The joy of a cricut machine is that it does all the fussy cutting for you.
Cutting heat transfer vinyl with cricut.
Start with your design in cricut design space.
Once on the mat insert it into the machine using the flashing arrow button.
Cricut calls the vinyl that you need to apply heat to in order for it to adhere to iron on vinyl.
Cricut joy siser heat transfer vinyl aka iron on vinyl siser easypsv aka pressure sensitive or adhesive vinyl weeder ruler scissors or exacto knife self healing cutting mat not required but handy to have step 1.
And it does it fast.
Open cricut design space and decide on a design to cut on your cricut machine.
If you peel the vinyl from the mat it can curl.
Other companies call it heat transfer vinyl or htv.
That means you need to take a few extra steps while preparing your design in cricut design space.
Heat transfer vinyl can be cut by hand or with a cutting machine silhouette or a cricut.
When your design is finished cutting peel the mat from your iron on heat transfer vinyl.
Steps for the preparation of the design with the transfer tape in the cricut tool kit you will find a weeder.
Use it to remove unwanted pieces from each image.
Select the button with arrows on the cricut maker to load the mat for cutting.
Heat transfer vinyl also known as htv for short is a type of vinyl polymer that can be applied to a wide variety of materials by using heat.
Weed it out check it out.
Attach any layers where the spacing of the images or text is important by selecting all the layers and then clicking the grey attach button at the bottom of the layers panel on the right.
Cutting the heat transfer vinyl open up cricut design space and create a brand new project with at least one image in it.
The guides and rollers keep the mat secure while it moves back and forth during the cutting process.
Because heat transfer vinyl is on the carrier sheet with the adhesive side exposed it must be placed on the cutting mat with the shiny side down and cut in reversed.
Place the cutting mat under the white guides which ensure the mat is centered under the pinch rollers.
Place the heat transfer vinyl with clear plastic backing facing down on your cutting mat select iron on on the smart set dial in the cricut explore series for matte and glossy materials and the next setting clockwise before light cardstock if you re using glitter heat transfer.
Load the cutting mat into the cricut machine and cut the images.
