How To Lay Vinyl On Cricut Mat

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How to lay vinyl on cricut mat.

Take your scraper tool and make sure there are no bubbles and that it is adhered to the mat well. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up. Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.

You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat. Refer to kiss cut guide table below to adjust machine settings. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.

Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. 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. Cutting vinyl with a cricut machine.

Remove the negative pieces from each of the images using the weeder found in the cricut tool kit leaving. 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. Preparation with cricut transfer tape. The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette.

How to cut vinyl with a cricut machine. Here is what you need to get started cutting vinyl on a cricut. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side.

Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down. 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. 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. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila.

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

Cricut machine i have the cricut explore air and i love it cricut standardgrip cutting mat. 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. If you ve ever wondered how exactly to cut and apply cricut vinyl this video is for you.