How To Put Vinyl On Silhouette Cutting Mat

To cut this design i started on the vinyl matte setting but after doing a test cut realized that the blade setting needed to be adjusted slightly due to my blade being a little dull.

How to put vinyl on silhouette cutting mat.

Cut weed your vinyl. It is possible to cut vinyl directly from the roll without a mat using your silhouette and i will add a post all about how to do that soon but for now let s just focus on how to cut with a cutting mat. Cut down the vinyl close to your design trimming through both the material and the plastic backing. I love this option because you can use long rolls of vinyl and cut multiple projects at once.

The silhouette hook can help you in weeding out small pieces of the vinyl. The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your. This applies to other cutting machines too so don t worry if you don t have a cameo. What is a cutting mat and why use it to cut htv.

You can get silhouette cameo cutting mats in 12 x 12 and 12 x 24. If you are using any previous silhouette cutting models cameo 3 portrait 2 etc you must use a cutting mat to cut out cardstock or other paper materials. Then i selected and grouped each half of the design separately moving one half off of the mat to cut later. Additionally pop out cut mode is not intended for thin or flexible materials like copy paper or fabric.

In today s blog post we ll be talking about how to use a cutting mat to cut heat transfer vinyl in a silhouette cameo. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt. Cutting without a mat this option is great because you can cut smaller pieces of vinyl without a mat.

Next the pop out cut feature can be used only with the cameo 4 machine line. Then pull off the extra vinyl off the plastic backing. The backing of the vinyl allows your silhouette to grip it when printing. How to apply heat transfer vinyl.