My Bamboo Vinyl

Hello Friends,
Its been quite a few days since my last post.  I've had a busy busy summer with the family.  Here's a quick project I made using brown vinyl.  I recently remodeled my bathroom and had not been able to find what to put on my walls.  I found really cute frames with bamboo prints on them at Home Goods but I still had a small space with nothing on it. I couldn't figure out what to put there.  Then I bought the "Pagoda" cartridge, saw the bamboo trees and knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I ordered my vinyl from Expressions Vinyl (thanks to Michelle from Scrappin with my bug. ) I took a few photos of the process.  What do you think? I'm pretty happy with the turnout.  I see lots of vinyl in my future.  Enjoy!!

My blank wall. :(  

Here's the image on my Gypsy.  Used 12x24 mat
Set my speed and pressure to medium.  Also set the blade to 3.
At these settings it won't cut completely through and
you can easily apply transfer tape

Here's my image cut on brown vinyl

Peel off the excess vinyl.
It's called "weeding"  No idea why!

Once the excess vinyl is removed you can apply
transfer tape  Rub it gently so that
image adheres to your tape.

when you lift off the transfer tape the image
should peel off the backing it's on. Adhere it
to the wall and rub it throughly so that
the image sticks to the wall.

Peel slowly!   

TADA!!!  

Vinyl Letters

I made this a while back ago and never posted it.  I've always loved inspirational messages and thought this would be a cute idea for the playroom.  I LOVE to exhibit the artwork the boys come home with. (yes, to me everything they do is better than Picasso)  I was a little scared to use vinyl (not sure why, it's not like it was going to bite me!  :)  So I kept putting it off.  Then one day after watching the Cricut infomercial of the lady using the vinyl I got inspired.  I must have seen that show a million times.  Here's what I made.  Sweet and simple.  They're placed over the boys' artwork. I used the "Tear Drop" font cartridge for the word "Create"  and I used the Home Accents solutions cartridge for the others.  I highly recommend using the transfer tape.  I don't think I would've been able to place one letter at a time.  It would have taken forever.  :)