What Setting To Use For Glitter Vinyl

Because of the sparkly rougher texture of glitter vinyl it requires a bit more blade pressure than regular vinyl.

What setting to use for glitter vinyl. As such don t use the vinyl setting on your explore dial. A cutting machine i use the cricut explore air 2 which you can buy from cricut or on amazon vinyl i used this one although there are endless options to pick from vinyl transfer tape. Glitter heat transfer vinyl siser glitter htv is a bit thicker so you have to use a custom setting to cut it. Instead set your dial to custom when you do this you will be given a drop down menu in the cricut design space cut screen.

The object you are putting your vinyl design on i used a wooden box that will house my washi tape in my craft room scraper or a stiff card like a credit. This will get you to a good starting point. Cricut maker cricut glitter iron on vinyl cricut easy press optional but awesome cricut glitter iron on vinyl t shirt and jeans how to use cricut glitter iron on vinyl i start by using the cricut design space to set up my design. Use the iron to preheat your base material for 10 15 seconds place the weeded image shiny liner side up onto the preheated material apply medium pressure to each area of your design with the iron for 25 30 seconds.

Material choose type of material closest to the vinyl you will be using. Use a craft stick or the scraper found in the cricut basic tool set to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. Regular siser easyweed heat transfer vinyl htv can be cut using the iron on setting on the dial of the cricut explore. To prevent bubbles start in the center and move out toward the edges.

On the cricut explore set the dial to custom. Make sure the steam setting is off for steam irons. I ve actually had to permanently adjust all my cut pressures for vinyl so far. I about pulled out my expensive blond hair trying to cut this glitter vinyl.