The cricut maker is an electronic die cutting machine that interfaces with your tablet phone or laptop and it can cut score emboss and engrave hundreds of materials up to 2 4 mm thick including paper fabric vinyl cardboard wax paper aluminum foil and balsa wood.
Cutting letters on vinyl with cricut maker.
Easy tutorial to get you started on your crafty projects.
If you manage to get the thin fonts or smaller script words to cut correctly try reverse weeding to make it easier to transfer if you are using vinyl.
Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.
Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear.
Vinyl sheets are available wherever cricut supplies are sold and its thin soft texture will not dull your cricut blade.
If you have tried everything above and your cutting issue is still not resolved contact cricut support.
This will keep the material firmly in place.
Get started with your cricut machine by mastering how to cut vinyl on your cricut machine.
Cut adhesive back vinyl lettering with a cricut to ease in the application process.
Preparation with cricut transfer tape.
About the smallest i recommend cutting vinyl lettering in a simple font is 1 4 tall or 0 25 i have done slightly smaller than that for a customer but it was for a customer that didn t need it weeded and he was peeling the letters off and using them in reverse to do acid bath etching.
The cricut has come a long way since then and so have the tools that you can get to go along with it.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn.
They are actually pretty awesome.
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.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.
Cutting vinyl is one of my favorite things to do now.
Press flashing go button.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
A cricut die cut machine allows you to choose your words and cut them to your personal settings at the push of a button.
Today i want to share with you how to cut a vinyl decal with the cricut.
Use a sticky mat.
No glue is required.