Choose the correct vinyl with a tight liner release.
Vinyl weed small words.
Leave it in there for about an hour or until the vinyl shrinks.
A firm liner release ensures that small decals stay down during weeding and allows you to weed with greater confidence and speed.
Weeding is not only associated with pulling weeds out of the dirt outside and with old dirty gloves it is associated in the graphics business.
The final goal.
Vinyl lettering includes lettering numbering or shapes that are individually cut out from a sheet of solid colored 2 mil vinyl and then pre spaced and placed onto pre masked transfer tape the number of transfer tape sheets used will depend on the size of your vinyl lettering and amount of colors used.
Confirm that your blade is in pristine condition.
Cut settings in cricut design space.
Because you re actually cutting the back of your vinyl if you don t mirror your image it will end up backward.
Not for heat transfer or.
Check on your machine.
Try these tips next time when you have to weed small letters.
A fine tip pair of tweezers and a very sharp silhouette hook will help you remove any of those tiny areas inside the flourishes.
You can mirror your iron on vinyl in the prepare screen in cricut design space and if you select iron on vinyl as your material there will be a warning reminding you to mirror your image.
Some people remove the outer piece of vinyl then transfer the design and weed all the details on top of the sticky transfer tape.
The small weeding box was very helpful as i removed the excess vinyl.
When using removable adhesive vinyl you can save the small details for after you have completely transferred your piece.
A fourth tip for weeding small letters is to put the vinyl in the freezer after you have cut the vinyl.
Weeding is the process of after cutting the vinyl peeling the excess vinyl off of the cut part to see the design or lettering that has been created.
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In this video i show you the reverse weeding technique which is especially great when doing vinyl in small or thin fonts.
For adhesive vinyl you can weed directly on the transfer tape.
But look how cleanly this scroll monogram cut and weeded even at less than an inch.
Tips for weeding iron on vinyl.
