Now Available! Trucks Movable Mural

Here is a preview of our newest “Movable Mural”. It is a series of colorful patterned trucks that will liven up the walls of your favorite little boy’s room. The Movable Mural is simply peel and stick! Reposition as desired! Removes without any damage to paint. Line them up or even paint the bottom of the wall green and the top blue for sky and have these trucks traverse up and down some hills! We’ll have photo’s of these trucks in action and they are available on the Wall Dressed Up website!

Movable murals are printed on a fabulous matte fabric-like material.  We use a premium material to print on because you can REPOSITION as many times as you like, but it sticks well on your wall unless you want to take it off. This material make it so easy to add fun style to your walls!

Trucks Movable Mural

Fun peel and stick removable TRUCKS mural!

A Wall Dressed Thank YOU!

We just wanted to say how honored we at Wall Dressed Up are to have won in the Top 10 Most Innovative Category of StartupNation’s Homebased 100 Competition! Thank you to all our customers who voted for us and are happily enjoying their Wall Dressed Up murals! THANK YOU ALL!

New Movable Mural Design!

New Design!

We have a really fun new design. It is a “Movable Mural” which means it is infinitely repositionable and easily peels off your wall (no damage to walls at ALL). This premium material is matte and just about indestructible. Simply peel and stick!

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Peel and Stick Fancy Flower Mural

This sheet is 24″x 50″, so these flowers are BIG, almost 12″ for the larger flowers. The dots can be used as accents, or used to create stems or swirls. This is just a fun design and it will cover a big area! This design is now available on Wall Dressed Up!
Retail Price $69.00
Sale Price $59.00

New Murals Coming SOON!

Introducing…. Wall Dressed Up Movable Murals! Wow! We are so excited and we know you will be too! You have all been asking for repositionable “peel and stick” murals and we have found the most amazing product to print on! Paisley is one of our most requested designs and this will be our first design printed on our new Movable Mural material. This product is infinitely re-positionable, won’t tear or leave any residue. It is SO EASY to just place on your wall, and if you don’t like where you put it, just move it! It is thin, matte and made of a beautiful fabric like material, not a shiny vinyl! You will get no bubbles like you get in vinyl murals and it is still washable and can even be put on textured walls. These murals come off easily and will not damage your walls in any way! We still love our Rub On Transfer Murals for their “hand painted” look…but this product is fabulous too and we will be able to add murals very quickly to the Movable Mural line! This design will be available in a few weeks (next month), but we wanted to give you a “sneak peek”! (each design sheet here is 17″ x 24″) Repositionable “Peel and Stick” Matte, thin material High resolution artwork No Bubbles, no damage to your walls! Artwork right to the edge (no clear film edge) Backing will not stick to itself and get ruined Indefinite Repositioning Easy To Remove Leaves No Residue Will Not Rip Fade resistant Sign up for our newsletter and we will let you know as soon as this design is available!

3Scrapateers Reviews Wall Dressed Up Mural Transfers

A very big thank you to the very talented women at 3Scrapateers for trying our murals and reviewing them! They took the Gerber Daisy design by Wall Dressed Up and were very creative in their applications! Of course pictures speak a thousand words, and maybe some of these project photos will give you a few ideas of your own! There are more photos and projects on the 3scrapateers forum, so be sure to visit and take a look!

Here are some of the reviews: See what the 3scrapateers team has to say about this product here:
http://www.3scrapateers.com/forum/sh…ad.php?t=14579

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Gerber Daisy Mural Mirror and Lampshade!

“I confess….. I LOVE Rub-Ons. I use them in my card making and scrapbooking all the time and purchase about every font and doodle that is out there! Imagine how excited I was to see huge Rub-Ons that look like painted items that could be placed on walls, plastic, furniture, glass, etc. Wall Dressed Up has come up with an awesome product that is so easy to use but looks like you have been oh-so creative and artistic!

