How to Burn Designs Into Wood using your Cricut!

Back in the early ’90s, I taught myself how to use a wood burning tool and painstakingly made a cutting board with one of my recipes on it. I shared this cutting board with everyone recently and many of you asked me to teach you how to burn wood. Well, these days there are new and easier ways to do wood burning, and I’m going to show you several of those techniques. It’s really hard to tell they are homemade and everyone would probably think you paid a bunch to get some custom-made wooden designs. But, in reality, these wood burned projects aren’t all that hard and make for great gifts … especially during the holidays. So let me show you how to use a Cricut cutting machine to easily make stencils and burn designs into wood!

MATERIALS LIST (contains my affiliate links):

* Lint Roller
* Weeding Tools
* Cricut XL Scraper
* Green StandardGrip Cutting Mat (12″ x 12″) – for Santa Cookie Tray or (12″ x 24″) – for Grillin’ and Chillin’ Sign
* Paintbrush

Topics Covered in this video:
00:00 - How to Burn Designs into Wood with Cricut
01:36 - Methods of Burning Designs into Wood
02:27 - Supplies & Tools
04:29 - Get Free Wood Burned Design SVG Files
05:26 - (Learn How to Upload SVG Files to Cricut Design Space)
05:50 - Resize Designs if Needed to Fit Your Wood
06:58 - Cut the Santa Cookie Tray Stencil on Cricut
08:17 - Prepare Your Wood for Burning
09:47 - Reverse Weed and Transfer the Stencil to Transfer Tape
12:38 - Tip: How to Get Vinyl to Stick to Unfinished Wood
13:23 - Burn Your Wood with Ammonium Chloride
19:01 - Tip: Get the Results You Want by Choosing the Right Wood
19:51 - Burn Your Wood Using a Scorch Marker
23:16 - Variation: Use a Heat Press Instead of a Heat Gun
25:26 - Put Finishing Touches on Your Woodburned Sign
27:35 - Tip: What to Do If Your Sign Doesn’t Turn Out
27:53 - Closing Notes and Link to More Information

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Credits:
Introduction: PixelBytes (my child!)
Music: Cute by Bensound (licensed, royalty and copyright free)
Videography: Jennifer Marx on a Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000 DSLR 4K camera
Design: A Jennifer Maker original!

[suerichardson]

Jennifer, you are a wonderful teacher. Thank you.

[territatroe]

I love these videos! You explain everything like my best friend would, patient, with a genuine love of giving, and fun! I even dream of these crafts with your voice in my head... really, I am not weird, right? 😄 Thank you so much, Jennifer!!

[dawnmarie]

I love Jennifer. She is fantastic and always super helpful and not all over the place like some other vids.. I have had my maker for just about a year and she makes me confident enough to use it. These vids are absolutely amazing. I hope I can get a knack for some of these fantastic crafts.. thank you again Jennifer

[ozykiwi]

I love how you explain things so well and dont go too fast....I am in awe of you, thanks from Queensland Australia

[Sewme]

Jennifer you are such a blessing thank you for all that you give us!!!

[thecaffeinatedunicorn]

I never thought to use the easy press!
I've been wanting to burn some wooden utensil handles for Christmas gifts this year, and my mini press would be SO perfect for that!

[BeautifulStranger]

I Love how you have so many craft ideas with your cricut and you dont always do the same things which is great!

[brendaevanetich]

I've always wanted to learn how to do this! You are so very generous with your time and knowledge!! Thank you!

[OHBrand]

Thank you Jennifer, this is the video that inspired me to start wood burning, it's a business now ❤❤ you have no idea what you've done for me

[ConniePloch]

Love the darker burn…cute for Santa and his sidekicks!

[lourdes]

I have tried wood burning in the past, have really enjoyed it...

[boblox]

Excited to see if I can get this to work on some driftwood my husband wants to burn for a memory from a vaction!

[JayeNicki]

The first Grillin and Chillin sign actually looked pretty cool as well. The lady bug timer is too cute.

[darleneholtz]

I love Everything about this video! I now have all the supplies and I’m going to make this for my grandkids and maybe a few extras to sell.

[sassyTK]

Love the designs! Thank you. I enjoy each and every one of your tutorials. Lately, you've reminded me of Mr. Rogers. I soooo miss watching him! Btw, I have the same heat gun. It's come in handy many times.

[jeanmariemakowski]

I saw an ad for the scorch marker and was going to purchase. I'm SO glad I watched your video first. I can't wait to try this out!

[kathleenwatson]

Thankful you are willing to tell "all" so we can learn from your attempts at new crafts ideas! Grateful for you❣️

[teresaburkart]

As always you give the easiest and best directions. You madam are a ROCK STAR!! Love you Jennifer. May your holidays be the most memorable yet!

[tammy]

Thank you Jennifer. I really liked this video and I think I will do this for my son in love for Christmas. Instead of cash.

[msirishlady]

This will make some of my wood burning projects a little easier 😊😊