New Way To Weed Vinyl

Use a piece of vinyl for scraps.

New way to weed vinyl.

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. Lay a corner of the vinyl gently on your receiving surface and smooth the design into position. They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there. Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f.

Of course if you have a heat press that will work as well. After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl. I used to shy away from the pretty glitter and patterned vinyl because i always ripped my design when i was weeding it. This makes it really easy to pull away any excess vinyl.

Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters. Lay it on the weeding area with the sticky side up and use spring clamps to hold the vinyl down. Use gentle pressure to work gradually across your design from a corner. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing.

Using the cricut brightpad is by far the easiest way to weed vinyl that s either super sticky or hard to see like glitter vinyls or holographic vinyl. Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut. This makes it so you can weed away the excess without losing the proper alignment of the vinyl. What makes vinyl even more easy to weed is what siser calls the heat press trick.

Those vinyls are gorgeous but it is impossible to see the cut lines. The letters you need will come up with the vinyl all in one piece. You can use an iron to heat up your ironing board or a towel and weed right on the area that s heated. For heat transfer vinyl heat loosens the backing making the vinyl pieces so much easier to remove.

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.