 We just made these t-shirts using some bleach and some sublimation and it was way easier than we thought. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a build or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week it's a continuation from last week. We had so much fun messing with the sublimation that we decided to try it again this week but we're gonna make some t-shirts. Yeah so I have wanted to try this t-shirt technique from spring of last year and I couldn't get Garrett like bought into the idea. I know you've seen it. It's where they're bleaching the front of the tees. Well I feel like it destroys the t-shirt. That's all he kept saying. That thing's not gonna last. Once you bleach it it's not gonna last. So I couldn't get him sold on doing that as a video for the past year. But now that it's all over TikTok it's everywhere. Now everyone's doing it and we have the new sublimation printer. We want to test out doing the bleach technique and some sublimation today. TikTok gets me every time. That's it for sure. That's what I was gonna print you out of design. That's a piece of love TikTok. Oh. That might have worked. Step one we're gonna gather our supplies. This week we needed a sublimation printer. This is the same printer we converted last week. Super easy conversion. Way faster. I mean I wouldn't even call it a conversion. This is the printer we made a sublimation printer last week. Crazy easy. We needed a heat press. We're using our Cricut EasyPress. And that's because a couple people asked in last week's video why we didn't have a t-shirt press. They're great and it's actually maybe a little bit easier. But Garrett kept dropping ours off of the the table here because it wasn't glued down or bolted down. And we don't really have a place to store it. So we use the Cricut EasyPress the large one. It works as well. It works fine. We needed some sublimation paper. We're using the ASub. We needed some heat tape. High heat tape. Keeper image in place. Some t-shirts. Now a little bit about these t-shirts. For sublimation you want to keep your t-shirts about 50% polyester as the fabric of choice. But we want to bleach these. So we want them not all polyester. So if you get the Cricut shirts they're closer to 95% polyester. What we're looking to do is bleach these as well as sublimate on them. So we're going to have so these are running this particular Bella canvas which Michael Nels carries. It was pretty cool. It is 52% cotton and 48% polyester. So I think it will sublimate and I think it will bleach. We'll see. All mine are 50-50. Well except this one. This one's 60-40. Came from Walmart. So that's a Bella canvas. And then the other two are Gildan. Those came from Michaels. And then are you gonna show your tank there? And then my tank. This one is also 60% polyester. It's gonna look rad. Don't worry. We needed some bleach. A spray bottle. And then some what was this stuff? Butcher paper. We're gonna talk about that when we get to heat press. I've got a story about that one. It's butcher paper. I was gonna share more about that one. And then find yourself an image. Yeah. So we just pulled down a couple of images from Etsy. We found some sublimation. What are the SVGs still? Yeah. And we purchased those. We printed them out. And we'll put them right on our shirts. You can really use any image that you can bring into Word. Yeah. Photos. You can put all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Step two. We're gonna print our images. That's my new hand motion from print. We're gonna hop over to Microsoft Word and print our images. I think that's the easiest way to tell how big it is. And everybody has Word. Starting with a blank Word document. First thing we're gonna do is take down the margins. We're gonna take them all the way down to 0.1. One-tenth of an inch. All the margins. Top bottom left and right. Some of the margins might be outside the print area. That is okay. Let's hit ignore. And now let's go find our image. Let's see what we have. I think we should start with one of Kim's images. One that may be a little bit bigger. Perfect. A little bit bigger. Let's make it so that we can move this picture around. We're gonna go to the picture format menu. Wrap text. And let's put this in front of the text. And let's go to position and middle center. And let's drag it down a little bit. Perfect. Back up top to the rotate tool. And we're gonna flip horizontal. That'll mirror our image. And we're just gonna print it now. Our margins are too small. Some of the image might get cut off. But that's okay. I don't think it will. Step three. And now we sublimate. We're gonna