Making Vinyl Signs With Cricut
Would you like to create wood signs with cricut.
Making vinyl signs with cricut. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Rub the letters onto the plaque to make sure they stick then remove the transfer paper. When you make your own custom wood signs with cricut you get to design them the way that makes you happy. I love how my wood sign turned out.
Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. Using cartridges with images and lettering the cricut can make versatile and creative signs. The cricut is a versatile die cut machine. Your friends are going to be so jealous.
Decide on a design in cricut design space. I did too so i dove in head first with my first project. Place the cricut stencil vinyl onto your standardgrip cutting mat with the blue grid side facing up and the backing paper side underneath. In this tutorial jen creates three custom wooden signs with her cricut machine.
Remove the letters from the backing and place on the wooden plaque. The vinyl can be removed without any damage to paint or finish. Easy and fast to do. Cover the weeded vinyl with cricut transfer tape pushing down on all the lettering to get it to stick firmly to the transfer paper.
Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. Using vinyl for the sign lettering gives you a smooth adhesive medium to apply to walls wood or even other pieces of vinyl. The screen will show a progress bar as your machine completes the cut. Paint or stain your wooden sign backing if desired.
Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. If you are using the cricut explore air 2 you will need to set the dial to custom first. Learn how to create wood signs with cricut.