 We just made these super trendy high-profit laser engraved hair clips, and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do it build it or make it so do we we have a new video each week this week I'm getting all up in your hair This week we're working on our smalls if you joined our patreon zoom call last month You know we talked about adding small-dollar items to your craft booth because we're joining a new pop-up tabletop Craft booth, and we need smaller items. We don't have those currently in our booth We use our standing displays and only bring our door rounds But we wanted to start adding some small items because small-dollar items can add up to big dollars And we have very limited space, so we have to shrink everything these hair clips are so trendy right now We thought we'd show you how we're gonna take a picture of the clip make it a template Add your own artwork to it, and then make it a digital cut file for your laser Step one we're gonna gather over supplies. We're gonna start with some hair clips. I got these on Amazon I've included the link below these are six pack for $10, so they're about $1.66 or something apiece We needed some eighth inch birch plywood, and because eighth inch birch plywood is expensive Or at least more expensive than cardboard. We're gonna use this cardboard to make all of our test cuts We also needed some stain. We're gonna be using some of our friends over at unicorn spit some of their stain We're gonna be mixing some colors. We're gonna use some min-wax stain Stains different colors. Yeah, and we're gonna need some star bond thick to glue the wood pieces onto our clips step two We're gonna make our template. I don't know what this shape is. I don't know what this shape is called It's kind of a weird shape gonna have to make it and I don't know what size this thing is But I want to make something that fits this thing perfectly So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this over We're gonna have a little photo shoot me in a hair clip, and I'm gonna bring it in the illustrator We're gonna create a template when I was taking a picture of this thing I wanted limited colors So I wanted a white background and the color of the clip in my photo So I tried to flood the background to get rid of any shadows I laid a measuring tape down so that when I resized the in illustrator I'd know what size it actually was and then I also Used my flash to try to again eliminate any shadows All right, let's drag that photo into illustrator and I'm going to make a copy of this thing so control C Control shift V. It'll paste it right over top. I'm gonna trace this top one I'm gonna use the bottom one as my control. So let's go to the image trace window and Now I'm just gonna start to play with the image trace until I get a good clean like two color This gets a bit tedious and every image is a little bit different So I'm just gonna fast forward through this I get deeper into image trace and stuff like that over on patreon during our live zoom calls little training sessions Once my image is satisfactory, I'm going to expand it and then ungroup it from there I'm just gonna delete all the pieces. I don't want like this background is a little gray thing back here and Whatever happened to the tape measure. I'll delete both of these things Now I'm gonna group my new object and the original picture I'm gonna try to get the size right. So I'm gonna draw a five inch rectangle Then I'm going to shrink the image until the tape measure is about five inches So that the tape measure matches my five inch rectangle. So that's a good starting point for size of this hair clip All right, I'm done with the rectangle. We can get rid of it Let's ungroup the picture and the object. Let's get rid of this hole in the middle So I'm gonna release it and then immediately unite it now. It's all just one thing I want to get rid of this top tab I'm gonna draw a rectangle up on the top by selecting the top object and the bottom object going to my pathfinder tool and Then using minus front. I should get rid of that tab on the top Now if I select my pen tool, we'll see that there's a lot of extra little nodes a lot of little extra handles so I'm gonna take care of this with the first round of Simplifying my path. I'm gonna go to my path Simplify use their defaults. See it really cleaned up those things. I got a little outlier here. I'm just gonna delete that Now to make sure this thing is symmetrical and both sides match. I'm gonna do a copy Control shift paste that should paste one right over top of the other. I'm gonna change the color So you can see that there's two now My top one's pink control Z control Z. I'm gonna go up to object Transform reflect that should flip the top one vertically Now I'm gonna select both objects the top one and the bottom one my window Pathfinder