Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
Cutting vinyl labels by hand.
Who doesn t love a sticker.
It enables you to scan anything you want.
The big sell of the scanncut 2 from brother is disclosed in the name.
After scanning this vinyl decal maker can cut the selected image photo or hand written sketch.
It is possible to cut vinyl directly from the roll without a mat using your silhouette and i will add a post all about how to do that soon but for now let s just focus on how to cut with a cutting mat.
Scanncut comes with a 300 dpi built in scanner and rbg color recognition.
Vinyl labels and matless cutting.
Now we are ready to load our vinyl into the cutting machine.
Cut design from vinyl.
I always use oracal 631 because it is a high quality indoor outdoor vinyl and is easy to apply and remove.
Once all of your labels have been traced send them to your silhouette machine and cut.
2 how many name labels do you need.
You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife.
You can use smart iron on vinyl or regular iron on vinyl on a mat whichever you have on hand.
How many name labels that you need will determine the size of the name label sheet.
Boring people that s who.
Since i had a remarkably curvy piece of vinyl i taped it to my cutting surface.
Cut a piece of vinyl about a half inch bigger than the design.
In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and i did together was entirely cut by hand however to make things easier and to get super clean cuts and intricate designs you will want an electronic cutting machine like a silhouette.
When we were given a silhouette portrait by instructables labels were one of the first things i wanted to try out.
The copper vinyl i used for this project was oracal 631 matte vinyl.
The aforementioned benefit of having a small portable cutting surface.
Place vinyl on cutting mat.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.
Our makerspace s logo is a cog which means that cutting it out by hand is.
Vinyl laminated labels with silhouette cutter.
The mat and insert into cricut joy.
Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.
You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl.
If you are looking for a vinyl sticker machine that makes it easy to cut a hand drawn design then you will love this one s simplicity.
Vinyl decal machine has over 600 built in designs so you won t be needed a computer or pc to complete your project.
A great feature of this vinyl sticker printing machine for sale is 300 dpi built in scanner.
If the vinyl isn t too curly i usually don t tape it down as it allows for easier manipulation of the project when cutting.
Iron on vinyl needs to be mirrored when cutting.
Click go in cricut design space to cut your project.
However if you want to make name labels with iron on vinyl the process is the same with the exception of the cutting step.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
