While your vinyl is cutting use a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol to clean your mug where you plan to put your vinyl.
Cricut vinyl mug.
Applying vinyl to mugs or cups cricut basics.
I spent a full day cutting weeding and ironing much of cricut s iron on product line onto our mugs.
Make sure to do the front and the back since we are applying two decals per mug.
Well we tried it all.
Many crafters have reported cases of the vinyl coming off their mugs.
To mark the mugs where the vinyl decal is going to go use a dry erase marker and draw a line down the mugs in the rack.
Apply the vinyl to the mug.
Cricut vinyl on mugs.
It s a hard wearing vinyl from the makers of siser easyweed and it will stand up to a ton of use.
Clean the surface of your mug first with 91 isopropyl alcohol.
Just click the go button set the dial on your cricut machine to vinyl and the app will walk you through the rest of the steps for loading and cutting each separate layer of vinyl.
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Why not everyday vinyl.
Now we have to get both of these onto our mug.
As with all these recommended vinyls for mugs it comes in many sizes and colors.
Okay before i get into the tutorial let me explain why we used iron on foil.
Diy iron on mugs with cricut easypress mini.
Applying the vinyl to the mugs.
Great for multicolor vinyl decals.
This will remove any oil or dirt and get our surface as clean as possible.
Adding the vinyl is easy as you just need to cut and then add to your mug with some transfer paper.
As we have just mentioned above the main idea behind sealing vinyl on your mug is to keep it in place and make your design last longer.
I am using everyday iron on from cricut for all of my experiments.
This further shows how important sealing the vinyl designs you apply on your mug is.
Siser easypsv is also a permanent vinyl suitable for mug and cup projects.
Don t put the vinyl sticky side down of your work surface because that will just mess with your vinyl s ability to adhere to a mug.
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