Making Vinyl Signs With Cricut

Cover the weeded vinyl with cricut transfer tape pushing down on all the lettering to get it to stick firmly to the transfer paper.

Making vinyl signs with cricut.

If you are using the cricut explore air 2 you will need to set the dial to custom first. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Easy and fast to do. When you make your own custom wood signs with cricut you get to design them the way that makes you happy.

Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. Paint or stain your wooden sign backing if desired. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. Rub the letters onto the plaque to make sure they stick then remove the transfer paper.

Decide on a design in cricut design space. Learn how to create wood signs with cricut. I did too so i dove in head first with my first project. Place the cricut stencil vinyl onto your standardgrip cutting mat with the blue grid side facing up and the backing paper side underneath.

Set your material to stencil vinyl in cricut design space you will likely have to search for it. Your friends are going to be so jealous. Using vinyl for the sign lettering gives you a smooth adhesive medium to apply to walls wood or even other pieces of vinyl. Remove the letters from the backing and place on the wooden plaque.

Would you like to create wood signs with cricut. Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. The screen will show a progress bar as your machine completes the cut. In this tutorial jen creates three custom wooden signs with her cricut machine.

Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Using cartridges with images and lettering the cricut can make versatile and creative signs. I love how my wood sign turned out.