How To Make New Cricut Mat Less Sticky

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.

How to make new cricut mat less sticky.

Use cricut machines to make homemade scrapbooking items stickers and other vinyl and paper products. All this time i thought we shouldn t touch the mat because the oils from our hands would make it less sticky and that would mean the paper wouldn t stick to the mat and thus make our mats last less time. But you have to use the glue appropriately. Utilize broad even strokes that go smoothly over the mat.

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. Run lukewarm water over the mat then use a plastic hard bristled brush to gently scrub in a circular motion until the entire surface of the mat is. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. Applying glue can be an effective way to make the mats sticky again.

I guess i m still finding it hard to believe that we should want to oil up the mat before we use it the first time. Place the mat in the sink. Avoid scraping the mat as this will push material and debris deeper into the adhesive. Now you have 3 options.

Of course when you first pull out a fresh new cutting mat it can be so sticky that the paper or cardstock won t even come off. 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. Make an effort to avoid getting any paste on the edges of the tangle. To complete the procedure you have to apply the paste to the inner gridded bit of the cricut mat.