Easy Vinyl Valentine’s Pouch

Easy Vinyl Valentine’s Pouch

Hi friends! Alicia here again from Sew What Alicia. Applying vinyl can be tricky especially when you are using a new surface! Applying vinyl to vinyl may seem intimidating but I promise it can be done! Here is an easy step by step walk through for this xoxo heart vinyl on vinyl application tutorial.

Easy Vinyl Valentine’s Pouch

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Instructions:

I have a confession. I don’t have the designer edition of the Silhouette software. So I am going to pretend you don’t either and give you a quick walkthrough of how to cut the file so that it looks like it does below. Drag the PNG into the program. Then use the trace function to trace the heart and the xoxo. Clear away the black image so that you are left with the red traced images. Then drag the xoxo into the heart and cut! With regular vinyl you don’t need to mirror the image. Then grab a piece of transfer paper and use a card to firmly transfer the vinyl to the paper. NOW it will look mirrored (as pictured below.)

Place the transfer paper on your vinyl surface. I am using a zipper pouch that I got at Joann’s. Place your surface on a hard area like a table or wood floor. I used the point of my ironing board. Using a card again rub the image onto the vinyl. Carefully remove the transfer paper.

Now even when I used a hard surface I had some bubbles. If you do get bubbles here are the steps to remedy them! Imagine the heart is three triangles. Gently peel the bottom third up and using a card push the bubbles towards the bottom point. Repeat the step with the top edge of each side until the bubbles are gone.

Ta-da! You are finished! Now stuff it with candies and give it to your best friend or your kids teacher or your boyfriend or whoever needs a little love!