Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either. Cricut has a whole set of different. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of.

Warm up weeding surface. Now you are. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat. I have just. The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down.

How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well.

Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Find a hook that works for you. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick.

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. Cut settings in cricut design space. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it. For small designs you can do this in one go.

The first part is easy. Simply dig the point of your. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine.