Weeding Vinyl Cricut

How to weed adhesive vinyl.

Weeding vinyl cricut.

I cut this project on my cricut explore. I m no expert but one of the biggest frustrations i had when learning to use my cricut was weeding fonts. Weeding tool cricut weeding tool. Weeding iron on vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project.

The best fonts for weeding. You ve probably already got one of these lying around. Then flip the transfer tape over and weed the extra vinyl off the transfer tape. I changed the color of the words in cricut design space to cut.

I really want to help you avoid the nail biting tool throwing frustration i experienced. I highly recommend investing in a cricut brightpad. My favorite is the tool named for the job. 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.

The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out. It s shaped like a pen with a curved metal pick at the end that can easily get bits of vinyl. Reverse weeding is placing the entire image on the transfer tape first before you remove any excess vinyl. They aren t as hard.

Whether you are using cricut vinyl permanent or removable or heat transfer vinyl htv your project will need to be weeded. The cricut brightpad is yet another great way to make weeding vinyl easier. Don t be afraid of the intricate designs. A weeding tool comes included with the cricut basic tool set and the silhouette cameo tool kit.

Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project. There is not special cricut weeding vinyl. When i chose the wrong font the material didn t matter nor did the tools i was in for a stressful time. Cricut tips for weeding adhesive vinyl.

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. Reverse weeding is when you weed off the transfer tape rather than weeding off the paper backing of the vinyl. You can also do what s called reverse weeding when working with adhesive vinyl. I generally find it easier weeding adhesive vinyl than weeding iron on vinyl but you still need to be careful and go slowly.

Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time. What is weeding iron on vinyl.