You are able to clean cricut cutting mats with baby wipes.
Cut vinyl on blue mat cricut.
Get cricut explore air 2 plus a variety of blades mats tools and materials galore this diy speed machine combines time saving performance and class leading simplicity cuts 100 materials everything from cardstock vinyl and iron on to a range of specialty materials fine point blade for cutting a wide variety of popular craft materials.
Cricut lightgrip cutting mat cricut standardgrip cutting mat and the cricut stronggrip cutting mat.
Your machine will be set to cut the vinyl but not the paper backing.
For any crafter who wants to do more than card stock and vinyl projects the stronggrip.
Cutting mats are a lot like belly buttons in that way.
Funnygame 12x12 lightgrip cutting mat for cricut maker explore air 2 air one 3 pack adhesive blue cutting mat with non slip flexible square gridded cut mat for crafts 4 7 out of 5 stars 531 10 49 10.
The stronger the grip the heavier the material like chipboard or thick card stock you can cut and the lighter the grip the thin or lightweight materials like regular paper and vinyl you can cut.
Load the mat into your machine and turn the smart set dial to vinyl.
Cleaning your cricut cutting mat.
This will remove cardstock and vinyl residue as well as household dust and lint.
Press go the c icon underneath your dial.
Each of these mats is used to cut many different types of materials from lightweight materials like printer paper and washi tape sheets to heavyweight materials like faux leather and corrugated cardboard.
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.
Cricut cutting mats.
Cricut makes 3 different mats to use with their explore air machines.
Keep the mat covers.
Place your vinyl on your cutting mat with the paper liner side towards the mat.
This cricut cutting mat is for fabric.
Cricut mats are sticky and the level of stickiness dictates how secure the grip is.
The purple mat or the stronggrip cutting mat is the mat that i use for all of those projects with heavy weight materials including those that are only for the cricut maker.
The stronggrip cutting mat is the strongest adhesive mat that cricut offers.
You can use lighter papers on it but the adhesive is a different type and probably won t hold your paper on as well as the light blue mat would.
Remove your vinyl from the mat once your cut is complete.
