custom decals and wall decals! That tie you were thinking about should be out of the question, since it will get stuffed in the closet on the tie rack with all of the other Father’s Day ties from years past.

What could be better than a tie? A personalized skin or decal… that’s what. Sticviews custom skins and decals allow anyone to quickly create a unique product that will last and can be removed and reused over and over again.

The Gadget Guy
If your dad is a gadget guy, helping him protect his devices and add style at the same time is a great way to show him that you care about his interests. Many fathers have made the plunge for the revolutionary Apple iPad. If your dad has an iPad of his own, amaze him with a custom iPad skin for under $10. That’s less than half the price of the competition!

Personalizing dad’s laptop with a custom laptop skin featuring a photo of the family is also a great way to surprise the father in your life on his important day. Did I mention that our laptop skins are priced under $20? We have the lowest prices around!

The Car Buff
If your dad is all about his car, sticviews custom car decals provide an excellent way to customize dad’s prized possession. Our vinyl decal material is available in any size, easy to install, and comes off clean and residue-free. Get custom race car decals for dad’s sports car, if he has a truck he can get truck window graphics, or a photo decal of the family for his sedan or SUV.

The Sports Man
If your dad is a sports fan, help him show pride for his favorite NBA Finals or World Cup sports team with a custom sports decal. He could use it on the walls, on the car, or even in the front window of your home for all to see, because when a man loves his team, he really loves his team!

We take pride in the fact that we allow you to create the perfect, unique present for the man who means so much to you. If you have been searching around for a gift, and are now forced to make a last minute decision, get dad a custom skin or decal that he will never expect.

We rely on the dependable services of UPS for shipping, so rest assured that you will receive your gift in time for Father’s Day. Ground shipping is guaranteed to arrive for Father’s day orders until Monday, June 14 (5 day maximum shipping time with tracking). We also offer 3-Day Select and Next Day Air shipping options if you need your order shipped faster.

So what are you waiting for? Get started designing a memorable, personalized gift for dad now with our simple, 3-step process.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzYQDkvrwE

Personalize Your Car With Custom Car Decals and Car Stickers

Car Decals — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:47:10 +0000

Car decals and car stickers really can show off the personality of the driver. I wanted to show case some neat car decals for personal use! Custom car decals, as mentioned in previous blogs, can be used to generate local business leads and can be used to show off personal style. Advertise your business name and phone with a custom car decal while stuck in traffic or parked in front of your business. Alternatively, you can add any image you wish when creating a custom car decal. Your imagination is the only limit! Add a skull decal, race-car decals, flame decals, or show your pride with an American flag decal!

We had a customer order a large decal of lyrics from one of The Beatles’ songs. She cut the car decal into several small car decal stickers and then installed them on her white car. Now you drive past her and she’s showing off her Beatles lyrics!

What about adding some flair to your car with some custom car decal wings? Car decals are so versatile (white vinyl or clear vinyl) that you really can get any look.

Are you a fan of sports car racing? You can use car decal stickers to create your own race-car. Pick your favorite number and design your own racing car decal stripes on the site.

Car decals from sticviews allow you to really decorate your car no matter what your style. Whether you want to add car decal flowers, racing stripes, flames or wings -- you can create your unique look with custom car decals from sticviews for both personal or business.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XG-P_KVnc

Car Decals and Car Stickers Generate Local Business Leads

Car Decals — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:46:17 +0000

Custom car decals and car stickers help small businesses thrive and attract local customers. Why spend between $5,000 -- $7,000 on a full car wrap, when you can spend around a $100 -- $200 for a partial car wrap with custom car decals. Installing car wraps takes a couple days of labor, whereas with sticviews all your paying for is your custom car decal: no design services, no installation fees, just the printing and shipping! Load your logo or image for your car decal on the sticviews website and receive your car decal sticker within days!

Car Decals and Car Stickers Generate Local Business Leads

Car window decals look great on windows, drawing plenty of attention on the road or while parked in public areas. Car decals are easy to install and don’t damage the surface or paint job. Martin with American Republic Insurance Company, ordered custom car decal stickers for his Dallas-based salesmen last week and he came out to the sticviews lab to pick them up. Installation only took a few minutes, and his car decal sticker turned out great!

