Cut out your custom wood sign design.
Easy way to cut vinyl letters.
This will keep the material firmly in place.
With the vinyl i was using setting the knife to 1 picked up a lot of letters.
The shallower cut is less likely to pick up the letters.
Using a green standardgrip cutting mat place your vinyl face up on the cutting mat select the proper cutting material and.
Cut your vinyl in a size that is small enough for your printer.
Use a sticky mat.
You might try any of the following tips to make weeding small letters easier.
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Weed directly after cutting waiting too long to weed after cutting will allow the adhesive to flow back causing the design to lift with the excess vinyl.
Open paint on your computer.
The letters you need will come up with the vinyl all in one piece.
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Vinyl lettering includes lettering numbering or shapes that are individually cut out from a sheet of solid colored 2 mil vinyl and then pre spaced and placed onto pre masked transfer tape the number of transfer tape sheets used will depend on the size of your vinyl lettering and amount of colors used.
How to make these diy vinyl letter decals.
Your vinyl is cut but now you need to get it onto your board.
You may want to use a weeding tool though i didn t need to for this simple design.
Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut.
Set the knife to halfway between 0 and 1.
Running a cut test ensures that the vinyl cuts thoroughly and that the decal is not attached to the excess material.
Cut some vinyl to size give yourself extra vinyl around the design and load the machine as shown in the instructable i referenced.
With your vinyl letters all cut gently remove the excess vinyl from the backing.
Weed your cut vinyl design.
Use a large size for the letters.
You can use the standard letter or a4 size if you like.
If you have letters that are 1 2 or smaller try taping out the entire area cut.
However 0 did not cut deep enough.
The 1 vinyl cutting software for macos and windows.
The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn.
This way when i put the vinyl on my wood sign i don t have to worry about it being centered or worry about the paint getting anywhere other than the letters for the sign.
Click rotate and then flip horizontally.
Before starting your job perform a depth cut test.
This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same.
To do this first apply transfer tape or a transfer sheet over the designs.
