Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

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

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.

Use the time and temperature for the brand of. Peel the design off of its backing. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. 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. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape. 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.

Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.

Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. 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. Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner.

For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine. 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. Links to featured products. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.

Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.