Make Your Own Cutting Mat For Silhouette

This size will still fit the silhouette portrait machine with a slightly shorter cutting length.

Make your own cutting mat for silhouette.

If you have a portrait you ll need to trim it down to 8 5 x 11 inches. Cicut and silhoute are copyright names. When cutting manually be sure to press firmly against the ruler or t square to keep it from moving as you cut. If you have a cameo remember to adjust your mat size in the software.

Then you ll feed your paper in and use these templates to cut the dividers. The mat needs to align with the blue line with the arrows. Cutting blade comes with. To cut freezer paper with your cricut or silhouette lay your freezer paper shiny side facing down on the cutting mat.

Make sure the cutting edge is flush with the ruler. In this tutorial you will find out how you can use them. Align the printed sheet of paper to the left side of the mat. Step 4 carefully cut around the silhouette.

Lay your image on your surface shiny side down and use the cotton setting on your iron with no steam. First one i used as a silhouette cameo cutting mat. How do i iron freezer paper. These are perfect for scraps and pieces of vinyl you just can t waste.

Two of the great features of the cameo 4 are the built in roll feeder and crosscutter. The place mat i bought measured 12 by 17 which will make two 8 5 by 12 mats. Make sure your material is loaded on your mat the correct way. I could easily put this right on top of my silhouette mat and use a sharpie to mark the lines.

If you are using a cameo you can just put the 12 12 paper right onto your mat. Step 5 use double stick tape to tape your silhouette to your mat. You can also trim up or round off your silhouette if you think it needs a bit of adjustment. Yes i d love to say 20.

I just used it the same as a mat without the markings. Cut it as you would regular vinyl and then weed the image while it is still on the mat. You can always repeat if you mess up or little fingers cut off vital parts. Place the edge of the mat along the blue line.

This method is easy peasy. Silhouette cutting machine cameo portrait cutting mat. These make cutting from a roll of material like vinyl or heat transfer really easy to work with. This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats.

You can save some money on your diy cutting mat for your electronic cutter. Be sure it matches your workspace design just like in step 1. You need just clear cover for binding and a good quality spray adhesive disclaime. Tape the edges with masking tape along the lines marking the cutting area.

This is smaller than the silhouette mat 9 by 13 5.