My daughter, Brooke, is an accomplished equestrian. She started riding when she was 5 years old mastering Hunter/Jumpers and then moving on to other equestrian sports like barrel racing and trick riding.  In recent years she has been teaching herself mounted archery. She wanted a sturdier target than the standard foam target and found a guide to making equestrian equipment. My husband made the target for her and I decorated it with symbols that had meaning for her.

Materials

Oracal 751 Outdoor Vinyl

KNK Zing/Zing Air/Maxx Air Standard Material Detail Blade

Clear Transfer Tape

Design Work

• Brooke wanted a tribal native feel to the graphics and found designs on various tattoo art websites. Using the Pixel Trace feature in Make the Cut!, I converted the PNG files to SVG files for cutting.
• Before cutting the designs I wanted to make sure of the relative size of each unit and how they would look on the target. I drew a life size drawing of the target back in Corel Draw and moved the designs around for placement and adjusted to size.
• And just to make sure the designs would look good at my proposed size, I took a photo of the target back and placed the designs on top of the photo in Corel Draw for a realistic mock-up.

• Now that I had the sizing I needed, I input those dimensions for each design into Make the Cut!  and cut the vinyl.

Maxx Air Settings

Blade = Red Blade, Blade height = 25

Force = 45

Velocity = 300

# Passes = Disabled

Blade Offset = .35

• Referring to a print out of the design, I applied the vinyl to the target back.

I love that I can personalize a one of a kind archery target with my Maxx Air that she will enjoy for many years to come.