Placing Vinyl On Cup Cricut

Just click the go button set the dial on your cricut machine to vinyl and the app will walk you through the rest of the steps for loading and cutting each separate layer of vinyl.

Placing vinyl on cup cricut.

In this video i show you how to cut and apply vinyl to a mug using your cricut. Cricut vinyl isn t always that great. Small intricate lettering is tough to keep on sometimes. Load your cutting mat into your cricut using the arrow on the right hand side of your cricut.

The file does give you an option to cut the sayings out of two different colored pieces of vinyl. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down.

Many crafters have reported cases of the vinyl coming off their mugs. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. This further shows how important sealing the vinyl designs you apply on your mug is. Press flashing go button.

The screen will show a progress bar as your machine completes the cut. As we have just mentioned above the main idea behind sealing vinyl on your mug is to keep it in place and make your design last longer. Since they are so small i decided to make them all one color. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.

Lay vinyl on your cutting mat with the color side facing up. I sized them to each be about 1 25 inches tall to fit in the open space of my mugs. Once your mat is loaded look for the cricut c to start flashing press the button and your machine will start cutting. And in 99 of these cases the vinyl was sealed.

Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. As i was using my cricut maker to make these mermaid tumblers i realized that today is my cricut maker versary woohoo exactly one year since i got my hands on my very own cricut maker and i. You can apply heat to it with a hair dryer or embossing heat gun and push it back down. Make sure you re using oracal 651.

I always go over the small vinyl with a heat gun and push down right after i put it on. While your vinyl is cutting use a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol to clean your mug where you plan to put your vinyl. Cricut scraper and weeding tools. Upload the svg file into cricut design space and size the designs to fit your cups.

Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Set your cutting material to the type of vinyl you are using.