Alternative Cricut Mats

There are a few cricut easypress mat alternatives that you can choose to buy besides using other things around the house.

Alternative cricut mats. You will need a few list of supply s most of you already have at home. Cricut supply alternatives paupau04 member posts. Your mat is going to get little pieces of paper and fabric that stick to it. Seriously this is like a 3 for 1 hack via pinterest 3.

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. Kaleidoscope creations stamps made in usa photopolymer kaleidoscope creations sometimes i think i should just keep my opinions to myself she said but someone has got to be the voice of reason. Someone somewhere mentioned getting flexible cutting mats at the dollar store. Cricut mats are sticky and the level of stickiness dictates how secure the grip is.

Make sure to tape off the edges of the mat with. You ll find this guide useful when you need to re use an old cricut a silhouette mat or a cake mat that s used for baking. If you have a pet it is going to collect hair and fuzz or your own hair. Use dollar store pencil grips to get sharpies to fit in the cricut explore pen.

The stronger the grip the heavier the material like chipboard or thick card stock you can cut and the lighter the grip the thin or lightweight materials like regular paper and vinyl you can cut. Repeat to yourself that you need to mirror the image when you turn your material front side down. Easy press mat alternatives. Cut to size and position media or small pieces of vinyl with painters tape.

You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. These can be found for about 1 2 each. The portrait 2 cuts on an 8 by 12 inch mat while the cricuts and silhouette cameo 3 all use 12 by 12 inch or 12 by 24 inch mats but in our tests the size of the cutting area was less restrictive.

I ve ruined a few pieces of htv by forgetting that step. Remove tiny pieces from cricut cutouts with a sticky lint roller. Make your own cricut mats at home for less than a dollar. Cricut easypress mat 14 x 14 decorative polka dots blue mint out of stock special price 27 99 34 99 decorative self healing mat rose 18 x 24 out of stock.

We ll look at the two most popular options.