Why Is My Vinyl Sticking To My Cutting Mat

I am using my cricut maker with vinyl and the blue mat to create a poster for my classroom.

Why is my vinyl sticking to my cutting mat.

Now you have 3 options. My vinyl is not staying on my project after following all the prepping instructions. These mats are usually made from rubber and are very tacky to the touch allowing you to stick your paper vinyl or whatever material you re using to the mat allowing it to slide evenly through your machine and to be. 1 scrape your mat to get all the pieces off and it creates a sticky mess like when you are peeling price tags off glass.

Obviously the silhouette cutting mat has to be sticky to keep materials in place while they re being cut by the silhouette. The larger letters peeled easily 3 x3 but the smaller sentences less than an inch tall are sticking to the mat and will not come free without lots of effort. When you buy your cricut or silhouette cutting machine a cutting mat will usually be included with your purchase. The point of the sticky side is to let you stick your material here heat transfer vinyl onto the mat which holds it in place.

Most basically a cutting mat is a lined piece of plastic that has one sticky side. When the cutting mat is new however it can be too sticky for certain material such as paper and paper backed materials such as adhesive vinyl. You then load the cutting mat and your material into the cutting machine and voila. It takes about 24 hours for the adhesive to fully set onto a surface.

Sometimes even after prepping the surface of your project with rubbing alcohol or smoothing a wooden surface vinyl takes some time to adhere. Why you need to restick your cricut cutting mat.