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Step 3: Weeding

1: After the cut is ready, we are going to use our fingers very gently to remove the vinyl from the mat. In our case, we were using a new blade, so our blade also cut the back part of the vinyl, so when we remove the vinyl from the mat, we had the following:

If this happens to you, DO NOT PANIC!!!!, you are going to weed over the cricut mat by using the weeding tool until you are ready to place your transfer tape.

2: When the design was all weeded, you should have something like:

3: You are going to cut a piece of transfer tape that should be the at least the same size as your design:

4: you are going to peel the transfer tape and you are going to place it over the design:

5: You are going to use your scraper to make sure that the transfer tape is holding the whole design and you are going to peel the transfer tape that contains the design from the mat:

💡Tip: If you notice that a part of your design is not peeling off to the transfer tape, you can use your scraper or your fingers and rub that section again so it adheres to the transfer tape.

In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following skills:

  • Add Shapes
  • Resize Elements
  • Add Text
  • Change Fonts
  • Delete Elements
  • Change colors
  • Align elements

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