What To Use For Transfer Paper For Vinyl

Use a scraper tool to smooth the transfer paper over the vinyl and ensure that it sticks properly.

What to use for transfer paper for vinyl. Using a scraper tool rub back and forth to adhere the vinyl transfer tape to your design. Cricut has their own brand of regular transfer tape. This stuff is amazing and will save your sanity. Check amazon prices here it s the perfect amount of sticky for transferring vinyl.

Peel the backing off the vinyl transfer paper and press the transfer paper on top of your design. Learn how to use transfer tape with your vinyl projects big and small. Heat and pressure both of which we can get using an iron. Shop silhouette vinyl and transfer tape.

It is good for just about everything. If the design is not sticking to the transfer tape you will need to use the scraper tool to rub a bit harder to adhere the design. To activate the adhesive on the heat transfer vinyl you need two things. For the most part you can buy transfer tape any where that you can buy vinyl.

All of the big box craft stores that sell vinyl will also sell transfer tape although they may only carry one or two brands usually cricut and silhouette. What the basic idea of what we are doing here is taking a vinyl cut and using a sheet of transfer paper also called transfer tape to pick up the design and move it perfectly to the surface that you want to adhere it to. If you use a lot of heat transfer vinyl then you may want to get a heat press or easy press down the road but for today we will just focus on using an iron. My favorite thing to use for regular vinyl is clear contact paper from places like walmart.

The reason you want to use transfer tape is that even though vinyl looks just like a sticker it isn t as stiff as a sticker. So if you are having trouble picking up the vinyl from the backing sheet try a strong grip transfer tape instead. The only exception to this is when using glitter or other textured vinyls they need a super strong transfer tape. The extra strength is needed to grip the surface.

Sometimes my glitter vinyl will come with a small sheet of strong transfer tape. The regular version is perfect for most projects but you will need a strong grip for glitter vinyl. There is both regular and strong grip transfer tape. Transfer tape can be used over and over again till the stickiness is gone.

Turn the design over so the vinyl backing is facing up. I prefer oracal mt80p. After you use it just put the backing on again and store away till you need it. The only time i have found i need this is on glitter vinyl.

Peel the vinyl backing away until you are left with just the vinyl design stuck to the transfer tape. Regular transfer tape this is the normal transfer tape we usually use.