Make Any Vinyl Sticker DIY

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Make Any Vinyl Sticker DIY

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Make your own CUSTOM VINYL Stickers

The Vinyl

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First of all Buy some Vinyl on any web marketplace or store It's very cheap and powerful
For example I'm using this one from Amazon: http://amzn.to/2dOqjud

Get the Size

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Use a Pen and a Ruler to Find the exact size you will need and with a Scissor cut a piece of vinyl

Fix It

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Once you have it fix it on anything enough rigied to keep it flat.

Use some paper Tape

Prepare Your File

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Prepare your file, your stickers, I'm using photoshop I'll use a simple Jpeg image on the final software

You can use dozen of formats and softwares

Software

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Put your image in the Software, I'm using BenBox, a freeware software with a huge support community (http://benboxlaser.us/)

LAZER MACHINE

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Prepare your Lazer cutter machine

I'm using the MINI A5 LASER ENGRAVER from Gearbest at the super cheap price of 170€ (http://goo.gl/j6Asfl)

It's great, I can do dozen of things, as engraving wood, leather, cut paper, vinyls and many more.

SAFETY!

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STAY SAFE!

BEWARE THE LIGHT AND THE SMOKES FROM VINYL!

GO

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CUT BABY CUT

Done

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After less than a Minute Here our GC stickers cut.

Isolate the Stickers

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Use the Paper tape to isolate the sticker

  • cut a piece of tape
  • place it on the stickers cut
  • with your thumb press it strongly to make it stick to the vinyl

Grab It

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With the help of a scalpel o a tiny tip help the sticker to sitck the tape and leave the main vinyl sheet.

Place It

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Place wherever you want.

Use the tape as guide, press and then peel off the tape

THAT's IT

SIMPLE, FUNNY and CHEAP