Hang it, wear it, send it ......share it !

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.
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