Intricate Vinyl Cuts With Cricut

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Intricate vinyl cuts with cricut.

It works miracles on small vinyl cuts like these elegant scroll monogram letters. Cricut has recently added a cartridge called vintage wedding and it has 3 birdcages. Sometimes when everything else seems right it can help to turn your custom settings to washi tape this seems to work best on intricate cuts on vinyl. If using a cricut explore air 2 or cricut maker in fast mode turn fast mode off and attempt your cut again.

The result was a much cleaner cut. There are two custom settings that you need to keep in the back of your mind. Cricut cutting problem solution 5. The first one is sticky note.

If cutting a simple image resolves the issue try cutting the more intricate image using the custom setting for cardstock intricate cuts. More standardgrip mat oracal 651 the fine point blade. If you are cutting an image which is very intricate or small try cutting a simpler or larger. The other setting is washi tape.

This setting is for those fairly intricate cuts the ones that pull up in a couple of places but does not completely destroy your vinyl. This is the end all be. I cut this rectangle with a scalloped edge first on medium cardstock and there was one spot where it didn t cut all the way through and the edges are a little ragged. I cut it again on the same spot on the same mat but this time i used the intricate cuts setting.

Use a cb09 blade for better vinyl cuts finally if you have a cb09 blade it should be your first choice for very intricate designs like this scroll monogram. The angle of the blade goes into the vinyl at a slightly different angle than the regular silhouette. Intricate cuts from the cricut explore air as we all know if you want an intricate design then do it in vinyl but i wanted a 3d birdcage. Not all patterns are going to cut cleanly.