Do I Mirror Vinyl On Cricut

Select a mat then toggle the mirror switch on to flip your design.

Do i mirror vinyl on cricut.

Stick a piece of vinyl to your cutting mat making sure the paper backing side is down. Most of the time you will cut your design without mirroring and place the material face up on the mat. If you forget to mirror your mats in project preview the software will remind you when you select any type of iron on material setting. Remember to use mirror on each mat that includes designs intended for heat transfer.

Mirroring is something you do after you click on make it and it s commonly used when using materials such as heat transfer vinyl and infusible ink. If you re using sticky vinyl adhesive you do not mirror your image. Learn about heat transfer vinyl htv learn about cricut infusible ink. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again.

Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. Use a craft stick or scraper found in the cricut tool kit to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. You should then use transfer tape to put over the top and move the design to your substrate. Set the smart dial on your machine to vinyl or if you have an older machine without a smart dial check out cricut s cut settings guide for vinyl.

Standard transfer tape is recommended. Make sure your cricut machine is on and shows up in the connect machine window at the top of the screen. Adhesive vinyl should rarely be mirrored. However if your adhesive vinyl is going on the inside of a window or similar you mirror the design before cutting.

Select continue to complete your cut. As a general rule you do not mirror adhesive vinyl.