Transferring Vinyl To Wood

Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.

Transferring vinyl to wood.

Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. You need to add some sort of coating or primer that the vinyl can grip to. 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. Heat transfer vinyl on wood supplies.

Use the time and temperature for the brand of. We ve had huge success. Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut. This is the step where we apply our vinyl.

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues. The first thing i like to do is to paint the background of my wood. Make sure that the wax paper printed text is touching the wood.

Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat. I ve been meaning to post this tutorial for transferring a design onto wood for a long time. For the basics of applying 651 permanent vinyl refer to this. Now that you know all your pieces fit properly it is time to cut out the actual heat transfer vinyl.

The next step is to treat your wood. Then weed away all excess htv. How to apply vinyl to wood craftables. I do this in case there are any spots that.

As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat. You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Before i ever learned how to use vinyl for transferring my designs onto wood which i used to make this diy wood sign with a calligraphy quote i used a super easy pencil tracing method all the time here is one of my favorite signs from my wedding our honey favors sign where i used this easy.