How To Cut Heat Transfer Vinyl On Cricut

Here s a step by step guide.

How to cut heat transfer vinyl on cricut.

This is the vinyl mainly used to make custom tees and socks at home with a magical cutting machine like the cricut. Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl. If you need help uploading an svg file into design space you can find my video and tutorial here. The shiny side always goes down.

Heat transfer vinyl is often called htv or t shirt vinyl. If applied correctly htv can last. Click the mirror image checkbox at the bottom of the mat preview window. Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using.

My favorite heat transfer projects have to be t shirts and onesies. How to use heat transfer vinyl with a cricut machine. This process will be a little bit different for every cutting machine but just make sure to choose the settings for the particular type of heat transfer vinyl you are using flocked htv will have very different settings from smooth htv for instance. This tutorial will show you how to cut heat transfer vinyl using a cricut maker and cricut design space the free online design software that comes with all current cricut machines cricut explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker.

In this case i had yellow and the back is white. What is iron on heat transfer vinyl htv 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 cut heat transfer vinyl for cricut how to use cricut iron on vinyl. Create your design within cricut design space.

It is applied to clothing or other textiles with heat and pressure. It s just as easy to use heat transfer vinyl for cricut as it is for silhouette. How to cut heat transfer vinyl on a cricut. You can also read all about heat transfer vinyl here.

Adjust cut settings and cut. Here are some of my favorites. Because heat transfer vinyl is on the carrier sheet with the adhesive side exposed it must be. If you are new to cricut i recommend reading my getting started with your cricut post.