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.
Cricut project is too large for 12 by 12 mat.
After clicking customize i found that there was a large group of images attached together that would be too big to fit on the mat.
It is frustrating when you would like your image to be as large as possible on a 12 x 12 mat but the program is telling you that you have to reduce it.
To design this cut file i used two cricut fonts emiline and cricut stretch.
If your printable image exceeds these dimensions design space will display a warning message to reduce the image size to less than 9 25 x 6 75.
I recommend you cut these decals with a cutting machine like a cricut.
Design space says printable image is too large the maximum print area size for print then cut projects is 9 25 x 6 75.
If you are using a 12 12 mat size the square to 11 5 11 5 the largest you can cut on this mat.
Maximum cutting area is 11 5 x 23 5 once i detach the images the warning triangle disappears.
Both of these were free for me to use since i have a cricut access membership.
The maximum cutting area on a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat is 11 5 x 11 5 29 cm x 29 cm.
This giant marie is so easy to do once you try it.
Download my free flying unicorn files design 138 from my free resource library you can get a password for it by signing up at the bottom of this page.
I highly recommend getting a membership.
I used the larger 12 24 mat for my project so the rest of the tutorial will use the larger rectangle.
1 log into cricut design space.
12 with both the rectangles selected right click and send to the back.
Get a design you can scale up and prepare it for cutting.
How to cut projects larger than your cutting mat in cricut design space.
Click on a new project.
1 log into cricut design space.
If either the height or width of an image is greater than 11 5 29 cm when you select make it you will receive an alert that one of your images is too large for a 12 x 12 30 5 cm x 30 5 cm mat.
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How to cut larger than mat vinyl wall decals step 1.
2 go to the upload icon.