 We just made these shelf centers using some mixed media, a little bit of DTF, a little bit of sublimation, some laser, and a whole lot of sarcasm, and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up, welcome back, do you like to be a builder to make it? So do we. And we have new videos each week, every Tuesday and Friday. This week we're using my three favorite media, sublimation, DTF, and lasers. Lately here at the craft shows, we've been asked for some desktop versions of our signs. It's always the snarky, sarcastic, funny signs that bring them in. Yeah. Well as people are walking by, the funny, sarcastic signs catch their eye, we call them our snarky signs, catch their eye and they want to come in and see what else we have. But they don't always want that big sarcastic sign on their front door. Right. They want something a little more subtle that maybe they can put on their desk. If you pass by there, you might get a little chuckle or put it on a shelf or on a tabletop somewhere in their home. Again, it's subtle, you pass by, you'll get a chuckle. We tried to shrink our signs before, but some of the details got lost, they got burned up on the laser, they just did not work. It took a lot of time to paint them still. Yeah. I mean it was a little faster, but. I mean pretty much the same cut time, pretty much the same paint and assembly time. And the juice was not worth the squeeze. He was waiting for that joke. I tossed it up and he didn't like it. So we thought we'd come up with another way to make these signs desktop size, but faster, cheaper, easier. And I think we've got something. Yeah. I think we've got something using some DTF, some sublimation and of course the laser. It's going to cut everything. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed some dry erase board that's got a chalkboard on the other side. Did you know that you could sublimate on this dry erase board? Did you also know that you could cut this dry erase board out with the laser? This dry erase board is not only going to be our backers, it's going to be our letters. Half the project is going to be right here out of this board. Yeah. I'd say more than half, 75%. 75%. Do I hear 80? Yeah. Maybe some of them 80. We also needed our sublimation printer, sublimation paper, sublimation ink, some high heat tape. We'll show you all those things. Links will be in the description below. We're also going to use our pro color DTF printer. So that requires the DTF film, the glue, the ink, yeah, the DTF ink and a heater. That's right. We'll show you all the things that we're using. If you have one or the other, either will work for this project. I will say I love this new pro color printer that we have. It's a replacement because I broke the other one, but this one is the newer version and it's been great. It's been great. We also needed some paint and some glue. Very little paint. Yeah. Tiny bit of paint. And of course we needed a desktop laser. We're going to use our X-Tool P2 because it's got that camera. Step two, we're going to create our design. We're going to do all of our design work over in Canva this week. We love Canva. Canva is great, great for doing some mockups and for easy like quick cut files. So we're going to customize our little canvas. We'll make it 10 inches. Let's make those inches. We'll make it 10 inches by 10 inches. Create a new design. And we're going to start by just drawing a circle. I'll do myself a circle. Make this 10 by 10 by 10. This one doesn't really matter. Now we're going to add a frame so we can put a picture inside it. So it'll be the shape of our like frame. So you come in here, you just type in frame, type in frames. We need a circle frame and we're going to make this 10 by 10. It's already locked. Go ahead and center it. Now we need a picture to put inside here. So let's go ahead and look for a skate park. I'm looking for a photo. I know I want this photo. So I'm just going to drag it right into there. And if I don't like where it is, I can change some positions by editing the photo. And crop the photo. I can slide it around a little bit. It looks good done. Let's add some text to this thing. So we'll just come over here and put a heading up here. This one is kind of funny. So let's go ahead and type it out. I don't. I'm going to click off. Let's go ahead and find our font. I know what font I want. It's Alderly Swash. There we go. Good change. Yeah. Okay. Right. Let's Ctrl C, Ctrl V, Copy, Paste. Let's see if I can spell. Let's make this one bigger. Let's get up in here and we'll select both of these. We'll make these white. All right. One more paste. But for this font, a capsule condensed. There it is. But when I do paste, we'll copy and paste this one that way. It keeps my font. It's pasted again a little bit. Let's make my ankle bigger. That's the joke part. Let's make the punchline a little bit bigger. All right. It needs a little something. Let's get rid of this one. Let's make this a little bit bigger. Make sure this guy is center. Let's make sure it's going to center. All right. It needs a little something here. So let's go to Elements, say Crutch. Let's spell Crutch right. I want a graphic perfect right there. Bring it up to the top of the crutch. Just paste this stuff out a little bit. All right. There we go. That is our design. Our design is all finished. We're going to make our cut file. Xtool's design software is creative space. But did you know that the Xtool P2 also works with light burn? One of the things we're going to do with the cut file today is just going to be a little bit easier in light burn. So we thought we'd show you how to make the cut file in light burn. All right. Let's make this design an actual cut file. So we're going to go ahead and export this. We're going to download. Now we're going to export this as an SVG with a transparent background. Download. All right. Now we're going to select the words like this. But as a PNG, so download is PNG, and I do want a transparent background. All right. Over on light burn now, we're going to import our image. So let's go to Downloads. Don't always PNG. And we don't need this. We don't need that. But what I do need is a 10 inch circle. So I'm going to draw a circle holding shift. Now I can tell that it's 10 inches. Let's actually make it 10 full inches. All right. Now here's where it really gets easier in light burn. See how all these are different? Little cuts, little objects. So let's grab these and we're just going to merge them. Bam. That's the one thing that I found that you can't do in creative space that you can in light burn. So we're just going to go ahead and unite or merge or weld all of these little pieces here. Let's keep welding. There you go. Everything's welded. So let's ungroup this. Then move this little guy just down a scooch so we can weld him. That's all the less pieces I have to place. All right. So all of