The rub-ons come on a large sheet. You simple separate the backing…put the design up against the surface you wish to use and use the handy plastic rubbing tool that is included. Then peel away the paper and viola! the design is left on your surface. It’s as smooth as paint….you can’t feel it’s there once it’s applied.

I chose to use the Gerber daisy design on a teen’s mirror and her lamp shade. It was so easy to do that she even got in the act applying the designs. The large daisies that we used really fit in with the decorating theme of her room and she was really happy with the result!

Wall Dressed Up has many different designs sure to please every individual decorating taste. What a wonderful way to add a little pizzazz and “something new” into your home.

I’m sold!

Here you can see what I did:”
http://www.3scrapateers.com/galleryp…2641&nocache=1

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Gerber Daisy Mural Transfer on furniture and more!

“I was actually a bit skeptical when I read the description of the Wall Dressed Up Mural Transfers where it said that they were “thin as paint” but they really are super thin and easy too! I half expected a bit of a lip on the edge like other rub on transfers leave but these were applied honest to goodness as smoothly and as thin as paint! The colors are as rich and vibrant in person as they are on the website and there is so much detail in the images!!!

The size of the transfers is oh so fabulous! Some of the flowers were as big as my hands! My daughter and I applied these lovelies to a dresser that we use for extra storage in a bathroom after painting it black. The bright pink daisies added a wonderful pop of color to a rather bland bathroom.

My daughter also decided to add some decoration to a composition book that she is going to be using for school. She is really into the black, white and pink color combo so this was perfect!

We both highly recommend these beautiful wall mural transfers! I can see them being used in so many other ways now! I think I might have to visit the website again and start looking for a transfer rub on set that will look good in my kitchen… the cabinets are needing a bit of sprucing up!”

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Gerber Daisy Mural Transfer Laptop!

“Wow! That’s the first word that comes to mind. These transfers are truly awesome. I’ve never seen a transfer that is so easy to apply. They are so thin, you can’t feel the edges. About the only place I could feel where they were applied is where I overlapped them on my laptop and then it was so minute that they were hardly noticeable.

Did I mention that I’ve never seen a transfer apply so easily? Most of the transfers that I’ve used, you really have to rub with the transfer tool to get them off the paper and then you lift off the paper to find that some of it didn’t transfer. Then you spend forever trying to line it back up to transfer the rest of the design. These were just the opposite. The small thin lines came off the paper so easily that I made a couple of errors by letting it rest to heavily on the laptop without the cover paper and it stuck where I didn’t want it to which I just scraped off. I didn’t have any problems with the larger designs (flowers) sticking while I was trying to position them though.

I chose to decorate my laptop as it had a couple of minor scratches on it – after all – it is 4 years old. Rather than buying a skin for it, I felt this was a perfect opportunity to make it “mine” with the beautiful daisies. The hand painted look of them truly give it a hand made “craftsy” appearance which I absolutely love.

Because this is on an item that gets handled quite a bit and slid in and out of my laptop case, I chose to protect the design by putting on a spray sealer. After the design was applied, I masked off everything except for the lid on my laptop and sprayed several light coats of clear satin spray sealer. After the first few coats, I lightly sanded with steel wool and then applied a few more coats of the spray sealer and ended with a final steel wool sanding and buffing. It turned out beautiful and I don’t expect that it’s going to scratch very easily.

I can’t wait to use the rest of the daisies in my daughter’s room. We have to repaint her walls soon, so once that’s done, I plan on using the rest of them to decorate as her bedding and accessories will go perfectly with these.”

You can see my laptop design here: http://www.3scrapateers.com/galleryp…y.php?cat=1667

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Gerber Daisy Mural Card

“You know that I had to make a card using this fabulous product.

I love the supersized designs.

I created a 5×7 card. The transfers applied easily and smoothly on the cardstock and it blended right into the paper. The design was the focal point of the card and did not really need much of anything else on the card.

It will be hard to refrain myself from making bunches of cards utilizing the Wall Dressed Up Mural Transfers.

