Products Used
- TeckWrap Craft silver glossy holographic vinyl
- TeckWrap permanent adhesive vinyl in gloss black
- Cricut transfer tape
I have been wanting to layer this design for a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNGGG time! I’ve tried multiple times in the past, only to fail horribly, delete all of the process videos and throw away feet of vinyl. NOT TODAY SATAN!!!
After practicing with other layering projects, I decided to give this one another try and it worked! I am so beyond excited to finally have successfully pulled this one off and in my opinion, it looks stunning. I’ve always been a sucker for holographic things as well as rainbows on black. This combination was the perfect marriage of those two loves.
This design is probably the most detailed cut I’ve done successfully. Some of the teeny tiny little spots are smaller than the head of a pin. I had to use a straight tool to even weed parts because of how small they were. This was possible with a new blade and a better setting for the cut.
I’ve been experimenting with various pressure settings and presets for the Cricut Maker to get the best setting for cutting small details into vinyl without pulling pieces out, getting stuck on the blade, or straight ripping up the vinyl. Personally, the washi sheet setting has been the best preset to use with less pressure. I have also found that the rice paper setting works well too with default pressure. I tried to make a custom setting that sits nicely between the two, but unfortunately Design Space will not allow a custom setting to go below 100 for blade pressure. For this design, the washi sheet setting was used.
In the process video on Instagram, you can see that I used the parchment paper method in combination with a light table to achieve the layering. Only when editing the process video did I realize the creepy weird effect the light table had on my camera’s white balance. There’s a crazy stripe of warm to cool lighting that progresses from top to bottom the entire time the light table is on. Not sure what caused that to happen, so I’m going to have to do some research to see if there is a way to correct it post production or (the better option) keep it from happening during filming. I may be a bit more ‘professional” with the video editing since I started using Adobe Premier Pro, but I’m still only using an iPhone on a clamp for filming. I’m so high tech HAHAHAHAHA…not.
Now I need to practice the art of not having bubbles between vinyl layers…
