Vinyl Weed On Mat Or Off

Learn how to remove vinyl and cardstock from your cutting mat.

Vinyl weed on mat or off.

You will want to make sure you ve got a clean sticky mat for this method to work. For this method i use the hook weeder which you can get with this cricut tool set. Next carefully peel the tape off the vinyl backing sheet. When placing your design on the receiving surface you may wish to spray it with some application fluid beforehand.

If i weeded it right on the mat my arm would be sticking to it. Tips for weeding heat transfer vinyl. This prevents the vinyl adhesive from sticking to the surface for around 30 seconds. Weeding using the cricut brightpad.

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. Your decal for a customer will not weed cleanly off the backing paper. When you pick up your design with your transfer tape some of the backing rips off and stays on the back of the vinyl. There are many times i am just using a small piece of scrap vinyl.

Try lightening up your pressure of your cut. Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. Keep your material on your mat. Adjust cut settings and cut.

Check out our silhouette tutorial playlist on youtube. Your design should be safely attached and ready for transfer to the receiving surface. The fonts that are easiest to weed will have clean thick lines without any extra little swirls or doodads. This keeps my project steady and helps hold down my backing material as i weed the vinyl.

You simply leave your vinyl on the mat after cutting it and weed it directly off the mat. Some people also prefer to weed while the vinyl is still on the cutting mat so it is still stuck down in one place. I personally use love and recommend this weeding hook. You are cutting too deep.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way. 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. Use a piece of adhesive vinyl for scraps. I find it easiest to weed with my backing material still stuck to my cricut mat.

Personally i just pull the vinyl sheet up and cut around my image. Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time. 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. Your vinyl is not peeling cleanly from the paper backing.

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