I leave my Ranger craft mat on my work space at all times because I'm a messy scrapper, and it saves my table top. It's heat resistant, so I can leave it on my work surface to heat emboss, and it cleans up easily. Acrylic paint, glue, ink, gel medium, you name it wipes right off with ease. I thought I would put it to the ultimate test. As I was frantically preparing class samples for Kickoff, I made a ginormous mess on my mat. It was covered in acrylic paint, glaze, gel medium, distress ink, crackle paint, and Stazon. It's been sitting for almost 2 months (I said I was messy). I had no idea if it was ever going to come clean or if I would have to toss it and buy another one, not that I would complain if I did have to throw it out because I've gotten months of heavy use out of it. Well, it took a little scrubbing with warm soapy water, instead of the normal damp towel wipe down, but it came right off. I would guess it took about 5 minutes to get it sparkly clean again. Here's the before and after: