Introduction: Drawing to Dagger

Through this workshop manual you behind learn to transfer drawings to stickers, by using the vinylcutter! The participants can draw their own images and turn them into stickers to ornament their stationary or other personalised items. If you use flex foil, you can even cast the stickers happening your clothes!

AGES: 7+

TIME: 1 hour

Supplies

For the drawing:

- a melanize marker

- newspaper

- a smartphone or a photographic camera to take the fancy

For the sticker:

- vinyl in a color of choice (flex foil if you desire to put the sticker on your clothes or another fabric)

- a vinylcutter

- your hands!

Stone's throw 1: Make the Drawing

The first tone of the process is to make a drawing. Use a thick black marking to do this. Keep information technology simple. The more lines you add, the harder it will equal during the next steps.

Step 2: Take a Picture of Your Drawing and Upload It in the Cutstudio

Now take a picture of your drawing with a smartphone Oregon a tv camera.

Surface the program 'Cutstudio' on the computer that is machine-accessible to the vinylcutter. This is a free program, and so you can also do it in advance (at home for example) before coming to the Makerspace.

Whole step 3: Edit the Photo

In the next step we will cut the photo. The editing treat takes place in distinguishable steps.

  1. Best we will take the outline of the photo. How? Away clicking to the right of the photo and choosing 'outline'.
  2. Next we move the bar 'alignement image density' untill there are no Sir Thomas More floater along your pic.
  3. Third, click along 'pull up contour lines'.
  4. Chatter 'ok'.

Nowadays you should see you photo, with on top of that a line drawing. You only need the delineation. Click happening the photo and delete information technology.

Ill-use 4: Redact the Drawing

During this step IT is important to pay off rid of every last the impurities in the drawing. This editing process also proceeds in differents steps.

  1. Using the second icon on the right, you can select the points of your line drawing. Do this and press delete to abolish the pieces that don't belong to the drawing.
  2. Next select the drawing and click happening the true on 'shape'.
  3. Select the box 'keep aspect', in order of magnitude to maintain the correct measurements of your drawing.
  4. Participate the desired width or lenght of the gummed label (before you do this, take the measurements of the object you wish to put your sticker connected).
  5. Finally place your drawing in the niche by pressing the 'move' symbolization at the top.

Do you want to put the sticker on an point of clothing or any objet d'art of fabric? Than you have to make sure that the drawing is mirrored. This is how you mirror your drawing:

  1. Select your drawing.
  2. Attend 'objective' and press 'mirror'.

This is very important, otherwise the text on your drawing bequeath be turned!

The drawing is now primed to be switch off by the vinylcutter.

Step 5: Cutting

While using the lasercutter IT is important to keep a a few things in idea. For instance: ever check whether the material is in the vinylcutter ahead you get cutting.

There are deuce different types of vinyl you can choose from:

  • regular vinyl group: good to frame on items, walls, bikes, bread boxes,...
  • twist spoil: good to don article of clothing, textile bags,...

WARNING: if you privation to put the sticker on an token of clothing, go stake to the previous step and make sure the drawing is reflected correctly!

Last but non to the lowest degree: rent soul in the research lab control whether the material is in the right station before you wardrobe 'cutting'.

Abuse 6: Roll and Stick

You'ray sticker is ready! Immediately the roll can start out. Get rid of every last the parts of the sticker that you don't want. You can wont a little tongue to do this.

Ready?

Did you use regular vinyl?

  • Put the transfer foil on you thorn and change your sticker to this thwart.
  • Now you can put the sticker on whichever item you privation!

Did you use deform foil?

  • Subscribe to the branding iron out of the closet operating theatre use a inflame press.
  • Set out the sticker on the desired maculation on the artifact.
  • Iron over the sticker (with a towel in between the sticker and the material) in order to bind the sticker to the textile. Operating theatre use the heat press and apply pressure.

Kudos! YOU'RE DONE!

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