Weeding On The Mat Vinyl

One of the most efficient and easiest ways to weed vinyl is directly off the cutting mat.

Weeding on the mat vinyl.

We simply grab the edge of the sheet and peel away the excess like a giant sticker. Find a hook that works for you. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. I am using my cricut maker but the concept is the same with the maker or the explore machine.

Cut settings in cricut design space. 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. 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. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either. A lot of times the piece of vinyl you use will be a lot larger than your actual cut. 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. The basics of how to weed vinyl first carefully peel off the big pieces of vinyl surrounding your design. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. It sounds simple but the more complex your design the more care you need to take while weeding.

The first part is easy. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Next go through with your tool of choice and remove all remaining unwanted pieces of. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts.

For small designs you can do this in one go. Warm up weeding surface. You will use a special tool called a weeder or weeding hook to remove the excess vinyl. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick.

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 have just.