Decorating Guide
2019Volume 3
The holiday shopping season is the most profitable for retailers. From personalized gifts to custom
apparel, your business will find many opportunities to profit during this busy time of year.
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Table of Contents
Introduction 2
Holiday Apparel 3
Personalization 11
Home Decor 14
How-To 19-20
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Planning for the HolidaysBy the end of October, shoppers are already researching potential holiday
purchases. Planning your holiday calendar is essential to profiting. Starting in
October, begin creating a list of the items and decorations you plan to offer.
With an established offering, start promoting your holiday messaging early
with clear deadlines for ordering to make sure you get all your jobs out in time
for the big day. Then, get ready to profit.
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Holiday Apparel
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Sweater Weather
Special effect material makes a regular sweatshirt into something gift-worthy. Give your customers the festive looks they want so they can show their holiday spirit.
Get a Head Start
Looking for a quick way to get a holiday design applied and ready to sell? CAD-CUT® Templates gives you clever and witty designs to customize in the CAD-CUT® material of your choice. It arrives cut, weeded, and ready to heat apply. Learn more about CAD-CUT® Templates.
Keep it Classic With Holiday Apparel
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Keep your heat press going all holiday season long with holiday-inspired apparel for everyone in the family. An easy way to get into holiday decorating, these fan-favorites will keep your customers returning all year long for custom apparel. See pages 19-20 for materials used to get these looks.
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For All the Cat People
While a dog sweater makes sense for man’s best friend, cats often prefer to be honored in other less invasive ways. This “Meowy” Christmas shirt gets the job done with special effect heat transfer vinyl and patterned heat transfer vinyl.
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Don’t Forget Fido
Don’t forget about Santa’s 4 legged fans either when crafting your holiday offering. This hooded dog sweatshirt with pre-cut letters is an easy way to create a memorable gift giving item.
From Simple to Spectacular
Patterned heat transfer vinyl makes a simple T-shirt and text treatment something special.
Fa-La-La-La Foil
A cozy hoodie gets holiday flair with foil and a knock-out design. Learn how to create a knock-out design with CadworxLIVE® using this tutorial.
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Holiday Graphic T-shirts
Armed with a few holiday quotes, some special effect heat transfer vinyl, and your heat press, you will see sales rise for these holiday tees. Full-color prints like this are sure to light up any holiday party.
Personalized Kid’s Apparel
Customized children’s apparel for holidays is one of the most lucrative opportunities in the children’s market. This infant’s T-shirt fits the bill with patterned heat transfer vinyl in popular buffalo plaid.
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Santa’s Li’l Helper
By starting with a green T-shirt, easily jazz it up with heat transfer vinyl. Make sure nobody forgets who’s Santa’s favorite little helper.
Mix It Up With Patterns
Christmas is the perfect time to make a statement. Combining patterned HTV creates a lively design sure to impress your toughest customers. Learn how to Get This Look.
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For the Cookie Baking Mavens
Aprons are a useful and fun gift for holiday baking needs. Your customers will love giving holiday themed aprons as gifts for several people on their lists. Make sure to offer youth sizes and add-on personalization for marathon cookie baking sessions with the kids.
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Make it UGLY
Go over the top with heat transfer vinyl gone ugly. These over the top sweaters are popular for “Ugly Sweater” parties where attendees pull out their most over the top “festive” holiday sweaters to welcome the season. Make your own so your customers can get into the spirit too!
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Trendy Plaid
Buffalo plaid is a trendy look perfect for the holidays. These mixed-media shirts are inspired by the timeless tradition of picking out the perfect tree for Christmas.
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Holiday Shirt
A little tongue-in-cheek humor and glitter makes this shirt a fun gift for the holidays.
Personalization
Bag It Up
A personalized tote is a thoughtful holiday gift to give as a standalone item or to hold wine, baked goods or whatever else your customers choose to give this holiday. Combining patterns and heat transfer vinyl makes this one remarkable.
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Complete the Perfect Gift With Personalization
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Snuggly Slippers
For the stylish homebody, monogrammed slippers are a gift sure to wow. Adding a monogram to this gift increases its value and makes it a memorable gift to give or receive.
Tip: Monograms are easy to create with the CAD-CUT® Templates online designer. Choose from several styles, fonts and frames to create a unique monogram design.
Personalized items complete the perfect gift. No matter who your customers are shopping for, heat printing sets your shop up for personalizing one-of-a-kind gifts sure to be a hit this holiday season. See pages 19-20 for materials used to get these looks.
Avoid Christmas Confusion
Personalized stockings are an heirloom gift to be used year after year. With their names applied, no one will pull the wrong stocking off the mantel Christmas morning.
The Go-To Tote
Monogrammed tote bags are a classic and useful gift. Used for travel, daily commuting, and even the beach. It’s a gift that keeps giving long after Christmas.
