Using your cricut tools.
How to cut vinyl into sheets.
Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button.
Depending on the type of vinyl both the compression and rotary shear technology can be used as a vinyl cutter.
Place the sheet of adhesive vinyl on the cutting mat with the shiny gold side facing up then load the mat into the machine and press the start button.
Once the design is cut push the arrow button to unload the mat.
Cut the vinyl from the top down to where it touches the floor.
Weed the vinyl to remove the little pieces in between the letters.
Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down.
Trim around outside corners or other protruding objects by making a vertical slice down the sheet.
Simple artwork like text is the easiest artwork to cut with a vinyl cutter.
Every vinyl cutter can be supplied with an automatic pneumatic drive attachment or it can be incorporated into a fully automatic sheeting system to increase cutting productivity.
In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and i did together was entirely cut by hand.
Bring your artwork into a vinyl cutter.
You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl.
Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio.
Aside from simple fonts already in the windows or mac operating system you can purchase additional fonts or you can.
Weed once cutting is complete weed away the excess vinyl from around the cut images.
A vinyl cutter is used to replace box cutters scissors hand tearing or other inefficient forms of converting vinyl material into sheets.
If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt.
Remove the vinyl from the mat leaving the cut design.
Cricut and silhouette vinyl basics.