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Sunday
Jan312010

Decorating the Shaggy Wag'n

Thanks to Vic's awesome help with the vinyl cutting and Ruy, Mara, and all our friends support and input, we were able to decorate our pup mobile. Here are some shots of the progress.

Creating a fun design was quite a challenge. We had to learn how to use Illustrator, and man it's an amazing tool! Thanks again Jer for the excellent tutelage. It took also a big effort to figure the parts and pieces, for each color has to have it's own file (you can imagine how much fun it was to make the dog faces). But even better than that was the "fun" of putting the puzzle together and figuring which goes with what.

Once that was done, you put them on a giant roll of masking tape and cut the pieces out. Then the REAL fun starts, specially in rainy Vancouver, when you actually put it on the car. Wash, clean, wipe, spray, soap ... slap on the art piece. Work around the cracks and holes, get the bubbles out, take the masking tape off without getting the paint off the car ... tough.

It is not done yet, we are still in the process of cutting some of the vinyl we are missing. But now we understand why when we quoted the work externally it was soooo expensive. But it is custom made to our desire and it is loaded with love and dedication. Over all: great experience! :D
More pictures below...


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