Select all the images you would like to hold position by color they will all be cutting from the same mat.
Cricut image too large fit on cutting mat.
Use slice to make images fit onto the mat.
Last updated on may 29th 2020.
If you want to make something larger than the large mat you can use a process known as tiling i ve seen people use this technique to make large car and wall decals big wood signs and enormous paper projects.
In this post i ll show you how to cut multiple colors on one cricut mat so that you can save yourself time when creating future projects.
3 click on upload image.
It will appear in the left window.
How to cut multiple colors on one mat at the same time.
You may wish to position images with more than one color to work with the images you will need to ungroup prior to attaching.
Although some images can be contoured to fit your mat as shown above most images will need to be sliced down.
I suspect cricut did this because so many new crafters were getting confused when they had a very large image and got the image too large message or now the project incompatible message and perhaps they thought change would help.
Cricut cutting mat has a tacky surface to hold paper in place each pack includes one 1 12 by 24 inch cutting mat.
Create your project positioning all the images inside the canvas.
In early september 2019 cricut changed their original resize of 11 5 x 11 5 to 23 5 x 23 5.
Cricut explore manual step 5.
Let s look at the elmo cut below.
When design space tells you that the printable image is too large this means that the image you are trying to cut is set to print then cut but the image exceeds the print then cut size limitations.
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Tiling a large scale image with your cricut is actually pretty easy using the slice tool.
1 log into cricut design space.
5 select your design.
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Click on a new project.
As denoted by the caution symbol it is way too big for my mat and it doesn t have any detached elements that we can contour out.
To design this cut file i used two cricut fonts emiline and cricut stretch.
2 go to the upload icon.
If you do not wish to print then cut and would rather cut only you can easily change your image s line type from print to cut.
4 click on browse.
Both of these were free for me to use since i have a cricut access membership.
This is not how to cut a multi color htv design with different layers but rather how to set up different colors on a single mat for cutting.