Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

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Weeding on the mat vinyl.

I have just. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. Now you are. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well.

What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. 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.

The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine. Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat. Cricut has a whole set of different. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either.

One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. The first part is easy.

For small designs you can do this in one go. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Cut settings in cricut design space. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing.

Find a hook that works for you. There are quite a few weeding hooks on the market. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f.