How To Remove Vinyl From Silhouette Mat

The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your.

How to remove vinyl from silhouette mat.

Use your palm or even better the silhouette scraper tool to press the media to the mat and check that is is stuck evenly throughout. Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio. Save those mats for cardstock. Mine was and i found myself super frustrated because none of my vinyl was sticking to my mat.

If you have a silhouette cameo or portrait you may notice after some use your mat might start to loose its stick. I wanted to cut some heat transfer vinyl for a. Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. 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.

Of course there isn t a ten foot mat available omg how would one store such a thing so if you want to cut longer than 24 cut without a mat. How to clean your silhouette cameo cutting mat. This applies to other cutting machines too so don t worry if you don t have a cameo. I will walk you through my tips and tricks to cleaning your silhouette cameo mat.

With newer mats this isn t usually an issue but with older mats you need to take an extra minute to make sure that it was adhered to the mat evenly everywhere not just in the middle. When you aren t cutting without a mat you can cut. If you ve never done that before don t be intimidated by the idea of going matless. I don t know about you but i find my medium can still move about with the pressure of the blade.

You might resort to sticking your vinyl or card down with tape instead. 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. The silhouette cameo can cut lengths of vinyl or anything with a backing up to 10 feet long.