Weeding Vinyl Lines

Some people excel at weeding letters others can t stand the job.

Weeding vinyl lines.

You can see that now you have weeding lines in all of your excess negative area but not through your design. It s also super helpful if you re using a skinny script font. Weeding is the process of removing all the extra vinyl from around the image you have cut before applying it to the finished project. 99 a4 led light pad light board for diamond painting ultra thin magnetic tracing light box with usb powered for artists drawing weeding vinyl diy diamond painting.

I like to keep the backing on a sticky mat or place it back on one if i ve taken it off. 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. The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. 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.

Let me know how that works out but when you cut out vinyl weeding has to be done. 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 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. Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines.

Weeding small letters is difficult. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering. Regular vinyl adhesive and iron on vinyl use the same method.

Siser easyweed is super easy to weed actually easier than adhesive vinyl. The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you. Cut settings in cricut design space. Weeding vinyl is pretty straight forward but weeding lines and intricate cuts with adhesive vinyl can be troublesome.

Like weeding lines you can add a weeding box in the design stage by simply placing a square border close. I wasn t tearing my vinyl anymore. Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. Use a weeding box.

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. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways. As we all know weeding is the term we use to describe the process of removing the vinyl we don t want to use. Weeding border lines.