Silhouette Cutter Vinyl Side Up Or Down When Cutting

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Silhouette cutter vinyl side up or down when cutting.

Place your htv on a cutting mat with the shiny side facing down and adhesive side facing up. Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine. Heat transfer vinyl usually comes on a carrier sheet. Load the cutting mat containing the vinyl with your design into the cameo silhouette cutting tool.

As with any new vinyl or new machine before jumping straight to your main product you should do a test. If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt. How to load vinyl without a mat. It also aids in transferring the vinyl to your project surface.

We use cricut cutting machines but you can also use a silhouette cameo 4 or brother sdx125 for example. Easypatterns were designed to fit into a variety of vinyl cutters as easily as they fit into a variety of niches and trends. The carrier sheet is sticky and holds the vinyl in place while you cut. The machine software will help you to choose the correct cut settings.

Now select load on your cameo 3. 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. Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software. The shiny side of htv is the carrier sheet the dull side is the adhesive.

I like to cut most of my vinyl without a mat because the majority of the time i am using rolls of vinyl instead of. Now before you cut from your pattern you can adjust where you want your image on the mat in case you want a specific part of the pattern. You can get silhouette cameo cutting mats in 12 x 12 and 12 x 24. Simply cut in the positive do not mirror with the pattern facing up weed away the excess from the static carrier and mask with ttd high tack and a squeegee.

When cutting htv cut shiny side down. Most cutting machines will be totally fine cutting flocked vinyl. Heat transfer vinyl is a special type of vinyl that can be cut on the silhouette cutting machines which can then be applied to fabric be it clothing pillow covers bags etc with heat and pressure. After heat application the mask releases quick and easy.

Youc an use a heat press or an iron although a heat press is highly recommended if you re doing a lot of htv projects or selling at all. Discover the creative world of silhouette. Then click send at the bottom of your screen to initiate the cutting process and wait as the machine slowly executes your command.