The cricut maker is an electronic die cutting machine that interfaces with your tablet phone or laptop and it can cut score emboss and engrave hundreds of materials up to 2 4 mm thick including paper fabric vinyl cardboard wax paper aluminum foil and balsa wood.
Cricut vinyl decals make your own.
Making your own vinyl decals with a cricut explore air 2 supplies you ll need to get started.
A while ago i purchased a paint your own doormat with the same message from a school fundraiser.
With all the supplies in your hand now you can proceed to make your very own car decal using cricut.
Now that you ve prepared your design.
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However for cutting vinyl you can t beat the cricut explore air 2.
If you prefer to use preset graphics you can find a ton of them in cricut design space.
Take a closer look at your vinyl.
Place your printed and laminated sheet onto your cutting mat and feed that into your silhouette.
Make sure the side of the paper liner face the mat.
Unable to find something i liked i decided to make a vinyl car decal with the cricut maker.
It doesn t just cut vinyl though.
Cut your vinyl decals.
Apply the vinyl decal to your vehicle.
Watch rachel show you step by step tutorials about how to make car decals with cr.
In silhouette studio select the mat size and the material cut settings.
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Vinyl oracal 631 matte removable or oracal 651 glossy semi permanent transfer tape.
You ll see a paper liner along with the vinyl layer.
A cricut or similar silhouette machine.
If you ve been wondering how to make car decals this is the video for you.
Before applying your vinyl car decal make sure your window is clean.
On your cutting mat place the vinyl.
Line up the cutting mat with the arrows on the left then hit load on the touchscreen on the right.
Place your mat into the machine.
Let s cut it with cricut.
Use some rubbing alcohol on a piece of lint free cloth coffee filter newspaper or paper towel to wipe the window where the design will go.
You can even upload your own design if you want to use it.
Set the smart dial to vinyl.
The first step is to select and prepare your design.