How To Make A Photo Mat With Cricut

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How to make a photo mat with cricut.

You don t need a computer or even a cricut machine to make this concept work. Then select the advanced options on the following screen. The knife blade is the only blade that will cut through the thick mat board. When the first cut pass has been completed design space calculates the expected cut time remaining.

Create a stencil in cricut design space or upload a pre made svg check out the ones in my shop here. No other machine has the adaptive tool system to hold this blade. The knife blade will only work in the cricut maker. 3 place one sheet of card stock on your cutting mat and select the material type you are cutting.

Move the white star wheels all the way to the left insert the cutting mat into your cricut maker insert the knife blade and click go to begin cutting. I used masking tape for this. Do i have to use the knife blade to make these custom mats. I used the heavy card stock setting because the card stock i purchased was on the thick side and that setting worked like a charm.

For this project select complex. The blade will make several passes so this will take some time. How to turn an image into a cut file using cricut select erase. Cricut machine a cricut maker or cricut explore air machine will work for making a card stock mat.

Cut a stencil with your cricut machine. How to make a custom welcome mat with cricut stencils to actually make the doormat you will need to. Then you tape your art photo to the back of the mat making sure your piece is centered in the mat as you want it. This blue was spray painted it worked well on the mat boards.

Something with a medium tack works well and you can always switch out the art. You have some art all cut and matted by you. Cricut cutting mat the type is determined by the card stock weight most light weight card stocks will use the lightgrip cutting mat but higher weight card stocks may use a standardgrip cutting mat. Will the knife blade work in my cricut machine.

2 make sure your design is centered on the preview of your cutting mat before you cut out the file. Convert photo to svg in cricut canvas upload. The very last couple of files will probably be the most useful however it is much easier to save as you go along just incase someone wants a file to go with the photo tutorial.