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Easy Home Decor – Interior Renovations With Tile Stickers, Kitchen Wall Decals, and Bathroom Wall Decals!

Bathroom Wall Decals — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:09:26 +0000

Have boring white tile in your kitchen or bathroom — the solution lies in tile stickers, kitchen wall decals and bathroom wall decals! Try ordering your own custom tile stickers to add some flair to your kitchen. This is a great fix to a dull kitchen, not to mention way cheaper than installing new tile! Or of you are contemplating a new tile you can always order temporary stics to test out the design before you spend money on new tile!

upload any image and create your own kitchen wall decals!

Want to add some flair to your living room or home office? Try adding your own stics using our fabric stic. These stics adhere to any surface and won’t damage the walls! Decide the image would look better in your bedroom? No problem, just remove it from your living room for a quick install in your bedroom! These are a great solution when you live in a rented space and can’t paint the walls!

upload any image and create your own bathroom wall decals!

What about using stics to decorate your floor? Tired of using a rug and having to replace it? You can use fabric stic to create a neat faux rug for your living space. Add some pillows around it and could be a great sitting area!

upload any image and create your own tile stickers!

Don’t forget about renovating your appliances! You can use stics to spice up your microwave or fridge too with appliance skins!

Show your School Pride with College Logo Wall Decals and Wall Stickers

Wall Decals — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:39:52 +0000

So… The time has come for you to start packing your bags and preparing for the big move into a dorm room on your college campus so why not put your college logo up as a wall decal or wall sticker? The fall semester looms (along with all the schoolwork that comes with it), and you want to decorate your dorm room while you still have free time on your hands.

College Wall Decals and Wall Stickers

You don’t just want generic wall posters around the room that you will see in everyone else’s dorm room. You want personalized wall art, custom laptop skins, and possibly even custom door stickers to share your name with your hall mates and potential new friends.

That’s why sticviews custom skins and decals are a great, low-cost solution for college students looking for custom dorm décor and college skins.

You can upload your own photos and create products for any use, limited only by your own imagination. Whether you want a 24” x 30” wall decal with a photo of your family or a laptop skin with your college logo to show your school pride, sticviews makes the process of personalizing and decorating for back-to-school quick and simple.

Need to find your school’s logo to create a college-themed decal or skin? We have compiled a tutorial on where to find high-quality school logos and how to get them into the sticviews designer to create your product.

If you need more creative ideas on how you can use sticviews for school, browse around the sticviews blog and check out other skins, decals, and decor customers have created with sticviews.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLzJReCmqpA

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

Kitchen Decor with Kitchen Wall Decals — Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Custom Wall Decals — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:57:10 +0000

There are numerous kitchen decorating ideas that can utilize kitchen wall art, kitchen wall decals and other kitchen decorations. The kitchen of any home is often the focal point where family members and friends congregate. With so much time spent in the kitchen, your kitchen decorating ideas can be visualized with only a few clicks on sticviews.com.

Kitchen Decor with Kitchen Wall Decals -- Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Some people kitchen decorating ideas include using Western decor or country decor as well as using vintage themed decor for accenting your kitchen. These types of kitchen decorating ideas creates a calm and relaxed environment reminiscent of a time before loud kitchen appliances. To visualize this type of antique kitchen decor imagine having a rooster decal above the stove. Applying country kitchen decorations on the doors to the entrance doors of your kitchen also can help create this environment.

Some may prefer having kitchen decor with a specific theme while others may rather have images of their favorite moments as wall art in their kitchen. The possibilities are limited only by how many images you wish to print and apply. Pictures of graduations, weddings, kid’s sports games or dance recitals are all excellent kitchen decorating ideas. These kitchen decorating ideas can go up not only on your wall, but on cabinets, tile and refrigerators as well.

No matter who you are or where you are from your kitchen decorating ideas can be realized at sticviews through kitchen decor and kitchen decals that can be placed on nearly any flat surface. Apply stickers or decals of a vintage kitchen or use country cottage decor with sunflower stickers.

Watch the video below demonstrating how quickly and easily it is to apply a large sticker or decal to a cabinet.

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

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

Custom Appliance Graphics – New Way to Decorate Your Kitchen with Kitchen Wall Decals and Removable Wall Stickers

Wall Decals — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:03:55 +0000

Nowadays, design is what it’s all about , especially with kitchen wall decals and removable wall decals! When you welcome people into your home you want to really show off your style. What better way to truly show off your great design ideas than to use custom sticviews to create your own appliance skin.

kitchen applicance decals

You know those super clean kitchens were everything is white -- well, why not add some color to the appliances and really show a nice design. Take a look at the image below. Boring white kitchen, everything is white…but then you add the nice pale appliance skin over the dishwasher and now you have a very unique design. (Wouldn’t that be the conversation of the party! At least at the beginning of the party!)

Custom appliance skins really give you the opportunity to show off your taste. Maybe you like lighter images like the one above, but what about a bright and vibrant kitchen. Below are some great ideas for bright appliance skins.

sticviews really allows you to show off your personality and add a great design element to your kitchen with appliance skins. Whether you want to add appliance skins to your fridge, your dish washer, your washing machine or microwave; the possibilities go on!

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

Custom Wrought Iron Cabinets – Home Decor with Custom Decals and Window Decals

Window Decals — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:33:45 +0000

Featured Order of the Week -- Custom Wrought Iron Cabinet With Custom Decals and Window Decals

Custom Wrought Iron Cabinet With Custom Decals and Window Decals

I wanted to showcase an awesome use for custom decals for home decor using sticviews. One of our customers ordered wrought iron decals on white stic to decorate her entertainment center! How awesome does it look using custom decals to decorate and give the furniture an updated look?

Wrought iron designs (which are featured in our gallery) have been used for window decor, but I never thought about using wrought iron on furniture! I wanted to feature this innovative idea. What do you think about it? Not only did she use images from our gallery, but she customized them with the “M” in the center of the two smaller wrought iron designs to create a monogram -- what a neat idea!

Using sticviews for home decor really adds some great style to the room. Also using the dark wrought iron ties into the dark of the “Love,” “Family,” and “Joy” words featured over the entertainment center.

Tell me what you think of this idea of using sticviews to create a new, affordable look for your living room. I’d love to have some feedback!

Keep sticin’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLzJReCmqpA

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!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX5WS5JpODk

Print Photos of Pets on Sticviews with Wall Decals and Custom Laptop Skins

Laptop Skins — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:39:42 +0000

Print photos of pets on sticviews using wall decals and custom laptop skins! I like alliteration, apparently!

Sonya here giving an update and ideas for sticviews! I’ve been busy managing the print production here at sticviews, but I wanted to give a quick update on some adorable laptop skin orders we’ve been getting. On sticviews.com, you can upload any photo and create your own custom sticky print -- whether it’s a custom laptop skin, car decal, wall decal, or a window decal. What better way to personalize your home than with photos of your cute pet?

Our custom laptop skins are our most popular product because they’re the most affordable custom skins on the market. Most are about $10. All of the images below are orders by real sticviews customers, except the kitten laptop (I guess we have a lot of dog lovers!).

Add your dogs' names with the sticviews text editor

Make a collage of your favorite photos for your custom laptop skin

Kitten photo by Flickr user mathias-erhart

Sad puppy dog eyes! Upload any photo for your personalized laptop skin

Hamsters are pets, too! Create your own custom iPhone sticker for $1

Create your own custom wall art with your pet photos. The wall decals shown here are circles on white stic.

I hope these give you some ideas to start creating your own custom decals!

Happy stic’in,
Sonya