 We just had a 24-hour super secret sign design challenge with a surprise sign swap. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week, we're splitting up. No, we're not. We're together forever. But we are going to split up and do a different secret sign design challenge. This is something a little bit different for our channel. We always do our designs together, you know. Yes, I can't do it alone. A little back and forth. That little volley of the design. But we did think we could do something a little bit different and fun for our channel this week. We haven't really done this before, but we're going to do a 24-hour challenge. So we have 24 hours for me to design a sign for Garrett. And then I have 24 hours to design and cut a sign for Kim. And then we're going to come back together, swap and paint. Oh, it's like a secret design sign challenge. And you'll have to vote at the end who's came out better, who did a better design, and who did a better job at assembling and painting sight unseen. Step one, idea time. And this is where we have two hours to come up with a brand new idea. It's got to be unique. It can't be a design that's in the works, Kim. Garrett, I told him, I already know you have a skateboard design in the works and I don't want to do that one. So we can't use that one. Can't need a new idea. All right. So I know Kim is thinking I'm going to do something BMX related. So I don't want to be predictable, although I would love to do something BMX related. I had something geared up for skate. But I don't want to use something even close to a design that we have in motion. But I had some ideas this past weekend, July 4th weekend. We were down in Morrisville, North Carolina. And I got to live some real lake life and hang out with locals and live their lake life. And you know what I saw? No, I didn't see any fishing. There was nobody fishing. I saw a lot of pontoon boats, a lot of people hanging out on pontoon boats, towing stuff behind the pontoon boat and a lot of jet skis. So I think I'm going to redesign some lake life sign to look more like lake life, the lake life that I saw and the lake life that I know our buddies down in Morrisville live. So I'm going to come up with something with jet skis and water skiing and pontoon boats, something like that. So I already have an idea of what I want to do. I actually don't tell Garrett, kind of started this idea right before we decided to do this. So I'm going to continue on with this idea. There's a little something I started an illustrator, so I hope he doesn't yell at me and tell me I'm cheating by coming up with something that was already there. But it was a requested sign. It's a sign I know we need. And I think it might be a fun sign to paint overall. So my idea is a birthday sign. We need a birthday door around. We do not have one, so I want to make a birthday door around. So I thought I'd start here in Pinterest and just kind of see what's out here. So I just did the search for it and see what other people are doing and what I like. Like I kind of like this candles. This is too much for us to make anything that looks like that. Okay, they're okay. I like the flags at the top. I like the shape of the birthday sign, like these guys. I don't know if I want to do it in a shape or just keep it on around. Ooh, I like this one a lot. This one is kind of like everything else we've got. I think I want mine to say happy birthday. Let's celebrate, right? Because that's what I want to put out there for people to see. So I like this one. Could I make it say happy birthday? Let's celebrate with a cupcake. Or almost kind of fun. It has a little chalkboard on it. It could put somebody's name or is it just like, hey, it's somebody's birthday. Ooh, this one's not bad. Maybe we could do something like that with like a happy birthday with the cupcake in a round. And then let's say happy birthday around the top. Let's celebrate in a cupcake. Balloons are kind of fun too. All right, I think I'm going to go with something in this general eye direction right here. Maybe something. I like these two. So I'll just save them to our door hangers. So oh, that's a porch leaner. Save them over here to, well, I'll know where it is. All right, I think I have my idea. I didn't even need two hours, but don't tell Karen I didn't need the full two hours. Okay, as I start to flesh out my idea a little bit more, I'm going to start in either Canva or Adobe Stock. That's usually where we start. So I'm going to start over here in Canva and just look for, I don't know, we'll just do a new doc wallpaper. Let me see. I like to start with a poster here. It is poster. There we go. Just a blank one. And then go into elements and I'm going to type in birthday cupcake. That's what we just saw. And then I'm going to say graphics and seal. Here are all the cupcakes out there. And what are we thinking? Like that would be a good one for making into a cut file. This one isn't because of all the watercolor in it. So I'll use that one with a candle in it. I don't know what half these things actually look like from afar. So I'm going to go out to Google images and see what I can find. Something that will help inspire my actual design design. Now that I have an idea, now I need to make that idea a design. All right. I had to stop recording because he came in to grab his laptop right in the middle of my design. Look