Please note the words a backing you don t intend to cut through.
Silhouette loading paper on mat.
Cutting mats are printed with a 1 inch grid pattern to help you position and align your material.
Be sure that you select the mat you are using from the page setup panel before beginning your project.
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.
Materials that have a backing you don t intend to cut through such as vinyl or sticker paper can be cut without a mat using the load media option.
Place the vinyl on the correct size of mat you have selected in the silhouette software.
Just as the name implies choose load mat when cutting anything that you have placed onto a cutting mat.
Line the mat up with the blue line on the left hand side of your machine.
We are using a cameo 12 inch by 12 inch mat and letter sized paper.
How to load vinyl without a mat.
This introductory video shows users how to load material with and without a cutting mat into the silhouette cameo.