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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
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I'm really sorry for your loss. I know how much life trauma can affect your creativity and drive.
I have very minimal vector graphic knowledge. Most of my stuff has been freehand or text work. I can do relatively basic vectors but most of my past stuff is just high resolution large images.
When you say equipment do you mean like a silhouette/cricut type thing?
No I have a big Oki White Toner Printer, digital heatfx EZ peel transparent transfer paper (sheet A) & bottom sheets (sheet B), a Hotronix Fusion 16x20 with Drawer and Swing Away heat press, small cheap hat/label press (hat press part didn’t work well on the hats we got, so mostly use the small flat label platform for small projects), blank shirts, bags, hats, a program (Digital Heat FX Print Optimizer Software) for the printer for putting bunch of tiny holes in your design for longer lasting printed graphics on apparel (it also takes colors out of your design through the program if want it to). I use Corel Draw graphic program. Have other little things too, like a laser light to help align your graphic on shirt, a paper cutter for cutting the digital heatfx transfer paper.
Yeah, we got the whole set up, wish I could have made it work. Now I just don’t know if I have it in my physically to try and start it back up. The equipment is all still like new and works great. I only use it to print stuff for us or gifts. I’ve even done some neat thing with dog photo’s with my graphic program (Corel draw) and printed on canvas for friends of their pups. I’m not so good at making graphics from scratch, but can take pieces from other graphics I buy from a graphic site and make changes or combine some of this and some of that to make what I need. My Corel draw program can make pretty decent vector graphics from a jpeg or png image, if it’s not a super pixelated image. And it’s an older business (2017 I believe) version of Corel draw, just can’t afford to purchase the newer version updates.
Dang I was NOT expecting you to have all that equipment. I really hope you find some motivation to even do local craft fairs in the future. People love that customizable stuff!
If you like designing things I have a few resources you might be able to have some fun with. They are premade, non-copyright PNGs that you can basically just piece together and have some fun printing and using that equipment!
I so badly want to get a laser acrylic machine or even a resin printer. But I'm not sure I can justify $10k charges for fun little projects lol
Yeah we went all out. Can’t do craft fairs without at very least a tax number. That keeps some people from doing the fairs, so most of the vendors at our local fairs are people from out of town that have set up businesses. I have to say the whole business license & tax stuff for Alabama is daunting. It’s confusing, they say ok you need this and that, but they never tell you everything you need to really get started. When you think you have everything to sell your products, they say no you need this other ID or license also. And now with everything going on with the IRS these days, it’s even more daunting, for me anyways.
A site called Design Bundles (and Font Bundles) has tons and tons of great graphic designs by different designers. If you do a monthly subscription (mine is like $7.99 a month) you can get tons of free designs and as you collect points of bought graphics/products (which you get 50 points every month your payment goes through) they have “premium plus” products which you use you points to buy, which they are only 1 point each product, so if you get 50 points each month with your payment, then that’s 50 graphic products you can get each month. And some products have one design but others can have a bunch of designs in one product. They also do $1 deals once in awhile where they put a bunch of products up for a $1 each, and if you have a premium membership they take a percentage off that, so it costs less than a $1. They have vector, png, background, mockups, for cutters, for embroidery... and fonts. You can save products that you like into your “saved” files on the site to go back to if you later decide to purchase them.
https://designbundles.net/
You should also check out canva.com, I also use pngtree.com and one other one where the name escapes me.
Is there a particular reason you don't want a sales tax ID? Not judging because my husband hates anything that puts him more "on the grid" haha.