Which Side To Cut Vinyl

This side will be more matte.

Which side to cut vinyl.

You should be able to get your fingernail between the two layers and peel the adhesive vinyl off the carrier sheet like a sticker. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Once the mat is loaded the screen will tell you to press the flashing go button. Then load the mat into your cricut machine by pressing the flashing load unload button.

If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. The glossy side of the vinyl is the side with the clear plastic backing. Sometimes that sheet has a grid on it to make it easy to cut straight.

Basically vinyl material is roll fed into a vinyl cutter and hangs off the back side of the cutter on rollers or on a roller bar. For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down.

Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. Feed the vinyl under the pinch rollers and on top of the roller bar and then release the rollers to hold the vinyl in place. 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 vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.

This white side is the vinyl side so you want this side up on your cutting mat. For my craft queen shirt i used a smooth gold htv. This is confusing i know.