Registration Marks And Layering Vinyl
Did you know that you can add registration marks to your designs to make layering easy.
Registration marks and layering vinyl. Open the send panel and make sure to pick vinyl glossy or vinyl matte as the material type depending on what you re cutting. Multi color designs are fun to make but sometimes layering adhesive vinyl can be a bit tricky. Today i m going to show you step by step how to layer vinyl using registration marks. In this example i actually uploaded an svg file but the concept is the same for a design from cricut design space as well.
How to layer vinyl without registration marks. Did you know that you can add registration marks to your designs to make layering easy. Visit my blog a. At this point my design is all ready to be cut.
Understanding registration marks for layering vinyl. An easy way to ensure that they are placed properly on each layer in your cutting files. How to layer vinyl using registration marks select image resize and ungroup. Match up the registration marks.
Multi color designs are fun to make but sometimes layering adhesive vinyl can be a bit tricky. Find all my layering tutorials on silhouett. Let s start with the white layer. Adding registration marks to your design eliminates the guesswork and produces a perfect layering job every time.
Apply some transfer tape i prefer this transfer tape with the grid lines to the top most layer of vinyl once you have picked up that layer completely with the tape take the backing that comes with the vinyl and shift it down so that only the registration marks are uncovered. You ll also need 2 pieces of flat parchment paper transfer tape a sharpie pen and glue dots. To get started cut and weed all the different layers of the design in the vinyl colors of your choice we re using oracal 651. I think silhouette has added some great.
Adding registration marks to your design eliminates the guesswork and produces a perfect layering job every time.