Heat Transfer Vinyl On Painted Canvas

Painting the canvas made a big difference.

Heat transfer vinyl on painted canvas.

I prefer to use clear contact paper to transfer my vinyl. Now grab your canvas. Heat transfer vinyl on painted canvas. Some of the transfer paper brands are entirely too sticky.

Weeded and ready for placing on your canvas. It can be done. But with a canvas there is a little give when you push on it and you want to be able to push firmly. Applying the vinyl to the canvas.

Acrylic paint optional iron. The canvas i used was 24x18 so it fit perfectly on the plate and allowed the top plate to close down. Go to your machine s design canvas workspace and create your design. I do want to mention transfer paper really quick.

You re going to need your heat press and or your iron warmed up. I had never tried using heat transfer vinyl on a canvas before i was missing out. Want to see how. The only exception to this is when you are using glitter vinyl it needs a super sticky transfer paper.

Now that your canvas is prepped we are ready to stick on the vinyl. The best part is that heat transfer vinyl is easy to add to a reverse canvas. I think it was a beautiful addition to the wedding and it was such a sweet personal touch that didn t cost too much money. Since you re using heat transfer vinyl it s going to transfer with heat aka your iron or a heat press.

In my experience htv is way better on canvas than adhesive vinyl. Ironing vinyl on a canvas. The whole canvas was dry in under an hour and paint could still be applied to it and holy of holy s the vinyl stuck. My heat press has a 15x15 plate.

After several months i find that the adhesive vinyl will start to pull away from the canvas. I am not going to go into creating a design for this project because the design that i chose was free from the internet. So if you want a longer lasting canvas project i would use heat transfer vinyl on canvas. When using adhesive vinyl painting the surface is a must.