How To Transfer Vinyl To Wood Using Cricut

Decide on a design in cricut design space.

How to transfer vinyl to wood using cricut.

Be sure to use permanent vinyl when adding to wood instead of the removable version. A piece of wood to try this on anything wooden will work like a wood slice wooden pallet wooden sign wooden coasters etc. Paint or stain your wooden sign backing if desired. Weed the design by removing any excess vinyl.

You can find this farm sweet farm design here. Be sure to mirror your image in design space then let the cricut do the work. Put all of the different elements onto the board to make sure they are in the exact spot you want them. Now is a good time to heat up your easypress.

This can either be the center or one end of your design. 651 permanent vinyl. Turn on your easypress 2 or iron on. Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.

Attach a small area of transfer tape to your design. Peel liner from transfer tape. Iron each piece of vinyl on following the instructions from above on how to use iron on with wood. Then weed away all excess htv.

Use a scraper to burnish transfer tape onto. Weed the access iron on once the cricut is finished cutting. Pick a design and cut out of heat transfer vinyl using your cricut machine. This means that you will have more luck with getting it to stick once you start to peel back your transfer paper.

Make the design by loading your vinyl onto the mat into the machine and pressing go. This includes the outside as well as the centers of any letters. Heat it with the easypress and once it is cooled completely remove the transfer sheet. Transfer tape or stronggrip transfer tape see table above to choose the right one for your vinyl type scraper or other burnishing tool.

Make sure that the iron on has stuck before you move on.