Tips and Tricks

We can all use this section for helping others with tips and tricks, thanks Lou for suggesting it.

If you find your cricut mat is slipping please get kerry's husband to clean your rollers!!!! lol!!!

In all seriousness peeps..If you find your cricut mat is slipping during cuts it may be that your rollers need a good old clean.

When my crciut mats feel as if they are lossing their stickiness I fill my washing up bowl with warm water and a squeeze of fairy liquid and give them a good scrub with my washing brush. Then I give them a good shake and leave them to dry naturally flat on the draining board, they dry all sticky again.

loopylou wrote:wonky 'B' plates?!
Here's a recipie from Pam for sorting them out.

Take 2 shamefully bendy and tatty 'b' plates and place on a baking tray!! Preheat the oven to 160c. Bake for 10 mins and allow to cool. If still bendy when cooled pop them back in for another 10 minutes.



Thank you Pam xxxxx

Just a heads-up. Doing the oven thing weakens the plates and they are likely to crack dramatically and with a huge noise when you start using them again. Using the bendy plates still works, so if you want them to live to a ripe old age, just use them bendy!

Thanks Lou, I've told Roger he has a new job

I just keep turning over my bendy plates, when they get too bendy.

OMG En, I didn't know that, am all worried it is on there now, might try and delete it!

Phew, it worked. Thanks En xxxx

Dont worry Lou as you wanted it removing I have totally removed it for you. If ever you post anything you want removing message me one way or another and I will remove the post rather than leaving a blank post - hope that makes sense!

thankyou liz! xxx

No problem.

loopylou wrote:If you find your cricut mat is slipping please get kerry's husband to clean your rollers!!!! lol!!!

In all seriousness peeps..If you find your cricut mat is slipping during cuts it may be that your rollers need a good old clean.

What do you clean them with? Thanks for the info, I would have never thought of this!

Hi Queenie, our member Kerry aka Lakul who has done this is away on her hols at the moment so I am sure she will answer you as soon as she is back off hols.

Okay, great! I look forward to finding out what she suggests!

Hi Queenie. Here's my reply direct from the French Alps My hubby says most of the muck gets stuck in the grooves of the metal rollers. He used a very fine flat head screwdriver, just to prize everything out. Hope this works for you.

Oh my goodness! The French Alps ... lovely!

Thank you for the info ... I'll give it a go!

Another tip for making sure your paper/card stock is stuck to the mat. I have a breyer that never gets used for its proper purpose but it is excellent for smoothing down paper onto a mat to ensure no air bubbles are behind it.

Admin wrote:Another tip for making sure your paper/card stock is stuck to the mat. I have a breyer that never gets used for its proper purpose but it is excellent for smoothing down paper onto a mat to ensure no air bubbles are behind it.

I concur, I use my breyer exclusively for this and for making sure I get the whole of a background stamp properly!

Gaby has done a great tips and tricks tutorial on She's A Sassy Lady, go and take a browse for yourself here is the link for Gaby's Tips & Tricks