Diy Silkscreen With Vinyl

Place the decal sticky side down on the screen and rub it all over with a credit card or sign squeegee.

Diy silkscreen with vinyl.

Now peel off the layer of transfer tape to expose the no sticky side of your vinyl decal. Check out this google doc for written instructions. Cut out a piece of vinyl that mirrors the length and width of your silk screen. You may not want to do it exactly like this but.

Make your own screen print shirts using oracal 651 vinyl your cricut or silhouette machine and speedball supplies. For this one we took a vinyl stencil cut on a roland vinyl cutter stretched a screen on a frame attached the screen printed a couple of shirts. I learned how to do this at techshop. While my method is pretty sloppy the results were great take your time and go slow.

Silkscreen print with vinyl. Your decal will have a wax paper backing sheet and a transfer tape front you need to peel off the wax backing sheet to expose the sticky vinyl. This hole in the mask. In the center of the vinyl cut a rectangular hole that s big enough for your image.

This will be your vinyl frame. Using a vinyl stencil to silk screen a t shirt. Cut a piece of vinyl the length and width of your screen plus some extra on all sides to ensure that it overlaps the frame. This is the basic process for screen printing with a vinyl cutter.

The instructor was very patient me as a choose a very difficult design to do the first time. With a sharp knife remove a rectangular hole in the center of the vinyl large enough to attach your design. The step by step process for preparing a vinyl stencil and transferring it onto a screen to use for silk screening.