Stain can leave an oily residue that will make your vinyl lift from the surface.
Cricut vinyl letters on wood.
Acrylic paint will have more of a handmade hand painted feeling.
I used craft paint on mine i used old pallet wood cut the one end to a point.
As other have said i don t know how well it will hold up to the elements.
Then after you are done i would use a clear coat meant for outdoor use.
Removing the vinyl the opposite direction of the wood grain helps to avoid unwanted paint from lifting.
There will be times when you lift paint when you remove vinyl from a sign.
Use a weeding tool to remove the vinyl from the inner part of the letters.
Yes cricut vinyl will stick to stained wood but there is one tip that may make your project a bit easier.
You essentially have 3 choices for creating letting for your custom wood sign using your cricut.
Once the board is clean and dry snap a chalk line to ensure your letter placement is straight.
Then make sure the board you plan to place the letters on is very clean and dry otherwise the vinyl letters will not stick.
Create a vinyl stencil and paint with acrylic paint.
It depends on the look and style you want for your wood signs.
If you are going to glue vinyl letters use e6000.
Seal with a waterbased polycrylic then wait 24 hours.
This is an easy fix depending on how extensive the paint lifted.
Your vinyl will stick better and stay on longer.
Make and place the lettering use a cricut machine to cut print out your vinyl letters.
The material that you use for your lettering is 100 up to you.