Okay before i get into the tutorial let me explain why we used iron on foil.
Cricut vinyl mug.
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Many crafters have reported cases of the vinyl coming off their mugs.
Diy iron on mugs with cricut easypress mini.
This will remove any oil or dirt and get our surface as clean as possible.
This further shows how important sealing the vinyl designs you apply on your mug is.
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.
And in 99 of these cases the vinyl was sealed.
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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.
I am using everyday iron on from cricut for all of my experiments.
Now we have to get both of these onto our mug.
How to put vinyl on a mug.
Siser easypsv is also a permanent vinyl suitable for mug and cup projects.
Apply the vinyl to the mug.
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.
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.
While your vinyl is cutting use a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol to clean your mug where you plan to put your vinyl.
Great for multicolor vinyl decals.
Applying the vinyl to the mugs.
Why not everyday vinyl.
Clean the surface of your mug first with 91 isopropyl alcohol.
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Applying vinyl to mugs or cups cricut basics.
This means that heat transfer vinyl products that require a higher temperature are not ideal.
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.
It s a hard wearing vinyl from the makers of siser easyweed and it will stand up to a ton of use.