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Using Transfer Tape on Mylar Balloon

Balloons decorated with Cricut Vinyl Ready for Helium

Balloons personalized with Vinyl cut by a Cricut

This is an amazing idea!  Use your Cricut and Vinyl to personalize Mylar Balloons.  One of our customers who wishes to remain anonymous shared the idea with me the other day.  Since we were just blessed with a new Grandson, we decorated some balloons.

I wandered over to our local dollar store, picked out a few Mylar Balloons and explained that I would be back later to have them filled.  She had no problem with that.

We then cut the vinyl with our Cricut.  Took the names of the parents and put them on balloons along with our new grandsons name on a separate balloon.  The process is much easier if you use transfer tape as the tape protects the balloon while you smooth out the letters on the balloon.

We decorated 3 balloons in about 10 minutes and everyone who visits them at the hospital asks them where they got the balloons. Very Cool!  Supplies are available at www.PrintOnIt.com

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What do markers, your Cricut machine and t-shirts have in common?  The answer, Cut Color Wear. 

Cut Color Wear is a great new product that allows your to personalize any t-shirt (and other fabrics) simply by cutting the design on your Cricut, coloring with any soft tipped marker including washables, and then ironing to any color fabric.  The beauty of the product is in the simplicity of it.  It is compatible with virtually any personal cutter, any soft tipped marker, and any color of t-shirt. 

Stop by our Myspace account and add us as a friend!   At our Myspace account, you can post all the great ideas you have using Cut Color Wear   Myspace is a great place to share all of our ideas. 

For more information on Cut Color Wear, click HERE.

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There was an idea we just had to try out, “can you use the Cricut and compatible vinyl to make custom shirts?”

The answer is a resounding — Yes!

And much easier than you ever thought possible too. Takes just a little time to decide on an image you want to place on your garment. Then just cut that image into some self adhesive cricut compatible vinyl, the idea here is to make a stencil which will adhere to the shirt.

Once you have the stencil ready, weed out the un-wanted vinyl and peel away the backing. Next, place the vinyl stencil onto the shirt and depending on the size of the image you may want to tape off more of the shirt…

You are now ready to take your ’solution’ and start spraying onto the stencil. Be sure to soak the area exposed well enough to cause fading.

Watch the video below it provides an excellent idea of what I am trying eplain.

Because this works so well you can now use the Cricut Dark T-shirt Decorating Kit to do this project at home! You can choose between two different kits, 6×12 Vinyl Kit or the 12×12 Vinyl Kit and Get Started Today!

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You have most likely seen the Infomercial demonstrating Cricut Glass Etching using Cricut machines. If not, don’t worry.

How would you like to be able to do some custom glass etching just like these glasses below?

Those glasses are Stunning!

The best part, it was simple to make these etchings too. I used the Glass Etching Kit from here. And when I say it was simple to do – I mean easy.

A neat video that shows the steps involved with Cricut Glass Etching is right here. Take a look at the video, pick a Kit for yourself. Give it a try – you will have a blast!

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Yes! Particularly when using the Cricut. Vinyl is versatile, it is attractive, easy to use and comes in tens of different colors able to match existing decor in your home.

Vinyl easily comes off of any surface. You can reuse the vinyl this removed vinyl too, as long as you use some care when removing. Plus, another great benefit is that removing Vinyl doesn”t damage existing surfaces and no sticky mess left behind either.

Your imagination takes over with vinyl decor, there are no limits! Your creativity will come out, family and friends will be awed at your ability to decorate so beautifully.

And when you consider the near unlimited color choices available with Cricut Vinyl, PrintOnIt has 32 colors in stock, you are going to get excited at your possibilities for decorating, scrapbooking and so much more.

Imagine the wonderful memories you will create when you use vinyl in photo albums or scrapbooks. The fun, the memories and the traditions you can start are waiting.

Hopefully you are excited! Try our Cricut Vinyl Today, we have 32 colors and 3 sizes to choose from for all your projects or ideas.

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Congratulations are in order to the winners of the 1st annual Great American Vinyl Contest.
And here they are:
Grand Prize: Julie Grizzle
2nd Place: Kelly Smith
3rd Place: Jody Bieri

Winners are being contacted. We thank everyone who participated and truly enjoyed this contest. We hope everyone involved equally had a great time! Thank-You!

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The Great American Vinyl Contest is officially over, the judging takes place and winners announced soon.

If you missed this years contest, fret not – we will be doing it again next year! We have had an absolute blast sponsoring the contest this year. We are doing it again because it has been so fun. Watch for coming information about other contests though, we have a few spin-off ideas for contests we feel many will enjoy.

At PrintOnIt.com we do much more than self adhesive vinyl for Cricut and Pazzle, check us out for more ideas of your own.

Contest winners will be posted here and on the PrintOnIt by Friday, July 25th, 2008.

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I do not know of any other site on the Internet giving away $1500 in the form of Gift Certificates.

If you Scrapbook, do Home Decor or make other projects with Vinyl you have just a little over 24 hours left to enter The Great American Vinyl Contest at the time I type out this post (1:37pm CST on Monday, July 14th).

The Contest deadline is tomorrow (July 15th, 2008) at 5pm CST. All of the details can be found right here.

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Just as the headline reads you have 1 more week to enter the Great American Vinyl Contest at PrintOnIt.com for you chance to win the Grand Prize of a $1000 Gift Certificate.

Just imagine having the Grand Prize. What would you do? Entering is easy.

And you don’t even have to purchase anything to enter. The only requirement to having an approved entry is to use vinyl in your project. Check out all the details at PrintOnIt.com.

Grand Prize = $1000 Gift Certificate
2nd Place = 300 Gift Certificate
3rd Place = 200 Gift Certificate

All entries must be submitted by 5pm CST on July 15th, 2008. Judging will follow and winners will be announced by August 1st, 2008. Winning entries will be displayed on PrinOnIt’s website for all to see.

Enter The Great American Vinyl Contest today!

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You can start finding many websites now out there providing a great deal of information about starting your own home decorating business. Surprisingly some of these offer some very good information.

The best idea I have come across is using self-adhesive vinyl for home decor. And there are several reason really, but the first great reason is because your costs can be very low for supplies. Plus you only need to purchase these supplies as you need them, no need to keep a big inventory.

The idea with vinyl home decor is simple too. Successful people are using popular phrases such as, “Live – Love – Laugh,” to quickly add elegance to any room. Because the vinyl is self-adhesive there is no messy glue to use. This makes the job very easy and fast. I believe you could turn this idea into a very lucrative business in no time at all.

In fact, take the idea one step further and you could offer entire room make overs with a new paint job and the vinyl decor too. Add in a few pictures, maybe some silk flowers and you begin to have your own interior decorating business. If you are good with color and design you would be very successful.

This vinyl to is easily found, one website I discovered offers 32 colors in stock. With choices like this, you could truly be in high demand once people heard about your business. And that would not take long at all when you consider ‘word of mouth.’ People everywhere love to brag about their newest decor, how unique it is and exciting too.

Check into this idea, do some of your own research online and you will find plenty of information. Put some thought into what you discover, dream and then do some practicing in your own home. Share photos of your work with others. Ask for their input and incorporate their ideas with yours. Then run with this idea! You could quickly find success in your hometown and never be able to stay on top of the business coming your way.

If you are at all looking for an opportunity, Vinyl Home Decor may just be for you! PrintOnIt.com has 32 colors of vinyl in stock now. Plus, 3 different sizes(6×12, 12×12, and 12×24) to choose from too! You can use this vinyl to start your decorating business today.

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