Weeding Glitter Vinyl

That sparkly texture that makes your projects look so good also makes your cut lines very difficult to see which means it can be quite the challenge to weed.

Weeding glitter vinyl.

Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design. If you have letters that are 1 2 or smaller try taping out the entire area cut. This is usually rolled up with the vinyl and can be found near the center of the roll. Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper.

Weeding iron on vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project. When laying the unweeded vinyl on the table right reading start weeding from the upper right to the lower left. Weeding glitter vinyl although designing and cutting glitter vinyl are both pretty straight forward it s in the weeding of your designs that you are most likely to run into trouble. Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only.

But when you cut out vinyl weeding has to be done. Use the cricut heat guide for recommended easypress settings. It is an easy fix for a few stubborn pieces of backing paper attached to your vinyl. This process is called weeding.

You can think of it like weeding a garden. Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off. Glitter vinyl rolls include a sheet of stronggrip transfer tape for use with glitter vinyl. Using the weeding tool found in a cricut basic tool set or weeding tool set can make this process faster and.

These instructions are for using an iron with glitter iron on. While we have an entire post dedicated to reverse weeding on a christmas mug project we ll share the gist of it here. Let s take this taco belle file i heard someone make this joke the other day and it had me giggling for far longer than i d like to admit. Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle.

You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers. Remove negative pieces from each of the images leaving the liner intact. Your vinyl is not weeding correctly. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.

You might try any of the following tips to make weeding small letters easier.