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.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

Find a hook that works for you. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. For small designs you can do this in one go. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding.

Now you are. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. Weeding using the cricut brightpad. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut.

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. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat.

Cut settings in cricut design space. How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it.

Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat. Simply dig the point of your. Warm up weeding surface. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either.

I have just. Cricut has a whole set of different. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine.

In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.