Transfer Vinyl To Wood

How to apply vinyl to wood craftables.

Transfer vinyl to wood. Heat transfer vinyl on wood supplies. Cricut video below will walk you through the steps of applying iron on vinyl to wood and will show you my experiments with applying htv to painted and stained surfaces spoiler alert it works and working with specialty iron on vinyls like. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood. Sometimes the vinyl s adhesive needs time to adhere to the surface a little better and bond.

Use the time and temperature for the brand of iron on you are using. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Using htv on wood is such an incredible process and you ll find lasts. For the basics of applying 651 permanent vinyl refer to this.

Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. Then weed away all excess htv. Learn exactly how to iron on wood. You need to add some sort of coating or primer that the vinyl can grip to.

Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. This heat transfer vinyl on wood method works perfect for hard to weed images because the sticky top layer helps to keep everything in place and you don t have to transfer it just flip and stick. Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design. As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.

We ve had huge success. Set temp to 300 degrees f preheat for 5 seconds apply heat firm pressure for 40 seconds peel off warm and enjoy. This is the step where we apply our vinyl. Now that you know all your pieces fit properly it is time to cut out the actual heat transfer vinyl.

You re going to love how amazing this process works. The first thing i like to do is to paint the background of my wood. 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. Your vinyl isn t sticking to a wood surface.

The next step is to treat your wood. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.