These transfers will quickly become a new and creative item for your cardmaking and/or scrapbooking stash.”

Check it out here: http://www.3scrapateers.com/galleryp…7/limit/recent

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Gerber Daisy Rub On Wall Transfer Mural

Here is a picture of the original application used as a curtain of Gerber daisies hanging over a bed! Each order comes with all these daisies and roping. Obviously, there are TONS of creative ways you can use these! Go visit the 3Scrapateers site for more ideas. This is a fantastically creative bunch of women and a great resource for scrapbookers. We thank you all for your reviews and great ideas!!

The thin-as-paint mural rubs off the transfer sheet right onto your wall!
The wall transfer mural simply becomes part of your wall, just like a thin
coat of paint. This is not a sticker! Every original brush stroke is reproduced
in high resolution detail and shadows make the artwork pop!

Unique wall murals that can be customized to your space.
You can now beautifully decorate flat or textured walls, floors, ceilings,
furniture, mirrors and more without even a single drop of paint!

Gerber Daisy Transfers rubbed on small table!

1. Decide where you want your mural transfer
2. Remove backing paper
3. Place on wall, smooth, then rub well with applicator tool
4. As you rub, pull off transfer paper, leaving only the thin as paint mural transferred to your wall!
5. It’s EASY and fun!

See what our 3scrapateers team has to say about this product here:
http://www.3scrapateers.com/forum/sh…ad.php?t=14579

Thanks again to 3scrapateers for their reviews and lovely comments!

Wall Dressed Up

Vinyl Murals vs. Transfer Murals, What Is The Difference?

When you look at murals online, it is hard to discern the difference between types of murals. A picture of a vinyl mural or even a wallpaper mural (vinyl or otherwise) can look very similar to a rub on transfer mural. “What is the difference?” you ask. “What will it look like in my home?” It would be great if these differences were easy to see on the web, but online, these products can look similar. Transfer murals are quite different from vinyl murals, and vinyl murals can differ dramatically! We are very happy to report here that as of November, 2008, we have found a fabulous NEW material to print on that has the same re-positionable qualities that make vinyl murals attractive and NONE of the drawbacks! You WILL see murals from us on this superior product coming out this month! We have included this new product in our comparison grid along with our transfer murals, which have some pretty great qualities themselves! Our first Movable mural is AVAILABLE now!

