Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut.

This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge. Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer. Then weed away all excess htv.

Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Iron on vinyl or htv or heat transfer vinyl is a special vinyl that only sticks to the surface when the heat is applied unlike the adhesive vinyl.

Transfer tape or stronggrip transfer tape see table above to choose the right one for your vinyl type scraper or other burnishing tool. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.

Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.

This short video shows you how to weed vinyl apply transfer paper and apply the vinyl to wood. Peel liner from transfer tape. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. Peel the design off of its backing. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.

If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes. This can either be the center or one end of your design.