Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer.
Transfer vinyl to wood cricut.
Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood.
This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut.
This can either be the center or one end of your design.
Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.
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.
Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.
The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal.
Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape.
Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go.
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.
You can find this farm sweet farm design here.
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.
Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.
Apply transfer tape to the front of the design.
Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using.
Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.
Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.
If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes.
Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.
Peel the design off of its backing.
If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.
Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.
Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.
Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.
Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.
Then weed away all excess htv.
Peel liner from transfer tape.
Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.