Transferring Vinyl To Wood

I ve been meaning to post this tutorial for transferring a design onto wood for a long time.

Transferring vinyl to wood.

You can find this farm sweet farm design here. This is the step where we apply our vinyl. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. Now that you know all your pieces fit properly it is time to cut out the actual heat transfer vinyl.

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. I do this in case there are any spots that. Make sure that the wax paper printed text is touching the wood. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.

Then weed away all excess htv. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. You need to add some sort of coating or primer that the vinyl can grip to. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.

For the basics of applying 651 permanent vinyl refer to this. We ve had huge success. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Use the time and temperature for the brand of.

Heat transfer vinyl on wood supplies. The next step is to treat your wood. How to apply vinyl to wood craftables. The first thing i like to do is to paint the background of my wood.

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. Tape down the corners so that it doesn t slide around.