Multi Color Vinyl Cricut

You can totally make your own multi colored car decal with your cricut cutting machine.

Multi color vinyl cricut.

Design and cut your layered image on your cricut machine. Vinyl is a plastic and does not adhere long term to itself. Once you know it you will be able to vinyl all the things in more than one color. Many cricut images are designed with multiple layers that fit together to form a composite image.

How to make multi color vinyl decals. Multi color designs are super cute and lots of fun to make. There is a method called subtracting that you can learn how to do this better with. Press each color of the design for 1 second to tack and then press all layers at the end for a full 10 seconds.

There s a little trick to lining up the different colored words and graphics just right. Stick them to the mat then load it to the cricut choose your materials on cricut design space or smart set dial explore family machine and press the make it button. Each of those is a different piece and each color will cut from a different mat. The first tip for cutting multi color designs in cricut design space is if there is a piece that you want to move to a different color.

The first trick to layering vinyl happens before you even cut your design. It is better to have every color adhere to the tshirt itself instead of adhering to the vinyl because the adhesive is made to be stuck to a porous material and vinyl is not porous but the cotton fibers are. However if you measured well you can also use vinyl or any other material you would like. Find the updated svg file image on my blog.

How to cut layers on cricut. Click make it to see your mats. Before cutting be sure to mirror your design in design space so that your image layers are properly oriented once applied to your base material. If you need help uploading svg files to design space see this post.

If you have ever wanted to cut a multi colored design in cricut design space but have no idea where to start you ve come to the right place. So that s how to make a multi colored vinyl decal with cricut design space. You can scroll down to see that each mat is a different color with different pieces on each. Once you cut all the different stripes of color.

This part is shown step by step using cricut design space. However the concept will work for any cutting machine. Peel hot or cold and carefully remove the carrier sheet to make sure the vinyl is well adhered to the garment.