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