You will want to wipe off your mat with a baby wipe or other cleaning wipe and dry it well.
How to make scan n cut mat sticky again.
Unfortunately i had only had my mat for about 3 weeks when i was having trouble with the level of stickiness it had left.
I do sympathise beth as we have had this happen.
The using one of the methods listed above add new adhesive to your mat.
In this brother scan n cut tutorial we show you how to clean your ma.
I tried the same to my scan n cut mat and it.
You can also use an old card to act as a scraper to make the process a bit quicker.
Tape around the cutting area with masking tape or painters tape.
Those mats are not cheap so i searched online to find a workaround to either clean the mat or make it sticky again.
It is so frustrating when the mat is too sticky and all your lovely designs tear when you try to remove them.
After spraying your mat with adhesive remover use a scraper or an old gift or credit card to scrape off the adhesive.
Luckily found below blog the author used zig 2 way glue to bring her cricut mat back to life.
I use a circuit mat in my silhuette without problems but you can do that with the brother scan n cut.
What we tend to do when we have a mat that is too sticky is cut thick cardstock or you can dab the mat with a lint free cloth such as a piece of denim to remove some of the sticky.
And it is proprietary because the machine reads the markings on the mat when it does the scans.
Don t get concerned if your brother scan n cut mat looks dirty and loses its stickiness.
Your mat is sticky again.
The brother scan n cut is the very worse of all the meats looses sticky after about 2 3 uses.
Keeping the materials on the mat while cutting was starting to be a huge issue.
This post will cover how to clean your mat so that it stays sticky and then cover how to restick your scan n cut mat once the sticky is lost.
A while back i stopped using my scan n cut because the mat wouldn t stick anymore.