Cutting blade comes with.
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.
When cutting manually be sure to press firmly against the ruler or t square to keep it from moving as you cut.
Two of the great features of the cameo 4 are the built in roll feeder and crosscutter.
This is smaller than the silhouette mat 9 by 13 5.
I could easily put this right on top of my silhouette mat and use a sharpie to mark the lines.
Silhouette cutting machine cameo portrait cutting mat.
In this tutorial you will find out how you can use them.
Cicut and silhoute are copyright names.
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The mat needs to align with the blue line with the arrows.
These make cutting from a roll of material like vinyl or heat transfer really easy to work with.
Align the printed sheet of paper to the left side of the mat.
How do i iron freezer paper.
This is a video of my personal take on cutting mats.
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.
Step 5 use double stick tape to tape your silhouette to your mat.
This method is easy peasy.
Tape the edges with masking tape along the lines marking the cutting area.
Leave the cutting area clear.
Place the edge of the mat along the blue line.
You need just clear cover for binding and a good quality spray adhesive disclaime.
You can also trim up or round off your silhouette if you think it needs a bit of adjustment.
You can save some money on your diy cutting mat for your electronic cutter.
This size will still fit the silhouette portrait machine with a slightly shorter cutting length.
Make sure the cutting edge is flush with the ruler.
If you re using a mat cutter tool it will be a sliding attachment with its own ruled edge to ensure that the cutter doesn t slip.
To cut freezer paper with your cricut or silhouette lay your freezer paper shiny side facing down on the cutting mat.
If you are using a cameo you can just put the 12 12 paper right onto your mat.
If you have a cameo remember to adjust your mat size in the software.
First one i used as a silhouette cameo cutting mat.
Then load your mat into your silhouette machine.
These are perfect for scraps and pieces of vinyl you just can t waste.
Then you ll feed your paper in and use these templates to cut the dividers.
You can always repeat if you mess up or little fingers cut off vital parts.
I just used it the same as a mat without the markings.
Make sure your material is loaded on your mat the correct way.
