I hope that there are a lot of you out there that have used our vinyl in conjunction with our Home Décor CD to decorate the walls in your home and office. There are so many fun quotes and images on the CD that it almost makes it hard to choose which one to use! Nothing adds a personal touch like being able to customize vinyl to fit the theme and decorations in your home. It’s also a great way to dress up those dreary walls that you just haven’t had the time to decorate. It’s amazing how having a simple phrase or quote on a wall can enchant your friends and family and even make them laugh too.
I’ve had a hard time figuring out what pressure and blade length to use when I cut vinyl. It keeps lifting off of the mat and ruining my entire sheet of vinyl. I haven’t been using a high pressure and my blade is brand new, why does this continue to happen?
Peggy B. Kirkland, LA
There are always a lot of questions when people get started cutting vinyl. Since it’s different than traditional cardstock it’s hard to know what blade length and pressure you should start out using, especially because vinyl is such a thin material. We’ve talked about speed in the past and the benefits it can have when you’re working with very detailed images. In this case, although the vinyl is delicate it also has a tendency to adhere to the blade when cutting. That’s one of the reasons that I actually increase the speed so that it hurries and moves through the project and doesn’t allow time for the vinyl to adhere to the blade and start to lift and pull the vinyl up from the mat. The slower your speed the more margin you will have for error for the vinyl to catch and hold on to the blade. Always use a new blade when cutting vinyl so that it gives you nice clean smooth edges and glides through your project with ease.
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