Weeding Vinyl With Tape

A how to tutorial video for new crafters on how to cut weed and transfer vinyl to glass.

Weeding vinyl with tape.

Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only. The heat transfer vinyl is stuck down onto a paper and it takes some effort to get it off. Leave it in. Home to thousands of home decor premade vinyl designs to instantly download resize and cut on a vinyl cutter.

Your vinyl is not weeding correctly. From there you should be able to remove the transfer tape and waste vinyl without running the risk of losing letters. Then cover the lettering in transfer tape like you normally would remove the backing paper and apply as usual. I have only found it to work on heat transfer vinyl that you apply to fabric.

For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape. In theory this is easier to weed for smaller decals than doing it the regular way. The parts that the machine has cut are easier to come up. Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off.

If you try to use tape on regular adhesive vinyl the whole thing does come up. Check out the extended post for step by step details. Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape. It s where you apply transfer tape across the whole unweeded decal and then weed the excess vinyl away from the transfer tape instead of the carrier sheet.

A fourth tip for weeding small letters is to put the vinyl in the freezer after you have cut the vinyl. It is an easy fix for a few stubborn pieces of backing paper attached to your vinyl. Now simply grab the corner of the application tape carefully pull it away and your vinyl design is complete. Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper.