![]() TIP: Clean your mat after each use with alcohol-free wipes (baby wipes). The stuck bits of cardstock doesn’t look as bad in the picture as it was in real life. The black cardstock I ended up tossing and I bought some much nicer black card which cut out beautifully. The black left fluffy bits of the card over the mat which was unusually hard to clean off and the actual card ‘peeled’ See pictures below. The white sheets cut out fine however the black sheets were terrible. Recently I purchased a pack of 6 black sheets and 6 white sheets. I recommend that you buy solid core cardstock which has much less cutting issues than cardstock that separates or peels when you cut it. From my experience a bigger factor than when purchasing vinyl. The settings that you choose on your Scan N Cut make a big difference however the cardstock you purchase is also a BIG factor. Your Scan N Cut may have more cutting issues with cardstock as there seem to be even more variables with cardstock. If I had been watching it as it cut I would have stopped the Scan N Cut and made more adjustments.Ī guide to working with vinyl can be found here. While I had performed two test cut (you can see the triangles on the right) it hadn’t picked up that there were still some issues. This is some Cricut vinyl I was silly enough to walk away from for a few minutes while it was cutting out. I have added a complete section below dedicated to settings for your design.Īs you can see above…. How you set your blade differs between the CM models and the DX models. It needs to do a “Kiss Cut” which is when the blade only cuts through the actual vinyl and not the backing paper or in the case of HTV the transfer sheet. The depth of your blade is especially important when cutting vinyl. There is more information on this further along in the tutorial. In this project, I used Metamarc vinyl and came across some issues I hadn’t noticed with the vinyl when I had used it previously.
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