What To Do With Access Weeded Vinyl

The steps to clean weed transfer and apply cut vinyl to most standard surfaces.

What to do with access weeded vinyl. Second cut your excess vinyl frequently as you go. Then i get 2 transfers out of one box. 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. Third use all the different tools cricut offers to get little parts pulled out pushed back in or unstuck.

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. The thicker the vinyl you are working with is the more the lightpad will help you. Since the release liner beneath the vinyl is not cut this is referred to as a kiss cut. The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out.

As i pull the weeded vinyl off i place it on the transfer tape. How to weed adhesive vinyl. Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project. I cut this project on my cricut explore.

No wasted vinyl at all. I generally find it easier weeding adhesive vinyl than weeding iron on vinyl but you still need to be careful and go slowly. I also take a piece of transfer tape and cut it the same size as my weeding box. Start by peeling away the excess vinyl the largest parts of the design that you won t be applying to the finished piece.

Craftspiration post what to do with scrap iron on vinyl if you re an avid craft vinyl user like me chances are you have a pile of scrap vinyl laying around with no idea what to do with all of it. After the vector shapes are cut you need to remove the excess vinyl the negative space inside and around the letters. When you send a vector image file to a properly configured vinyl cutter it cuts that path only in the top two layer of the vinyl. The fonts that are easiest to weed will have clean thick lines without any extra little swirls or doodads.

I have discovered that using the box works great to save wasted vinyl. Over here at craftables hq my pile was getting way too large so i finally put my foot down and decided to use some of it. The face film and adhesive. Stencil fonts are really quick to weed because you don t even have to pop out the centers of letters.