How To Apply Heat Transfer Vinyl Cricut

You don t have to have a heat press to layer htv you can also use the cricut easypress or an iron.

How to apply heat transfer vinyl cricut.

You can use a design from cricut access or make it projects or your own design. You can use any of the cricut machines with heat transfer vinyl. How to use heat transfer vinyl with your silhouette or cricut. Size your design in cricut design space accordingly.

The process is just the same but the settings slightly different. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. As part of showing you how to cut heat transfer vinyl with the cricut i want to show you some tips for applying the vinyl to the mat. The shiny side always goes down.

They are preparing your cut file cutting weeding and applying. Open cricut design space and decide on a design to cut on your cricut machine. You will use the fine point blade that comes with all machines. Iron on vinyl or htv or heat transfer vinyl is a special vinyl that only sticks to the surface when the heat is applied unlike the adhesive vinyl.

There are a few basic steps to working with heat transfer vinyl and i will walk you through each one. Let me know what you think in the comments below and tell me all about your layered heat transfer vinyl projects. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees and socks at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. I like to pre heat my shirts and other blanks before applying the heat transfer vinyl.

How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. Click make it in the upper right hand corner. If you re using an easypress you can check the cricut heat guide to find the correct temperature pressure and time settings for your project. In this case i had yellow and the back is white.

I find that warming up the fabric gets rid of any moisture and makes the heat transfer vinyl stick better.