Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl.

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. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. Find a hook that works for you.

Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Warm up weeding surface. 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. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it.

There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker.

The first part is easy. For small designs you can do this in one go. I have just. Cut settings in cricut design space.

Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat. Now you are. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl.

Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either.