I burnished it down with a squeegee to make sure it was well-adhered to the vinyl. The vinyl stuck well to the tape though, which is the main thing. This happened multiple times… I’m not sure why! Then, some crinkled lines appeared all through the tape which made it horrible to work with. It was quite difficult to remove the tape from the backing paper, which was not a great start.
Next, I tried out the American Crafts Vinyl Transfer Tape to transfer my label onto my folder. The letters would also keep lifting up from the backing paper and stick to the excess vinyl that I was trying to pull away! The vinyl kept ripping through the letters.
Next, I weeded the excess vinyl from my label. I even changed my blade half-way through, just in case my blade was dull, but that didn’t help either.Īfter multiple attempts, my label finally cut out OK. What I planned to be a quick and easy project ended up taking me at least 3 times as long. While cutting out my labels, little pieces of vinyl would keep sticking to the blade, and then the blade would stop cutting through the vinyl. If you’re trying out a new non-Cricut vinyl brand, then it’s always a good idea to do a small test cut first, so that you avoid wasting any of your precious vinyl. Success!īut don’t get excited yet, cheap vinyl for Cricut is feeling pretty cheap. In Cricut Design Space I first tried to cut out this foil vinyl using the ‘adhesive foil’ material setting, but this was a complete fail! It didn’t cut through the vinyl at all, not even close! I changed the default pressure, and it was still a no-go.Īfter a few more failed attempts, I finally had a successful cut result using the ‘Adhesive Foil, Matte’ setting with the default pressure changed to ‘more’. I have to admit, I’ve never had this much trouble cutting out vinyl before. I couldn’t find any cut settings online, so I had to experiment a little, and do some test cuts to find out which cut setting worked best. To start with, I’m cutting the Rose Gold Foil Vinyl. Now to try out these cheap vinyl rolls – drumroll. I highly recommend checking out our post ‘ what’s the difference between iron-on vinyl and adhesive vinyl which has a big list of all our favorite places to buy vinyl. Farmhouse sign using Cricut stencil vinyl.
Vinyl on wood project using EZ Craft USA permanent vinyl.Personalized water bottles with Cricut Vinyl.Stainless steel water bottles with Oracal 651 Vinyl.If you’d like to read those reviews and see those projects, here is where you’ll find them: We have tried many other brands of vinyl for use with Cricut and Silhouette cutting machines. Here are the products that I’ll be trying out today: American Crafts Rose Gold adhesive foil and their vinyl transfer tape. Sometimes saving money is great, sometimes it’s just best to stick with the premium vinyl brands, but we have to give it a go to find out! We want to find out if we can save some money by using this type of product more often. This brand of vinyl was about half the price of Cricut, Oracal, and Siser adhesive vinyl, so it’s a very cheap craft vinyl. We’re going to do a simple project using American Crafts Vinyl and the Cricut Maker. Let’s see if this is better vinyl for Cricut or not! Vinyl For Cricut Machine There are currently two negative reviews (the only reviews!) on this brand on Amazon, but sometimes I just need to see for myself. I usually stick to Cricut or Oracal 651 Vinyl, but enjoy trying out new brands to see what the quality is like. Recently I was browsing the aisles of our local craft store and came across American Crafts Vinyl. Should you take the risk using cheap vinyl for Cricut?
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