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.

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. Cricut has a whole set of different.

Cut settings in cricut design space. The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either. 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. Now you are.

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. Weeding using the cricut brightpad. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting.

The first part is easy. Warm up weeding surface. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of.

Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. 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. Simply dig the point of your. How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl.