Weeding Vinyl Lines

Weeding vinyl 4 different ways.

Weeding vinyl lines.

The space between the weeding lines will come up as sections of horizontal vinyl rather than one large piece of vinyl that would otherwise be going around your entire design and is much more challenging to weed. The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you. A vinyl cutter cuts along the lines of the design but it doesn t remove the extra vinyl. I wasn t tearing my vinyl anymore.

To use the weeding feature select the object you want to add a weeding border and lines to and then choose weeding from under the effects menu. Weeding small letters is difficult. Regular vinyl adhesive and iron on vinyl use the same method. You can see that now you have weeding lines in all of your excess negative area but not through your design.

Cut a box around each word or letter so that you can work on pulling up one section of vinyl at a time. Many try to enlist the help of their children. Or after your design is machine cut you can take an x acto knife and hand cut weeding lines around your lettering. Caydo 9 pieces craft weeding tools set craft vinyl tools with a4 adjustable led light box tracer usb power for brightpad see the cut lines better 4 out of 5 stars 276 21 99 21.

Use a weeding box. 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. Some people excel at weeding letters others can t stand the job. It s also super helpful if you re using a skinny script font.

Weeding border lines. I like to keep the backing on a sticky mat or place it back on one if i ve taken it off. Siser easyweed is super easy to weed actually easier than adhesive vinyl. Weeding is the process of removing all the extra vinyl from around the image you have cut before applying it to the finished project.

Like weeding lines you can add a weeding box in the design stage by simply placing a square border close. 99 a4 led light pad light board for diamond painting ultra thin magnetic tracing light box with usb powered for artists drawing weeding vinyl diy diamond painting. As we all know weeding is the term we use to describe the process of removing the vinyl we don t want to use. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts.

Cut settings in cricut design space. The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. Weeding vinyl is pretty straight forward but weeding lines and intricate cuts with adhesive vinyl can be troublesome. When i got my cricut brightpad i was able to use all those fun pretty vinyls again because the brightpad lit up the cut lines.