You can click here to access the Cricut Heat Guide.įor this project, I am selecting the EasyPress 2, then selecting Cricut Everyday Iron-on for the material because that is close enough to the type of HTV I am using. Now I am going to pull up Cricut's heat guide so I can figure out what temperature I need to set my Cricut EasyPress to. Step 11: Set temperature and time on your heat-press To do that, we first need to cut the excess plastic backing off so we can place our letters close together on the canvas. Step 9: Cut the plastic sheet to separate the lettersįor this project, since we used different colors for each of the letters, we are going to manually place all of the letters onto the canvas. I can tell you from experience it is VERY frustrating to finish a project and realize you missed something when you were weeding and then it's too late to fix it. Make sure you look over your design a few times to double-check that there aren't any little pieces you missed when weeding. When you are weeding, make sure you take your time with this part so you don't accidentally tear or weed the wrong parts of the design.Īfter I get the bulk of the excess vinyl off of the design I go back and get all of the smaller pieces in the letters and the rest of the design. When I am weeding, the first thing I do is get the bulk of the excess vinyl peeled off. I've linked all of the materials I recommend for this project above. I'm using a Cricut weeding tool for this part and I highly recommend you do as well. Now we are going to start weeding the design. Peeling the HTV right off of the mat can cause the material to curl which is not what we want. To take the HTV off of the mat, you will want to flip over the mat and gently peel the mat back from the HTV. When the machine is done cutting, the arrow button will start blinking again and you can unload the mat. Step 7: Unload your mat and remove the vinyl from the mat Once the mat is loaded the Cricut button will start blinking and you are ready to start cutting. Once you select your material, the arrow button on your machine should start blinking meaning you are ready to load your mat. If you are using an Explore machine, you will want to set the dial to Iron-On. I am using a non-Cricut brand HTV so I am going to set my material to Heat Transfer Vinyl (non-cricut). If you are using Cricut brand Heat Transfer Vinyl then be sure to select the specific kind as your material type (for example Everyday iron-on).

Ok, now we are ready to start cutting, turn on your machine, and click continue in design space so we can select our material type. Make sure that you are placing the vinyl in the same spots on the mat as we set up in design space.īefore I make any cuts, I like to use a brayer tool to make sure that the vinyl is really stuck down on the mat. Then we will line up our blue vinyl and lastly the green.

Cricut project canvas