Creating and cutting vinyl with the cricut is very similar to cutting paper and with a little practice you can personalize just about anything.
What cricut do i need to cut vinyl.
Place your vinyl on your cutting mat with the paper liner side towards the mat.
You ll also need a weeding tool.
Attempt cutting a different material such as printer paper using the appropriate setting for that material.
It helps to easily move vinyl to the blank you are using.
The same rules apple to cricut s new infusible ink that apply to heat transfer vinyl.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
Preparation with cricut transfer tape.
First off you ll need a cutting machine i love using my cricut explore air 2 for all of my vinyl projects.
Transfer paper tape is a sticky material that is similar to contact paper.
This is used to remove the negative pieces of vinyl from the cut image.
It is the same blade as the premium fine cut blade.
Load the mat into your machine and turn the smart set dial to vinyl.
Press flashing go button.
This month s cricut tutorial is one i ve been wanting to write for a while.
If not it may be an issue with the original material you are attempting to cut.
It has pink housing to match the cricut pink fabric cutting mat so that you could easily recognize that your blade and mat were dedicated to cutting fabric.
To cut vinyl on a cricut you ll need a few different supplies.
With this thicker sturdier tougher vinyl like material i was able to cut custom adhesive backed stencils that could be used over and over again with great results every.
If you need a hand loading a design into cricut design space head over to their youtube page where they have a great class posted.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.
These will also need to be cut with the good side of the material face down on your mat.
These pineapple monograms look amazing when cut out of fabric.
Vinyl designs can be placed and removed from any hard surface.
Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear.
Your machine will be set to cut the vinyl but not the paper backing.
A test cut isn t super easy with cricut but you can just add a small item to your design and put it on a separate mat and do a test cut with just that mat with your material.
Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.
Whenever you are cutting out a design or even drawing with the pens and markers you will want to be sure to mirror your design.
This helps prolong the life of the blade.
Cricut personal cutting machines allow crafters to cut paper fabric foam and vinyl into any shape imaginable.
After years of hating stencil projects because of the mess and sloppy results i was amazed at what a game changer cricut s stencil vinyl was.
A green standard grip mat works best with vinyl.
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