10.  Dome Decals – 3D dome labels are designed with a clear resin dome that covers the imprint, creating a unique and stylish look. The resin creates an eye-catching label while also serving to protect the imprint of the substrate underneath. Dome decals are extremely durable and are capable of holding up in tough environments.

9.  Hang Tags – Are you looking to add the finishing touch to your product and gift packaging?  Design and use custom hang tags from PrintMyThing.com. Available in a variety of shapes and sizes and printed with brilliant, eye-catching inks, custom printed tags are a great way to make your gifts, clothing, and other items stand out from the competition.

8.  Bags - Shout your message in a professional, high impact, and creative way. Custom printed bags offer practical solutions for packaging your unique goods while promoting your brand at the same time. Available in a variety of styles, colors, and sizes, custom bags can be imprinted with your company name and logo and can be used in a variety of different industries. Let your imagination run wild on how your bags can make a bigger impact!

7.  Ribbon – Did you ever think about using various styles of ribbon imprinted with your one-of-a-kind logo or messaging to accent your top-notch products? We’ve dedicated an entire website at PrintMyRibbon.com to just custom printed ribbon. Choose from a wide variety of styles like Double Face,  Grosgrain and Organza ribbon, to unique colors like Azalea, Royal Blue or even New Chartreuse. You imagine it, and we’ll print it.

6.  Car Magnets – We suspect that most people don’t realize that we have the ability to deliver professionally printed, custom, one-of-a-kind car magnets to businesses looking to get their name all around town. Talk with one of our car magnet specialists at 888-281-0042 so that you can start to do some 4 wheeled “mobile marketing”.

5.  Full Color Labels – Full color labels offer discerning businesses the most professional look available. Perfect for designs with photographs and multiple colors, these digital labels feature brilliant, colorful imprints. Select from a variety of predesigned templates to personalize or design your own label from scratch using our online design tool. If you have a more complicated design that you’d like assistance with, call one of our label specialists for help at 888-281-0042.

4.  Ink Labels – Make a lasting impression with custom designed ink labels. Ink labels are ideal for product and craft packaging and can be fully customized with your logo, artwork, and text. Choose from one of our predesigned templates or choose the U-Design options to create a custom ink label from scratch.

3.  Shiny Foil Labels – Custom foil labels are an eye-catching way to promote your products and special events. These custom labels are imprinted with foil ink on a hot stamp press, resulting in an elegant finished product. Choose one of our many predesigned templates to customize or design your own foil seals and foil stickers from scratch with our online design tool. Multiple sizes and shapes are available for you to create just the look you want.

2.  Embossed Labels – Make your business or event stand out with custom embossed labels. Great for anniversaries, weddings, and other special events, embossed stickers feature an elegant raised imprint. Select from a variety of shapes and colors to design your own personalized wedding stickers or anniversary labels.

1.  Outdoor Labels - Engineered to hold up in outdoor environments, outdoor labels have a protective lamination that makes them water-resistant and fade-resistant. These beautiful ink laminated labels also offer a permanent adhesive, ensuring your custom designed labels don’t fall off in outdoor settings. Let your inner artist loose and create your own customized outdoor labels with our online design tool. If you’d like help with your design, feel free to call us and talk to one of our friendly outdoor label specialists. (They’re pretty special people and are more than willing to work with you!)

Be sure to shop through the rest of PrintMyThing.com and PrintMyRibbon.com to see everything that we can help you customize!

Custom Printed Ribbon for your Corporate Gifts

As a business owner or manager, you know that the time for holiday parties, cards and gifts is soon upon us. Have you started thinking yet about what you may be sending to your most valuable customers and vendors? Have you considered how you’ll package those special gifts you might be passing out to employees at your corporate holiday party? PrintMyRibbon.com can help you package up your gifts with custom printed ribbon with your logo, company name or any other message you’d like to communicate to the people you value. Choose from a variety of Christmas Ribbon styles in traditional holiday colors: Red Christmas Ribbon, Green Christmas Ribbon, and Metallic Christmas Ribbon. Be sure to check our article on Gift Baskets and how you can use custom printed ribbon to create fantastic pom pom bows to finish packaging them.

