Weeding Vinyl Cricut

I highly recommend investing in a cricut brightpad.

Weeding vinyl cricut.

Then flip the transfer tape over and weed the extra vinyl off the transfer tape. Cricut tips for weeding adhesive vinyl. You ve probably already got one of these lying around. Don t be afraid of the intricate designs.

Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project. How to weed adhesive vinyl. The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. My favorite is the tool named for the job.

Weeding tool cricut weeding tool. It s shaped like a pen with a curved metal pick at the end that can easily get bits of vinyl. A weeding tool comes included with the cricut basic tool set and the silhouette cameo tool kit. So all cricut vinyl projects need to be weeded.

Cricut weeding projects for beginners. Weeding iron on vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project. It is a little pricey but i m able to make a wider verity of products with all the fancy vinyl i couldn t use before all because i couldn t see the cut lines. Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time.

The best fonts for weeding. You can also do what s called reverse weeding when working with adhesive vinyl. 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. Whether you are using cricut vinyl permanent or removable or heat transfer vinyl htv your project will need to be weeded.

I m no expert but one of the biggest frustrations i had when learning to use my cricut was weeding fonts. I cut this project on my cricut explore. They aren t as hard. I really want to help you avoid the nail biting tool throwing frustration i experienced.

I changed the color of the words in cricut design space to cut. When i chose the wrong font the material didn t matter nor did the tools i was in for a stressful time. Reverse weeding is placing the entire image on the transfer tape first before you remove any excess vinyl. Reverse weeding is when you weed off the transfer tape rather than weeding off the paper backing of the vinyl.

What is weeding iron on vinyl. There is not special cricut weeding vinyl.