What Side Is Up For Siser Vinyl

The beginner guide to siser heat transfer vinyl.
What side is up for siser vinyl. If your pattern htv comes with a clear mask then you ll cut pattern side up and do not mirror your artwork. The shiny side goes down when your cutting. Place the carrier side up for heat. Siser easyweed is a decorative heat transfer vinyl that can be ironed or heat pressed onto any textile including leather now available in sheets that are 15 x12 in size.
Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet. Simply cut in the positive do not mirror with the pattern facing up weed away the excess from the static carrier and mask with ttd high tack and a squeegee. I still can t tell which side i cut iron on vinyl on. If you don t even know the htv basics don t worry.
Firefly vinyl flock is also very well reviewed available in 6 different colors. Now here is how to tell the 2 sides apart. You will by the end of this post. The vinyl side goes face up.
Pick a side of the sheet that you suspect might be the cut side e g the white side of the sheet of red htv. Mix and match easypatterns with other types of siser htv for. The clear carrier sheet is the shiny side. Craftables flocked vinyl is a great choice for a range of colors.
When working with heat transfer vinyl the shiny side of the material always goes face down for cutting this shiny side is called the carrier it covers the face the colored side that will face out on the garment of the htv and holds the cut pieces in alignment during cutting and applying. If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting. Here is the same htv dull side it is easier to weed through the corner. The iron on vinyl is put onto the roll carrier side out which means the side that curls down is the carrier side and the side that curls up is the vinyl side.
Siser stripflock is available in 19 different colors and is the only flocked vinyl which can be layered. After heat application the mask releases quick and easy while still warm. To the possibility of being able to express yourself freely choosing from 25 different products in a vast range of colours. Siser with its history of excellence untiring research and infinite curiosity has brought you this far.
To the guarantee of the very top quality reached thanks to 40 years of innovation and experience. Welcome to the creative world of heat transfer vinyl. To the ease of creating your idea achieving the most beautiful. Cut with the carrier side down and the adhesive side up.
I was a beginner not long ago and i m not going to lie it was pretty overwhelming at first. While this sheet size seems small it is mighty. Get through a corner of your htv like the picture above. Vinyl cut december 11 2018 at 9 56.
In the end if you re faced with two shiny sides the same color the slightly less shiny side is going to be the vinyl side.