Cleaning Off Cricut Mats

Gentle cycle when you find that your cricut mat is no longer sticky enough to properly hold your materials try these methods to clean your mat and breathe some life back into it.

Cleaning off cricut mats.

Having a sticky cricut mat is important because you don t want the material you are using to. You ll find this guide useful when you need to re use an old cricut a silhouette mat or a cake mat that s used for baking. Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. I tend to get more questions about cricut mats in particular but this guide will apply to any sort of similar cutting mat with an adhesive including silhouette mats.

I will also give tips on the correct way to use your pink fabric grip mat. Going to try it they sell them for 13 99 for a 3 pack on amazon. After roll a lint roller over the top of the mat or wipe an alcohol free baby wipe. Heard there was a knock off version of the cricut mat called nicapa strong grip purple cutting mat 12 by 12 inch.

It s recommended to give your cricut mats a light cleaning which includes a plastic scraper. I m so tired of cleaning and or rebuying these things and keeping cricut in business. There was a question in my cricut freebies facebook group the other day on how to clean cricut mats and make them sticky again. Lint rollers are sticky so they can remove any debris and bring back the stickiness of your mat.

Grab your cleaner spray and give your mat a good spray. The best way to keep your cricut mats clean is to clean them regularly. Use the brayer tool to roll the fabric out smoothly and evenly on the mat and the tweezer tool to pick up the fabric and clean off any small threads or pieces of fabric. The cricut fabricgrip mat adhesive is more sensitive to oils and dirt that means you want to keep your hands off the mat as much as possible to help it stay sticky.

As your mat accumulates grime and debris with your loving use move down the list to more potent cleaning methods. You can then use a cricut scraper to scrape the cut pieces of the mat so there is no residue left. Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off. The first thing to do when cleaning a cricut mat is to remove the left the debris and residue that is currently stuck to your mat.

Once your fabricgrip cricut mat has lots of fibers and fabric strings on it it may not hold the fabric as well as it originally did. In this video i share 5 tips on how to clean and re stick your cricut cutting mats. How to clean your mat method 1. These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life.

Cricut mats are sticky mats that are used in cricut machines.