Cutting The Wrong Side Of Iron On Vinyl

Because you re actually cutting the back of your vinyl if you don t mirror your image it will end up backward.

Cutting the wrong side of iron on vinyl.

Tips for weeding iron on vinyl. Let me tell you it s not a matter of if but when you go to cut and you ve forgotten to flip your images so i highly recommend just getting into the habit of that whenever you have an iron on vinyl project whether it s necessary or not. 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. For iron on vinyl you want to get the mirror image it s not important unless you have text or an image you need to face a certain direction.

And here is the vinyl side which you can see is matte not shiny. 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. This way when you weed the excess you re left with your image adhered to the plastic sheet.