Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

For small designs you can do this in one go.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. Simply dig the point of your. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat.

Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. Warm up weeding surface. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. Cricut has a whole set of different. One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat.

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. I have just. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine.

Find a hook that works for you. Now you are. The first part is easy. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of.

What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either. Cut settings in cricut design space. How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl.