Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

This creative activity for kids gives them free reign to create their own stickers.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

Using our pattern or one of your own cut a piece of contact paper giving plenty of room on the edge. Load your printer with 8 x 11 inch 20 3 x 27 9 cm vinyl printer paper. The adhesive backing on contact paper means you won t have to. I use a cutting mat.

You can now trace the stencil onto the back of the contact paper with marker. Apr 20 2012 a lot of craft projects contain vinyl letter decals. This allows measuring to the edges of the backing paper for easy placement before installing your new lettering. Our self adhesive vinyl lettering will stick to almost any smooth surface.

Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. Cut your newsprint swirl out to make a stencil. I printed some on matte paper and the adhesive didn t absorb into the paper. Supports letter legal 4 5 inch 4 6 inch 5.

I will teach you the easy way to make your own custom vinyl stickers. It comes pre spaced and is easy to install. Tape your piece of contact paper down on the corners. Aug 2 2015 make your own stickers with this easy diy method and some contact paper.

White vinegar white glue elmer s works fine your design s printed out on paper a wide brush tupperware container or jar optional packaging tape or clear contact paper optional straight edge little spray bottle recommended scissors or x acto blade regular printer paper works the best i ve found. Now flip your newsprint stencil over. A large piece of cardboard could also work. I really like them but i don t want to pay a lot of money for them.

Contact paper or vinyl shelf paper serves as material to make your own wall stencils for art phrases or designs of your creation. Look through your designs and contact you if they want to hire you or buy your products. Load the printable vinyl paper into the printer s paper tray so the print side non adhesive side will be the side that the printer prints onto. Besides that it s nice to be able to choose from all the free fonts the web has to offer instead of just a few basic ones.

We use an advanced computer cut system as the final step in our production process. I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets. The flip of the newsprint is because you re drawing on the paper side of the contact paper which is ultimately the back of the swirl. Cut some extra off around your paper pattern if desired.