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Home Decor
Use your heat press for hot selling, out of the box applications to adorn homes this holiday season by customizing popular home décor items. See pages 19-20 for materials used to get these looks.
Sign of the Season
A canvas sign decorated with heat transfer vinyl makes an excellent gift for the home decorator. The addition of glitter vinyl makes it something special.
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A Gift with a Gift
Holidays mean holiday parties and hostess gifts. A heat printed wine tote is the perfect way to add a thoughtful touch to that bottle of merlot your customers are gifting their friends. Try selling these in packs of five to help your customer keep up with those last minute gift giving occasions. With bags these nice, their gifts will never look like an afterthought.
For the Table
Heat press a custom table runner using special effect heat transfer vinyl paired with a solid color to achieve a festive holiday look your customer is sure to love.
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Santa Bag
Personalized “Santa Bags” are an exciting way to deliver gifts to good boys and girls. Your customers can use these bags to deliver gifts or as a way to “wrap” bulky or unwieldy gifts.
Everywhere a Sign
Pressure sensitive sign vinyl makes it easy to add flair to hard surfaces like this festive wooden holiday sign. Combining patterned sign vinyl with regular sign vinyl gives the piece an extra bit of flair.
Last Minute Gift
Ornaments are another way to use sign vinyl to create memorable last minute gifts that look so nice they don’t scream, “I forgot to buy you a gift.” Stock up on these. They’re sure to be quick sellers.
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Dress Up the Tree
A tree skirt is a quick, easy item to heat press that customers love to have personalized. This one combines a colorful tree skirt customized with metallic and patterned heat transfer vinyl for a one-of-a-kind look.
Understated and Festive
This tree skirt is a more understated one color option, personalized for the family. By using glitter heat transfer vinyl the end result is a simple but whimsical holiday look.
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Now is the time to start marketing your holiday product offering to get in on the busy holiday shopping season. Learn more about how to get the looks in this book so you can start selling today.
Material: CAD-CUT® Templates #00752CAD-CUT® Fashion-FILM® White
Materials: Glitter Flake™, Hologram, & Flock II, CAD-CUT® Custom Designs, Any Word. Any Way.™, Pre-Cut LettersRead: The Anatomy of an Ugly Christmas Sweater
Material: CAD-PRINTZ®
Materials: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ Red, GreenCAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Buffalo Plaid
Materials: CAD-CUT® Thermo-FILM® Pre-Cut Letters¾” Cooper FontPawprints - Custom Rhinestone Transfers in Kelly Green
Materials: CAD-CUT® Flock II Bright RedCAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Holiday Pine
Materials: CAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern 1: Seasons GreetingsPattern 2: Pine Lights
Material: CAD-CUT® Patterns in GlitterPattern: Fa La La Llamas
Materials: CAD-CUT® Premium Plus™ BlackCAD-CUT® Hologram SilverCAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Winter Floral
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Material: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™
Cherry RedCAD-CUT® Templates
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Material: CAD-CUT® Adhesive Heat Transfer Foil Red & Green
Material: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ WhiteCAD-CUT® Templates Monogram
Material: CAD-CUT® AdhesiveHeat Transfer Foil Green, Red, Sapphire Blue, Yellow Gold, Orange, Black
Material: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™
Rainbow BlackCAD-CUT® Templates Monogram
Materials: CAD-CUT® Premium Plus™ KellyCAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Buffalo Plaid
Materials: Ellee Kate: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ Red CAD-CUT® Premium Plus™ Camel, BlackGreyson: CAD-CUT® Premium Plus™ Kelly, Camel, Black
Material: CAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Christmas BurlapMaterials: CAD-CUT® Fashion-FILM®
Matte Bright Red, Matte White, Vegas GoldCAD-CUT® Patterns (for “LITTLE”) in Express Print™
Pattern: Stripe 2
Now is the time to start marketing your holiday product offering to get in on the busy holiday shopping season. Learn more about how to get the looks in this book so you can start selling today.
Materials: CAD-CUT® Fashion-FILM™ Matte Black, Matte KellyCAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ Red
Materials: CAD-CUT® Patterns in P.S. Sign VinylPattern: Tannenbaum1CAD-CUT® P.S Sign Vinyl Black
Material: CAD-CUT® P.S Sign Vinyl White
Materials: Goof Proof® Screen Printed Transfer, Easy View DesignerCAD-CUT® Flock II Red
Materials: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ Red, Gold, GreenCAD-CUT® Fashion-FILM™ Matte Maroon
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Materials: CAD-CUT® Patterns in Express Print™
Pattern: Polka DotsCAD-CUT® AdhesiveHeat Transfer Foil Red
Material: CAD-CUT® Glitter Flake™ White
