Make sure that the wax paper printed text is touching the wood.
Transferring vinyl to wood.
Use a pressing cloth or teflon sheet to help protect the wood around your design.
Now that you know all your pieces fit properly it is time to cut out the actual heat transfer vinyl.
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.
You need to add some sort of coating or primer that the vinyl can grip to.
I do this in case there are any spots that.
This is the step where we apply our vinyl.
How to apply vinyl to wood craftables.
Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.
You can find this farm sweet farm design here.
Then weed away all excess htv.
Place your heat transfer vinyl face down on the mat.
Tape down the corners so that it doesn t slide around.
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.
This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood.
Here are a few tips and tricks for adding heat transfer vinyl to wood.
I ve been meaning to post this tutorial for transferring a design onto wood for a long time.
We ve had huge success.
I ve used it on both stained sealed wood the large one and untreated wood as in the title image with no issues.
For the basics of applying 651 permanent vinyl refer to this.
Mirror your design in design space and then cut using your cricut.
Heat transfer vinyl on wood supplies.
As always you will want to mirror your design and cut with the good or shiny side down on the mat.