New Way To Weed Vinyl

Lay a corner of the vinyl gently on your receiving surface and smooth the design into position.

New way to weed vinyl.

They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick. Use gentle pressure to work gradually across your design from a corner. I used to shy away from the pretty glitter and patterned vinyl because i always ripped my design when i was weeding it.

If you ve weeded off quite a large chunk just chop that weeded vinyl off with a pair of scissors this helps keep it from getting in the way as you weed the rest of your project. You can use an iron to heat up your ironing board or a towel and weed right on the area that s heated. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing.

This makes it really easy to pull away any excess vinyl. Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. For heat transfer vinyl heat loosens the backing making the vinyl pieces so much easier to remove. Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either super sticky or hard to see like glitter vinyls or holographic vinyl.

The letters you need will come up with the vinyl all in one piece. Use a piece of vinyl for scraps. This makes it so you can weed away the excess without losing the proper alignment of the vinyl. Of course if you have a heat press that will work as well.

If you ve weeded off quite a large chunk just chop that weeded vinyl off with a pair of scissors this helps keep it from getting in the way as you weed the rest of your project. Hot ironing board for heat transfer vinyl. Use a piece of adhesive vinyl for scraps i will often take a piece of adhesive vinyl or double sided tape and place it sticky side up on or next to my cricut mat. The easiest way to weed vinyl 4 different methods using cricut tools.

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f.