How To Cut Heat Transfer Vinyl With Cricut Expression

Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button.

How to cut heat transfer vinyl with cricut expression.

Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat. The shiny side is the carrier. In case you re using cricut explore all you need to do is select vinyl on the smart set dial. In this case i had yellow and the back is white.

Remember the cut should be a kiss cut. That means that the blades should only go through the vinyl and leave the liner intact. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. Use a craft stick or cricut scraper.

The shiny side always goes down. Now burnish transfer tape onto the surface starting in the center and moving out toward the edges. The cricut will do a kiss cut which will cut the htv and leave the carrier sheet intact. Carefully place the transfer tape with vinyl images onto your surface as you would like them to appear.

In this video i share how to cut vinyl on a cricut expression machine. Apr 19 2018 explore kristina pennington boyce s board cricut. Heat transfer vinyl followed by 242 people on pinterest. As part of showing you how to cut heat transfer vinyl with the cricut i want to show you some tips for applying the vinyl to the mat.

Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Set the smart dial on your machine to vinyl or if you have an older machine without a smart dial check out cricut s cut settings guide for vinyl. You want to cut the heat transfer vinyl that is on the other side. Place the heat transfer vinyl on the mat shiny side down.