What Mat To Use Wit Vinyl

Especially with cricut vinyl and cricut glitter vinyl.

What mat to use wit vinyl.

Peel away the vinyl liner at a 45 degree angle. For storing your mats keep the clear film cover that comes with your mat in place after you are finished with your project to keep the mat free from dust and lint. Use a craft stick or a cricut scraper to burnish rub or polish the tape onto the vinyl. Standardgrip mats for cricut joy come 4 5 x 6 5 11 4 cm x 16 5 cm and 4 5 x 12 11 4 cm x 30 4 cm are ideal for use with materials like vinyl iron on heavy cardstock poster board and smart material scraps that are too small to feed through the machine without a mat.

I have been known to use a purple mat with htv though because it keeps it stuck down really well. To prevent bubbles start in the center and move out toward the edges. Use the cricut scraper tool to scrape off excess pieces of material left behind after your cut and use the cricut spatula tool to carefully remove cut images off your mat. 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 put adhesive vinyl on the mat. If the vinyl does not separate from the liner simply burnish the transfer tape onto the vinyl and peel away again. The blue mat or the lightgrip cutting mat is probably the mat that i reach for the least. In this case i am using a piece that is 12 x 24 along with a 12 x 12 mat.

The new pink mats are also great for fabric and leather but we won t need those in the vinyl world. I use a green mat pretty much all the time with vinyl. You will want to put the vinyl face up on your mat and press it down well.