Tips For Ironing On Vinyl

For iron on vinyl you want to get the mirror image.

Tips for ironing on vinyl.

It should grip your cutting mat and bring it into the machine. Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing. Place your iron on vinyl plastic side down on your cutting mat. I went over layering with each specific type of iron on above but wanted to quickly summarize it all for you.

You can see the vinyl side up in this photo of heat transfer vinyl on a standard grip cutting mat. Mirror flip the images or text. Tips for layering iron on. It s not important unless.

Cricut machine i use the cricut explore air in this post but i also have a cricut. You can layer one layer on top of the base and it can be everyday iron on glitter iron on foil iron on holographic sparkle iron on and patterned iron on. T shirt pillow or other fabric. Insert the mat into the cricut and press the arrow button on your cricut.

Place the iron on vinyl on the cricut standard grip cutting mat liner side down. This makes it really easy to pull away any excess vinyl. I often use my cricut brayer to help press my vinyl into my mat particularly if my mat is on the older side. If you look carefully at iron on vinyl there is a liner side and a vinyl side.

Watch how it s done in the video below. The liner side should be the one placed down on the mat. Only use everyday iron on as a bottom layer. How to use iron on vinyl step 1.