This is by far the best Vinyl/cricut tutorial I have ever seen! This video should blow up! I haven't seen this technique anywhere and I thunk I've watched all of RU-vids Cricut side 🤩
What vinyl specifically is it that you’re using that has the transfer tape on it already. I have used cricut premium perm vinyl and I still have to put transfer tape on it. Great video. Thank you in advance.
This is the only time I’ve ever watched a cricut tutorial video all the way thru. You actually make sense while explaining this. Plus, you’re easy to listen to and watch. Thanks for sharing, I finally understand the process now. Thank you ❤
i just bought a cricut and watched many videos on how to make decals, yours is by far the best! The only one who explains why we are doing each step! Very hard to learn when people dont tell you why you are doing certain steps!
😊Great tutorial. So easy to understand. You don’t repeat, and over explain. One of the best tutorials I have watched. And I have watched TONS!!!!! I am looking forward to more. And what to know how to become a member?
Ah thank you so much! Im so glad my teaching style resonated with you! You can click the 'Join' button under the video for more info, or visit this link: ru-vid.com/show-UCu77bD0fQklcKMWs9K7c5-wjoin
First time using my Maker 3 and making stickers in general. Combination of this tutorial and my experience in illustrator made it a success. Made a variety of complex design stickers in one go. Thanks!
Fellow South African here and I got my Cricut Explore Air 2 a week ago. I just wanted to say that this was an amazing tutorial and I wish you all the success! We're big into the car scenes so always wanted to make car decals. Thanks to this I can! 🥰 Also part of ZAGA which is great to see.
This video was amazing. I picked up a circuit to use in my auto refinishing business. I wanted to start making my own stencils when I’m airbrushing. Discovered everything I needed to know and gotten up and going. Thank you very much. I know it’s an older video, but it was amazing that I stumbled across it.
I'm a new follower and am enjoying your tutorials! Boy do I wish I saw this trick yesterday when my project failed. I'm not necessarily a beginner, but more a novice/intermediate level Cricuteer. This was a game changer! Thank you!!
I have been in search of how to cut my stickers on the cricut without them just being duplicates and cutting super close. You've given me a better, more in depth, and easy to follow explanation on how to make the most amazing stickers that womt look janky! Thank you so much!
This is/was a very thorough and easy to understand (in layman's terms - IDIOT PROOF) method for vinyl stickers! I'm in need of 75-100 for a fundraiser and this is how they'll be done! I'm now a fan!!
@@KellyRossouw everything went very well UNTIL it was time to peel the stickers off of the mat (I was using the mat you suggested) they cut nice but had a lot of sticking to the mat! Any tips?
You have a lovely voice, and this is a fantastic tutorial Thank you for taking the time to make it as I’m a complete noobie trying to start a decal/design company.
Okay! So we need transfer tape without the lines on it. Sold a sticker as a car decal. Client is going to transfer it the way one normally does (she has experience in that regard) but I could have saved a whole bunch of transfer tape using an offset and by using transfer paper that has no lines on it. Something to remember for the future! Thanks Kelly!
Hi Kelly im new to cricut and already addicted thank you for this vid helps a ton great vid and easy to understand ( now i dont have to ask Ruzelle for help i can just come look at your vids )
I got it figured out. Sorry I’m very new to cricut. I’ve played with design space and made a lot of designs I’ve the past year but haven’t started using the cricut itself till a couple days ago
So cool. But I’m still completely lost. I really need to get more immersed with my Cricut. I definitely went overboard buying materials. Thanks again for the video.
You can do it! Take it one step at a time, and pause the video at whatever section you need to understand - re-watch sections a few times if you want to grasp it. Move at a pace you are comfortable with and you got this! There is no rush 💙
Found this to be the best video tutorial on sticker making out there. At least for me. But, we need a new tutorial as there’s the new Create Sticker option in design space. I finally (after 1 year) am trying to do my logo stickers again, as I had given up. Hopefully the second half of steps are exactly the same. Though it might take some trial and error due to not knowing the difference between a Die Cut and a Kiss Cut. Actually, the new feature seems quite different. It looks good and easy on canvas but it would make it now a print then cut method I believe. Well, thanks for this video 🙏🏼
Excellent video as always thank you so much love your training. its great to learn something new with each of your videos. You really do explain things so well and it is so easy to follow. Just a note i ordered some items from Snippy Sisters as you had mentioned them in one of your videos. What AWESOME service, wow Robyn service is excellent . She personally delivered my items and give me a lots of advise about the different Vinyl products and options. This is a company i am so happy to support as a new small Business startup. Your channel has added such value to my learning thank you again. I am sure you are going to do so well in your new venture doing this full time.
This is quite a complicated one to answer! The majority of the Cricut permanent vinyls work beautifully (the non "fancy" ones eg holographic, shimmer etc). For other brands look for the Outdoor label - those are the ones that are rated to last longer outdoors under the sun and weather etc.
I making stickers using my cricket and this is a game changer you know how much time this will save me?????? What I did was put my decal, remove the whole sheet from the mat cut each one of them out and apply the transfer tape to each individual sticker. The just came out like rectangles 😅
Hello from a fellow Zagatarian and Silhouette crafter here, thanks for all your tips and tutorials, love your work! The custom chocolate tutorial was super helpful for making family Christmas gifts. A quick question, where did you buy those vinyl roll holders? I can't find those anywhere here in SA even after days of searching, I ended up designing and 3D printing my own as a last resort...
Woo! Thanks so much. Hopefully someone can answer my question: Why not put the transfer tape sheet on before cutting all of it? Does doing it separately make a difference in the durability of the sticker or preventing light moisture from seeping in?
