The shiny side goes down when your cutting.
What side do i put glitter vinyl.
I still can t tell which side i cut iron on vinyl on.
The reason i wanted a cricut in the first place learning how to cut glitter vinyl.
The shiny side of the material is the clear carrier.
Cutting glitter iron on with a cricut machine.
Here is the same htv dull side it is easier to weed through the corner.
Get through a corner of your htv like the picture above.
Glitter heat transfer vinyl siser glitter htv is a bit thicker so you have to use a custom setting to cut it.
Shiny carrier sheet dull vinyl.
Place vinyl liner side down onto lightgrip mat.
Take your weeding tool and scrape dig in the corner of the sheet.
Refer to glitter vinyl kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings a kiss cut goes through the vinyl film and leaves the liner intact.
Regular heat transfer vinyl regular siser easyweed heat transfer vinyl htv can be cut using the iron on setting on the dial of the cricut explore.
If you can get your tool under a layer of vinyl and pull it back then that s the side you should be cutting.
For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry.
Select images and size and load the mat into your machine.
You get the idea the list is literally endless.
Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below.
Place iron on sheet shiny liner side down onto standardgrip mat.
If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.
Cutting glitter vinyl with a cricut machine.
So i broke out my very first role of vinyl and sat down to figure.
Now here is how to tell the 2 sides apart.
The vinyl side goes face up.
Adjust your machine settings according to the iron on kiss cut guide below a kiss cut goes through the iron on film and leaves the liner intact.
With regular htv it s usually really obvious which side is the vinyl and which side is the carrier sheet.
So if you ever find yourself flipping a piece of htv over from side to side wondering which way to put it on the mat here s a simple trick to figure it out.
But sometimes you can t tell.
Cutting glitter vinyl or any vinyl for that matter gives me the ability to make new pillow covers wine glasses window clings curtains.
The carrier holds the heat transfer vinyl pieces in place so they re always properly aligned.
Be sure to mirror all images prior to.
On the cricut explore set the dial to custom.
In the end if you re faced with two shiny sides the same color the slightly less shiny side is going to be the vinyl side.
The clear carrier sheet is the shiny side.
Pick a side of the sheet that you suspect might be the cut side e g the white side of the sheet of red htv.