A couple weeks ago I took my first order for doing vinyl lettering on a van. I was nervous about it because I don't have a lot of choices for lettering, but they were pretty easy going about the whole thing.
It took over a week for all the supplies to come in....but here I am getting started with all my supplies needed to make vinyl lettering.
The letters are to be 8 inches for the name and 4 inches for the rest of the wording. They are having a lot put on so this will be a lot of work especially since it is going on both sides of the van...
I am taking during pictures, I just hope I remember to take after pictures! I will be putting the wording on the van tomorrow morning right after we drop off the kids at school.
Wish me luck!
I will post pictures later...
UPDATE: I have now been at this all day...I never thought it would be soooooo much work! I am wore OUT! I need to have this done and ready to put on the truck by tomorrow morning, so no time for complaining. I wish I had more than 1 12x24 cutting mat and that I could have more set up to cut. I could have done it all before hand and saved them....I am learning! But definitely will have to buy another large cutting mat!
LAST UPDATE (for the night): So, todays little project turned into a BIG PAIN IN THE BEHIND! My customer requested 8 inch letters, and seeing as how I don't do this for a living, I didn't happen to think that once the letters were all said and done (and automatically adjusted for size by my program according to the height I entered in) that the name of the business would be WAAAAAYYYY TOOOOO LOOONNNNNNNG for the van! So I made brand new letters for my project! And at 9pm!!! Yikes...talk about pushing it to the last minute (which my husband not so kindly pointed out to me!) So, what took me all day to do incorrectly, took me not even 15 mins to do CORRECTLY! And without my husband having to "bail me out".
Lessons Learned:
I should have gotten the dimensions of the van before even starting!
Then figured out exactly how long I wanted the lettering to be - AGAIN Before Starting!!!
Next time I will create each page that I will be cutting out prior to sitting down to do the actually cutting!
AND I will be going out to buy 1 - if not 2 extra 12x24 cutting mats to make life so much easier!
I can not stress this rule enough ---> carpenters follow the rule measure twice - cut ONCE...this fits in very nicely here, don't you think???
Next time will be better - I promise. That is if there is a next time :)
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