My studio mates and myself wanted to dress up our studio door a bit as well as announce that we were ‘in the house’! I offered to create some vinyl lettering for our door.
I’ve been using my Sizzix Eclips more and have to say I love this machine the more I use it. It cuts perfectly every time. Cutting vinyl was a breeze. Each of us wanted to use our own personalized font. This was so easy using eCAL. I typed in each name and welded them together. I then sized all three together to be centered and fit on a 12×24 mat. One note here: When working with script fonts, I recommend you BOLD them and do a test cut as some scripts are super fine in the loops and do not cut well unless HUGE. I then took my laptop over to my Eclips, plugged it in, and told eCAL to cut! When using the Eclips with or without eCAL, I love that I can choose the material I am using with a drop down menu and the software figures out my speed and pressure settings. I did turn my blade down to a ‘2’ to make sure I got a ‘KISS’ cut for the vinyl.
Once it was cut, I use a small pick tool to ‘weed’ the vinyl (remove all the inner loops and then negative space). I admit I still favor my CGull tool set for working with die cuts. The have a greater assortment of pics and spatulas so that I can work in tight spaces.
After the piece was weeded, I placed my transfer paper over it. You can see in the photo above that I’ve already put the transfer paper over the “Studio #309” sign (that is why it looks muted). This made for easy transport up to the studio building. After removing the backing, I was able to center these two pieces where I wanted. I rubbed them with my squeegee and started peeling off the transfer paper. I have found that if I continue to rub with my squeegee and peel the paper off at an angle diagonally, it comes off easier.
TaDA! Personalized studio door. (Excuse the bad picture – using phone to take photo and wall was preventing me from getting a straight on shot) We still hope to put a window in our door at some point. When that happens, I appreciate that the vinyl lettering is removable and repositionable. I might change the vinyl to white if we get a window, but that will be super easy to do. I have a great stash of vinyl from Expressions Vinyl. I have the eCAL file saved from this project, so even though I may have to resize it to fit the window, all I’ll really need to do is add vinyl to my mat and cut!
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