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When I selected the material, the machine prompted me to insert the mat. Applying Heat Transfer Vinyl to the Mat As part of showing you How to Cut Heat Transfer Vinyl with the Cricut, I want to show you some tips for applying the vinyl to the mat. Tip: Expressions Vinyl and Cricut ...
How to Create Custom T-shirts Using Cricut Explore and Heat Transfer Vinyl: This is an easy tutorial for getting your designs on your t-shirt using heat transfer and Cricut. You can watch the video of the project here. Things you'll need: 1. Cricut Explo
This Valentine’s Day mug project is perfect for a “first-time” vinyl project. So if you received a Cricut machine for Christmas, now is the time to get it out of the box and start creating! Here’s what you’ll need to make these adorable mugs. Cricut machine (I used myCricut E...
Load the sticker paper onto the Cricut cutting mat and insert it into the machine. Follow the instructions on the Cricut software to cut out the individual sticker shapes. Once the cutting is complete, carefully remove the stickers from the cutting mat. How do I make vinyl stickers? To make...
Step 2: Cut stencils on your Cricut Machine Step 3: Wash pavers Step 4: Apply each stencil Step 5: Paint in the stencils with acrylic paint Finished stenciled pavers Painting concrete pavers I decided to try out my DIY vinyl stencils on cheap concrete pavers. We had a bunch of them in ...
Working with transfer tape (to apply the vinyl labels to the canisters) requires a lot of patience and practice, which can prove time-consuming and frustrating (See the process: How to Layer Vinyl on Cricut Projects). Removing the labels involves a tedious process of peeling up one letter/el...
Zicoto Premium Printable Vinyl Sticker Paper in Glossy What is “print-then-cut” on a Cricut machine? Print-then-cut is a cool Cricut feature that lets you print things out on your home printer—then after printing, you can put the printed sheet on your adhesive mat and run them through...
I considered all kinds of options for creating the squares – cutting squares out of fabric and gluing them on, using my Cricut machine to cut adhesive vinyl to size, using washi tape to create grid lines on the paper. But in the end I went for the easiest solution…a black Sharpie pen...
I also used Cricut Vinyl Transfer Tape to keep everything in its proper shape. I have tried clear Contact paper in the past as well, and that works, too, but I couldn't find mine (?!?) so I broke out the transfer tape instead....