	Wall Dressed Up Rub On Transfer Murals	Wall Dressed Up Movable Murals™ (coming soon!)	Other Vinyl Murals (these may vary in quality)
Application	Rub (burnish) off transfer paper onto wall like a tattoo. Can be applied to many hard surfaces. Must especially rub the edges down and then peel away backing. This is a permanent application, but it is so thin you just paint over to remove!	The smaller shapes just peel and stick. Infinitely re-positionable. NO bubbles or creases. Larger murals, just roll back a bit of backing paper off at the top, stick that part to wall and continue to roll backing paper off as you smooth design on wall. Back inadvertently sticking to itself not a problem. Simply pull apart.	Peel off backing paper and stick. For non-static cling, be sure adhesive back does not stick to itself or mural can be ruined. You get bubbles of air, and many murals are NOT re-positionable. Remember: Peel and stick DOES NOT always mean re-positionable! Larger murals advise the same roll of backing paper method.
How to Remove	No removal, simply paint over! Easy! Remove from glass and mirrors with acetone nail polish remover.	Lift edge and simply peel off wall. Super easy! Leaves no residue and you can reposition infinitely. Can be returned to backing sheet and stored. NO damage to walls!!! Fabulous for dorms or apartments, but elegant enough for your living room!	Static cling? Peel off Other Vinyl? CAREFULLY peel off as they are not always repositionable and adhesive may be aggressive and may take some paint off. We had this happen with a “horse” mural we tested and the paint came off our wall right down to the drywall-in the shape of a horse Not good.
Sheen	Semi-matte	Matte- similar to most paint finishes. No shine! Does NOT look like a sticker!	Samples we tested varied from super shiny gloss to medium sheen (looks like a sticker)
Edge	No edge! Incorporates right into paint finish. Looks like it was painted on your wall! Yes, can be translucent in shadows so it blends with your wall color and looks hand painted. Designs can be very fine in areas-even open to let your wall color be part of the design.	Very thin! Barely an edge and edges stay adhered to wall. Artwork right up to edge of design (no clear “halo”) Can be put on textured walls and many other surfaces, like floors.	Edges vary. Some paper like vinyl wallpaper cut outs are pretty thick. Some have clear or white edges of about ¼-1/2 “ around the design Most say not for textured walls
Bubbles and wrinkles and/or other issues??	This material is so thin that you simply press and/or smooth out any trapped air if it occurs	This is almost like a very fine matte fabric and any air is just smoothed away and not trapped. Will not wrinkle or rip! Also, it will not get ruined if back adhesive sticks to itself, pulls apart easily. If you don’t like where you put it, just move it! This material is amazingly easy to apply and that is what sold us on printing on this medium.	Static cling does not usually get bubbles but it does not adhere that well either. Other vinyl will get some bubbles and they can be very hard to smooth out. We ruined a few larger when the backing stuck to itself. Others we had to leave with permanent wrinkles as they were not really re-positionable.
Quality of Artwork	High resolution reproduction. Every brush stroke visible. Printed in the USA	Hi resolution, amazing print quality! Printed in the USA	This varies tremendously. It seems the designs printed overseas are not very high quality, fuzzy sometimes either in the art or the printing but there are a few that we tested that were well printed!
Customize your design?	Can be layered and many designs are quite customizable. Sheet size is 15”x24” but murals simply fit together like puzzle pieces.	Full large size “one piece” murals or decorative elements that can be placed however you would like! Easy to put up and move!	Many of these we ordered were very small. A lot of the graphic designs are larger, but one color (similar to the vinyl lettering) There was one company we found that had large full color vinyl children’s murals with good artwork (made in England) but the adhesive was very aggressive and we got wrinkles and bubbleswe couldn’t get out.
Price/Quality	Medium price. Excellent value as these are MUCH less than a custom mural and looks hand painted. Very high quality	Medium price, but EXCELLENT value! This is a PREMIUM material and worth the price!	Varies from very cheap (and you seem to get what you pay for here) to medium/high priced. Quality varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Vinyl murals can be fabulous. Sometimes they are re-positionable, but not all murals are easy to reposition-you have to ask! They are great in a kids room, but many imported designs look like stickers, with edges that may lift and they have a sheen to the surface. Cheaper vinyl may not last very long if your child likes to stick and re-stick. But the peel and stick quality may be exactly what you are looking for…a temporary fun way to decorate your walls. Some vinyl murals can come in solid colors and simple shapes like circles or colorful patterns. Some are printed, full color, realistic designs. I ordered quite a few vinyl murals when we were deciding what material to use for our line of murals. The static cling were a cinch to put up, but did not stick that well. They are usually simple shapes. The regular vinyl murals were a bit harder to get bubble free. Some are thicker, so they are not recommended for textured walls. You need to make sure the mural doesn’t stick to itself as you are putting it up. They are similar to vinyl wall quotes, but they don’t rub off the paper, most peel off the backing paper and then you stick it to the wall. Removal? Peel off your wall. Pretty easy. Warning: ORDER CAREFULLY as many vinyl murals say they peel off, but the adhesive may be aggressive and may take some paint off. We had this happen with a “horse” mural we tested and the paint came off our wall right down to the drywall-in the shape of a horse Not good. You may need to repaint if the mural is up for a very very long time and your paint itself fades, but they are not usually up that long in a child’s room! (in the case of the mural that took off the paint it was only up 3 months. Our Movable Murals will come off your wall with ease and will not take off paint or leave residue.

