Cutting cardboard with your cricut machine.
Can you cut laminated cardstock with cricut.
And the laminate gives it enough durability to work for our needs.
We don t want that.
Do you cut apart all of your little pieces before laminating.
I used to print on cardstock but i ve found that regular ole copy paper does just fine when laminated.
And if you have a cricut maker that machine has 10x the cutting force and can cut materials up to 2 4mm thick.
I set my blade to 4 and pressure to 3 for pattern paper light scrapbook paper.
I purchased my card stock from michaels.
Load mat into the machine.
Here s a quick tutorial on cutting colored card stock with your print and cut feature on the cricut.
Found your cutting tip to be interesting.
With the world in quarantine i found it difficult to educate my toddler.
A cricut explore machine can cut pretty much anything as long as it is 2 0mm thick or thinner.
In this video i show you how you can cut laminate and cut again while leaving a boarder of laminate around the center piece.
The ultimate list of over 100 materials a cricut machine can cut.
To cut out the image i used d.
Now you should only have cut lines around your designs.
Print the cut is one of the best things a cricut beginner can learn.
Place cardboard on cricut lightgrip cutting mat.
We want to keep the edges around the design heat sealed to protect the paper inside.
Select images and size.
Corrugated cardboard cut guide.
Do you print everything on cardstock.
Awsome thanks prefer to use laminated card stock for stencils as well keep trying the wood and birch function seemed to work but 3rd stencil so dont quote me it did not cur into the mat so we will see i will try card stock plus next.
It saves so much time in having to hand cut things traditionally with scissors it will also always cut more precise than cutting things by hand.
If your material is not listed here try a test cut with a similar material setting provided the thickness of your material is less than 2 0 mm for cricut explore and less than.
For regular cardstock i set my blade to 5 and pressure to 4.
If you loaded the pixscan mat and cut just like this you d cut right along the edge of your design and you d basically end up with a peeling laminated piece.
Let me show you the basics of print then cut as well as some hacks to cut laminated sheets.
I ve not cut ag cardstock but i do cut a couple different cardstocks.
While the cricut explore cricut maker machines can cut a wide variety of materials cricut does not guarantee that they will be able to cut all materials.
The cricut is great at cutting paper and cardstock but it doesn t just cut scrapbook paper.
