Make Your Own Vinyl Letters With Contact Paper

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.

Make your own vinyl letters with contact paper.

I really like them but i don t want to pay a lot of money for them. A large piece of cardboard could also work. Using our pattern or one of your own cut a piece of contact paper giving plenty of room on the edge. You can now trace the stencil onto the back of the contact paper with marker.

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. 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.

Tape your piece of contact paper down on the corners. 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. Load your printer with 8 x 11 inch 20 3 x 27 9 cm vinyl printer paper. Cut some extra off around your paper pattern if desired.

Make sure it s on a surface that you can cut on. I always find it very strange that the vinyl letters are quite expensive compared to the big sheets. Cut your newsprint swirl out to make a stencil. I like to run it over both sides of the sticker transfer paper side and sticker paper side.

I use a cutting mat.