Ink & Shiny Foil Stickers for the Holidays

We love Thanksgiving and Christmas here at PrintMyThing.com. And we absolutely love printing Christmas labels for our customers. What better way to send your holiday greetings to vendors, customers and others than a custom holiday ink or shiny foil label? They’re perfect for putting on your gift baskets, packages and other goodies that you send out during this time of year. Work with our label experts to create just the right image you want. Or better yet, check out our online design tool to design your labels and stickers yourself. Your possibilities for a creative holiday sticker are endless with us!

Custom Bags – Packaging with Style

Gift bags are a popular way to package gifts and don’t require the time consuming art of wrapping. (Trust us, gift wrapping is a true art when done properly.) While gift bags can be found virtually anywhere, custom gift bags are going to be trickier to find. PrintMyThing.com however, can help! We specialize in printing paper, plastic and reusable bags. Using our online design tool, you can fashion a unique design for your bag using a wide variety of imprint and material colors and upload a company logo and/or tagline. Typical production time of custom bags is 4 weeks after receipt of art or proof approval, so be sure to design your bags and order early! Also be sure to check out our gift tissue and shred to finish off your custom gift bags. Your custom bags won’t be complete with it!

Hang Tags

 Your Christmas packaging wouldn’t be complete without some customized hang tags for your bottles of wine, hot cocoa mixes and other products. We offer a variety of sizes to choose from in Ink Hang Tags, Economy Hang Tags and also Water Resistant Hang Tags. Send your holiday greeting via a personalized tag that you can use to finish your customized or branded look.

No matter how you choose to package your holiday gifts this year, remember PrintMyThing.Com and PrintMyRibbon.com can help you achieve that custom look and message you’re aiming for. From our team to yours, have a very happy holiday season this year!

(Top Row L to R): John Lemons, Hugh Fairchild (Bottom Row L to R): Bill Morey, Pam Gleason, Arnold Clark)

First of all, we want to recognize those among us at the CMC Group of companies (that includes PMT and PMR) that have served. A heartfelt thank you to the following: Arnold Clark (Specialist, Army  – Production Supervisor), Hugh Fairchild (Sergeant, Air Force – Art Files Clerk), John Lemons (Staff Sergeant, Air Force – Master Digital Mac Product Artist/Team Leader), Heidi Chambers (Specialist, Ohio Army National Guard – Director of Sales), Pam Gleason (Sergeant, Ohio Army National Guard – Inside Sales Specialist DayMark), Bill Morey (Corporal, Marine Corps – Inside Sales Specialist), Greg Rogers (Sergeant, Marine Corps – Vice President of Business Development).

So, when exactly was the first Veteran’s Day observed, and how did this day honoring those who served come about?

Veteran’s Day actually evolved out of another National Observance: Armistice Day. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. Fighting stopped several months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. As a result, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars”, and thus called “Armistice Day.”

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs says this in regards to how Armistice Day eventually become known as Veteran’s Day:

“An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day.’ Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation’s history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word ‘Armistice’ and inserting in its place the word ‘Veterans.’ With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.”

In addition to honoring those that have served, we’d like you to remember those that are currently serving our country. We have troops all over the world eager to come home to a grateful nation. Let’s keep them in our thoughts and prayers for a safe return. To help show that support, PrintMyRibbon.com is proud to offer Support Our Troops Awareness Ribbons to help you bring awareness to others of the fantastic job the members of our Armed Forces have done for us both presently, and in the past. Again, thank you to all veterans and members of our military. We appreciate and honor you!

5.  Coffee Cup Collection

The Coffee Cup Collection of embossed labels are designed with a dull gold paper material and a metallic bright gold foil imprint. Metallic imprints in an embossed label really shine out to bring attention to whatever they’ve been applied to. Use this template as a creative springboard to your own unique design.

4.  Snazzy Collection

Sometimes a bold look is called for in a custom label design. The Embossed Labels Snazzy Collection is a good choice to achieve that classy and outstanding look that will capture attention. A “fleur” like design acts as a border around your text or piece of art on white gloss material with a metallic red foil imprint.

3.  Katie & Mat Wedding Collection

Embossed Labels are perfect for a wedding celebration. Printed on a white gloss material with a metallic brushed silver foil imprint, these classic looking embossed wedding labels will add a touch of sophistication and elegance to your special day. Customize the template to achieve the look you want for your wedding.

