I made this custom Valentine’s basket for my granddaughter using HTVRONT’s adhesive vinyl and designed everything in IdeaStudio. I started with her cup first, cutting her name out of the red vinyl and applying it with transfer tape. Once the cup was done, I moved on to the basket and added her name again with little hearts to match the theme.
I did run into a small hiccup during the process — the vinyl wasn’t sticking the way it normally does. It kept lifting and acting inconsistent, so I’m pretty sure I got a bad batch this time. But once I switched pieces and kept going, everything came together beautifully.
A little bump in the road, but the final result was worth it.
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Hi, Katrina! I love the Valentine’s basket you made for your granddaughter. 
I think the vinyl wasn’t sticking because you cut the wrong side (carrier sheet), and, upon further inspection, that appears to be heat transfer vinyl, not adhesive vinyl — since the color is facing the carrier sheet. Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. 
To prevent this from happening, I keep my HTV and adhesive vinyls in their original packs with the labels on them, and I keep them separated from each other. I have a designated HTV pile and an adhesive vinyl pile. For the rolls, I write on the ends of the boxes HTV or adhesive. For the rolls that don’t have a box, I make sure to keep them on/in my heat press cart, while my adhesive rolls go on/in my cutting machine cart.
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Hey it’s self-adhesive vinyl
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Well, someone must’ve slipped a sheet of HTV into that pack, because the first one definitely looks like it’s HTV. Adhesive vinyl will have the color facing outward, and have the sticky side facing the non-sticky carrier sheet. Whereas with HTV, the color faces the sticky carrier/plastic sheet. The maroonish red is definitely matte adhesive vinyl, but the bright red appears to be HTV. Is it sticky, at all? Or is the plastic the sticky part? If it’s the plastic that’s sticky, that’s definitely HTV. If the red side is sticky, then they put the adhesive on the wrong side. The side not touching the carrier sheet is white, right? It even looks to be very stretchy, like HTV. Adhesive vinyl isn’t stretchy.
I’m pretty sure this batch is faulty. The vinyl feels wrong from the start, and a few pieces were stuck together so tight I had to pry them apart. Definitely not the quality I expect—it’s been frustrating to work with.
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Yeah, the free pack I won in an event came with some sheets sticking together, but I’m pretty sure that’s because it got hot during shipping, ask the adhesive melted a bit. That’s to be expected. I just wiped the adhesive off of the vinyl with a paper towel soaked in rubbing alcohol, and it’s perfectly fine. I also have the 37 sheet pack, none of those were stuck together, but they had a short transit time of 2 days, since I bought it from Amazon with Prime shipping. I’ve had no problems with it. That bright red one is definitely HTV, though. And the carrier sheet is cut, not the vinyl. The back side of that sheet is white, right? So, it was cut with the color side facing up. That’s why the carrier sheet is cut, and not the vinyl. Also, different types of vinyl will feel different from others. HTV is stretchy and feels more like a fabric. Adhesive vinyl will be stiffer and feels more like plastic. The bright red one is laying over like a piece of fabric would, so that tells me it’s HTV.
