Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape.

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.

Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio.

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. 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. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.

You can find this farm sweet farm design here. The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. 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.

As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape. Use the time and temperature for the brand of. 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. Then weed away all excess htv.

For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner. Links to featured products. Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.

Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.