Cutting Vinyl Labels By Hand
How many name labels that you need will determine the size of the name label sheet.
Cutting vinyl labels by hand. Do the same for the iron on vinyl label making sure to place your iron on vinyl shiny. Iron on vinyl needs to be mirrored when cutting. Vinyl laminated labels with silhouette cutter. 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.
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. Cut vinyl labels out on vinyl cutting machine. The aforementioned benefit of having a small portable cutting surface. However if you want to make name labels with iron on vinyl the process is the same with the exception of the cutting step.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. 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. You can use smart iron on vinyl or regular iron on vinyl on a mat whichever you have on hand. The copper vinyl i used for this project was oracal 631 matte vinyl.
Cut design from vinyl. Vinyl decal machine has over 600 built in designs so you won t be needed a computer or pc to complete your project. It enables you to scan anything you want. After scanning this vinyl decal maker can cut the selected image photo or hand written sketch.
Who doesn t love a sticker. A great feature of this vinyl sticker printing machine for sale is 300 dpi built in scanner. When we were given a silhouette portrait by instructables labels were one of the first things i wanted to try out. Cut a piece of vinyl about a half inch bigger than the design.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. I always use oracal 631 because it is a high quality indoor outdoor vinyl and is easy to apply and remove. Boring people that s who. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
Once all of your labels have been traced send them to your silhouette machine and cut. Click go in cricut design space to cut your project. Our makerspace s logo is a cog which means that cutting it out by hand is. Now we are ready to load our vinyl into the cutting machine.
You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. 2 how many name labels do you need. Scanncut comes with a 300 dpi built in scanner and rbg color recognition.
Since i had a remarkably curvy piece of vinyl i taped it to my cutting surface. The mat and insert into cricut joy. Place vinyl on cutting mat. The big sell of the scanncut 2 from brother is disclosed in the name.
Vinyl labels and matless cutting.