Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

Cut some extra off around your paper pattern if desired.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

A large piece of cardboard could also work. Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. I use a cutting mat. Use your scraper to make sure there are no air bubbles between the transfer paper and the vinyl image 1.

You can now trace the stencil onto the back of the contact paper with marker. Now flip your newsprint stencil over. 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. I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets.

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. Remove the backing from the transfer paper and then smooth the transfer paper over your design. Cut your newsprint swirl out to make a stencil. Apr 20 2012 a lot of craft projects contain vinyl letter decals.

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

I like to run it over both sides of the sticker transfer paper side and sticker paper side.