It is a challenge to get anything to stick to these coir mats.
What cricut mat is best for stencil vinyl.
My favorite material to cut with my cricut explore air is adhesive vinyl.
Cricut stencil vinyl lets you cut and apply your designs to just about any project whether working with wood canvas plastics paper or more.
You can cut your design on stencil vinyl transfer it to your surface and then paint within the stencil.
Create personalized stencils for your paper crafting add a pattern to your dining room wall or help your kids build that lemonade stand they see in their dreams.
1 roll of 12 x 48 stencil vinyl use with all cricut electronic cutting machines.
It s usually clear or see through and it s designed to be used for painting.
It s removed after painting so you can have a nice clean design that is hand painted.
Instead of removing the vinyl around the letters you ll be removing the vinyl letters themselves.
Here is a step by step guide on how to cut vinyl with a cricut machine.
Cutting cricut stencil vinyl with a cricut machine.
I used the cricut bright pad for the first time.
It was so easy to see the cut lines using the bright pad.
I prefer using oramask 813 stencil vinyl and others like 631 removable vinyl.
Select and size images and load the mat into the machine.
Now you are going to weed in reverse.
Stencil vinyl is not permanent at all.
The biggest difference for me was getting the stencil to stay in place on the mat.
Using a green standardgrip cutting mat place your vinyl face up on the cutting mat select the proper cutting material and load your fine point blade into your cricut machine.
Your cricut machine can be used for more than just cutting paper for scrapbooks.
Weed your cut vinyl stencil design.
All three stencil materials required extra work and creativity to get them to stay in place.
Which vinyl to use for stencils.
There are tons of other materials you can cut.
After the cricut is finished cutting remove the mat then remove the stencil vinyl from the mat.
Refer to stencil vinyl kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings a kiss cut goes through the stencil vinyl and leaves the liner intact.
Place stencil material onto cricut machine mat.
This can be a matter of preference and you may just have to try to see what you like.
I m using my cricut maker with stencil vinyl picked from the material list.
How to cut cricut stencil vinyl.
In the end i decided to do my final design using a vinyl stencil.
However the cricut explore or the cricut joy will work with this project.
Your cricut machine is so versatile.
Stencil vinyl goes face up on the mat and then add it to the cricut machine with the fine point blade installed.
Press the flashing go button.
I order from expressions vinyl linked they have great prices and good quality.