Brandishing Vinyl Onto Transfer Paper

If you want to take your card making creations to the next level using heat transfer vinyl is the answer.

Brandishing vinyl onto transfer paper.

You can make the transfer tape less sticky by sticking it onto a tshirt or towel before picking up the vinyl. Yes you read that correctly you can use heat transfer vinyl on cardstock. If it doesn t burnish some more. Gently press the vinyl and transfer paper down with your hand so that it sticks to the receiving surface.

Then go ahead and peel off the backer paper this leaves the vinyl on your transfer tape. Place the transfer tape on top of that layer and press and rub firmly. When applying siser glitter. Once you have rubbed down the transfer paper slowly peel it back ensuring that the vinyl comes up with it.

This is a short video on how to attach transfer paper to your vinyl decal. After cutting this vinyl decal with the cr. Align the transfer paper on the object. Use the reverse or mirror option in your printing program in order to correctly align the image.

Cutting vinyl with the cricut explore is very easy but weeding it and applying it to a surface can be confusing. It is difficult to see the images until they are transferred on to the transfer pa. Iron the silk cloth as flat as possible using the iron s lowest setting. If you enjoyed this post of how to apply heat transfer vinyl to cardstock and you re looking for more fun heat transfer vinyl or iron on projects then check out my gallery here.

Next you will want to cut your transfer paper roughly the same size as your piece of vinyl. Heat transfer vinyl on cardstock. Allow the paper to dry completely. Cardstock cricut cricut design space cricut easypress cricut explore air 2 expressions.

I would trim off the transfer tape so it s just around the vinyl design so it has less of a chance of tearing up the whole paper. Peel off the backing paper on the transfer tape and place it over the colored label pressing it into the label using your fingers or a burnishing tool. Then align it over the surface on which you want to transfer the vinyl design. Start to peel off the backing and line up and stick that edge to your vinyl design as shown in the picture above.

Now instead of attaching it your project go ahead and put it on the next layer lining it up into it s spot. You can then peel the backing off and stick down the rest of the transfer paper sticking it down as you peel. Cut a piece of transfer tape slightly larger than each label. The second card that we created was made using siser textured glitter 20 in red green and silver.