tool and we're gonna unite these two now. This thing should be a Symmetrical hair clip now because a small hair clip isn't some crazy Shape I can just use my rounded corner rectangle tool And I'm gonna draw a rectangle. That's two and a quarter inches wide one or a quarter inch tall All right, let's get these ready to test cut So we're gonna lose the fill and then we're gonna give it a stroke of red. I like red for cuts Now I'm gonna export this as an SVG Then I'm gonna head over to creative space and import that SVG and we're gonna cut it Step three time for some test cuts We're gonna use our cardboard because it's faster and cheaper This is a great thing to use those Amazon boxes. Everybody has them laying around This is a great use for those when you're doing your test cuts start with cardboard put it together Make sure it's the right size. That's the way to do it our first cut was only like 10 15 seconds and It's a little too big. I'm glad I used the cardboard So I'm gonna adjust it in the illustrator and we'll try another cut I'm gonna shrink the big clip and I'm gonna make the little clip a little bit bigger So I'm gonna bring the big clip down to four and a quarter inches wide. I measured the clip and I'm gonna just bring the small clip up a scooch and let's go cut it again And to our template so I created a bunch of different animal prints I thought this would be easy to start with there's lots of animal prints out there And they'll give me a big selection right off the bat I also knew that I wanted to add a couple of snarky signs or snarky sayings on our clips because Snarky always sells And then Garrett was clever enough to say hey, are you gonna put that saying on both sides? One of them what two of them actually have the word heifer on them So I think I'm gonna put the cow print on one side and the heifer saying on the other Kind of keep it in that same aesthetic All right Kim's got a bunch of artwork. So I need to make a couple of these I'm gonna give it a background color so I could see these a little easier and make a bunch of copies And now we'll get ready for the artwork All right, this first piece of artwork. We're gonna start with another SVG So I'm just gonna copy this SVG and paste it over top of one of my hair clips One of the big hair clips. I'm gonna position it so it looks like cow print on this thing I'm gonna use that copy Paste right back into place using that control shift V Now I should have a copy of that hair clip object I'm gonna select that and the cow print will go to our Window Pathfinder tool and this time we're gonna crop Now that should put the Cow print in the shape of my hair clip I'm gonna do the same thing to the small hair clip. I'm gonna get it into place I'm gonna copy control shift V And I'm gonna select that and the cow print and crop Now to keep this pattern shape to keep the file size down and to make sure that it engraves in Quick timely manner. I'm gonna rasterize both of these SVG patterns Inside of this cut file All right, that was how to do it if I had an SVG Kim gave me a couple of PNG artwork things too So let's go ahead and drag those PNGs over I'm gonna use the same type of method to place them and then I'm gonna copy the big clip I'm gonna paste it right back into place But the difference is instead of using my crop tool I'm gonna go up to my path and I make a clipping path With both objects selected I'm gonna go to object Clipping mask make now that PNG is in the shape of my hair clip I'm gonna do the same thing to the little guy and To make sure these patterns also keep their shape I'm also gonna raster these images Now these things should keep their shape when I bring them into light burn or creative space I'm gonna add all of the other artwork. Most of these are PNG So I'm gonna be using the same type of technique for all of these I'm gonna be making a clipping mask and then rasterizing all of the patterns inside of the clips Once I'm done I'm gonna lose the fill to all of the clips and to keep their red stroke on the hair clips with the designs inside rasterized and When I'm ready, I'm gonna export this as an SVG For my options. I'm gonna keep the inline style Fonts I don't have any fonts, but I want to make sure that my images are embedded and that the two checkboxes at the bottom Minify and responsive or unchecked Step five, we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're gonna do something different this week We thought it would be fun to show you how to make these cuts on all three of our x-tool lasers We're gonna make them on our F1 in case you want to do some personalization right at a craft show We're gonna make them on our D1 our diode laser And then we're also gonna make them on our P2 our new CO2 laser Do you know we have an online store where you can find all of the door rounds and