Once all of your labels have been traced send them to your silhouette machine and cut.
Cutting vinyl labels by hand.
Cut vinyl labels out on vinyl cutting machine.
Vinyl laminated labels with silhouette cutter.
Our makerspace s logo is a cog which means that cutting it out by hand is.
You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl.
The mat and insert into cricut joy.
A great feature of this vinyl sticker printing machine for sale is 300 dpi built in scanner.
The copper vinyl i used for this project was oracal 631 matte vinyl.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.
2 how many name labels do you need.
First open cricut design space.
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.
Who doesn t love a sticker.
Place vinyl on cutting mat.
Iron on vinyl needs to be mirrored when cutting.
Scanncut comes with a 300 dpi built in scanner and rbg color recognition.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
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.
Do the same for the iron on vinyl label making sure to place your iron on vinyl shiny.
Cut design from vinyl.
Now we are ready to load our vinyl into the cutting machine.
I always use oracal 631 because it is a high quality indoor outdoor vinyl and is easy to apply and remove.
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.
When we were given a silhouette portrait by instructables labels were one of the first things i wanted to try out.
It enables you to scan anything you want.
You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
However if you want to make name labels with iron on vinyl the process is the same with the exception of the cutting step.
Vinyl labels and matless cutting.
Cut a piece of vinyl about a half inch bigger than the design.
How many name labels that you need will determine the size of the name label sheet.
Since i had a remarkably curvy piece of vinyl i taped it to my cutting surface.
The aforementioned benefit of having a small portable cutting surface.
Click go in cricut design space to cut your project.
The big sell of the scanncut 2 from brother is disclosed in the name.
You can use smart iron on vinyl or regular iron on vinyl on a mat whichever you have on hand.
Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.
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.
