How To Cut Heat Transfer Vinyl With Cricut Expression

The shiny side always goes down.

How to cut heat transfer vinyl with cricut expression.

You want to cut the heat transfer vinyl that is on the other side. In this case i had yellow and the back is white. The shiny side is the carrier. See more ideas about heat transfer vinyl vinyl cricut.

Remember the cut should be a kiss cut. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button. The cricut will do a kiss cut which will cut the htv and leave the carrier sheet intact.

In this video i share how to cut vinyl on a cricut expression machine. Carefully place the transfer tape with vinyl images onto your surface as you would like them to appear. Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat. Place the heat transfer vinyl on the mat shiny side 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. Peel the transfer tape away from the vinyl at a 45 degree angle. Heat transfer vinyl followed by 242 people on pinterest. That means that the blades should only go through the vinyl and leave the liner intact.

Now burnish transfer tape onto the surface starting in the center and moving out toward the edges. In case you re using cricut explore all you need to do is select vinyl on the smart set dial. 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. Cut using the iron on setting this is a dial setting on the explore machines.