2.  Fleur 25 Years Collection

The Fleur 25 Years Collection of embossed anniversary labels are designed with a dull silver paper material and imprinted with metallic brushed silver foil. It’s a classic look, but can easily be customized for your special anniversary celebration. Label shapes include circles, ovals and scalloped circle.

1. U-Design Collection

The U-Design collection of Embossed labels are exactly what you think they would be: Blank labels that allow you to “design from scratch.” Make use of the available materials, imprint colors, borders, clipart and more to design a label online that uniquely reflects your company image, personality or product.

Be sure to browse the entire collection of custom Embossed Label templates from PrintMyThing.com. Leave us a comment and let us know what your favorite templates are. We love feedback!

Campaigning for office is not only a science, but also an art. PrintMyThing.com excels at art, and we can help the modern statesman create printed products that will make a lasting impression in the voter’s mind.

Campaign Posters
Campaign and political posters are a great way to communicate who you are, and why people should put you into office to serve the public. PrintMyThing.com offers a few templates for the campaign season including the “Steadfast”, “Patriotic” and “Hilmer for Mayor” template designs. You can also design your own using our blank UDesign posters.

Campaign Bookmarks
Putting something into a voter’s hand that has a practical purpose & use so that they won’t just throw it away, is a great way to help them remember your name for the upcoming election! Flyers and postcards are fine, but let’s be realistic, often times people are just going to throw them away. A custom campaign bookmark however can serve a practical purpose for someone, and is less likely to be pitched. Check out our professionally designed campaign bookmark templates and choose the design that fits your personal imaging best. Or as always, you can design one from scratch using the blank U-Design bookmark template which allows you the freedom to design from the ground up.

Political Stickers
Finally, don’t forget about campaign stickers! Stickers and labels have a myriad of uses for any political campaign, and we can help you design your custom sticker for the race you’re involved in. Choose from circles, squares, ovals or rectangles. A variety of materials and print processes (one color, two colors, full color) are available to select from. Give us a call at 1-888-281-0042 to talk to a web sales representative.

An earlier post talked about our Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon from PrintMyRibbon.com and different organizations that you can contact to find out more about this form of cancer and how to help find a cure. In this post we wanted to mention two more products from PrintMyThing.com that you might be interested in this month.

Pink Ribbon Poster

PrintMyThing.com offers custom posters that you can design online, and also offers posters with templates that you can customize for your unique message. The “Pink Ribbon” poster is a perfect template to use for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Do you have a race or walk that you want to advertise? Maybe a concert or other type of fundraiser for finding a cure? This pink ribbon design is the perfect design to advertise your pink event.

Pink Ribbon Bookmarks

Bookmarks are a perfect way to put something small in people’s hands that will remind them of the breast cancer awareness message or event that you’re trying to promote.  And yes, a majority of people still read actual books rather than reading on a mobile device of some sort. You can edit our Pink Ribbon Bookmark template to spread your message.

Are you the type that likes to design from scratch? Well, let your creative juices flow with our line of U-Design items like custom labels & stickers, cards, magnets, and more.

PrintMyThing & PrintMyRibbon are proud to help raise awareness of breast cancer. We want to put tools into your hands that will also help you do your part to raise awareness to finding a cure. If you’d like to find out more on how you can be a part of the solution and make a difference in this fight, be sure to check out the official National Breast Cancer Awareness Month website.

FAWN Jewelry: “Survivor Sisters® Pendant”

Survivor Sisters® Pendant with Custom Ribbon from PrintMyRibbon.com

FAWN Jewelery, LLC is a brand new business that just started this year. Owner and “Survivor Sisters® Pendant” designer Frances Hackett is a 7 year breast cancer survivor. When a good friend of hers was also diagnosed with breast cancer, Frances designed a support pendant that both of them could wear in support of each other. The pendant can be made in sterling silver, gold, cubic zirconia, and diamonds.

“When the two pendants come together it completes the full breast cancer ribbon. The ribbon when you see the double pendant is the two halves” says Ms. Hackett.

Some of the proceeds will be donated in support of raising awareness of breast cancer, encapsulating the spirit of “finding a cure.”

