My Vinyl Transfer Tape Is Not Sticky
If your tape is not picking up your design your tape is probably not sticky enough.
My vinyl transfer tape is not sticky. Transfer tape for vinyl 12 x 50 ft w blue alignment grid for adhesive vinyl medium tack vinyl transfer tape for silhouette cameo by jandjpackaging 4 7 out of 5 stars 2 419 15 88 15. They all have different levels of adhesive tack. Your transfer tape might not be sticky enough. I had to be careful not to remove the carpet from the floor with the super strength adhesive on the transfer tape.
There s high tack medium tack and low tack clear tape and also paper tape. There s also different levels of transfer tape you can buy. They also make a better quality price point vinyl 651 permanent 631 removable level 2. Some consider craftopia s models one of the best transfer tapes for oracal 651.
The list includes holographic vinyl portrait vinyl pazzles provo craft cricutvinyl and so on. This can either be the center or one end of your design. Cricut transfer tape is honestly too sticky for most adhesive vinyl. Oracal makes a clear transfer tape that works very nicely.
After i cut the vinyl with my cricut air 2 measure and cut the transfer tape to fit my vinyl i peel the backing off the transfer tape and stick it down onto my shag carpet. Peel liner from transfer tape. Use a scraper to burnish transfer tape onto. Not all transfer tapes are created equally.
As the other person stated a lot of people have had luck with contact paper. Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. For heavier vinyl types such as glitter and foils you want to use astronger adhesive to pick up the heavier. Because the transfer paper works with all sorts of outdoor indoor adhesive vinyl.