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Cricut light grip mat uses.
Cricut makes 3 different mats to use with their explore air machines.
Cricut joy cuts smart materials without a machine mat but it can also cut a variety of other materials using a machine cutting mat.
With cricut joy you can use a lightgrip mat standardgrip mat and card mat.
Cricut mats are sticky and the level of stickiness dictates how secure the grip is.
What can you cut with the cricut light grip mat.
The fabricgrip mat is a reusable adhesive cutting mat that combines increased strength and density plus a light adhesive perfect for wide variety of fabrics.
Perfect for standard paper light cardstock vellum and more the lightgrip mat was carefully engineered for a wide range of lightweight materials.
I personally find that these materials cut well on this mat only when the mat is pretty new however.
Items also rip easily if they are too stuck down.
As the interface between your material and your cricut machine each reusable mat holds your material in place as it s cut and makes it easy to cleanly remove finished pieces once a cut is complete.
Fabric grip mat pink light grip mat light blue standard grip mat green strong grip mat purple also note that each of these mats comes in both 12 12 and 12 24 size.
Yes you can wash your mats but i like to use the light grip mat a lot because it is so much easier to clean up.
The top blade is the cricut branded one the rest are generic brands.
Cricut lightgrip cutting mat cricut standardgrip cutting mat and the cricut stronggrip cutting mat.
Cricut recommends you cut the lightest materials on it for example copy paper printer paper thin cardstock vellum construction paper and vinyl on the blue lightgrip mat.
There are currently four types of cricut mats and we are listing them below from lightest grip to strongest grip.
Types of cricut mats.
Perfect for standard paper light cardstock vellum and more the lightgrip mat was carefully engineered for a wide range of lightweight materials.
As the interface between your material and your cricut machine each reusable mat holds your material in place as it s cut and makes it easy to cleanly remove finished pieces once a cut is complete.
This can be used for lighter and thinner materials.
Each of these mats is used to cut many different types of materials from lightweight materials like printer paper and washi tape sheets to heavyweight materials like faux leather and corrugated cardboard.
Ideally you don t want to put thin light materials onto a standard grip because it s so hard to remove them once the cut is completed.
For use with cricut maker or cricut explore family machines and rotary blade or bonded fabric blade.
The red cap one is the closest in terms of a blade angle but it really doesn t make that much of a difference.
The cricut lightgrip mat is the go to mat for many people.
