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Personalized Valentine’s Gifts (Custom Laptop Skins and Wall Decals) with Sticviews

Wall Decals — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:02:29 +0000

Valentine’s day has become such a commercialized holiday -- seems like it’s more about chocolate and forget about personalized gives like custom laptop skins or wall decals! 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:

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!

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DIY Project – Refinishing Coffee Tables with Custom Skins, Custom Skins, and Custom Decals

Car Decals — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:31:02 +0000

Custom Table Furnishing with Sticviews Custom Skins, Custom Skins, and Custom Decals

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.

Refinishing Coffee Tables with Custom Skins, Custom Skins, and Custom Decals

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!