 we just made these car air freshener vent clips using an acrylic hack and some scrap wood and we'll show you how we did it right now what is up a welcome back do it to do it build it or make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week we're sticking with small items that have a big profit we talked about it in last month's zoom call with our patrons then there's been a lot of chatter and our top tier Facebook patron group and people sharing some files so we thought we would share our version of those car air freshener vent clips that's right we've seen some really beautiful ones made with patterned acrylic but we can't make patterned acrylic and it's a little expensive to purchase so we thought we would share our pattern acrylic hack using transparencies that you can print on step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies we needed some eighth inch Baltic birch we're gonna use some printable transparencies we needed the little vent clips the little felt pads these diffuser pads are little round felt circles which you will add essential oils to let me share the essential oils this one is great it comes with a selection and also has like a little recipe card so you can make different scents they can choose their scents you could make it right there on the spot at a craft show pretend you're a chemist yeah we'll do a little alchemy or you can buy the little pads already scented so these are little scented pads they come in pouches and they could choose their scent and they get one that comes with it and then they looks professional yeah a little bit more professional I thought so too step two we're gonna make our designs well the background design kind of a middle piece it's three pieces this is that acrylic piece so we're gonna hop into Canva and we're gonna go look for some images that we can use and print on this transparency so I was looking for some stained glass images you can also get one of the designs we have is a mermaid design so I'm looking for a mermaid pattern you can go down here to photos and just grab a photo of a mermaid pattern and pull that in we're gonna take these images export them and load them into Microsoft Word and size them to about three inches we're also gonna boost that vibrance of about 40 percent that way it will print nice and bright and we're gonna use the photo best quality setting on your printer time to design the overlays this is like the cookie part of an Oreo cookie we're gonna mash it between these overlays no you're gonna mash the overlays no you're gonna map oh yeah we're gonna mash the background image in these overlays that we're about to do so again we're gonna jump into Canva and inside Canva we're gonna look for laser cut pattern circles and we're just gonna click on a couple add them to our canvas and we'll export these as an SVG step four we're gonna make all of our cuts I'm gonna bring this eighth inch Baltic birch over to the omtech polar and we're gonna cut out our overlays and then I am going to take this acrylic sheet or transparency sheet I'm gonna tape it to the cardboard because we're gonna take this over to the polar laser and cut out our transparencies as well we'll meet you over in lightburn now my settings for the Baltic birch I use 10 millimeters per second and 40% power they came out okay we're gonna cut our transparency using the polar laser as well so we've got our transparency tape to this cardboard we're gonna use the onboard camera to line up where our circles will go these are a two and a half inch circle we're just gonna line it up over each one circle over each image and we're gonna cut the transparency at 20 millimeters per second and 20% power ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding I don't need to go find music I just did the music for the fast forward of the cuts time to stain and or paint that was first try Kimcho stain the longest of the drying times now these are going to be the great thing about these as They're so tiny. This is gonna be so fast. I've actually already shaken up your stain. Ooh, not stirred shaking It is shaking. These are like my poker chips. Oh, I'm really feeling like James Bond now stand Shaking so I don't know. All right So don't know if you noticed during the Cut process. There's a front and a back to each one of these and the backs actually have a little Circle a circle a solid circle where you'll glue or attach the Ven clip so that was great. He added that to each one of them And we can offer this is a little like set here Some of them I can't match up like I get the mermaid some of these square ones that confuse me a little And then you've got to pay attention to it's like that game What was that game where you had to match up the face back in the front because Otherwise the patterns won't match up. Yeah, so don't stain the wrong side All right, this and this okay now. We're just gonna use this little foam brush. This is so easy and make staining super simple Six time to assemble. We're just gonna take our two like Oreo cookie pieces Friends and backs. We got our stuffing our transparency. We're just gonna sandwich it in there I will glue it together using some starbomb thick Oh, and then finally We're gonna add the little clip that will allow you to clip it to your vent We're gonna glue that all with the starbomb thick Now so we've got two different methods on how we're gonna do this So I was just saying isn't it great how this starbomb comes with these micro tips And this is a tiny tiny little tip and it's gonna be perfect for some of these small pieces like the Mermaid scales here. I think it's gonna be perfect for that, but Garrett now. She's gonna go micro tip I'm gonna go make a tip by that. I mean I'm gonna squirt a bunch of this into a plate I'm gonna dab it around in that glue a little bit and then I'm gonna glue them together That's how I'm gonna do it. We'll see. We'll see who's who's comes out better. Yeah, let's see Yeah, I think it would be pretty efficient if yours works each of these for about 55 cents Yeah, the clips are about 27 cents each a little felt pads here If you just give away like little felt pads and with no fragrance they're 10 cents The ones with fragrance are just a little bit more the Transparencies are 8 cents each and then the wood we estimated at about 10 cents for the wood or These are great scrap products. So hopefully you've got some scrap and it's really I mean I guess it still cost you a little bit, but if you were gonna throw it away. I mean either way It's a good chunk of change We could probably sell these for like 10 to 12 bucks each Yeah, we're thinking we're gonna offer them eight dollars each or two for ten So great bargain. I think we're making a great profit. Yeah, so out of scrap. I mean, it's all profit Well, I guess the transparency and the time but it was super easy to put together to probably one of our easiest Well wait and one more thing some of these are made out of the eighth inch But some of these are actually made out of the quarter inch. Oh, that's right. Can't even tell I Think I like the deepness Well, we are about out of time So if you're not gonna join us over on patreon for our after show, we will see you and next week We'll do it build it and make it again. Oh, don't forget to join us on Tuesdays where we do a test cut Tuesday Right now. We're doing Christmas in July. Yep All right, I am going to go put one of these in my car