How To Make A Photo Mat With Cricut

No other machine has the adaptive tool system to hold this blade.

How to make a photo mat with cricut. Thank you for watching. 2 make sure your design is centered on the preview of your cutting mat before you cut out the file. Then you tape your art photo to the back of the mat making sure your piece is centered in the mat as you want it. Card stock a light to medium weight will work great.

I used the heavy card stock setting because the card stock i purchased was on the thick side and that setting worked like a charm. Then select the advanced options on the following screen. I used masking tape for this. You have some art all cut and matted by you.

When the first cut pass has been completed design space calculates the expected cut time remaining. 3 place one sheet of card stock on your cutting mat and select the material type you are cutting. How to turn a photo into a svg using cricut advanced options. You don t need a computer or even a cricut machine to make this concept work.

Will the knife blade work in my cricut machine. This blue was spray painted it worked well on the mat boards. Create a stencil in cricut design space or upload a pre made svg check out the ones in my shop here. Cricut cutting mat the type is determined by the card stock weight most light weight card stocks will use the lightgrip cutting mat but higher weight card stocks may use a standardgrip cutting mat.

Convert photo to svg in cricut canvas upload. For this project select complex. The knife blade is the only blade that will cut through the thick mat board. The knife blade will only work in the cricut maker.

The very last couple of files will probably be the most useful however it is much easier to save as you go along just incase someone wants a file to go with the photo tutorial. Something with a medium tack works well and you can always switch out the art. Cricut machine a cricut maker or cricut explore air machine will work for making a card stock mat. How to make a custom welcome mat with cricut stencils to actually make the doormat you will need to.

Do i have to use the knife blade to make these custom mats. How to turn an image into a cut file using cricut select erase. Move the white star wheels all the way to the left insert the cutting mat into your cricut maker insert the knife blade and click go to begin cutting.