How To Use Mat Vinyl

If you have a roll of vinyl you can adhere to just the 12 12 area and leave the rest hanging off the edge of your mat.

How to use mat vinyl.

You can get silhouette cameo cutting mats in 12 x 12 and 12 x 24. To remove your vinyl from your cricut mat bend your mat away from the vinyl instead of peeling the vinyl up off the mat. Finally i like using a paper trimmer to cut down my vinyl so i can save the scraps and use later. In this video joann goes over how to cut vinyl without a mat using the cricut.

This video will walk you through how to put your paper on your mat and load it into your cricut. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila. 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. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.

Place htv on cutting mat. 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. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. For my decal i decided to use expressions vinyl series 31 removable vinyl in bright berry.

In this case i am using a piece that is 12 x 24 along with a 12 x 12 mat. You will want to put the vinyl face up on your mat and press it down well. This helps prevent curling. A lot of people think that you have to use a mat when cutting with the cricut.

This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same.