Cricut Vinyl Not Sticking To Transfer Tape

Turn your vinyl over and burnish the back side.

Cricut vinyl not sticking to transfer tape.

If vinyl doesn t separate from the liner simply burnish liner back onto the vinyl and peel away again. Glitter vinyl seems to have more problems being picked up than regular adhesive vinyl. Use rubbing alcohol to clean plastic and glass surfaces. You create a decal but when you go to pick it up with the transfer tape the vinyl refuses to release from the backing paper.

A craft stick butter knife or the scraper from the cricut tool kit can be used to do this. The vinyl is old poor quality vinyl oracal vinyl is recommended poor quality or low tack transfer tape here s the transfer tape i recommend too much pressure thickness when cutting the vinyl which pushes it into the backing. How to get your vinyl design cutout to release from cricut transfer tape that is too sticky. You create a decal but only some of the letters stick onto the transfer tape while the rest are left behind on the backing paper.

To see the too sticky fix skip to 2 38 o. Peel the vinyl away from the liner at a 45 degree angle. Make sure project surface is clean and dry. No more wasted vinyl.

Burnish rub the tape onto the vinyl. If the vinyl sticks to the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl again and then continue to peel the vinyl away. Your vinyl is not sticking to your transfer tape scenario 1. Apply to project surface.