My Cricut was given to me by my mother in law who already had a Cricut and was given another one by a client who did not want hers anymore. So anyways, I have this Cricut and it would never cut right so I never used it. Then years later I had this brilliant idea to change the blade. Hello working Cricut. Hello dumb Ashley. 
I wanted to cut out vinyl letters but didn’t want to buy vinyl. I used my $8 roll of black chalkboard paper (aka contact paper), taped it to my Cricut board and it worked!
I labeled our drink containers for outdoor entertaining…
I labeled my kitchen utensil holder (knock off something I saw at Target, holder bought at Target)…
And cut fancy chalkboard labels…
So if you have a Cricut, this is much more economical than buying vinyl…If you do not have a Cricut but have a great amount of patience, you could stencil something like this…
Buy the contact paper here.
