Cutting Color Layers Of Vinyl

Weed excess vinyl from triangle and design.

Cutting color layers of vinyl.

Send the design to your cricut cutting machine to be cut load each individual color that you are using onto its own cricut mat. How to layer vinyl faqs. This video is a little long but i wanted to make sure i covered all the bases for you guys. Cut your vinyl connect your machine select your material load the mat and cut.

Go through and weed out each color layer of vinyl. How many layers of vinyl can you layer. To ungroup the design select the modify tool and then click release. You may have to ungroup your design to do this.

Make a copy for each colored layer. To use this function first fill each portion of your design with the color vinyl that is corresponds to. The easiest way to cut multiple colors of vinyl with the silhouette is to use the cut by fill function. Press each color of the design for 1 second to tack and then press all layers at the end for a full 10 seconds peel hot or cold and carefully remove the carrier sheet to make sure the vinyl is well adhered to the garment how to make multi color vinyl decals so that s how to make a multi colored vinyl decal with cricut design space.

To cut all the colors and pieces of this design at the same time and still keep the registration marks in tact select each design shape with its registration marks and then press and hold the option mac alt pc key while dragging the design to create a copy. Load these mats into your cricut cutting out each individual layer of color. Now you know the trick to layering vinyl and some extra tips let s take a look at those frequently asked questions when it comes to layering vinyl. Cut out each layer of vinyl separately along with the registration marks for each layer.

Repeat until all mats have been cut. Place a piece of transfer tape over the top layer and adhere the top layer to the transfer tape. Here s an in depth video on how to make multi color vinyl decals. Using a weeding hook remove the excess vinyl for each layer leaving the triangle and your design.

If you re layering vinyl on top of each other i would probably stop at 3 maybe 4 colors.