Cricut Grad Party Direction Sign

by JOANN |

Item # 132219413P64

Intermediate 3-5 Hours

Measure space on the arrows on the sign where you will be putting the vinyl words. You want to measure first before painting.
Paint wooden sign with blue paint, let completely dry, and paint another coat of blue.
While sign is drying, open design space.
Insert text box and type:

Change font to Caslon Black
Highlight all of your texts together and adjust size to 12"x 10".
Put vinyl on your Cricut mat and cut with the Cricut machine.
Weed the cut vinyl with your Cricut weeder tool, and apply transfer tape, cut each word phrase out. Set aside.
Cut 1/8" strips of vinyl or painter’s tape to form the white border around each individual section on the sign.
Using the 1/8" strips, tape off your desired area to paint
The white border should be inset 1/8" from the edge of each section and it should be 1/8" thick.
Use your ruler to measure.
Use your scissors and X-Aacto knife on the 1/8" strips of vinyl while taping off your area that you want to paint.
Once all sections are taped off, press firmly down on all vinyl to assure paint doesn’t get under.
Paint Mod Podge over white border areas. Let dry.
Paint white over indicated white border area.
Peel up your taped off stencil vinyl strips while paint is still wet.
Let completely dry.
Apply white vinyl words to the painted wooden sign.
Using a small paintbrush, touch up any areas to complete sign.

Peel up vinyl while paint is still semi wet.
Use a hard dryer to dry paint on sign quickly.
Permanent vinyl works best for taping off white border.
Taping off area for white boarder can be easily done using an X-Acto knife and scissors on your 1/8" strips of vinyl.