Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. For small designs you can do this in one go. Warm up weeding surface.

Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. I have just. Cut settings in cricut design space.

How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl. Find a hook that works for you. The first part is easy. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down.

A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Cricut has a whole set of different. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of.

We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. Simply dig the point of your. One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat.

I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine. The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat.