You will need to use your standardgrip mat for cutting vinyl and it s great if you also have the basic tool set or essential tool set to hand.
Vinyl what side up cricut.
A cricut machine i used the cricut maker for this tutorial but any cricut machine will work standardgrip mat.
It s a water resistant and uv resistant film with an adhesive that can last for up to 3 years.
Cutting premium vinyl permanent with a cricut machine.
Cricut vinyl older and being discontinued does not specify permanent or removable oracal 631.
Cricut easypress 2 or a household iron easypress mat or a super fluffy towel folded up instructions step one.
Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below.
Most removable vinyl adhesive can be removed by just peeling it up.
In the end if you re faced with two shiny sides the same color the slightly less shiny side is going to be the vinyl side.
Open up cricut design space and create a brand new project.
Preparation with cricut transfer tape.
Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down.
The iron on vinyl is put onto the roll carrier side out which means the side that curls down is the carrier side and the side that curls up is the vinyl side.
Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear.
It looks like this.
If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.
Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well.
Create a design space project.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.
And of course you will need some vinyl to cut as well as some transfer tape to apply your vinyl both of which you can get from cricut directly or from any good craft store.
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.
Have your design ready to go.
I still can t tell which side i cut iron on vinyl on.
Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.
Place your vinyl on your cutting mat with the paper liner side towards.
Vinyl that you ll use will typically be made up of two parts.
Press flashing go button.
If you need a hand loading a design into cricut design space head over to their youtube page where they have a great class posted.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.
The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette.
Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.
Think wall decals temporary signs and decorations etc.
The vinyl has two layers the paper layer that keeps it in place when.
