We also need to think about steps 2 and 3.
Vinyl weeding and.
Tweexy is made from 100 soft silicone rubber that is still firm enough to allow the tiniest scraps to be easily scraped off your pick yet is still pleasantly comfortable to wear on your fingers for hours.
Weeding is the process of after cutting the vinyl peeling the excess vinyl off of the cut part to see.
The tweexy weeding vinyl ring is a must have tool for vinyl crafters.
Tweexy is the patented product used by thousands of cricut vinyl crafters for removing scraps from your pick with ease.
Transferring the final design.
Ok let s look at how this is done so you have a complete picture of the cutting process.
While we have an entire post dedicated to reverse weeding on a christmas mug project we ll share the gist of it here.
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.
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.
This saves vinyl and also makes it easier to weed when you are not working with such excess.
Reverse weeding is for adhesive vinyl only.
You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers.
If you use your cricut on a weekly basis like us yo.
Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design.
A vinyl machine is merely step 1 in the process.
You can think of it like weeding a garden.
Heat transfer vinyl is way easier to weed because it does not have adhesive on it glitter vinyl can be harder to weed.
The cut lines are more difficult to see so use extra caution so you do not rip your design.
In theory this is easier to weed for smaller.
A vinyl cutter cuts along the lines of the design but it doesn t remove the extra vinyl.
How to weed vinyl.