Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

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.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

Remove the backing from the transfer paper and then smooth the transfer paper over your design. I really like them but i don t want to pay a lot of money for them. Using our pattern or one of your own cut a piece of contact paper giving plenty of room on the edge. I use a cutting mat.

You can now trace the stencil onto the back of the contact paper with marker. I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets. 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. Tape your piece of contact paper down on the corners.

Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. I like to run it over both sides of the sticker transfer paper side and sticker paper side. 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. 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.

A large piece of cardboard could also work. Now flip your newsprint stencil over. Load your printer with 8 x 11 inch 20 3 x 27 9 cm vinyl printer paper. Use your scraper to make sure there are no air bubbles between the transfer paper and the vinyl image 1.

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.