How to Design for a Custom Motel Keychain

Learn How to Design For Motel Keychains Using Templates from Alchemy

We've got templates for each style to help you design the perfect motel keychain.  Alchemy is here to help you out.  If you have any questions, you can email us through the contact form or email us orders@alchemymerch.com

If designing in vector, please outline any text and group your artwork.  If you design in raster (photoshop, etc), please make sure your art is on it's own layer and not flattened into the template.  If needed, you can design to the template and then send a png of just the art for us to place in the template.

1. UV-Printed  + Foil Plastic Motel Keychains

• Choose a plastic color that works with your art best
  
  
  
• Templates
  

  Plastic Motel Keychain Template - Vector

  Plastic Motel Keychain Template - Raster/Photoshop

• If designing for vector, our template has colors of the plastics in the swatches panel to help you mock your design accurately
  
  
  
• We have guides on the templates to help show the max print area and molded shapes on the top and bottom of the keychains
  
  
• If designing for UV, the art can be full color.  If you are designing for a foil motel and work in vector, our template has the minimum line thickness and gaps space between lines listed.

3. Wooden Motel Keychains

• Choose a style: Burned or Full Color UV Printed - or you can do burned on one side and UV on the other
  
  
• Download the Wooden Motel Template - Wooden Motel Template (vector)
  
  
• Use the guides to help fit your artwork into the max print area, or into a classic, plastic motel's print max.
  
  
  
  
  
  

4. Patch Motel Keychains (Embroidered / Woven)

• Patch Motel Keychains have two main styles - Woven (higher details/all flat) and 50% embroidered (flat background single color with raised elements of embroidery)

• Download our Vector Template - Patch Keychain Template (Motel Shape)
  
  
  
  
• Designing for embroidery or woven patches requires keeping your art as solid colors and bolder designs work best.  If you need full color or gradients, we can do a photo style printed motel.
  
  
  

5. Metal UV-Printed Motel Keychains

• We have a mold on hand for a 2.5" Metal Motel Keychain with UV Printing.  Other sizes and shapes can be made, but require their own mold and increased cost.

• Download our template - Metal Motel Keychain 2.5" Template - Vector
  
  
  
• Art can be in full color and double sided.  To use areas unprinted and metal/negative space, leave the space blank. The heart and sections of the scales below used the metal as a design element.