Sillhoutte Cutting The Vinyl Up

The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing.

Sillhoutte cutting the vinyl up.

To cut properly the blade must be pushed all the way down with no visible gap between the tool holder and the blade. Discover the creative world of silhouette. This will keep the material firmly in place. Make sure your cutting mat is pretty sticky when place the vinyl on it to cut.

Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat. Shop desktop cutting machines including the silhouette cameo plus our selection of cutting materials and other accessories. This is a basic tutorial on how to cut and apply a vinyl decal with your silhouette cameo. Vinyl silhouette brand i choose this for regular vinyl including 631 651 silhouette brand and cricut brand glitter patterned and other similar.

Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio. I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once. Now you are ready to design. My friend and fellow instructor elly from silhouette secrets has diagnosed this issue so often on facebook that she keeps a photo of a properly installed blade on hand to post whenever someone is having cutting issues.

1 blade is not properly inserted and or locked down. Use a sticky mat. The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette ratchet blade or auto blade which again prevents the vinyl from being torn.