Whether you are using a cricut silhouette or other cutting machine i will walk you through the process of using transfer tape or transfer paper with your adhesive vinyl decals and vinyl lettering in this written tutorial and video.
Tricks to use transfer paper and vinyl cricut.
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Then remove the freezer paper similar to weeding vinyl.
Now it s time to put the vinyl on your project.
You can use lint roller sheets in a pinch too.
Burnish rub the tape onto the vinyl.
Put vinyl on cricut project from transfer tape.
By learning to layer vinyl you can create dimension in your cricut and other cutting machine projects.
Gently place the transfer tape over your cut image.
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Go slow and watch to be sure the vinyl is lifting off the vinyl backing and getting on the transfer sheet.
Use a scraper to burnish transfer tape onto your design working outward from where you attached the small area.
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Peel liner from transfer tape.
Paint the open or negative spaces.
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Reverse the process now for your project.
You can put strips of painter s tape or masking tape on a vinyl design and transfer with that.
That wasn t too hard right.
It can be used as a scraper to burnish materials and remove scraps from your cutting mat.
A craft stick butter knife or the scraper from the cricut tool kit can be used to do this.
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It s great for creating wooden signs and not having your letters bleed.
Turn your vinyl over and.
Peel the vinyl away from the liner at a 45 degree angle.
Start to peel off the backing and line up and stick that edge to your vinyl design as shown in the picture above.
When creating vinyl transfers with your cricut machine cricut transfer tape is an essential.
Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design.
Another idea is to use clear contact paper which is less sticky and generally quite inexpensive.
I like to cut down the pieces of vinyl closely around the area i want to make weeding easier.
Use it in place of transfer paper or tape.
This can either be the center or one end of your design.
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Next you will want to cut your transfer paper roughly the same size as your piece of vinyl.