Using Cricut Cutting Mat Silhouette

But to use cricut mats with silhouette you ll need to do make some slight modifications.

Using cricut cutting mat silhouette.

If you have anything to share about using other brands with your silhouette by all means leave a comment please. Restick your cutting mat. This is to prevent any adhesive that is added from getting onto the edges which may interfere with your machine s rollers. Start with 1 coat.

This means if you put a piece of material within the sticky gridded area on a cricut mat and cut it with the silhouette you may end up cutting off your material. Since the cricut mats might not all be the same you can use your silhouette mat as a reference like i did to find the correct placement you could even draw lines with a sharpie so you don t forget. 1 of each cutting mat cricut and silhouette painters or masking tape a razor knife a straight edge ruler metal is better a sharpie marker. Before you restick your cricut or silhouette cutting mat it s important to tape around all the edges.

If you have scraps you want to use up you can place them aaaall on your mat at once providing they use the same cut settings and then drag your designs around to make sure you re using the best of the scraps. Start by gathering your supplies. Once the edges of the mat are taped use a spray adhesive or glue stick.