Frances needed a ribbon that would finish off the packaging of her unique jewelry. Having found PrintMyRibbon.com, she worked with Erica & Barbara in going through the online design process to create a pink “Survivor Sisters®” ribbon. Frances said:

“My ribbon for my packaging…is beautiful. Doing business with PrintMyRibbon.com has been professional and personal. It really looks great. Erica and Barbara have made sure the quality of the product was not only what I wanted but upstanding. The nicest part was that Erica walked me through the order online to be sure it was done correctly. Barbara made sure it was what I wanted. Easy to talk to. I like being able to talk directly with a person even when proceeding online. Personal touch, I love it! I love doing business with them.”

To learn more about FAWN Jewelery and their “Survivor Sisters® Pendant”, visit their website: www.survivorsisterspendant.com. If you’d like to be featured in a Customer Spotlight, send your photos to info@printmything.com. We’d love to see your custom printing projects in action!

The labels in this post are all ink printed (also known as flexo.)

#10 – Pink Flower Collection

Our 10th place finisher (but certainly not the least important design) is the modern and trendy Pink Flower Collection.  Graphic Designer Dale Smith did a superb job of creating a design that says “less is more.” The Pink Flower Collection includes  ovals, circles, rectangle and square labels of various sizes to meet your application needs.

#9 – Victorian Scrolls Collection

A classic looking template, the Victorian Collection has been popular for a wide variety of applications. Material colors include: white, kraft, ivory, bright silver foil, bright gold foil and more. A wide variety of flourishes are available if you’d like to tweak this design as well.

#8 – Enrich Collection

Coming in at the #8 spot for most popular Ink Label Template is the Enrich Collection. The template is set to feature a spa & fitness center, but we can imagine ice cream shops, gift stores, and candy vendors incorporating this template into their imaging. Feel free to change the color of the template as you design!

#7 – Flame Collection

Most folks will find that the “Flame Collection” is a wonderful choice for their candle-making endeavors. This clean, uncluttered design can be edited in our online Design Tool to use different colors, materials and fonts. The template gives you a place to start designing your custom label, and the Design Tool will allow your creative juices to flow uninhibited. Do you like the flame clipart in this design, but found another you like even better? Just upload it and replace…it’s as easy as that!

#6 – Victorian Collection

Sophisticated and classic, this collection of labels has proven to be popular choice for many different businesses.  This 3″ x 2″ rectangle has been the most common size chosen.  The Victorian Collection is a great choice for gift or craft packaging.

#5 – Classic Camera Collection

Coming in 5th place for our most popular ink label templates for 2011 is the “Classic Camera Collection” templates.  This is a 3″ x 2 ” rectangular label that many have found to be the perfect look for their photography business.

#4 – Signature Stripe Collection

The 2″ x 3″ oval Signature Stripe template is clean and simple. You don’t have to be a Spa to be able to use this design for your products. Create your Signature Stripe label using our online Design Tool. Mix and match fonts and colors to achieve your custom look!

#3 – Flowers and Lace Collection

Our third most popular template offers a fun, whimsical design that’s perfect for gift shops, floral shops and more. There are endless ways to use this template for your business. The 2″ x 3″ rectangle version of the template is what has been most popular with our customers.

#2 – Dots Collection

The Dots Collection templates provide a design that can be used in a wide variety of applications. The 1 1/8″ x 2 1/8″ oval shape has been the biggest seller in this collection.

#1 – Coffee Collection

Everybody loves a good cup of coffee! This collection of coffee themed labels created by Graphic Designer Jason Droll have proven to be our most popular template design for ink labels. Check them out in our one of a kind design tool!

Be sure to check the entire line of Ink Label Templates that are available on PrintMyThing.com. We’re positive you’ll find a template you like and tweak to your individual needs. If not, we always offer the ever-popular U-Design Series: a virtual blank slate for you to design on to your heart’s content.

According to Cancer.org, there were 230,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer in 2011. There have been 39,520 deaths from breast cancer. Let’s continue to help raise awareness and find a cure for breast cancer.  For more information on breast cancer and how you can help raise awareness to stamp this disease out, you can visit the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Website or the American Cancer Society.  Let’s “Think Pink” together during the month of October!