Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

Cut settings in cricut design space.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Find a hook that works for you. There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing.

I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine. Now you are. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. Simply dig the point of your.

It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. 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. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts.

Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. For small designs you can do this in one go. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. I have just.

Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. Warm up weeding surface. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it.

The first part is easy. One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat. 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.

Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. Cricut has a whole set of different. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.