Tips For Ironing On Vinyl

Place your htv on the warmed lower platen and the warmth will loosen up the adhesive on the pressure sensitive backing.

Tips for ironing on vinyl.

Pick your images or text. Watch how it s done in the video below. It should grip your cutting mat and bring it into the machine. Cricut machine i use the cricut explore air in this post but i also have a cricut.

The liner side should be the one placed down on the mat. Only use everyday iron on as a bottom layer. 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. If you look carefully at iron on vinyl there is a liner side and a vinyl side.

Heat up your lower heat press platen for 2 3 seconds set at around 300 f. Insert the mat into the cricut and press the arrow button on your cricut. It s not important unless. The newer cricut machines work without physical cartridges and plug into your computer.

Tips for layering iron on. 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. Mirror flip the images or text.

How to use iron on vinyl step 1. For iron on vinyl you want to get the mirror image. T shirt pillow or other fabric. Place the iron on vinyl on the cricut standard grip cutting mat liner side down.