Painting Over Vinyl Letters On Wood

I ve seen many with custom motorcycles attempt a clear coat over top of the vinyl decals and with excellent success.

Painting over vinyl letters on wood. Try a vinyl with a solvent adhesive. Scrape it down really well to adhere it well and form a good seal. If the vinyl letters are coming up with the transfer tape give it some time and or moisten the tape. Hi jenn i don t have a personal recommendation for you because i don t seal over vinyl.

If you re going to be painting a background color you can use a white or gray primer. Paint inside the indent. Mod podge your vinyl stencil on your wood sign. I would do a few tests with one of the sealers i use in this post.

Just grab a scrap of wood and some vinyl and seal over it to see what happens. Print out letters font shown here is american typewriter and line up on piece. It will help keep your paint from chipping and fading. When i cut out a stencil for the wood i cut it onto vinyl take out the letter and transfer the stencil to the transfer paper then on to the wood to paint.

If none of that works try the stencil option and just paint the wood instead. 651 permanent vinyl some sort of base coat treatment for the wood like polycrylic or acrylic paint. If you have a choice of paint use 1shot or an enamel paint. Acrylic paint or latex paint i used sherwin williams proclassic latex but acrylic paints work just as well.

Line up your vinyl on your wood sign and use a scraper tool to apply the vinyl to the wood. You can see my favorite acrylic paint here. A show car or custom chopper and you ve did some testing and you can t easily or cost effectively do it with only paint or vinyl graphics. As you may know wood is a bit of a tricky surface when it comes to putting vinyl on it anyway.

Just want to make sure i do. Acrylic paint for stencils stencils for wood furniture reusable here are great options for stencils see the current prices here here is a link to the lace stencil i used on the dresser. I paint over the vinyl letters with the decoupage making sure to really seal in the edges so some of it does get on the main part of the design. Using a ballpoint pen trace outline of letters.

Using a paint brush apply a coat. It might be just as pretty. When removing the transfer tape be careful not to lift any of the interior parts of the letters. The pressure of the pen creates a slight indent in the wood.

A piece of wood to try this on anything wooden will work like a wood slice wooden pallet wooden sign wooden coasters etc. The vinyl has a tendency to want to lift up if you don t have a surface that s perfectly smooth. If you are only painting letters grab a clear primer.