Using Cricut Cutting Mat With Silhouette Cameo

One of the challenges with the cameo is that not all craft stores sell silhouette products and sometimes you need a blade or mat or whatever now.

Using cricut cutting mat with silhouette cameo.

Today mandy shows how to use silhouette studio software to work with files and then use them in cricut design space. This video gives an overview of how the silhouette cameo cutting mat is set up and how to use it. Learn the basics of your silhouette cameo. Grab a pen or marker and mark off the corner or go for the full left and top edge.

Peel up the silhouette cutting mat leaving the paper on the cricut cutting mat. This mark now indicates where your material needs to go on the cricut mat to perfectly cut on the silhouette cutting machine. Both brands provide separate deep cutting blades you can buy. To purchase silhouette studio click he.

What i do is simply line up the silhouette grid to correspond with the grid on the cricut mat use a sharpie to draw all the way around the cricut mat cut the circuit mat where i drew the lines. To customize the silhouette blade strength just twist the blade to a certain number based on the fabric before slicing. This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats. The cricut comes with a knob on the top of the unit to customize appropriately according to the material.

You end up with the cricut mat being the exact same size as the silhouette mat with the grid placed in the exact same place. Use double sided tape to keep corners down on a mat that has lost it s stick in some spots. Yes you can use cricut mats with silhouette cameo. Both silhouette and cricut cut materials utilizing blades.