Now what about transfer murals? What are they? Transfer murals are simply printed layers of non-toxic ink and a thin just tacky adhesive on the side that goes on your wall. There is no vinyl involved. There is nothing they are printed on, except the transfer sheet, which separates from the mural when you rub it on your wall. The mural is just like thin layers of dry paint that you burnish (rub) off the transfer sheet, almost like a tattoo for your wall. You never need to remove transfer murals because they are as thin as a coat of paint. Simply paint over them!

As artists, we found transfer murals to be a simply amazing product. It was certainly a EUREKA moment when printing our murals like this became a reality. The difference, other than capturing every brushstroke in amazing detail, is that certain areas shadows can be made translucent, so your wall color “mixes” with the gray shadow to create the illusion that this was painted directly on your wall. This is only done in areas where translucency adds to the effect of blending into your wall. Add that quality to the thin as paint, tattoo-like integration into your wall surface and you can start to see why in many applications you would want to use a transfer mural. When applied to uneven or even textured walls this thin product presses right into the grooves and again looks like it was painted there!

In addition, transfer murals are easy to work with. They burnish onto your wall by rubbing the mural off the transfer paper. Removal? They don’t even need to be removed because special thin non-bleeding, non-toxic inks are used so that the murals can be painted over, just like you would paint over a custom mural. For display/photography purposes, we have painted over many murals and they simply disappear under a coat or two of paint. With vinyl wallpaper stickers (not re-positionables) you may need to remove and wash off adhesive; not so with mural transfers.

Let’s see, are their any other virtues exclusive to mural transfers? Larger murals can be joined without a seam and the place where they are joined is hidden in the artwork. Ah, one of the best qualities is that you can layer and even cut designs. A sheet of ivy can be made into a wreath or cascade around a door frame. This gives you some design flexibility, so your design can be unique to YOUR home! Fun fun! Gerber Daisies can hang from the thin ropes like a curtain or randomly decorate a dresser. Without a drop of messy paint, you can create a custom look. You don’t need to be an artist!

Mural transfers have a more sophisticated quality and can thus be used in the main areas of your home, not just in kids room! They are semi-matte, with no “edge” AT ALL. People will really think you hired an artist to paint directly on your wall. They will run their hand over them to see if they can feel a difference. They will think it’s amazing. We get that response ALL the time!

We are big fans of transfer murals, but vinyl has some great qualities too. Will we ever print on vinyl? Maybe. When and if the qualities of vinyl are exactly what we are looking for in a particular design. We have some interesting ideas on the drawing board. Transfer murals are harder for the consumer (you) to find. There are fewer companies that carry them as they need to be printed in quantity. As our own company, Wall Dressed Up grows, you will see more and more designs from us. We are very happy to report here that as of November, 2008, we have found a fabulous NEW material to print on that has the same re-positionable qualities that make vinyl murals attractive and NONE of the drawbacks! You WILL see murals from us on this superior product!

Oh, I neglected price, but maybe just because the price points are similar for these products. Solid color vinyl may be a bit less expensive, but all in all, either product is a VERY affordable option when compared to custom murals or even wallpaper! Sad as it is to say, you can decorate a wall with either product for less that a tank of gas these days!

I wish these differences were easy to see on the web, but online, these products can look quite similar. Transfer murals are very different from some vinyl murals! Look for a company that offers a full refund if you get your mural and for any reason it is not what you expected, colorwise, sizewise or for any other reason. This holds true for any type of mural. You should be able to send it back, hassle-free before you apply it to your wall if it is not what you expected. It is certainly worth it to try these 2 new types of murals. You will be amazed at what new printing technology can bring you in mural design. It is an affordable and incredibly fun and rewarding way to decorate your walls and bring unique style to your home.

Wall Dressed Up Mural Designs

• A free sample comes with every order so you can try and see just how easy it is before you apply your main mural

• All orders come with our new applicator tool

• Our mural transfers are non-toxic and made in the USA.

New Designs	Murals	Kids Murals
Design Elements	Vines and Ivy	Windows
Architectural	Sample

Create A Headboard Using A Wall Dressed Up Wrought Iron Mural Transfer Design!

