Create Beautiful looking Scrolls in Cut Vinyl
his feature is all about creating beautiful-looking scrolls from simple cut vinyl with long flowing lines, two-tone folds and graduated infills. As with most of…
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Treescape – Sign Design Tutorial
It seems to be a familiar theme across the world of sign-making; “…something with trees on it in Green!…’ Whether it’s for a landscape gardener,…
Converting a Photograph to cut vinyl Graphics.
Photograph to cut vinyl. Recently, A member of the site was faced with a difficult design brief which called for a large number of graphics…
Illuminated Menu Sign
Picture 1Below you will see half of the sheet of Perspex I will use for my illuminated light box menu. The Perspex used is opal/translucent…
Creating 3D Acrylic Letters
Material selection To keep things simple, we will be using a CAST acrylic in 3 or 5 mm thickness. (Extruded Acrylics are not really suited…
Beautiful Wood Sign Carving Tutorial
This is a family crest that I designed based on a piece that I made for a letterhead meet held in Stonington Ct.The size of…
Create your own Faux Marbling Paint effects.
Faux Marbling made easy, by Jill Marie Welch. How to create an unconventional background using non-traditional methods and colours. FAUX MARBLING MADE EASY (Champagne Signs on…
Quick, Cheap, Banner frame.
Needed a banner frame at short notice before the holiday period began, so we came up with the following. Basically, it is a 32mm push-fit…
Creating Traditional Style Scallops in Cut Vinyl
note: needless to say if the actual truck panels were very small then you’d probably create and apply the entire pinstripe and scallops all in…
My Intro to screen printing by Ed Rowland
It all started in a place called Modern Posters in Dock Street, Dundee. There was only one other similar business in the town called Bruce…
Working with Screen Captures
Screen Captures The Windo$e OS has primitive screen capture abilities. Simply pressing the [PRINT SCREEN] key will capture the current screen to the clipboard, making…
Working with Shadows, in cut vinyl.
Jill from N.Wales asked:“…I use Signlab, when I do my text then apply a block shadow, weld & apply reg marks it never seems to…