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Valentine’s day has become such a commercialized holiday – seems like it’s more about chocolate than anything else! Nothing against chocolate, of course! It’s a great gift, but why not celebrate this Valentine’s day by giving your loved one something a little more personal than just candy and flowers? It may be easier than you think to put together a thoughtful, personalized Valentine’s day gift. Here’s one idea I came up with of what you could do this Valentine’s with sticviews custom prints:

Step 1:

Find all your favorite photos of you and your Valentine:

Photos by Flickr user slemmon

OR set up a photo shoot with a photographer so you will have good quality photos to work with. Great photography is an investment – it’s something that archives your life’s story so you remember people and events worth remembering. Truly gifted photographers will be able to capture great moments that really show your personality. Here’s some of our favorite photographers:

• Sweet E Images
• Keri Meyers Photography
• Table 4 Weddings

Step 2:

Upload your photos to sticviews.com

sticviews prints photo-quality prints, both on several different types of adhesive materials and poster paper (we call it art paper on the website). All high quality, high resolution photos print beautifully on sticviews. This makes sticviews perfect for custom photo enlargements. It also means you can personalize any gift with your great photos by simply peeling and stic’in your photos on as decorations.

Step 3:

Give your custom photo enlargements as a gift or personalize another gift with your custom sticviews photo prints.

Here’s some ideas of what you could do with your custom Valentine’s sticviews:

Custom wall decals for your bedroom:

Photos by Flickr users slemmon, sonofgroucho

Custom laptop skin:

Create a personalized memory box:

Fill a box or chest with momentos from you and your Valentine’s love life and stic your sticviews photo decals on it. Create a custom sticker label with our text editor.

Photos by Flickr users brenda-starr, slemmon

Skin your coffee table or other furniture:

Create a photo collage straight onto your coffee table without worrying about messy glues or laminates. Just peel and stic your sticviews custom photo stickers onto a flat surface. Peel off and stic on again if you mess up – sticviews are always easily removed and come off clean. Check out how we skinned the sticviews’ office coffee tables with animal print in this blog article!

Decorate your their office space and skin their office desk:

Surprise your Valentine by personalizing their work space with your photo decals and custom photo enlargements.

I hope this gives you some ideas about how you can give a personalized Valentine’s gift this year!

Happy stic’in,
Sonya

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Custom Table Furnishing with Sticviews

So, you have these boring tables around  your house and you’re not sure what to do with them to make them look better.  You could go the painting route, but why not pick a design that you can change easily over time.  Using sticviews you can create custom skins for your tables or other home furnishings.  We had two white square tables in our office and we wanted to spruce them up.  I want to show you how easy it is to re-finish your tables using sticviews custom table skins.

The supplies you need to re-finish your tables are simple: the custom sticker from sticviews, a spray bottle of water (or damp cloth), a small squeegee or credit card, a tape measure and scissors.

First you want to clean the surface of your table.  You never know what dust is on the surface and it can get stuck to the sticker and leave bumps.  If you want to make your skin fit really well to the surface of your table make sure to wipe it down with water or surface cleaner.  Having a clean surface allows the custom sticker to stick really smoothly to the surface of the table.

Next you want to measure the table to make sure your custom sticker will fit exactly.  Now, you can order the custom sticker to fit exactly to the surface, but we’ve found it to be easier to make the sticker just a little larger than the actual surface so you can trim to fit.  After you measure the table cut the sticker to fit.

Now that you have the sticker cut to fit your table it’s time to start skinning!  Using your spray bottle generously spray the adhesive side of your custom sticker and the top of the table.  Spraying the surface allows for you to easily slide the sticker on the surface to fit it to the corners more precisely.  Once you have the sticker on you can use the squeegee to smooth the surface out to avoid air bubbles. (I used a paper towel to catch the water as it came out from under the sticker.)

And there you have it your newly furnished custom tables!  Using sticviews to create a unique look for your tables is a great afternoon project.  It’s always helpful to  have another pair of hands – this is something your kids would love to help with!

