When your Cricut mat loses its stickiness, all hope is not lost! There are two things you can do to re-stickify your Cricut mats:
(1) Wash off the little bits of paper and dust that are blocking the stickiness with a mild dish soap and a gentle (non-pilling) dish cloth. Dab with a dry dish cloth and air dry. This will remove the junk and reveal the stickiness underneath.
(2) When the stickiness underneath is truly gone, make sure you’re starting with a clean, dry surface (by following step 1above) and then spray your mat with a can of temporary quilting spray. This will bring back the tackiness and make it good as new!
I like to have at least 2 mats in my craft space so I can preload them, and it also comes in handy so I can have one drying and still have one left to work with.
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I highly recommend that you use painter’s tape and tape the outside edge off before spraying. One of the few things that can go wrong with your cricut is feed roller damage – a build up of glue/paper could cause this damage
I clean the mat with one of those sticky lint rollers. Then I run a ZIG 2-way glue pen – the fat one – over the matt and let it dry for a half hour or so. It makes the mat nice and tacky again and it lasts a long time.
I was given a suggestion recently to use Velum adhesive spray and spray it onto your paper… esp good for the times you need a really sticky matt.