Posted By TeckWrap Craft On September 17, 2023
Large Vinyl Decals For Walls
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Large vinyl decals are perfect for decorating walls and creating an artistic ambiance in your living space. These can be designed using TeckWrap Craft’s adhesive vinyl collection. The premium quality vinyl is available in 82ft rolls in an extensive variety of brilliant colors and finishes, making it perfect for creating large vinyl decals for walls.
Whether you’re creating wall quotes, silhouettes, decals for business establishments, your bathroom wall, or even just to label your pantry, you can never go wrong with TeckWrap Craft’s adhesive vinyl collection.
Here’s everything you need to know about creating large vinyl decals and some ideas that you can explore and implement.
What Do You Need To Create Vinyl Wall Decals?
To create large wall decals, the main material you need is adhesive craft vinyl. As you may know, craft vinyl is of two types—removable and permanent.
Permanent vinyl has a stronger tack. It has a higher resistance to environmental elements and is more suited for outdoor applications or indoor walls that receive a daily dose of sunlight. If you want a wall decal that’ll last for many years to come, use this vinyl.
Removable vinyl is recommended for temporary applications. If you plan to take off the wall decal soon in the future, or if you have applied a large decal for some special occasion like birthday, anniversary, Christmas, or Halloween, it’s recommended to use removable vinyl.
Other than the adhesive vinyl, the supplies you need to create large vinyl wall decals are:
- Cutting machine: The most commonly used are Cricut and Silhouette.
- Cutting mat: At TeckWrap Craft, we have cutting mats with grids in different sizes and tack levels.
- Squeegee: This is used for applying slight pressure to make the large vinyl decal stick to the wall and remove creases and air bubbles during application. At TeckWrap Craft, we have Glow in the Dark, Mint, and Pitaya squeegees.
- Weeding tool: You can use a weeder, tweezer, or a weeding pen. All these can be bought from the TeckWrap Craft website.
- Transfer tape: This helps in the accurate and straight application of the decal on the wall. It comes with or without a grid. Both variants are available at TeckWrap Craft.
How Do You Create Large Wall Decals?
Creating large wall decals is pretty straightforward. You can use long rolls of adhesive vinyl available at TeckWrap Craft. Here, you can get 12“ x 5ft, 10ft, and 82ft rolls. Using the 5ft one for a regular-sized decal would work but if you want to create larger decals, it is recommended to use the 82ft vinyl roll.
Here’s how to create decal stickers:
- Clean the wall with a damp cloth and water. The decal won’t stick if the wall is filled with dirt and dust.
- Take note that adhesive vinyl sticks better on walls with glossy paint. You can also stick it on wallpaper and finished wood. It won’t stick on an uneven concrete or unfinished wood wall.
- Measure the wall's surface area where you want to stick the decal.
- Peel the clear protective film off the adhesive vinyl before cutting.
- Cut your custom design on the cutting machine. See the infographic below on the recommended cutting machine settings.
- Use your weeding tool and take out the excess vinyl. After this step, the decal that you initially visualized will be in front of you in vinyl.
- Cut a piece of transfer tape larger than your decal and apply to it. Smooth it out with a squeegee.
- Transfer the decal onto the wall’s surface. Again, use a squeegee to remove any creases or air bubbles and apply slight pressure to ensure proper adhesion to the surface.
- Slowly remove the transfer tape at an angle. Do not lift vertically. Stay closer to the surface.
That’s it! Are you ready to create wall decals? Here are some craft inspirations you can follow.
Stickers For Business Establishments
Wall decals are popular must-haves in business establishments like restaurants, coffee shops, medical spas, and even corporate offices. If you’re a business owner and feel like the walls of your shop need a little life, it’s time to place large adhesive vinyl wall decals!
For instance, if you’re a coffee shop owner, you can place inspirational quotes on the wall like this free SVG below. Feel free to use it if you want. You can also use it on your kitchen wall.
Check out the image below. It’s a wall decal for an eyelash service salon. They call it the ‘Instagrammable Wall’ where clients can take pictures upon visit. Also, this brings so much life to the establishment and can be part of your advertising strategy as well.
There are plenty of colors and textures of vinyl available. Don’t limit yourself to black. Check out TeckWrap Craft’s adhesive vinyl collection for an extensive variety.
Fun Decal Ideas
See the image below. Isn’t it a fun idea to place decals like these in restaurants? Adding a little bit of humor to the walls always brightens up your day.
Adhesive vinyl does not only stick to walls but on glass surfaces as well so you can apply vinyl decals on windows too. If you want to place decals on the wall outdoors you can use TeckWrap Craft’s permanent vinyl.
Wall Decals For the Bedroom
Check out this ‘Happily Ever After’ bedroom decal. This is perfect for a couple’s bedroom. The metallic vinyl makes the design more interesting, right?
What about this angel wall decal? Doesn’t it look relaxing? Make sure to check out TeckWrap Craft’s site and explore the collection of metallic vinyl. You can get Textured Metallic and
Large Decals For Kid’s Bedroom
Nurseries are another part of the house where you can add more color, style, and detail by using vinyl wall decals. Kids love their rooms. So why not create wall decals for your child’s room to their liking?
Create fun wall decals like your child's name in bold fonts, ducks, princesses, and even superheroes. Use vibrant, colorful adhesive vinyl for this!
Wall Decals For The Living Room
The large wall decals in your living room should be chic and classic. You don’t want them to be overly colorful. Aside from the vector images on your wall, you can also use inspirational quotes. Use the superb patterned vinyl like the one seen below. It’s also available in different colors and textures.
Inspirational Quotes
Check out this positive inspirational quote below to be used as a wall vinyl decal. This will look great in your living room or even your bedroom.
If you have a personal mantra and you want to place it on your wall, you can cut it with your cutting machine’s design software. Don’t forget to place some vectors like hearts, stars, or a smiley face to make things more interesting.
Wall Decals For Parties
Do you know that you can create temporary wall decals for parties? You can use removable vinyl to ensure you won’t leave any sticky residue. For Halloween parties, you can use designs like pumpkins and ghosts using TeckWrap Craft’s Glow-in-the-Dark vinyl.
You can also create greetings for birthdays, gender reveal parties, or Christening celebrations and place them in the party’s stage backdrop. Aside from the greetings, you can include vector images specific to the occasion.
For instance, for a birthday party, you can create wall decals like balloons or cakes. The ideas are endless! The more decorations and vectors you can place on the wall, the better!
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The Takeaway
When it comes to creating wall decals, there are endless possibilities. Make sure to browse through the extensive collection of adhesive vinyl at TeckWrap Craft to make your projects more interesting. Happy crafting!
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