Making A Vinyl Cut With Cricut

The largest upfront cost for starting a vinyl decal business is the vinyl cutting machine.

Making a vinyl cut with cricut. Well fear not because today i am going to share with you the easiest way to make a wood and vinyl sign using your cricut cutting machine. Your machine is really clever it will cut the vinyl but not the paper. Place your mat into the machine. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.

How to make diy cricut wood signs with vinyl lettering. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. And that s one of the reasons why we love it. Set the smart dial to vinyl.

On your cutting mat place the vinyl. Wood signs are trendy all year long but can be intimidating to make. If you re using the cricut maker or cricut joy go to the material setting on design space and select vinyl. Also we re using a cricut maker but these same techniques can be used for cutting on other brands of machines.

You may want to use permanent vinyl depending on your application. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. If you are using a cricut explore air 2 you can set the smartset dial on the machine to vinyl. We re using cricut holographic vinyl and cricut removable black.

Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. Two different colors of adhesive vinyl one light and one dark. Set your cutting material to the type of vinyl you are using. Once your mat is loaded look for the cricut c to start flashing press the button and your machine will start.

Now that you ve prepared your design. If you need help comparing cricut vs silhouette you can check out that review of the two most popular machines the silhouette cameo 3 and the cricut explore air 2. A cricut or similar silhouette machine. Preparation with cricut transfer tape.

You ll see a paper liner along with the vinyl layer. Lay vinyl on your cutting mat with the color side facing up. Press flashing go button. Vinyl oracal 631 matte removable or oracal 651 glossy semi permanent transfer tape.

This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same. These machines range from 200 to over 3000 most machines i recommend run from 200 350. Load your cutting mat into your cricut using the arrow on the right hand side of your cricut. Make sure the side of the paper liner face the mat.

I use the cricut explore air 2 this is the current best deal. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. Take a closer look at your vinyl.