What Is Weeding Vinyl

I ve been weeding for years now and i would love to share with you some must know tips for weeding vinyl.

What is weeding vinyl.

Weeding is where we remove all the unwanted waste vinyl from its paper backing sheet after our machine has done the cutting. The best beginner s guide for using vinyl with craft projects related. Whether you are using cricut vinyl permanent or removable or heat transfer vinyl htv your project will need to be weeded. Now pull the excess vinyl off this will leave your design on the transfer tape perfectly.

Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design. The transfer tape is applied to the decal before weeding the backing paper removed and then the excess vinyl is pulled away from the transfer tape. If you use your cricut on a weekly basis like us yo. Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only.

In theory this is easier to weed for smaller. The first part is easy. Be careful when. Cricut weeding projects for beginners.

So all cricut vinyl projects need to be weeded. Siser heat transfer vinyl guide. Helpful tips when weeding and working with vinyl. Cut settings in cricut design space.

You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers. You can think of it like weeding a garden. Don t be afraid of the intricate designs. It s where you apply transfer tape across the whole unweeded decal and then weed the excess vinyl away from the transfer tape instead of the carrier sheet.

A vinyl cutter cuts along the lines of the design but it doesn t remove the extra vinyl. There is not special cricut weeding vinyl. In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts. While we have an entire post dedicated to reverse weeding on a christmas mug project we ll share the gist of it here.

Decals are either digitally printed and cut to shape or are cut out of colored vinyl material. Weeding is an integral part of custom cut decal production. 651 is permanent adhesive vinyl which means it is extra sticky. Both ways of producing a custom cut or die cut vinyl decal will eventually require vinyl weeding to produce the end product that doesn t have a background.

Weeding is the process of removing all the extra vinyl from around the image you have cut before applying it to the finished project. Ok let s look at how this is done so you have a complete picture of the cutting process.