How To Make A Cricut Cutting Mat

This is good when wanting to create apertures in the middle of a page.

How to make a cricut cutting mat. To change the position of your design on the cutting mat all you need to do is select your design and manually drag it to change its position. Click on the shape tool. Place the mat in the sink. Here is what you need to get started cutting vinyl on a cricut.

A cutting mat should be made of self healing plastic which prolongs the life and improves the quality of the mat itself. The iron on comes from this htv bundle from impressed vinyl and i m cutting with the cricut maker. A cricut mat somehow loses its purpose when the surface has become inaccurate and unable to produce precise cuts. Applying glue can be an effective way to make the mats sticky again.

Wherever you drag the design on the mat the position will be locked in and your cricut will cut it out in that exact position on your mat. 8 as you can see the image will automatically go to the top left corner. Place the mat in the sink. But you have to use the glue appropriately.

To complete the procedure you have to apply the paste to the inner gridded bit of the cricut mat. Mats provide a sturdy surface for cutting fabrics and craft materials while protecting the table they rest on. Cricut machine i have the cricut explore air and i love it cricut standardgrip cutting mat. Make an effort to avoid getting any paste on the edges of the tangle.

Utilize broad even strokes that go smoothly over the mat. You ll know when it s time to clean the mat when materials don t stick as well as they used to or when the surface has become dirty and if there are soft particles that get in the way. Adhesive vinyl i get my vinyl from expressions vinyl but you can also get it directly from cricut or from a craft store like michaels. 10 create a shape 11 5 x 11 5 inches.

I ve put all my colors of htv onto my cricut mat. Cutting out multiple colors at once. Click on make it. How to lock the position on the mat.

How to cut vinyl with a cricut machine. This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats. 9 to stop this from happening you can trick the software to place the image into the centre of your design space and mat. In the mat preview i clicked to edit my mat and manually spaced everything just a little further apart so that they would be cut in the right color.