Keep the mat covers.
Does cricut shift cuts to preserve mat.
If the blade is set too low it will chomp up your cutting mat.
Attaching holds your cuts in position so that images on the cutting mat are positioned exactly as they show up on the design screen.
I usually switch to a new or newer mat and it solves my problem right away.
9 to stop this from happening you can trick the software to place the image into the centre of your design space and mat.
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.
Cricut cutting mats come with a plastic protective cover over them.
This is good when wanting to create apertures in the middle of a page.
With the layers cut out all that is left to do is assemble them back into your original design.
Once you have large paper loaded onto your mat cut out all your prepared layers.
Over the past year i ve read so many questions about cricut and most of them are pretty similar.
Be sure not to overlap your designs as the cricut will cut overlapped once you move items on the mat screen.
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.
My favorite way to do this is to flip all the cuts over and use scotch tape along the back.
Keep this cover and replace it after each use to keep the mat cleaner and stickier for longer.
So if your cuts aren t clean the first thing you should do is change your mat.
How to lock the position on the mat.
Test cut on new projects.
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.
Your cricut mat needs to be pretty sticky in order to get clean cuts.
11 select the square and then change the setting from cut to draw.
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.
Seriously this is like a 3 for 1 hack via pinterest 3.
Below you can see each of my cuts as they came off the mats.
You may find detailed tutorial on cutting with the cricut here.
Wherever you drag the design on the mat the position will be locked in and your cricut will cut it out in that exact position on your mat.
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.
Click on the shape tool.
