This advice can be very confusing if you re brand new however.
Does vinyl go shiny side up or down.
Find cutting and application instructions below.
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.
If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat.
You can find a great chart for machine settings here.
Cricut vinyl older and being discontinued does not specify permanent or removable oracal 631.
For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry.
Load your heat transfer vinyl on your cutting mat with the shiny side down.
Most removable vinyl adhesive can be removed by just peeling it up.
But sometimes you can t tell.
So if you ever find yourself flipping a piece of htv over from side to side wondering which way to put it on the mat here s a simple trick to figure it out.
With regular htv it s usually really obvious which side is the vinyl and which side is the carrier sheet.
Shiny carrier sheet dull vinyl.
Mirror your design and put the vinyl shiny side down on your cutting mat.
This is essential to the next few steps.
The advice you ll almost always see here is this.
Htv comes with a shiny protective sheet on it.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
Removable vinyl is perfect for applications where you may want to remove the vinyl in the future.
Cutting premium vinyl permanent with a cricut machine.