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You are nicer on your off days than I am on many of my good days. Don't be hard on yourself.

Hello everyone! I'm James and I run a small screen printing shop (MokiDesigns). I just expanded to the fun world of vinyl and I cannot wait to gain more experience with this medium. I am amazed at what I see being created with vinyl. My new Graphtec ce6000-60 is more than I need at the moment, but I am sure once I get proficient, I will enjoy how awesome it is. I just received some 651 cal and some siser easyweed too. I may sound insane, but I cannot wait for tomorrow so I can get to work and play with this stuff. My background is digital graphics and illustration and I started printing t-shirts to pay the bills. My main tools of the trade are Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere Pro (yeah, I love video editing too). Thanks for the great forum and I look forward to learning a lot here.

Made myself a USA Soccer Shirt.

not according to the person at square support that I spoke to. That would kind of be hard to do over the phone.

I use thermoflex and get it from Mclogans in downtown la

Thank you, you two. Suzanne, check that community college and take a couple Adobe Illustrator courses. They really help. If you find that you don't like the classes, maybe try Linda.com for their great tutorials. Many colleges use them as part of their curriculum. Colleges around here don't offer Corel classes so I have no experience there.

You've had a LOT going on lately. I personally am glad you're still around. Realizing you haven't been yourself lately is a good step in bringing you back to who you know you really are. Take your time. We're here is you need to vent.

I think you mean "Thermoflex". I think most people here use Siser Easyweed. USCutter sells it.

Yep sorta like a marriage if you are not willing to compromise, adjust and listen to each other chances are you will not be married very long.

I hate it when I do that. I have spent hours looking for a font that I suspect I have and go past it untold times. glad I could help and somehow beat mark-s out of it this time.

if you mean me I can guarantee if I called him about "corn-hole" anything i would have had way more fun than that remember I am prison trained

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Applying is easy... getting the transfer tape off without stretching/ripping the bags is the tough part...

I have a 4' regular T and then I have a couple 24" and 12" framing squares I use. I am looking for a 24" T that is aluminum now. I seem to "trim" the plastic ones while I cut

working together even when it means compromise makes a whole lot more headway than always saying no to the other persons point of view

I'm burnt out from my job also. after 10 years I've learned all I can and now it's just the same crap every day. Even get tired of driving the same path to work. I've been slowly learning and growing this decal stuff for 7 months while still working. I get up 40 minutes early now so I can cut a couple orders before work. then I come home and finish that days orders up. I just started dipping into the T-Shirt thing and also gearing up to have my own website built. I'm still a ways away from doing this full time but IMO going big all at once doesn't mean it will work. No matter how many designs you have or how much your throw at it it still seems to slowly grow at it's own pace. With online selling you pretty much have to wait for your listings to work their way up to be seen. Ebay likes to display listings with the most sales+watches+top rated sellers first. Starting out your listing might be on page 38. Esty is tougher to crack far far less traffic and mostly geared toward women. However wall decals may do good there because of that. Right now my family has to much to lose if i quit and try to start a local business. So I have no choice but to build slowly online first in my spare time. This time next year should tell me what I need to know.

Always follow your heart and do what makes you happy. Life is too short to be in a position that makes you miserable even if the money is good. I met a couple ( I did several repairs and renovations on their home ) that moved here from Las Vegas to a small farm and old farm house that gave up a income of 6 figures to move here and make a living off the small farm and hand built furniture and they say it was the.best move they had ever made and are more satisfied then they have ever been.

I have a titan 2 and need to know which product I need to get to cut out designs on the titan, and then apply to stones to sandblast. Anyone help me out? Thanks in advance

Hey Marie if you have any questions regarding software I am a full time graphic designer with a side vinyl business and know most of the tricks and tools of the Adobe suites. Although I am using the CC programs I am extremely familiar with CS6 and would be glad to offer any help you may need in getting started with those. Also where in SC are you located? I live here in the upstate.

I've done it and you can do it. Left a great corporate job in 1994 and never looked back. My husband had the benefits with his job so of course that made it easier. My last child left home in 2000. I work out of my home in the woods in a rural community but I'm involved with my community (Chamber of Commerce is most important (to me anyway) and my town takes care of me. I am self taught on everything I do. I started out just doing typesetting then started brokering the printing. This led to brokering signs then when I saw how easy it was to make signs I bought a Graphtec FC-7000 and started making my own signs. I outsource my full color work to a local sign shop and that's been great. I also sell promotional products. It's too easy not to now with the internet. Just this year I discovered heat transfer vinyl and started doing shirts. Wish I would have discovered it a long time ago but I didn't. I just did 40 shirts today for a bridge run tomorrow. I create all my signs and shirt designs in Adobe Illustrator. I am a one person operation and occasionally need my husband to help me with an install). Remember there is a youtube video for everything so if you need to learn a certain thing for a certain job just google it. Good luck and look forward to hearing how it's going for you.

Congrats! I use graphtec's cutting master 3 software with mine. Do you use Illustrator? If so, there is a plugin for Illy that spits jobs straight out to CM3 that is pretty friggin fantastic.

I think it looks great!!