at that cute little cupcake. And had to yell at him for cheating. I'm not going to make you bleed through while I figure this out. But this is what we have to do is just kind of go through and look for what seems like it'll work. Oh, that's a great one right there. You can make a cupcake. This will be easy to paint two pieces. Add a few sprinkles on there. It's nice and easy. Garrett doesn't always look very easy though. But I'm doing the design this time. So I don't have the skills that he does. I might stick with this guy here. But you know what? I might keep these little stars. I do like that. I could put that around there. But look at these. Put these on. I'm going to go spy on Kim. See what she's up to. Oh! She's right here. How's this coming to spy on you? Well, you were loud enough that I knew you were right there. I thought I was sneaking up. Sneaking up. Step two, it's design time. This is where I get to take my idea and turn it into a real design. And at the end I should have a cut file. But we only have 24 hours to get this done. Right. Which you know, some of us might be at a little bit of a disadvantage because some of us might have better skills than others. Right. Well, this is where we see some give and take. This is where we see where the volley is when we do it together. I know I'm a little weak at my fonts. So my fonts might not be up to par. And I would still consider myself a beginner Adobe Illustrator user. So we're going to have to keep our design, you know. It's either going to take me a long time to do it, or I'm going to have to keep it pretty basic. I think you'll be fine. All right. 24 hours. Have all my clip art together ready to go? I downloaded it out of Canva as an SVG. Now I'm going to start bringing things into Illustrator and start to actually put my idea together in Illustrator. I'm going to start with like a sign shape. I want it to look like it might be at a national park. So I'm going to go find a national park sign and make my sign shape from there. And then just start borrowing from the clip art that I downloaded in Canva. Okay. I'm back. I pulled all of those elements from Canva. You can see here, I pulled down that cupcake, some stars. I couldn't get this to separate and use those stars. So I used those guys. I still want to do a second one with this tiered cake I found. I'm going to do something with that, but maybe not for this challenge. And then I pulled this same cupcake. I must have really liked it because I pulled it twice. And here's the little banner I found. So I put all of those elements onto the shiplap backer here. Added the little stars. And now I have to go in and figure out how to make this thing a cut file. I'm pretty happy with my design. Now I think I'm going to just turn this into a cut file. I only want like three layers and then the banner. So I'm going to try to keep like all the activities just sitting on top of the water. So I thought I'd do a quick check-in to say, as I began to make the cut file, the very first thing I want to do, I don't know how to do. So I did this happy birthday on the text. Oh, I meant let me click off here so I can show you. Type on path. Well, now I need to make that text so that I can make those cut letters. And I don't know how to do that. So I'm going to go figure it out. This is what I'm saying. This is going to be a lot. This is where I would turn around and say, okay, how do I do this? And Garrett would show me really quickly. But I've got to do it all by myself, like a big girl this time. All right, mine's all ready to test cut. I have it over to Tanner. She's getting some extra help. She's cheating without help. I can't help. I can't help. I can't help you. That's that part of the rules. The rules are to each his own. Okay, I think I am finally done. I cannot express how awful it was to trim these around this corner. I had a terrible time. I can't wait to tell Garrett how long it took me and what hoops I jumped through to get it to work and to see how I could do it faster. But anyway, it is done and I just exported it as an SCG. So now I'm going to have Tanner cut it for me. Step three, time for some test cuts. It's been 24 hours. We had to submit our designs or our cut files to Tanner. That way we won't see each other's designs and light burn. Yeah, so that was what I was getting ready to say. It's been a little bit harder than I thought it was going to be because I had to design it in Adobe Illustrator, but I had to save it down locally. I had to name it Secret Sign Design Kim. So you wouldn't know what the name was. You wouldn't know what it is. And then I had to do a whole new trial pro account. Wow, you went in deep. So I could get some elements. Yeah, because you used all our normal stuff. I had to. I, well, we couldn't. I couldn't save it in the cloud. You see it? You went secret squirrel. Yes. I went honor system. I went, yeah, you can't find my stuff. You wouldn't even know where it was. Super secret. And so we each sent the files back to Tanner and then Tanner is going to cut them so that we're not back there when the other is cutting and accidentally come across it. Whatever. No peeking, Kim. Yeah, no peeking. Sign swap. We've each painted our own individually, so we have a control. That way we'll know what it's supposed to look like. What it's supposed to look like. Now it's time for each of us to paint the other's