Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

This can either be the center or one end of your design.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer. Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.

Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. 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. This short video shows you how to weed vinyl apply transfer paper and apply the vinyl to wood.

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. Then weed away all excess htv. Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design.

The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds. Peel liner from transfer tape. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood.

Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. You can find this farm sweet farm design here.

If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Peel the design off of its backing. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.

Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.