Her smile is adorable. Shut up.

I have been making and applying vinyl graphics for 28 years. (Longer than the girl with the smile in question has likely been alive) Don't use contact paper, use transfer tape. If you have a $2000+ vinyl cutter, get some transfer tape. Grimco, Tubelite and many more sign suppliers carry this. It's not expensive and works better.

Not an exacto knife - get a cheap snap off blade knife. I have never been without one for 28 years and if you drop it it can be "resharpened" in a few seconds. If you really wanna go all out, get a stainless olfa knife. Sweet.

When possible, do not apply wet. It will go quicker if you are really careful applying the vinyl. Although if you are reading this intructable, go ahead and do the wet apply. Just please dont use too much detergent. JUST enough to keep it from beading.

As for the alcohol, that is spot on. Best cleaner out there.

If you don't have a hackerspace with a vinyl cutter, go to a sign shop around 11:45 am with 2 fresh hot pizzas. Just make sure you have VECTOR FILES on your flash drive. Forget Illustrator, unless you already have it. Download FREE Inkscape and save as a pdf after doing the vector conversion.

If you are in Athens Ohio, go to Zonez on w. union street WITH THE PIZZAS and Bruce will fix everything.

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