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.
Weeding glitter vinyl.
Use the cricut heat guide for recommended easypress settings.
You might try any of the following tips to make weeding small letters easier.
It is an easy fix for a few stubborn pieces of backing paper attached to your vinyl.
Using your weeding tool grab the thin layer of backing like you are weeding a normal design and the backing will come right off.
Weeding iron on vinyl is the process of removing the excess material that you do not want on your project.
You can think of it like weeding a garden.
If you have letters that are 1 2 or smaller try taping out the entire area cut.
If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.
Remove negative pieces from each of the images leaving the liner intact.
Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only.
This process is called weeding.
While we have an entire post dedicated to reverse weeding on a christmas mug project we ll share the gist of it here.
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.
But when you cut out vinyl weeding has to be done.
In theory this is easier to weed for smaller.
Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design.
Some types of material can get a little pricey especially things like glitter vinyl.
Using the weeding tool found in a cricut basic tool set or weeding tool set can make this process faster and.
This is usually rolled up with the vinyl and can be found near the center of the roll.
Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle.
Weeding glitter vinyl although designing and cutting glitter vinyl are both pretty straight forward it s in the weeding of your designs that you are most likely to run into trouble.
That sparkly texture that makes your projects look so good also makes your cut lines very difficult to see which means it can be quite the challenge to weed.
Once you get your vinyl on your transfer tape flip it over and weed off the backing paper.
Your vinyl is not weeding correctly.
Glitter vinyl rolls include a sheet of stronggrip transfer tape for use with glitter vinyl.