Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut. As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio. Links to featured products.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Once you have the transfer tape on use a scraper tool or an old gift card to scrape over the design to make sure the transfer tape is adhering to the vinyl nice and tight. Then weed away all excess htv. In this video we weed and transfer cricut adhesive foil and glitter vinyl to a wood sign.

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Peel the design off of its backing. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine.

Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer transfer tape or stronggrip transfer tape see table above to choose the right one for your vinyl type scraper or other burnishing tool. Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.

Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. 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.

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. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.

Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.