Vinyl Cutting

This is a graphic drawing of Urtle the Turtle wearing a sombrero. I used ellipses for the balloons, head, body, legs, and sombrero. I stretched the ellipse objects. For the balloon string, I added a 2-millimetre stroke and added black fill, so it would look like a balloon. For the turtle's eye, I used a series of ellipses to give the shape of the eye and the reflection of the light in the turtle's eye. The turtle's shell is made out of an ellipse with starts from 0 degrees and ends at 180 degrees. I used the fill tool and colored the turtles body green. My favorite part of this project was getting to know most of the tools in Inkscape and to be able to create something I am passionate about!

My Vinyl Sticker

This is my digital version of my ticker on Inkscape. I used an ellipse to draw the border and then typed in the letters. I chose my desired font and then turned this image into a path, so the vinyl cutter can process and read the cuts.

This is the path version of my Vinyl sticker.

This is the final product of my Vinyl sticker.

My Vinyl cutting process:

  • Make a design on Inkscape.

  • Use split view to see how it will print and change stroke path.

  • Save as SVG.

  • Go to the MAC, and get a sticky sheet.

  • Place the vinyl paper to the sticky sheet.

  • Load the sticky sheet with the Vinyl paper into the Vinyl cutter.

  • After the sheet is loaded, click print on the MAC.

  • When it's done printing take the vinyl paper off the sticky sheet.

  • Use tweezers to peel the vinyl.

  • Peel the sticker and place it on transfer paper.

  • Use a squeegee and scrape the transfer paper to ensure your sticker is stuck without any air bubbles.

  • Stick your sticker where you want and at an angle peel the transfer paper.