Martin is going to order business car decals for his sales team to display their contact information on their vehicles to generate local leads in Plano TX, Allen TX, Fort Worth TX, and even some Austin and Oklahoma markets. The ads drive users to his new “lead generation” page www.NeedaHealthQuote.com or the company’s local phone number. Car decal stickers are an cost-effective way to generate local ROI for your small business -- see results immediately.

Here are some benefits of car decals from sticviews for promoting your business:

Car decals are easy to install with just a squeegee and a spray bottle of water. See installation video for car decals.
Car decals draw great attention while driving around town to generate new business leads to increase your ROI. Head over to our create page to start designing your own car decal stickers today.
You can order customized car decals for individual employees or buy in bulk.
Because the car decals are a low-tac adhesive they won’t ruin the paint job on your car and won’t leave a sticky residue.
Unlike magnetic car decals, car window decals from sticviews are more affordable and durable.
They’re weatherproof -- won’t come off in the rain, and last through the hot summer heat, and are un-phased by the car wash.

Have a simple cutline for a car sticker like the image above and want to buy in bulk? Request a quote on our website and someone from the sticviews team will get back to you about your custom car decals. Or use our easy 3 step process to design your own on sticviews.com today.

Do you have custom car decals for your business? We’d love to see them -- head over to our Facebook page to upload your images today to show off your business style!

Another great local company, Fences For Orphans, uses custom car decal stickers to promote their non-profit. Ray, the founder, has an older Honda model and decked it out with custom car decals to promote his new non-profit. Ray gets all the leads for Fences For Orphans from driving his vehicle around and parking it when he’s out shopping. Check out the blog to see his awesome car decals and how he uses them to promote his local non-profit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XG-P_KVnc

Sticviews Website Launch

Wall Decals — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:50:09 +0000

It’s finally here. We launched our new custom decals website on Sunday, March 21^st. It’s been a long couple of months working on content to provide you all with the easiest site to design your own custom laptop skins, home decor or car decals. The new site features some brand new decal ideas, like custom snowboard skins.

We created a new easy-to-use navigation scheme to help users browse our products in the categories of skins, décor and decals. Each product page now features an image gallery, top selling favorite designs, video demos and tutorials; not to mention featured blogs about the specific product.

New gallery module on site to display different ideas for decals.

The new Sticviews website features relevant blogs, videos and a favorites module on each product page.

In the next couple of months we will launch several more product pages, and hopefully have an exhaustive list of our custom decals by summertime. The great thing about custom decals is that the creative possibilities are endless, so anytime we or you have a new idea for using sticviews decals we can post that offering to our website. Have an idea for a sticviews custom decal that you don’t see featured on our site? Let us know in the contact us section of our site.

There's a whole section dedicated to teaching you how to customize your decal!

We’ve revamped the help section, and will continue to add more help information as consumers present different questions about sticviews decals. There’s also a thorough tops section full of great ideas and information about how to design and install your custom decals.

We have a new community section that focuses on our social media presence and our online communities. This section includes information featured on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Flickr to keep you in the know about sticviews. Sticviews uses the social networking sites to showcase decal ideas from the company and consumer side. Have a great idea for a stic? You can head over to our Facebook fan page to upload an image of your custom decal or post a comment about your idea for your own custom decal. We also will be incorporating an area where we can feature bloggers we are working with to show off their use of sticviews.

We’d love to hear your feedback about what you like and don’t like about our new site. Leave us a comment, contact us on Twitter or visit our Facebook page!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-0KZSe7EKU

Nomee – Official Social Media App for Sticviews

Car Stickers — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:02:41 +0000

sticviews offers a great way for brands to promote their identity through the use of custom adhesive vinyl stickers like car stickers and car decals. The great thing about sticviews is they stick anywhere and come off clean. As most of you know sticviews communicates a lot with customers through social media including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and more -- which is why nomee is now sticviews’ official social media application.

So, what is nomee? According to the CEO of nomee, Kevin Mokarow, “nomee is a tiny app that harnesses the power of the entire social web, integrating more than 140 social sites and giving users one dashboard to follow and publish on the entire social web.”

What does this mean for the sticviews brand? It means that sticviews consumers are able to see all of sticviews social media content through one application (below). What a great way to manage your social media content for yourself and for your followers -- not to mention a great way for you to follow other people.

