Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

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.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

Now flip your newsprint stencil over. 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. I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets.

Cut some extra off around your paper pattern if desired. Using our pattern or one of your own cut a piece of contact paper giving plenty of room on the edge. A large piece of cardboard could also work. Tape your piece of contact paper down on the corners.

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. Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. 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.

I really like them but i don t want to pay a lot of money for them. 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. Use your scraper to make sure there are no air bubbles between the transfer paper and the vinyl image 1. Load your printer with 8 x 11 inch 20 3 x 27 9 cm vinyl printer paper.

Apr 20 2012 a lot of craft projects contain vinyl letter decals.