I though that for those who have not seen or done vinyl work I'd show share of the steps for making a simple 4'x8' vinyl banner. Start to finish about an hour, much of that time was doing the shadow letters. The weeding example is from some parking signs, the rest from the actual banner job.
Too big to upload all the pics so here's a link:
http://members.aol.com/pelonio/vinylbnr.htm