How To Apply Heat Transfer Vinyl Cricut

How to use heat transfer vinyl with your silhouette or cricut.

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 cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. The shiny side always goes down. 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.

You will use the fine point blade that comes with all machines. This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees and socks at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. You can use any of the cricut machines with heat transfer vinyl. In this case i had yellow and the back is white.

I like to pre heat my shirts and other blanks before applying the heat transfer vinyl. They are preparing your cut file cutting weeding and applying. The process is just the same but the settings slightly different. Size your design in cricut design space accordingly.

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

You don t have to have a heat press to layer htv you can also use the cricut easypress or an iron. Click make it in the upper right hand corner. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut.

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.