heat press the images on our shirts but only half. Right we're gonna do two different techniques here. We want to try one. So we've seen a couple different things. We've watched lots of videos. How other people are doing it. So we're gonna do half of our t-shirts or a couple we're gonna do sublimating pre-bleach. And then a couple of them we're gonna sublimate after we bleach. Post-bleach. Post-bleaching. Alright so let's start with mine. And we have our images. We have oh I made two of each so that we can run a real test. I'm gonna use the same image. I'm gonna lay one down pre and one down post. And we'll see which one looks the best. Using the same shirt too. Alright. Think we need some butcher paper right? So this is where I was going to tell you about the butcher paper. So I told Garrett to order some butcher paper for sublimating so you don't want the ink to transfer onto your heat press or your heating pad. So you really need to put paper underneath and paper on top. So I asked him to order it. So this comes in the mail. I have to show you guys this because I think it's so funny. It's the meat hugger. Can you see it's the meat hugger and it is definitely butcher paper. But it's pink butcher paper so I don't even know. It's like butcher paper. If I were to go to the butcher and order like some kind of meat slice they would wrap it in that. He's ordered us quite the whole of picking. I don't even know. I don't even know. Look how easy it is to use. Bam. So we will see if this pink butcher paper is going to work okay. It was cheap. Yeah. Well if it works okay we'll put a link to it down below so you can get your own meat hugger. If it doesn't work and it bleeds pink we'll still put a link down below in case you like pink shirts. Don't you want to put cardboard in there and just for bleaching? No that's just for the bleaching. This is just for blowout so it doesn't get on the back of the shirt. All right this is my pretty. All right are you just gonna eyeball it? You didn't uh yeah I'm just gonna eyeball it because everybody that's looking at my shirt will also just be eyeballing it. If anybody ever runs up to me with a ruler I'm like oh whoa we're gonna show you the trick when I do mine. Is it straight? Yes. Oh now all of a sudden. Yeah well straight is different than uh I can't tell. Looks good right? Like four inches? Yeah three fingers for you. For you it's three fingers. For me it would be like four fingers. Yeah looks about right. High heat tape. I'm just gonna put one on either side. This is so I don't get ghosting. What do we do with that one? Is that not right? I don't remember the last time it left that tape mark. I don't want to do that either. Oh should we have trimmed around the image? Yeah. But yours is fine. Mine's pretty white. Mine's got a white background anyway. Well at least pretty much have a white background. Do you even have to trim it? We'll see if we have to trim it. I can do it right around here. Nah. We'll see how this one goes. We'll see what this one looks like. 385 for 60 seconds. Oh need another butcher paper. Oh my damn. We're a master. But you were my butcher paper assistant today. We're a master today. Hold on. I got you. Alright. Now 385 for 60 seconds. Oh I can't see where it is. Alright. Yes. I'm just gonna just gonna rest on it. This is like a test. It's like my shirt test. What do you think he was hanging off? You don't think I got it all? Not at all. It looks good. Oh yeah. Look at that. Yeah. It accepted it. It took it. It took it. There's Bart and crew. They're all ready to go. Alright. We'll set this one aside. So I know he didn't pre trim his but I'm gonna go ahead and kind of cut mine out. I was too excited. It's going right in. Alright. And once you print these on the sublimation printer, the colors, well this look pretty good. Yeah. They don't pop though. Yeah. They're a little bit dull. Yes. They're a little dull now on the paper but when the ink infuses into the t-shirt. Really brings it alive. Yes. But you're not even gonna see it that well on these t-shirts because we're doing these pre-bleach. If you did it on a white t-shirt you'd really see those colors pop. Let's see what it looks like after we bleach it though. Yes. After we bleach you'll see one pop again. Yes. Here's your inner. Oh this is a big shirt. I'm sure that wasn't my shirt. Yeah. No I'm not. It's an XL. I thought it was a large. You want to trade one with me? No. Those are all boy colors. Yeah. You want to trade with me? Okay. Trade my tank. Last minute. Alright. This will be my other Barton Crewe. This is actually a tank for me but Garrett wanted the red so he