Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut.

Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. 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. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. 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. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. Peel the design off of its backing.

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design.

Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. Transfer tape or stronggrip transfer tape see table above to choose the right one for your vinyl type scraper or other burnishing tool. This can either be the center or one end of your design. You can find this farm sweet farm design here.

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. If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. Peel liner from 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.

Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Then weed away all excess htv.