Then remove the paper backing and stick the decal to your car. Be sure to clean your window or bumper before you apply the decal. Now we are ready to transfer it to our car. Next trim up the sides and go ahead and cut off the squares. This is just to make sure all of your vinyl has stuck to the transfer paper ok. When you are done remove the last vinyl backing and replace it with the transfer paper backing. It lines up perfect! Repeat this process for every color you have. Flip it back over and burnish (rub with the scraper) the second color onto the transfer paper. Smooth down the rest of your 2nd vinyl color onto the transfer paper. Then line up your second set of squares and stick them together.Īfter your squares are lined up and stuck, flip your decal over and remove the rest of the transfer paper backing. Grab your next color of cut vinyl and line up the first squares and press down so it sticks. Now we’re going to replace the backing from the contact paper so it’s easier to line up the next color.įold back the contact paper backing so only the squares are uncovered. Be sure all of your vinyl pieces are sticking to the contact paper. Then flip it over and slowly pull the backing off of the vinyl. Use your Cricut scraper or a credit card to smooth out any bubbles and to get the vinyl to stick to the transfer paper.
Keep the backing of the transfer sheet handy, we are going to need it again. Be sure to leave the squares on every vinyl color.Īfter you’re done weeding you’ll apply the transfer paper to one of your vinyl sheets. Transfering Your Cut DecalĪfter your colors are cut we need to weed out the extra vinyl and also the words and images that we don’t want in that color. So once everything is attached, hit the make it button and cut your decal in every color that you plan on using. Just skip ahead to the layering adhesive vinyl section.
I cover this method in detail in the post How to Make Knockout Designs found here. If you don’t want to cut everything twice, there is a way to get the squares in both colors. This will make it super easy to line everything up when we transfer. Even though it’s showing two colors in my example picture, when you select it as a cut file it will go to one color.Īnd second, we need those squares cut in both colors too. For one reason if you upload a jpg as I did you can not change it to multiple colors.
Place one square on the bottom left of your decal and the other on the bottom right.Īfter your squares are placed select everything and click attach on the bottom right-hand corner (the paper clip). Next right click on your square and select duplicate. Go to shapes and select square then size it down to a 1×1 square or smaller. So to do this we are going to make two little squares to be our guide. And I want it all to line up perfectly as pictured when it goes on the back of my car. On my decal I want Daily Dose of DIY to be pink and the flowers along with crafts projects and decor to be lime green.
I decided to add CRAFTS PROJECTS DECOR under my logo and I just added that right in design space.įun Fact: It wasn’t until I was editing the video that I realized that this decal said CRAFT instead of CRAFTS and I had to re-cut it. You can also add text or upload more images for your decal if you like. Now we are in design space and you can adjust the size of your image to the size you would like your decal to be. Next select the image you just saved and click insert images. The next screen you will choose if you want to save as print and cut or save as a cut image. If you accidentally click a letter away you can just hit the undo button on the top right. But I still need to click out the centers of the letters and flowers. In the above picture, I have the background clicked away. This is where we will clear out the background and the centers of the text and images.Īs you click the background and centers away it will change to blue checks. The next screen will ask you to select and erase. When it’s uploaded Cricut will ask you to select your image type. So to start, upload your file to Cricut design space. You can also design your car decal right in design space. You can upload jpg, gif, png, bmp, svg, or dxf files to design space to make your decal. I made my car decal partially from my logo which is a. A Cutting Machine (I use Cricut Explore).