What Is Weeding Vinyl

Now pull the excess vinyl off this will leave your design on the transfer tape perfectly.

What is weeding vinyl.

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. There is not special cricut weeding vinyl. In theory this is easier to weed for smaller. Weeding is the process of removing all the extra vinyl from around the image you have cut before applying it to the finished project.

Cricut weeding projects for beginners. They aren t as hard. You can think of it like weeding a garden. 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.

Whether you are using cricut vinyl permanent or removable or heat transfer vinyl htv your project will need to be weeded. Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only. 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.

A vinyl cutter cuts along the lines of the design but it doesn t remove the extra vinyl. 651 is permanent adhesive vinyl which means it is extra sticky. Siser heat transfer vinyl guide. Helpful tips when weeding and working with vinyl.

The best beginner s guide for using vinyl with craft projects related. You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers. So all cricut vinyl projects need to be weeded. Weeding is an integral part of custom cut decal production.