Transferring Vinyl To Wood Cricut

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.

Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.

Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Peel the design off of its backing. As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape.

If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the vinyl. For more information visit http www aboverubiesstudio. Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron. For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine.

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. Then weed away all excess htv. Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.

Apply transfer tape to the front of the design. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner. Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.

Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds. In this video we weed and transfer cricut adhesive foil and glitter vinyl to a wood sign. Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. Light pad https amzn to 39xd1um cri.

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. Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter. Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape. 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. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.

Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.