 Feeling adventurous? You want to try your hand at making a 3D countdown calendar door hangout? 3D. Multiple, multiple layers. It is. 3D. Well, stick around and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a bill to make it? So do we. And we have new videos each week. So be sure to like, subscribe, and tick that bell to be notified of our new videos. And you can go like it, like, right now. Yeah, just click that button real quick. Christmas is right around the corner and it's time to start giving it a countdown. I need a mechanism to measure that time. We did a countdown calendar a few years ago, but we did it with a cricket. And it was really cute. I still have it. But now I need to make a laser version. And I started thinking about what it is that we could do. And of course, I want to do it in that door hanger style because, you know, that's kind of our thing to make door hangers. So I had an idea and I needed to show Garrett what I had in my head. Step one, we're going to create our design. Kim told me what she wanted. She tried to use words, but I'm not a word guy. I asked her to draw it somewhere, starting with the white board. Yes. So our first draft of this was on the white board. And I was like, here, draw a circle and put some numbers on the outside. Like a clock would go all the way to 24. So we got we got the basics up there. He kind of got the concept. And then he said, now give me something more detailed. Give me something with more details in it. So I know exactly what you're looking for. And I already knew. So I was good with that because I knew that I wanted this cute little elf that I had seen in Canva. If you've been in Canva and looked at any of the Christmas stuff, there's this cute little elf clown in a ladder. And I knew I wanted him on this design. So I sketched out kind of what was in my head. And this is what it looks like. Well, I understood from there what she was looking for. So I then took it into Illustrator and I tried to mock up what I thought she was thinking based on what she said and the picture that she helped me with. If you're interested in learning more about how to design in Adobe Illustrator, we do a monthly Zoom class for our top tier patron members. Once we got the design down to what I think Kim wanted, I ran it back past the boss so she could do her last font tweaking. I did. I tweaked the fonts. And I mean, I did say I did say this seems like a lot, you know, is this how big is this kit? Oh, don't worry, Kim. It'll be good. Step two, time to make all of our cuts. First, I need to break up our design and make it an actual cut file. This is where I take apart the design. I make the layers and I actually create it where the red lines are the cut lines, the blue lines are the score lines and everything filled with black is engraved. Now, for this particular cut file to bring that cut time down from one hour and 53 minutes down to one hour and one minute, I rasterized all of the engraved things. I actually turned them into pictures and they were engraved like a picture. And he goes into more detail of the difference between an SVG and a rasterized image in the Adobe Illustrator classes. So you can join us over in Patreon for those monthly Zoom calls. I have some quarter inch MDF and some eighth inch MDF. I want some different levels in this thing. And I don't want it to get too heavy using a quarter inch. Yeah, I'm going to take these and I'm going to throw them in our big 100 watt laser and try to get this cut done quickly. I'm the paint. I don't currently have the kit in front of me right now. Kim hasn't seen it. So he hasn't let me see it, which means it's overkill. I can already know. I already know. I think it's just enough kill. Let me go get it. I don't judge by the stack. The fact that you had to use the word stack concerns me. Well, they'll be concerned because I cut two of them. I did an eighth inch version and a full quarter inch version. Because I wasn't sure what I wanted, how deep. So what do you think? I think I think there are a lot of pieces and I see single individual lights, which worry me. But this ladder is looking super cute. Yeah, I mean, I think when it comes together easily, you won't have those fears anymore. OK, I printed a picture to help us put it back together. Yeah, just slow that down a little bit. Just get that close for a second. Just give him a moment to absorb all that you have on there. It's got some detail to it. I'm not going to lie. It's got some things. So here's what I here's what I know already. This isn't going to be one of those signs that you may can take to the craft show. Now, this is passion. This is for your the love of the game. This is for your grandkids or your kids. This is like family heirloom. This will be passed down. There's so much detail in this. It's going to be passed down. I'm not putting that much effort into something that's fly by night. Yeah, no, that's not fly by night. Now this thing better be up. Let's do it. Let's let's get this thing painted and we'll decide as we go along eighth or quarter. Yeah, that's what I think we want to mock it up and see. We'll start with the back right here. OK, see how this design works. Yes. All right. Here's the ring, the ringleader right here. Here's the bottom of that frame piece. All right. And the whole rest of the frame is right here. Check it out. Oh, this is boom. See all in peace. I see some cut lines on that Christmas tree. Yep. So you can take it apart and paint the two separate colors. This is where I think we should start. Here comes the eighth inch because that's too tall. Those are going to be eight. Yeah, I love this so far. Now that I put it together. She said this one's for the passion. I don't even see some passion. This is for the passion. I've seen a lot of passion in this one. Ingrid, some decisions that were made. So passionate. This one. This one's