 Did you know you could use Cricut and Fusible inks to sublimate on dry erase boards? Did you know that the Glowforge would cut dry erase boards? We just made these signs using those two techniques and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do it though that I make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week we're stepping into some shape-shifting sublimation. Yes we learned a new trick with some melamine and I can't wait to show you what we can do with it. Step one that we're gonna gather all of our supplies. We really just needed some melamine that we picked up from Home Depot. It's got dry erase on one side, blackboard on the other. I know you guys have seen that there. And we're gonna be doing some sublimating so we're gonna use some of these Cricut and Fusible ink sheets now. Crazy patterns. Yes yes well and we have a sublimation printer but it's been a while since we used it and we can't get the ink to run in. I can only get three colors to work at one time. But that's okay. These have some awesome patterns and I look forward to using these on our melamine. Step two we're gonna make all of our cups. I'm just gonna take the melamine over the dry erase over to the Glowforge and cut it out. I bet you didn't know the Glowforge could cut through this stuff. Yes it does. Yes it does a beautiful job at it and we'll be using one of the designs we have in our store. We sell the SVG and the MDF but it was the hottest seller at our farmers market last week. It was the first one of the season. Like 30 minutes all four were gone. Yes we sold. We brought four of them. I was thinking I'd have some for this week in the next weekend. But of the first five sales four of them were the popsicles. Hello summer popsicles. So we're gonna use that design to showcase our new trip we learned with the melamine and the sublimation. To get up a notch make it pop even more. And I'm excited to use some leopard print here but I'll show you that when we get to it. I'm gonna use the pass-through slot to do both our 18 inch round and the design and I'm just going to use thick draft board as my settings. The glue forage they're a little bit dusty they got some char marks. We're gonna take care of that with a magic eraser. Takes it right off makes it look beautiful. Crisp clean. I feel like the sham wow guy. Looks like a muddy mess. Yeah. But then all you have to do is wipe it with a paper towel. Look at that. Look at those crisp lines. Look. I like how you show them but like you don't want them to get a good look. I gotta keep them moving. Keep them interested right? That's my loose interest. Alright I guess I'll clean up all my little pieces that I need to clean up. One of my little popsicle pieces. Two layers. And my letters. I think I'm gonna go cut my letters out of MDF. I don't think I'm gonna sublimate my letters. No I think they're just gonna be black. Yeah. Step three. Now we're gonna press it. We're gonna press it real good. I've done it every time he said it. We're gonna use our cricket infusible inks like we said. We're using for the popsicles the plan is to use mermaid rainbow and distressed berry. That's these two and then for my high I'm going to be using leopard. Round. Round. Your high is gonna be very high. Hey this is empty. I know. Surprise. Alright if you guys have used cricket infusible inks before they come very tightly wound and so I pulled them out a little while ago and tried to flatten them out some. They're still not super flat but I have rolled them backwards and I let them set for a minute. Yeah I did a lot of this. That one I think has a couple of extra sheets that we're not planning to use. Alright. Alright so I guess you've got to decide which goes on which. Now this looks blue but it's green so know that it's green. Okay. Well I think that's awesome and then you can turn around and do the purple over here. Yeah. Well gosh yeah. Why don't you come up with that idea before I roll 72 sheets here. I thought it'd be more fun that way. Yeah I think that's cool. Alright let me measure it out. Trim it. Can I have some skeezers? That was two boxes at 18 dollars a box. We could have done this with one box. I didn't know. Really just one sheet. Yeah. Really good I just went and bought one sheet. But if this looks great imagine how many more we can do. Oh yeah yeah. Do they provide parts for people? They do. I hid it from you. It's right here. Should I tape this down? Yeah I think yes. Let's do it. Let's do that. So we have some of this high heat tape. I'm gonna show it to you. Right here and I had cut some pieces. Then I'll step to the table. See how efficient I am? Yeah. Hold on let me see. I moved it. I just don't want to mess it up. We have parchment paper. Put your paper. We're gonna lay the infusible ink right down based down on top of the melamine. Then we're gonna add our parchment paper. We're gonna set our Cricut easy press to 400 degrees and we're gonna press this for 30 seconds. Going in ready. Ready. That was great. Stop moving it. I would not recommend moving it. Yeah don't shift it around like I would. I'm still sitting on a sawman's head. Oh shit. Alright let's see if this jam worked. I hear you. Oh my goodness they look so cute. They look great. Alright let's move those. A little little shifty shifty over here. Somebody got a little wonky with the... Okay are they too hot to pick up? Too cold to hold. Too hot to handle. Yes you got it lined up. This is the largest piece of tape for the smallest obstacle. Just wrap it around. Alright going back in. So much tape. That thing was going nowhere this time. Oh but the tape. Yeah the tape heated up a little bit. Lesson learned. Yeah it was blocking the heat. It didn't get as much heat right there or transferred more heat there. Yeah. You can kind of see it on our popsicle. I don't know if you can see that from there. But I think what you put the letters on it you won't notice. Yeah I think so. Oh those look cool. Let's see your hat. Can you see that? Yeah well the bar is right in the way but I'm going to say yes because I can't see them at all. Alright now let's get out our leopard print. I did leave this one in the box. I just left it in the box. Opposite. Oh you