Transferring Vinyl To Wood

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.

Transferring vinyl to wood.

We ve had huge success. The next step is to treat your wood. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.

Heat transfer vinyl on wood supplies. You need to add some sort of coating or primer that the vinyl can grip to. The process of applying heat transfer vinyl on wood is very similar to the process used to apply heat transfer vinyl to a t shirt or other fabric project so if you have ever worked with htv then you are going to rock this project. Before i ever learned how to use vinyl for transferring my designs onto wood which i used to make this diy wood sign with a calligraphy quote i used a super easy pencil tracing method all the time here is one of my favorite signs from my wedding our honey favors sign where i used this easy.

Then weed away all excess htv. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. Use the time and temperature for the brand of.

Make sure that the wax paper printed text is touching the wood. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Tape down the corners so that it doesn t slide around. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.

You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. The first thing i like to do is to paint the background of my wood.

I ve been meaning to post this tutorial for transferring a design onto wood for a long time. For the basics of applying 651 permanent vinyl refer to this. How to apply vinyl to wood craftables.