What Does YOUR DCL magnetic door sign look like? With other great tips for your sign

[nenner1]

OK you creative ones out there- What are the dimensions of the stateroom doors and where does the door number fit into it? Also, are there any codes about covering th edoors in fabric?

Lora

I can't help you there, sorry...

Alhough I have seen pictures of doors covered in paper...

 

[Capt.OneLeg]

3000 hits on this link, and only one other state room with Door Magnets on our 7/9-7/10/08 Wonder Cruise?

Where are all the magnets folks? My door had six 8 x 10 door magnets on deck 8, midship. Saw only one other door with a small 4 x 6 magnet on our hallway, both bow and aft.

 

[hawaiian mickey]

aloha,
I decorated our door on our cruise Mexican Riveira June 29th. I went to check out other peoples doors and could only find a few doors. Ours was on door 5020. Everybody was really impressed.
I was just disappointed that not to many people decorated their door. I hope on our next cruise I'll see more.
This is our door.

aloha,
hawaiian mickey

 

[andriade]

I'm not an expert by any means but I can help you a little....
If the pictures are blurry it means they have been resized and are now too big. It's called pixellization (sp?)...and some types of digital images cannot be made larger without sacrificing image quality. A lot of clip art out there (on websites) isn't useful for making magnets for that reason. Most of the images in this thread are large enough and of good quality to make sharp clear magnets.......which brings us to your next issue....images too large. I can truthfully say I haven't had this problem as most of my magnets I've made I want BIGGER... Anyhoo there are a lot of graphic/image software programs that can resize these images. Most well known is obviously photoshop which is not only $$$$ but not so easy for beginners. There is a program out there called pix resizer that is very easy but measures in pixels, which can be confusing. There is also free photo editing software called Gimp that is supposedly user friendly but I have not used it. Google can find thos two free programs for you. One way you can do it is simply to cut and paste the image into Paint or Word and click on it to bring up the double arrow, then just drag the corner of the image (not the sides, only the corner or proportion will be lost) to make it smaller. Its not always the easiest thing to explain so I hope that helped you!



Yes, I think all of the images on this thread are there for us to take and use as we wish. I know Brooklyn, Bevtoy, and Zandy for sure have stated that. There are some Diser's out there who create artwork for others (Kristine has a magnet thread, for example), and most things you find there will already be personalized so I would think it would be up to those individuals if you wished to take their creations and edit them....but I do know everything here is up for grabs!



It is called a Fish Extender. It is used by Diser's (usually who meet through the cruise meets thread fo rtheir cruise) to pass communications and little trinkets and gifts to each other. There is a whole thread on them out there somewhere, which gives ideas on how to design and create them, and also gives ideas of what little gifts to buy or make to hand out.

HTH!

Thanks for the advice! I will work on it this week.

 

[nocruisecontrol]

Someone call me?????

Yes. Please send me a PM. I'll get you taken care of. Still 5 weeks til my cruise.

Hi Tom - I love the badges! I can't PM you as I don't have enough posts and I also don't need these until September....so no hurry, but I'd love 5 of the badges with stars.

Don
Barbara
Jason
Allison
Alexandra

On the second line - could you add: The Wonder - September 18-21, 2008

Have a great, great trip!

Barbara

 

[Brooklyn]

sorry,

I just have to say I love that your DD got a pic with "RICO" I love him from Hannah Montana (this is what happens when you have kids you start liking there stars and forget about your own shows with stars LOL) How cool was he on your cruise or just did an appearance?

He was really sweet! He could not have been nicer to my daughter. He was onboard the whole time with his family on vacation. He watched the shows every night, he was up on deck 9/10 during the day swimming and eating, he participated in the Stack and Lab activities. He would sometimes get mobbed in the Stack so he would leave early.

I just can't believe how little he is! My DD just turned 7 and he is 14!!! They are almost the same size!

 

[andriade]

How do you reverse the colors? I am working on it but can't figure out how!

 

[nocruisecontrol]

Thanks, Tom! I tried to respond to your PM but it wouldn't let me yet - not enough posts.

