Heat Transfer Vinyl Setting Cricut

In order to mirror your heat transfer vinyl design in cricut s design space you select the entire design and click flip flip horizontally and your design is now flipped.

Heat transfer vinyl setting cricut. Applying heat transfer vinyl to the mat. Here s a step by step guide. Other companies call it heat transfer vinyl or htv. Attach any layers where the spacing of the images or text is important by selecting all the layers and then clicking the grey attach button at the bottom of the layers panel on the right.

Apply options not compatible. During heat application the carrier side will be face up. Cricut joy siser heat transfer vinyl aka iron on vinyl siser easypsv aka pressure sensitive or adhesive vinyl weeder ruler scissors or exacto knife self healing cutting mat not required but handy to have step 1. You can use a design from cricut access or make it projects or your own design.

When i selected the material the machine prompted me to insert the mat. Base material select one. Cutting the heat transfer vinyl open up cricut design space and create a brand new project with at least one image in it. Create your design within cricut design space click the mirror image checkbox at the bottom of the mat preview window.

Open cricut design space and decide on a design to cut on your cricut machine. Heat transfer vinyl also known as htv for short is a type of vinyl polymer that can be applied to a wide variety of materials by using heat. It s just as easy to use heat transfer vinyl for cricut as it is for silhouette. It should be ready to cut because it is now scaled and mirrored.

You ll want to scale your design to fit your surface. You need to cut out a piece of heat transfer vinyl that is the size of the phrase according to design space and place it shiny side down to your blue or green cricut mat. Cricut easypress mat towel select an option. Heat transfer material select one.

Make sure the materials are set to everyday iron on and that you have mirrored the image this will cut it out backwards like it s supposed to. Preheat s s pressure flip and press for s. The carrier side goes face down because we need it to stay intact for heat application so we cut through the duller adhesive side of the material. I selected iron on but there are options for glitter iron on foil iron on patterned iron on etc.

The carrier holds the heat transfer vinyl pieces in place so they re always properly aligned.