design. Now, we still haven't seen anything. Tanner is going to deliver our packages and we just have to open it up and go for it, right? Yeah. I mean, I think I go first, right? You go first? Okay. Good luck. Good luck, Kim. Actually, mine is so easy. So easy. Well, okay. All right, here comes my sign. Yeah. Tanner's bringing me my top secret sign. I know what it is. All right, let's give me something to open it. Yeah, let's see. I just want to be here. Actually, no. Well, I'm a little bit nervous because like I said, we all know that Garrett likes to go too far with too many pieces on new Lake life sign. Okay. Yeah, well, you're fine with that. Oh, you're just walking away? You guys just going to leave me? You want to hang out here with him? Yeah, like, what if I need to help putting it together? I guess I'm not going to have to score marks. I don't think I'm going to have to do that. Well, please tell me that's not a thousand tiny pieces. What am I supposed to do with that part? Let me, let me go clarify the rules real quick if I'm allowed to give heads. I don't know the rules. We're winging this one. Okay. I don't understand. This doesn't even fit in there. He also gets my help. I'm allowed to help you. So what I saw, I don't think you need these pieces to the boat. Here's a, what is this? A barge? This is a river barge? What is that? Yeah. You're going to want to keep these. Going to want to keep them. I do. And I think that we can pop all this stuff out. Yeah. I don't think you have to paint all that stuff. Oh my gosh. Okay. That pops out. Let's see what's banging. Kimberly. That's how you do it. You just tap it a few times and see what falls out. Yeah. I'm not going to make you need my help anymore. I think it's all up to you. I think that these pieces are going to pop out the bottom. So yeah. That little number. Not exactly. You'll figure it out. Watch. I got to get my fingers in there. What's so close? No. It's going to happen. Yeah. I agree. Give me something. I need something. Here's the roller handle. You want me to slam? Yeah. You know what Tanner's doing? He's trying to sabotage my sign. Yeah. That's what I've been doing the whole time. If you wanted to flip it. I might have lost it. We're sign surgeons up in here. Geez. He's still breathing in your sign. I might have lost it. Let him go. Well, now I've got like to repaint the whole thing. It is a mess. Dude, give Gary a shot at his. Yeah. I guess I should hide this. Uh-huh. This is for me. It's for you. Your bag's just going to go away. I see what's happening here already. Yeah. All right. I see a candle. I see some cupcakes. No, all this stuff was in here. I had to recut the candles. Your sprinkles are there. Oh. Sprinkles belong there. Oh, and there's sprinkles, huh? I'm already giving up the goods. I know. All right. Do you want a real pro tip here? I'm not going to give up. Yeah. Yeah. No, let me see what I got here. Yeah. All right. Let me go grab this for you. You do need these. Go get my candle. All right. Happy birthday. I see all your school remarks. Yours might be a little easier than mine was. Now I'm feeling bad. No, this ain't too bad. Do I get to choose where the timfetti stuff goes? Oh, and there's a little hat that goes somewhere. What's that with my hat, girl? I bet you that. Oh, I have no idea where the little hat is. See this little hat? That's my only question. All right. I'm going to start by painting everything white. This is where you guys get to vote. And I get to see how she did. I heard some hammering going on. It was the paint bottle. We had some drama. We had some drama. It was challenging. It was, you know. This whole thing has been fun. Yeah. I hope this is entertaining for you guys as it is for us because we can't wait to see. We can sneak it around. Yeah. We don't really know. Tang has been playing both sides. Yes. He has been. He has been. He's terrible. He'll come in, see what Garrett's doing, come in, see what I'm doing. Oh, yeah. You guys are nothing alike. Mm-hmm. So we've got Garrett's. I'm ready. I think we should hold it up and show the camera. All right. Show the camera. And then show each other. All right. Okay. Ready? One, two, three. Okay. Let me see. You know, we're top of the blue. Yeah. I thought that's what Tanner called it a swamp. He said, what is your guys, is your guy? No. It looks like a weather board. It looks like a lake weather board. I like it. Your mountains are better than ours. Yeah. I told him, I said, should I take these out, make up snow-capped mountains? And then he said, well, you're going to have to change that. And I was like, oh. Oh, you put that piece back in. Yeah. Well, I didn't see that. I didn't know that piece. I kind of missed it. They're not bad. Okay. I like yours. Okay. I get it. What would you say? Probably water. I get it. Why are your pieces open and mine aren't? On my first cut, I realized that this was way too detailed. I'd never be able to get those pieces back in. Right. So if you see on yours, I dumbed down the trees and made a more silhouette. Yeah. And you'd be able to put that piece back in. But I love the blue and the gray and the white. I get it. Oh, and you did spot. You look like we did the same water. Yeah, we did the same water. I really like your board, though. I really like your board. First, now let's do your design. Okay. Back with Kim's. Son of a member. Yours