Using Cricut Without Mat

With cricut joy you can use a lightgrip mat standardgrip mat and card mat.

Using cricut without mat.

And as you go through and weed the rest it works great without the mats. So you don t need the mat to cut vinyl with the cricut. Make sure that there s some free space around the cricut so you can load mats in and out of the machine easily. Cricut mats get pretty nasty.

Every time you use the knife blade it creates dust and debris that stick to the adhesive on the mat. So we ll get all those edges off. Once it s in place you can plug the machine into a power outlet there s a power cable included with every purchase and press the open button on the lid of the explore air 2 feature 1 in the illustration above or gently open the maker s lid to open up your brand new machine. There you go and you can also see where it cut here on the back side it didn t cut through.

If you are using a 12 inch square cutting mat the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches squared. Cricut joy cuts smart materials without a machine mat but it can also cut a variety of other materials using a machine cutting mat. This is not good because your mat will lose its stickiness and not have the required grip for your material you are trying to cut. Card mat is uniquely designed with a divider to protect the back of folded cricut insert cards while cutting a design on the front.

It cuts it cut perfectly. If you are wanting to cut larger than these options then you simply must cut your design. First you may delete the 11 14 rectangle or use the eye to turn that layer off so it does not cut. Select all layers of your letters or numbers and click the attach tool so that they stay exactly where you put them.

If you are using a 12 inch by 24 inch cutting mat then the largest you can cut is 11 5 inches by 23 5 inches.