Making A Vinyl Sticker With Cricut

Making vinyl stickers using a cricut.

Making a vinyl sticker with cricut.

Whether you re selling them giving them as party favors or handing them out at craft fairs to advertise for your business being able to mass produce these babies is fantastic. Stickers can be placed on anything from notebooks to water bottles and phone cases. Vinyl stickers can also be used formally for school or work purposes. On your cutting mat place the vinyl.

You ll see a paper liner along with the vinyl layer. Once your design is ready to go it s time to prep your materials for cutting. You have a few different options when it comes to cutting your project. Check to make sure that it will work as a car decal.

Let s cut it with cricut. Before we dive into the steps let us quickly go through the things you need to make car decals with cricut. Place your vinyl on your cutting mat with the paper liner side towards the mat. Now that you ve prepared your design.

And when you re working with a vinyl cutter cricut silhouette another brand you can make lots of these stickers without any extra effort. Use your scraper accessory to force any air bubbles out from underneath the vinyl sheet image 3. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Load the mat into your machine and turn the smart set dial to vinyl.

You can either attach the entire sheet of vinyl to the mat or you can cut the vinyl to size. Our recommendation is cricut explore air 2. Place your vinyl sheet on the mat with the vinyl side up. Your machine will be set to cut the vinyl but not the paper backing.

Press go the c icon underneath your dial. Make sure the side of the paper liner face the mat. Take a closer look at your vinyl. Set the smart dial on your machine to vinyl or if you have an older machine without a smart dial check out cricut s cut settings guide for vinyl.

Place your mat into the machine. Line the top left corner of your vinyl square up with the grid on your mat and smooth it over the mat. Set the smart dial to vinyl. Make sure your cricut machine is on and shows up in the connect machine window at the top of the screen.