How To Make A Photo Mat With Cricut

This is a color coded tutorial for instructional purposes.

How to make a photo mat with cricut.

Will the knife blade work in my cricut machine. How to turn a photo into a svg using cricut advanced options. Cut a stencil with your cricut machine. Create a stencil in cricut design space or upload a pre made svg check out the ones in my shop here.

The knife blade is the only blade that will cut through the thick mat board. When the first cut pass has been completed design space calculates the expected cut time remaining. Card stock a light to medium weight will work great. For this project select complex.

Convert photo to svg in cricut canvas upload. 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. 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. Thank you for watching.

You have some art all cut and matted by you. How to make a custom welcome mat with cricut stencils to actually make the doormat you will need to. Something with a medium tack works well and you can always switch out the art. How to turn an image into a cut file using cricut select erase.

This blue was spray painted it worked well on the mat boards. The knife blade will only work in the cricut maker. I used masking tape for this. 3 place one sheet of card stock on your cutting mat and select the material type you are cutting.

2 make sure your design is centered on the preview of your cutting mat before you cut out the file. Then select the advanced options on the following screen. Cricut machine a cricut maker or cricut explore air machine will work for making a card stock mat. 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.

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. The blade will make several passes so this will take some time. Do i have to use the knife blade to make these custom mats.