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Attention Beginners! Have you ever wondered ,"What CAN I put Adhesive Vinyl onto"? If so, then come check out this blog post, we will show you a quick run down of just a few items that you can apply adhesive Vinyl to.Here are a few things:Glass:For Glass surfaces, we recommend using any our our Permanent Lines. Shown here is our Glitter Adhesive Line in Blue, and our Series 51 line in White and Black. Permanent will water resistant, so for water bottles like this is it perfect.Met …

If you've spent more than ten minutes in the craft world over the past year, chances are you've seen one of Heidi Swapp's adorable light boxes (or some variation of it). But... did you know you could use your cutting machine to make custom inserts for it? It's so easy! First, because I have two (the mini and the full-size) lightboxes, I took out an existing insert I had and measured it. This is the size that I'll cut my transparency sheet to. Remember transparencies?! Overhead projectors were so …

Hi, I'm JoAnn with Expressionsvinyl.com and today we wanted to cover just the basics of adhesive vinyl. We have several different types available. Oracal 651 and Series 51 are permanent adhesive and have a glossy finish on them. Oracal 631 and Series 31 are removable with a matte finish. One quick and easy way to tell what you've got, whether it’s adhesive or heat-transfer, peel the corner back. If the adhesive is on the color side, that's what side sticks, then you' …

I have been knee deep in my living room makeover and I wanted to find the perfect way to bring some pattern into the space, without adding more pictures on my wall. I knew that vinyl would be the perfect solution to my problem. I knew this would be the perfect opportunity to bring my love of geometric shapes and trendy colors together! I am now officially obsessed with my new gold geometric triangle wall art!Here is what you need...*Gold indoor vinyl from Expressions Vinyl*Vinyl cutter (Silhouet …

My little boy loves airplanes and parachutes!We came across this really cool army amo box from a garage sale last year. We thought it was really neat, it still had the information indicating what type of ammo box it was. They were mortars; this ammo box inspires our Parachute And Airplane theme.This wasn't hard to put together other than all the little pieces we had to weed out for the final look. We purchase airplane and parachute images that our Silhouette was able to cut out. We used 5 p …