hey everyone welcome to my channel my name is sarah today i'm going to be doing a hack video
specifically cricut hacks that i found on tic tac - tic tok i probably spend more time
than i should on tiktok but i guess it comes in handy for hack videos like this
anyways i wanted to try some of these i've heard of a couple of them before seeing them on tiktok
but i haven't tried them so i thought i'd try them and share my results with you but before we get
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premium membership. Okay so the first video i want to try is this save time with mat scanner
i've actually never used the mat scanner option because i don't often use my ipad pro to
do projects but i thought this looked really cool and would definitely come in handy in the future
so she's basically using this mat scanner option on the app and it kind of like takes a picture
of all of the pieces of vinyl that you have on there and then maps it out so that you can then
place your artwork over them and and then it cuts it out for you instead of having to
kind of like check on your cricut mat the measurements like
the x and y axis and then place it accordingly so this seems like it would save a lot of time
and would make thing a lot makes things a lot easier so i'm gonna try and do that first
okay so the next one i'm gonna try is using pens that aren't the cricut pens i've actually
done this before but the pens that this person is using in the video look pretty cool they are the
bic intensity pens which are like a fine tip um permanent marker basically so i think
that those could come in pretty handy for projects where you want a permanent marker but you want it
fine tip and they come in like a ton of colors as well so i'm going to try that i did purchase
the pens just for this video i got them on amazon because they were kind of hard to find in my area
especially because places are only doing curbside pickup only so things are hard to find
okay so this next one is a sticker hack i have a ton of sticker videos so
this one will come in very handy i've seen headlines for this on youtube to how to do this
and i just never bothered to check them i don't know i guess i was just being lazy but basically
with this one you change the sizing of a square that you put in the background and then you're
able to get more stickers instead of the standard that cricut kind of locks you to which is i think
like six by seven inches it's quite small if you compare to an eight and a half by 11 sheet
so this would allow you to save some money and use up your whole sheet
which would be amazing so just to walk you through this you need to create a square unlock the
size dimensions and put in 6.75 by 9.25 then you'll overlay your artwork i've already got
mine all together and then you want to select all of what's on your artboard
and click attach then you're good to go so you just want to click make and make as you would
so the last hack is a cleaning hack for your cricut mat basically she just
uses windex and then scrapes off her mat using the cricut scraper
i don't have a cricut scraper so i'm going to use a credit card and see if that works
so this is the mat after it's been cleaned um first of all it just looks so much better
there's a lot of like leather pieces and whatnot so it's a lot cleaner and it's definitely sticky
not as sticky as it was for the day i got it but it's at least probably better than it was
um in the tik tok video she put her hand on it to show that it sticks and i can also do that so
yeah i think it's a good way to kind of give a second life to your mat it's not going to
make them perfect and you'll probably have to get a new mat eventually but it's definitely
worth trying out so make sure to let me know in the comments below if you
like this kind of like hack video and i will try and find more and do a part two