Diy Silkscreen With Vinyl

Create and attach a vinyl frame to your silk screen.

Diy silkscreen with vinyl.

The step by step process for preparing a vinyl stencil and transferring it onto a screen to use for silk screening. Learn to screen print with craft viny. 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. In the center of the vinyl cut a rectangular hole that s big enough for your image.

Cut out a piece of vinyl that mirrors the length and width of your silk screen. This hole in the mask. Check out this google doc for written instructions. With a sharp knife remove a rectangular hole in the center of the vinyl large enough to attach your design.

While my method is pretty sloppy the results were great take your time and go slow. Using a vinyl stencil to silk screen a t shirt. This will be your vinyl frame. I learned how to do this at techshop.

The instructor was very patient me as a choose a very difficult design to do the first time. Place the decal sticky side down on the screen and rub it all over with a credit card or sign squeegee. You may not want to do it exactly like this but. 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.

Now peel off the layer of transfer tape to expose the no sticky side of your vinyl decal. 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. This is the basic process for screen printing with a vinyl cutter.