Using Cricut Cutting Mat Silhouette

Use cricut snapmat to cut photos.

Using cricut cutting mat silhouette.

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. Once the edges of the mat are taped use a spray adhesive or glue stick. But to use cricut mats with silhouette you ll need to do make some slight modifications. While both the silhouette mats and cricut mats both include a 12 x 12 grid of 1 squares the mats themselves are not exactly the same size.

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. Before you restick your cricut or silhouette cutting mat it s important to tape around all the edges. Restick your cutting mat. Start by gathering your supplies.

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. 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. This is to prevent any adhesive that is added from getting onto the edges which may interfere with your machine s rollers.