There is a better and cheaper way to get your custom sigg bottle.

No, because there is a better and cheaper way to get your custom sigg bottle. Don’t want to pay $28 for a bottle ? Don’t worry, this solution will get you a three dollars discount per bottle, which added to our 5 dollars cafepress coupon below, will get you a brand new, custom SIGG bottle for around 23 dollars! Of course, you’ll have to buy three, because the coupon is only valid for purchases above $50, but these bottles are such great, eco-friendly gifts, that three of them is not nearly enough!

Anyway, to get a cheaper custom sigg bottle, we need to open a cafepress account, and set up a shop. Don’t worry, it’s completely free. First, click on “sign in” at the top of the home page in cafepress, then click continue once you reach the screen below.

Register at Cafepress

You arrive at the page shown below where you enter your registration information. Fill all the fields in and then click on “Join now”.

Enter your information

Fill in more info and then click “Open your shop!”

Fill in More Info

You are now given a choice to open a basic or a premium shop.  For our purposes, a free basic shop is sufficient, so click on “Open a basic shop”

Choose shop type

Fill in some more details on the next page and click on “Submit”, then click on “Build your shop once you reach the page below

Build your shop

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to insert a product, preferably a Sigg botlle into the shop. Once you reach the screen below, you can keep going.

Sigg bottle added to shop

Draw your image using Gimp or Inkscape, or whatever software you are used to.

Great, you’ve added a Sigg bottle to your shop. The only slight problem is that it’s completely white. We really need to do something about that! So, is your image ready? No? Well let’s go then. Cafepress provides a template for the image on the Sigg bottles, and I suggest you follow it to get an image of the proper size. The only thing is that it’s at 200 dpi, which seems a bit low for printing, so I suggest you scale it up to at least 300 DPI, or a pixel size of 975×1800. Here is my template at 600 DPI

Draw your image using Gimp or Inkscape, or whatever software you are used to, or just choose a photograph from your collection. The thing to keep in mind is that the shape of the template is the maximum size of your image, but it can be smaller…

Ok, so now you have your image the way you like it, I suggest you give it a try on the flash designer. When you are entirely satisfied, click on “edit” below the image of the bottle to get to the page shown on the screenshot below.

Add image

On the right hand side, click on the “select image” button, then on “Upload image”, which brings you to a page where you can upload a number of images, choose and upload your image. It takes a few steps, which I’m not going to detail here.

Image applied to bottle

Once you selected the image to apply to your bottle, you can tweak it’s size, but if you used the template, it should fill all the space available, see screenshot above.

Click next, and you can write a title, a description and choose a price for your item. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to buy it at the base price later, so set any markup you like. I didn’t touch anything, as it doesn’t matter for our purposes. But feel free to change things if you want to sell your custom bottle later.

Change item details

Once you click “save and finish”, your custom Sigg bottle is created! You can now buy it at the base price by following these instructions : first, click on the “your shops” link at the top left of the page shown above, then on “buy” on the same line as your shop’s name, and then “Click to buy from your own shop”, after which you get to the product page for your custom bottle, which you can then buy following normal procedures.

Buy your custom Sigg bottle

When you get to the checkout form, fill in the following Cafepress coupon code: POPPYSNEEZE to get a further $5 discount, on purchases over $50.

Cafepress coupon code: a further $5 discount

And that’s it, your three brand new, custom, home made sigg bottles for $76.22 including shipping.

A further tip if you want a different design on each bottle : as the free version of cafepress doesn’t allow you to sell more than one product of each type in each shop, open several free shops with a different Sigg bottle in each!

I hope you enjoy this post. If you decide to follow this tutorial, send a pic of your bottle in the comments.