How To Cut Vinyl Decals

You are only using 14 of 1 sheet 14 x 044 011 worth of vinyl 14 because the sheet is 12 x 12 and your decal is 6 x 6. Remove your vinyl from the mat once your cut is complete.

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Kiss-cut means we are only cutting through the vinyl layer decal material and not cutting through the paper backing leaving a paper material border around your decal.

How to cut vinyl decals. Next slowly peel the transfer tape and the vinyl decal up off of the paper backing. You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl. Load it in the machine by pressing the arrow button then press the Cricut button once it starts blinking to start cutting.

Place your vinyl on your cutting mat with the paper liner side towards the mat. After cutting this vinyl decal with the Cr. When you choose a kiss-cut decal you will have extra material around your decal for easy peeling.

Making a 6 x 6 decal using black Oracal 651 from Speedy Vinyl. Once Vinyl is selected youll be prompted to load your mat. Then load the mat into your Cricut machine by pressing the flashing LoadUnload button.

Press go the C icon underneath your dial. Cutting vinyl with the Cricut Explore is very easy but weeding it and applying it to a surface can be confusing. Cut vinyl decals are die-cut from pre-colored rolls of vinyl and because of that you are limited by color selection.

Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing Go button. Vinyl was BOGO Free so You got 2 sheets for 089. Whatever transfer tape you use start by cutting off a piece about the size of your decal and smoothing it on to the top of your decal.

Load the mat into your machine and turn the smart set dial to Vinyl. That means 1 sheet cost 044. Use an application tool scraper tool or even an old credit card to smooth the transfer tape onto the decal.

When your vinyl decal is all done cutting weed the design. Cut vinyl CAN produce a decal using multiple colors however each color in the design must be a different layer and because more materials are used for each layer it can quickly become very expensive to do this. The screen will show a progress bar as your machine completes the cut.

You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Weeding is when you take all of the vinyl you dont need off of the backing.

In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and I did together was entirely cut by hand. Your machine will be set to cut the vinyl but not the paper backing.

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