Cutting Vinyl Labels By Hand

Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.

Cutting vinyl labels by hand.

Vinyl labels and matless cutting. You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl. Now we are ready to load our vinyl into the cutting machine. Vinyl decal machine has over 600 built in designs so you won t be needed a computer or pc to complete your project.

The copper vinyl i used for this project was oracal 631 matte vinyl. 2 how many name labels do you need. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat. Who doesn t love a sticker.

Place vinyl on cutting mat. Cut design from 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. First open cricut design space.

Boring people that s who. You can use smart iron on vinyl or regular iron on vinyl on a mat whichever you have on hand. 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.

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. The big sell of the scanncut 2 from brother is disclosed in the name. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. 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.

How many name labels that you need will determine the size of the name label sheet. You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife. The aforementioned benefit of having a small portable cutting surface. After scanning this vinyl decal maker can cut the selected image photo or hand written sketch.

I always use oracal 631 because it is a high quality indoor outdoor vinyl and is easy to apply and remove. The mat and insert into cricut joy. Cut a piece of vinyl about a half inch bigger than the design. Once all of your labels have been traced send them to your silhouette machine and cut.

Do the same for the iron on vinyl label making sure to place your iron on vinyl shiny. 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. Vinyl laminated labels with silhouette cutter. Our makerspace s logo is a cog which means that cutting it out by hand is.

Cut vinyl labels out on vinyl cutting machine. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. It enables you to scan anything you want. A great feature of this vinyl sticker printing machine for sale is 300 dpi built in scanner.

Iron on vinyl needs to be mirrored when cutting.