Make A Coaster With Vinyl Cutter

Unload the vinyl from the cricut joy and weed out the excess vinyl.

Make a coaster with vinyl cutter. We want to make our own stuff thank you very much. Advertisements for cutting plotters aka vinyl cutters in magazines market this technology as a distribution platform for costly design patterns available from retail outlets as files or physical cartridges. But don t write off vinyl cutters just yet. For this project i used the ms pineapple a flamingo a.

It is ready to cut. Next cut out the coasters and vinyl. This diy coaster set features four fun designs that are cut out of cricut premium vinyl using the cricut explore air 2 special edition martha stewart bundle which is available exclusively at michaels. Once the easypress 2 has reached its temperature place the cork coaster blanks on the easypress mat and preheat them for 5 seconds.

Place the iron on vinyl shiny side down on the cutting mat and cut it in your cricut machine. Place the vinyl circles on top of the chipboard and then use transfer tape to place the cheers y all on each. That s a clash with maker culture. Weed away the extra vinyl from the cheers y all designs.

Press the vinyl down and carefully peel back the transfer tape. Begin cutting the designs with the cricut joy. The pretty pearlized cricut martha machine comes with 25 exclusive martha stewart images plus thousands of images in design space. Since these are simple circle shapes the cricut knife blade will cut out the coasters from chipboard in about 5 minutes.

Weed the design using the weeding tools. Use transfer tape to align the weeded design on your coaster.