Which Side Is The Liner On Cricut Vinyl

Can someone please tell me if its the shiny clear or the dull side that should be facing the mat.

Which side is the liner on cricut vinyl.

You can see the vinyl side up in this photo of heat transfer vinyl on a standard grip cutting mat. If you look carefully at iron on vinyl there is a liner side and a vinyl side. There is a layer of plastic that will be peeled away. How to use adhesive vinyl with a cricut.

You can tell iron on vinyl from regular vinyl by the front liner. The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette. Here s the two sides of cricut everyday iron on vinyl here is the carrier side of the iron on vinyl which you can see is shiny. Place the iron on vinyl on the cricut standard grip cutting mat liner side down.

In the photo below you can see the liner peeling away from the iron on design. The shiny side is the liner and the dull side is the heat activated side that you will adhere to an object. Use a craft stick or scraper found in the cricut tool kit to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. The liner side should be the one placed down on the mat.

To prevent bubbles start in the center and move out toward the edges. There is a very high gloss side and a dull matte side with the glitter in between. Cut on iron on vinyl setting. Press flashing go button.

Sometimes that sheet has a grid on it to make it easy to cut straight. Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. Generally adhesive vinyl has the colorful vinyl on one side and is backed by a paper carrier sheet that is most often white. If you get nothing on the page then you know that is not printable side and that is the side that goes down on the mat.

It s the shinny side. So again that s shiny side down. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. Cricut vinyl instructions say place material liner side down on to mat.

I don t know which side is the liner. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.

Peel back the sticky transfer tape from the liner sheet. Iron on vinyl has a shiny side and a dull side. And here is the vinyl side which you can see is matte not shiny. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear.

So in the above case you d want to put that iron on vinyl shiny side down on your cutting mat to cut out your mirrored design. Preparation with cricut transfer tape. It does say to mirror the image. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.

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. Then position it plastic side down and vinyl side up the more dull less shiny side.