Cutting Vinyl Words With Cricut

A cricut expression is a personal die cut machine that is versatile in cutting images and fonts from a variety of paper sheets.

Cutting vinyl words with cricut.

Adhesive vinyl is a thin adhesive or sticky backed material that you can cut with your cricut or other electronic cutting machine and then apply to a myriad of surfaces. Glass etching with a cricut expression is done by cutting a stencil from vinyl. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat. Press flashing go button.

You can even cut simple shapes by hand if you don t have a cutting machine. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Click to get more links and tutorials. Like weeding lines you can add a weeding box in the design stage by simply placing a square border close around the outside of each part of your design.

Cricut makes it easy to go from inspiration to creation. Here you can see where on the mat the cricut machine will cut your vinyl. Click continue in the lower right corner green button smooth your vinyl paper backing side down onto your cutting mat making sure to cover the entire area on the mat where the design is dictated on the cricut design space screen. Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time.

Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. How to create a single word cutout in cricut design space. Cutting and application instructions.

Line the top left corner of your vinyl square up with the grid on your mat and smooth it over the mat. Follow the instructions on the screen to load the mat into the machine image 4 and press the cricut logo button to begin cutting. Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. Cricut explore makes it easy to get the perfect cut every time.

Or just do it by hand with a craft knife. Cricut vinyl is a removable wall and window decals perfect for creating home décor. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. Watch our video as we go step by step on how to cut and apply our cricut vinyl.

Use your scraper accessory to force any air bubbles out from underneath the vinyl sheet image 3.