What does this mean for a company? Mokarow explains that nomee allows for an increase in customer engagement. “Instead of waiting and hoping for users to stumble across your social content online, nomee delivers it to customers live 24/7.”

nomee uses sticviews to promote their brands for the events they attend, and we’re working on a partnership project for South by Southwest coming up in March and we are really eager to take off running.

Don’t forget to follow sticviews with our nomee card. Go to the nomee website to download the sticviews card (above) and keep track of us and your friends today.

nomee…official social media application for sticviews.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-0KZSe7EKU

Christmas Custom Decals Printing Galore with Car Decals and Laptop Skins!

Laptop Skins — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:04:04 +0000

Wow, the past few days have been a whirlwind here at the sticviews office with car decals and laptop skins! We’ve had lots of Christmas gifts come in and they look fantastic. We’ve had great designs come in for laptop skins, iPhone decals, custom window art, car decals and more! I’ll have to upload images of my favorite custom decals tomorrow so you all can see.

Here’s a quick overview of what we do to process orders. After we prepare the image files for print, we send them to our printer to print on white vinyl, clear vinyl, and cloth stic.

Christmas Custom Decals Printing Galore with Car Decals and Laptop Skins!

Next is the cutting stage. We have several options for the shapes of decals (rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, and semi-circle). Our cutter is really fast and cuts the images very precise! (I really like the Corvette laptop skin below.) People have been utilizing some awesome designs that are featured in the sticviews gallery, and some have even uploaded their own unique designs.

The last stage is packaging. Everyone gets a few free samples (a stained glass sticker, a holiday decal, and a cloth stic shirt sticker) and installation tips. I love the zebra laptop skin, doesn’t it look great? I’m thinking about sticking my desk with zebra tomorrow!!

So there you a have it -- the custom decal orders are on their way via UPS to the Santa’s across the US!

Merry Christmas to you all!

Keep sticin!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5WS5JpODk

Christmas Car Decals and Car Stickers

Car Decals — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:10:20 +0000

Another great Dallas Christmas Design tip: Christmas Car Decals and Car Stickers!

Driving around Dallas, I’ve seen TONS of cars with wreaths and Christmas bumper stickers. But what about Christmas removable car decals that won’t damage the surface of your car? sticviews is the answer! sticviews custom car decals can be your next Christmas decor idea!

Whether you want to just have a wreath on the hood, the back, or the door, stick up some graphics of Christmas gifts, or just say “Merry Christmas!”, sticviews is your temporary solution to stick up your car with custom car decals.

Now you can be the next new thing in the Dallas area with innovative car decals for Christmas decor. And it takes a matter of minutes. Just go to sticviews.com and either select an image from our gallery or upload your own. You can always find websites that have free images for download and upload those as well.

I found lots of Christmas vector images from Vector Jungle!

If you have an idea for a great Christmas decorating tip -- let me know!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzRvlyYJfE

I Heart Faces Photography Workshop on Wall Decals and Car Decals

Wall Decals — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25:57 +0000

Last weekend I Heart Faces hosted their first photography blogs on wall decals and car decals. They had photography bloggers come from all over -- including one who came from Germany!

They spent the weekend taking lots of pictures and then had plenty of workshops for different photography tips and more!

The photographers walked away with all kinds of neat giveaways -- including our sticviews! We printed their favorite images (that were submitted ahead of time) as custom stickers (white stic and cloth stic materials). The pictures that were submitted where great, and they looked awesome on our cloth and white stic! I think we really showed them how sticviews can be used for photographers with their custom photographs.

Also, we printed logo sticviews for Amy and Angie to deck out their laptops and iPhones! They look awesome! What a great way to promote their photography blog. And they used an extra laptop skin to stick to the door of the conference room so everyone knew where to go! I think it was a great idea for temporary signage!

This was a great weekend for the photographers. Sonya and I visited the workshop on Saturday to talk about what Sticviews can do for photographers -- we had a great time meeting the photographers. They all had great talent and we’re hoping to see what magic they work with their photos and sticviews!

Here’s two of the photos we printed on cloth stic. I just stuck them to my Mac (over my white stic skin). I think they look awesome. The photos are great quality and look awesome on cloth stic custom stickers.

Did you attend the conference? Don’t forget you get 30% off your order at sticviews just for attending the conference! And it’s available until the end of the year. (Talk about some awesome Christmas gifts!)

Keep sticin! I’d love to hear YOUR ideas for sticviews custom stickers this holiday season or for your photographs!