It is applied to clothing or other textiles with heat and pressure.
Cutting heat transfer vinyl by hand.
Heat transfer vinyl i always buy mine from expressions vinyl aff.
Adjust cut settings and cut.
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Adhere your heat transfer vinyl with the shiny backing side down onto your cutting mat and load into your machine.
For this project you ll need.
The shiny side always goes down.
Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat.
Glitter heat transfer vinyl can be tricky to weed so we d only recommend using it once you ve gotten used to it with normal vinyl cutting.
If you have more than one color please note you need to mirror on all the mats.
I m super excited about how it turned out.
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.
And it just takes vinyl scissors a star punch and a few minutes to make that s it.
Find out more about why we have to mirror here.
Heat transfer vinyl is often called htv or t shirt vinyl.
The wide open space of t shirt fabric gives you lots of room to maneuver and isn t too fiddly for your first time.
Expressions vinyl and cricut are both great places to get all of your vinyl.
If you are looking for a cricut design space tutorial on how to cut adhesive vinyl for hard goods check out this tutorial.
Verify your design is mirrored and cut your heat transfer vinyl.
In this case i had yellow and the back is white.
Hand cut heat transfer vinyl.
Finally adjust your cut settings to work with the material you are using.
And now i want to make one for myself.