Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood.

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.

Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape.

Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. In this video we weed and transfer cricut adhesive foil and glitter vinyl to a wood sign. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.

The downside of using htv is that sometimes the adhesive can leak around the edges of the decal. For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine. Peel the design off of its backing. Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.

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. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.

As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues.

Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Links to featured products.

Use the time and temperature for the brand of. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl.

Then weed away all excess htv.