Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. 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.

Peel liner from transfer tape. Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut.

Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes. Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using.

The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl. Peel the design off of its backing. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.

Then weed away all excess htv. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.

Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. This short video shows you how to weed vinyl apply transfer paper and apply the vinyl to wood.

This can either be the center or one end of your design. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.