Cutting Heat Transfer Vinyl With Cricut

That means you need to take a few extra steps while preparing your design in cricut design space.

Cutting heat transfer vinyl with cricut.

You can use a design from cricut access or make it projects or your own design. Steps for the preparation of the design with the transfer tape in the cricut tool kit you will find a weeder. The joy of a cricut machine is that it does all the fussy cutting for you. Because heat transfer vinyl is on the carrier sheet with the adhesive side exposed it must be placed on the cutting mat with the shiny side down and cut in reversed.

Attach any layers where the spacing of the images or text is important by selecting all the layers and then clicking the grey attach button at the bottom of the layers panel on the right. Weed it out check it out. Other companies call it heat transfer vinyl or htv. Open cricut design space and decide on a design to cut on your cricut machine.

Cricut joy siser heat transfer vinyl aka iron on vinyl siser easypsv aka pressure sensitive or adhesive vinyl weeder ruler scissors or exacto knife self healing cutting mat not required but handy to have step 1. Cricut calls the vinyl that you need to apply heat to in order for it to adhere to iron on vinyl. Select the button with arrows on the cricut maker to load the mat for cutting. Heat transfer vinyl also known as htv for short is a type of vinyl polymer that can be applied to a wide variety of materials by using heat.

Cutting the heat transfer vinyl open up cricut design space and create a brand new project with at least one image in it. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut 1. Load the cutting mat into the cricut machine and cut the images. If you peel the vinyl from the mat it can curl.

Then push the cricut button to start the cutting. Use it to remove unwanted pieces from each image. When your design is finished cutting peel the mat from your iron on heat transfer vinyl. Start with your design in cricut design space.

The guides and rollers keep the mat secure while it moves back and forth during the cutting process. Place the cutting mat under the white guides which ensure the mat is centered under the pinch rollers. Heat transfer vinyl can be cut by hand or with a cutting machine silhouette or a cricut.