How To Lay Vinyl On Cricut Mat

You ll find this guide useful when you need to re use an old cricut a silhouette mat or a cake mat that s used for baking.

How to lay vinyl on cricut mat.

How to lock the position on the mat. Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. Here is what you need to get started cutting vinyl on a cricut. You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot.

Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.

Remove the negative pieces from each of the images using the weeder found in the cricut tool kit leaving. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv. Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Press flashing go button.

Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Refer to kiss cut guide table below to adjust machine settings. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.

Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip 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. Cricut machine i have the cricut explore air and i love it cricut standardgrip cutting mat. How to cut vinyl with a cricut machine.

If you ve ever wondered how exactly to cut and apply cricut vinyl this video is for you. This video will walk you through how to put your paper on your mat and load it into your cricut. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below.

Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat. 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. The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your material here heat transfer vinyl onto the mat which holds it in place. Rachel will break down how simple it is to cut and apply vinyl to y.

Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. Preparation with cricut transfer tape.