CAMEO 4 Vinyl Cutter

Yay! The CAMEO 4 vinyl cutter safely arrived a few days ago, and I immediately opened it up to play with the latest toy.

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Seems that I did not receive vinyl transfer paper, heat transfer, or any fun neon colors in my box - were there other packages sent to different people?

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For my first cut, I wanted to cut out something fairly easy and especially cute - Rilakkuma, a character from Sanrio. I found this already made vinyl decal that you can order for $6+ each. I opened this image within Illustrator, used the Image Trace option, exported it as a .DXF file so that the Silhouette software

Adjusting the size of the cut

Adjusting the size of the cut

Cut preview

Cut preview

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Ta-DA! Here’s the final result of the Rilakkuma vinyl sticker and its negative.

 
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