Don't you love it when the aplicator stick that comes with new scrapping toys is a tongue depresser?   lol, anyways......Vinyl:   omg....this is an interesting material.  Made by cricut, it comes in various basic colors and sells for $9.99 a package.  Each package contains two 12x24" sheets.   It's stinky too lol.  Remember how a new beach ball used to smell when you'd take i tout of the package?  Now, I borrowed the deep cutting blade and housing for the cricut as I was under the impression you needed to use it on the vinyl.  But according to the instructions, it doesn't specify a kind of blade.  Gonna checkout the instuctionable video on the company's website.  Hmmm....