Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

Here is a photo of the first successful test of these stencils cut on my Cricut. The cut was done on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of 20 pound bond printer paper. The curl is a result of removing the paper from the sticky cutting board. This will not be a problem when using much heavier card stock for the actual stencils.

You will note the paper is smaller than its actual 'Letter Size'. Even with an excellent grid pattern on the cutting board to line the paper up on, the sticky surface makes the process challenging and it is important, and a lot easier to work with, if the cuts you are making are square to the edges of the material you are cutting. Working with CNCs years ago, I remembered you can instruct the machine to perform a border trim which will be square to any other cutting and milling operations you will be performing on the material you are working on. So, I just had the Cricut trim a random sized border around the set of stencil cuts to see what would happen and it worked.

Another benefit of this test was that it confirmed the size for the smaller paint pad was perfect for its overlaying decal. The longer stencil, however, is about two 20ths of an inch too short, So I will have to adjust that for the next test cut.


David