was a little, I was not expecting yours. I thought yours was going to be something totally different. So I was a little surprised to see this one. Yeah. It's all right. Well, I'll show you and then we'll talk about it. And then I had to decide whether or not I was going to paint it very poppy or paint it in muted colors like I thought you might do. So let's see. Let's see. I told Tanner that you were going to paint yours in primary colors. Oh. Blue, red, yellow, green, like primary birthday colors. That is hilarious because let's go on three. One, two, three. Let me see. Wow. Look at yours. No wonder it took you so long to paint it. Oh, now I know where the hat goes. Okay. I didn't know where to put the hat. Oh, yeah. So the font came with the heart, but I took that away, the heart away. Yeah. So yeah, mine is a little more muted than yours. Yeah. Wow. Look at yours. Okay. So I lost part of my flame and I made the flame bigger. Oh, you didn't even put those pieces back in. No, I didn't put pieces back. Well, that's cool. I put mine back in. Yeah. Look at you. Look at you with all this shading. You're trying to show me up. Well, look, I showed you up on this. Yeah, I knew you were going to go big with these. So I wanted to be able to do something. And because I saw that it looked very, very happy birthday-esque, I was like, oh, well, she must have done something. She must have done something to pump it up. So. No, I just left it. So this was because we did not have a birthday one. You know what I've been wanting to do a birthday hat. I like to hat over the aisle. Isn't that cute? Yeah. Isn't that cute? Somebody said you need a birthday hat on there. And then I said, we'll put it as the dot in the eye. But if I put a big bow, you're not even going to see it. So I don't know what to do there. Oh, I guess, yeah. Yeah, you did a great job. Oh, my gosh. You too. No wonder it took you so long to paint it, though. Yeah, I had to do a little bit of shading. I thought I'd make it pop. Well, so we didn't have a birthday sign. And I thought you were going to go different color things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, look at you. Well, now I just did the things different colors. Oh, that's why it took me so long. I did put this piece on last. Probably should have gone on first. No, you didn't have score marks. How did you know where to put these? Oh, I just guessed. I just guessed. Yeah, because you did look. I mean, you really just guessed. Yeah, I just guessed. Even writing between happy birthday. Well, it looks great. You did a great job. Somebody just asked me, Marcy, I think, just asked if we could please do a birthday one. And I was like, yes. Marcy, you're in luck. Here's your birthday one. Yeah, I wanted to do it. We didn't have a birthday one. And I thought it's so it's like, you can paint this out for anyone's birthday, right? Happy birthday. Let's celebrate. I mean, birthdays come out every month. Everybody has a birthday. Yes, yes. All right, all right. All right, that's that time. It's a voting time. I'm going to need to see some comments. I'm going to need to hear your reactions. I hope you were as excited as we were. Yeah, I had a really good time. I thought this was very fun. I liked how you're being all super secret squirrel on me. That was great. So you didn't get any. So truth be told, did you see or find anything? No, no. One time I saw a cupcake on your screen. Oh, you did. I didn't know what that was for. If it was for, I had no idea. I did not think it was going to be a birthday one. I saw, I evidently had this open. I was scrolling through photos looking for something and Tanner's like, what are you doing? And then I was like, what do you mean? And he goes, his sign is all over the screen. So I quickly shut it. And I was like, well, I didn't see it. I don't know what I just passed because I guess maybe I saw that. But I guess I thought it was one of these. I didn't even look. I was looking for something. I don't think I saved it up in the cloud. I thought I saved it locally. I thought it was safe. So did you tell your videos or something? I don't know. I don't know, maybe. But I evidently scrolled past something. But I didn't know it because I was looking for something specific. And so I was just scrolled on past it. Tanner was like, just get out of there. Close it. Close it. Luckily, he was there. I was trying to cheat. And told me to get it. I swear I didn't see it. I didn't see it. Give us a vote. Yes. Okay. So I guess what do you need to vote? Do you need to vote? I gotta say. Who's design is better? This is going to be a hard one because they're so different. Yeah. And then who did it better? Yeah. Who's design is better? And then who did it better? Don't worry. You're not going to hurt my feelings. I mean, I think you did it better on both of them. Oh, is that your vote? All right. You heard it. That's it. We're about out of time. Before Kim changes her mind, we will see you next week where we'll do it, build it, and make it again. Oh, and remember, join us on Tuesday. We're always doing some kind of test cut, something like this, and giving it a paint, and seeing how it goes. So we will see you next week. Oh, and this one's like a gray one to balance. It's odd shape. What do you think about the shape? I figured I'd try to get a national park. Yeah. It's like a national park-esque. Yeah.