my cut pieces are going to be red. So let's go ahead and move my circle next to them and grab everything. Now I can really condense all this stuff and save room. So I'm going to bring this down. I'll bring ankle up. And ankle up. Control Z. Go ahead and group on that. Group it. Bring it in. Oops. Lost my B. Let's try to save some space. All right. We are set. We are ready to go. So for my... Oh, let's make all these red. These are all going to be cut. Cut. So for my speed and power I'm going to use 10 millimeters per second and I'm going to go 75 percent power. Now actually I want the top words to be white and the bottom words to be black. So let's go ahead and select all the words that I want to be white. And we'll move them up out of the way. All right. Grab these. We'll turn these sideways so I can save some room. We're just going to group these at the same time. Control G. We'll bring this over. Now I see that it's... My role is going through here but I'm not going to select that. I'm just going to select these pieces. And now I'm ready to cut. So again my speed is 10 millimeters per second. My power is 75. Let's go cut this. Four. We're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to take this over to the P2 and we're going to cut out some of the pieces out of the white side. Then we're going to slap it up, flip it, rub it down to cut the other pieces out of the black side. Very little painting. Yes. This is what makes this faster and cheaper. Our designs. I'm going to print all of my designs, both of mine I guess just two, using sublimation. And I'm going to print the DTF versions. For my sublimation print I'm just going to use Word. I found that that's the easiest. So I'm just going to insert my picture from this device. It's the emotional support shark. You're doing a good job. I know the dry erase that I cut out was 8 inches flat. So let's go ahead and make this 8 inches. And we'll put this in front of the text. Then I can move it around and make it center. I'm going to pump up the color a little bit. Let's pump the saturation up 200%. That way it will look good when I press it. And we'll flip this horizontally. So it's mirrored. File. Print. I'm going to use my Epson Eco Tank 2760 that we converted into a sublimation printer. Printer properties. I'm just going to make sure that the quality is on high. Okay. And let's print. Press it. Now we're going to press our images onto our backers. But first we're going to wipe our backers down with some alcohol to make sure we get all that residue and char and oils and everything. Just clean it. Clean it clean. Yeah. We're not driving after this. If you don't have one of these yet and you're doing sublimation you absolutely need it. I thought it was overkill a bit bougie when I got it and I thought it was funny because I was like, look at this pink thing that I'm getting. But me and this thing is great. It actually cuts your tape for you and pulls up just little short pieces for you. You create your own cut pieces. You're so craft bougie. Yeah, craft bougie. I'm using this this time because I don't have to paint the board white and I already have this board. So just know that you don't have to use this like you do with the sublimation. But I do think since I have it, it's a convenience. It's already white. It's going to help those colors look a little brighter and a little more vibrant. Did you just side them us? You just side them me. Who does that even mean side them? He just like, these guys, this guy over here with the sublimation. The thing with sublimation is he does need to tape this down because it cannot move and it will try and slide some in the heat press. So this is going to keep it from moving so it doesn't get that ghosting image. So you notice on my image I have the little white outlines that's where we'll be placing all of our little letters. We're going to still make these 3D and make them pop. We're just hopefully going to save some time with the backer and some of the colored pieces that we would normally paint. Just two sides. Alright, the press calls. I'm going to hit it 385 for 45 seconds. For DTF, I have just aligned the image over the circle MDF. We're going to press it at 300 degrees for 10 seconds. This one's a quick press. Now this is a cool peel so I'm going to set it aside, let it cool and then peel the overlay off. Now I'm back. I couldn't find my Teflon sheet so I put the cover sheet back on. We're going to press it for another 10 seconds after you peel the cover sheet off just to make sure everything is sealed. And those are the instructions on this particular glue we're using. Now with the brush. We're going to use these little makeup sponges because we only have a few pieces. I have a little shark and she's got a little gas can and a match and then a crown for the cat. And that is it. Just a couple pieces giving just a little hint of our style. Yes, that's exactly right. I'm going to knock this out quickly so don't look away. Don't blink, this will be quick. Now we're going to bring it all together. We're going to use some of this star-bond thick and we're just going to glue all of our little pieces into place. We have outlines for everything. Now we're just going to put it into place. Before we do it though we're going to clean both the back and the fronts of these letters. This is my favorite step. We'll end for about eight dollars in materials and time and I think we can get twenty to twenty-five dollars depending on level of effort. Right, this board, this two foot by three foot board cut all four of these. It was ten dollars. We threw a couple dollars in for labor, laser time, paint and glue. No more than eight fifty. I think it's closer to seven or seven fifty in each one of these. So there's Snarky. I don't know if you're able to read them. We're going to give you some nice close-up shots but they're very funny and I think they're going to be entertaining. My favorite is this. I know, I thought my favorite was going to be this rollier ankle. The ankle, yeah. I really enjoy my shark here. I think he's cute. His emotional support shark. You're doing a good job. You're doing a good job as well as free SPGs, a super secret Facebook group and a monthly Zoom call. That's all for our top tier patrons. You can join us over at Patreon.com. You can find all of our kits and paints in our store at K&ZMAKEIT.com. These guys know. We love our patrons. Thank you so much. We're about out of time. So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show, that's the after dark. We'll see you next week where we'll do a build and make it again. Don't forget to join us on Tuesdays when we do a test cut Tuesday. It's usually a door hanger or something. It's a live test cut. See if it works. Put it together. I don't know. I think this was the easiest one to do the balancing thing. Ooh. He broke it. I didn't break it. Tough and durable.