Good Morning!
Shruti here and I am back with a quick review and an easy tutorial on the Premium Vinyl from Silhouette.
Silhouette’s Vinyl comes in two different sizes; Premium (9″ x 10″)and Standard (12″x6″).
It comes in 14 different colors, plus chalkboard, frosted glass, gold and silver. Two of the specialty versions, i.e. frosted glass and chalkboard, come in shorter rolls as compared to the other standard colors. These vinyls are manufactured for indoor and outdoor use and is said to be easily removable from most smooth surfaces, which I found to be true while working with it. I must say it turned out to be extremely easy to work with.
So, PPS sent me some Frosted Glass Vinyl (which comes in only 9″ width and 4 feet long) to try out and I LOVE it!! Trust me, when I tell you this, that you will never need etching creams once you lay your hands on this particular Vinyl roll. It is just a perfect and a non-messy way to fancy up your glass ware. Plus, if you do end up making an error, you can scrape it a bit and peel it off without ruining your glassware.
So, let us just jump on to our tutorial.
Step 1.
Take a glassware that you want to spruce up. I have here, one of my candle holder from a set of three.
Step 2. Select a design you want to dress your glassware with. I chose this quatrefoil lattice background from the Silhouette Online Store.
Step 3: I cut the vinyl at 12″ length to fit my cutting mat.
Note: You can cut your vinyl directly without placing it on the cutting mat but make sure you press ‘Enter Media’ when you feed your vinyl inside the machine. I chose to use the mat. Also, you can feed the entire 4 feet vinyl directly into your Cameo without chopping down the size if you plan to make a bigger project. All you need to do is adjust the length and width of your page on the software and continue
Step 4: Adjust your settings on your Silhouette Studio. This quatrefoil design file comes in two sizes; 12×12″ and 11×8″. I chose the latter and adjusted the size furthermore to fit the size of my vinyl.
As soon as you select Vinyl under medium, it will automatically adjust the speed to 8 and thickness to 9. This works perfectly for the vinyl I am using here. Now, hit the CUT button.
Step 5. Unload the mat and you will have something that looks like this.
Step 6: Once you take your Vinyl off the cutting mat, peel off the vinyl that you do not need for your project. I initially wanted only the outline for my project but I later changed and decided to use the shapes instead.
Now, you might need a transfer paper to transfer the image on to your glass but here I just went about individually sticking each shape by hand.
In the end you will have something like this!
I went ahead and did the same for all the three candle stand from the set and this is the final product! Honestly, I can’t imagine how lovely these turned out for my first ever Vinyl project. I am sure I will get better as I work with them more.
I am loving it!! What do you guys think?
Supplies used:
- Vinyl – Frosted Glass
- Transfer Paper (optional)
- Cutting mat
- Silhouette cutting machine
- Glassware
Love,
Shruti
