Vinyl Weed On Mat Or Off

Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time.

Vinyl weed on mat or off.

Personally i just pull the vinyl sheet up and cut around my image. 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. Sans serif fonts like arial or helvetica will generally be easier than their serif alternative serifs are the little pointy flags at the top and bottom of letters like the red. Some people also prefer to weed while the vinyl is still on the cutting mat so it is still stuck down in one place.

You simply leave your vinyl on the mat after cutting it and weed it directly off the mat. To weed off the excess vinyl you will need some kind of tool. Your vinyl is not peeling cleanly from the paper backing. Check out our silhouette tutorial playlist on youtube.

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. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. For this method i use the hook weeder which you can get with this cricut tool set. There are many times i am just using a small piece of scrap vinyl.

I personally use love and recommend this weeding hook. Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface. Your decal for a customer will not weed cleanly off the backing paper. Try lightening up your pressure of your cut.

Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. Learn how to remove vinyl and cardstock from your cutting mat. You are cutting too deep. If i weeded it right on the mat my arm would be sticking to it.

Keep your material on your mat. Use a piece of adhesive vinyl for scraps. The fonts that are easiest to weed will have clean thick lines without any extra little swirls or doodads. Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet.

When you pick up your design with your transfer tape some of the backing rips off and stays on the back of the vinyl. Weeding using the cricut brightpad. This keeps my project steady and helps hold down my backing material as i weed the vinyl. I find it easiest to weed with my backing material still stuck to my cricut mat.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way. Tips for weeding heat transfer vinyl. This prevents the vinyl adhesive from sticking to the surface for around 30 seconds. Adjust cut settings and cut.

Stencil fonts are really quick to weed because you don t even have to pop out the centers of letters.