Tips for weeding iron on vinyl.
Cutting the wrong side of iron on vinyl.
This way when you weed the excess you re left with your image adhered to the plastic sheet.
Here s the two sides of cricut everyday iron on vinyl here is the carrier side of the iron on vinyl which you can see is shiny.
And here is the vinyl side which you can see is matte not shiny.
You need to place iron on vinyl shiny side down on your cutting mat then mirror the image for cutting.
You can mirror your iron on vinyl in the prepare screen in cricut design space and if you select iron on vinyl as your material there will be a warning reminding you to mirror your image.
So in the above case you d want to put that iron on vinyl shiny side down on your cutting mat to cut out your mirrored design.
You mentioned the image is sticking to the iron so it sounds like you might be cutting the vinyl sheet wrong side down in the machine.