was gonna do his crew Jones on the red. For mine I'm gonna show you how to find center. If you've watched one of our t-shirt videos before you want to just put the seams together and then do a little quick press right here. Can you give me a quick press? That's good. Now when you open it back up there's a seam right down the middle. Oh look at that. Look at that. You're not even winging it. I'm not gonna wing it. We're gonna put our butcher paper in here. Let's see. That goes all the way up to the top. Make sure it's nice and flat. We're gonna give it a quick roll. Get all the lint off. That's right because you don't want that stopping or blocking your sublimation image. Good thing I think I saw a cat here in there. It would have been a permanent cat hair shape. And then you can find the center of your image like this as well. Just kind of do the corners. And because this is a you neck I'm gonna go closer to the top. Alright. I heat tape. I heat tape. I'm just gonna tape that along the edges. Put your paper underneath. Put your paper on top. This pink stuff seemed to work so we're gonna go in 385 60 seconds. You see where it is? You don't think you should go vertical? Oh my goodness. You never want to do this. You never want to move it after you put it on there. You do it every time. You do not want to move it. Now with this tank top I'm not really sure this one doesn't have cotton in it. You know I didn't notice until a little while ago that it's 65% polyester but 30 what is it 35% viscose. So I don't I still think that's a synthetic. So I don't know how well it'll bleach. I think it'll sublimate great. I don't think it'll bleach. I'm not sure how well it'll bleach. Yeah. We're about to find out. Alright. Most of the ink came off so I think it's good to go. We'll see. It also made it a little pink looking. We'll see what the bleach goes to it. Alright. Back to mine. Yeah. You're gonna do two. We're both gonna do two. Pre-bleach. I'm gonna do two of the same and then two of the same. Okay. Now we're gonna bleach. We dump some bleach into the spray bottle. Now we're gonna put some cardboard in the shirt so that we don't bleach all the way through. Just trying to bleach our images. Yeah. So this is just basic cardboard like cardboard box so you can get the pizza box. Yep. Or the t-shirt. You can get those t-shirt forms made out of cardboard. For Amazon boxes. I bet you you have an Amazon box with you. Yep. So we have each of these. Now you could do this outside and I would recommend doing this outside. Maybe in your driveway. But we can see. Looming rain. Yes. It's about to rain any moment. Any moment. And we're here filming this. So we're gonna do it inside. We have opened all of these windows up right here and we are gonna wear our respirators. Oh. There's thunder. See. Mitch we're going to spray it with a mist. And then we're gonna put it on stream to put the to give it those bleach. Shocking waves. Like streaks in the t-shirt. And we do have like a vinyl tablecloth down here. So we're doing this over vinyl. See how that goes. Safety first. All right. Ready. Going in. Speed this thing up. So you would do this outside in the sunshine because the heat helps to activate the bleach. So I think we're gonna try it with our heat gun. Gonna be the t-shirts that we're bleaching before we sublimate. So you dip this in the flour. You can kind of mark the edges of where you want it to be bleached. You want it closer like that. Wash our shirts. We're just gonna throw them in the washer. Quick cycle. Cold. Just as cold as it can be. And stops the the bleach. And you can wash them all together. Six. Now we're gonna sublimate the second half with the Cricut heat press. I know you're wondering about the first half. We're not even gonna look right now. We're gonna do a final comparison to see what they look like at the end. All right. Well we'll start with yours I guess then. Yeah sort of mine. I already have my images. All right. These are the ones we did not sublimate first. These are we just bleached first. Now we're gonna add their image. Same images. Same print sequence. Same t-shirt. We're just gonna see if it's better to view before or after. All right. We have our butcher paper. Our meathugger butcher paper in there. That's right. The ones that we heat pressed after we bleached it. So we're gonna try to use some hydrogen peroxide and some heat to bring it back to white. We'll see if it works. I heard if you just missed it. She just missed it. Yeah. Let's do it. I'm gonna try that a little bit. And the heat gun. The heat press. It came out great. A little bit of hydrogen peroxide and we threw the heat press back on there. Yeah the heat press is off. It's just whatever residual heats on it. Yeah wasn't a whole lot of heat. All right. You guys want to see what we got now? All right. So we're done. Yeah. You want to hold that? Yes. This one right here is sublimated after we bleached it. This one sublimated before we bleached it. Same shirts that they gilded in 50-50. 