And if you cut too deep you ll have to wrestle with a butchered carrier sheet.
Cut weed and stick vinyl.
Make sure you have the right type of vinyl selected and hit send.
Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters.
If you are interested in a design with gradients or many colors within the design vinyl lettering is not a fit.
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You can also use a silhouette hook a cricut hook tweezers a craft knife or even a straight pin.
To weed off the excess vinyl you will need some kind of tool.
Before you unload the vinyl from your machine take your weeding tool and try to weed a piece.
After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl.
If it comes up easily you re good to unload and continue weeding.
On the silhouette cut page scroll down to the cut settings.
If you cut vinyl with the blade set too low you will end up pulling away the design with the area to be weeded.
Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut.
Our machines and production staff then cut and weed remove the excess and apply the transfer tape to your lettering to prepare it for installation.
I personally use love and recommend this weeding hook.
Load your vinyl into your cutting machine.
Because we do not print on cut vinyl the number of colors to choose from is limited.
A how to tutorial video for new crafters on how to cut weed and transfer vinyl to glass.
Make sure your dial is turned to the correct material setting.
It is sharp and works great for removing that vinyl.
Setting the cutting machine to cut at the right depth will make weeding a lot easier.