During lockdown my wife and I splashed out on a heat press to keep ourselves busy and started selling a few personalised bits and pieces to make up for the forced closure to her main business which is childcare.
She’s been creating stuff using heat transfer vinyl and recently moved to cover sublimation. There is such a lot to learn and in doing so we were finding we were ruining about one in three blanks and then ending up with items we didn’t want or need even if it did work as planned. Anyway, I made myself some personalised beer mats/coasters last weekend using it and they turned out pretty good so we thought we’d like to offer some of these for sale to forum members for a limited time, if there was any interest. They are fully reusable made from high quality MDF with a hard board back and glossy top finish. Available in square or circle.
Having not even ventured down the design route yet, all we ask is that you provide us with the artwork or picture to go on them. It could be your own logo/design or a photo you have already or you could easily create a new design using a free design software called Beerlabelizer, like I did with the examples pictured below. The cost will be £10 for 4 or £12 for 6, plus £1 p&p. After paying for the blanks, sublimation ink, sub paper etc this is virtually cost price but it will be good practice for us in trying new items and designs and the end results won’t be going to waste.
If you have any questions please post below.
She’s been creating stuff using heat transfer vinyl and recently moved to cover sublimation. There is such a lot to learn and in doing so we were finding we were ruining about one in three blanks and then ending up with items we didn’t want or need even if it did work as planned. Anyway, I made myself some personalised beer mats/coasters last weekend using it and they turned out pretty good so we thought we’d like to offer some of these for sale to forum members for a limited time, if there was any interest. They are fully reusable made from high quality MDF with a hard board back and glossy top finish. Available in square or circle.
Having not even ventured down the design route yet, all we ask is that you provide us with the artwork or picture to go on them. It could be your own logo/design or a photo you have already or you could easily create a new design using a free design software called Beerlabelizer, like I did with the examples pictured below. The cost will be £10 for 4 or £12 for 6, plus £1 p&p. After paying for the blanks, sublimation ink, sub paper etc this is virtually cost price but it will be good practice for us in trying new items and designs and the end results won’t be going to waste.
If you have any questions please post below.
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) It would help to specify the size though as I'm guessing there must be a bleed for the printing?
