Vinyl Transfer Stuck On Wood

Heat transfer vinyl isn t sticky itself but bonds to the material using a heat press or iron.

Vinyl transfer stuck on wood.

You want to do a warm peel so pull up the carrier sheet while it s still warm. So the first step is to sand down whatever wood you re working with. Any heat transfer vinyl should work for decorating wood really. I ll just be using a sheet of white vinyl which will work well on the wood.

Please note that the strong grip is really only for glitter vinyl. Place the adhesive vinyl facing upwards onto your cutting mat with the backing paper underneath. For sticky vinyl transfer tape is what makes it easier to get from the backing paper to the wood surface with your design intact. Put your svg designs on your wood discs and press for 40 seconds.

This makes it permanent either on fabric or you guessed it wood. Vinyl sticks decently to untreated wood but we want to make sure that the vinyl is nice and stuck to the wood because we wouldn t want parts of your project to peel. Types of heat transfer vinyl for wood. If the design comes up with the carrier sheet put it back down and press in 15 second intervals until the design is stuck to the wood.

You might have a more difficult time getting something like glitter htv to stick. For this project we re working with a wooden pallet and when we bought it the wood was pretty rough and uneven. You want to use the regular transfer tapeas the strong grip version will definitely make your transition harder. Not only can you use htv on wood but i actually prefer it to adhesive vinyl in many cases.

I am using the cricut brand of iron on. Weed away the excess adhesive vinyl from the backing paper. You can absolutely used heat transfer vinyl on wood.