Each of these mats is used to cut many different types of materials from lightweight materials like printer paper and washi tape sheets to heavyweight materials like faux leather and corrugated cardboard.
What is a cricut cutting mat used for.
Cricut makes 3 different mats to use with their explore air machines.
You will realize from the first use that cricut mats tend to be sticky and remain sticky for a couple of more cuts.
Bonded with any of the cricut explore family machines or just on its own with the rotary blade and the cricut maker.
With cricut joy you can use a lightgrip mat standardgrip mat and card mat.
Card mat is uniquely designed with a divider to protect the back of folded cricut insert cards while cutting a design on the front.
Cricut cutting mats come in two sizes.
A sticky cricut mat is essential so that your material cannot slide when the machine is cutting.
Cricut lightgrip cutting mat cricut standardgrip cutting mat and the cricut stronggrip cutting mat.
The first thing we are going to address is which is the right mat for your cricut machine.
The fabricgrip mat is specifically designed to cut fabric.
The fabricgrip cutting mat should be used with the rotary blade and the bonded fabric blade.
It is helpful to make it sticky again before the next use.
Cricut mat sizes.
The major selling point on this mat is that you can cut fabric that hasn t been bonded.
12 x 12 inches or 12 x 24 inches.
This cricut cutting mat is for fabric.
Which material is used with each mat.
After some time it becomes less sticky or not sticky at all.
There are also mats that are 24 long.
It can be used to cut silk cotton canvas burlap and a wide variety of other fabrics.
Any fabrics both bonded and non bonded light grip mat.
Remember that using the mats for the intended materials will really help extend life.
Use our handy guide below to pick your mat type.
When you select your material in cricut design space the software will prompt you with the blade you need to use to cut it.
All offers are valid only while supplies last.
The most common size of mat is 12 x12 which is used in most full sized cutting machines such as the cricut maker cricut explore air 2 and silhouette cameo 4 that can cut materials up to 12 in width.
You can use lighter papers on it but the adhesive is a different type and probably won t hold your paper on as well as the light blue mat would.
Cricut joy cuts smart materials without a machine mat but it can also cut a variety of other materials using a machine cutting mat.
The pink mat or the fabricgrip cutting mat is for you guessed it fabric.
