Which Way Does The Vinyl Go On The Matt

Cut design from vinyl.

Which way does the vinyl go on the matt.

I often use my cricut brayer to help press my vinyl into my mat particularly if my mat is on the older side. Use a craft stick or scraper found in the cricut tool kit to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. Place your iron on vinyl plastic side down on your cutting mat. The htv s top and left edges should run along the top and left edges of the grid on the mat as shown in the picture below.

At this point you will want to select mirror image for iron on. You will be taken to a page where you can review the items about to be cut. To prevent bubbles start in the center and move out toward the edges. Insert the mat into the cricut and press the arrow button on your cricut.

It is possible to cut vinyl directly from the roll without a mat using your silhouette and i will add a post all about how to do that soon but for now let s just focus on how to cut with a cutting mat. Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. If your elements aren t welded together you ll see multiple cuts shown. With regular htv it s usually really obvious which side is the vinyl and which side is the carrier sheet.

Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using. Now we are ready to load our vinyl into the cutting machine. Next place the heat transfer vinyl cut side facing up onto the mat so that the top left corner of the vinyl sheet fits into the top left corner of the grid on the mat. This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same.

If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again. Adjust cut settings and cut. Here s the two sides of cricut everyday iron on vinyl here is the carrier side of the iron on vinyl which you can see is shiny. Carefully place the transfer tape with vinyl images onto your surface as you would like them to appear.

That way your mirrored design gets cut into the vinyl itself allowing you to remove the vinyl that does not need to be transferred to your project. Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. Place vinyl on cutting mat. It should grip your cutting mat and bring it into the machine.

And here is the vinyl side which you can see is matte not. So if you ever find yourself flipping a piece of htv over from side to side wondering which way to put it on the mat here s a simple trick to figure it out. Shiny carrier sheet dull vinyl. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.

If you will be using different colored vinyl for different elements just proceed on.