Using Your Profession for Christmas Decorations

[OneUpTenn]

I am trying really hard to come up with some ideas to make my own Christmas decorations for my home using all this expensive equipment that I have just laying around the shop.

Anyway, if you guys have used your sign making skills/equipment to make unique Christmas decorations please let me know. I am drawing a blank here.

 

[weaselboogie]

A great use for scrap vinyl is wrapping paper!

 

[rcook99]

A great use for scrap vinyl is wrapping paper!

Greg I suppose you give that to someone you really like! Just stick the vinyl to the item you are wrapping and sit and laugh you a$$ off watching them try to unwrap it. I like that idea, I can think of a few people that I would love to do that too.:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

 

[300mphGraphics]

I was trying to figure out how to print and wrap something that would look like a Christmas tree for our little town's Hometown Christmas. Thought about balled up weeded vinyl for ball ornaments. In the end, I gave up.

I've used vinyl for wrapping paper. I always try and come up with unique wrapping ideas. Favorite so far was fruit roll-ups. Edible wrapping paper. Cost me twice as much as the gift inside.

 

[HaroldDesign]

Static clings are a nice easy one.

 

[rfulford]

A couple of years ago, I created some routered snowflake graphics on white styrene. My girlfriend loved them. I just took a few vector snowflakes and overlapped them in illustrator. The table time was crazy but the looked awesome.

 

[Circleville Signs]

Our Christmas tree sits right in front of our front door window so my wife was nervous about people seeing all the gifts. Our door has a total of nine 6"x11" glass rectangles. I designed a nice looking christmas scene, printed it in a grid onto 70/30 perf, and installed it. Looks great, and no one can see in unless we are home with the lights on!


Gary

 

[StopSignGraphics]

This was a few years ago but when I was working for another company they had lots of 6in diameter tubes laying around. I created a nutcracker design that wrapped around the tube. I cut down a couple 3in diameter and wrapped those for the arms. I used the tube caps that they use to protect the vinyl for shipping for the feet of the nutcracker.

I might have the files and some pictures on my laptop. I'll see if I can find them.