Silhouette Brand Heat Transfer Vinyl

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

Silhouette brand heat transfer vinyl.

In the send panel choose heat transfer printable light fabric as your material type. Maybe you got a brand new silhouette cutting machine for christmas. I m still not sure which is the stencil paper and which is the transfer tape. In my kit the vinyl and transfer paper came rolled into one.

Adjust your blade if necessary and send your cut job to your silhouette machine. The good thing about cricut and silhouette brand is they are readily available in your local craft stores if your are in a bind and need the vinyl sooner rather than later. Either way this post is for you. This vinyl is similar to the silhouette brand but isn t preferred much by professional crafters.

Heat transfer vinyl 12 x 10 feet rolls 1 roll vinyl heat transfer iron on diy garment film silhouette paper art hats and other textiles diy heat press design for t shirt clothes white 9 99 9. Youc an use a heat press or an iron although a heat press is highly recommended if you re doing a lot of htv projects or selling at all. Peel the excess transfer material aw leaving only your design on the film backing. Heat transfer vinyl is a special type of vinyl that can be cut on the silhouette cutting machines which can then be applied to fabric be it clothing pillow covers bags etc with heat and pressure.

With silhouette s heat transfer material you can make custom designs you can apply to fabric. Heat transfer permanently fuses to fabric when it is applied w. Siser s smooth easyweed is perhaps the best known but it s just one of many types of siser brand heat transfer vinyl. Each type of heat transfer vinyl requires slightly different time and temperature heat press and iron on times peel temperatures and garment care for the best results.

This is a great starter kit but the i instructions could have been a little more clear. Heat transfer vinyl heat transfer vinyl htv is one of my. Apply the heat transfer to the white totes. I ve had a silhouette curio for a little over a year but i hadn t worked with vinyl yet.

Or maybe you have had yours for a while and just need a gentle push to get it out of the box. Here are 5 tips for cutting heat transfer vinyl with a silhouette. There are a few basic steps to working with heat transfer vinyl and i will walk you through each one.