How To Make A Photo Mat With Cricut

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.

How to make a photo mat with cricut.

Something with a medium tack works well and you can always switch out the art. 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. You have some art all cut and matted by you. For this project select complex.

How to turn a photo into a svg using cricut advanced options. The blade will make several passes so this will take some time. No other machine has the adaptive tool system to hold this blade. The knife blade is the only blade that will cut through the thick mat board.

Then select the advanced options on the following screen. 3 place one sheet of card stock on your cutting mat and select the material type you are cutting. Create a stencil in cricut design space or upload a pre made svg check out the ones in my shop here. 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.

Convert photo to svg in cricut canvas upload. I used masking tape for this. This blue was spray painted it worked well on the mat boards. 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.

Will the knife blade work in my cricut machine. Cut a stencil with your cricut machine. 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.

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. 2 make sure your design is centered on the preview of your cutting mat before you cut out the file. This is a color coded tutorial for instructional purposes. Thank you for watching.

When the first cut pass has been completed design space calculates the expected cut time remaining. The knife blade will only work in the cricut maker. You don t need a computer or even a cricut machine to make this concept work.