Weeding Vinyl Lines

Weeding vinyl is pretty straight forward but weeding lines and intricate cuts with adhesive vinyl can be troublesome.

Weeding vinyl lines.

I wasn t tearing my vinyl anymore. A vinyl cutter cuts along the lines of the design but it doesn t remove the extra vinyl. Let me know how that works out but when you cut out vinyl weeding has to be done. Caydo 9 pieces craft weeding tools set craft vinyl tools with a4 adjustable led light box tracer usb power for brightpad see the cut lines better 4 out of 5 stars 276 21 99 21.

Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering. The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you. When i got my cricut brightpad i was able to use all those fun pretty vinyls again because the brightpad lit up the cut lines.

The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. Weeding border lines. Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. The space between the weeding lines will come up as sections of horizontal vinyl rather than one large piece of vinyl that would otherwise be going around your entire design and is much more challenging to weed.

The pro version of sure cuts a lot has a feature to add a weeding border and lines to help remove the excess vinyl from in between and around your design. Weeding is the process of removing all the extra vinyl from around the image you have cut before applying it to the finished project. You can see that now you have weeding lines in all of your excess negative area but not through your design. As we all know weeding is the term we use to describe the process of removing the vinyl we don t want to use.

Like weeding lines you can add a weeding box in the design stage by simply placing a square border close. Use a weeding box. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways. Some people excel at weeding letters others can t stand the job.

Regular vinyl adhesive and iron on vinyl use the same method. Many try to enlist the help of their children. I like to keep the backing on a sticky mat or place it back on one if i ve taken it off. Siser easyweed is super easy to weed actually easier than adhesive vinyl.

It s also super helpful if you re using a skinny script font. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. To use the weeding feature select the object you want to add a weeding border and lines to and then choose weeding from under the effects menu. When you place a cut vinyl design upon the brightpad or other lightpad for weeding vinyl you are instantly able to see all the cut lines.