A sticky cricut mat is essential so that your material cannot slide when the machine is cutting.
How to make a cricut cutting mat sticky again.
These are the ways i have read about so far using a lint roller roll the lint roller back and forth over the cutting pad to get all the paper pieces and paper fuzzies off the mat.
You will realize from the first use that cricut mats tend to be sticky and remain sticky for a couple of more cuts.
After some time it becomes less sticky or not sticky at all.
Make an effort to avoid getting any paste on the edges of the tangle.
But you have to use the glue appropriately.
Utilize broad even strokes that go smoothly over the mat.
Applying glue can be an effective way to make the mats sticky again.
To complete the procedure you have to apply the paste to the inner gridded bit of the cricut mat.
So to counter this problem many scrappers have come up with different methods of making the mats last longer or making them sticky again.