The steps to clean weed transfer and apply cut vinyl to most standard surfaces.
What to do with weeded vinyl.
Weeding vinyl is the process of removing the unwanted vinyl from your cut design.
After the design is cut it is time to weed the vinyl.
Now we are all ready to transfer our cut and weeded design to our t.
Ok let s look at how this is done so you have a complete picture of the cutting process.
There really is no trick to weeding.
A vinyl machine is merely step 1 in the process.
Once you have all the excess vinyl removed from your design you can flip it over and see how your final design will look through the clear plastic carrier.
Storing heat transfer vinyl.
We also need to think about steps 2 and 3.
You can think of it like weeding a garden.
You carefully dig up all the little pieces that aren t supposed to be there without destroying any of your beautiful flowers.
You get better at it the more you do.
The weeding ring solved that.
And some projects go better than others.
Some manufacturers make what they call easy weed.
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Some people prefer to add a weeding box around their image when they cut.
The design is made much more visible and it becomes easy to distinguish the area that needs weeded out.
This is a good time to make sure you have weeded everything you don t want to transfer to your final project.
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Transferring the final design.
I used to stick the weeded vinyl to my hand but my skin had a reaction to the sticky.
They then pull up the box around the image and continue to weed from there.
When you place a cut vinyl design upon the brightpad or other lightpad for weeding vinyl you are instantly able to see all the cut lines.
Weeding means to remove any of the vinyl that you don t want including any insides of the letters.