Transfer Vinyl To Wood Cricut

Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.

Transfer vinyl to wood cricut. 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. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. This can either be the center or one end of your design. Vinyl cut weeded and ready to transfer.

Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Peel liner from transfer tape. Then weed away all excess htv. 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. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. You can find this farm sweet farm design here.

Here is the brand of transfer paper that i use i do not ge. Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. If applied correctly htv can last forever through hundreds of washes. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.

This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. Peel the design off of its backing. This short video shows you how to weed vinyl apply transfer paper and apply the vinyl to wood. Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using.

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.

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. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape.