Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

Cut some extra off around your paper pattern if desired. Use your scraper to make sure there are no air bubbles between the transfer paper and the vinyl image 1. 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. Remove the backing from the transfer paper and then smooth the transfer paper over your design.

Although contact paper comes in a wide range of colors and prints including animal skin tie dye and reflective metallic finishes you can draw and color your own designs to achieve any effect. I like to run it over both sides of the sticker transfer paper side and sticker paper side. Cut your newsprint swirl out to make a stencil. Apr 20 2012 a lot of craft projects contain vinyl letter decals.

You can now trace the stencil onto the back of the contact paper with marker. Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. Now flip your newsprint stencil over. Tape your piece of contact paper down on the corners.

I use a cutting mat. If you re not sure whether to put the paper face up or face down in the tray run a test sheet through the printer to check. 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. 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.

Using our pattern or one of your own cut a piece of contact paper giving plenty of room on the edge.