Day 6 of Vinyl

I have a door in my kitchen that leads to the basement. It’s plain even after trying to liven it up by painting it mint and white to match the kitchen. I decided this would be a perfect place to make a menu board. Let’s make a menu board. Now most people like to use […]

Day 5 of Vinyl

So I wanted to talk about subway art today. It’s my mom’s 54th birthday May 25th. Her favorite song is you are my sunshine. I wanted to do some vinyl work with the lyrics. I also wanted it subway art style. Instead of spending hours placing the lyrics and changing up fonts, I found a […]

Day 4 of Vinyl

So my coffee table broke. I found one at a garage sale for $5. It was structurally fine but the top needed to be re-finished. I took a picture of the top of the table and tried three different designs in my Paint Shop Pro. All over white chevron, areas with chalk board vinyl and […]

Day 3 of Vinyl

So how small can we go? Well if you choose a simple design you can plot vinyl small enough to use as them as nail decals. So let us try some designs. First, as you know I am in love with chevrons. So let us plot some chevron patterns. I found this.   Next, I’m […]

Day 2 of Vinyl

Once you start down the road of vinyl no surface in your house will be safe. I was working on updating a very plain white kitchen. I decided to paint the bottom cabinets an amazing color of mint. I am in love with this spring’s mint. I then plotted chevron strips out of Oracal 651 […]

Day 1 of Vinyl

I wanted to share one of my favorite projects so far, my family tree. This is a huge decal; the tree alone is 60 inches tall. It is a family tree living right on my living room wall. I saw something similar on Pintrest of course, yet it was just in black vinyl. I wanted […]

31 Days of Vinyl

  I thought we could implement some fun stuff around here. We do a lot of giveaways and promoting but what about helping fellow crafters. Our shop currently uses a Vinyl Express Qe-60 Plus Sign Cutter. We have a Silhouette Cameo we are looking into using for paper crafts and fabric appliqués. For software, we […]