Cricut mats come in several different variants but the method of cleaning should be more or less the same.
Cricut grip mat cleaning.
After cleaning your cricut mat and removing your random pieces of fabric and small paper just add a little spray adhesive to your mat before putting on its protective cover again.
The spray adhesive will give your mat more life and stick so you don t have to worry about paper or fabric sliding off when your machine is trying to cut.
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You ll find this guide useful when you need to re use an old cricut a silhouette mat or a cake mat that s used for baking.
If you like this post you might also like some of my other cricut tutorials.
I tend to get more questions about cricut mats in particular but this guide will apply to any sort of similar cutting mat with an adhesive including silhouette mats.
There was a question in my cricut freebies facebook group the other day on how to clean cricut mats and make them sticky again.
These mats are meant to last for 25 40 uses but cleaning them can extend their life.
To clean your mat and rejuvenate its stickiness you can do light cleaning often and deeper cleaning when the mat has gotten excessively dirty.
You ll save a perfectly good cricut mat a few dollars and it can be a fun project to boot.
Cricut mats are sticky mats that are used in cricut machines.