Making Photo Matting With Cricut And Card Stock

Increase the material setting on the machine by 2 clicks.

Making photo matting with cricut and card stock.

Make the project again. To use the cricut card mat on the cricut explore and maker you will need to locate your design. Once your design is complete click make it. Show and tell anyone.

Creating photo mats and how to maximize your paper creating photo mats for pictures. Only 13 left in stock more on the way. Then you have your design on your cricut mat. Leave the card on the mat.

Cricut joy insert cards diy greeting card for baby shower birthday and wedding macarons sampler 12 ct. Cricut machine a cricut maker or cricut explore air machine will work for making a card stock mat. If the card is bigger than 11 5 x 11 5 cricut will make the file smaller on the canvas. I used the free cricut craft room images so you don t need to own the cartridge to use them.

How to locate the card design on the cricut card mat. 4 8 out of 5 stars 849. In design space click undo until you get. Whether you re doing school projects creating business cards decorating for a party or creating home décor we have the cardstock that fits your needs.

We have a shiny surprise to share with you. Cricut cutting mat the type is determined by the card stock weight most light weight card stocks will use the lightgrip cutting mat but higher weight card stocks may use a standardgrip cutting mat. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing. It should score without cutting this time 8.

Card stock a light to medium weight will work great. I then use those frames throughout my project. In this tutorial i explain that if you want a 5 7 card you will need a 12 24 mat. Even if you are making a card if something is going to be covering it why not cut it out and save it for later.

Best seller in card making kits. Official cricut cardstock up to 30 off sale. 3 place one sheet of card stock on your cutting mat and select the material type you are cutting. You need to locate this so that it cuts on the card correctly.

This is a quick video on how you can create your own design for a photo mat. The detailed foil lines make the process look complicated. I used the heavy card stock setting because the card stock i purchased was on the thick side and that setting worked like a charm. The cricut foil transfer tool is now available and it s the easiest way to make your projects shine using foil.

If you have one and design space still makes your card smaller when you add it to the canvas resize it again to your needs. In design space delete everything except the scoring lines. The foil tool works with the cricut explore family of machines and cricut maker it is not compatible with cricut joy.