Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.

Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Peel the design off of its backing. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner.

Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.

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. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio.

In this video we weed and transfer cricut adhesive foil and glitter vinyl to a wood sign. Then weed away all excess htv. As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape. Use the time and temperature for the brand of.

Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.

I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. 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.

Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine. Links to featured products. 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.

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