like beyond passion. Yeah, come take a peek of that. There you go. Well, it's not done yet. It's just the presents. I'll leave this bow out. We don't need it. That might be over. Remember that even good. All right. There you go. What do you think? Not too bad, right? For this project, we used cussing crimson for the backer. We painted our words in ash, Avenger White. The ring for the numbers is painted in foxy tail tie. And then our little elves are painted in Apple Raid Green, Great Escape Green, and Cussing Crimson. At the top, we've painted our billboard for our countdown in Pinecone Path and Wackbat Wood. We painted our Christmas tree in two shades of green. We're using the Moles Meadow and the Great Escape. We've also painted our lights in Midnight Bandit Mask as well as Great Escape Green, Cunning Colbalt, Apple Stars. We painted our ladder using Pinecone Path. And then our presents are a combination of foxy tail tie, Cussing Crimson, Apple Stars, Bogus Blue, and Great Escape Green. Our foxy hues outdoor craft paints are perfect for these door hangers. They'll be outside and exposed to the elements. These paints are UV resistant, weather resistant, mold resistant. They're going to be perfect to hang outdoors and use year after year. It's time to bring it all together with a little star bond thick. Everything will hold in place. But before we start gluing, I want to give this ring with all the numbers on it. A quick little sand. Since we painted the ring, but we didn't paint the spacer, I want to make sure I still have enough room to slide. Roll smooth. We're going to give it a quick once around, maybe twice around. Yes, we should have had our masks on. You should wear your mask. Back to dust free. Put the ring down and glue everything around it. Starting from the backer, working our way up, just layering things. It's pretty easy. Remember, you're not going to glue the ring because the ring is what's going to rotate. Don't glue the ring, or that's how many days away it is until Christmas. Always, forever. We're not going to get crazy with the accents because the sign is already crazy in itself. So I'm just thinking an understated ribbon hanger. That's all we're going to add. Throw some ribbon in these two ribbon slots at the top. Call it a day. Nothing crazy. This is already too much. Let me just quickly put this on, and then we're going to wrap up and tell you some things about this project. Let's see if it spins too. No spin testing. Really? A lot I tried. I can tell you I spin tested it. Can't just wait when you're sitting here. Every piece I glue down, I want to make sure I didn't glue the ring. Look at that. Spin test. Look at this. What day is it? How many days away are we? 23 days until Christmas. 23 days until Christmas. I like it. I like it a lot. I love that it spins and I love how the spinning mechanism is almost incognito. You really want to see it on the sides. You kind of don't even pay attention to it. There's so much going on. Well, I'll tell you so let me tell you the adventure this sign has been. Let's recap. What is the cut time? The cut time is now one hour and one minute. What is the paint time? The paint time was also like one hour. For two of us. Two people painting one hour. One hour and then it was... The glue time was also 30 minutes. No, I would say it was more than that. Well the camera ran out at 30 minutes. So I would say we were closer to 45 minutes. I would almost say it was an hour to assemble it. I think so. This is a beast. Right, but look at it. There's so much to it. It is beautiful. If you're adventurous and you like to craft things and you're willing to take on an advanced project which is what this is. This is totally an advanced project. An advanced simply because it's so many pieces. Not because it was difficult to put together. The score marks are there. It's pretty obvious where the pieces go. I didn't have any questions. You need to be an expert painter. You do need to be an expert puzzle piece put together. That's what I'm saying not necessarily because I was able to stack them. You can see where everything goes. I didn't have any questions on the presents. I could see how they stacked one on top of the other to give them what they have. We will make this kit available in our store so that you can put this together. If you have a laser, we're going to offer the S3G so you can cut one and make it yourself. Or if you do not have a laser and you're willing to take on a group project. You have to be one of those people. This is great to do with the kids. You've got to get everybody involved. Put them little hands to work. Give them each some pieces to paint. Put this thing together and then you'll have it. I love it. Look how cool this is. I was really skeptical once we put the tops and the bottoms on with those presents with this thing spinning. You can see how well it's spinning. I'm not struggling with it at all. I'm very impressed. I'm going to hold up to the door. You don't see that ring. I'll flip flopping around. You will work either location. I'm impressed. I love it. You did a great job. That really took some thought to get this thing out to 3D. Get those layers. We're about out of time. Big thanks to all of our patrons. We love you guys. We're going to throw this file up there on Patreon right now so that they already have access to it. With all the files that we've done we do a monthly zoom call and a super secret Facebook group that's got a ton of information in it. It's not just us. It's our whole Patreon family contributing. I'm really about out of time. I've got to go hang this thing and start tracking. I'm going to start the countdown because this thing's got great little corners on it. I'm going to give it a quick little balance. Woo woo. Let's see if I can balance it and change the day. Yes, what day is it? Literally, it says zero days. So piss me off. Tear!