Making Layered Vinyl Decals

When you attach your decal peel off the backing sheet and attach to your project.

Making layered vinyl decals.

Place your mat into the machine. Cut the various layers of your decal out of various colors of vinyl. Take a closer look at your vinyl. Let s start with the white layer.

Open the send panel and make sure to pick vinyl glossy or vinyl matte as the material type depending on what you re cutting. Once your vinyl is layered transfer it to the cup as normal. It s sticky it gets static cling and that bottom layer jumps up to kiss that top layer before you have it centered correctly and it can be challenging to pull the layers apart without ruining them. How do you apply multiple layers of vinyl.

Set the smart dial to vinyl. To apply multiple layers of vinyl you ll use the same technique as applying a single layer of vinyl as the vinyl is layered with the transfer sheet. Now that you ve prepared your design. Let s cut it with cricut.

On your cutting mat place the vinyl. In the video above i also show how to prep a cup and apply the layered vinyl decal too it. For my first time doin a laye. Starting with the top layer build your layers.

Make sure the side of the paper liner face the mat. All the layers will go on at once. Layering vinyl decals tutorial. You ll see a paper liner along with the vinyl layer.

Layer until you have all the layers built onto the lower layer. This is how you layer a sticker the easy way idea was shown to me by vinyl imagez. One of the biggest hang ups i hear when talking to readers or my friends about adhesive vinyl is how difficult it is to layer correctly.