Stencil Vinyl Setting Cricut Explore Air 2

Place stencil material onto cricut machine mat.

Stencil vinyl setting cricut explore air 2. Just cut out your design on your cricut using the vinyl setting adhere to your surface and paint away. I ve made four failed attempts at my first stencil using my cricut explore air. If your material is not listed here try a test cut with a similar material setting provided the thickness of your material is less than 2 0 mm for cricut explore and less than. If you don t have a laminator no worries you can order the blank stencil sheets on amazon.

I really wanted to create a christmas tree collar box with our family name stenciled on the side of it. Press the flashing go button. Place the cricut stencil vinyl onto your standardgrip cutting mat with the blue grid side facing up and the backing paper side underneath. If you are using the cricut explore air 2 you will need to set the dial to custom first.

This was the very first project i made with my cricut explore air 2 and i think it turned out amazing. One of the first projects that i made with my new cricut explore air 2 was a stencil to personalize some home decor. 1 roll of 12 x 48 stencil vinyl use with all cricut electronic cutting machines. While the cricut explore cricut maker machines can cut a wide variety of materials cricut does not guarantee that they will be able to cut all materials.

With this thicker sturdier tougher vinyl like material i was able to cut custom adhesive backed stencils that could be used over and over again with great results every. They are 6 mil sheets so they will be more durable than laminating sheets anyway. Set your cricut cut dial to custom and choose poster board from the custom menu. The package for the dritz no melt mylar template plastic sheets doesn t tell me how thick the sheets are.

If you would like to use your stencil repeatedly i recommend investing in stencil vinyl. Refer to stencil vinyl kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings a kiss cut goes through the stencil vinyl and leaves the liner intact. Cutting cricut stencil vinyl with a cricut machine. I ve tried using a 1 mil setting a 6 mil setting the posterboard setting on the dial the stencil setting and none of the cuts go through all the way.

Contact paper is a perfect and affordable solution for creating custom stencils. After years of hating stencil projects because of the mess and sloppy results i was amazed at what a game changer cricut s stencil vinyl was. Cricut stencil vinyl lets you cut and apply your designs to just about any project whether working with wood canvas plastics paper or more. Set your material to stencil vinyl in cricut design space you will likely have to search for it.

Select and size images and load the mat into the machine. Quick story of a crafting fail.