Which Side Is The Liner On Cricut Vinyl

Preparation with cricut transfer tape.

Which side is the liner on cricut vinyl.

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. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Cricut vinyl instructions say place material liner side down on to mat.

Press flashing go button. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. How to use adhesive vinyl with a cricut. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings.

Can someone please tell me if its the shiny clear or the dull side that should be facing the mat. So again that s shiny side down. Then position it plastic side down and vinyl side up the more dull less shiny side. It s the shinny side.

There is a very high gloss side and a dull matte side with the glitter in between. Peel back the sticky transfer tape from the liner sheet. Sometimes that sheet has a grid on it to make it easy to cut straight. Iron on vinyl has a shiny side and a dull side.

Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip 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. Cut on iron on vinyl setting. 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.

And here is the vinyl side which you can see is matte not shiny. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Generally adhesive vinyl has the colorful vinyl on one side and is backed by a paper carrier sheet that is most often white. It s usually the shiniest side and you use a very sticky mat.

If you look carefully at iron on vinyl there is a liner side and a vinyl side. The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette. There is a layer of plastic that will be peeled away. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.

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. You can see the vinyl side up in this photo of heat transfer vinyl on a standard grip cutting mat. The liner side should be the one placed down on the mat. It does say to mirror the image.

To prevent bubbles start in the center and move out toward the edges. I don t know which side is the liner. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. Use a craft stick or scraper found in the cricut tool kit to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl.

You can tell iron on vinyl from regular vinyl by the front liner. The printable vinyl i have used didn t have issues sticking to the mat.