What To Do With Weeded Vinyl

Once you have all the excess vinyl removed from your design you can flip it over and see how your final design will look through the clear plastic carrier.

What to do with weeded vinyl.

The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters. Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. Ok let s look at how this is done so you have a complete picture of the cutting process.

This is a good time to make sure you have weeded everything you don t want to transfer to your final project. The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you. You can think of it like weeding a garden. A vinyl machine is merely step 1 in the process.

Start by peeling away the excess vinyl the largest parts of the design that you won t be applying to the finished piece. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. Click on a product or the menu above to view more details. Transferring the final design.

Some manufacturers make what they call easy weed. 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. And some projects go better than others. You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers.

We also need to think about steps 2 and 3. I used to stick the weeded vinyl to my hand but my skin had a reaction to the sticky. The weeding ring solved that. Click show more to expand this box and see links to the items shown in this video and additional information mailing addres.

Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design. They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. You get better at it the more you do. There really is no trick to weeding.

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