Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.
Transferring vinyl to wood cricut.
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Htv on wood is a great solution if you want a special treatment like foil flock or glitter.
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Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine.
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Apply the 651 vinyl as usual and then with a teflon sheet between your project and iron iron the decal for 10 15 seconds.
Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go.
Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.
This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood.
Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.
Then weed away all excess htv.
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.
For this small project i used blue painters tape to transfer a vinyl cut out from my cricut machine.
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Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.
Peel up the plastic liner when it s still slightly warm.
Press firmly and be sure that the design has attached to the transfer tape.
If you are using regular adhesive vinyl you can use transfer tape for the 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 transfer tape to the front of the design.
As you peel the vinyl should come off the backing with the transfer tape.
As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.
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Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.
Then slowly start to peel up your transfer tape at any corner.
Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.
Peel the design off of its backing.
Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.