50% polyacrylic or polyester. So I don't know. I think before. Well look at the detail in after. Yeah but after has a lot more detail to it. Yeah you might want to get close with the camera and do some final shots. Yeah also show some final shots. Yeah. And then here this is the after. That's after we bleached it and before we bleached it. And these are the Bella Canvas. Same shirt. Same image. Yeah Bella Canvas. Bella Canvas. Yeah yeah those same shirts. So the first two are the same shirts. This one feels a little softer than that one. I wonder why. And I think after really came out great. The detail in after really pops. Yes I think we lesson learned on trimming your image. Definitely trim your image. Yeah this one had a lot of white as the background. So you could really see it once it sublimated. You can kind of see the frame on that one. But I think they look good. Yeah. I'm totally wearing these. I like them. You want to show yours now? Yeah. Is that that was after? This one is after. You want to hold it? Yeah I'll hold your after. So we bleached it then sublimated this one. And this one was before. And these are both Bella Canvas. Both Bella Canvas. Mm-hmm. That was before. This is before. Mm-hmm. You could tell it kind of faded. It looks good. So the bleach. But I think it's a little more crisp afterwards. Yeah I think the bleach over it while it still looks great. Yeah. It did fade it a little bit. Fades the black. Seems to fade the black. Yes. And here this one's the black is a little more vibrant because you sublimated afterwards. I like how the uh that uh flower left this ghosting. Oh yeah. I was going to show you that because I haven't shown you this one yet. This one was also done after. After. And you see that little ghost ring around the image in purple? That is from the flower. So where I had the flower and left the flower on kind of thick it didn't take the bleach as well. I think it looks cool like that. Which is kind of cool you know. Yeah. Uh-huh. It came out in a circle like that. Yeah we sprayed the back of them. Oh yeah. Yeah. She got the back of her. This one. The back of this one looks good. I like this one. Looks cool. And the other one um. That did not work. Yeah. This one didn't work. So this was the uh what did I tell you it was. 68%. Yeah 65% polyester 35%. Viscosa. Viscosa. Viscosa. And yeah. Didn't work. Nope. It did not take the bleach. This is what we were talking about. We were you know so now you know. Sorry one of the kids has a shirt. Yeah I'm gonna get one of the kids. They won't care. So it didn't take the bleach as well. I mean it's a little bit bleached. Let me hold it up. Can you help me hold like the sides a little? Yeah. Yeah there you go. So you can see. It didn't really bleach as well as the other. But it sure it certainly took the image. Yeah. It definitely sublimated the image on it. And I would think. If you had a white one. Yeah. If you had a white one or a light colored one you know like a light aqua or a light peach or something it would look good. Yeah. And even this one with just a subtle you can't see the colors in it. Yeah. But the design still looks cool on it. It does. It'll still work. I am very excited. This is the project that I wanted to do a year ago. And he was like no no no it would never work. I'm so glad that we got to do it and I love them and I look forward to doing some more. Yeah I'm definitely looking forward to doing some more. Well I think these are kind of easy. I'm gonna trim my nails. I could spend the afternoon I could sell these at the farmers market for sure. Oh yeah totally. With some like 4th of July designs especially because it's coming up. Oh yes that would be perfect. All right big thank you to our patrons. You guys are awesome. I love you. Yes. And we'll see you here in a minute in our after show. So if you're not joining us for the after show we're about out of time. So we will see you next week where we'll do it, build it, make it again. I'm gonna go put all my shirts on right now. Okay go put the little one. Let's put them on for the after show. Oh yeah all right. You want to do an intro? You want to have them on for the intro? Yeah. All right. We'll hold them up. I'm gonna turn the camera off before we start getting naked.