Weeding Vinyl With Tape

It is an easy fix for a few stubborn pieces of backing paper attached to your vinyl.

Weeding vinyl with tape.

I have only found it to work on heat transfer vinyl that you apply to fabric. Check out the extended post for step by step details. Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape. For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.

Then cover the lettering in transfer tape like you normally would remove the backing paper and apply as usual. If you have an older machine or haven t replaced the blade in some time weeding vinyl can be a nightmare. Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper. Leave it in.

It s where you apply transfer tape across the whole unweeded decal and then weed the excess vinyl away from the transfer tape instead of the carrier sheet. If you try to use tape on regular adhesive vinyl the whole thing does come up. The parts that the machine has cut are easier to come up. In theory this is easier to weed for smaller decals than doing it the regular way.

Home to thousands of home decor premade vinyl designs to instantly download resize and cut on a vinyl cutter. For complicated designs with extra fine detail that you missed in your original weeding now is the time to go back and very gently cut away the waste vinyl. Your vinyl is not weeding correctly. Now simply grab the corner of the application tape carefully pull it away and your vinyl design is complete.

Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only. Https amzn to 39xd1um fiskars self healing mat. Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off. A how to tutorial video for new crafters on how to cut weed and transfer vinyl to glass.