Heat Transfer Vinyl Shiny Side Up Or Down

Today we ll be showing you a surefire way to know which side of your heat transfer vinyl to cut.

Heat transfer vinyl shiny side up or down.

How to set up for htv in silhouette studio. Load your heat transfer vinyl on your cutting mat with the shiny side down. Htv comes with a shiny protective sheet on it. Cut with the carrier side down and the adhesive side up.

Something to transfer your vinyl onto this can be anything. This is essential to the next few steps. The shiny side of htv is the carrier sheet the dull side is the adhesive. After you have cut your design you need to weed it.

Line the edge of your vinyl or mat up with the blue line on your machine. Here is the same htv dull side it is easier to weed through the corner. Cut your design in reverse on the side that does not show the final color for some colors it i. Place the htv onto the silhouette cutting mat with with the shiny side carrier sheet of the htv down.

Heat transfer vinyl designs. You can find a great chart for machine settings here. The shiny side goes down when your cutting. This will put the adhesive side or the back side of the htv up which is why you are cutting in reverse.

When cutting htv cut shiny side down. Make sure you mirror image your design. It will transfer backwards from what you cut you want to cut with the shiny side of your vinyl down. Shirts bags aprons you name it.

That means you need to take a few extra steps while preparing your design in cricut design space. Now press your iron or heat press down on top with a. Now here is how to tell the 2 sides apart. When it comes to rozzy crafts htv the rule about which side to cut is the same for all colors and types.

I tried to take a picture of this but my camera couldn. Get through a corner of your htv like the picture above. Next cut the design. When working with heat transfer vinyl the shiny side of the material always goes face down for cutting this shiny side is called the carrier it covers the face the colored side that will face out on the garment of the htv and holds the cut pieces in alignment during cutting and applying.

The vinyl side goes face up. Because heat transfer vinyl is on the carrier sheet with the adhesive side exposed it must be placed on the cutting mat with the shiny side down and cut in reversed. The clear carrier sheet is the shiny side.