Wine Wall

I am trying to find a nice wine cabinet, but have not found one I am crazy about (and can afford) yet that will also look good in my house.  For the time being, my wine bottles are stored in a cubby shelf I bought from Target stacked on another coordinating cabinet.  I improvised. 

Now, I’ve been wanting to dress this little wall up a little.  It faces my working office (not crafting studio) and divides my living room from kitchen.   I also found this great wine cork barrel while enjoying a girls’ getaway in Mount Dora a few weekends ago. I love that it will display my corks and the wire top has a hole in the top center to drop your corks in.   So, now it really needed something else to play up the themed wall.

Since I had vinyl out this week, I searched for a quote that would work on my wall.  I found this great quote by Galileo and used my Gypsy to write it out.  The quote reads, “Wine is sunlight held together by water. ” I used Songbird font (love this font) for the main quote and Plantin Schoolbook for Galileo’s name.  I used the kerning feature to bring the letters in -.25.   I still had to scootch a few over to get them to line up well and then welded them all together.  I then added an image of the wine bottle and glass from Summer in Paris and sized it to 12″.   These were all placed on a 12 x 24 layout and using 12 x 24 black vinyl. 

I cut using my Expression and the kiss-cut method with blade at 4, pressure at 3.  Cleaned up the excess and centers of letters and then used transfer tape to transfer to my wall.  

I love looking at my little wine wall now. 

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