I wouldn’t want everything in my house to have a family photo on it, but sometimes it is really nice to have a few small personalized things around your home. Paying for a personalized item that someone else designs for you can be costly. That’s why I prefer to do the personalization myself. There are two ways to do this.
Using Print on Demand Services Like Cafe Press or Zazzle
Using one of these services, you can make your own small accessories, such as mouse pads, canvas prints, mugs, or sculptures. They are fairly easy to use. Uploading a photo, adding text and playing around with fonts and the way things are aligned is really just a matter of clicking on things and dragging stuff around.
Doing Personalization Completely on Your Own
Printable iron on products make creating your own placemats, pillows, or virtually anything else made with fabric a snap. Just use your photo editing software to adjust your picture, add text and follow the instructions on the iron on paper to print out a transfer. You can also make transfers with a ton of different mixed media products, like gel medium and transfer mediums. Some of these products work on glass or wood. I used gel medium to transfer a laser printed color copy of a heron onto a flat piece of driftwood that I’d primed in the spot where I was putting the transfer. I painted the last name of the person I was giving it to on the driftwood, sealed it several times and now she has a completely unique sign for her house by the water.
Do you make your own personalized home accessories?
Photo: K. Thomas
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