I like to use my silhouette hook and my silhouette pick me up tool to weed the vinyl.
Sihoutte cutting stickers vinyl side up or down.
Click the icon on the right side that looks like a piece.
If your silhouette cutting mat is brand new you may want to de stick the cutting mat somewhat by blotting it with a clean t shirt.
It s a water resistant and uv resistant film with an adhesive that can last for up to 3 years.
Place vinyl liner side down onto cricut standardgrip cutting mat.
Plus i have a list of free stickers at the end of this post.
Printing the stickers with silhouette print and cut.
You can get silhouette cameo cutting mats in 12 x 12 and 12 x 24.
When you are finished you should see the shiny material and the design with nothing else around it.
Whatever mat and machine you are using put your adhesive vinyl paper backing side down onto your mat so the colored vinyl side is facing up see image below.
Open the silhouette software and set up the page.
This means you are going to peel off the excess parts that are left around your cut.
Select images and size and load the mat into the machine.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
Now select load on your cameo 3.
After you have cut your design you need to weed it.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
Place the vinyl onto the silhouette cutting mat with the backing paper side down onto the mat making sure the vinyl is covering the same area where the design is placed on the virtual mat in silhouette studio.
Then we ll cut a two color decal with re.
I like to cut most of my vinyl without a mat because the majority of the time i am using rolls of vinyl instead of.
The cricut cutting mats are really similar and i have used cricut mats with my silhouette.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.
In this video we ll start simple with a one color decal cut it in our software and then apply it to a tumbler cup.