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Weed sublimation designs

50 weed designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. The set covers leaf motifs, relaxed-lifestyle lettering and 420 designs. They are made for team shirts, gym bags, water bottles, car decals, equipment labels and the sign that goes over a home gym door.

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What people make with weed sublimations

Team shirts, gym bags, water bottles, car decals, equipment labels and the sign that goes over a home gym door — those are the pieces this collection gets used for. In this format they go on polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks — polyester or a poly coating only, never untreated cotton.

Printing and pressing

Sublimation is not a cutting job — nothing here gets weeded. Print onto sublimation paper with sublimation ink, then press at roughly 385–400°F for 45–60 seconds depending on the blank. The ink turns to gas and bonds into the polyester, which is why it only works on polyester or a poly-coated surface, and why it will not show on cotton or on a dark garment.

Getting weed designs right

Sublimation ink bonds only to polyester and polymer coating, so the blank decides the result more than the artwork does — the same file is vivid on a coated mug and washed out on cotton. Leaf points are sharp and thin — cut above 4in or the tips round off and it stops reading as a leaf. Curved surfaces — bottles, bats, helmets — need a design that is narrow enough not to wrinkle. Anything wider than about 3in on a standard bottle will crease at the edges no matter how carefully it is applied.

When to make these

Follows season schedules: spring for baseball, autumn for football, January for gym. If you sell, that is the window the listings need to be live in — search traffic for a seasonal theme arrives weeks before the date, not on it. Press a sample on the exact blank first. The same design reads noticeably darker on a coated mug than on a poly tee, and a seasonal run is the wrong time to find the gap.

Exporting for your machine

Export PNG at final physical size and at least 300 DPI, then print onto sublimation paper. There is no cut line and no weeding — the design is pressed into polyester, not cut from vinyl.

Cut, score, draw and engrave operations are written as named layers, so Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio and laser software map them to the right tool without manual reassignment. For a printed sheet, the print-then-cut guide covers registration and bleed.

Weed in other formats

The same theme drawn for a different medium — printed, pressed or cut.

More sublimations collections

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Questions

Bottle vinyl is 2–3in and curves, so keep designs narrow. Gym bag panels take 8–10in. Bleacher shirts 10–11in.

50 files covering leaf motifs, relaxed-lifestyle lettering and 420 designs, drawn as full-colour sublimation art, printed rather than cut. Every one is a true vector, so it resizes without quality loss and opens straight in the browser studio for editing before export.

Print them. Sublimation designs are pressed into polyester or a poly-coated blank, not cut and weeded — there is no cut line and no weeding. Export PNG at full size and print onto sublimation paper.

Yes — Edit in the browser and export print-ready PNG at 300 DPI for sublimation. In Design Space use Upload → Upload Image; layers arrive separated because each operation carries a distinct fill.

Yes on the paid plan, which includes a commercial licence for the physical products you make and sell — polyester shirts, poly-coated tumblers, mousepads, ceramic mugs and sublimation blanks included. Reselling or redistributing the design files themselves is not permitted on any plan.

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