Using Cricut Cutting Mat With Silhouette Cameo

The cricut comes with a knob on the top of the unit to customize appropriately according to the material.

Using cricut cutting mat with silhouette cameo. This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats. Learn the basics of your silhouette cameo. Use double sided tape to keep corners down on a mat that has lost it s stick in some spots. 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.

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. This mark now indicates where your material needs to go on the cricut mat to perfectly cut on the silhouette cutting machine. Grab a pen or marker and mark off the corner or go for the full left and top edge. To customize the silhouette blade strength just twist the blade to a certain number based on the fabric before slicing.

This video gives an overview of how the silhouette cameo cutting mat is set up and how to use it. If you use a cricut mat with your silhouette machine make a line on the right side of your machine with a sharpie when you have your mat in correctly so you know where to place it every time. Cicut and silhoute are copyright names. Peel up the silhouette cutting mat leaving the paper on the cricut cutting mat.

Both silhouette and cricut cut materials utilizing blades. To purchase silhouette studio click he. 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. Both brands provide separate deep cutting blades you can buy.