My wife makes custom vinyl crafts with a computer controlled vinyl cutter. She showed me the Bee Kind design on the wood laminate circle and I said, "that's niiice, now we need a Hive.Blog circle." In about 20 minutes she had one assembled.
The Cricut CNC Vinyl Cutter and Scribe
This CNC vinyl cutter is a Cricut. It connects to the computer, like a printer, with a USB or wireless with Bluetooth or WiFi - it looks like a printer too at first glance. This device cuts vinyl and calligraphy with a ink pen attachment.
Cricut Software
Images can be imported into the Cricut software - it can do some image editing, but sometimes it's easier to edit the image before importing. Image and text colors can be chosen - each color is cut separately from the closest matching color sheet of vinyl.
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Cricut Cutting
The vinyl it cut to size if it's from a roll, placed on the cutting mat, and then the cutting job is sent to the Cricut from the software - very similar to printing to a printer. You can see the Cricut below, busy cutting the black vinyl.
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Cut Vinyl Removing
First the excess vinyl is removed from the text or graphic. The vinyl has a sticky bottom for applying to the chosen non porous surface - these are custom vinyl decals, like on a car, store window, custom sign, or crafts.
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Transfer to Transfer Paper
The vinyl decals get transferred to the transfer paper for easy application to the surface.
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Transfer to Surface
With the transfer paper, the decals are transferred to the surface. These cork circles have a wood laminate that has the cracked wood design printed on it - my wife attached metal loops for easy placement on a wall, some people put them on a table with a small stand.
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The Hive.Blog circle is complete, that's niiiice.
She has lots of other designs, most of them inspirational - gardening, farming, motorcycles, and trees are a few of them. A lot of custom design requests too, like family crests. These circles sell well for her at the craft shows, her record is 40 in a day - at $30 USD each, that's not too shabby.