The badges are exactly what I wanted! I can't wait to print them!

Barbara

 

[Anal Annie]

I know it's SOMEWHERE in this thread and I KNOW I wrote it down...but of course cannot find it...who can tell me how big I need to print the mouse ears to go around the cabin number on the door?! Are they supposed to be about 4 1/2" across???

I wanted to pack today but instead I have been trying to print door signs all day (using PSE6). None of them print the same twice. Last one I did I used red for the font. Most of it was OK, but I had one 6 character word that came out black all except for the 4th letter!! I looked & looked at it & couldn't figure out why it was red on the screen & printed black. So I deleted the text layer & re-did it and tried printing it again. It did the SAME thing! I'm done with that crap. I took a black marker & colored in the one letter to match. I wanted red. But I got black. Go figure.

 

[JLSE50]

ETA: Duplicate as I was asking the same question as andriade in 3027 above. Will stay tuned for a reply.

Jan

 

[Alicia87]

Hi Everyone!!!

I am in awe of everyone's magnets! I was wondering if someone could help me come up with one for our upcoming April 2009 Eastern Magic cruise. We will be celebrating my DD's high school graduation on this cruise. I am taking along DD who will be 18, my mom, and two of my mom's best friends (kinda DD's honorary grandma's...LOL!)

Anyway, DD's name is Caleigh, mine is Alicia, Maw-Maw's name is Linda, and honorary g'mas are Patti and Joni. Would be happy with a magnet design for DD herself and then one with the rest of us crazy girls' names.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I'm design challenged

 

[nocruisecontrol]

This thread has a link to the ears that will print in exactly the right size.

I don't have enough posts so I can't post a link so I am going to give it to you with out the html code and you'll have to add the www etc in front.

showthread.php?p=14318818#post14318818

I hope that works.

Barbara

 

[Disneyelf10]

Here's a couple for RweTHEREyet

Hi Kristine,
I was wondering if you would be able to make me a copy of the formal night Mickey head? I would like it to say Donna and Sean only (no formal night) if possible? Thanks!! Donna

 

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

Here's a start:

How do you reverse the colors? I am working on it but can't figure out how!

 

[rlcook]

OK guys, gotta ask.

I've been looking at magnets and doors and have had some magnets made.

NOW why do we do this? Is there some incentive to having the most creative door. Do CM's pick doors and the guests get to do special things, or the most obvious--it's just for fun?

 

[Anal Annie]

OK guys, gotta ask.

I've been looking at magnets and doors and have had some magnets made.

NOW why do we do this? Is there some incentive to having the most creative door. Do CM's pick doors and the guests get to do special things, or the most obvious--it's just for fun?

'C'

 

[nocruisecontrol]

I'm too new to use the quote feature - but as to why we do this? For fun, for sure. For me, at least, the 'planning' part extends the whole 'vacation' and it's probably almost as cool for me as the actual trip - almost...not quite!

Barbara

 

[Zandy595]

How do you reverse the colors? I am working on it but can't figure out how!

If you have Microsoft Paint you can go to Image, then click on Invert Colors.

 

[andriade]

Here's a start:

THANKS!!!!!!

 

[LittleBlue22]

OK you creative ones out there- What are the dimensions of the stateroom doors and where does the door number fit into it? Also, are there any codes about covering th edoors in fabric?

Lora

You could use fabric, but using a cheap rectagular tablecloth works just as well and is lighter. Tape at the top of the door jam and under the door.

OK guys, gotta ask.

I've been looking at magnets and doors and have had some magnets made.

NOW why do we do this? Is there some incentive to having the most creative door. Do CM's pick doors and the guests get to do special things, or the most obvious--it's just for fun?

Many pages back, or maybe it was a different thread, a DISer got a best dressed door award from DCL. Their cabin must've been where DCL staff walked by frequently. But, you never know, your door might get noticed . We put up printed pictures on the front of our door for any one to sign (like an autograph page) and even Alice in Wonderland signed our sign. It was so neat to see what other passengers would write (all clean verbage too).

Sorry for the off topic tangent I took above.

Have a great cruise!