Make Your Own Cutting Mat For Silhouette

Lay your image on your surface shiny side down and use the cotton setting on your iron with no steam.

Make your own cutting mat for silhouette.

You need just clear cover for binding and a good quality spray adhesive disclaime. Cutting blade comes with. The place mat i bought measured 12 by 17 which will make two 8 5 by 12 mats. These are perfect for scraps and pieces of vinyl you just can t waste.

Then you ll feed your paper in and use these templates to cut the dividers. I just used it the same as a mat without the markings. Cut it as you would regular vinyl and then weed the image while it is still on the mat. This is smaller than the silhouette mat 9 by 13 5.

In this tutorial you will find out how you can use them. Two of the great features of the cameo 4 are the built in roll feeder and crosscutter. Be sure it matches your workspace design just like in step 1. If you have a cameo remember to adjust your mat size in the software.

I could easily put this right on top of my silhouette mat and use a sharpie to mark the lines. Make sure your material is loaded on your mat the correct way. Then load your mat into your silhouette machine. Step 4 carefully cut around the silhouette.

Leave the cutting area clear. Step 5 use double stick tape to tape your silhouette to your mat. To cut freezer paper with your cricut or silhouette lay your freezer paper shiny side facing down on the cutting mat. If you have a portrait you ll need to trim it down to 8 5 x 11 inches.

Yes i d love to say 20. Tape the edges with masking tape along the lines marking the cutting area. This method is easy peasy. You can save some money on your diy cutting mat for your electronic cutter.

Align the printed sheet of paper to the left side of the mat. You can also trim up or round off your silhouette if you think it needs a bit of adjustment. If you are using a cameo you can just put the 12 12 paper right onto your mat. Make sure the cutting edge is flush with the ruler.

Silhouette cutting machine cameo portrait cutting mat. These make cutting from a roll of material like vinyl or heat transfer really easy to work with. First one i used as a silhouette cameo cutting mat. Place the edge of the mat along the blue line.

The mat needs to align with the blue line with the arrows. Cicut and silhoute are copyright names. This size will still fit the silhouette portrait machine with a slightly shorter cutting length. If you re using a mat cutter tool it will be a sliding attachment with its own ruled edge to ensure that the cutter doesn t slip.

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