Using Cricut Without Mat

With cricut joy you can use a lightgrip mat standardgrip mat and card mat.

Using cricut without mat.

Keep your easypress reference charts at hand last but not least you always want to keep some easypress reference charts at hand. Select all layers of your letters or numbers and click the attach tool so that they stay exactly where you put them. If you are using a 12 inch square cutting mat the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches squared. Cricut mats get pretty nasty.

Once it s in place you can plug the machine into a power outlet there s a power cable included with every purchase and press the open button on the lid of the explore air 2 feature 1 in the illustration above or gently open the maker s lid to open up your brand new machine. Card mat is uniquely designed with a divider to protect the back of folded cricut insert cards while cutting a design on the front. This is not good because your mat will lose its stickiness and not have the required grip for your material you are trying to cut. It cuts it cut perfectly.

You can clean and re stick your cricut cutting mat which will. So we ll get all those edges off. Cricut joy cuts smart materials without a machine mat but it can also cut a variety of other materials using a machine cutting mat. If you are using a 12 inch by 24 inch cutting mat then the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches by 23 5 inches.

Whether you re using an cricut easypress mat or using a terry cloth towel be sure to use something a very sturdy table or counter top to get the best results with any of cricut easypresses. Every time you use the knife blade it creates dust and debris that stick to the adhesive on the mat. If you are wanting to cut larger than these options then you simply must cut your design. First you may delete the 11 14 rectangle or use the eye to turn that layer off so it does not cut.

So you don t need the mat to cut vinyl with the cricut.