Weeding Vinyl Cricut

You can also do what s called reverse weeding when working with adhesive vinyl.

Weeding vinyl cricut.

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 best fonts for weeding. My favorite is the tool named for the job. I cut this project on my cricut explore.

Weeding tool cricut weeding tool. 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. Let s take this taco belle file i heard someone make this joke the other day and it had me giggling for far longer than i d like to admit. They aren t as hard.

I changed the color of the words in cricut design space to cut. Cricut tips for weeding adhesive vinyl. A weeding tool comes included with the cricut basic tool set and the silhouette cameo tool kit. The cricut brightpad is yet another great way to make weeding vinyl easier.

Cricut weeding projects for beginners. It s shaped like a pen with a curved metal pick at the end that can easily get bits of vinyl. Then flip the transfer tape over and weed the extra vinyl off the transfer tape. Weeding iron on vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project.

Reverse weeding is placing the entire image on the transfer tape first before you remove any excess vinyl. I generally find it easier weeding adhesive vinyl than weeding iron on vinyl but you still need to be careful and go slowly. Reverse weeding is when you weed off the transfer tape rather than weeding off the paper backing of the vinyl. The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out.

Don t be afraid of the intricate designs. I m no expert but one of the biggest frustrations i had when learning to use my cricut was weeding fonts. What is weeding iron on vinyl. Renown cricket artist kim demonstrates the simple step by step process to weeding your cricut vinyl projects perfectly every time.

I really want to help you avoid the nail biting tool throwing frustration i experienced. When i chose the wrong font the material didn t matter nor did the tools i was in for a stressful time. I highly recommend investing in a cricut brightpad. You ve probably already got one of these lying around.

So all cricut vinyl projects need to be weeded. There is not special cricut weeding vinyl.