What Side Do I Put Glitter Vinyl

Cutting glitter iron on with a cricut machine.

What side do i put glitter vinyl.

Be sure to mirror all images prior to. Cutting glitter vinyl or any vinyl for that matter gives me the ability to make new pillow covers wine glasses window clings curtains. With regular htv it s usually really obvious which side is the vinyl and which side is the carrier sheet. For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry.

Select images and size and load the mat into your machine. The vinyl side goes face up. Place iron on sheet shiny liner side down onto standardgrip mat. Refer to glitter vinyl kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings a kiss cut goes through the vinyl film and leaves the liner intact.

Get through a corner of your htv like the picture above. If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting. The carrier holds the heat transfer vinyl pieces in place so they re always properly aligned. On the cricut explore set the dial to custom.

Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet. The shiny side goes down when your cutting. I still can t tell which side i cut iron on vinyl on. Pick a side of the sheet that you suspect might be the cut side e g the white side of the sheet of red htv.

Now here is how to tell the 2 sides apart. Select and size the image s you want to cut. So i broke out my very first role of vinyl and sat down to figure. The clear carrier sheet is the shiny side.

But sometimes you can t tell. The carrier side goes face down because we need it to stay intact for heat application so we cut through the duller adhesive side of the material. Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below. You get the idea the list is literally endless.

Shiny carrier sheet dull vinyl. The reason i wanted a cricut in the first place learning how to cut glitter vinyl. Place vinyl liner side down onto lightgrip mat. Regular heat transfer vinyl regular siser easyweed heat transfer vinyl htv can be cut using the iron on setting on the dial of the cricut explore.

Adjust your machine settings according to the iron on kiss cut guide below a kiss cut goes through the iron on film and leaves the liner intact. Glitter heat transfer vinyl siser glitter htv is a bit thicker so you have to use a custom setting to cut it. So if you ever find yourself flipping a piece of htv over from side to side wondering which way to put it on the mat here s a simple trick to figure it out. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.

Here is the same htv dull side it is easier to weed through the corner. The iron on vinyl is put onto the roll carrier side out which means the side that curls down is the carrier side and the side that curls up is the vinyl side.