Creativity On Moves to Battleground, WA

The physical location of Creativity On has moved to 18408 NE 86th Avenue, Battleground, WA 98604. The phone number is (360) 828-8682.

Visit our newly remodeled website

We’ve moved, remodeled, and added to our main website using our old domain www.creativityon.com.

Everything that is and will be on this site has been integrated into the new site.

Find the Blog here.

What’s New is a quick overview of any announcements, specials, or blurbs worth noting.

We also have a new welcoming home page.

Please visit!

(If you ever get lost as to which site you’re on, the old site has a light gray background and the new site has a black background.)

Free digitizing for embroidery ends soon

Hurry to save money on embroidery

Not happy with the level of service or quality you’ve been getting from your current embroidery provider? Want embroidered garments but don’t want to pay a set up fee for digitizing your logo? Have a fun project in mind for yourself, your family, or your club, but worried about the expense of embroidered garments?

We have a great deal for you.

We are offering free digitizing for a left chest or hat logo with a minimum purchase of $100 worth of embroidered garments. We’ll pay for your digitizing so your dollars can buy more garments. That translates to a $45 savings!

But hurry. This offer ends at the end of April, 2011.

It’s a perfect opportunity for your business to step into some official new gear or for a club to have embroidery done for a special occasion costume.

It also creates the perfect time to make the switch from an embroidery provider who is not fully meeting your needs. Don’t worry about the cost of digitizing your logo. We’ll do it for you. Then enjoy the work of a company that places top priority on quality, customer service, and meeting deadlines.

Printing for photo quilts and wall hangings

Hand-made quilt fashioned from photos printed on fabric

A service we provide with our direct-to-garment printer is printing photos on fabric. This service is great for people who want to make a photo quilt, wall hanging, or art project.

Here is an example of an heirloom quilt made from childhood school photos that we printed on fabric. There were twelve children in all (this was a very busy mother!) The photos were resized to all be the same, and a few of the photos, which were taken in color, were converted to black and white for overall consistency.

We added printed names of each child and also a title graphic at the top and bottom of the mother’s photo that appeared in the center block of the quilt. The final quilt measured 60″x60″. It was presented as a gift from all the children on the occasion of the mother’s birthday. It will surely become a treasured family heirloom.

Besides printing graphics for quilts, we also turned this cherished memory of a newborn (the new daddy took the photo) into a beautiful wall hanging. Something like this will be appreciated for generations to come.

Photo for a wall hanging and a lifetime of memories

Once we have a file ready for printing, it can be used for multiple purposes. For instance, the photo for this wall hanging could also be used to print a t-shirt. Files can often be resized for different purposes, particularly downsizing.

FIND OUT MORE

Visit our Downloads page to acquire a submission guide for how to prepare photographs and graphics for printing onto fabric.

Questions? Call Jolene at (503) 365-1955 M-F 9am-5pm Pacific time.

Making art (and t-shirts) from your photos

The joy of photography doesn’t have to stop at taking photos. If you like to play in Adobe Photoshop or other image editing software, you’ve probably discovered the joy of filters. You know that by experimenting with different artistic filters you can morph your photos into cool, stylistic works of art.

For this demonstration, I’ll use one photo I took at Minto Park. It’s a nice photo but nothing extraordinary. Using different filters, I came up with different art, some of which really surprised me with their beauty.

Original shot from the camera "as is"

infrared filter applied to photo and tweaked

Dazzlingly unexpected textures erupt in the sky

Other worldly effect perfect for a sci-fi graphic

Using filters can help you design the perfect graphic for your project. We use them as a way to enhance and stylize graphics for printing onto t-shirts. The enhanced photos can stand alone or be combined with text and other graphics to create finished t-shirt art. In the example below, I created another version of the photo, added a feather frame effect, and imported our logo as an Adobe Illustrator file.

A shirt-ready graphic with our logo and framing

We can print your designs on t-shirts starting at $20. Enjoy making your own great fashions for yourself and as gifts for others. If you want to start a t-shirt business, you could print prototypes of your original or commissioned designs to see how they sell. Wholesale pricing begins at just 12 pieces. Please download our submission guide from the Downloads page for more information on art preparation.

 

Personalize your world with our custom embroidery

Custom personalized embroidery

Most of the time our embroidery work is doing logo items for corporations, government agencies, small businesses, nonprofits, and teams. Every now and then we get the opportunity to create embroidered projects for individuals looking for something special and uniquely personal.

We recently had a client who wanted a set of towels embroidered using four different lighthouse designs. Each design required over 35,000 stitches. The process also required skilled thread color selection as the intended effect was a gradient color blend. If you don’t choose your colors wisely, the overall impact can be dull and flat or clashy and loud. Jolene has become an expert in the art form of color blending with thread.

If you’re looking to dress up your home, wear garments with unique embroidered designs, or find special gifts for your special clients, give Jolene a call and find out what she can do for you. Contact Jolene at (503) 365-1955 9am-5pm Pacific.

Creativity On is happy to provide personal embroidery services

The heart of our business

Personal logo for a former teacher

The best part of our business is watching clients’ faces when they see their completed orders for the first time. That’s when the wow factor first hits them. Their idea has become a material reality.

We think of this as our emotional income. It’s when we enjoy the satisfaction that we made the world better for someone. We never tire of it.

One of our favorites is the surprise birthday party. This has often been accentuated by a purchase of original t-shirt designs which have a person’s photo or special message emblazoned on it. Sometimes the shirts are a gift. Sometimes they are atmosphere. In one memorable instance, a whole office got decorative birthday shirts that they wore as uniforms to surprise a co-worker. We were delighted to help make that possible.

Special embroidered hat for a special guy

Another one of our favorites was making a special embroidered hat as a surprise gift for a scientist who was retiring. He had discovered a certain species of dragonfly. We obtained a photo of the fly and had an embroidery file made from it. Jolene was then able to create a beautiful souvenir cap. We heard that his face lit up and that he was very moved that people cared about him and his accomplishments enough to create this original cap for him.

Whether you’re thinking embroidery or garment printing, we can help bright your creative ideas to fruition. Perhaps you want to give your small business an identity boost with new uniforms, promotional giveaways like hats or t-shirts, or nice thank-you gifts for your best clients. Maybe you’ve got a big family reunion, company picnic, or trade show event coming up and you’d like to add something special. Maybe you are an artist looking for a way to expand your creative vision through printing your works on shirts or canvas products.

We would love to help. For more information, please contact Jolene at (503) 365-1955 between 9am-5pm Pacific time.