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I haven’t seen stickers being done this way so thanks for such an informative video! I just have one question (I think I’m being daft). So will the transfer tape be taken off after applying the decal (as you usually would) or does the transfer tape act almost like transparent vinyl, giving the decal a clear border? Does that make sense? Thank you so much! X
Love this tutorial and just subscribed. Thanks so much. I'm trying to work out in my head how this would work for a layered decal. I'm guessing it would be the same procedure with extra cutting steps in between the original and the offset. Would love to see how you do it 😉
I tried a very basic one and it worked fine. I cut the layer on a different mat and applied it to the main decal before cutting the transfer paper. I was going to send you a pic, but I can't figure out how to do that in RU-vid :( Thanks again for this awesome tutorial. It's going to be so useful.
How do you set your second page to cut in a different material setting? The only way I could do it was to cancel my cut and start over only cutting the second sheet. I seem to have missed this part in your video. Thank you for all you amazing help so far
I'm surprised the cricut software doesnt have a feature where it will automatically maximize the layout space for a single design, i.e. group it in such a way so that you dont have to manually copy/paste them and align/squish them together.
Want to clarify some terminology quick: printing means to use a printer to deposit ink onto a surface. A Cricut is not a printer, it is a cutter (plotter). With that in mind, you can use this method to cut any kind of adhesive vinyl (permanent or removable). If you want to print on printable vinyl (it must say printable otherwise it is not printable!), and you don't use transfer tape with it 😊 Hope that makes sense!
great video- so how did the machine know to cut a perfect border around the text at the very end? were there certain settings that needed tweaked? it seems you just put it back in the machine with no adjustments- thank you
The stickers appear to have a white background, but that is the transfer tape, correct? So when the sticker is applied, it is actually a CLEAR background? You have used clear sticker paper? Am I correct in my thinking?
Wow love this video! Can you do this on a cricut joy extra? It doesn’t have a craft board setting to cut it the second time. What can you do instead?Thank you❤️
Thank you! Yes you can follow the exact same steps as I show in this video, just make the size of the rectangle to fit the size on your mat. You may be able to use the Medium cardstock setting! :)
@@KellyRossouw thank you so much :) I’m going to use oracal 651. I will try it with that setting. It will be for text, not a picture but I will use a little bit of the offset :)
I had no clue you could put transfer tape right on it before u cut! Is that with any brand transfer tape. I put laminate on top of my printable vinyl. I really hate adding transfer tape after the fact, I waiste so much transfer tape that way. Thank you
I was making decals. Not sure why for the life of me I could not get it to duplicate. Not sure which function was keeping it from duplicating but I finally got the program to do it after deleting everything and starting over a couple times
Such a helpful tutorial thank you Kelly! I hope you have a solution for my dilemma! I am trying to make multiple laminated bag tags. The tag is a rectangular shape with rounded corners, with an image and name inserted, created in design space. I am using the print and cut method, once printed, I then laminate the whole page (laminated on both sides) and feed the printed laminated page back into my Maker to cut, this works perfectly, but ……… I would like to have a border of just the laminate around each bag tag so that it actually seals around the tag to make it more durable. I have not been able to find a hack or tutorial for this. The only other solution I can think of is to individually laminate each bag tag, which will be so time consuming. I hope this makes sense! I would love to be able to do all this on the Maker - perfect cut. I would appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you!
You are so welcome! Ive been thinking about this for a while, and no immediate solution comes to mind unfortunately, but I will continue to think about it to see if I can think up a solution for you!
Thats so amazing i always wondered how that works But i have a question what if you want a bigger vinyl sticker? Like a company logo and writings on the door of vehicle or on the side of van These stickers are bumper stickers very small what if you need alot bigger?
This method is aimed at those wanting to make more smaller stickers. If you are doing a much larger sticker, you can still use this same method, but it will need to be slightly adapted so you would be able to do this same method for a sticker up to 60cm/24" long. If you want to do a longer sticker you would not be able to use this same method as you would be using smart vinyl/the matless method
Great tutorial! I'm trying to make helmet decals for a local football team without having to go and buy a Gerber edge type machine I'm not sure if I'm ready to get into that type of quality just yet. Wanna see if I can create a decent quality decal with cricut and durable printable vinyl. Does grafitech have a thicker printable vinyl that is of good durability that I could try or any other company that you can think of?
Thank you! This tutorial isnt meant for printable vinyl, you are looking for a print then cut tutorial for a Cricut. This is purely for regular sticker vinyl that is a single solid colour only :)
This is certainly a great tutorial. I plan to watch more of your videos and subscribed to your channel. Every time I have tried to place transfer tape on my vinyl and ship to to someone, it leaves residue on the vinyl when they remove it. I am using Oracal 651 vinyl and Cricut transfer tape. Fortunately I have not sold any of these items, they were sent as gifts. But do you have suggestions?
Ive only ever heard of this problem while using Cricut Transfer tape, its expensive and leaves a residue sometimes. I prefer to use tape on a roll as it is much cheaper and easier to work with, like this one for example (as the one i use isnt on Amazon) amzn.to/42W6Qvz
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Thank you for sharing this video! Yours are by far the best on youtube. I am wanting to do some decals for a kayak / canoe. What type of vinyl do you think would work best. I have purchased oracle 210 a waterproof laminate that I’ve used for my sublimation stickers but just not sure if it’s necessary to do that way for a decal.
Thank you so much! Definitely waterproof or outdoor (651) vinyl. But be prepared to replace it sooner rather than later in any case, under harsh conditions not all vinyls will last forever! :)
