A lint roller can also be used to remove glitter or left over debri from your cutting mat and helps keep them sticky at the same time.
Does cricut shift cuts to preserve mat.
Your cricut mat needs to be pretty sticky in order to get clean cuts.
Click on the shape tool.
My favorite way to do this is to flip all the cuts over and use scotch tape along the back.
9 to stop this from happening you can trick the software to place the image into the centre of your design space and mat.
Cricut cutting mats come with a plastic protective cover over them.
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.
Keep this cover and replace it after each use to keep the mat cleaner and stickier for longer.
Attaching holds your cuts in position so that images on the cutting mat are positioned exactly as they show up on the design screen.
Test cut on new projects.
When my cricut mat is too sticky the card stock comes off but leaves all the pieces you just cut out and stuck to the mat.
I love how the cricut machine cuts card stock into great shapes but it s hard to peel card stock from the cricut explore mat when it s too sticky.
Use dollar store pencil grips to get sharpies to fit in the cricut explore pen.
If the blade is set too low it will chomp up your cutting mat.
Be sure not to overlap your designs as the cricut will cut overlapped once you move items on the mat screen.
I usually switch to a new or newer mat and it solves my problem right away.
Below you can see each of my cuts as they came off the mats.
In general projects are cut in paper saver mode so images are automatically placed on the cutting mat as close together as possible to conserve material.
11 select the square and then change the setting from cut to draw.
This is good when wanting to create apertures in the middle of a page.
Seriously this is like a 3 for 1 hack via pinterest 3.
With the layers cut out all that is left to do is assemble them back into your original design.
Since christmas just came and went and i know that a lot of people are trying out their machine i thought it was a good time to write a cricut faq post.
Remove tiny pieces from cricut cutouts with a sticky lint roller.
How to lock the position on the mat.
You may find detailed tutorial on cutting with the cricut here.
10 create a shape 11 5 x 11 5 inches.
Click continue and follow the on screen prompts to connect a machine select materials and cut your design.
Keep the mat covers.
So if your cuts aren t clean the first thing you should do is change your mat.