I Will Survive Vinyl Succulent Vase
Hey guys! Alicia here from Sew What Alicia. I love coming here to share all my non-sewing escapades! Today I am using the I Will Survive free cut file on an adorable succulent vase. This is a mini vase so let’s talk about using small vinyl shall we?? Here is an I will survive vinyl succulent vase tutorial!
I Will Survive Vinyl Succulent Vase
Supplies:
- Vinyl
- Cutting Machine
- Transfer Paper
- Small Vase
- I Will Survive Free Cut File
Instructions:
Measure the height of your vase. Mine was ~3″ tall so I knew I had to cut my words to be ~2″. The cut file has the words written two different ways. Use your eraser tool to get rid of one of the sets of wording. Then size the text down to 2″. Now use the offset tool to make the contrasting background. Don’t do the offset until AFTER you have sized the text down. Make sure the offset creates a filled shape, if there are small holes it just looks funky (I tried that!)
I cut two squares of vinyl that were just a bit larger than my finished sizes. Then I went ahead and put them down on the mat right side up. The green was on the right top and the blue was on the left top. This way you can cut both images at the same time.
For the triangles I simply used the “draw polygon” tool, connected three sides and the clicked out of the polygon tool. Repeat this creating as many triangles as you want. Repeat the steps of cutting two rectangles of vinyl and cutting all the triangles in the same pass.
Now grab your transfer paper.
Transfer the offset background to the vase first. If there are bubbles pull the vinyl up in four quadrants and use a straight edge (like a credit card) to smooth the vinyl back onto the vase. Trim your transfer paper so that it is close to the edges of your words to help yourself align the words on top of the background.
For the triangle vase you can just pick the triangles up with your fingers or tweezers and lay them individually on the vase, again using your straight edge to smooth them down. I threw the weeded portion on to show you how fun this would be as a stencil (or if you have the patience and make it big enough you could just wrap the vase in it!)
I didn’t use the stencil method instead I added two strips of vinyl that I free handed from scraps to finish off my trio.
I am a little obsessed with the blue and green color scheme right now! You can check out my no-sew embroidery hoop tutorial, it goes perfectly with these vases!! HERE.
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