You use the vinyl cutter similar to how you use a printer.
Teach me how to use silhouse vinyl cutter.
I ll be using siser easyweed vinyl.
My course is called silhouette savvy.
You can always cut your vinyl by hand using a pair of scissors or craft knife.
Venture into vinyl and it will teach you everything you need to get started cutting vinyl with your silhouette.
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Holding your vinyl in place select load and your vinyl will be loaded into the silhouette and ready for cutting.
In fact one of my favorite vinyl projects that my kids and i did together was entirely cut by hand however to make things easier and to get super clean cuts and intricate designs you will want an electronic cutting machine like a silhouette.
Okay let s try something a bit more fancy than a circle cut.
Select the text tool on the left panel and click in the edit area.
You can use any font on your computer.
It allows you to cut 12 12 if using a standard mat or 12 24 if using a larger mat.
Another great thing is you can place multiple pieces of vinyl on one mat when cutting your design.
The benefits of using a mat are.
In the course i will walk you through creating eleven different vinyl projects.
You do not have to have an electronic cutting machine to work with vinyl.
This vinyl cutting machine will cut out the image that you have made on the piece of sheet or vinyl using its blades.
If you have another silhouette machine like the silhouette portrait 2 or the silhouette curio the instructions are basically the same.
You will get all the cut files required for those projects as well as video guidance for each step.
Okay let s load our design into silhouette.
Instead of printing the image with ink you will use a vinyl cutting software that will direct the vinyl cutter.
If necessary use scissors to cut off the area of the design from the larger piece of vinyl.
Start typing any text you want to cut.
How to weeding and transfer adhesive vinyl use your vinyl hook tool to remove the excess vinyl from the backing leaving just the design.