How To Apply Heat Transfer Vinyl Cricut

There are a few basic steps to working with heat transfer vinyl and i will walk you through each one.

How to apply heat transfer vinyl cricut.

Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. Open cricut design space and decide on a design to cut on your cricut machine. Let me know what you think in the comments below and tell me all about your layered heat transfer vinyl projects. I like to pre heat my shirts and other blanks before applying the heat transfer vinyl.

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. Now you have your material on your mat and your design mirrored it is time to cut. You can use a design from cricut access or make it projects or your own design.

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. Size your design in cricut design space accordingly. You don t have to have a heat press to layer htv you can also use the cricut easypress or an iron. They are preparing your cut file cutting weeding and applying.

You will use the fine point blade that comes with all machines. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. Click make it in the upper right hand corner. 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.

How to use heat transfer vinyl with your silhouette or cricut. The process is just the same but the settings slightly different. The shiny side always goes down. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees and socks at home with a magical cutting machine like the 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.