Use dollar store pencil grips to get sharpies to fit in the cricut explore pen.
Does cricut shift cuts to preserve mat.
You may find detailed tutorial on cutting with the cricut here.
Click on the shape tool.
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.
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.
Once you have large paper loaded onto your mat cut out all your prepared layers.
10 create a shape 11 5 x 11 5 inches.
Below you can see each of my cuts as they came off the mats.
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.
Your cricut mat needs to be pretty sticky in order to get clean cuts.
With the layers cut out all that is left to do is assemble them back into your original design.
Click continue and follow the on screen prompts to connect a machine select materials and cut your design.
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.
Attaching holds your cuts in position so that images on the cutting mat are positioned exactly as they show up on the design screen.
Over the past year i ve read so many questions about cricut and most of them are pretty similar.
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.
Keep the mat covers.
Cricut cutting mats come with a plastic protective cover over them.
My favorite way to do this is to flip all the cuts over and use scotch tape along the back.
This is good when wanting to create apertures in the middle of a page.
Remove tiny pieces from cricut cutouts with a sticky lint roller.
9 to stop this from happening you can trick the software to place the image into the centre of your design space and mat.
Keep this cover and replace it after each use to keep the mat cleaner and stickier for longer.
If the blade is set too low it will chomp up your cutting mat.
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.
How to lock the position on the mat.
Seriously this is like a 3 for 1 hack via pinterest 3.
Be sure not to overlap your designs as the cricut will cut overlapped once you move items on the mat screen.
So if your cuts aren t clean the first thing you should do is change your mat.
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.
