The good old days of sticking your photo's in an album or boring
friends and relatives to sleep with your vacation slideshow
are gone.... I was once labeled as "having a paper fetish";
I guess its kinda true. I think I have tried at least one of
everything out there; I could have probably bought a car or
vacation for all the money I have spent on printer paper...
but oh what fun I've had with it. My personal favorites so far
are the shrink n bake, clear decal and the canvas papers and
this really mad foil paper which I haven't seen since I bought
the first batch.
There are so many things you can do with your photos.. check
out some of these sites ink4art.com-
I particularly like this one because it sells the speciality
papers in higher quantities if you want them. No more trotting
off and picking up packs of 10.. they sell 10, 20, 50 and 100
sheet packs of allsorts of fun papers. One of my favorites is
the dark T-shirt paper it has a slightly rubbery feel to the
print; more like the professional T-shirt printers than most
papers.
imagestation.com
- Oh where to start .. I love
imagestation, when photo books first started it was a feature
for apple users only, now all of us lowly windows users can
also make our own coffee table books. But it doesn't stop there;
cards, mousepads and even...chocolate and candy..all with your
favorite print on them.
www.cafepress.com
- This is great if you want to take it to another level and
sell your art, no overheads and you get to set your profit margin.
A little on the expensive side at times .. but as I said no
stock and overheads everything is made to order when your customers
shop. They sell everything from the usual T-shirts and calendars
to travel mugs and g-strings... check them out :)
www.ewatchfactory.com
- This is one of the funkiest, most original ideas I've seen
in a long time, I can definitely see me using this service sometime
in the future. It's been around for a few years at least that
I know of, so it's not a company that will dissapear next week
and you will never see them again.
You get to choose from a variety of styles of watch.. and then
have your own pictures placed on the watch face. It's totally
cool and gets a big thumbs up from me.
You get to choose the watch style, text style, dial style..
even the box it comes in..and the online watch builder is really
easy to use, even your kids could do it. The hardest part about
building your won watch..is deciding what image to use.
I threw together this quick demo watch so show you how simple
it is, the possibilities are endless and they would make awesome
gifts for family and friends or promotional items.
If you have links to any cool sites you'd like to share with
everyone please email me with details.