projects we make on this channel? We also offer craft and paint supplies for one-stop shopping and join us over on patreon.com for additional content a weekly after show Access to our SVGs and a monthly zoom call where you can share ideas Learn from us as well as other subscribers And we've just added Adobe Illustrator classes once a month on Mondays to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator from the master Master What's your vote my vote? I think the P2 I think the P2 did the best Followed by the D1. Yeah, I mean the D1 surprised me. Yeah, I was gonna be my same vote Yeah, I am very impressed I will say with the Virgo and the detail in the lady on the Virgo with her hair I think the D1 did an excellent job of retaining all of the detail It didn't burn it up too much But the flip side of that is it's not engraving super deep So when you look at the salty hair don't care it looks great, but it's got a very shallow engrave Yeah, so the reason why I'm voting P2 is because it has a little bit deeper engrave But yet still does a pretty good job of keeping the detail we did these on the 100 watt laser and The Virgo lady it just blew her out. I mean The F1 did a great job of engraving I think the F1 super fast Yeah, it's specialty is engraving it did cut cut this eighth inch birch It burned a little on the edges, right burning on the edges But I don't think it's really gonna matter if you're gonna stain these if you were just gonna keep these with this Birch look that might be an issue, but if you plan to stain them right on the spot I think you're good to go. I mean, I think I Think I would cut the blanks and then just do the engraving Right one. Yeah, that's the way to do it Just have a bunch of blanks and then you can put the design right on there Or their name or their monogram Because it did a wonderful job of keeping the detail in her dress This is probably the best one to see that she actually has claws for feet So I think they all did a good job they do they have different strengths But I know a lot of you guys have the D1 so I wanted you to see what the D1 can do We've been advertising the F1 and how excited we are about using that at the craft show So I wanted you to see that and then of course big daddy P2 over there We wanted to have some fun as well and show you what it can do Step six and or paint I'm going stain. Yes I didn't know it was open who opened it You probably did Okay, we're gonna stain all of these things we're gonna stain them with some colors I Didn't get any on me There's not a drop on me It's on the light. It's on the camera. It's on the wall on the other wood Goodness, I don't even know how are we gonna? How are we gonna film over this? I guess you can Things happen Time to assemble we're gonna bring it all together with a little bit of this starbound thick. I will Get in between those little cracks We're just gonna take our engrave piece and glue it on this plastic hairpiece Hairpiece Hairpiece. Do you think we should? Rough it up a little bit. Uh-huh sandpaper little sandpaper. Yeah, didn't you have some Profit so we are all in on the big clips a dollar seventy-three that is the clip and the wood and Grave turn it's on the D1 and the P2 and It was like seven minutes on the F1. Yeah, the F1 is a fast super fast. Although. It wasn't as deep I think the best engrave actually came from the P2 and It had the quickest cut time right right, but if you have a D1 This is a great craft for the D1 if you have an F1 It's a good little craft for the F1 it'll engrave it and cut it and you can personalize it right on the spot So I think it's a great little craft for all three. Let's talk pricing then. All right So I'm thinking we'll charge four dollars for the little eight dollars for the big Or the set of small and little for two for ten of both for ten Yeah, both the set of small and big $10 and what for like 15 for two bigs two for 15 on the big ones instead of one for ten one for eight Well, I mean, that's not bad. That's a good chunk of change And I've seen a booth over there that when it was really hot out She was selling these things like hotcakes. Yeah Well, and I can attest to that because we were just at a craft show. It was super hot outside I didn't have a ponytail holder and guess what the booth across from us was selling these clips with nothing on them Just plain and I was like mmm. So I bought it. I think I spent on ten dollars just on the Yes, yes, see so yes, I think this is a great then this will totally work for our smalls Yeah, and with that we're about at a time We will see you on Tuesday when we're back with another test cut Tuesday We took the holiday off, but we are back and then we'll see you again next Friday We'll do it build it and make it again, and I mean, can you even balance something this small? I can balance it Oh