Insert the mat into the cricut and press the arrow button on your cricut.
Cutting iron on vinyl.
If you are ironing on to a pillow you can place a piece of a thin fabric over the vinyl.
It comes in a roll measuring 12 inches tall by 24 inches wide.
With a hot iron mine is a little down from cotton so not the max hottest setting iron through the plastic.
Overlap presses to ensure full adhesion.
Place your iron on vinyl plastic side down on your cutting mat.
Cricut iron on lite cricut iron on lite is the standard cricut htv material and will probably be the one you use most often in your craft cutting.
Hold for a few seconds still and then wiggle and them move positions until you ve hit all the vinyl.
Iron over the back of the shirt or fabric for about 20 25 seconds.
Gently pull on an edge if the vinyl comes up with it iron some more.
The ink will soak through the tissue paper and mark the vinyl backing.
Cricut foil iron on vinyl is available in 12 different colors and can be used with all cricut cutters.
Place your vinyl vinyl side down onto the preheated area and flip over your shirt.
I often use my cricut brayer to help press my vinyl into my mat particularly if my mat is on the older side.
Mirroring means to flip your design prior to cutting so it appear.
First whenever you cut any and all iron on or heat transfer vinyl regardless of the type or brand you must always mirror flip your design before cutting.
Overlap presses to ensure full adhesion.
I let the pillow cover cool for a few seconds and then i peeled back the plastic.
Here is my first cuts with cricut iron on vinyl with the explore.
If desired you can use the marker to sharpen up the lines after you are done tracing.
Press the iron down on the vinyl for 20 30 seconds then lift the iron before repositioning to a new area of vinyl.
To see how the onesies turned out check out my etsy shop.
Place the tissue paper over the clear backing side of the vinyl and re trace over the pencil marks with a fine tipped permanent marker.
Htv has a clear plastic carrier sheet that covers the top of the vinyl and the other side is where the heat sensitive adhesive is it is not sticky or tacky to the touch.
This is a great step by step project for beginners.
The reason that you need to mirror your design when working with heat transfer or iron on vinyl you cut the design on the back side of the vinyl.
