How To Lay Vinyl On Cricut Mat

Here is what you need to get started cutting vinyl on a cricut.

How to lay vinyl on cricut mat.

Select images and size and load the mat into the machine. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. Wherever you drag the design on the mat the position will be locked in and your cricut will cut it out in that exact position on your mat. Don t confuse this with htv iron on vinyl that has to be placed shiny side down.

This video will walk you through how to put your paper on your mat and load it into your cricut. How to cut vinyl with a cricut machine. You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot. 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.

If you ve ever wondered how exactly to cut and apply cricut vinyl this video is for you. 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. Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.

Press flashing go button. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv. Cricut machine i have the cricut explore air and i love it cricut standardgrip cutting mat. Apply the vinyl to the cricut mat with the vinyl side up.

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. The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette. 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. 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.

Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Rachel will break down how simple it is to cut and apply vinyl to y. If your vinyl came on a roll you can cut off a piece to fit on your mat. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same.

Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila. Remove the negative pieces from each of the images leaving the clear. Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip mat.

Preparation with cricut transfer tape. Refer to kiss cut guide below to adjust machine settings. 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.