Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut.

Peel liner from transfer tape. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design.

Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. Peel the design off of its backing. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape. Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge.

Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Transfer tape or stronggrip transfer tape see table above to choose the right one for your vinyl type scraper or other burnishing tool. If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes.

Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. 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. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.

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

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go.

This short video shows you how to weed vinyl apply transfer paper and apply the vinyl to wood. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using.

If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.