Using Cricut Cutting Mat With Silhouette Cameo

This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats.

Using cricut cutting mat with silhouette cameo.

Learn the basics of your silhouette cameo. Cicut and silhoute are copyright names. This mark now indicates where your material needs to go on the cricut mat to perfectly cut on the silhouette cutting machine. Today mandy shows how to use silhouette studio software to work with files and then use them in cricut design space.

Peel up the silhouette cutting mat leaving the paper on the cricut cutting mat. Grab a pen or marker and mark off the corner or go for the full left and top edge. Not in however many business days plus shipping and handling. You end up with the cricut mat being the exact same size as the silhouette mat with the grid placed in the exact same place.

Both brands provide separate deep cutting blades you can buy. Yes you can use cricut mats with silhouette cameo. What i do is simply line up the silhouette grid to correspond with the grid on the cricut mat use a sharpie to draw all the way around the cricut mat cut the circuit mat where i drew the lines. This video gives an overview of how the silhouette cameo cutting mat is set up and how to use it.

Use double sided tape to keep corners down on a mat that has lost it s stick in some spots. One of the challenges with the cameo is that not all craft stores sell silhouette products and sometimes you need a blade or mat or whatever now. If you use a cricut mat with your silhouette machine make a line on the right side of your machine with a sharpie when you have your mat in correctly so you know where to place it every time. The cricut comes with a knob on the top of the unit to customize appropriately according to the material.