Cleaning Off Cricut Mats

There was a question in my cricut freebies facebook group the other day on how to clean cricut mats and make them sticky again.

Cleaning off cricut mats.

Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same. 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. You can then use a cricut scraper to scrape the cut pieces of the mat so there is no residue left. 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.

I will also give tips on the correct way to use your pink fabric grip mat. You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot. 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. The best way to keep your cricut mats clean is to clean them regularly.

After roll a lint roller over the top of the mat or wipe an alcohol free baby wipe. 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. These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life. Grab your cleaner spray and give your mat a good spray.

It s recommended to give your cricut mats a light cleaning which includes a plastic scraper. That s what i do with my other cricut mats but that is not what you want to do with the fabricgrip mat. Without really thinking about it i would want to grab a wet wipe and scrub the mat off. To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty.

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. Going to try it they sell them for 13 99 for a 3 pack on amazon. In this video i share 5 tips on how to clean and re stick your cricut cutting mats. 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.

Lint rollers are sticky so they can remove any debris and bring back the stickiness of your mat. 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. I m so tired of cleaning and or rebuying these things and keeping cricut in business. Heard there was a knock off version of the cricut mat called nicapa strong grip purple cutting mat 12 by 12 inch.

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