Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. Cricut has a whole set of different. Simply dig the point of your. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either.

You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. Cut settings in cricut design space. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting.

Find a hook that works for you. There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. Warm up weeding surface. I have just.

We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. Now you are.

Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl.

A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. For small designs you can do this in one go.