left it in the box called opposite. Oh that's good thinking. Alright so this is exciting. Look at how fun this is. Now this high is larger than 12 inches. So here's what I'm thinking Garrett. Oh never mind. Garrett's smarter than I am. If I turn it diagonal it works perfectly. Now will the leopard print look weird diagonal? I don't think so. I don't think you could tell. Can you tell if leopard print's diagonal? I don't think so. Tape me. That was so efficient putting it on the table like that. Well it was dangling perfectly. Until the wind blew. Okay hold on. Until I rub up against it. Yes that's what happened. I'm a little nervous to put too much tape on it. Oh here put it over here. 30 seconds. Oh we might have to move it. Yeah I'll do it up here. 30 seconds. Alright so it's the high is larger than the easy press so yeah we're gonna just do it in two rounds. All right I'm out. I'm out. That was six seconds left. All right ready? Ready. Both of us and I think that you didn't have enough pressure on this side. I didn't transfer. All right let's do this. See if I can line it back up. No way. You don't think so? Bring hello one inch and one inch. Can you do that? Yep I'll shrink it one inch. All right we'll be right back. Straight up. Look at it. Couldn't get any more straighter ripper. All right let's get it off there quick because I don't want it to. Whoo. All right yes that worked great. Yes that worked great. Let's see if I can show you. Oh it's so hot. You want to give it a second? Oh it's still hot. Whoo that's hot. It's like 400 degrees hot. It's almost like it's 400 degrees. It's almost like it was on fire. Oh maybe a little bit right there but it looks good. I think yeah a little bit right there. So yeah so you can see the negative and you can see maybe a little bit right here. It didn't transfer as much ink but but from your first glance you're not going to see that hopefully. Throw some clear coat on there. A bow. Little pop. All right step four. Now we're gonna glue it down. Glue it down. We've got to glue it down. Watch out. So we got all of our little pieces. We're just gonna glue them all together. All the colorful pieces. Glue it all down on our backer that we also cut out of the dry erase. Add a little slots for the bow. Ribbon. Ribbon. Ribbon. We've decided that the contact cement doesn't bond as well to the melamine so this clear gorilla glue we use this but you have to use it sparingly otherwise it's gonna ooze out from underneath. All right we'll give it like a couple of minutes. So maybe a little heavy on my glue over here. Yeah should have been paying more attention. Step five and now we have the accents. It's really just some ribbon or bow and a ribbon to hang it. We're gonna use these little slots that we have on the top. All right I hope yours is dry. You're just standing it all up like it's ready to go. Yeah totally forgot that it's dry. But you can slide it off like this. So the great thing about these rounds is you don't have to have any hardware. You just fold your wire ribbon and tuck it right in that slot. So easy because I'm using like using a V thickest ribbon for mine. A little knot in the back. Yep just slide it through like that. Just tie a knot in the back. No hardware needed. And that was easy because we were making them at the farmer's market adding the bows. Yeah yeah we ran out of inventory that was I had some stuff in progress and I was able to finish up some things right there. Add the bows. All right and I've shown you guys how to make this bow before we have another bow tutorial video at the end but I'm just using a piece of this what is this six inches or something? Six inch five and a half inch burlap for the backer and then I'm making this bow. I fold it over in the back. It's about mine's about nine to ten inches so scarits. Then you're just using four different coordinating up before you do it. I didn't do this for you sorry. You gotta what are you gonna do? Shiver on the edges? You gotta fish tail it? Yeah fish tail it. Fold it in half cut it. You can do both sides at one time. All right I guess we do it that way. Pinch the center. Pinch each of the sides. Can you see this? Yeah you're watching. All right I'm gonna do this. Put that right in there. Pinch this one put it right in there. The next one put it right in the middle. This little leopard print right on top. And then the newest trick we've learned is using these colored zip ties. These things are great. It makes it so much easier. You don't have to hold it while you tie it. And I can do this just by myself. I don't have to have that extra set of hands. And these colors pretty much coordinate with everything. Now I'm using the medium size to tie the ribbon. And then before I crank it down too tight you need some help over there. I go ahead and add the small one right in the back like that. And I go ahead and crank it down all the way. And then just cut it. Now this is ready to wrap around my tie. Want some help over there? No I got it. Garrett loves making bows. I do I love them. Wait how did you do it? It looks okay with the bow. I don't think I needed it. Yeah the bows really sell these things at the farmers market. All right what do you think? Yeah what do you guys think? What do you think about that transition here? I'm going to take these out in a minute. I'm going to flip the bows behind them. Oh yeah usually we will clear coat it before. We use the water-based polyacrylic. I'll leave a link down below to the one we use. It doesn't yellow. It hasn't yellowed on us yet. And then we use the mat and it takes off some of the shine here. Now it could be it's fine with the shine but I like it a little bit. But with the shine. But I like it a little bit like duller. Yeah we like that stuff. Keeping it dull. Speaking of keeping it dull. You know where we don't keep it dull? Over on Patreon at the after show. So it looks like it's time for us to go. So if you're not going to join us on Patreon for the after show we will see you next week where we'll do a build it and make it again. Oh these are easy to balance. I mean these are can you do two at one time? No I won't be able to think. I gotta have to watch the top of two at the same time.