JOY vinyl covered wood blocks tutorial

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Roeshel

JOY vinyl covered wood blocks

What you’ll need: a vinyl cutter (or cut vinyl out by hand using scissors)

three blocks of wood
Happy Face Pattern Adhesive Vinyl – Holiday Pack (you’ll have some left over for more decals) This vinyl is so pretty/so easy to work with – it’s great for just covering old cans and jars too!

Tutorial:

Using the Silhouette Studio Designer software, create individual designs…I created one for wrapping each block (measure and add up all side of each block for width and the height of block), three individual rectangles for the top of each block. Then the letters J – O – Y (be sure to create a size that will fit nicely on the front of each block).

For wrapping each block, I used the striped vinyl and the patterned vinyl for lettering.

For each design, load vinyl into the machine pattern side facing up.

Send design to cut. Adjust settings for cutting vinyl. Cut.

Unload vinyl.

Peel away vinyl (like stickers) and apply vinyl to blocks, wrapping first

then the top rectangle…

followed by a letter for each block.

So cute. A great gift or holiday decor.

Decorate!

*This post is sponsored by Happy Crafters. Tutorial, experience and opinion is my own. Check out all the supplies at Happy Crafters for inspiration for your next project.

Metallic Gold Arrow Accent Wall Tutorial

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Roeshel

A small plain wall is a great spot for adding some pattern and detail to a room. This small wall in the apartment nursery nook was just begging for a little attention. Here’s what we did to give it some pizzazz:

Arrow Accent Wall Tutorial

Materials:

Happy Crafters metallic gold glossy adhesive vinyl
Metallic gold Sharpie

What worked for me:

I started with creating triangle (arrowhead) vinyl stickers in my Silhouette Design Studio software. (Since I had some extra space, I created a few vinyl decals including the letter A and a deer head as well…they aren’t a part of this project.)

I hit the “cut” button and adjusted the settings on my blade for vinyl.

Load the vinyl into my Silhouette Cameo color side facing up.

Hit “cut” and remove from machine.

Weed away the excess vinyl (the vinyl that’s not a part of the design). Vinyl stickers. That fast!

On the wall using a level and Sharpie, I drew vertical lines evenly spaced part.

We then decided on placement of the arrow heads, alternating the direction every other line.

I cut a “chevron” pattern from cardboard and used it to create arrow tails, again, evenly spaced and alternating the direction every other line.

Ali used a piece of damp magic eraser to erase the Sharpie line between arrows (note for potential future reference: magic eraser works on removing permanent marker from walls).

That’s it. I was hoping for a more staggered look, but even with drawing it out on paper, the final design had an alternating horizontal pattern too. Cool!

What do you think? Cute. Simple. Right?

See the entire nursery nook HERE.

See my guest room/nursery space for more nursery ideas:

*This post is sponsored by Happy Crafters. Tutorial, experience and opinion is my own. Check out all the supplies at Happy Crafters for inspiration for your next project.

Vinyl Decal Tutorial for Stainless Steel Tumbler {for essential oils}

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Roeshel

Once I started experiencing the benefits of using Young Living essential oils, I’ve been adding grapefruit, tangerine and sometimes lemon essential oils to my water. Love it! It’s definitely increased my daily water intake! However, because Young Living citrus essential oils are so potent, using a glass or stainless steel drinking vessel is recommended.

I found this awesome stainless steel tumbler (including lid and straw) on Amazon.

It works beautifully – keeps drinks SUPER cold with a double insulated wall. Design wise, it’s a little boring and plain so of course I couldn’t help but create some vinyl decals to dress it up a bit.

Materials:

Happy Crafters glossy adhesive vinyl (mint)
transfer paper
Stainless steel tumbler, lid and straw {affiliate link}

What I did:

I added my designs (shapes I already had on hand) to the Silhouette Designer Software template, making sure they were at a size that would fit my tumbler. Designs are previous purchases from the online Silhouette store accessible through the software.

I sent the design to cut.

I adjusted setting as needed for cutting vinyl (you may want to do a test cut).

I loaded my adhesive vinyl glossy color side up into the machine.

I clicked “cut” and removed vinyl from machine when cutting was complete.

Then, I peeled (weeded away) the vinyl that surrounded the design.

Next I added a piece of transfer paper to the decals and rubbed with a credit card to ‘transfer’ the design.

I peeled away the transfer paper, separating it from the wax papered backing (vinyl decal should now be on the sticky side of the transfer paper).

I placed the decal sticky side down onto the tumbler’s surface then rubbed a credit card.

When I peeled away the transfer paper, the decal transferred to the stainless steel surface. All done!

*Now stainless steel tumbler must be hand washed (do not run vinyl through dishwasher).

Much cuter! And since my mom, my daughter and I all use these tumblers, now I know which one is mine! It makes a great holiday gift idea for your essential oils team or oily friends and family.

*This post is sponsored by Happy Crafters. Tutorial, experience and opinion is my own. Check out all the supplies at Happy Crafters for inspiration for your next project.

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JOY vinyl covered wood blocks tutorial

Metallic Gold Arrow Accent Wall Tutorial

Vinyl Decal Tutorial for Stainless Steel Tumbler {for essential oils}