You can create a headboard like this in any size (twin, full, queen, king, ca king) using our Wall Dressed Up Wrought Iron Mural Transfer. This is a fun project and you can create a headboard like this using our wrought iron elements! This headboard was created using only one wrought iron order for $68 (we even had leftovers)! This is a fraction of the cost of a “real” wrought iron headboard. It’s a great value and a really fun project.

14 year old Lindsay had redecorated her room in beautiful shades of steel blue and brown. All that was missing was a headboard! We will show you pictures from start to finish of her headboard project. This entire project took about 2 hours from start to finish. Lindsay’s beautiful bed looks complete now that she has a “headboard”!

This is Lindsay! Here she is measuring the length that she wants her headboard to be!

She cut the wrought iron pieces apart, leaving the backing paper on and did a rough layout of the design she wanted for her headboard.

Lindsay measured to make sure the medallion was centered and would be above the her decorative bed pillows and marked center with a light pencil mark. She taped up a few pieces to get the height correct and then started rubbing the medallion onto the wall!

This shows Lindsay rubbing the mural transfer off the transfer paper onto her wall. Only the thin as paint artwork transfers, making your mural look hand painted!

Here she has a little help continuing to rub the elements on the wall. Light pencil marks and the use of a level make sure that the design goes up straight and even!

Another picture of the mural going up!

The finishing touches….

Here is the finished project!

Pictures of New Designs (now available on our website!)

Our Newest Designs
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We have 3 new Wall Dressed Up designs. We have a very versatile wrought iron design that is a bit different than most. You will be able to create “faux” headboards, over the door designs and all sorts of accents from this one design. For those of you who are creative, mixing this with some vine or ivy should be fun too! We can’t wait to get our hands on this design to see all the things that we can make with the elements we painted to work together in so many ways! 2 sheets will create some amazing over-the-door designs, but we will also sell it in 4 sheets to create headboards and a great scrolled medallion out of 4 of the upper left corners with the circular piece in the middle. There are shadows around each piece, so the wrought iron is very dimensional. The straight wrought iron pieces are almost 2 feet each, so you get an idea of scale.

If you have not tried a Wall Dressed Up mural transfer, the new planter design will be a great starter design, though we warn you that you may get hooked on this product once you try it . This design is a simple wrought iron planter holding an aged terracotta pot and trailing variegated philodendron plant. The plant leaves come separately in groups so you can arrange the plant differently if you use two to flank a doorway or picture. You could alternately use the ivy in the pot also! This design will be priced under $20.00, so it is a great one to start with. We have used a lot of shadows on this design so it also looks very dimensional and will really “fool the eye” (trompe l’oeil).

The third design is a neutral aged mosaic border. The “grout” is missing between the mosaic tiles so your wall color will become the grout color. This is what make transfers so unique and different from any other type of border, as the design really incorporates into your wall and your existing paint color becomes part of the design. This also makes the designs look different in different homes!

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Feel free to comment if you would like to see a specific design added to our line! We are busy painting children’s murals at the moment! We appreciate all your suggestions!

Ivy Wreath

Here is a picture of an ivy wreath made with just a 1/2 an order of our English Ivy (you get 4 sheets of ivy with each order for only $42, so this wreath was only $21!). This is a great price, considering that it would take at least a whole day to paint this directly on your wall with this much detail. At our going rate of about $400-500 a day to paint custom murals, this a real bargain! It truly LOOKS like we came to your house and painted right on your wall! It is so easy to make!

Start the wreath by lightly tracing a circle in pencil and then just add pieces of the ivy, overlapping as needed to create a circle of ivy. While it looks great for the holidays, this evergreen wreath can be used year round! This wreath is a good size at 20″ in diameter, but you could make it in any size. There is no buildup, even when the leaves are overlapped….it just incorporates into your paint! You can add more ivy leaves to make a denser wreath or leave it open and airy, whatever you prefer!

This took less than 1/2 hour to arrange and rub on the wall!

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