Heat Transfer Vinyl Plastic Side Up Or Down

Make sure you mirror image your design.

Heat transfer vinyl plastic side up or down. Since red is the final color we know to cut on the white side. Something to transfer your vinyl onto this can be anything. We don t want to cut on this side. The dull side is the actual vinyl.

Get out your craft knife and make a small cut in the corner on the side you think is the vinyl side like this cut only through the vinyl not all the way through. Shirts bags aprons you name it. If you use a lot of heat transfer vinyl then you may want to get a heat press or easy press down the road but for today we will just focus on using an iron. I tried to take a picture of this but my camera couldn.

One is facing up and the other is facing down. This is the side we want to cut on make sure to always place the shiny side down onto your cutting mat. I usually use a cutting mat because it helps stabilize the vinyl and prevent slipping. Both of these sheets are red htv.

To activate the adhesive on the heat transfer vinyl you need two things. For other colors however it is not as easy to tell which side is the final color and which side is not. Start out by cutting your design. Take rozzy crafts gold htv for example.

It is the adhesive side but only sticks with heat. The shiny side is a clear plastic carrier sheet that holds the heat transfer vinyl in place. When cutting heat transfer vinyl you can cut with or without a cutting mat. Heat and pressure both of which we can get using an iron.

Here s a small piece of red siser easyweed heat transfer vinyl and i ve got it shiny side down as i cut out the vinyl on the corner. The clear plastic side is the carrier sheet and it should always be face down when cutting facing your machine.