You can select from the many designs we have on the sticviews website or upload your own design or picture.  We have everything from animal print to modern design or landscapes.  Maybe you want to skin a table with a family photograph or a picture of a beautiful flower – the possibilities are endless with sticviews custom stickers!! Amy over at Living Locurto also skinned her kids tables.  Check out her blog here to see her table skins.  What DIY projects could you use sticviews for?  I’d love to hear your feedback!

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We had this great idea the other week during a staff meeting.  Let’s see if we can come up with a list of 101 uses for custom stickers from sticviews!  So, I’m starting my mission today – and I’m halfway there.  I know the possibilities are truly endless, and it just takes a matter of days for a few people to brainstorm as many possibilities as possible.  Part of me is wanting to see what a group of creatives from an agency could come up with.  There really are thousands of ways to use sticviews custom stickers. 

Let us being here…

1. laptop skin
2. guitar skin
3. iPhone skin (or other phones)
4. wall stic (instead of a regular poster)
5. desk stic
6. car stic graphics
7. promotional water bottle stics
8. tile decor
9. imitation stained glass
10. band stickers
11. building banners
12. window stics
13. marathon stics – wear a picture of the person you are running for with a clothstic
14. decorate your mini-fridge (change colors?)
15. instructional stics to help your children remember how to do certain things (definitely helpful for parents who have children who are diagnosed with autism – check out this blog post for more information)
16. stickers for your skateboard
17. “bighead” stickers for your wall – larger than life size portraits
18. advertise your business on the side of your car with a stic
19. add cool graphics to the side of your car with a stic
20. use stics to decorate for a party – fabric stics will stic pretty much anywhere!
21. create a stic banner for any occasion
22. create a unique photo collage on your wall using fabric  stics
23. let your kids order stics for their school lockers
24. or for their school binders
25. create iPod skins
26. have open space on your walls and not sure what to put there – create a custom stic!
27. instead of buying your daughter a paperdoll set, what about creating a stic doll set!  stics last WAY longer and can be reapplied over and over again
28. a measuring stic to measure the height of your child throughout their childhood – we have some already made to 5 feet tall
29. is your lamp shade looking a little outdated?  order a custom clothstic to ‘refinish’ your lamp – give it some style!
30. are you a business owner?  stic your business everywhere – from your products to your cars!
31. my dad uses stics for his business – he stics the custom stic to all of the products he installs
32. use stics as an affordable way to create your own custom media kits instead of ordering costly custom folders you can order a custom stic to stic to the front of the folder
33. instead of the traditional business card – print custom stic business cards so people can stic them anywhere!
34. do you sell t-shirts?  use stics as an alternative tag and then people will promote your company with the stics!
35. get a clear stic (with no design) and use it as protection for your guitar
36. to keep track of where tools go on pegboard in a shop. A sticker for each tool showing what is in its place and what has wander off (thanks for the idea Alden!)
    
37. get a clear stic (with no design) and use it as protection for your iPhone
38. promotional stickers for an organization at school
39. car decals for your child’s sports teams
40. put your name label on your personal belongings
41. order sticviews address labels – order a stic that has your address so people you are sending things to can save your address stic
42. orthodontists can order custom stics to stic on the ceilings
43. use your own custom stic as markers when you are hiking in the forest (haha)
44. save the date wedding reminders
45. perfect stop-motion story telling
46. sticker graffiti – you can order blank white stic and draw your own graffiti on them
47. custom stic for your computer tower
48. put a sticker on each of your TV remotes so you know what they go to
49. print fabric stic family photos to decorate your office at work
50. print stics for your guitar case!
51. destructive bookmarks (thanks for the idea Benson Hines!)

See the rest of the 101 Uses for Stics next week!  If you have ideas then leave a comment!!  I want to hear what you have to say!

Until next time.

Don’t forget to follow me on twitter, Kat Farmer

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