Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. Warm up weeding surface. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker.

How to weed adhesive vinyl cut off excess vinyl. I have just. The first part is easy. Cut settings in cricut design space.

You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. Cricut has a whole set of different. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. Weeding vinyl 4 different ways weeding off the mat.

For small designs you can do this in one go. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat. One thing we get to before actually weeding when you cut out your design in iron on vinyl make sure to mirror it.

Simply dig the point of your. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. 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. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either.

The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut.